I am looking for info on my elusive grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Harris. Death cert. lists him as b in Erie, PA in 1857. He died Nov. 1, 1940 in Southfield. Michigan. He may have lived in OH at some point in his life. No parents or other kin are known. He married Clare M. Crawford(Crofford) in 1879 in Allen County, IN.. He was found on the 1880 census there & on the 1900 census in Whitely County, IN. At some point the family lived in DeKalb County, IN where my father Benjamin Frank Harris ll was born April 17, 1893. No records there. He listed his trade as a Blacksmith. Apparently he was a renter & never owned land. The family moved after 1900 to Detroit Michigan or in near vicinity. to Detroit. Children, all b in Indiana were Albert Harris b 1882;Bertha or Beula b 1885;Harry (Jay) b 1888;Alza (f) b 1990;Benjamin b 1893;& Russel b 1895. Anyone with knowledge of this my Harris line I would appreciate hearing from you Thank You, RHarris