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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JOSEPH W. HARRIS, born November 7, 1839, at Warrenton, Va., is a son of
William and Elizabeth (Anderson) Harris, natives, respectively, of Talbot and
Warren Counties, Ga. The senior Harris was a farmer until his marriage, when he
was elected sheriff of Warren County, which office he held for two years. In
January, 1846, he located in Talbot County, entered into the merchandise
business, and died there in June, 1846. He served in the Seminole War. He reared
three sons and three daughters, viz.: Sarah, William, Joseph, Mary, Martha, and
Thomas. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. The grandfather of
our subject, Henry Harris, came to Georgia as one of the earliest settlers of
that State, about the year 1800. The subject of this sketch was reared and
educated in the common schools at Fayetteville, and at the age of seventeen
began his business career as clerk in a general merchandise store of that town,
which position he held six months, after which he spent three years at Montevallo.

    September 10, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company E, Twenty-sixth
Alabama, and participated in the first battle of Fort Gibson, the battle of
Baker's Creek, siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Missionary Ridge, campaign from
Dalton to Atlanta, the battle of Nashville, and the last fight at Bentonville,
N. C. In 1863 he was commissioned third lieutenant of the regiment, and at
Dalton, in 1864, was promoted to second lieutenant, and shortly after, at
Palmetto Station, Ga., was again promoted, to first lieutenant. He was captured
at Tupelo. Miss., in December, 1864. After the war he returned to his home and
engaged in farming, and in the fall of 1865, accepted a position with the
Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, in the capacity of agent, express agent, and
telegraph operator. In the fall of 1872, he went to Birmingham, as express
agent, thence to Montevallo, in 1873, where he engaged in merchandising, and in
1876 went to South Alabama, and merchandised two years. In December, 1881, he
came to Cross Plains, as telegraph operator for the East Tennessee Railway,
where he has since continued to live. In connection with the railroad business
he is running a hotel.

    In December, 1861, Mr. Harris was first married to Martha J. Wilson,
daughter of Henry Wilson, of Columbiana, Ala., and has had born to him seven
children, three of whom are now living: Rolling, of Talladega; Ernest, clerk and
book-keeper, of Burkville, Ala., and May. Mrs Harris died in November, 1881, and
in February, 1884, Mr. Harris was married to Nannie Jones, of Cave Springs. Ga.,
and to this union two children were born: Jones and Albert. Mr. Harris is a
member of the Baptist Church, and his wife is of the Congregational Methodist
Church. He is of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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