Earl and all you great researchers! Thanks so much for your help. I really do appreciate it. I do want to get this straight, but am a little confused the use of Harris vs. Harrison surnames. It seems that they are often used interchangeably. Right now I am grabbing at straws in the search for my ggg grandfather John Harrison, b. 1794 in S.C. and was living in Bedford Co., Tennessee on 1-6-1830 (the day my gg grandfather J.J. Harrison was born). I know that John had a son named Tyrie and a brother named Tyrie. So, my thoughts were to stop trying to find a John because there were too many of them, and look for the name Tyrie. I found in the 1860 Shelbyville, Tennessee the following record: #1223-HARRISON, John 67, farmer, SC; Nancy 58, SC. Richard, 22; Tyre 18; Sarah A. 17. This appears to be my line. Next door to him is a Tyrie Harris and his family. He says he is born in VA. And, in the book Tennessee Cousins, I found this: "Tyrie Rhodes, son of John Rhodes and Mourning Glenn (see Woods Albermarle Co., pg. 221) was born Dec. 24 1771, removed to Giles Co., Tenn m. April 25 1811 to a Cynthia Holland (dau. of James Holland, whose father was William Holland and his wife Mary Harrison... James Harrison, an uncle of Tyrie Rhodes and brother of his mother Sarah Harrison had a dau. Sarah Harris, first cousin of Tyrie Rhodes who married James Harrison and moved to S.C. and had a son named Tyrie Harrison." That seems odd to me that from one generation to another they went from Harrison to Harris to Harrison again. In continuing my search for Tyrie, I saw the will of Maj. Robert Harris who died in Albermarle county in 1765 and who had a son named Tyrie and a son in law named Rodes. Now I am also encouraged because since my initial query people have sent me the lines of Maj. Robert Harris, and I find a lot of similar surnames that were related to the collateral lines of my great grandfather J.J. Harrison, including Overton, Brown, Lewis, Martin, and Crawford. (those lines were also in Albermarle). So, to sum it all up I am looking for the parents of a John Harrison who was born in S.C. (or if the census was wrong VA) and his wife Nancy ?. and any information on their children: J.J. (Jackson), Melissa, Emeline, John, Richard, Tyrie M., and Sarah Ann. Thank you all for your help, April In a message dated 8/8/1999 2:35:01 PM, [email protected] writes: >I got involved in this a few months back. >Give me exactly who and dates and let look at my files.