Foreword | Part I - Isaac Fam | Part II - William | Part III - John | Part IV - Wooten |
Part V - Benjamin | Part VI - Elizabeth | Part VII - Mary | Part VIII - Reuben | Part IX - Zachariah |
Isaac Harris, of Brunswick County, Virginia, was the father of six sons and two daughters that have been identified to date. Two of his sons were Revolutionary War soldiers. After the war, the sons lived in Rutherford County, North Carolina. John and William died there, and many of the descendants of William's son, Harbert, remained in the area, as well as some of John's descendants. Benjamin, Reuben, and Zachariah settled in Greenville County, South Carolina. From there Zachariah moved to Franklin County, Georgia. Later, Wooten, Benjamin, Reuben, and Zachariah moved to Tennessee. Wooten lived in Hickman County, Tennessee. Zachariah also lived there at first, but soon moved to Humphreys County. Reuben lived in Jackson County, and Benjamin lived in White County, where he died. Both Wooten and Zachariah moved to Illinois before 1830, and Reuben, Benjamin's widow, Rutha, with her son, Silas Harris, were there before 1840. In the 1950s, my sister, Deon (Moulton) Rasmussen did research in Fayette and Montgomery Counties, Illinois, where Zachariah and Wooten Harris lived. Her purpose was to find additional information that would give clues to extend the line back in an effort to find the antecedents of the six brothers. She, with the help of Esther Hoffman, a local researcher, traced the descendants of Wooten and Zachariah with their many intermarriages with other families in the area. Shortly before Deon's death in 1964, she gave her records to me. Later, I joined the Fayette County, Illinois, Genealogical Society and received their quarterly publication Fayette Facts. This gave me the opportunity to exchange information with many others who were working on these same families. Esther Hoffman, Deon's researcher, had passed away, leaving her genealogical records with her cousin, Audrey Probst, of Fillmore, Illinois. We corresponded for many years and shared our records. Still later, I submitted a history of the Harris Family to the editors of the Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, and corresponded with Margie Cox of Marion, North Carolina. I am indebted to her for sharing her research on the descendants of her ancestor, Harbert Harris, son of Isaac's oldest son, William. Alice Duncan, a descendant of Reuben, had considerable research material on his family, and we shared our research with each other. In addition, data on all the brothers' families was found by research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since this version of my history will be available on the internet, I have chosen not to include families who have many children born after 1900. However, when there are a number of children born before 1900 in the family, I may include the names of the rest of the children but not their dates. In presenting this genealogical history, I have chosen to divide the records into parts. In Part I, the records and basic background material concerning Isaac Harris's family is given. Each of Isaac's children and descendants are featured in a separate section of the book, Parts II through IX. You can go directly to a particular part, with a mouse click on one of the hotlinks below, or on the navigation bar at the top and bottom of this page: |
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Throughout the book, I have used certain standard approaches to presenting the data that are commonly used in genealogical publications.
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Foreword | Part I - Isaac Fam | Part II - William | Part III - John | Part IV - Wooten |
Part V - Benjamin | Part VI - Elizabeth | Part VII - Mary | Part VIII - Reuben | Part IX - Zachariah |