The Crittenden Press, Marion, KY, 10 Feb 1928. Used with permission.

   WILLIAM HARNESS, who will be eighty one years old on August 15, is 
one of the few veterans of the War Between the States now living in 
Marion. Mr. Harness served in the Union army for two years, part of the 
time in the 136 Illinois Regiment and the remainder of the time in the 
17th Kentucky Regiment.
   Altho [sic] he was born in White county, Tenn., Mr. Harness has been
a resident of this county for over seventy-five years, having been
brought here by his parents when he was a very small child.  During
most of his life he has made his home in the northwestern part of the
county, but for the past seven or eight years he and Mrs. Harness have
been living in Marion.
   Mr. Harness remembers that when he first knew Marion the total
population of the town was about fifty people.  One of the stores at 
time, he says, was kept by the late David Woods.  The present court house
was built when Mr. Harness was a young man and he was employed as one
of the workmen during its construction.
   Mr. Harness has five living children, 24 grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren.  The oldest great grandchild is ten years old.  His two
sons, Odie and Fred Harness, live in Crittenden county, a daughter, Mrs.
Ada Butler, lives in Marion, and two daughters, Mrs. Harrison Hurley
and Mrs. Ed Pickens, live in Union county.  The oldest son, Earl
Harness, died a number of years ago.

Harness Woods Butler Hurley Pickens
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White-TN Union-KY

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