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Note: Shown on Type written "The Presson Family" as Harrison
From "The Presson Family of the South"
Harrison, as he is usually called within the family, was the only oneof Samuel Presson's sons who served in the war. He was a Union soldierwho enlisted in Company B, 7th Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry,Volunteers, on 20 August 1862 at Humboldt, Tennessee. He served in thisregiment throughout the war. At the time of his enlistment he wasdescribes as being 6 feet 1 inch in height with blue eyes, fair hair anda fair complexion. During his service he was captured twice, first in1862 and again on 24 March 1864 at Union City, Tennessee. He wasparoled both times - at Trenton, Tennessee on 20 December 1862 and atSavannah, Georgia in November 1864. After being hospitalized he servedin Maryland and Ohio and was finally mustered out of service on 16 June1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
After the war he, like his brothers James Jarrett and William Moab,became a Methodist minister, and he was officiating at marriages (as alicensed Deacon) as early as September 1881.
In 1870 Harrison and his family were living with Harrison'sparents. Nine years later, on 22 September 1879, Harrison bought 50acres of land from his father, Samuel Presson. This land apparently wasin that part of the 6th District which had been joined to the 4thDistrict on 4 October 1872 to form a new Civil District in BentonCounty, the 12th District, for it is in that district that we findHarrison Presson living in 1880. . . . The temporary precinct was to beat Sawyer's Old Mill, and it is interesting to note that there were twoPressons among the "Worshipful Esquires" on the Court at that time,namely Isaac N. Presson and S. T. Presson.
Harrison Presson lived out his live in the county of his birth. Hepassed away at the age of 74 at the home of his daughter Addie, wife ofJames H. Pierce.
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