Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/176 Surname: HARRIS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Harris Family About 1862, Anthony Harris bought and moved to the Adams farm. Harris was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, March 25th, 1822. When he was six years old, the family removed to Tyler (or Pleasants) County, Virginia. He died in 1902. Shortly after moving to Trace Fork, Harris was out hunting. He saw a large buck standing in the edge of a thicket. Taking careful aim, he fired, and the deer fell, on going up to his quarry, he was surprised to find two deer, instead of one, lying dead. The ball had passed through the buck's heart, and also killed a fine doe that was standing behind him, in such a manner as to be concealed from his view. This farm was a fine one. My father looked at the farm in November, 1871, and liked it very well. He would probably have purchased it, had it not been for the reports of its unhealthfulness and "arsenic" springs.