Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd 
ed., 1885, Hopkins Co.

WILLIS W. HARRIS was born in Jackson County, Tenn., December 12, 
1822, and is a son of Jordan K. and Rebecca (Emery) Harris, the 
former a native of Virginia, the latter of Kentucky, and of 
English and Scotch descent, respectively.  Jordan K., when a young 
man, in 1818, removed to Jackson County, Tenn., where he was soon 
afterward married, and where he bought wild land, and improved a 
farm, on which he resided for several years.  In December, 1827, 
he removed to Livingston County, Ky., where he engaged in the 
live-stock business about three years, during which time, Mrs. 
Rebecca Harris died; she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  He then returned to Jackson County, Tenn., where he 
married again, and where he engaged in the stock business until 
his death, in 1880, in his eightieth year.  He was a member of the 
Old School Baptist Church.  The grandfathers of our subject were 
veterans in the Revolutionary war, and served under Washington.  
After his mother's death, which occurred when he was about seven 
years old, Willie W. made his home with his grandfather Emery, 
until he was twelve or thirteen years old.  He then worked at farm 
labor for about three years.  At the age of sixteen, he commenced 
to learn the brick and stone-mason's trade, which he followed 
until 1845.  He then moved to a tract of 400 acres of wild land, 
in Crittenden County, Ky., which he had bought some time before, 
and commenced improving a farm, but after living one year on the 
place, he lost it on account of a defective title.  In 1847 he 
came to Hopkins County, where be farmed on rented lands for two 
years.  In January, 1849, he bought fifty acres of wild land, one 
mile south of Nebo, and improved the farm upon which he now 
resides, and to which he has added, now owning 800 acres.  He is 
extensively engaged in farming and stock raising.  Mr. Harris was, 
for a number of years, captain in the old State militia, of 
Kentucky.  He was married, February 20, 1845, to Miss Rachel 
Roland, a native of Hopkins County.  To them were born eight 
children; three sons and two daughters are yet living.  Mrs. 
Rachael Harris died March 17, 1863, in her thirty-ninth year.  She 
was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Harris' 
second marriage, was November 12,1863, to Miss Nancy W. Crow, a 
native of Hopkins County.  Mr. and Mrs. Harris are members of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which church he has been a 
ruling elder for about twenty years.  He is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity.  In 1868, he lost his dwelling house and the 
entire contents by fire.  He is a Democrat.

Harris Emery Washington Roland Crow
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Jackson-TN VA KY Livingston-KY Crittenden-KY 

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