Dunwood HARRISON & Nancy __?_

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Dunwood HARRISON
Nancy __?__

Husband: Dunwood HARRISON
Birth: 1809
Death: 1856
Occupation: merchant
Father: Vincent HARRISON, Jr.
Mother: Ms. __?__

Marriage:

Wife: Nancy __?__
Birth: 1825-27, AL
Occupation: homemaker
Other Spouse: m1. Mr. FRANKLIN; m3?. Mr. BENBOW; m4. Mr. DAVIS; m5. 29 Jul 1856, DeWitt Co., TX, William L. PIERSON

Child:

1. George Washington HARRISON, alias George Washington BENBOW, b. 1851, AL

Tradition says George was born in Pike County, where our subject patented land in 1841, but the 1850 census would argue for Montgomery.

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Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #15 of 23 — indexed "Durwood"): Montgomery (Ward 1), Montgomery Co., AL, Roll M432_12 (Book 1), p. 123A, 856/869, enumerated 27 Nov 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Nancy Franklin 23 F Ala

Jas Do 7 M Ala

Thos S J Kanes 27 M Clerk Ala

D??wood Harrison 41 M Merchant Ala

3. 1860 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #21 of 83 — William was indexed with middle initial "S," but it is clearly "L," the boys were indexed "Benton"): Concrete P.O., DeWitt Co., TX, Roll M653_1291, p. 468B, PN 26, 189/189, enumerated _ Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Wm L Pierson 34 M Farmer 800 9000 Alabama

Nancy Do 34 F Do

Jas R Benbou/Benbow 15 M Do

George Do 10 M Do

Matilda Pierson 3 F Texas

4. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. The Official Land Patent Records Office.

Date Cert. No. Land Office Authority Patented By Acres Aliquot Sec.Twp.Rng Meridian State County*

12/10/1841 6795 Sparta April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Dunwood Harrison of Pike County, Alabama 40.13 NE¼ NE¼ S12.T11N.R21E St Stephens AL Pike

*The county is not given on the original certificate, which describes the location of the land solely in terms of Aliquot, Section, Township, and Range. The county names must have been added to the database at some later time, probably when the certificate data were computerized.

5. Participant in the HARRISON Y-chromosome DNA Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA.

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