Becky, Any of my paternal ancestors from VA would be very early. (My paternal grandfather was b. 1849 in MO & grandmother, b. 1852 in KY.) Wish I could've been of more help. :-( ~Virginia [email protected] wrote: << Virginia - In your line of Harris', do you have a ____? Harris married to Laura E. Crump? They would have gotten married about 1872. They had two daughters, Ruth Watson Harris (b 1874) and Maude Linwood Harris (b 1879), before he died. Laura is listed as a widow in the 1880 census. Maude married Henry Oswell Tiller in 1898. Laura sometime later married a Collins according to my husbands grandmother. She couldn't, however, remember Mr. Harris' first name. Becky [email protected] >>