Hi Mary, There is a Jesse W. Harper born 1824, virginia listed in the 1850 census of Maury County Tennessee with a wife Eliza C. born 1827, tennessee and 3 children. Ann C. Harper born 1844, John T. born 1846, and Sarah E. born 1849. Is this your Jesse W. Harper? Carol Brown [email protected] "I Think That I Shall Never See, A Finished Genealogy"