Hi, Harrises, Here are more records of the descendants of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris through their son, Obediah, and his wife, Rebecca Johnson Harris. As I previously said, I am trying to present all the information in approximate chronological order, but it is really difficult to do so, given all of the various records & sources for this end of this family. (The county histories, while providing valuable information, are particularly difficult, as there is not any chronological order given at all in them.) Anyway, I hope the information will be comprehensible to everyone if you put it all in the same folder and study it all. Pam pamstone@cfl.rr.com ======================== YOUNG, op. cit. p. 298: NEW GARDEN TOWNSHIP. . At the time of the Indian alarms during the War of 1812, the inhabitants of the township, like those of other settlements, fled for safety to Richmond and other places. Only George Shugart and Obadiah Harris Sen., it is said, remained in the settlement and were unmolested. . --- --- pp. 218-219: FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. . BENJAMIN HARRIS, from North Carolina, settled, in 1807, about six miles north from Richmond, and four miles southeast from Newport, in the south-west part of the present township of Franklin. He was a son of Obadiah Harris, Sen., elsewhere noticed. He died about the year 1850, on the farm on which he first settled. He had fifteen children, thirteen of whom attained to the age of majority, and were married: 1. Obadiah, who married Sarah, daughter of John Lewis, of Green, and settled on Green's Fork, near Williamsburg, now resides near Indianapolis. 2. Pleasant, who married Hannah Massey, and settled in New Garden; afterward on Nettle Creek, near Dalton. He has since lived at South Bend, and last in Iowa, where he died. 3. James, who married Naomi, a daughter of John Lewis, and settled on Green's Fork, where he died. 4. Beersheba, who married Job Coggeshall, and settled near Newport, where she died. He resides at Williamsburg. 5. John, who married Nancy Harvey; settled in Center, removed thence to Newcastle; thence to Iowa, where he died. 6. Benjamin, who married Lydia Hiatt, lived on his farm three years, and then settled near Williamsburg, where he lived until 1868, and now resides one mile from Richmond. Mrs. H. died in July, 1867; and he married in April, 1870, Hannah Ann Estell. 7. Rebecca, who married Henry Dutterow, and settled in Franklin township. 8. Sarah, who married John Catey, of Green. 9. Margaret, who married John Gardner, and lives in Oregon, where he died. 10. David, who married in Illinois, and died there. 11. Aaron, who married Martha, daughter of Richard Lewis, and resides in Huntington County. 12. Elizabeth, who married Seth Gardner, and lives near Arba. 13. Nathan, who married, first, Hannah Thompson; second, Mrs. Edith Anderson, and resides at Union City. OBADIAH HARRIS, from North Carolina, father of Benjamin, came several years later than his son, and still later, Obadiah, another son. They settled in New Garden, a mile south from Newport, whence they removed to Randolph County. Both father and son were preachers in the Society of Friends. . --- ============================= END OF FILE =============================