When Gathel Dove Harris was born on 6 July 1897, in Mill Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, her father, David Elmer Harris, was 25 and her mother, Minnie Bell Cox, was 22. She married Andrew Sherman Hobbs on 24 December 1914, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Grant, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Sims Township, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 2 March 1976, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, 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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