Richard G. Boyd
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JONATHAN WHITAKER
HARRIS,
son of John Harris and Mary
HAMILTON, was born in
Washington
County, Pennsylvania 7
August 1799. He grew to
manhood,
and after the death of his
father in 1816, took up the
westward march. He went to Ohio
where some of his brothers
had gone. He lived with his
brother James. He married
Abigail
C. CRAYCRAFT/CRACROFT
daughter of
Joseph CRACRAFT and
Ruth
CHASE 29 August 1822.
In 1846 they removed to
the
Territory of Wisconsin. He
erected a home on goverment
land on Section 18, Township 9,
Range 5 east in what is now
Troy Township, Sauk County,
Wisconsin. On September 14,
1860 his wife Abigail died.
He married Mrs.
Catherine
SHOARDS of Baraboo, Wisconsin for
his second wife 7 May 1861.
He died 3 October 1872 at the age
of seventy-three. He and his
wife Abigail are buried in the
Harrisburg cemetery in Troy,
Wisconsin.
Picture/Woodcut
of Jonathan Whitaker Harris
1. Phebe Ann
Harris
b. 20 May 1823
m. James A. TAYLOR 4 Mar
1847
b.
d. 24 Feb 1884
2. Sarah Jane
Harris
b. 9 Oct 1824 d. 1 May 1907
m. John H. KEIFER 4 Jan
1844
b. 24 Jly 1821 d. 14 Nov 1899
Obits of Sarah and John H. Keifer
3. Mary Ruth
Harris
b. 31 Jan 1826 d. 15 Aug 1881
m. James S. ALBAN 7 Feb
1849
b.
4. Elizabeth Elenor
Harris
b. 10 Sep 1827
m. Hamilton WELLS 17 Oct 1849
5. John Wesley
Harris
b. 14 Jan 1829 d. 4 Nov 1871
m. Sarah J. ANDERSON 2 Jne
1853
6. James Madison Harris b. 14 Sep 1830 d. 22 Aug 1831
7. William Hamilton
Harris
b. 26 Apr 1832
m. Doratha BENSON 22 Mar 1857
8. Joseph C. Harris b. 11 Feb 1834 d. 6 Dec 1834
9. Stephan Mitchell
Harris
b. 25 Nov 1835
m. Mary DAVIS 13 April 1857
10. Charles Cracroft
Harris
b. 7 Oct 1837 d. 1871
m. Anna HOLLIS
11. Abner Logan
Harris
b. 15 Sep 1839
m. Frances SMITH 13 Dec 1868
12. Washington H. Harris b. 11 Aug 1841 d. 8 Sep 1843
13. Abigail Emmiline
Harris
b. 17 Jly 1843
m. Wilson HOOD 19 Jan 1865
14 Lucy Adaline
Harris
b. 2 Apr 1845
m. Francis L. TWIST
15. Joseph Henry
Harris
b 15 Dec 1847 d. Jly 1982
m. Frances HAMILTON
PHEBE ANN HARRIS,
daughter
of Jonathan W. Harris and Abigail
C. CRACROFT was born in
Richland
County, Ohio in 1823. In
1846 she went with her
parents
to Sauk County, Wisconsin. She
became acquainted with, and
married James A. TAYLOR 4 March
1847 by whom she had five
children. They lived in various
places in Wisconsin
including
Sauk Prairie, Troy, Emmettburg,
and Charles City in Iowa.
They finally settled in Spring
Green, Wisconsin where Mr.
Taylor took sick and died 24 Feb
1884. He was buried in the
Spring Green cemetery. Mrs. Taylor
went to live with one of her
daughters in Madison.
1. Louisa Taylor b. 13 Dec 1847
2. Allen Wheeler Taylor b. 2 Feb 1851
3. Charles Elmore Taylor b. 6 Oct 1854
4. Alice Gertrude
Taylor
b. 25 May 1859
m. George C. KOLLOCK (a
dentist)
15 October 1885
5. Florence Della Taylor b. 17 Dec 1862
LOUISA TAYLOR, daughter
of
James A. TAYLOR and Phebe Ann
Harris was born in Sauk
County.
She taught school for some
years. She married Frank B.
DAVISON 16 December 1869 by the
Reverand William IRISH of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
They had two children. They
moved to Grant County, Wisconsin
where they lived until the
death of Mr. Davison 29 March
1884. He was buried in
Spring
Green. Mrs. Davison returned to
Spring Green where she lived
until 1884 when she removed to
Spencer, Clay Co. Iowa where
she was last living in 1886.
THE HARRIS FAMILY
1. John Arthur Davison b. 18 Apr 1873
2. Rosa Dell Davison b. 8 Feb 1875
ALLEN WHEELER TAYLOR, son
of
James A. Taylor and Phebe Ann
Harris was born in Sauk
County
in 1851. He married Sarah J.
(Kitty) YOUNG daughter
of David B. Young and Louisa
MERRIHEW. They were married
in Illinois by William CLARK 27
March 1872. They had one
son.
They removed to Emmettsburgh,
Iowa where he went into the
wagon making business with his
brother Charles E. Taylor.
He then went to Spencer, Iowa and
engaged in farming.
1. Albert Leroy Taylor b. 6 Jly 1880
CHARLES ELMORE TAYLOR,
son
of James A. Taylor and Phebe A.
Harris was born in 1854 in
Sauk County. He was in the wagon
making business in
Emmettsburgh,
Iowa with his brother,
Allen. He married Sarah
MORGAN
of Spring Green 23 Jan 1879.
They have one child.
1. Alma Irene Taylor b. 8 Nov 1879
FLORENCE DELLA TAYLOR,
daughter
of James A. Taylor and Phebe
A. Harris was born in Sauk
County in 1862. She taught school
for a while and then decided
she wanted to be study medicine.
She studied under Dr. J.B.
STAIR
and entered the Medical
College of Chicago and
graduated
with honor. She married
Loftes L. WRIGHT 23
September
1885 and settled in Spencer,
Clay County, Iowa. Mr Wright
was a jeweler.
SARAH JANE HARRIS,
daughter
of Jonathan W. HARRIS and Abigail
C. CRACROFT was born
9 Oct 1824 in Richland County, Ohio.
She married John Henry
KEIFER
(always called Henry) on 4
January 1844 son of Phillip
and Mary E. KEIFER who was born
24 Jly 1821 in Lancaster
County,
Pennsylvania. They removed
to Wisconsin (then a
territory)
with her father's family.
They settled in Sauk County,
Wisconsin in 1846. In 1865 they
sold their home in Troy
township
and removed to Spring Green,
in the same county, where
they remained the balance of their
lives, he dying 14 November
1899 and she on 1 May 1907. Henry
Keifer worked at several
occupations,
first as a farmer and
carpenter, and then as a
merchant
and cattle dealer. He was
also proprietor of the Park
Hotel in Spring Green. Henry and
Sarah had two children, a
daughter and a son.
Picture/Woodcut
Sarah Harris Keifer
Picture/Woodcut
George E. Keifer
THE HARRIS FAMILY
MARY ABIGAIL KEIFER,
daughter
of John H. Keifer and Sarah
Jane HARRIS was born 14
April
1846 in Richland County, Ohio.
She died 15 February 1920
in Falls City, Richardson COunty,
Nebraska. She married
Charles W. FARINGTON son of Charles
FARINGTON and Ellen HOFFMAN
1 January 1867 in Spring Green,
Wisconsin. He was born
12 February 1841 in Greene, Duchess
County, New York and died
15 December 1928 in Long Beach,
California. He is
buried
in the Steele cemetery in Falls
City. Picture/Woodcut
in book is labeled Mary E. Farington.
Mary (KEIFER) FARINGTON
taught
school for a few years prior
to her marriage to Charles
Farington. After their marriage
they resided in Spring Green
where Mr. Farington engaged in
the merchantile business.
In 1873 they moved to Blue Rapids,
Kansas where they remained
for ten years. In 1883 they
removed to Falls City,
Nebraska,
where he was engaged in the
dry goods business.
Picture/Woodcut of Mary A. (Keifer) Farrington
1. Ivan Earl Farington b. 9 Dec 1869 d. 1899
2. Fred Ernest
Farington
b. 23 Mar 1870 d. 28 Jly 1943
m. Frances M. MADDOX 30 Dc
1905 b. 22 Oct 1877 d. 29 Mar 1937
3. Lillian M.
Farington
b. 2 Nov 1871 d. 11 Aug 1959
m. Edwin H. TOWLE 9 Dc
1897
b. 19 Sep 1869 d. 20 Jne 1963
4. Estella Belle Farington b. 4 Nov 1873 d. 10 Nov 1883
Charles W. Farington
served
in the Civil War. He enlisted in
Company A, Sixth Wisconsin
Infantry in 1861. Mr Farington
fought at the Battle of
South
Mountain 14 Sept 1862. He was
wounded in action,
discharged,
and returned home. He en-
listed a second time in
Company
E, Forty-ninth Wisconsin
Infantry and was promoted
to Lieutenant.
GEORGE EDWIN KEIFER, son
of
John H. Keifer and Sarah Jane
HARRIS was born 1 April 1849
in Harrisburg, Wisconsin. He
died in May 1906 in Spring
Green, Wisconsin. He married 16
April 1879 Martha G. PARDOE
of Chicago. Children:
1. Stillborn
2. Edwin Henry
Keifer
8 Jne 1844
IVAN EARL FARINGTON, son
of
Charles W. Farington and Mary A.
KEIFER was born 9 December
1868 in Spring Green. He died
mysteriously in Dec 1899,
in Galena, Kansas. Buried in the Steele cemetery.
death
notice of Ivan Farington
THE HARRIS FAMILY
FRED ERNEST FARINGTON,
son
of Charles W. Farington and Mary
A. KEIFER was born 23
March 1870 in Spring Green and died 28
July 1943 in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
He married 30 December 1905
Falls City, NE., Frances
Mary
MADDOX, daughter of William
McKendree MADDOX and Mary
Jane MINER. She was born 22
October 1877 in Falls City,
Nebraska and died 27 March 1937
in Falls City. Both
are buried in the Steele cemetery. They
had four children.
1. Stillborn
2. Nellie Frances
Farington
b. 18 Jan 1910 d. 20 Dec 1981
m. Robert F. PHILPOT 30 Mr
1935 b. 28 Nov 1910 d. 2 Sep 1986
3. Mary Farington
4. Fred Ernest Farington
Jr. b.
17 December 1920 d. 5 Feb 1998.
LILLIAN M. FARINGTON,
daughter
of Charles W. Farington and
Mary A. Keifer was born 2
November 1871 in Spring Green and
died 11 August 1959 in Falls
City, Nebraska. She married
Edward Herman TOWLE 9 Dec
1897 son of Edwin S. and Kittie L.
TOWLE. He was born 19
September 1869 and died 20 June 1963.
Both are buried in the
Steele
cemetery. They had two
children.
1. Mary Delina Towle
2. Edwin S. Towle
ESTELLA BELLE FARINGTON,
daughter
of Charles W. Farington and
Mary A. Keifer was born 4
November 1873 in Blue Rapids,
Kansas. She died 10 November
1883 in Falls City, Nebraska as a
result of an accident. She
was ran down and killed by a run-
away team and wagon. Buried
in the Steele cemetery.
EDWIN HENRY KEIFER, son
of
George E. Keifer and Martha G.
PARDOE was born 8 June
1884.
(Nothing else is known)
NELLIE FRANCES FARINGTON,
daughter
of Fred E. Farington and
Frances M. MADDOX was born
18 January 1910 in Falls City, NE.
She died 20 December 1981
in Phoenix, Arizona. Buried Steele
cemetery. She married Robert
Finch PHILPOT (Divorced). He
was born 28 November 1910
in Humbolt, NE., and died 2
September 1988 in Phoenix,
AZ. He is buried in the Humboldt
cemetery.
THE HARRIS FAMILY
1. Ralph Robert
Philpot
b. 21 Jne 1943
m. Ellen PEACE 27 Nov 1967
2. Carol Joan
Philpot
b. 15 Dec 1944
m. Ronald JOHNSON Jan
1964
b. 10 Jne 1943
m. Donald M. FRANK 9 Nov 1976
MARY MARGARET FARINGTON,
daughter
of Fred E. Farington and
Frances M. MADDOX was born
31 Oct 1915 in Falls City. She
died in Omaha, Nebraska and
buried in the Steele cemetery.
She married Rex FRITSCHI 22
Feb 1951. (Divorced, no children)
FRED ERNEST FARINGTON,
Jr.,
son of Fred E. Farington and
Frances M. MADDOX was born
17 December 1920 in Falls City.
He married 8 March 1943 in
Greenville, Texas, Roberta Mae
RAY daughter of Hiram RAY
and Nina ROBERTSON. She was born 18
April 1920 in Humboldt,
Nebraska.
They had two children.
Fred E. Farington, Jr died 5 Feb 1998 and two days later, 7 Feb 1998,
Roberta M. Farington died. Both were buried in Steele Cemetery, Falls City,
Richardson County, NE, on 12 Feb 1998.
1. Marcia Farington
<>2. Ruth Farington
THE HARRIS FAMILY
Falls City Journal
Friday 15 Dec 1899
A DEEP MYSTERY
WHAT HAS BECOME OF IVAN FARINGTON
DISAPPEARED FROM GALENA, KANSAS
Nothing has been seen nor heard of him for over
a week - not a single trace can be found - fear of
foul play
Ivan Farington has
mysteriously
disappeared from Galena,
Kansas, and for over a week
nothing has been seen or heard
of him. Not withstanding the
fact that a diligent search has
been conducted and large
rewards
offered, no trace of him has
been found. A week ago last
friday he went to an adjoining
town to look at some mining
property. He returned about five
o'clock in the afternoon and
in the evening went uptown. He
went to a drug store where
he remained until about eight
o'clock and then started for
home accompanied by his dog. A
man who saw him cross the
street a couple of blocks from his
home is the last person who
saw anything of him. About an
hour later his dog came home
alone. His disappearance is a
deep mystery. It is known
that he did not have in excess of
five dollars with him and
did not even have his overcoat, so
it is not probable that he
left town. It is feared that he
has met with foul play.
The city of Galena and
several
lodges of which he is a
member, have offered large
rewards for information concerning
him and nothing is being
left
undone to unravel the mystery.
Ivan is one of Falls
City's
young men, having lived here
until a short time ago when
he located at Galena where he has
mining interests. The news
of his disappearance has caused a
great anxiety among his
friends
who have not yet given up
hope that he will be located
alive and well.
THE HARRIS FAMILY
Falls City Journal
1917
FOUND AFTER 18 YEARS
A message was received
yesterday
from Galena, Kansas, stating
that the remains of Ivan E.
Farington had been found in an
old abandoned lead mine
shaft
at that place. He disappeared
December 1, 1899, and no
trace
of him had been found since.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Farington, and brother
of Fred E. Farington, and
Mrs. E.H. Towle, all of this city.
Those living here twenty
years
or more ago will remember Ivan
Farington. He grew to
manhood
in this place, and was a book-
keeper for some time in the
First National Bank. In 1898 he
moved with his father and
mother to Galena to engage in lead
and zinc mining. Galena was
on a great boom at that time, and
the city was infested with
thugs and outlaws. Murders and
disappearances were of daily
occurence. It was supposed that
Mr. Farington was a victim
of a holdup and that his body was
thrown into an old mining
shaft where it was found a day or
two ago.
He was last seen alive on
his
way home from a drug store
about 8 o'clock one evening,
with his black hunting dog,
"Mack." The dog came home
about 9 o'clock without him. A
thorough search was made at
the time for him. Old shafts,
of which there were several
hundred scattered about the city
were examined. In some
cases,
boats were lowered into the
water in the shafts, and the
tunnels explored, but with no
results. The finding of his
body explains somewhat of the
mystery surrounding the
case,
and is a relief to the
relatives. Mr. C.W.
Farington,
his father, has gone to
Galena and will bring the
remains to this city for interment
in the family lot in Steele
cemetery.
Notices
and most family data in this Chapter contributed by
Dennis
Norvell of Auburn, Nebraska
THE HARRIS FAMILY
RALPH ROBERT PHILPOT, son
of
Robert F. Philpot and Nellie F.
Farington was born 21 June
1943 in Falls City married Ellen
PEACE 27 November 1967 in
Phoenix, Arizona (Divorced)
Two children both born in
Phoenix, Arizona.
1. Scott Samuel Philpot b. 8 Jne 1968
2. Glenda Rowena Philpot b. 27 Nov 1970
CAROL JOAN PHILPOT,
daughter
of Robert F. Philpot and Nellie
F. Farington was born 15 Dec
1944 in Falls City, NE. She
married in Jan 1964 in
Winterhaven,
California Ronald
Clifford JOHNSON who was
born
10 June 1943 (Divorced). They
had one child. She married
second Harold R. OWENS Jr.
(Divorced) They had one
child.
Carol married third Donald
Martin FRANK 9 Nov 1976 born
28 Jan 1942 in Bay City,
Michigan, son of Martin and
Margaret FRANK. They had two
children.
1. Ronda Frances Johnson b. 16 Oct 1964 Phoenix, AZ
2. Danielle Christine Owens b. 4 Aug 1974 Phoenix, AZ
3. Deanna Lynn Frank b. 28 Jan 1980 Wickenburg, AZ
4. Nicole Elizabeth Frank b. 16 Feb 1982 Wickenburg, AZ
MARCIA RAE FARINGTON,
daughter
of Fred E. Farington Jr. and
Roberta M. RAY was born 10
Mar 1945 in Humboldt, Nebraska.
She married Ronald Gene
KROUPA
27 August 1967 in Auburn,
Nebraska. He was born 3
October
1946 in Humboldt son of Gus
and Lillian KROUPA. They had
two children.
1. Kimberli Rae
Kroupa
b. 23 Sep 1969 Denver, CO
m. Hutch JOHNSON 5 Jan 1991
2. Kerri Leigh Kroupa b. 14 Jne 1972 Denver, CO
RUTH ANN FARINGTON,
daughter
of Fred E. Farington Jr., and
Roberta M. RAY was born 7
October 1948 in Humboldt and
Married 24 August 1968
Dennis
Gene NORVELL. He was born 16
December 1948 in Auburn,
Nebraska
son of Ralph NORVELL and
Iona HAHN. They had two
children.
1. Melinda Deneane
Norvell
b. 7 Jly 1971 Auburn, NE
m. Roger T. CLARKE 21 Jly
1990 b. 28 Jly 1967 Auburn, Ne
2. Tera Ann
Norvell
b. 12 Jne 1974 Auburn, NE
THE HARRIS FAMILY
MARY DELINDA TOWLE,
daughter
of Edwin H. TOWLE and Lillian M.
FARINGTON was born 8 Jly
1906
in Falls City and died 15 April
1971 in Columbus,
Nebraska.
She is buried in the Steele
cemetery. She married
28 June 1930 Harold B. BEDWELL in El
Paso, Texas. He died
15 November 1956. They had three
children.
1. William T. Bedwell
2. Ann Bedwell
3. Naomi Bedwell
EDWIN SARGENT TOWLE II,
son
of Edwin H. Towle and Lillian M.
Farington was born born 16
June 1908 Falls City. He died 11
May 1968 in Falls
City.
He married Arlene HECK 18 January
1932 in Marysville,
Kansas.
She died 23 January 1973 in
Falls City and both are
buried
in the Steele cemetery.
1. Edwin Sargent Towle
III
b. 6 Aug 1943 Falls City
m. Karen KAPLAN 15 Dec 1979
(divorced, no children)
MARY RUTH HARRIS,
daughter
of Jonathan W. HARRIS and Abigail
C. CRACROFT was born in
Richland
County, Ohio in 1826. She
went with her parents to
Sauk
County, Wisconsin, in 1846. In
the spring of 1847 she went
to Plover, Portage County, Wis.,
to live with James S. ALBAN,
where she became acquainted with
Thomas H. McDILL and was
married
7 February 1849, by whom she
had three children. Mrs.
McDill
lived from the time of her
marriage until her death,
at Plover, Wis., where she died
August 15, 1881, and where
her remains lie buried. She was a
woman widely known and
highly
respected and was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal
Church
at Plover where she lived.
1. Clarissa Helen McDill b. 2 Jly 1850
2. George Edgar McDill b. 16 Apr 1856
3. Kate Adel
McDill
b. 15 May 1861
THE HARRIS FAMILY
CLARISSA HELLEN McDILL,
daughter
of Thomas H. McDILL and Mary
R. HARRIS was born in 1850
in Plover, Wis., where she grew to
womanhood; was educated and
graduated at Appleton College,
Wisconsin; married Dr.
Darius
F. BOUGHTON, of the Insane
Hospital at Mendota,
Wisconsin,
October 6, 1875, by whom she
had three children. Mrs.
Boughton
is a woman widely known,
and highly respected. They
reside in Chicago, where Mr.
Boughton was a practicing
physician.
1. Grace Boughton b. 27 Nov 1876
2. Edith Boughton b. 24 Jne 1879
3. Harris Boughton b. 2 Sep 1881
GEORGE EDGAR McDILL, son
of
Thomas H. McDill and Mary R.
Harris was born in 1856 in
Portage, Wisconsin where he grew
to manhood and married Alice
BABCOCK in October 1879 by whom
he has had two children.
(names
not known) He lived at
McDillsville, Wisconsin in
1884.
KATE ADEL McDILL,
daughter
of Thomas H. McDill and Mary R.
Harris was born in 1861 in
Plover, Wisconsin and graduated at
the State University,
Madison.
ELIZABETH ELENOR HARRIS,
daughter
of Jonathan W. Harris and
Abigail C. CRACROFT
was born in 1827 in Richland County,
Ohio. She went with her
parents
to Sauk County, Wisconsin,
where she married Hamilton
WELLS October 17, 1849 by whom she
had four children, all born
in Sauk County. Mrs. Wells is a
very ambitious and energetic
woman, a character of the Harris
family; is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
lives at Pipe Stone,
Minnesota,
at the present writing, in
1887.
1. John Willis Wells b. 3 Feb 1851
2. Henry Harris Wells b. 19 Jne 1854
3. Charles Edwin Wells b. 17 Dec 1858
4. Mary Abigail
Wells
b. 27 May 1864
THE HARRIS FAMILY
JOHN WILLIS WELLS, son of
Hamilton
Wells and Elizabeth E.
Harris was born in Sauk
County
in 1851 where he grew to
manhood and married Emma
HEFFEL
of Logansville, Wisconsin
by whom he has had three
sons.
Mr Wells is a farmer by
occupation, and lives in
Pipe
Stone, Minnesota at this
writing in 1886.
1. Frank Wells b. 9 Sep 1874
2. Freddy Wells b. 7 Aug 1877
3. Earl Wells b. 24 Dec 1881
HENRY HARRIS WELLS, son
of
Hamilton WELLS and Elizabeth E.
Harris was born in Sauk
County
in 1859 married Adda CHAPMAN
of Beloit, Wisconsin 8 March
1876 by whom he has had three
children. Mr Wells was
a brakeman on the North-Western
Railroad, and lived at
Baradoo,
Sauk County, in 1885.
1. Kitty Mae Wells b. 16 May 1877 d. 4 Dec 1881
2. Charles Albert Wells b. 19 Nov 1878 d. 7 Dec 1882
3. Harry Wells b. 14 Jan 1883
Dear parents, weep not for your children deceased,
Your loss is their infinite gain,
Their rest they have sooner obtained,
And left their dear parents behind,
"I take these little lambs," said He
And lay them in My breast,
Protection they shall find in Me,
In Me be ever blest
CHARLES EDWIN WELLS, son
of
Hamilton Wells and Elizabeth E.
Harris was born in Sauk
County
in 1858 where he grew to
manhood. He married
Pette KESTER of Reedburgh, Sauk Co.
Wisconsin 24 Dec 1885 and
went to Pipestone, Minnesota where
they lived for a time. They
returned to Wisconsin after a few
years and now make their
home
in Reedsburgh.
THE HARRIS FAMILY
JOHN WESLEY HARRIS, son
of
Jonathan W. Harris and Abigail C.
CRACROFT was born in
Richland
County in 1829. When he was
seventeen years of age his
parents moved to Sauk County,
Wisconsin, where he saw some
of the hardships of frontier
life; also the art of using
the axe and swinging the scythe.
He worked on the farm for
his father until he was twenty-four
years of age, when he
married
Sarah Jane ANDERSON 2 June
1853 by whom he had six
children.
They moved to Benton
County, Missouri but
returned
when the Civil War broke out.
He enlisted August 2, 1862
in Company K, Twenty-third
Regiment, Wisconsin
Volunteers,
and was mustered into the
United States service,
August
30, 1862, at Camp Randall,
Madison, and left the State,
September 15, 1862, for active
service, where he remained
until his health gave out from
exposure and hardships, when
he was discharged and returned
home to Wisconsin. After the
war he returned to Missouri
where he resided until his
death 4 November 1871 at the age
of forty-one years nine
months
and twenty days.
1. James Harris b. 19 Jne 1854
2. Sarah Harris b. 17 Dec 1856
3. Isaac Harris b. 16 Apr 1858 d. 3 Sep 1871
4. Henry Harris b. 28 Oct 1861
5. Lettie Harris b. 17 Apr 1864
6. Lincoln
Harris
b. 8 Oct 1867
Where are they now? the soldiers bold and brave,
Who once were used to war's alarm;
Those soldiers brave and warlike bold,
Who saved our land from harm.
What matters it how great their lives,
Or kind to them was fortunes brow,
The time will come when men of earth,
Will think and ask, "Where are they now?"
After his death, his
family
sold their property in Missouri
and returned to Wisconsin,
where they resided for some time,
then removed to Iowa,
Chickasaw
County, where they remained
for some years. From there
they went to Mitchell County,
Kansas, at or near Glen
Elder,
where they still reside.
THE HARRIS FAMILY
WILLIAM HAMILTON HARRIS,
son
of Jonathan W. Harris and
Abigail C. CRACROFT
was born in Richland County, Ohio in
1832 and when young came
with
his parents to Sauk County,
Wisconsin in 1846. He
remained
on the farm and worked for his
father for some years, then
went to Portage and Columbia
Counties, and followed stage
driving, where he became ac-
quainted with Doratha
BENSON.
They were married 22 March 1857
and had nine children.
William H. Harris
enlisted
August 2, 1862 at Harrisburg, Sauk
County, Wisconsin, in
Company
K, twenty-third Regiment
Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry;
was mustered into the United
States service August 30,
1862 at Camp Randall, Madison,
Wisconsin and left the State
September 15, 1862 for active
service, in which he did his
full share. The records of his
regiment show that he was
always in active service, and was
under fire in many battles,
and that he was honorably
discharged at the close of
the war, as First Sargent; was
mustered out of service at
Mobile, Alabama on the 4th of July
1865. After the war he lived
in Spring Green, Wisconsin
and was elected Sheriff in
December 1886. He lived in
Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1888.
Picture/Woodcut of William H. Harris
1. George Wandell Harris b. 26 Jan 1858
2. Abigail Naomi Harris b. 14 Feb 1860
3. William Logan Harris b. 14 Mar 1862
4. Helen Isolette
Harris
b. 30 Jly 1866
m. Frank A. FOSS 10 Dec
1890
b. 30 Jly 1866
5. Jenny Bell Harris b. 17 Jan 1869
6. Eva Gertrude Harris b. 9 Feb 1871
7. Bertha Levina Harris b. 4 Sep 1873
8. Scott Ervin Harris b. 3 May 1876
9. Alma Ruth
Harris
b. 6 Aug 1878
STEPHAN MITCHELL HARRIS,
son
of Jonathan W. Harris and
Abigail C. CRACROFT
was born in Richland County in 1834 and
went to Sauk County,
Wisconsin
in 1846 with his parents. He
married Mary DAVIS daughter
of Samuel and Hannah DAVIS 13
April 1857 by whom he had
four children. Stephan learned the
carpenter and joiner trade
when quite young, and followed it
for about seventeen years.
He owned and operated a saloon and
was in the merchantile
business
for a time in Spring Green, Wisc.
Picture/Woodcut
of Stephen M. Harris
THE HARRIS FAMILY
1. Gilbert L. Harris b. 29 Jly 1859 d. 21 Feb 1862
2. Florence C. Harris b. 2 Aug 1863 d. 11 Oct 1885
3. Silas Lee Harris b. 12 Jly 1876
4. Effie May Harris b. 7 Feb 1880
CHARLES C. HARRIS, son of
Jonathan
W. Harris and Abigail C.
CRACROFT was born in
Richland
County, Ohio in 1837. He went
with his parents to Sauk
County,
Wisconsin in 1846 where he
grew to manhood. He married
Anna HOLLIS from Mobile, Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris removed
to New Orleans where he carried
on a paint shop; was taken
sick and died about 1871 or 1872.
They had three children.
1. Arthur Harris b. 1866
2. Clara Harris b. 1868
3. Charles C. Harris Jr. b. 1870 d. 1872
ABNER LOGAN HARRIS, son
of
Jonathan W. Harris and Abigail C.
CRACROFT was born in
Richland
County, Ohio in 1839. He went
with his parents to Sauk
County,
Wisconsin in 1846 when he was only
seven years old. There he
grew to manhood, was educated in the common
district schools, wher he
acquired a good education. He worked on the farm
during the summers and
taught
school or went to school during the winters,
until 1860 whenhe left the
farm. He was a traveling salesman in Wisconsin and
Iowa until the fall of 1862;
then followed the army in the sutler's department
until the close of the war,
with the exception of a few months spent in Canada
in 1863.
After the close of the
war
he was engaged in the grocery business in Mobile,
Alabama for one year.
Returning
to Wisconsin, his former home, he engaged in
farming until 1867, then
went
into the mercantile business at Logansville, Wisconsin,
in company with James O.
PHELPS,
where he continued in business until October
1871. He went to Reedsburgh
and went into partnership with John KELLOGG
and they did business
together
until 1880 when he bought Kellogg out and took
J.H. HOSLER as a partner.
Mr. Harris was a postmaster from 1873 until 1884.
He married in Reedsburgh,
13 December 1868 Frances SMITH by whom he has
had two children--one son
and one daughter; Julia P. Harris born January 10, 1873
and Earl Harris born August
19, 1874. Mr. Harris resided in Reedsburgh, Wisconsin
in 1888 where he carried on
a large business in general drygoods and groceries of
all kinds under the name of
Hosler & Harris. Mr. Harris is a man of great business
faculty and a strong
republican
in politics.
Picture/Woodcut
of Abner L. Harris
1. Julia P.
Harris
b. 10 Jan 1873
2. Earl
Harris
b. 19 Aug 1874
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