ReisingerWay.com - Genealogy: Harris

My HARRIS family began somewhere in NC. From there, they've lived in
GA, Lamar Co AL, Gattman MS, Wise Co TX, Tipton OK, and Los Angeles CA.
Amongst the many HARRIS individuals in my database, you will also find
BUSSEY, EGGER, GARRISON, GUYTON, HARRISON, HOLLIS,
HORTON, NOLEN, and STRAWBRIDGE marriages.
If you take a look at my GEDCOM Page - I have more HARRIS families there.
If you find any possible connection ... please let me know. Thanks!

Thomas "Henderson" HARRIS
b. about 1795 in NC
d. 1860-1865 in Lamar Co, AL
Married: about 1841 probably in AL

Permillia "Amelia" RASBERRY
b. 07-04-1822 in SC
d. 1872-1880 in Lamar Co, AL
Parents: James RASBERRY & Sarah KNIGHTON

Children:
Mary Elizabeth (Polly) HARRIS m. Thomas STRAWBRIDGE
James Ranson (Jim) HARRIS m. Elvira NOLEN
William Joshua (Willie) HARRIS m. Lucinda NOLEN
Eliza HARRIS m. John Thomas HARRISON
Thomas Jefferson HARRIS m. Mary Susan NOLEN & Mary Ann SIMS
Green I. HARRIS m. Nancy Jane HOLLIS
Sarah Kathryn (Sally) HARRIS m. Jim MYERS & George KIMBROUGH
John Foster (Foss) HARRIS m. Helen Elizabeth (Bettie) EGGER
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Note:
We believe Henderson Harris was a Cherokee Indian.
Census records all show that his place of birth was North Carolina.
Amelia married John GUYTON after Henderson's death.

James Ransom HARRIS
b. 12-07-1843 in Sulligent, Lamar Co, AL
d. 09-30-1914 in Wise Co, TX
Married: about 1866 probably in AL

Elvira NOLEN
b. 1840 in Sulligent, Lamar Co, AL
d. 09-1926 in Wise Co, TX
Parents: William NOLEN & Anna GUYTON

Children:
Woodrow Waldon (Willie) HARRIS m. Mary Emma PHILLIPS
Eliza Idella (Ida) HARRIS m. John Pruit GREGORY
Robert Franklin HARRIS m. Lenora Belle (Nora) VAUGHN
Worthy Upright (Worth) HARRIS m. Betty VAUGHN
Hattie Louella HARRIS m. Wiley Alonzo (Alonzo) PATTERSON
Everett Lee (Lee) HARRIS m. Minnie Mae WREN
Guy Terrell HARRIS m. Lelia
Virginia (Virgie) HARRIS m. Thomas David BENNETT
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Note:
The Jim Harris family left Alabama and moved to Gattman, Mississippi in 1888.
Later in 1892, they moved to Texas and settled in Wise Co, Texas

John Pruitt GREGORY
b. 10-19-1873 in Moulton, Lawrence Co, AL
d. 02-25-1950 in Tipton, Tillman Co, OK
Parents: Eli GREGORY & Sarah DOGGETT

Idella "Ida" HARRIS
b. 03-10-1869 in Glasson, AL
d. 12-02-1946 in Tipton, Tillman Co, OK
Married: 08-12-1892 in Boyd, Wise Co, TX

Children:
Terrell Worthy GREGORY (never married ... died in WWI)
Beatrice GREGORY m. George McNAMARA
Clara Bell GREGORY m. James Cletus RODGERS
Lois Liles GREGORY m. William Avery STEVENS & James Oran LOVEJOY
Daisy Estelle GREGORY m. John Sydney HORTON
Herman Otto GREGORY m. Jewell BIRDWELL
Morton GREGORY (died as an infant)
Earl GREGORY (died as an infant)
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Notes:
John Pruitt GREGORY was a 32nd degree Mason. Ida was an Eastern Star and a Gold Star Mother.
Both John & Ida were members of the Tipton Baptist Church and are buried in the Tipton Cemetery.
The Gregory-Hamilton VFW Post #7626 in Tipton was named after their first son, Terrell.

John Sydney HORTON
b. 1895 in Florence, AL
d. 1963 in Tipton, OK
Parents: John HORTON & Mary BURKS

Daisy Estelle GREGORY
b. 1902 in Opal, TX
d. 1987 in Modesto, CA
Married: 02-10-1919 in Quanah, Hardeman Co, TX

Children:
Terrell Gregory (Terry) HORTON m. Ruth Alberta THORBURN
Floyd Autrey HORTON m. Eva KORPOW
Betty Jo HORTON m. Paul Vernon WHITACRE
Wanda Jeanne (Jeanne) HORTON m. Leibert BROWN & Elbert HEATH
Kathleen (Kay) HORTON m. Gene MITCHELL
Jennie Faye HORTON m. Marvin McCORMICK & Richard KERR
Ida Mae HORTON m. Benjamin CRAWFORD
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Note:
John Sydney HORTON left Daisy and their seven children in 1937.
Daisy (Gregory) HORTON and her children left Tipton, OK and moved to California in 1941.

Paul Vernon WHITACRE
b. 1919 in Los Angeles, CA
Living in Bullhead City, AZ
Parents: George WHITACRE & Larinda SCOTT

Betty Jo HORTON
b. 1923 in Tipton, OK
d. 1975 in Duarte, CA
Married: 02-21-1943 in Hollywood, Los Angeles Co, CA

Children:
Greg Steven WHITACRE m. Rebecca Ann McLEAN
Bruce Wayne WHITACRE (died as an infant)
Cathy Louise WHITACRE m. Joseph Charles REISINGER
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Notes:
Betty died at the City of Hope Cancer Research Hospital in Duarte, CA.
Paul remarried to Sandra TALLMAN and they have retired at the Colorado River.