JOHN HARRIS WHO BORN 1828 AL & MARRIED FRANCES (?)
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IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THIS JOHN HARRIS WHO WAS LIVING IN LEBANON DIST OR DEKALB CTY IN 1850 WITH HIS WIFE FRANCES AND TWO DAU'S SARAH J. AND PARTHENA OR PARTHENIA MAY HAVE BEEN FROM JACKSON CTY, AL. IT IS BELIEVED BY SOME THAT THE FATHER OF WILLIAM G. HARRIS BORN 1825 WAS A JAMES HARRIS OF JACKSON CTY, AL. I HAVE COME TO THE POINT I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE BROTHERS ALL LISTED ON THE 1850 DEKALB CTY AL CENSUS WERE W. HARRIS 31, GAINES A. 29, NEEDHAM LEE 27, WILLIAM G. 25 AND JOHN 22 WITH A SISTER MARTHA 18 BORN IN TN. ALL THE BOYS WERE B. IN AL AND THE MOTHER MAY HAVE BEEN MARY A. B. 1804 IN VA. SOME ALLIED FAMILIES IN THE GENERATIONS TO COME WERE MCLAIN, STONE, TUCKER, MCNARON, MORRELL, EVANS, POWELL AND OTHERS. SOME CHRISTIAN NAMES WERE BYRON, ARVEL, ROBERT, WILLIAM, BRUCE, THOMAS, ELIJAH, ELISHA, JESSE, WALTER, BELVILLE, RENDOL AND OTHERS. THERE WERE HOLCOMBS, NICOLS AND OTHERS IN THE AREA. ANY AND ALL RABITS WILL BE APPRECIATED AND CHASED. WARMEST REGARDS AND SINCERE SYMPATHY TO ALL HARRIS HUNTERS.