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  • ID: I11846
  • Name: James Madison Harkey
  • Surname: Harkey
  • Given Name: James Madison
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 11 Jun 1832 in North Carolina
  • Death: 28 Sep 1897 in Pope Co., AR
  • Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Russellville, Pope Co., AR
  • _UID: 339126735F815C4A944C4231C9CBD9DA7D11
  • Note:
    1870 Census
    Name: James M Harkey
    Birth Year: abt 1832
    Age in 1870: 38
    Birthplace: North Carolina
    Home in 1870: Illinois, Pope, Arkansas
    Race: White
    Gender: Male
    Post Office: Dover
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    James M Harkey 38
    Elizabeth P Harkey 32
    Alice P Harkey 8
    Mary S Harkey 1
    David H Harkey 18 (brother)
    William H Miller 23

    Capt. Harkey was twice taken prisoner during the war. The first time he was soon exchanged; the second time he was led out with a rope around his neck to be hanged. While his captors were tying a rope to the limb of a tree he gave the sign of distress as a Mason, and was rescued by a second lieutenant of Federal troops, who was a Mason and a friend. Mr. Harkey says: "He said he was raised in Indiana, but I have forgotten his name and post-office address; I would be very glad to meet him in some Masonic lodge or Grand Lodge. I would most assuredly tell him that the latch string of my
    door hangs on the outside, and I would be glad if he would pull it and walk in at any time and sup with me and I with him. If I meet him no more in this world I hope to meet him where parting will be known no more."
    Source: Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas, Goodspeed Publ Co., 1891, at pp. 230-231.
  • Change Date: 17 Dec 2011 at 23:53:34



    Father: David Robert Harkey b: 29 Jun 1797 in Montgomery Co., NC
    Mother: Elizabeth Sarah Shinn b: 26 Nov 1803 in North Carolina

    Marriage 1 N Elizabeth P A Walker b: 6 Jun 1838
    • Married: 21 Feb 1855 in Pope Co., AR
    Children
    1. Has No Children Alice P Harkey b: 1862 in Pope Co., AR
    2. Has No Children Mary Scathie Harkey b: 1869 in Pope Co., AR
    3. Has No Children David H Harkey
    4. Has No Children Rueben M Harkey b: 1872
    5. Has No Children Floy Lee Harkey b: 1875
    6. Has No Children Elmer Harkey
    7. Has No Children Charley D Harkey
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