When Bessie Mae Harris was born on 29 April 1896, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, her father, Andrew Thomas Harris, was 31 and her mother, Fannie Florence Belt, was 21. She married Marshall David Tharp on 12 November 1910, in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Salem, Livingston, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Marion, Crittenden, Kentucky, United States for about 5 years. She died on 28 June 1945, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Watson Cemetery, Owen, Kentucky, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
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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