Posted by Polly Piskos on May 27, 2100 at 11:42:32:

My family records show my GG grandfather Robert Martin Harrison
(married Malinda Caroline Horn in Perry Co, AL in 1849) was son of
Middleton Harrison.  When I discovered the Harrison Genealogy
Repository web site, I thought I had found my Middleton as son of
John Harrison and Sarah Middleton.  Then I found their son Middleton
Harrison was in Itawamba Co, MS census in 1840 and 1850 while my
Middleton was in Perry Co, AL for 1840 and 1850.  They had different
sets of children born in approximately same time span.
This is where the puzzlement begins:
The Repository's record for Middleton (son of John  and Sarah, whom I
call "MS Middleton") shows he had two children born 1840, one named
Emily, the other's given name unknown.....these children are NOT
shown on the 1850 Itawamba, MS census).  My AL Middleton actually did
have two children born ca 1840: Emiline and Middleton, Jr.  Because
the AL Middleton's twins are attributed to the Repository's MS
Middleton, I wonder if someone is combining two Middletons  or if they
are indeed one person.
Both Middletons (according to 1850 census reports) were born
ca 1799/1800 and both born in SC.  The MS Middleton's first wife died in
1844 and he remarried in 1845.  
Apparently the AL Middleton's first wife died too,  because he remarried in
1844/45.
I found an Itawamba record that showed the MS Middleton sold all his
household stuff and land in 1837/38.....about the time the Alabama
Middleton started acquiring land in Perry Co, AL (1835/37/38).
The MS Middleton's second wife was Eliza..?..    The AL Middleton's
second wife was Elizabeth Holyfield (The Holyfields owned land
adjoining his in Perry Co.).
Can anyone  shed any light on this puzzler?  Were these two Middletons
really one person or were they two people living "parallel lives"
(shades of The Twilight Zone!!!)?

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