Oliver R. HARRIS
Notes
This person's information was combined while in Ancestral File. The following submitters of the information may or may not agree with the combining of the information: WILLIAM BALDWYN/GRANT (2452541) KATHRYNE JANAE' SHELBY/BOGUE/ (2519049) RALPH EDWARD AND LUCRETIA MARKHAM/JONES/ (2651482)
Died at the birth of her daughter Dorcas.
Found on 1850 Census Perry Co. MO with wife Elizabeth age 38 b SC and Ruthen Greer male age 13 b MS.
Something about Kiah P. Dr. Harris was born in the neighborhood of Bethphague Presbyterian Church in NC and moved in about 1818 with his fathers family to Missouri; returned to NC and read medicine under Dr. Charles Harris, the Surgeon.
He married Margaret Shelby 4 Sep 1788 at Mecklenburg, North Carolina . Margaret Shelby was born at NC 16 Dec 1772 .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Jane (Jean) Harris
born 2 Feb 1793.
Dorcas Harris
born 28 Oct 1789.
Robert Wiley Harris
born 8 May 1791.
Isabella Harris
born 24 Jan 1795.
Moses Shelby Harris
born 9 Feb 1798.
Hezekiah Price Harris
born 5 May 1800.
Thomas Shelby Harris
born 18 Jun 1802.
Bernice Harris
born 16 Apr 1804.
Oliver R. Harris died 25 Jan 1835 at Cape Girardeau, Missouri Territory .
Margaret Shelby died 25 Sep 1844 at Cape Girardeau, Missouri Territory .