Harpers In Missouri

The Ancestors And Family Of "Marvin" H. Harper, Sr.
Author: Richard (Ricky) Allen Harper

Patrick Harper

Patrick Harper was born in Ireland. Patrick Harper arrived
in Gloucester County, Virginia from Ireland in 1653. Patrick
Harper died in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1680.

George Harper - Son of Patrick Harper

The child of Patrick Harper was George Harper who was
born in Gloucester County, Virginia and died in 1720 in
Gloucester County, Virginia.

George Harper married Martha in 1700 in Gloucester
County, Virginia. She was born in 1670 in Gloucester
County, Virginia and died in Gloucester County, Virginia.

The children of George and Martha Harper were 1) Joseph
Harper, 2) William Harper, 3) Mary Harper who was born
in May 1705, and 4) Edward Harper.

Joseph Harper - Son of George Harper
and the Grandson of Patrick Harper

Joseph Harper, the son of George and Martha Harper, was
born in 1700 in Gloucester County, Virginia.
Joseph Harper moved to Prince George County, Virginia
sometime between 1720 and 1727. While living in Prince
George County, Virginia Joseph Harper married Susannah
Malone. Susannah Malone was born in 1700 in Prince
George County, Bristol Parish, Virginia. While living in
Prince George County, Virginia between 1727 and 1736
Joseph and Susannah Harper had the following children:

A) Martha Harper was born in 1727 in Prince George
County, Bristol Parish, Virginia.

B) Nathaniel Harper was born in 1730 in Prince George
County, Bristol Parish, Virginia and died in 1794 in Prince
George County, Bristol Parish, Virginia. Nathaniel Harper
had a child named Joseph Wells Harper, Sr..

C) George Harper was born on December 24, 1732 in Prince
George County, Bristol Parish, Virginia and died in 1812 in
Clarke County, Georgia.

D) Joseph Harper was born in 1734 in Prince George
County, Bristol Parish, Virginia and died in Amelia County,
Virginia. He married Sarah Stone in 1750 in Dinwiddie
County, Virginia. She was born on October 25, 1731 in
Richmond, Virginia and died in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

E) Drury Harper was born in 1736 in Prince George County,
Bristol Parish, Virginia and died in 1791 in Amelia County,
Virginia.

Joseph and Susannah Harper moved to Dinwiddie County,
McKenney, Virginia. While living in Dinwiddie County,
McKenney, Virginia
Joseph Harper built the Harper Home. The home is located 5
miles west of Dinwiddie County, McKenney, Virginia off of
State Route #40 on Harpers Road.
The home is close to where the western border of Dinwiddie
County, Virginia meets the northern border of Brunswick
County, Virginia. The home is also to the east of and very
close to the Fort Pickett Military Reservation. Below are two
maps showing the location of the Harper Home. The official
address is:
4015 Harpers Road
McKenney, VA
23872-3336

Here is more information on the Harper Home: The Harper
Home sits in the middle of 50 acres and consists of 4 parts
that were built in 1775, 1780, 1795, and 1997. The earliest
building is restored as a formal dining room. The other 2 old
sections have exposed interior framing with original flooring,
stairways, trim, mantels, and 200-amp wiring The new
addition has a large kitchen, great room, and 24-x-24 loft.
The property has a three-acre vineyard, pond, replanted
pines, and wildlife refuge.
Information about the Harper Home was found on the
website: http://www.nationaltrust.
org/Magazine/archives/arc_mag/mj04realestate.htm.
Below is a picture of the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County,
McKenney, Virginia.

Joseph Harper died while living in the Harper Home in
Dinwiddie County, Virginia in 1790. His wife Susannah
Malone Harper also died while living in the Harper Home in
Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

William Harper - Son of George Harper
and the Grandson of Patrick Harper

William Harper, the brother of Joseph Harper and the son of
George and Martha Harper, was born on July 9, 1703 in
Sussex County, Virginia and died on November 18, 1757 in
Sussex County, Virginia. He married Frances Wyatt who was
born in 1704 and died in 1757. William Harper and Frances
Wyatt were married in 1722 in Sussex County, Virginia.
William and Frances Harper had the following children:

A) William Harper was born in 1723. He married Elizabeth
Peterson in 1750 in Sussex County, Virginia. William Harper
died on January 26, 1765 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

B) Milly Harper was born in 1727. She married Wood
Tucker who was born on May 29, 1726. Milly Harper and
Wood Tucker married on January 27, 1744. Milly Harper
Tucker died in 1783 in Richland County, South Carolina.

C) Edward Harper was born in 1732. He married Ann
Turner who was born on November 8, 1730. Edward Harper
and Ann Turner were married on May 3, 1756. Edward
Harper died in 1765 in Sussex County, Virginia.

D) Wyatt Harper was born in 1733. He married Ann Jordan
who was born in 1726. Wyatt Harper and Ann Jordan
married in 1755 in Sussex County, Virginia. Wyatt Harper
died on February 11, 1759 in Sussex County, Virginia.

E) Martha Harper was born on July 24, 1739. She married
John Rivers who was born in January 1736. Martha Harper
and John Rivers were married in 1757 in Sussex County,
Virginia. Martha Harper Rivers died on October 20, 1774 in
Sussex County, Virginia.

F) Frances Harper was born in 1742. She married a man
with the last name of Hunt. Frances Harper Hunt died in
1780 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

G) Benjamin Harper was born on August 3, 1744 and died on
November 16, 1759 in Sussex County, Virginia.

Joseph Wells Harper, Sr. - The Son of
Nathaniel Harper, the Grandson of
Joseph Harper, the Great-Grandson of
George Harper, and the Great-Great-
Grandson of Patrick Harper

Joseph Wells Harper, Sr. was born on May 26, 1766 in the
Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died on
April 15, 1835 in the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County,
Virginia.

Joseph Wells Harper, Sr., the child of Nathaniel Harper,
married Elizabeth Winfield Scott in 1794 in Dinwiddie
County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Captain William
Scott (1749 - 1789) and Ann Mason (1747 - 1803), the
granddaughter of Daniel Mason (1727 - 1798) and Elizabeth
Winfield (1724 - 1774) as well as James Scott (1720 - 1760),
and the great-granddaughter of John Mason (1680 - 1755) as
well as John Winfield (1698 - 1756) and Anne Buckner (1702
- 1746). She was born in 1767 in Dinwiddie County, Laurel
Branch (The name of the family home.), Virginia, and died in
1836 in the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

More information on the ancestry of Elizabeth Winfield Scott:

The name Winfield comes from the English name Wingfield
and goes back to the civil parish of Wingfield in the county of
Suffolk in England. The lands that make up the parish of
Wingfield were owned by the Wingfield family. Wingfield
Parish is also the location of a castle that was built by Sir
John Wingfield in the 1300s. The genealogy of Elizabeth
Winfield Scott goes back to the ancestor Robert de Wingfield
(Robert of Wingfield) who was born in Suffolk County,
Wingfield Parish, England in 1098.

James Scott, the grandfather of Elizabeth Winfield Scott,
came to Virginia about 1746. He was a Scotsman of the Clan
Buecleuch. James had taken part in the field of Culloden in
1746, on behalf of the pretender to the British throne. After
defeat he escaped to Bristol and was smuggled aboard a ship
bound for Virginia. James settled in what is now Dinwiddie
County, Virginia. He was said to have been a teacher and to
have stayed with the Winfield family, which indicates his
presence in the Dinwiddie County area. Tradition is that
Sarah Pegram married a Scott, and in "A Record of the
Pegram Family" by Mary Elizabeth Lumpkin, it is stated
that James Scott married a sister of Edward Pegram. If this is
true, her name would have been Sarah, although Mrs.
Lumpkin gave her name as Elizabeth. It is possible that her
name was Sarah Elizabeth, a common combination, although
two given names for an individual was rare in the early
eighteenth century, and there is no indication that this was
the case. There simply was not a known Elizabeth Pegram of
marriageable age at the time in question, and certainly not a
sister of Edward Pegram. Due to the very early and close
association of the Pegram and Scott families, the marriage of
James Scott and Sarah Pegram appears plausible. It may be
that James Scott and Sarah Pegram initiated the numeorus
marriages between these two prominent families. The basis of
Mrs. Lumpkin's information is not known, and documentary
evidence on this point is still being sought.

Captain William Scott was born in 1747, which was the year
following the reported arrival of his father James Scott in
Virginia. William served in the Revolutionary War. He
married Ann Mason, daughter of Daniel Mason and
Elizabeth Winfield. Their home was known as Laurel Branch.
They had seven children, as follows:

Elizabeth Winfield Scott, daughter of William Scott and Ann
Mason, was born in 1767 and died in 1836. She married
Joseph Wells Harper, Sr. in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

Rebecca Scott, daughter of William Scott and Ann Mason,
was born in 1770. She married Captain Edward Henry
Pegram, son of George Pegram and Elizabeth Williamson,
and grandson of Edward Pegram and Mary Scott Baker.

Mary Manson Scott, daughter of William Scott and Ann
Mason, was born in 1772 and died in 1838. She married
Theodoric Scott.

Ann Scott, daughter of William Scott and Ann Mason, was
born in 1775 and died in 1872. She married Major Theodoric
Walker in 1802.

Colonel James Scott, son of William Scott and Ann Mason,
was born on February 24, 1777 and died in 1841. He married
Martha Pegram, daughter of Captain Edward Pegram and
Ann Harper Parham.

Martha Scott, daughter of William Scott and Ann Mason,
was born in 1783. She married Thomas Field.

General Winfield Scott, son of William Scott and Ann Mason,
was born on June 13, 1786, in Dinwiddie County, near
Petersburg, Virginia. He died on May 29, 1866 in Orange
County, West Point, New York. The grandfather of Winfield's
mother was John Winfield, a man of great wealth, for whom
Winfield was named. Winfield was a lawyer and had an office
in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He became head of the United
States Armies, and was the Whig Party candidate for
President of the United States both in 1848 and 1852. There is
probably more information available on General Winfield
Scott than on any other individual treated in this book. For
this reason I am including only this very abbreviated
paragraph regarding his life. His biography is published in
many places. It can be found in brief form in the
Encyclopedia Britannica.

More information on General Winfield Scott can be found at
the following link:

The above information on the family history of Elizabeth
Winfield Scott can be found at the following link:

Joseph Wells Harper, Sr. and Elizabeth Winfield Scott moved
into the Harper Home that had been built by the grandfather
of Joseph Wells Harper, Sr. after they were married in 1794.
The children of Joseph Wells Harper, Sr. and Elizabeth Scott
were:

1) Thomas Jefferson Harper was born in 1794 in the Harper
Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died in 1886 in
Warren County, Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was married to
Mary Jane Thomas.

2) Martha Winfield Harper was born in 1803 in the Harper
Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. She was married to
Thomas Field.

3) Ann Mason Harper was born in 1805 in the Harper Home
in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died in 1850.

4) Elizabeth Winfield Harper was born on March 13, 1805 in
the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died
November 1, 1875 in Polk County, Texas. She married
Robert Batte Jones, Sr., the son of Robert Edward Jones
(1748 - 1804) and Ann Ward (1750 - 1827), who was born
April 17, 1798 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died
January 3, 1873 in Polk County, Texas. They had three sons:
1) Edward Jones, 2) Joseph Harper Jones, and 3) Robert
Batte Jones, Jr.

5) Joseph Wells Harper, Jr. was born on October 14, 1807 in
the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died on
February 15, 1888 in Dinwiddie County, Petersburg,
Virginia. He was the last Harper child to live in the Harper
Home in Dinwiddie County, McKenney, Virginia. He was
also a Colonel in the Confederate States Army. He was
married 4 times. His four wives were: 1) Susan G. Sith, the
daughter of Needham W. Stith and Lucy Gray Haskins. She
died on December 12, 1826., 2) Sarah J. Moore who was
married on May 17, 1844. She died on September 22, 1856.,
3) Sallie G. Ferguson who was married on January 1, 1879.
She died on March 26, 1882. The child of Joseph Wells
Harper, Jr. and Sallie G. Ferguson was Joseph Wells Harper
III who was born in 1881 in the Harper Home in Dinwiddie
County, Virginia., and 4) Elizabeth (Lizzie) Haney Ferguson
who was married on February 6, 1883. Joseph Wells Harper,
Jr. and Elizabeth (Lissie) Haney Ferguson had two children:
1) Sallie Elizabeth Harper who was born on March 19, 1883
in the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died
on June 21, 1958 and 2) Flora Scott Harper who was born in
the Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia on March
19, 1883. Flora Scott Harper married Alfred Henry Kean.
Joseph Wells Harper, Jr. was buried in the Harper Family
Cemetery in Dinwiddie County, Virginia sideways at the foot
of the graves of his first three wives.

More information on Colonel Joseph Wells Harper, Jr.:

DINWIDDIE CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Harper’s Cemetery

Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection

LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Colonel Joseph Wells
Harper, Junior's graveyard:
September 28, 1937
Research made by Bettie B. Powell

Cemetery Location: 5 miles west of McKenney, Virginia on
Route #40, thence 3.5
miles on Route #638.
Dinwiddie County

DATE:

1826.

OWNERS:

Colonel Joseph Wells Harper, Jr.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is southwest of the Harper home, each grave
is enclosed
separately with an iron railing.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Inscriptions on tombs:

Susan G. Harper
wife of Colonel Joseph Wells Harper, Jr.
Died Dec. 12, 1826

Sarah J. Harper
wife of Colonel Joseph Wells Harper, Jr.
Died Sept. 22, 1856

Sallie G. Harper
wife of Colonel Joseph Wells Harper, Jr.
Died March 28, 1882

By his request Colonel Joseph Wells Harper was buried on
this side at the feet of his
three wives. There is no marker to his grave.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant: John W. Baskerville, R.F.D. #1, McKenney,
Virginia.

Court Records, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Deed Book Vol. 2, page 90

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The information above was found on the following link:

The Graveyard of Colonel Joseph Wells Harper, Jr.

6) Coleson (Coulston) T. Harper was born in 1812 in the
Harper Home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died before
1860 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

The map below shows the route taken by ship from Ireland to
Virginia by Patrick Harper in 1653. To see the original map
click on the link below:

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Ancestry of Elizabeth Winfield Scott

World Map

The map below shows the travels from 1) Point A - Gloucester County,
Virginia (Where Patrick Harper migrated to in 1653 from Ireland and
where he died in 1680, where the son of Patrick Harper, George Harper,
was born after 1653 and died in 1720, and where the son of George Harper,
the grandson of Patrick Harper, Joseph Harper, was born in 1700.) to 2)
Point B - Prince George County, Virginia (Where Joseph Harper, the
grandson of Patrick Harper, was living at the time he had his son Nathaniel
Harper in 1730) to 3) Point C - Dinwiddie County, Virginia (Where Joseph
Harper, the grandson of Patrick Harper, was living when he built the
Harper Home in 1739. Also where Joseph Harper died in 1790). The map
was done on www.mapquest.com.

General Winfield Scott

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