Harrison Heritage September 1983
Volume III ... Number 3

Ruth Harrison Jones, Editor and Publisher

Table Of Contents

Marriages, Orange County, Indiana	p. 415
Marriages, Washington & Greene Co. Indiana	416
Orphans Court Records Fayette County, Pennsylvania	416
Thomas Harrison, Coffee Co. Tennessee	417
W. Clint Harrison, Montgomery, Alabama	417
Historical Register Of U.S. Army	419
North Carolina Marriages (continued)	422
Thomas Harrison, Tazewell Co., Virginia	424
Lineage of Capt. Joseph Harrison and Sarah Giles	424
A "Jesse James" Type Harrison	425
Descendants of William (1757) & Sophia	426
William B. & Maud Moore Harrison	431
Alexander Harrison and his daughter Sarah Harrison Reed	432
Wilber Perry Harrison, Ohio & Texas	435
Queries	436
More Harrison Researchers	441

Harrison Heritage
p. 415 September 1983

Orange County, Indiana Marriages
1840 - 1928

Clark County, Indiana Marriages
1807 - 1824

Harrison Heritage
p. 416 September 1983

Washington County, Indiana Marriage Records
1815-1833

Greene County, Indiana Marriage Records
1821 - 1827

… submitted by Phyllis Hill, 9417 E. Escondido Ave., Mesa AZ 85208

Orphans Court Records, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Volume I, 1783-1821

Page 1, 4 Jan 1784

Susannah Porter, late of Monomgalia Co. in VA now of this county comes into court and produces certain papers and records from Monogalia Court whereby it appears that the conduct or character of her husband David Porter has been so profligate and infamous to induce that Court to deem him unfit to be the Guardian or have the care of his children and has committed ____ them to the care of Susannah their mother and her family (security). And further ____ prays the court to confirm the said proceedings and complains that notwithstanding the first order of Monongalia Court her said husband David hath forcibly taken away from her their son William who is actually suffering for common necessaries through the drunkenness and idleness of his said father and prays the ____ of the court on their behalf.

Whereupon it is considered and ordered that so much of the proceedings of the Monongalia Court as concerning the 3 younger children of the said David and Susanna James William and Silas in the tuition and maintenance of their mother be confirmed in this moving county _____ _____ _____ ____ children shall not become a charge upon the County James Barkley ____ ____ L100 to indemnity the County.

The court appoints John Barkley Senior to be guardian of the persons and estates of James William and Silas Porter minor children of David Porter vagrant and delinquent during their minority and unless the said David Porter to restore to his wife Susannah their son William ____ the application of this Guardian who is authorized to (balance illegible). The court bind Robert Porter, son of David and Susannah, to James Barkley till he comes of age.

… submitted by Marie Quisenberry, 5140 Carlsbad Blvd., Carlsbad. CA 92008

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p. 417 September 1983

"ANOTHER WHIG OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION GONE"

from The Huntsville Democrat Newspaper, AL...18 January 1840

"Thomas Harrison departed this life on the 4^th day of November 1830 at his residence in Coffee County, Tennessee. He lived to be upwards of 80 years of age, and died greatly lamented by an affectionate wife and seven children, and a large number of grand and great grand children.

He was beloved by all his acquaintances and neighbors, and respected as an honest, benevolent man; and by his own industry had been placed in easy circumstances. It was his request of all his sons, that they should remain firm in the Democratic Republican principles, which he in part had fought for, and for the last several years had drawn a small pension from the government of the United States as an evidence of his service.

He was born in England; himself and his brother Richard, came to the United States when orphan boys, and having some knowledge of the British yoke, took up arms and fought bravely to rid this country of it; he joined the North Carolina Militia, under Brigadier General Davidson and was in a great many serious engagements. He died with a full assurance of future bliss.

The Democratic paper at St. Louis, Missouri will please publish the above. The Talladaga paper is requested to do the same."

W. CLINT HARRISON'S OBITUARY .. Montgomery, AL.. Oct 9, 1960

"MR. CLINT" from Montgomery Adventure

"MR. CLINT" -- W. Clint Harrison of Gallion he was -- is low at 80. He was a delightful man, kind and good natured.

He didn't drink, he thrived on solitude, and so for all the years in Montgomery as a legislator and public service commissioner he didn't spend a lot of time in convivial bull sessions. He did spend a lot of time in his Exchange Hotel room and that time was given over to reading the fine print in every bill and every document relating to state government. The extent of his detailed information was perhaps unmatched by any other official of his time. Coupled with this incomparable knowledge of what was written down about government was his recollection of political events and their undisclosed background. He had a lock-jaw memory.

For these reasons, Mr. Clint was a doctor summoned by many governors. Formally or informally, he was relied upon by governors and diverse as Miller, Graves, Dixon and Folsom. When his day was past, he went back to his dairy farm in loneliness. But he went with composure and without bitterness.

.....Submitted by Waylan Harrison, Box 59, Farm Rd. 1470, Leming, TX 78050

Harrison Heritage
p. 418 September 1983

Images of Newspaper articles regarding Clint Harrison. 143KB JPEG

Harrison Heritage
p. 419 September 1983

From The Historical Register And Dictionary
of The United States Army 1789-1903

by Francis Bernard Heitman, Vol. I; Washington Gov't Printing Office, 1903, Univ. of IL Press, Urbana, 1965

NORTH CAROLINA MARRIAGES 1717 - 1868

Harrison Heritage
p. 424 September 1983

Lineage Of Thomas Harrison

THOMAS HARRISON, b. ca 1740. m. (1) unknown; Children:

John - no information
Elizabeth m. John Edea, Bath Co., VA 1804
Mary m. ? Ervin
Hannah m. William Asbury 21 Nov 1797

Thomas m. (2) Hannah Dennis 7 Mar 1779 Botetourt Co., VA. Children:

Thomas m. Rebecca Perry 1802
James b. 18 June 1784; m. Mary Gillespie 7 Nov 1807
Joseph m. Rachel Lockhart 15 Mat 1801
Samuel m. (1) Anne; (2) Elizabeth Groves
Audley b. 6 June 1791; d. 30 Dec 1852; m. Elizabeth Dennis
Alexander b. ca 1792; m. Malvina Harmon 25 Apr 1818
Eleanor b. 1794 m. Bandy Thompson
Mary (Nancy) b. 1796; m. William Gillespie 10 Oct 1810

Thomas Harrison served in the Revolutionary War under Capt. Smallwood and Capt. Strother Jones. He served at Brandywine, Germantown, and Yorktown. He was living in Tazewell Co., VA by 1800.

.....submitted by Elizabeth Greever, 115 Spring Grove Ave., Bluefield, WV 24701.

LINEAGE OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH HARRISON

1. Captain Joseph Harrison 1753-1804, m. Sarah Giles 767-1841

A. Charles 1799-1887, m. Laura Chamberlain 1809-1866

1 a. Joseph D. 1826-1901, m. Jannette Durfee 1825-1889

aa. Charles A. A. 1855-1917 m. Cora Waite 1857-1903

1aa. Floyd A. 1885-1942 m. Ethel Currey 1883-1953
1ab. Roy 1888-1888
1ac. Flossie L. 1889-1969 m. Harold R. Wandron


2aa. Harold F. 1909-1979 m. (1) Kathryn Nicoti 1901-1970 (2) Elsie Kulbock 1906-
2ab. Hazel E. 1910; m. Harold C. Zabel 1911-1975


3aa. Marion R. 1933; m. Jerome Grobman 1930-


4aa. James 1952
4ab. Robert D. 1954-1974
4ac. Tammie S. 1958; m. Randall Reklaitis, 1958
4ad. Gary M. 1965


3ab. Richard C. 1935; m. (1) Ardith Witzius 1933-1961 (2) Carolyn Wagner 1940-


4aa. Thomas A. 1963; m. Evelyn White 1964
4ab. Rodney C. 1964
4ac. Richard R. 1968
4ad. Robert J. 1969
4ae. Paul A. 1973
4af. Peter J. 1975
4ag. Steven D. 1976

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p. 425 September 1983

LINEAGE OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH HARRISON - cont.

3ac. Donald B. 1937; m. Marguerite Hickman


4aa. John B. 1857
4ab. Steven D. 1958; m. Lisa Wolenec, 1960
4ac. Susan 1959; m. Knuth Olsen


5aa. Jessica

4ad. Margaret 1960; m. Richard Bastien


3ad. Jean M. 1941; m. Wallace Bubb 1923


4aa. Christine 1964
4ab. Tammy M. 1966
4ac. Wallace S. 1968
4ad. Michelle 1973

.....submitted by Hazel E. Zabel, 2722 S. 10^th St., Sheboygan, WS 53081

A Harrison Who Was A "Regular Jesse James!"

JEFF HARRISON (Charles Jefferson Harrison), born about 1862 near Meridian on the Alabama-Mississippi line, was compared to Jesse James in an account of his trial. An article of May 2, 1917 in the MONTGOMERY (AL) ADVERTISOR describes the trial. Jeff Harrison, brothers Dick and Charley and a few others in the gang, robbed mail cars. Jeff was known as the leader of the band of outlaws for a quarter of a century. The band of outlaws was notorious south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He was convicted twice, the second time for mail car robbery in Greenville and sentenced to twenty-five years at the Atlanta State Penitentiary. Most of his time as a free man was spent in San Antonio, TX. While in prison he worked in the Duck Mill Detail and invented an attachment for the weaving loom which was put under patent by the government. He had a brother, Hunter P. Harrison who was married to Selia. They lived in Marietta, Georgia. Jeff was granted permission to attend his brother's funeral in June, 1925. He was released from prison later in the year 1925 and returned to San Antonio, Texas.

.....submitted by Rae Dickens, 1231 Sylvania Rd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44121

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