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Marriage: Children:
  1. Alfred G. Harrison: Birth: JUL 1891. Death: 23 FEB 1916 in Roanoke Co., Virginia, USA

  2. Etta Callie Harrison: Birth: 19 JUL 1895 in Giles Co., Virginia, USA. Death: 05 JAN 1971 in Roanoke Co., Virginia, USA

  3. Lewis H. Harrison: Birth: 15 FEB 1897 in Virginia, USA. Death: 31 AUG 1941

  4. Maude Valmer 'Margaret' Harrison: Birth: 09 APR 1900 in Roanoke Co., Virginia, USA. Death: 05 JUL 1991 in Roanoke Co., Virginia, USA

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Sources
1. Title:   Floyd Co., Va., Marriages Index
Page:   Register 3, page 104
Author:   By Barb Reininger

Notes
a. Note:   H00288
Note:   Census 1890 Floyd Co., Va. 1900 Roanoke Co., Va. Locust Grove Cave Springs Dist. ED 73 sheet 6A, page 128A David A. Harrison 29 David A. Harrison 39 Lissie 25 India 34 Affart G. 8 Cullie F. 4 Lewis H. 3 Maud V. 11/12 Elizabeth Walters 60 (Mother-in-law) 1910 Roanoke Co., Va. 1920 Roanoke Co., Va. 1930 Roanoke Co., Va. Big Lick Mag Dist. Salem Mag Dist. Salem Mag Dist. ED 127 ED 125 ED 81-12 sheet 11A, page 11 sheet 11A, page 231 sheet 3A, page 185 David A. Harrison 51 David A. Harrison 59 David A. Harrison 70 India 46 India 55 India 66 Alfred J. 17 Collie E. 14 Lewis S. 12 Lewis H. 21 Maude V. 10 Maud E. Pierce 18 (Daughter)(Wd) Some say his birth was October 15, 1859, Floyd County, Virginia. This can't be right. By Barb: David is buried beside his wife, in a cemetery next to the Blue Ridge Curch of the Brethren, on Route 460, Blue Ridge, Virginia. His marker says he died in 1916 but he died in 1934. His son, Alfred died in 1916. [ source for death - Gladys Bayne Driscoll, his granddaughter, information taken from the family bible]. Family tradition says that the Harrisons were Dutch, that they descended from Pocahontas, and were kin to President Harrison. David was in a horse drawn wagon one day when a bad storm came up. The storm scared the horses and they ran into the barn. David was thrown off and broke his back. After that he had to walk with a cane. At the time, Gladys says, they lived behind Hollins College in a log house. David and his wife India rented a farm on what is now Ruritan Road in Bonsack, Virginia. This is where they lived when their son Alfred died and where Alfred is buried. The exact location is unknown but believed to be near the Carney and Bonsack Cemeteries and near the railroad tracks. They were friends of the Carneys and they all lived in the same vicinity. On Oct. 1, 1916 David and his brother, Lewis, bought land in the Kessler Mill Road vicinity, in what is now Salem, Virginia. David willed his land to his son, Lewis, with the understanding that Lewis would take care of his Mother, India, until she died. But then Lewis died. After the death of her husband, David, India sold the farm in Kessler Mill and lived with her daughter Callie until her death. It is said that David had coal black hair, had a mustache, was tall and slender and walked "humped over" after the accident which broke his back.


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