When Evelena Harris was born on 21 August 1891, in Howard, Elk, Kansas, United States, her father, Franklin Leslie Harris, was 33 and her mother, Mary Ann Schneeberger, was 31. She married Henry John Brown on 19 November 1919, in Howard, Elk, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Union Center Township, Elk, Kansas, United States for about 5 years and Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died on 22 April 1936, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.
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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