Michael Schwing's Records on GenForum

The following was posted as a comment and because it contains important information, I'm adding it here so that more people will see it. The original link in the comment didn't work so I searched, located entries and have embedded the links below. -Nona

 I published on the Harrod Genforum (www.genforum.com/Harrod) (Note from Nona; I couldn't find the article on Genforum using that link, but a search located it here) a while back the Draper Manuscripts of 37:169-174, or whatever their exact listing is.I took these from Howard Leckey's Ten Mile Country book as he transcribed them when they were still clear. The microfilm copies at the Indiana State Library (I live in Indianapolis, IN) are horrible.

I also placed some of the pages from the Rachel Henton Notebook from the clear copies made by Susan Atkins. Her copies were white on black/dark brown and quite legible--so legible John and Rachel Shepherd Harrod's last child is CLEARLY LEWE and not Levi. A few of her papers and a copy of her book are in the Indiana State Library.

Also in her papers were references to the Cemetery Association that the Harrods (William and wife Leticia Coombs--I want to say Silver Creek but don't want to be wrong)  (Note by Nona: Silver Creek is correct) belonged to, which had annual meetings reported in the local paper (on microfilm at Indiana State Library) at which there was always a short lecture on genealogy of one of the families buried there.

This must be where Susan Atkins found a statement not published that said William had a brother John (not the minister who signed his Revolutionary War pension application--that may be a nephew) and a sister Mary. Throwing that in with the facts in his pension application of Uncle James Harrod who was a Colonel (the Scott County James Harrod was also in Harrodsburg but did not hold that high a military title in Kentucky although he was a Rev. War veteran also and in the Indiana Militia), and nephew of the Thomas whom he gave evidence at the house of Evan Shelby (his aunt Mary, earlier married to Adam Newland) as to Thomas's children in the famous Mercer County, Kentucky, case Harrod Heirs vs. Harrod Heirs. This leaves only one place for his placement: son of John and Rachel Shepherd Harrod. He is too old to be the William son of William (who lived later in Bracken County, Kentucky) or the William son of Levi (who lived his life in Ohio).

Helynn Carrrier accepted my several step argument for the Scott County, Indiana, James not being son of Thomas, the half-brother of the James who founded Harrodsburg and the full brother of my John who married Rachel Shepherd, as that is what she already believed based on Bernice Swainson and the "Chronlogical Account". She never accepted my argument based on the same line of reasoning for "her" William (though harder to find facts for like the census records and court documents used for the other argument which was just my re-hashing of Bernice Swainson's argument but with the records attached). My Thomas and James argument also ruled out a half a dozen other Harrod families trying to connect to the same Thomas. I can send that argument (logical discussion), but I believe it too is on the Harrod Genforum. I have asked the cousins to post whatever records they have onto the Harrod Genforum, especially Bibles, wills, and other family documents no matter what line they belong to, since such wonderful sites by Christine Smith and Sharon Puckett are no longer online. I seem to be one of the very few responding to my call.