William was born in 1849, the son of Robert Harris and Detita "Delilah" Abberdle. He served in the military, according to his pension records, but no information about his unit or service time has been found yet. William married at age 26 and worked as a farmer, moving his family from Mississippi to Arkansas by 1878. He passed away in 1894 at 45 years old.
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1849 Aug 9 - Birth - Panola, Panola, Mississippi, USA[1]
↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNW8-79C : 12 November 2020), William Harris, Johnson, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 93, sheet 352B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,048.
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