Mamie Harris

Brief Life History of Mamie

When Mamie Harris was born on 16 September 1888, in Spencer, McCook, South Dakota, United States, her father, George Larkin Harris, was 32 and her mother, Martha Emilla Tillotson, was 26. She married Raymond Hugh Countryman in 1908, in McCook, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Colome, Tripp, South Dakota, United States in 1920 and Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States in 1930. She died on 1 September 1982, in Washington, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Washington, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Raymond Hugh Countryman
1889–1939
Mamie Harris
1888–1982
Marriage: 1908
Eileen G Countryman
1910–
Bertram Leroy Countryman
1911–1991
Harrison Laurel Countryman
1914–1989
Edna Maude Countryman
1915–2008
Raymond Junior Countryman
1924–1995
Alden M Countryman
1926–1943

Sources (27)

  • Mamie Harrys in household of Benjamin Tillotson, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Mamie Harris, "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2014"
  • South Dakota, Marriages, 1905-2013

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1905

Historical Boundaries: 1905: Tripp, South Dakota, United States

1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

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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