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In the shade of oaks
a story of American heritage
by Margaret Louise Harris
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A narrative account of a journey of discovery—of four hundred years of American history enveloping twelve generations of families. The author traces her ancestry back through mysteries and revelations, hunger and plenty, sorrow and joy, war and peace.
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In the shade of oaks: a story of American heritage
2009, Margaret Louise Harris
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Table of Contents
Margaret
How does one begin genealogy?
Michael I and 50,000 cousins
Recalling Florida in the 1940s
An untended cemetery
From New York to the South
A Virginia surprise
Visiting home
Louise
Libraries, etc.
Back to the road
Irish ghosts
Harris immigrants from Ireland
Harris family mysteries
John Henry Harris, first generation American
The Coxes of Tarbert
The Coxes of New York
Enrights from Kerry
Meanwhile, in Virginia and North Carolina
Civil War foreshadowing
War erupts
To march and fight
To Antietam and back
Chancellorsville to Gettysburg and back
Desperate combat
Stalemate
Petersburg unshielded
The last march
Surrender
A Civil War dissident
Ancestors of the ancestors
A colony called Jamestown
Virginia settlement spreads
Early Virginia ghosts
The colony grows
Immigration continues
Incompatible interests
Bacon's Rebellion
The first centennial
A minister and a beguiling widow join the family
A sea captain relocates his home office
Moving South from Surry County
Carolina connection
Virginia migration to North Carolina
Colonial growth and conflict
Virginia becomes America
American patriots from the South
War at Charles Town
Backcountry resistance
Citizen resolve
The first Republican nation
Our Pollards of Petersburg
Peace disturbed
Private lives
Tragedy from iniquity
A restless interim
When the states reunited
Postwar Raleigh
When Jack was a boy
And when he was my father
I am of Ireland
A treasured voyage
Appendix A : Letters of Michael Upchurch
Appendix B : Will of Samuel Briggs
Appendix C : Benjamin Harrison letter to his brother John Harrison
Appendix D : Ancestor tree.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-435).
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