Henry HARKLEROAD

                   DEATH PLACE AND DATE FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD, BIRTH DATE AND PLACE FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD, MARRIAGE INFORMATION FROM LDS 1126445 FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD " IN 1850 AT AGE 62 HE MOVED HIS FAMILY WITH FIVE YOUNG CHILDRED TO FULTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS.  HE DID OBTAIN TWO 80 ACRE BOUNTY LAND PLOTS.  HE SETTLED 5 MILES SOUTH OF TODAY'S SALEM WHERE HE FARMED, SET UP A BLACKSMITH SHOP AND A STORE.  THOUGH ILLITERATE, HE DONATED LAND FOR A SCHOOL AND SOUGHT TO HAVE THE COMMUNITY NAMED MT. PLEASANT."

FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD
       HENRY HARKLEROAD JR. OF ARKANSAS
       YOUNG HENRY HARKLEROAD JR. CAME TO SULLIVAN COUNTY WITH HIS PARENTS, HENRY SR. AND ELIZABETH EMMERT HARKLEROAD IN 1793 FROM ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, WHERE HE WAS BORN 12-23-1788.
       HE BECAME A MILLWRIGHT AND WAS INVOLVED IN VARIOUS SULLIVAN COUNTY LAND DEALINGS.  HENRY WAS SIX FEET TALL, HAD DARK HAIR AND BLUE EYES WITH A FAIR COMPLEXION.
       HENRY SERVED AS A PRIVATE UNDER CAPT. JOSEPH SCOTT'S COMPANY, 3RD REGIMENT, EAST TENNESSEE MILITIA OF THE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS THAT FOUGHT UNDER GENERAL JACKSON IN THE INDIAN BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND ON THE TALLAPOOSA RIVER MARCH 27, 1814 MIDWAY TO MOBILE, THAT LED TO THE BRITISH DEFEAT AT NEW ORLEANS.
       LATER, HE LEFT SULLIVAN COUNTY AND FARMED A WHILE IN DIXON COUNTY IN 1830. ON MAY 5, 1837, HE MARIED MARGARET ADELINE BERRY AT HER HOME IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA.  THEIR FIRST CHILD GEORGE WASHINGTON 1838-1872 WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA.  THEY LIVED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY UNTIL 1850 WHERE THEIR NEXT FOUR CHILDREN JAMES HENRY 1843-1902, JOSEPH TAYLOR 1846-1924, WILLIAM HENDERSON C., AND SIDNEY KENTRON 1848-1931 WERE BORN.  HE THEN TOOK HIS FAMILY TO ARKANSAS WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER MARGARET ELIZABETH 1852-1936 WAS BORN.  HE WAS FIRST IN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW THOMAS W. BERRY AND HIS FAMILY, BEFORE GOING ON TO FULTON COUNTY.  HERE HE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE, DIED 12-18-1869, AND WAS BURIED ON HIS LAND IN A FAMILY HARKLEROAD CEMETERY.  FROM THIS FARM HE DONATED LAND FOR A SCHOOL AND A CHURCH.
       HENRY WAS THE ELDEST CHILD IN HENRY SR.'S SECOND FAMILY WHO LIVED ALONG BEAVER CREEK.  HIS BROTHER JOHN, LIKE HENRY, LEFT SULLIVAN COUNTY FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS AND HAD A SON KILLED THERE IN THE BLACKHAWK WAR IN 1832.  LATER JOHN AND FAMILY LIVED IN IOWA ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI.  ANOTHER BROTHER JACOB ISAAC BORN IN SULLIVAN COUNTY 1799 DIED 1876 REMAINED IN BLUFF CITY AND RAISED A FAMILY OF 5 SONS AND 4 DAUGHTERS; JAMES HENRY 1829-1884, MARY ANN 1831-1846, GEORGE WASHINGTON 1831-1867, ANDREW RILEY 1834, ELIZA JANE 1836, JACOB ISAAC (YOCK) 1836-1924, SARAH B. 1839, WILLIAM DULENY 1841-1928 AND CATHERINE ELIZA 1844.  JACOB ISAAC'S DESCENDANTS ACCOUNT FOR MANY OF TODAYS SULLIVAN COUNTY HARKLEROADS.
       WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LUCY AND HIRAN, BUT ANOTHER BROTHER ISAAC 1801-1881 ALSO LEFT FOR ILLINOIS AND RAISED A FAMILY EAST OF ST. LOUIS.
ANOTHER SISTER EMMA MARRIED A DAVIDSON AND MOVED TO LAUREL COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE YOUNGEST BROTHER WILLIAM L. 1809-1877 WITH FAMILY ALSO LIVED NEAR EMMA IN KENTUCKY.
       HENRY JR. HAD AN OLDER HALF BROTHER DANIEL 1769-1840, WHO WAS THE ELDEST IN HENRY SR.'S FIRST FAMILY.  DANIEL WAS BORN IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.  DANIEL'S FIRST DAUGHTER ELIZABETH WAS BORN IN ELIAZBETHTON NORTH CAROLINA.  DANIEL'S SISTER REBECCA WAS BORN IN YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AND THE LATER SIBLINGS WERE BORN IN ABINGDON, VIRGINIA BEFORE HENRY SR. MOVED SOUTH TO BEAVER CREEK IN 1793.