When Emma Louise Harris was born on 22 November 1852, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Harris Jr, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Morris, was 34. She married Thomas Edward Taylor on 28 October 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 23 July 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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