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Note for: Mary Harris, 1858 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   21 AUG 1999

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Note for: Elizabeth Harris, 1860 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   21 AUG 1999

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Note for: Emelia Harris, 18 FEB 1865 - 6 FEB 1932 Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   26 AUG 2000

Burial:
     Place:   Fitzgerald Cemet, Clay, Tennessee

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     [crystal harris.FTW]

GEDCOM line 238488 not recognizable or too long:
     (BURI) 2 PLAC Fitzgerald Cemetery,Clay,Tennessee

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Note for: Rebecca J Harris, 1855 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   21 AUG 1999

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Note for: William Harris, 1835 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   21 AUG 1999

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Note for: Martha Elizabeth Thurman, 1846 - 1895 Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   15 JUN 2001

Burial:
     Place:   Thurman Cemetery, Melvine, Bledsoe County, Tennessee

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Note for: Milton Hardin ELDREDGE OR ELDRIDGE, ABT 1864 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   2 DEC 2001

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     [crystal harris.FTW]

1880 Careys, Cumberland, Kentucky FHL Film 1254411, NA#T9-0 411, page 162A.

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Note for: Mary Elen Eldredge, 13 AUG 1890 - 23 JUL 1891 Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   5 JUL 2000

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Note for: Curtis Elmore Harris, 2 SEP 1902 - 8 OCT 1989 Index

Event:
     Type:   Record Change
     Date:   16 JUN 2002

Burial:
     Date:   11 OCT 1989
     Place:   Garden of Gethsemane, Roane Memorial Gardens, Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee

Individual Note:
     [crystal harris.FTW]

Buried in Roane Memorial Gardens, Garden of Gethsemane sect ion, grave 50C. just below and south of the kneeling Jesus.
Left Grassy Cove TN abt 1916 and moved to Athens TN and the n to Armuchee, Georgia and then came back to Athens, TN.
Buried in Roane Memorial Gardens between Rockwood and Harri man,Tennessee Illegitimate child
Second wife: Gladys Marie Kirkland
SOCIAL SECURITY 409-01-5681/issuing state: Tennessee
My father never knew who his father was. He thought fo r a longtime that it was Hardin Eldridge of Kentucky ( die d 21 Nov 1934 in Barren county, KY/age 67) but when I bega n genealogy research I found that Hardin Eldridge was in th e Kentucky Penitentury during my father's birth and gestati on period, so he could not have been the father. I wrote t o the Kentucky State Prison system and they gave me informa tion, thinking that Hardin was my grandfather. They had t o get special permission to release the information to me . I wrote later and asked if conjugal rights were allowe d during his incarceration and was told absolutely not. Th e story is told by my grandmother Ruthie, that she worked f or a doctor who delivered babies in Kentucky or Tennessee a nd lived with him and his wife and that my father was the d octor's child. This man's name was supposed to be "BLACK" . I have never found anything on a "Black" family and hav e inquired with the medical associations, etc. Nothing in t he soundex on the Black name with Ruthie living in the home . I have found a Ruthie living in Roane county, listed a s a mulato. She was living with a black man. My father tol d me a story about his grandfather, Benjamin Harris. It i s said that he shot a black man looking in Ruthie's windo w and thought he had killed him. Benjamin Harris then ra n away to Cumberland county,Kentucky and when he found ou t that the man was not dead, then came back to Cumberland c ounty, TN. He did quit claim property in Tennessee from Ken tucky. The spelling on his name changed while in Kentuck y from Harris to Haris. I don't know if this is a true sto ry or not but might explain the record that I found above i n Roane county, TN. My sister, Barbara, doesn't believe th is story as she said that no negroes were allowed in the ar ea that my grandfather lived, Cumberland County, TN. Howev er, this man and woman lived in Roane county, TN. Althoug h living with a black man could cause his death in the sout h at that time, that would explain why she would possibly b e listed as a mulato, to protect himself and herself. Wh o knows? I guess we will find out when this life is over , if it is even necessary then.

My father said he used to play hide and seek and hide in hi s grandmother's (Rittie) long dress. He said back then, wo men would go to the restroom by squatting on the ground (ca lled letting water) and often their dresses would slide th rough the wet ground. He said "she smelled like a pig bu t I loved her". He seemed to think highly of his grandparen ts but did not much like his mother. She was never marrie d to our knowledge until Jasper Casteel. She had several c hildren. She was troubled. According to my mother, Virgini a Powers, my father told her that his mother tried at one t ime to molest him.

    (Medical):Heart trouble, Stroke,Peptic Ulcer

Worked for the Mead Corporation in Harriman, Roane, TN. Or iginally was the Harriman company and was purchased by Mead . He went to Chillicothe, Ohio on his 25th anniversary o f working for the company. He was instrumental in bringin g the union into the Harriman plant. He received an awar d or certificate at his anniversary party. He was a "baue r mill operator" at the plant. This was a plant that mad e corrugated paper. When the paper was made, wood was chop ped up and old paper products were used, mixed with chemica ls. This would run through a mill. He watched to make sur e things ran all right. They would take samples to the la b for testing. Then the paper went through a drying proces s where there were gigantic rollers. One of his coworker s was caught in the rollers and killed. He retired in th e 1960's. He was hired on 09/01/1929 and took early retirem ent effective 01/01/1965 according to the Mead Corporation.

Lived at 620 Clifty St. Harriman, TN until his death.