William Henry Harrison (1823 - 1897)

Born 14 Mar 1823 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Elizabeth (Graves) Harrison — married 14 Apr 1841 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Sarah (Keen) Hodges — married after 1863 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 7 May 1897 at age 74 in Obion County, Tennessee

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Biography

Henry Harrison was a Tennessean.

William Henry Harrison was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, March 14, 1823. He lived in Westmoreland area, District 15, in Sumner County, Tennessee, until his first wife Sarah Elizabeth Graves passed away. Buried at Shady Grove Cemetery Obion County, Tennessee.

Notes

Facts: 1. Henry was born in Tennessee. According to all Censuses. 2. Birth date March 14, 1823. Tombstone. 3.. Married his first wife Sarah Elizabeth Graves on April 14, 1841 in Sumner County, Tennesssee. 4. Occupation farmer. 5. Religion Methodist. 6. Lived in District 15 in Sumner County, TN. in 1850 & 1860. 7. Had eight children: Granville, James, Sarah, Mary, Lenore, Alfred, Thomas, William Henry Jr. 8. Henry Harrison served in the Confederacy as a Private in F. Company, 9th Tennessee Cavalry. 9. Married his second wife after the death of his first wife. Sarah Keen Hodges. 10. Had six children: Susan, John, Virginia, Colette, Fannie, and Samuel. 11. Land Deed in Obion County, TN. Henry lived out from Union City on the Dresden Road close to Harris Station and Weakely County. 12. on the 1870 Census his son William Henry Jr is listed on his brother Grandville's Census both families were in Obion County by 1870. 13. Died May 7, 1897 in Harris Station, Obion County, Tennessee. 14. Buried at Shady Grove Cemetery, Shady Grove United Methodist Church, Obion County, Tennessee.

Stories and Questions

• State Birth parents born in:

In the 1880 Census, it has his father born in Kentucky and his mother born in North Caorlina. Henry was born in Tennessee. Note: Census could be wrong and have the birth states reversed on parents. "What County was Henry born?" Other supplemental sources say his parents were born in North Carolina. Book "Back Then" by Carol White Harrison.

1. Parents unknown: Still researching all potental Harrison's from North Carolina and censuses, neighbors, and extending relatives. (Possible Father could be Thomas Harrison in Allen County, KY. Harrison-2511. 1830 census has son listed about the time WH was born.) Dempsy Harrison lives close to Jacob Graves in the area or North East Sumner County.

2. There are some disagreements on whom his Father is. Several have traced it to Benjamin Harrison in Overton County next to Sumner County. However, there is a Henry Williamson Harrison in that family. The migration routes do not match up with a normal migration pattern. There have been several researchers that have written some books on his father being Benjamin. There is a James Harrison as a high probability, but the districts are completely different and too far apart. Note: (a James Harrison is his neighbor in the 1850 Census, same age as Henry). There is a different Harrison that could be a potential father that was in the Scottsville, KY area, the county North of Sumner County, TN. More research is needed for both. Still researching this to find proof. 3. His neighbors are completely different on the 1850 Census and the 1860 Census. "Did he move within Disctrict 15?" Census Details 4. Sarah Graves (first wife) died during the Civil War period in between 1863 & 1864. No records exsist on this. 5. No marriage records for his second wife Sarah Keen Hodges. Assumed married in 1864. Had her first child with Henry on 1865.

6. United States Federal Census, Year: 1850; Census Place: District 15, Sumner, Tennessee; Roll: M432_897; Page: 188A; Image: 381 Name Sarah Harrison Age 28 Birth Year abt 1822 Birthplace Tennessee Home in 1850 District 15, Sumner, Tennessee, USA Race Mulatto Gender Female Family Number 849 Household Members

Name Sarah Harrison Age 28 Birth Year abt 1822 Birthplace Tennessee Home in 1850 District 15, Sumner, Tennessee, USA Race Mulatto Gender Female Family Number 849 Household Members

2. United States Federal Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: District 15, Sumner, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1275; Page: 283; Family History Library Film: 805275 Name Sarah Harrison Age 37 Birth Year abt 1823 Gender Female Birth Place T Home in 1860 District 15, Sumner, Tennessee Household Members

1850 Census Neighbors were: James & Elizabeth Rippy, (Last names: Adcock, Perry), James and Nancy Harrison.

1860 Census Neighbors were: Mary Morris, Thomas and Lousia (Graves) Creasey, Nancy Gillium, David Gillium, LG Carter, FM David, and another Creasey.

Who were the Temples?

• • Need to find Date of moving from Sumner County to Obion County, Tennessee.

8. Obion County Deed for Henry: First ownership of Land. "begining at a stake near a honey Locus on the Dresden Road, thence South with the Dresden road fifty eight poles to a stake with thence fifty seven poles running West to a stake, thence south sixty six poles West to a Poplar thence West twenty severn poles to a White Oak thence North ninty five and 43 poles with Sam Watson's East Boundary line to a stake thence East one hundred thirty one poles to the beginning being 76 acres more or less purchased from T.G. Jenkinson May 5, 1874 for the amount of $1,220.00 in hand Paid and a note for 300 hundred dollars due on the first day of March 1875 and a note for two hundred and twenty dollars due on the first day of March 1876 bearing ten per cent from the first of March 1875". The deed was recorded at the Obion County Courthouse on September 29, 1877, at 10 O'Clock p.m.

9. Story: Told by a son of Henry. "All of the men, boys, and teams of horses had to learn to farm all over again when the Harrison's came from their hilly, rocky land holdings in Sumner County to the level, fertile bottom land of Obion County. Always expecting to hit a rock with their plow share and brek the plow point, they cautiously plowed their Sumner County hillsides with a tight hold on the lines and a continual "whoa, whoa, whoa," to the horses to keep them from moving at more than a snail's pace. It was said planting corn in the Sumner County meant trying to find enough room between two rocks to stick a grain of corn. It was the end of the first plowing season in Obion COunty before the men, boy, and horse we able to "loosen up and tear out" full speed across the bottom."

10. Shady Grove Cemetery is located on the Old Harris Road across from the Shady Grove United Methodist Church 2.7 miles Northeast of Union City, Obion, Tennessee. Henry and his second wife Sarah Keen are buried there. Along with his first born son Granville and his wife Nancy Troutt.

Sources

• Source: S-235326442 Repository: #R-846336025 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=75498298&pid=550
• Repository: R-846336025 Name: Ancestry.com

• • Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002 Name Sarah Graves Gender Female Marriage Date 14 Apr 1841 Marriage Place Sumner, Tennessee, USA Spouse Henry Harrison Household Members NameAge NameHenry Harrison NameSarah Graves. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-GZHY

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch,Year: 1850; Census Place: District 15, Sumner, Tennessee; Roll: M432_897; Page: 188A; Image: 381. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC69-FM2 : 21 October 2021), Heny Harrison, Sumner, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• United States Federal Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: District 15, Sumner, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1275; Page: 283; Family History Library Film: 805275. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:M8TR-DR6 : Tue Apr 04 12:22:36 UTC 2023), Entry for Henry Harrison and Sarah Harrison, 1860. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8TR-DR6

• Obion County, Deed Book 1-2, pg. 462. William Henry Harrison. By Kelly Kley.

• United States Federal Census, Year: 1870; Census Place: District 13, Obion County, Tennessee. Roll: M593_1552; Page: 214B; Family History Library Film: 553051. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10524432:7163?ssrc=pt&tid=81911137&pid=132043419946.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWS-H3V : 15 January 2022), Henry Harrison, Jacksonville, Obion, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4KN2-56T2 : 5 August 2020), William Henry Harrison, ; Burial, , Obion, Tennessee, United States of America, Shady Grove Cemetery; citing record ID 204470745, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204470745

• Carol White Harrison. "Back Then", 1998. Pages 216-225. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Back_Then/_-RmAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&kptab=getbook Graves County Library, Mayfield, KY.

By Kelly Kley.

• Highland Rim Keen & kin : a semi-annual newsletter of genealogy & family history, Vol. 1

Author Keen, Edward James https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/21727?page=59&given=William&exactGiven=false&surname=Harrison&exactSurname=false&place=Sumner,%20Tennessee,%20United%20States&exactRels=false

• Highland Rim Keen & kin : a semi-annual newsletter of genealogy & family history, Vol. 2

Author Keen, Edward James; https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/21727?page=59&given=William&exactGiven=false&surname=Harrison&exactSurname=false&place=Sumner,%20Tennessee,%20United%20States&exactRels=false

• Harrison family research

Author Griffin, Frances C.http://www.familysearch.org/ Subject Harrison family; McDaniel family; Nailling family; Roberts family; Stokes family; Welch family; https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/20325?page=9&given=William%20Henry&exactGiven=false&surname=Harrison&exactSurname=false&place=Tennessee,%20United%20States&date=1820-1896&startDate=1820&endDate=1896&exactRels=false

• Death of Sarah Harrison"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSSD-146 : 1 March 2021), Henry Harrison in entry for Sarah Harris Kenn, 6 Aug 1922; Death, Obion, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

• Death of Thomas Harrison : "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9PH-7Q4 : 2 March 2021), Henry Harrison in entry for Thos. M. Harrison, 1926; citing Death, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,912,902.

• Death ofSamuel Harrison "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-B8JH : 2 March 2021), William H Harrison in entry for Samuel J Tillman Harrison, 4 Nov 1958; citing Death, Fulton, Fulton, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,709,631.