Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — HAS NINE GRANDSONS IN BRITISH ARMY [ARTICLE]

HAS NINE GRANDSONS IN BRITISH ARMY

Denver, Colo. —The Victoria Cross might be the reward of Mrs. S. Harris, aged seventy, were her contributions to the allied cause brought to the attention of King George. Mrs. Harris has nine grandsons now fighting in the British armies, and an only son is about to enlist in Uncle Sam’s army of liberty. All nine grandsons are brothers. children of Mrs. Harris’ daughter, who is now dead. The boys were living in Saskatchewan, in western Canada, when the Dominion government first called for volunteers. Seven of them enlisted in the famous Princess Pat regiment arid, spite the heavy casualties in that crack organization, they are all alive. Two others entered the British navy. The boys are Thomas, George, William, James, J. 8., ; Justus, Larry, W. -B. and Dennis Pollard, and range in age from nineteen to thirty-three years. Mrs. Harris’ husband was a Confederate soldier.