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James Bryan HARRIS

Huntsville Cemetery
Madison County,
Arkansas

James
November 8, 1864 - February 5, 1934

Hon. J. B. HARRIS, lawyer, lawmaker and banker, who along these various lines of activity has been closely associated with the development and progress of county and state, was born near Ironton, in southeastern Missouri, November S, 1864, and is a son of Bradley and Susan (Hopkins) HARRIS. The father was born in North Carolina as was his father, William HARRIS, who in the early part of the eighteenth century removed to Missouri and there died in the '40s. Mrs. Susan (Hopkins) HARRIS was a native of Tennessee and a daughter of Willis HOPKINS, who was likewise born in the same state and became one of the pioneer residents of Missouri. It was in the latter state that Susan HOPKINS became the wife of Bradley HARRIS and she died in Missouri when her son, J. B. HARRIS, was but an infant. The father afterward removed to Madison county, Arkansas, in 1884, and purchased a farm near Huntsville. In early life he was a civil engineer and assisted in building the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad through Missouri. In politics he was a democrat and was always interested in the public welfare. His death occurred in 1896. His family numbered three children: W. W., living in Huntsville; Emeline, the wife of William McBEY, a farmer of Missouri; and J. B., of this review.

(Published in CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS, by Dalla Tabor Herndon, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago Illinois, 1922, p. 683.)

Virginia
September 16, 1873 - February 27, 1963

Daughter of William E and Eliza Rebecca Mullins Easterling

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Contributed on 1/19/20 by billsully060
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Submitted: 1/19/20 • Approved: 1/20/20 • Last Updated: 1/23/20 • R1292290-G1292290-S3

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