Family history of Christopher Harwood (ca. 1756/61-1793), the son of Capt. William Harwood and Priscilla Pendleton, who was born in King & Queen Co., Virginia. He married Margaret Roane (ca. 1766-1833), the daughter of Col. Thomas Roane. She was born at Bloomsbury in Essex Co., Va. Their first recorded son was Archibald Roane Harwood (1786-1837), who married Martha Fauntleroy of Holly Hill.

Thomas Moore Harwood was born 30 September 1827 in Newington, King and Queen County, Virginia. His parents were Archibald Roane Harwood and Martha Lowry Fauntleroy. He married Cordelia Brown (1834-1926) in 1857 in Bolivar, Tennessee. They had six children. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere.