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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. John H Harris: Birth: 11 DEC 1790 in KY. Death: 6 NOV 1854 in Spencer Co. IN

  2. Warren "Bony" H Sr Harris: Birth: 1795 in Hardin Co Ky. Death: BET 1870 AND 1880 in Spencer Co IN

  3. Hezekiah C Harris: Birth: 1798 in Hardin Co KY. Death: 1884 in Spencer Co IN

  4. Garrett Harris: Birth: 1801 in KY.

  5. Sarah Harris: Birth: 1804.

  6. David Harris: Birth: 1804 in KY. Death: AFT 1870 in Spencer Co IN

  7. James Harris: Birth: 1806 in Hardin Co, KY. Death: AFT 1884

  8. Masterson Harris: Birth: 8 MAY 1808 in KY. Death: 24 DEC 1860 in Spencer Co IN

  9. William F. Harris: Birth: 1813 in IN. Death: AFT 1860

  10. Green Berry Harris: Birth: 1820.


Notes
a. Note:   About 1820 three Harris brothers came from Hardin Co KY to Spencer Co IN and settled in Carter township. Many researchers have tried to prove their prentage with no success. It is believed their parents were William H Harris born about 1760 and Margaret Masterson. However, I haven't found anything to document this.
  ROCKPORT JOURNAL, May 26, 1916: "Hezekiah and Warren Harris were brothers, born in Hardin County, Kentucky, 1798 & 1796. They came to Indiana in l82O. Hezekiah settled just south of Santa Fe in Harrison Twp while Warren settled in Clay Twp. the township line being between their farms. Warren Harris, commonly called Bony Harris, was known for his fighting proclivities and many a pitched battle was placed to his credit. He was a plain farmer. He had 5 boys and 2 girls. He had 4 sons in the Civil War: Solomon, Mass, Warren and Abner. Abner was a Christian preacher.
  Hezekiah, Uncle Hezzie as he was called in his elderly days, was married 3 times. By his three wives he had 24 children, all of whom are now dead. He had 1 son in the civil war. He was a wizard horse doctor and treated a disease in the horse called fistula. It was a common disease about 50-60 years ago, but scarcely known among horses now, You were required to bring him a new crosscut file when you brought your horse for treatment and leave him overnight. He would go to the stable just at the break of day and treat the horse and what he did to effect a cure the world will never know. The people came to him for miles around and brought horses to be treated and 9 out of 10 were cured.
  He was a great admirer of Lincoln. When Thomas Lincoln moved to Illinois, Warren and his brother Hezzie went with the Lincoln family the first day, stayed all night with them and returned the next day. They went through Gentryville due west on the Boonville Road. He said they aimed to cross the Wabash River at New Harmony.
  Uncle Hezzie died in 1884 and was buried at Mt Zion Cemetery.
  --------------------------------- Kentucky Land Grants Harris, Wm 748 13 1-21-1786 Nelson Caseys Fk Br Green R -------------------------------- http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/fayette/history/local/earlysett01. txt History: Local: Early Settlers, Petition for a New State: Fayette, Washington & Greene Cos, PA
  William Harris Zachariah Masterson Hugh Masterson Jacob Miller


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