Posted by Polly Piskos on May 27, 2100 at 11:42:32:
My family records show my GG grandfather Robert Martin Harrison
(married Malinda Caroline Horn in Perry Co, AL in 1849) was son of
Middleton Harrison.��When I discovered the Harrison Genealogy
Repository web site, I thought I had found my Middleton as son of
John Harrison and Sarah Middleton.��Then I found their son Middleton
Harrison was in Itawamba Co, MS census in 1840 and 1850 while my
Middleton was in Perry Co, AL for 1840 and 1850.��They had different
sets of children born in approximately same time span.
This is where the puzzlement begins:
The Repository's record for Middleton (son of John��and Sarah, whom I
call "MS Middleton") shows he had two children born 1840, one named
Emily, the other's given name unknown.....these children are NOT
shown on the 1850 Itawamba, MS census).��My AL Middleton actually did
have two children born ca 1840: Emiline and Middleton, Jr.��Because
the AL Middleton's twins are attributed to the Repository's MS
Middleton, I wonder if someone is combining two Middletons��or if they
are indeed one person.
Both Middletons (according to 1850 census reports) were born
ca 1799/1800 and both born in SC.��The MS Middleton's first wife died in
1844 and he remarried in 1845.��
Apparently the AL Middleton's first wife died too,��because he remarried in
1844/45.
I found an Itawamba record that showed the MS Middleton sold all his
household stuff and land in 1837/38.....about the time the Alabama
Middleton started acquiring land in Perry Co, AL (1835/37/38).
The MS Middleton's second wife was Eliza..?..����The AL Middleton's
second wife was Elizabeth Holyfield (The Holyfields owned land
adjoining his in Perry Co.).
Can anyone��shed any light on this puzzler?��Were these two Middletons
really one person or were they two people living "parallel lives"
(shades of The Twilight Zone!!!)?