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