In 1850 he was in Anderson County, TX. In 1860 he was in Halletsville (where he wrote the letter). In 1870 he was in Davis (Cass Countyy, TX and in 1880 he was in Shelby County, TX. And there is no telling how many places in between. He lists farmer or blacksmith as occupations (nowhere does it say "Have Gun, Will Travel"). He was born in North Carolina, father in Virginia. His wife was Sarah Whitton Barrier. My father said that he had 3 brothers, Silas, Will and ______. He named a son Silas so that is possibly true. However, the well documented Silas Haralson, son of Major Haralson, of that era is definitely not his brother. His appearance on the 1850 census in Anderson County, TX is the earliest that I can place him.

If I am reading the letter right (and I may not be), Stuckey is living in some county in Texas and is possibly wanted in Mississippi. There has been some communication with Gov. Runnels about this previously because he is aware of the situation and it sounds like he doesn't want him (Stuckey) in Texas. That does sound like a clan in Mississippi. Gov. Runnels was born in Lawrence County, MS and is approximately the same age as A.J. (Andrew Jackson Haralson). I'm wondering if they knew each other in their youth. I have always assumed that he lived continuously in Texas from 1850 to 1880 but I doubt that the Mississippi government had "Agents" who lived permanently in Texas. I have never been able to tie him to any of the Haralsons who lived in Mississippi (nor Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, or North Carolina, for that matter). I have always doubted the farmer/blacksmith thing. The "folk talk" was that he was gone from home alot. It is not easy to make a living farming or blacksmithing when you're "gone from home a lot."