No.5 FebrQary 1991

THIRD REPRINT "The History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family", Alpheus Harlan, Tricentennial edition has been submitted for a third printing. Sales continue to be steady and provide the necessary income to print the Harlan Record. As with all things, the prfcehas gone up. Future copies will be available .for .$50includipg . postage from Peggy Harlan Talley, 104 Fern Drive, Poteau, OK 74953. Blue Ridge Baptist Church near Marlin, Texas. Site of annual Harlan reunion.

TEXAS HARLAN'S 41st ANNiUAL MEETING

On Sunday, October 7, should be delivered from the covereddlsh lunch washetd 1990, the Harlan Family publishers this FaiL Some in the church yard. Family Association of Texas held its 11,000descendants of Aaron members spent several 41stannualm~eting at the andElizabefh have been in• hours exch~mginginforma" Blue Ridge Baptist Church dexed. Anyone desiring a tion about events of the past near Marlin, Texas. Approx• copy should contact year before bidding one imately 100 members of the Joydelle Wolfram, 915 West another farewell and promis-. family were in attendance. Parkview, Marlin, TX 76661. ing to meet again next year. JoydelleWolfram, Editor, Everyone at the meeting All Harlan descendants, announcedthatfhe Associa• was delighted to hear that no matter where they are tion project - The Descen• over 30years of research and from, are always welcome at dants of Aaron and Elizabeth preparation is at last com• the annual reunion which is (Stuart) Harlan, No. 194 is pleted. held on the first Sunday now nearing completion and After the meeting, a every October. HARLAN CELEBRATION 300 BOOKS DONATED The Harlan - Family OFFICERS Associ.ation has donated President Tom Harlan, PO Box 667 Belfair, WA 98528-0667 copies of the' Harlan Donald Harlan Vice President Tim Harlan PO Box 933 Genealogy by Alpheus - Columbia, MO 65205 Donald Wallace Harlan, S8cfTress.John Harlan, 422 Aumond Rd. Harlan tothe Family History son oflra Wallace and Cora Augusta, GA 30909 Library, Church of Jesus Mailing List, Virginia Harlan Williams Lehman Harlan, was born 5435 EI Capitan Way, Christ of Latter Day Saints, ~ug. 7, 1909, in Piggott, AR, Las Vegas NV 89129 . Salt Lake City, Utah and to and died April 20, 1990, in BOARD OF DIRECTORS the Iowa Wesleyan College Piggott. Virginia Harlan Hess Library in the Harlan-Lincoln He grew up in the church Linda L. Hatlan Home, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. It Connie Harlan Ward and was a life-long member Ruth Harlan Lamb is hoped that these books of the First Presbyterian Lau"rel C. Hadan will be available to future Church. He was an Elder for REGIONAL REP-RESENTATIVES generations who will be many years. thankful for the efforts of West· William Harlan, 21 Boulevard Ct., He was a WWII veteran, Walnut Creek, CA 94595 current Harlans in seeing Includes WA, OR, CA, 10, MT, WY, CO, retired superintendent of the that this book has been NM, AZ, NV, UT, AK, HI. water and sewer department preserved and reprinted. North Central· Virginia Hess, 409 Phelps, in Piggott, and retired chief Windsor, MO 65360 of the city volunteer fire Includes NO, SO, NE, KS, MN, lA, MO, HARLAN TRICENTENNIAL department. WI, IL, IN, OH,MI. FUND Survivors are his wife, Northeast· Scott Harlan, 38 Clipper Ct., FINANCIAL REPORT Jean Huston Harlan; son, Bear, DE 19701 Includes MD, PA, DE, NY, NJ, CT, MA, NOVEMBER 1, 1990 John M. Harlan; grand• ... - v:r,NH,ME,RI.. ... _.. __ ._.__. cbHdren,_James, Melinda and Michael Harlan and Southeast· Robert Harlan, 118 Dartmouth CASH IN SAVINGS $14,781.60$12,631.99$13,564.24$6,133.24429.617,431.001,035.001,560.001,217.36165.86120.0040;0016.50 Way, Niceville, FL 32578 sister, Mrs. Harry (Grace VideoInterestSalesEarned TricentennialContributionsACCOUNT 3/1/9011/1/90 Includes'GenealogyBirmingham,VA,PostageWV, KY, TN,BookPANC,SalesSC, GA, Newsletter&Reprint(SavingsMailing Account)Printing Harlan) Bristol. FL. TotalCASHBALANCEGenealogyINCOME;DISBUIN RSEMSAVINGSBookENTS: The funeral service was South Central· Marc Smith, PO Box 9701 conducted by Rev. Norma Fort Worth, TX76107 Crader at 2 p.m. April 21 at Includes TX, OK, AR. LA, MS, AL. the First Presbyterian This newsletter Is published at least annually by Harlan Church; Interment was in Celebration 300, a permanent organlzailo-n established to document the historical contributions made by Harlaris in Piggott Cemetery under the America. Stories, photos, and other Information submitted for publication should be sent to the editors, Tom and direction of Hoggard and Marylee Harlan, P.O. Box 667, Belfair, WA 98528-0667. Sons Funeral Home. Memorials may be sent to the First Pres byterian Church, Piggott. Pall bearers were Larry Creek, Mike Patterson, Jim Poole, T.V. Jackson, Edd Howard and Bill Hogue. Honorary pallbearers were Harold Jinks, Carl Howard, Vilas Elder and C~C. Ed· wards.

THE HARLAN RECORD 2 HARLAN COUNTY miles south of Harrodsburg on settlers could go for protection the Salt river, 1n8. Commanded when the Indians were on the spies, 1779, in warpath. •About the year 1778, BY of General assisted by his brother James, JOHN R. HARLAN who said: "He was or)e of the Silas built a stockade fort on the bravest soldiers that ever fought Salt River, 7 miles upstream above by my side." Killed 1782 at the the present town of Harrodsburg As a young man, I had heard of Battle of Blue Uckwhile com• which was called "Harlan's Sta• Harlan County, Kentucky, but did manding his detachment. Buried tion". During this period, many not know why it was· so named. at Blue Licks." Although this Virginians moved into the Ken• During my career in the U.S.Army, marker summarizes the more tucky region which had become I would frequently be asked upon significant activities of Silasdur• a County of Virginia in 1776. arrival at a new station, if I was ing his eight years on the frontier, As a part of the Revolution• from Harlan County, Kentucky, additional detailed information on aryWarstrategy, England hoped since it h.ad gained national these activities are of interest. to destroy the Kentucky forts and recognition and a reputation as a rough "neck of the woods" "In the month of May, 1774, control the region west of the because of labor strife in the local James Harlan (No.216) then Allegheny Mountains. They coal mining industry. My interest age 19 years, and his brother supplied the Indians with arms to and curiosity in the area continued Silas (No.215), two years his make war on the pioneers from to develop as I learned more about senior, joined a company of supply bases at Kaskaskia, the genealogy of the family. After adventurers from Virginia and Cahokia, and Vincennes in the retirement from the Army, I took Pennsylvania, then being rais• Northwest Territory. These ac• the time to visit Harlan County in ed by Captain . tivities prompted General Clark 1974 with my family to ascertain They embarked in pirogues, to capture these forts in 1779 in or canoes, on the Mon• the rea~n why it was so named. the so-called Illinois Campaign ongahela and Ohio Rivers, during which Silas commanded Harlan County is located in and thence to the mouth of the southeastern corner of Ken• the spies, or scouts as they would the Kentucky River, which tucky and borders on Virginia in be referred to eventually. When they ascended to the mouth the Pine Mountain area of the the peace treaty was signed in of a creek, called (from that 1783, the British surrendered the Cumberland Mountain Range fact) "Landing Run", now which includes Black Mountain, Northwest Territory to the United Oregon, in the lower end of the highest point in Kentucky States because it was under the present county of Mercer, General Clark's control. (4,145 feet). The population of east of the village of Salvisa; the County is 51,107 and the thence across to Salt River at During the winter and spring County seat is the town of Har• "McAfees Station", and up of 1782, the Indian attacks began Ian, population 4,177. The eco• that river to Fountain Blue, to increase and in May, a party assaulted Ashton's Station result• nomic activity ofthe area is based and to the place where Har• on coal-mining and forest prod• rodsburg now stands," (1) ing in nine killed and four wounded. ucts. At the time of my visit, no which was the first perma• About August 10, 1782, Major one with the name of Harlan was nent white settlement in Ken• Hoy's station was attacked with listed in the local telephone book. tucky. the loss of four killed and one In front of the courthouse is After the Revolutionary War wounded. These Indian raids an historical marker that reads as began in 1775, Indians friendly to were being instigated by two aban• follows: ·County named 1819 for the British made repeated attacks doned men, Captains McKee and Major Silas Harlan, born in Vir- on the settlers. This prompted Girty. On August 15, 1782, they .ginia 1752, came to Kentucky in the construction of forts or stock• led a party of some 500 Indians 1774. Built Harlan's Station 7 ades called stations to which the and Canadians against Bryant's

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THE HARLAN RECORD 3 GENEALOGY UPDATE

Many of you continue to ask about the possibility of an update of the Alpheus' genealogy. For an ·answer, I direct your attention to the following excerpt written by Miss Maude Harlan, daughter of Alpheus.

June 15, 1946

Dear Relative: Memories of New Castle, Delaware 1987

"About the supplement, the book is so large that if each line were carried on, it would HARLAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE? take. several volumes. We feel it is advisable for, say you, to trace out your own The Library of Congress, book on the life of Daniel H. line, as that is really what Charles Moore Collection, Burnham which had been you are interested in finding has two letters signed by donated to the White House out and place the typed Laura Harlan, Secretary to Library. Correspondence sheets in the book at your Mrs. Florence Harding, wife with later dates indicates record. of President warren Harding. that Miss Harlan was wed to You have the early record One dated April 13,1922 is an a Mr. Smith sometime bet• and can carryon from there. acknowledgement for a book ween May 31, 1923 and I had nothing to do with loaned to Mrs. Harding from August 30, 1924. Do you the writing of the book. My the Library of Congress. The know Laura Harlan's brother William helped get it second is a thank you letter genealogy? ready for the press. He did dated February 24, 1923 for a the indexing. The close work of years of writing and research resulted in my father losing his eyesight. He was totally blind for more than one year before his death, and had only a poor look at the finished book for his eyes were very bad when it was completed."

THE HARLAN RECORD 4 ANNIE brought her ice-cream, for miss Annie, and her honest, she admitted to great fond• guileless, timid, ever• Embreeville 2 March 1950 ness for ice-cream; and she friendly, and dignified self. sat up against the pillows We'll miss the sight of her, Annie Harlan died this and the old feather-tick, sitting on the front porch morning. We'd been expec• quakingly sampling the ice• after chores, dressed in a ting her to go for a week or cream but disturbed over it. blue gingham dress, rocking two for she'd not wanted to "Katharine, thee oughtn't to and watching the cars go by. keep on living especially, go wasting thee money for On my last visit I carried and she just faded away me!" her some branches I'd cut gradually. That was the right I reminded her of one of from our pear-tree a month way for her to go, we decid• my early memories of her, ago, to force into bloom in ed, staying right there how she knew all her the warm house. I set them in among all the things she'd chickens by name, and how her sunny east window so known all her 79 years, for her favorite she dipped its that she could watch their nothing disturbed, nothing tail in blue indigo on wash· unfolding into blossoms. moved out, just as she'd day! I remember there was a They still looked dormant wanted it while she was still riot of flowers, just coun• and unpromising but as I active. So she lay there those tryish ones, massed along passed, a few days later, and last weeks, in the same bed the front fence in such an glanced up at Annie's win• she'd always lain in, covered abundance of colours that dow, imagining the withered with the old homespun wool would make you take in your face on the pillow beyond, I coverlet of blue and white, breath while driving past, saw the white pear-blossoms looking out through the win• -golden-glow, zinnias, there against the pane, knew dow set deep in the stout nasturtium, petunias. Behind that as they progressed into walls. She'd look across the the house, among the cab• life, Annie was progressing road to the barn where she bages and beets, were pan• away from it. used to retreat when com• s ies. Arou nd the Iitt Ie I reminded her during that pany came, because she felt outhouse in the far corner of visit, too, of one of the too shy, - and on to the tops the back lawn, bergamot and customs of the Harlan of the willows along the phlox. house, back when the "Cap• Brandywine. When I went to I'm sure Annie didn't think, tain" and Mamie lived there see her for the last time, a as she lay there, of the bou• with her. They invited us to few days before she went, quets she made, but we will an evening of one of their she told me of skating on the always remember them for favourite hot-weather Brandywine, when she and they were like Annie. On the pastimes,· watching the Mamie were little girls, of front porch table she'd set an evening primroses unfold. how thei r father, Henry old pickle-jar, soft grey and On kitchen chairs placed in a Harlan, would go down first blue, and in it cram the morn· row facing the vegetable and test the ice, and then ing's culling - magenta, garden and close to its edge, call them. She talked to me orange, red and blue, - all the we sat, each with a plate on of things she was remember• heads tight packed together. his lap, and on the plate a lit· ing as she lay there, and I There was no art in it, no tie heap of molasses taffy. realized afresh what a small design. It was honest, it was Annie and Mamie had con· world her life had been con• cheerful, - her work. When cocted this after their 4:30 tained in, yet what a useful, we'd come for eggs and supper and it was at a stage good, and probably fairly glance at the pickle - jar we'd of chewiness calculated to contented life it had been. I'd shudder almost, - but we'll let us enjoy its old-time

THE HARLAN RECORD 5 molasses flavour while forc• stars; and how he had given repaired and running perfect• ing us to work somewhat them shelter by the old ly, so that after Mamie died, hard at it. This, along with fireplace on cold nights. Did and then the Captain the croaking of frogs from they marvel, as we do now, at himself, the clocks kept on the Brandywine, was accom• the fireplace so big that going, and Annie must have paniment to the chief enter• there's a window at its back? lived her last years in a tainment -gazing at some of Geography, too, was veritable whir of ticking and the tightly-closed buds of the limited, probably to her gonging! primrose, which as the schoolbooks, for her farthest When the Aigeldingers darkness increased, would travel was to Philadelphia moved in and Annie wasn't unfurl slowly and steadily and back. (She told us last allowed to do any more of and open before our eyes in• September of a recent trip the work around the house, to a perfect yellow flower. there and being treated to she'd sit rocking again on The whole process would ice-cream at Strawbridge the front porch, or walk slow• take 5 or 10 minutes, which and Clothier's). But she knew ly about looking at the same in other plants requires thoroughly the geography familiar sights of her 79 several weeks! The Harlan around Harlan's Corner, - the years. And we marveled at sisters had discovered this cowpaths through the how she remained erect and and other phenomena of the pasture to get mint for jelly, tall, although she quavered outdoors themselves or had along the Brandywine; the more and more. And her been shown them by their trails through the woods almost aquiline face, very parents, or perhaps had beyond the Star Gazers' weathered, held the same I€arned them through their Stone where she and Mamie serene look we'd always devoted study of the and the Captain could gather known. Eleanor always call• Farmer's Almanac. Annie wood; the way to the best ed Annie beautiful. I wonder would plant her seeds strict• elderberries for pies. (Did what Annie would have ly by' advice of the Almanc, anyone but the Harlans ever thought of that! plan her day to day life by its make elderberry pie?) And I wonder what Annie prophecies, would be heard Science at the Embreeville would have thought of this, to say, "If the moon changes School was probably called - from Mr. Aigeldinger, in the neck, it'll be bad Natural Philosophy when An• yesterday, a few hours weather". Here she was nie was a schoolgirl but she before she died: "My wife referring to the Almanac~s was taken beyond that when says Annie'll die soon. She traditional diagram of the Mamie and Captain Markle heard Mr. Markle's footsteps human body and its very visi· moved out to live with her. upstairs today, just the way ble connection with the For the Captain, sitting back he used to walk. He's come seasons. in the chimney corner, would for her. That's the way it hap• I don't suppose Annie talk of ships and navigation pens at the end, they say - ". knew any more history than (all from his background of Annie was the last Harlan to live what she'd been taught in years sitting at a drafting in the 1724 stone house at the site Embreevi lie's one-room board in the Navy Yard). He of the Star-Gazer's Stone (a marker school; but she lived close to rigged up radio apparatus in for the Mason-Dixon line) in Em• the tradition of the Harlan breeville, PA. This obituary, written Annie's old sitting-room; in• by a Mrs. Hayes, was furnished to house, for she grew up hear• stalled a barometer and kept Martha Smith by Dr. Kate Roby ing how her great-grand• elaborate records of Em• who now owns and lives in the old father had known Mason and breeville's weather; hung or house. Dixon when they camped in set up some 13 clocks in the the Harlan field to study the close little room, kept them

THE HARLAN RECORD 6 HARLAN COUNTY KENTUCKY to Silas Harlan. We do know he tria. On this expedition he FROM PAGE 3 was descendedfrom George(No. was accompanied by a 3), James (No. 11),and George caravan of sixteen hundred camels, of northern stock, in (No. 45), and that he was never addition to four hundred at• Station, five miles northeast of married. "In staturehewas about Lexington. This stationwas under tached to his own command. 6 feet 2 inches tall; of fine per• siege for three days resulting in Being compelled to cross the sonal appearance, and when he four killed and three wounded in highest range of the Indian the Station. After the Indians was killed, was 29 years old. He Caucasus, and to superin• was regarded as a brave, gener• departure, Colonel Todd, Colo• tend his own commissariat, 0us, and active man."(3) nel Trigg, Major Silas Harlan and he enjoyed the most ample ColonelDaniel Booneassembled (1) A. H. Harlan's "History opportunity for becoming one hundred and seventy six well and Genealogy of the Harlan practically familiar with the armed men and pursued the Family." capacities of northern or Indians. (2) John Filson's "The Dis• Bactrain camel, as he had This force caught upwith the covery, Settlement and Present been previously with those of Indiansthe nextday,August 19th, State of Kentucke" including an the dromedary of the plains. A condensation of General at a bend in the Licking River Appendix on the Adventures of Harlan's manuscript on the about forty-three miles northeast - printed by James habits, management, dis• of Lexington. After the forces Adams, in 1784, at Wilmington • which was furnished to the writer eases, and peculiarities of crossed the river, a fierce battle the camel and dromedary ensued. Beingoutnumberedthey by Martha Suter Smith, Chadds formed the basis for a report wereobligedto retreatbackacross Ford, PA. to congress in 1854. At that the river with a loss of sixty killed (3) Collins "History of Ken• tucky" from A.H. Harlan's"History time Congress was consider• andseven taken prisoner. Among ing a bill which would sup• those killed were Colonels Todd and Genealogy of the Harlan Family." port the introduction of the and Trigg, Major Silas Harlan, camel as a beast of burden in and Boone's second son. After HARLAN portions of the Western being reinforced by Colonel territories - areas of "broad Logan,they returnedto the scene RESEARCHES prairies and elevated plains of the battle and buried the dead. CAMELS nearly destitute of water, and Accordingly, Silas Harlan was offering but a scanty supply buried on the south side of the (Excerpted from Report of the Commissioner of Patents, 1853) of herbage, of an indifferent Licking River at the Bluelicks (so Gene r a I Ha r Ian, 0 f quality." The report urged named for a fine salt spring).(2) Cochransville, Chester coun• support of this bill, "Because This monograph does not of the nature of the country, ty, PA resided nineteen years proposeto be a completetreatise in the East, during a part of and the necessity of com• on Silas Harlan and is intended which he was actively involv• municating with Oregon and only to share information gath• ed in the military operations Cal ifornia by beasts of ered bythe writer to be available of Dost Mahomed, Amur of burden, the demands for camels would be increased at the Tricentennial celebration. Cabul, and Rungeet Sing, It would be interesting to know Prince of Punjaub, prior to rather than diminished by exactly where Harlan's Station the conquest of Cabul by the the construction of any was situated and whetherthere is possible railroad to the British. As general of the Pacific." a grave markeratBluelicks. Also, staff, he commanded a divi• itwould be interestingtoresearch sion of the army of Cabul, (Does anyone know the the history of General Clark's IlIi'• destined to the invasion of identity and genealogy of General Harlan?) noisCampaignfor any references Bulkh, a part of ancient Bac-

THE HARLAN RECORD 7 BETHEL INDIANA GENEALOGY TIPS Martha Smith, Chadds Ford, PA has provided the following SITE OF HARLAN Bibliography to assist those interested in our family history in Chester HISTORY County. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHESTER COUNTY Descendents of EIihu (#737) and Nathan (#2500) Breou Official Farm Maps of Chester County will want to visit the village Philadelphia: W.H. Kirk and Company, 1883 of Bethel, Wayne CO, IN, Bridgens, H.F. and Atlas of Chester County situated on IN-221 about a Witmer, A.A. Safe Harbor: Worley and Bracker, 1873 mile from the Ohio State Line. Elihu and his wife, An· Camby, Henry Seidel The Brandywine na Gist, and two children set• New York: Farrar and Rhinehard, 1941 tled on 160acres in this area before there was a town. Dr. Cope, Gilbert and Historic Homes and Institutions Ashmead, Henry of Chester and Delaware Counties James Ruby purchased two New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904 acres from Elihu in 1832and a· corner of the land later Cope, Gilbert and** History of Chester County, Pennsylvania and served as one corner of the Futhey, J. Smith Genealogy of Early Families village. Elihu was one of the Philadelphia: Everts and Company, 1881 most benevolent men in that Heathcote, Charles History of Chester County, Pennsylvania area. He refused to sell any William National Historical Association, 1932 of his surplus crops to those who had the money to pay MacElree, Wilmer Around the Boundaries of Chester County for it, but reserved it for Worthington West Chester: Horace Temple, 1934 those who were not so well MacElree, Wilmer Down the Eastern and Up the Black Brandywine supplied and gave them the Worthington West Chester: F.S. Hickman, 1906 corn without the money, trusting to their paying when MacElree, Wilmer Along the Western Brandywine they became able to do so. Worthington West Chester: F.S. Hickman, 1909 (See "The Book", p. 239) Elihu and Anna were both MacElree, Wilmer Sidelights on the Bench and Bar of Worthington Chester County West Chester: 1918 buried in Bethel Cemetery less than one·half mile east Pinkowski, Edward Chester County Place Names of their home. In 1896Elihu's Philadelphia: The Sunshine Press,1962 son Nathan and his wife, Sarah Tillson, were residing Thomson, W.W. Chester County and Its People upon the farm. In 1936 the Chicago: The Union History Company, 1898 former home of State Sen. Walton, Joseph The History, Geography, and Government of Nathan Harlan was occupied and Moore, George Chester and Delaware Counties West Grove: by John Harding. Chester County Publishing Company, 1893

Wiley, Samuel Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County Richmond, Indiana: Gresham Publishing Company, 1893

* *This book was reprinted and available from Chester County Historical Society, 225 N. High Street West Chester, PA 19380 (215) 692-4800

THE HARLAN RECORD 8 HARLAN'S GATHER IN MICHIGAN The descendants of George Guy Harlan (1881-1959) and Mary Hilts Harlan (1888-1984)held their initial reunion in Manchester, Michigan August 2; 3 and 4, 1990. The event was hosted by Gene and Judi (Harlan) Graber at their home. Fifty five family members of a potential sixty two attended from Florida, . Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee. Those in atten• dance included four of George and Mary's children and the widow of their other son, representing four generations. George Guy is the 10th generation and his line is George #3, Aaron #8, Aaron #41, James #739, George #2508 and John Franklin #6326. The family in• tends to continue having these reunions periodically at different locations.

HARLAN'S TAKE LEADERSHIP ROLES IN OAR. Edi Hartly (right above), Florida State Regent, Daughters of the is a Harlan. She traces her Harlan line to an Aaron Harlan in the Revolutionary war. The picture above was pro• vided by Sara Jo Reynolds, (left) also a Harlan. Sara Jo is vice regent of the OAR chapter in Brandon, Alafia River Chapter. It is nice to hear of all the networking and sharing of genealogy infor• .. mation . HARLAN FAMILY MAILING LIST Do any of the following pertain: o ADDRESS CHANGE o RECEIVING DUPLICATES o ADDRESS CORRECTION o PLEASE ADD MY NAME

NAME: STREET: CITY: _ STATE: ZIP: _

Please mail to:

Virginia Harlan Williams 5485 EI Capitan Way Las Vegas, NV 89129

THE HARLAN RECORD 9 HARLAN CLASSIFIEDS

Max J. Gardner is seeking informa• may provide a connection to his uncle John, No. 803 Geo. Barton, No. 2774 tionon descendants of Sarah Edith Lorenzo Dow Harlan, born Nov. 13, Geo. Barton. Ms. Sappington is a great· Harlan (#6365) who married Thomas K. 1900, Marietta, IL. granddaughter of No. 7032 Lorenzo B., Gardner in Drain, OR, August 7, 1900. first child of No. 1774 Geo Barton. 3301 Lovers Lane, Dallas, TX 75225. Dorothy Wear, M.P. o.64R, Mathews Rd., Washougal, WA 98671 has a Does anyone know what happened to Virginia Harlan Williams has a 4 listing of Harlan marriages from St. the notes, letters and other information generation photo for the first person Louis, MO 1881-1910 if that wi~1 help used by Alpheus Harlan in the compila• from this line to request it. Last Name: your research. tion of the "History and Genealogy of. Docxon or Doxon. Lists baby as Bill the Harlan Family." We would be in• Doxon, Mertyle Neikirk, Agnes Grover WANTED: Photocopies of original terested in hearing from any of his Davis with their mother. Photo c. 1900. Harlan records. Does anyone know descendants. Marylee Harlan, PO Box Please provide proof of descent to how many issues were printed? We 667, Belfair, WA 98528. Virginia Williams, 5485 EI Captain have Vol. 1 NO.1 and would like to in• Way, Las Vegas, NV89129 sure that copies of all issues are Kathleen P. Mirabella, 9 Cindy Court, preserved in the Harlan archives. Millstone Township, NJ 07728, wishes Has anyone done research on Marylee Harlan, P.O. Box 667, Belfair, to correspond with anyone with infor• Harlan's in Ireland? Richard L. Harlan; WA 98528. mation on ancestors/descendants of 9625 S.E.34th Court, Milwaukie, OR James Wheeler and Catherine Harlan 97222 is looking for information about Thelma Hines Sappington, Box 30, #2903. Catherine Harlan #2903, b. 1809 his great grandfather, James Mack McGirk, MO 65055 is interested in cor• in Christian Co., KY, m. James Wheeler Harlan, born 1842, Dublin, Ireland. Or responding with anyone having infor• circa 1824. information on any Lorenzo Dow that mation on the following line: No. 208

HARLAN CELEBRATION 300 Bu/k Rate P.O. Box 667 US Postage Belfair, WA 98528 PAID Permit No. 55 Belfair, WA