When The Elderly Die…

[J. A. EARLY]

I am trying to pass the information on to my family and all who are interested. Two books so far on the Morris and Harlow Families. Discovered I am a descendant of "King" Carter who owned 300,000 acres in Virginia. Also discovered that I am a second cousin six times removed of Robert E. Lee (his mother was a Carter). And to our surprise, Jimmy Carter was related to Robert E. Lee. But we don't claim "Jimma" Carter.

Working on the unpublished letters of George K. Harlow a cousin, enlisted 1861 in the 23rd Virginia Infantry, and in 1864 hired a substitute for $300 and a suit of clothes. Before his teenage substitute could get there substitution was outlawed so he lost all he had spent. Captured and died at Elmira (Hellmira) Prison, New Your in 1865. One-hundred and fifty pages of letters, etc. Just got to live long enough and quit hunting turkeys, doves, geese, and deer every free moment.

I ordered the stones for the Morris Family Cemetery where our Revolutionary ancestor and his grandsons are buried. Need a stone for Rev War ancestor's son who served in the War of 1812.

I tell people I know people who will span 200 year plus. My paternal grandparents were both born in 1888. I have grandchildren who hopefully will live to 2088 if man does not kill us all.