Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

WILLIAM P. HARRIS was born September 11, 1821, and is the second son of
John and Dicey (Alverson) Harris.  John Harris was born in Jessamine
County, May 3, 1792, was a farmer, and died March 17, 1865.  Mrs. Dicey
Harris was born in Madison County, May 14, 1790, and died October 5, 1864.
William Harris, paternal grandfather of William P. Harris, was born in
Virginia, and came to Jessamine County, Ky., in an early day.  He was a
cooper by trade, and also carried on a farm.  He died in Jessamine County
in his seventieth year.  William P. Harris was born and reared on a farm
six miles southwest of Nicholasville, Ky., and has farmed all his life,
and also raises stock.  He was married December 2, 1852, to Miss Frances,
a daughter of Hillery and Malinda (Boatman) Woodward.  Her father was born
in Jessamine County, December 18, 1800, was a farmer, and died June 14,
1880. Her mother was born in Madison County and died in 1842.  Six children
have blessed this union: Mary B. (married to Herod Brooks December 18,
1873), Maggie J., Malinda (married to John Brumfield September 7, 1881),
Henry G. (married, December 20, 1883, to Annie Peel, of Jessamine County,
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Blackeman) Peel), Henry G. (living on
the farm with his father), and Walter D. (married September 8, 1886, to
Myrtie Overstreet, daughter of J. P. Overstreet).  Mrs. Harris was born
September 9, 1835, and died July 26, 1886, a member of the Methodist
Church.  He owns 100 acres of land in Sulphur Well District.

Harris Alverson Boatman Woodward Brooks Brumfield Peel Blackeman Overstreet
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Madison-KY VA

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