Carter Co., OK - OBIT:  JAMES THOMAS HARRIS

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Submitted by:  Kathy Carson
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  Surnames: HARRIS, CARSON, HILL, MORRIS, FERGUSON, LEWIS, WRIGHT
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  Newspaper THE WILSON NEWS March 2, 1916

  19 February 1916 J. T. HARRIS DIES SUDDENLY

  J. T. HARRIS, of Pooleville, dies suddenly while returning home from 
  Ardmore. He was accompanied by his son, Tom Harris (THOMAS NEWTON HARRIS), 
  and each of them was driving a wagon and had arrived within eight miles 
  of Pooleville when one of the wagons stuck in the  mud. JIM HARRIS had 
  left his wagon and succeeded in lifting a piece of timber to be used in 
  extricating the wagon, when suddenly he exclaimed, "I have give out." 
  and fell dead. J. T. Harris was born in Texas, April 2nd. 1854. He was 
  married to Rosa (Smith) Harris March 6, 1873. Has been a member of the 
  Baptist Church for forty-two years. He was highly esteemed in the community 
  where he lived and his loss will be much felt. Besides his wife he is 
  survived by nine children. Mesdames Dovie (Harris) Ferguson, of Glenn, 
  Oklahoma; Willie (Harris) Lewis and Lucy Isabelle (Harris) 1. Jones, 2.Morris, 
  of Pooleville; Susie (Harris) Wright, of Chickasha, and Frank Harris, 
  Oscar Harris, Tom Harris, Virgil Harris and Houston Harris, of Pooleville.