Family information from Sherry Herrington:

The Isom Daniel Harrington family had settled in Simpson Co by the time of the Civil War and has remained in that area since that time. The assumption is that Isom was the third son and fifth child of Enoch and Harriet Herrington. We were first given this information by Mrs. Mae McRaney, a granddaughter of Celeaty H. Miller.

During the last few years we have searched the archives for proof that Isom was a son of Enoch but so far we have found no written evidence of the family relationship. In 1850 Isom (spelled Isham) was a laborer with the John McCraney family (a son of this family, Cornelius, married Mary Ann Herrington, a daughter of Enoch W. Herrington) and the Enoch Herrington family had moved to Attala Co Mississippi. Perhaps Isom was already on his own earning his own way. If the 1860 age of his first son is correct, Isom may have been married at that time.

A great-granddaughter of Isom, Louise H. Brooks, has done extensive genealogical research and shares our opinion that Isom is the son of Enoch Herrington. She says, "My strong belief of Isom's relationship to Enoch and Harriet stems from the approximate year of his birth, the composition of Enoch's family at the time the U.S. census enumerations were made, the geographical area in which Isom finally settled, the the repetition of Ha/Herrington and Stuckey names in the family, and the fact that Isom's granddaughter called a son of Enoch, "Uncle France", and the fact that another great-granddaughter of Enoch called Isom, "Uncle Isom."

The spelling of the Herrington name has been another cause of uncertainty in placing the Isom line into the Enoch Herrington family. Known descendants of other children of Enoch have always spelled the name He; many of the Isom line use the Ha spelling. Louise H.Brooks writes, "in the 1850 census Isom's name was spelled Isham Herrington. My father told me the spelling of his grandfather's name varied in his given name and his surname and that finally the spelling of Harrington evolved and that his father, Thomas Morgan Harrington, stated that Ha was correct."

Rebecca, Isom's wife, may have been either a Dickens or Dickerson or Dickson; descendants of several children have given the different names. Dickson was used on her tombstone. She and Isom were the parents of ten children. Isom was a farmer and owned his own farm. In 1860 his real estate was valued for tax purposes at $700 and his personal estate at $470. By 1870, apparently he had divided his land with his eldest son, John. Whether this was by official deed, we do not know. Simpson County lost many court records through fire. However, in.1870, John lived next door to his father and John's real estate was valued at $500 and his personal estate at $800, whereas Isom's real estate had decreased from its $700 value in 1860 to only $100 and his personal estate from $470 to $300.

Isom served in Company A, 39th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry Volunteers in the Civil War. The Regiment, known as the Simpson Grays, under Captain R. J. Durr, served at Corinth under General Beauregard, with their main rendezvous being at Jackson. He enlisted at Westville, Mississippi (west of the present town of Magee) for a period of 3 years. His service record indicates that he was paid up to August 1862 and again for the period ending 31 December 1862, but no record is available to indicate payment for January and February 1863. Isom was paid again for March and April 1863, and no further record appears until the notation that he deserted his unit at Enterprise, Miss. on November 20, 1863, and remained absent without leave until April 24, 1864, when he rejoined. On May 16, 1864. Isom's name appears on a register of patients at the 1st Mississippi CSA Hospital, Jackson, Miss. and he was returned to duty on May 18, 1864. Apparently, his unit was sent to join troops in Georgia, for he was captured near Marietta, Georgia, on June 19, 1864. The prisoners were sent first to Nashville, Tenn., and in the same month to Louisville, Ky., then to Camp Morton at Indianapolis, Ind. One document contains the information that he was received at Camp Morton on June 28, 1864 and that he was "Enlisted in U.S. Service, March 22/65". The 1866 Census of Simpson County shows him at home with his family.

Rebecca Jane died in 1893 or 1894, probably of a stroke. A granddaughter, Ora Floyd Grubbs, remembered her mother being called to go see about "Grandma Jane" when she had a stroke in the cowpen as she was milking. Rebecca Jane is buried in the Bart Harrington Cemetery, Southwest of Magee, Simpson Co Mississippi

Isom married again, probably in 1895, to Mrs. Sarah E. Coleman, who had two children by a previous marriage. Only one of these children was living in 1900, a daughter named Ada who married Jeff Farmer. Isom was listed on the 1900 census as a farmer, employed all 12 months of the year, and owned his own farm. When Isom died in 1908, he was buried in what is now an obscure cemetery (perhaps called the "Husband Cemetery") about 4 miles out the airport road Northwest of Magee. The cemetery was on the edge of cultivated land in 1976 when it was found and it was feared that the graves would not remain intact much longer. Sarah lived much longer than Isom and she is buried in Goodwater Cemetery near Magee, Simpson Co Mississippi