This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Andress, Brooks, Gibbons, Harrison, Howell, Mellinger, others Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4R.2ADE/1660 Message Board Post: James Clayton Harrison obituary- Montgomery Advertiser- November 23, 1935 “James Harrison is dead at 64. Served on Advertiser Staff after leaving Ministry: Rites Sunday Afternoon.” The Rev. James Clayton Harrison, 64, died at his home on Capitol Parkway early yesterday morning following a stroke of paralysis, the culmination of a long period of declining health. Mr. Harrison was well known as a Methodist minister and newspaperman. Some years ago he was telegraph editor of The Advertiser and at one time was on the staff of The Journal. He had marked talent as a newspaperman and had he made a career of journalism, his friends often told him he would have achieved distinction in that field. Though a large and powerful man physically, it has been remarked that such was the personality of Jim Harrison that his companions were never conscious of his strength. He walked lightly and gracefully, he spoke softly and pleasantly, spicing his conversation with wholesome, incisive humor, always giving generously of his honest friendship to those who merited it. In the later years of his life, Mr. Harrison held no pastorates, preferring other fields of usefulness. Besides his newspaper work, he served as prison chaplain by appointment of Gov. Miller, to whom he had been devoted over a long period of years. Mr. Harrison was born Sept. 19, 1871, the son of Carter and Nancy Ann Harrison, who were Georgians. In 1898, he married Miss Emma Gibbons of Autauga County, who survives him. Nine children were born to them and all survive him. They are: Mrs. J.A. Watkins, Mrs. A.M. Story, Mrs. R. H. Godwin, Miss Mildred Harrison, Clayton Gibbons Harrison, Elton Morrison Harrison, Milton Vance Harrison, all of Montgomery, and Homer Wood Harrison of New York. He had wide family connections in Alabama. The funeral will be conducted by Diffly from the Harrison home, 402 Capitol Parkway, Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Note: Mr. Harrison’s connections in Conecuh are as follows: He was a full brother to Della Harrison Mellinger, wife of George Mellinger of Belleville. He was also a half brother to Charles Stanley Howell of Belleville. The obituary of Charles Stanley Howell’s eldest son, William Stanley Howell, Sr. has already been posted on this same site. Charles’ father was Bryant Stanley Howell, killed in action during the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on Sunday, May 15, 1864. Around 1868, Nancy Ann Elizabeth Brooks Howell, wife of Bryant Stanley Howell, married J. Carter Harrison. Other siblings of Mr. Harrrison were Ambrose Dewitt Howell, Sr. of New Orleans; John Bryant Howell, and Mary Frances Andress of Andalusia.