MARY CATHERINE HARRIS,
wife of George S. BOYD, was the
daughter of Alexander
Rudolphous HARRIS and
Mary Catherine
LARKINS. Mary was descended
from James HARRIS who came to New
Jersey from England in 1725.
The Genealogy of this family is
published in the book
"The New Jersey Branch of the Harris
family" by Sarah Harris
Kiefer, 1888. Mary and George were
married 6 May 1906
and had six children. Mary died 31
March 1972 and George died
28 March 1946. (see page 108)
ALEXANDER R. HARRIS
was born in Licking County, Ohio in 1833-
35. He was
the son of Samuel HARRIS and Mary BATESON. He
married 1st. Nancy Jane
CRAWFIS on 14 Oct 1862. She bore him
nine children
before she died on 20 October 1880. He then
married Mary Catherine
LARKINS 26 November 1881. She was born
in 1857. Alexander
died in 1911 and Mary died in 1928. Both
are buried in
the Ridge Road Cemetery seven miles west of
Oakley, Michigan.
SAMUEL HARRIS
was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania in
1808. He immigrated
to Knox County, Ohio with his father in
the fall of 1827. He
married Mary BATESON of Licking County,
2 November 1834, by
whom he had eight children. In the fall
of 1839 they moved to Putnam
County, Ohio where they remained
the balance of
their lives. Samuel died in 1888 and Mary is
reported to have died in 1852.
ABRAM HARRIS was
born in Warren County, New Jersey, in 1775.
He married Esther DENMAN
of New Jersey, 21 Jan 1796. They had
nine children,
seven sons and two daughters. In September
1796, they moved to
Greene County, Pa. where they remained
until the fall
of 1827 when they removed to Licking County,
Ohio. Abram died,
18 Feb 1850, and is buried in the Bell
church graveyard in Morgan
Township, Knox County, Ohio.
THOMAS HARRIS
was born in Essex County, New Jersey on 5 Jan
1843. He married Phoebe
HARRISON, 13 Oct 1763. She was born 5
Oct 1744. They had six children,
four sons and two daughters.
Thomas HARRIS was
a soldier in the American Revolution. His
services were principally
at sea. He served in the Battle of
Monmouth, 1778. Thomas died
in 1822 and Phoebe in 1824 and
both are buried in Knox County,
Ohio. His grave was dedicated
by the DAR in July of 1988.
JAMES HARRIS was
born in Bristol, Somersetshire, England,
close to the
border of Wales about 1700. He immigrated to
America in 1725. He
settled in Essex County, New Jersey and
married a lady
by the name of BOLEYN. They had seven
children, six sons and one
daughter. James was a merchant
tailor by trade, an
Episcopalian in religion, and a Loyalist
or Tory in politics.
James died in 1773 just prior to the
American Revolution.
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