Margaret Harris (1840 - 1915)

Born Nov 1840 in Missouri, United States

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Died Mar 1915 at age 74 in Texas, United States

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Margaret was born in 1840. She passed away in 1915.

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• Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 8, Williamson, Texas; Roll T623_1680; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 140.

28 William Juvenal (James 16) was born in Vermillion county, Illinois, Sept. 22, 1834. At the age of fourteen he went to Texas with his family by wagon. He was a teamster for many years, hauling goods from Houston to Georgetown. July 12, 1855, he married Mary C. Asher, but she apparently died soon afterwards. April 27, 1857 he married Margaret Harris, daughter of James Gwinn Harris (1819, Franklin, Tenn.--1895, Hutto, Texas) and Elizabeth Vineyard (April 22, 1822 in England--Aug. 25, 1885). He was living with his in- laws in 1860. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Williamson county unit, but did not re-enlist after it was dissolved. He is supposed to have taken an ox-train to El Paso to supply Confederate troops there. Perhaps that is the wagon train to Monterrey mentioned in the county history. After the war he abandoned the hauling business and joined his brothers in driving cattle north. He made his last drive to Abilene in 1870, afterwards turning to farming. He apparently bought his relatives' shares of the family land, and then made additional purchases in 1883 and 1887. Some of this he rented out. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He died Dec. 19, 1897. Notes for WILLIAM JUVENAL: 1860 Williamson Co., TX, census, William JUVINALL, p.281, Round Rock P.O. 1880 Williamson Co., TX, census, William JUVNAL, p.581, E.D. 162 .