This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harper, Terrell/Terral, Barnes, Connell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GkB.2ACI/884.3 Message Board Post: Hello. Roxanne, I'm doing my family tree and I'm kinda at a brick wall. MOST of my mother maternal family was born and grew up and died in Bowie County. Some are still living there now. I get to come up once in a awhile, but have no idea where to start. So maybe you can help me. Maybe if I can take a trip up there in the future you can help me then too. I've been researching for 4 years now, but mom has been for 29 yrs. But still don't know exactly where to start. Anyway, I'm looking for ANY information on the family of Joseph and Cordelia Harper. They had four children: Ann A., Maggie Alice (She married Richard Furnace Terral), Minnie Raford (she married Samuel Jefferson Sturgeon and others, buried in Red Lick Cemetery along side her husband, George Martindale, she is my gg grandmother) and David Omer (He married Effie Connell I believe was her maiden name, they are buried in Bascom Cemetery in Tyler, Smith Co., TX along with daughter Lalla R. Harper) I don't know anything abou! t Ann. What I know is that they came from Independence Co., Arkansas. All children were born in AR. They show up in Bowie County on the 1910 census records. Haven't been able to locate them in 1900 in AR or TX yet. They are on the 1880 Census record in AR. Their youngest, David, was born in 1892 in AR so they came to Bowie County anytime between 1892-1910. I have J C (Joseph) and Cordelia being buried in the Malta Cemetery (I have pics), but nothing else. Can you please help me? Anything on J C, Cordelia or their children would be helpful. Thanks a bunch Chastity