Brief Life History of Vinnie Alvin
When Vinnie Alvin Harris was born in October 1897, in Dothan, Eastland, Texas, United States, his father, Arthur Harris, was 21 and his mother, Prudence Bint, was 16. He married Vergie Leona Frye about 1926, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Cisco, Eastland, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 17 January 1991, in Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Early, Brown, Texas, United States.
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- Bennie A Harris, "United States 1950 Census"
- Vennie Alvin Harris, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Vennie Alvin Harris, "Texas Death Index, 1964-1998"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
1902
Historical Boundaries: 1902: Eastland, Texas, United States
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
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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