When Elizabeth Berry Harris was born on 16 May 1817, in Rocheport, Boone, Missouri, United States, her father, Higgason Harris, was 43 and her mother, Nancy Ann Garland, was 38. She married James Simeral Ogan on 12 November 1837, in Rocheport, Boone, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Judicial Township 2, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1870 and Judicial Township 1, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1900. She died on 17 December 1906, in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1825: Boone, Missouri, United States
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English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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