Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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OBITUARY OF BENJAMIN HARRIS Another life is ended, a life of many years, full of toil, happiness, pain and tears. Such was that of Benjamin Harris, who lived eight years more than the alloted three score years and ten. The son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Harris, both of whom were born and raised in Virginia, and were Quakers. The six children were William F., Henry 0., John T., Virginia W. and Regina, Benjamin being the youngest. The family moved from Virginia to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where this subject was born. His father died a few weeks before the birth of his son Benjamin, in 1838. He received a common school education, supplemented by six months school in Booneville in 1851. When he was 13 years old, the widowed mother with her six children came to Jasper county and located just east of Mt. Ayr on a farm now owned by Henry O. Harris. They were among the early, settlers. Here he worked with his brothers for several years. He was married to Katherine Wood in the early sixties, but this home was broken up in about a year by the death of his wife and an infant daughter. This was at the time of the civil war. Benjamin enlisted and was drafted into service but was not accepted, not being physically strong enough. He owned and operated a mill at Brook after this. He was also surveyor for two years of Newton county. In 1871 he was married to Emily Crlsler. To this union was born