Source: Tidewater Virginia Families A Magazine of History and Genealogy Volume IV, 1995-1996 pp. 24-26 Emmaus Baptist Church, New Kent County, Virginia Burials In Cemetery Octavia Dandridge Harris (June 14, 1853-December 25, 1925) C. C. Harris, wife of J. T. Harris (March 23, 1825-September 14, 1888) In Memory Of Ann Virginia Harris b. July 23, 1817 --- d. December 4, 1861 Erected by her affectionate brother J. L. Harris J. T. Harris (November 18, 1819-November 18, 1888) ***************** pp. 92-93 George Winston: The Jacob House and The Richmond Friends Meeting by Charles Pool Para. 3: "Professor Arnold Ricks, of the Department of History at Bennington College, and a birthright Quaker, has written the following concerning the historic Jacob House and its builder, Geroge Winston: We know that this house was constructed about 1817, the first imporvement in the ambitious 500 acre 'development' project undertaken by Jacqueline Harvie, Benjamin J. Harris, and George Winston known as the 'Town of Sydney', encompassing what is today the Fan District as well as Oregon Hill. Winston (1759-1826) was the builder among the partners; it was he who erected the original Friends Meeting House at 19th and Cary Streets in 1797, the first hoouse of worship built in Richmond after St. John's Church. Himself a prominent Friend, he like other Friends of the period had manumitted his slaves, and --- as has been detailed especially in a recent study by Gregg Kimball of the Valentine Museum --- he made a practice training and employing free Black apprentices in his extensive building operations, which included work on Jefferson's Captiol and Virginia's pioneering Penitentiary. Benjamin Harris, brother of Winston's wife, a major entrepreneur of the times as a cotton and tobacco manufacturer, was also from a Quaker family; his father, James Harris, was the first General Manager of the James River Navigation Company (George Washington, President), and as a Friend served as a member of the executive committee of the rather short-lived Virginia Abolition Society founded in 1790. Benjamin Harris himself owned the house for a few years in the 1820s. John Jacob, a Friend whose house it was for more than twenty years, expressed a characteristic Quaker concern for penal reform in serving as Assistant Superinetndent of the penitentiary under Samuel Parsons (another Friend) as Superintendent." The article was dealing with the possible destruction of the Jacob House or removal by Virginia Commonwealth University for parking space for their proposed engineering school. "Built circa 1817, the Jacob House is probably the last physical link that we have to the important early Quaker heritage of Richmond." Does anyone know whether or not Jacob House was preserved? Please route any response through HH or H-VA so that others may be helped. Does anyone recognize the Harris family members buried at Emmaus Church? What Harris line are they from? Ira L. Harris III Evv., In.