When Floyd Vernon Harris was born on 12 September 1908, in Noble, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Joseph Graham Harris, was 32 and his mother, Mary Elva Koon, was 32. He married Lenetta Kempton on 26 August 1934, in Grant, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cochise, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1950 and Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1996. He died on 27 December 2008, in San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, 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.
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