Descendants of John Henry Harris' Brothers and Sisters
Submitted by: Susan Fahnstrom
 


Their Stories of what they know.

We know very little about the family of JAMES W HARRIS, he was John Henry Harris's only brother.

Irene Fipps who was the grandaughter of MARTHA ANN  (HARRIS) COLEMAN a sister of John Henry Harris, she told Doris he died in Maud, Oklahoma. Several years ago, Doris Dewberry, who is a descendent of Martha E Harris, sister of John N Harris, John Henry Harris's father, found his death date and got his obituary. Two daughters survived, one lived here in Arkansas, she since has died and the other lived in Texas. An elderly lady who knew or was related to the Brisons told Doris about Victoria, James wife, her name was Victoria Susan Brison, everyone called her Aunt Vic, She said that James W Harris "just got up and just left" his wife and family, we do not know why, she knew nothing about him after he went to Oklahoma, Doris did not have the ladies address.

Mary Brehm who is the grandaughter of Elizabeth Harris, who was another sister of John Henry Harris, said that she wrote Irene Fipps a number of years ago, Irene has since passed away, anyway she said that Martha Ann Harris had 18 children, 4 died in infancy, but 14 children grew into adulthood, so there must be descendents somewhere of all those children.
 

Mary Brehm recently found an old letter , written in 1979, from Irene Fipps,  (grandaughter of Martha Ann (Harris) Coleman, her dad was Martha & Abraham (Abe) Coleman's oldest child, Nelson Coleman. She mentioned that Nelson lived to be 85 years old and he died in 1974, Irene had wrote "Dad told me that John N Harris was of English descent and Mahala was of English descent, she also said that John N Harris was a shoe cobbler, her father also told her that he remembered his grandpa Harris
killing small game  and tanning the skins for shoe laces, very interesting.
 


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