Thanks Ann, There is a complete set of the Wiggins Papers in the library in Anniston, Alabama. I don't know if they will do look ups for people. Perhaps if you wrote the library.....unfortunately I don't have a postal address for them. If you google the library you may find an address. Richard G. Boyd Ann Harris wrote: > There is a lot of information in Mrs. Kathryn Wiggins notebooks about > Sherrod Harris who married Hannah Page and 2nd Elizabeth Jones. This > family, according to her documents, went to Alabama, settled in Green and > Pickens Co's. Some are buried in the "old Bethany Cemetery" in Pickens Co. > Ala. > > Ann Harris > [email protected] > > : [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Sherrd Harris will > > > >> I have noticed several comments re Sherwood (Sherrod) Harris recently and >> wish to post his will as found in the book Harry-Harris-Williams >> KITH and KIN compiled by Imogene McCreight Fitzgerald page 3 as follows: >> WILL OF SHERROD HARRIS >> >> COPY In the name of God Amen. I Sherrod Harris of North >> Carolina and county of Anson being very sick and weak in or imperfect >> health of body or and of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God >> calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed >> for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament >> that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul >> into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the >> earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial and as touching such worly >> estate wharewith it has been please God to bles me with in this life I >> give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. >> First, I give and bequeath to my son Jonathan Harris twenty eight acres of >> land joinding him of from my two hundred and thirty eight acre tract in >> Richmond County on Mountain Creek. Also I give and bequeath to my two >> sons Huston (Hudson) & William Harris the r! >> emainder part of said tract which is two hundred and thirteen acres to be >> equally devided among them shear and shear alike. I also give and >> bequeath to my daughter Nancy Harris one hundred dollars. Also I give and >> bequeath to my son Tilmon Harris one hundred dollars. Also I give and >> bequeath to my son Sherrod Harris one hundred acres of land lying on the >> Camp Branch of Savanna Creek Anson County and my wife Elizabeth is to live >> on it during her widowhood. Also I give and bequeath to my daughter >> Elizabeth Harris sixty five dollars. Also I lend to my darly beloved wife >> Elizabeth Harris all my household furniture plantation tools and all my >> stock of all kind during her natural life or widowhood and at her death or >> marriage then it is my will and desire that it shall be equally devided >> among my six youngest children Nancy Harris, Simeon Harris, Tilmon Harris, >> Sherrod Harris, Elizabeth Harris, and Martha Harris. I also give to my >> daughter Franky Eson one dollar and no mor! >> e. I also give to my son John Harris one dollar and no more. I also >> give and bequeath to my daughter Hanner Dean one dollar and no more. I >> also give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Williams one dollar and no >> more. I also give and bequeath to my son Archabald Harris one dollar and >> no more. And I do hereby acknowledge this and no other to be my last Will >> and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this >> twenty-third of August and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight >> hundred and five. Sealed and acknowledged in presents of us >> Jurden Flake >> And I chose my two sons John Harris and >> Benj. Williams >> Archabald Harris my executors interlined >> >> before assigned >> >> >> his >> >> /s/ SHERROD X HARRIS >> >> mark >> >> (Seal) >> State of North Carolina >> * * * * * >> Anson County >> >> October Court 1805 >> Then the last Will and Testament of Sherrod Harris was >> admitted to probate and proved in open court by the oaths of >> Jordan Flake and Benj. Williams witnesses thereto and ordered to be >> recorded. >> >> >> /s/ Tod Robinson, Clk. >> >> >> Sherrod Harris married (1) Hannah Page 16 Dec 1761 Goochland Co., VA. >> They had Franky, (female) b. abt Jan,1763 Goochland Co., VA; >> John, b. 3 Apr 1765, Goochland Co.VA; Hannah b. abt 19 Jan 1768 Goochland >> Co., VA; Mary b. 1 May 1771; Archabald, b. 3 Feb 1774 prob. Wake Co., NC; >> Jonathan, b. 13 Apr 1778 prob. Wake Co., NC. Sherrod's wife Hannah died >> about 1778. Sherrod married again, wife not identified and had Hudson b. >> 1786; and William b. 1788. It is possible that wife died also and Sherrod >> married either Elizabeth Jones or Elizabeth Tillman and had six more >> children identified in his will as "my six youngest children", namely, >> Nancy, Simeon 4 May 1793, Tilman P. 19 Jan 1795, Sherrod W. 25 Jul 1797, >> Elizabeth Jul 1799, and Martha 15 Apr 1803 born Anson Co., NC. >> >> A number of the Harris family moved along with the Williams family and the >> Harry family in 1817, first to Tennessee, and then on to Greene Co., AL >> where they settled in 1819. >> >> -- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. >> We are a community of 5.8 million users fighting spam. >> SPAMfighter has removed 483 of my spam emails to date. >> Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len >> >> The Professional version does not have this message >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >