- Email from Richard W. Davis to Kay Hadon, 2 September 2019
We have corresponded over the years on the Harmon family line as I believed at one point that my ancestor Henry Harmon (1790-1826, Marion Co, Indiana) was a son of John L. Harmon (1767-1825, Marion Co., Indiana). As you remember, Henry married Agnes Green in 1810 at Pulaski County, Kentucky with bondsman Thomas Green (father of Agnes) and William Harmon (son of John L. Harmon and the only William Harmon who lived in Pulaski County at this time). When Henry died in Marion County, Indiana in 1826, the administrator of his estate was his wife's brother Rans B. Green and bondman was John Byrd Harmon (son of John L. Harmon).
In the 1810 census of Pulaski County, John L. Harmon had a son born about 1790 who is unaccounted for in the 1837 deed pertaining to the sale of part of John L. Harmon's land in Marion County.
Here is the 1810 census for John L. Harmon at Pulaski County (02310-31010), the oldest male is John L. Harmon who was age 43, the three sons age 16 to 26 were William W. Harmon (b. 1788), unaccounted for son (b. c1790) and Richard Harmon (b. 1793) and the two sons age 10-16 years were John B. Harmon (b. 1795) and James (b. 1797). The oldest female was the wife of John L. Harmon, Elizabeth who was age 40. The one daughter age 10 to 16 was Jane (b. 1799) and the three daughters age 0 to 10 years were Mildred (b. 1801), Sarah (b. 1803) and Mary (b. 1805).
Also the 1806 tax record of Pulaski County shows one other taxable white male age 16-21 years and that would be John's son William who was born in 1788. However in the 1807 and 1808 tax record, John L. Harmon paid for two white males age 16-21, apparently his son William Harmon (b. 1788) and another unaccounted for son (b. c1790).
So it appears that John L. Harmon had one son born about 1790 who is unaccounted for in the 1837 deed. It would appear that the son was Henry Harmon (c1790-1826), my ancestor. However he was not mentioned in the 1837 deed when John L. Harmon's wife and children sold part of his land. We both assumed that he was not related to John L. Harmon because Henry's heirs did not sign the deed. I did find an old LDS temple record that showed a Henry Harmon who belonged to the family of Israel Harman (b. 1753). I assumed that my Henry must belong to Israel since Israel's father Jacob lived in Pulaski County, Kentucky at one point. However, I have DNA tests for myself, my mother and my mother's sister and we match no Harmans from that Harman family even though there are a large number of testers found on Gedmatch.com. I got the same results when I searched for matches on Ancestry.com. I came up with no matches on the Harmon family of New River, Montgomery County, Virginia. Instead I came up with numerous matches to the John L. Harmon family as cousins. I had the same results on Gedmatch.com.
The matches would indicate a relationship to the John L. Harmon's family and not the New River Harman family.
Last year a distant cousin of mine contacted me. Her husband is Mark Green who is descended from Daniel Green (b. 1783) who was a brother to my ancestor Agnes Green (b. 1788) who married Henry Harmon (c1790-1826, Marion Co, Indiana). She is working with a Susan Klein who is also a descendant of Daniel Green (b. 1783). She was working with Susan and came across the match with my mother, Barbara Driggs Davis. I already knew we were cousins on paper as Letitia and I had been corresponding for years. The interesting part was when she ran Gedmatch.com for people who matched both my mother and Susan Klein. The results came back with a match for Gary Craver of Iowa. He was contacted and he has been doing genealogy for years. He matched both my mother and Susan Klein whose only common ancestor was Thomas Green and Elizabeth Matthews who were the parents of my ancestor Agnes Green Harmon (b. 1788) and Daniel Green (b. 1783). When we searched his tree he had no known Green ancestors. However, he had a Harmon line that he was stuck on. His ancestor Milford Harmon (c1812-1871) married at Boone County, Indiana in 1836. His tombstone shows that he was born in 1803, but all census records for Milford show that he was born between 1811 and 1813 in Ohio. As you remember John L. Harmon was living in Ohio in 1812. It would appear that Milford was the oldest child of Henry Harmon and Agnes Green. It is the only way that Gary Craver could match my mother and Susan Klein. Susan had no Harmons, but Gary matched her. My mother had Greens and Harmons. It's called a triangulation and when we checked if we matched on the same DNA segment it came back positive. They had the same ancestor about 4 to 4.7 generations back. My mother and Gary Graver are 4th cousins if Milford was a brother to Asenath Harmon so the generation separation matches perfectly. If you would like to see the the email from Letitia I can send that to you. It shows her process and she is really good at this. She shows charts and other info.
We do not know the names of all of the children of Henry Harmon and Agnes Green. They were married in 1810 and Henry died in 1826. My ancestor Asenath Harmon was the youngest known child born in 1823. In a letter from the 1890s, Asenath mentioned her sister Druscilla Dunlop who was living at Chicago and another sister name Mary (married name unknown). Those are the only children we know of for sure. In the 1840 census at Marion County, Indiana Agnes had 2 daughters aged 15-20 (Druscilla born about 1820/1821 and my ancestor Asenath born 1823) and two females age 20-30, possibly two other daughter (Mary and another). The older children were out of the household by then. There were no males living in the household in 1840.
I found Druscilla Harmon living in Indianapolis in the 1850 census and nearby were Elizabeth Sullivan and Nancy Shea who were both married with the surname Harmon. I am not sure but they may be sisters to Asenath. I was unaware of any other children but I assumed that the William Harmon (b. 1815) who married Elizabeth Shawnesee on 28 Jul 1840 at Boone County, Indiana and who died there less than two years later was a brother to Asenath. Concerning this William Harmon’s estate at Boone County Probate Court on the second Monday in 1842, “Edward Lane came to court with Richard Harmon who filed and proved an account against said estate to the amount of $31.17”. This Richard Harmon was a son of John L. Harmon and so this Richard would have been the uncle to William Harmon. Milford Harmon married in Boone County and is a DNA match to the Harmon/Green line.
Earlier this year I contacted Gary Craver who was the DNA match. He helped my tract down his 3rd cousin (my mom's 4th cousin), Tim Harmon who lives in Burlington County, Iowa. Gary and I paid for his Y-DNA test and it came back as a match on 36 markers out of 37 to David S. Harmon (descendant of John L. Harmon). You can see Tim's Y-DNA results on the FTDNA Harmon Family Y-DNA project page. His kit number is 292065 and is towards the bottom of the page in the "ungrouped section".
I'm pretty excited about this. When you read the 1837 deed it is not really a division of the land of John L. Harmon but rather a sale of the land by only his "legal heirs", apparently only his children who were still living. There was supposedly an Elizabeth Harmon in the family as well who did not sign. I would guess that she died before 1837 as well. The other person buried in the John L. Harmon by 1837 was possibly Henry who died only one year after John L. Harmon. The both died in Marion County, Indiana.
Have you done any research on the Harmon line before John L. Harmon? His DNA matches the Harmon family that came out of New Kent County, Virginia. I just started researching in the scarce records from that county.
Best regards
Richard Davis
In 2019 a Y-DNA test was done by a descendant of Milford Harmon (Tim Harmon) and the test came back showing that he was a match to a descendant of John L. Harmon (1767-1825) of Marion County, Indiana through John's son Charles Harmon. The test was only off on one marker on a 37 marker test. The test also matched a descendant of Joseph Harmon (b. 1776) who was the son of William Harmon who was supposedly from the New Kent County, Virginia Harman family. They were off on only 2 markers on the 37 marker test. DNA tests show that I am fourth cousins with the tester who descended from Milford Harmon and another DNA test (Gedmatch.com) shows that we share the same chromosome with another descendant of Thomas Green (1760-1822) and Elizabeth Matthews. Thomas Green's daughter Agnes Green married Henry Harmon (1790-1826) of Marion County, Indiana. This shows that Milford Harmon's descendant and I share the same DNA with the Greens and the Harmons, showing that Milford Harmon's parents were Henry Harmon and Agnes Green. This would indicate that Henry Harmon who married in Pulaski County, Kentucky (bondsman was Wm W. Harmon son of John L. Harmon) in 1810 and who moved to Marion County, Indiana with the John L. Harmon's family was most probably the son of John L. Harmon. When Henry died in Marion County, Indiana in 1826 one of the bondsman for the administration was John B. Harmon another son of John L. Harmon. I am Richard W. Davis, a descendant of Henry Harmon and Agnes Green through their daughter Aseneth Harmon (b. 1823).
Henry Harmon married Agnes Green on 10 Jul 1810 at Pulaski County, Kentucky. They were married by Joel Matthews, a Baptist Minister in Pulaski County who was the brother of Agnes Green's mother Elizabeth (Matthews) Green. The bondsmen for the marriage bond were William Harmon (1788-1866) and Thomas Green (1760-1822). William was the son of John L. Harmon (1767-1825) and brother of Henry. Thomas Green was the father of Agnes.
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