When Saloma C Harris was born on 6 March 1845, in Leake, Mississippi, United States, her father, Thomas Sidney Harris, was 41 and her mother, Matilda Ann Henry, was 33. She married Allen Young on 28 November 1866, in Leake, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 6, Rusk, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 5, Navarro, Texas, United States in 1910. She died after 1885, in Blooming Grove, Navarro, Texas, United States, and was buried in Dresden, Navarro, Texas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Navarro, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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