I have assembled some information that is suggestive of a relationship between three South Central Kentucky and Jackson County Tennessee families but I need further information to prove the relationships. I would appreciate help from anyone familiar with the Kentucky Reagan, Ragan and Harrison families. There is a marriage bond from Barren County, KY dated June 13, 1808 for the marriage of a William Morrel and Betsey Regin or Rigin. The bondsman is Jesse Harrison. [Both the Morrel and Harrison signatures are extremely clear.] John Mulkey married this couple on June 14, 1808. This places the marriage in extreme southern Barren County, now Tompkinsville in Monroe County where Mulkey's church was located. The William Morrel is likely the William Morrel, a widower, who moved to northern Jackson County, Tennessee sometime before 1813. He was born in Virginia between 1750 and 1754. There is an Elizabeth Harrison Ragan or Reagan the widow of Daniel Reagan who died in 1805 in Christian County. She was born in 1767. Elizabeth and Daniel were married in Greene County, Tennessee on June 23, 1788, as was a Jesse Harrison (to Mary Gist). A Nehemiah Cravens Reagan is listed in the 1820 Jackson County, Tennessee census. There are undocumented sources on line that say he was the son of Daniel Reagan and Elizabeth Harrison. A Jessee Harrison appears on the Barren County, Kentucky 1810 census. In addition, a Jesse Ragan was in Bailey Butlers Jackson County, Tennessee militia company in 1813-1814. The circumstantial evidence seems strong that all of these people are related but just how is not clear. Specifically, these pieces of information suggest the possibility that the Betsey Regin or Rigin who married William Morrel in 1808 was Elizabeth Ragan or Reagan, the widow of Daniel and that Jesse Harrison who signed the marriage bond might have been Elizabeth's relative -- perhaps a brother. Is anyone enough of a family expert on the early Barren County Harrisons to confirm any of this? Many thanks, John John Newton Morrel morcor@comcast.net