Kathy in FL, I enjoyed reading the account of your search for your great-great-grandmother and your success encourages me. :) Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "MICHAEL MARTINEZ" <mamkmm2@prodigy.net> To: <TNMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:08 AM Subject: [TNMONTGO-L] Margaret Thacker m. Wiley Harris, 20 Aug 1865 > As silly as it sounds I could just about sit down and cry right now. > After so many years of looking ... in the wrong direction it turns out ... > I have finally found out who my great great great grandparents are. > > My great great grandmother was a woman named Mary Harris and she was > married three times, the first two were a short duration although there > were children from these two marriages. Add to that, she was raised by > her step father ... William Thomas Parker ... whose surname she sometimes > used, and all the surnames became very confusing. > > Her mother, I finally found, in the 1870 census of Stewart County was a > woman named Margaret ... which went along with family lore. Margaret > Harris was a widow in 1870 with a 3 year old daughter ... my great great > grandmother. She married in 1872 to W.T. Parker ... but I never could > find out which of the Harris men she was married to first. > > After finally tracking down a descendant from Margaret's second marriage > who, by the Grace of God, had salvaged W.T. Parker's family Bible, I > learned that Margaret's maiden name was Thacker. > > Well, today I found a marriage of a Wiley Harris to a Margaret Thacker on > 20 Aug 1865 in Montgomery County, TN. > > If you have read this far, I appreciate your time. Does anyone by any > chance know the ancestors for this Wiley Harris. > > Thanks! > > Kathy in FL > > > > Kathy in FL mamkmm2@prodigy.net > http://www.easyfunschool.com > Free Newsletter: EFSNewsletter-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > >