Eli "Cap" HARRIS
Eli Harris Eli's family were converts to the church and crossed the plains to Utah in the Heber C. Kimball Company in 1848. As a child he was given the nick name of "Cap" by his father, and this name stayed with him for life.. As a young man Eli went to Richmond, Utah. Here he met and fell in love with Elizabeth Harriett Mahala Gammell. They were married in Salt Lake City, Utah. For the first seventeen years of their married life they lived in Richmond, Utah. Eli freighted from Corinne, Utah to Montana. He was away from home much of the time. In 1884 he moved his family to Lewiston, Utah, where he purchased a farm. In the spring of 1891 he cast his lot with several other families and moved to Marysville, Idaho, where he acquired a homestead. Eli was a leader in the pioneering of the Marysville area. He helped with logging, building of cabins, bridges, and canals into this virgin country. He served on the school board for a number of years. He was ever willing and helpful to others in getting established in this new community. Eli was a very congenial and jovial man. He love people and most of all his own family. He liked a good joke, and played many on his children and others. Eli was a father of thirteen children, four of whom died in their youth or infancy. The rigors of pioneer life took their toll, amoung which was Eli who died before he turned sixty years of age. taken from geneology book on Harris family
He married Elizabeth Harriett Mahala Gammell 20 Dec 1867 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah . Elizabeth Harriett Mahala Gammell was born at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah 22 Jul 1851 daughter of James Gammell and Elizabeth Mahala Hendricks .
They were the parents of 14
children:
Drusilla Elizabeth Harris
born 25 Sep 1868.
Eli M. Harris
born 1871.
James Gammel Harris
born 17 Nov 1872.
Mary R. Harris
born 1875.
Lucy A. Harris
born 1876.
Emily Virginia Harris
born 27 Sep 1880.
Jeannette Harris
born 1 Feb 1883.
Edna Harris
born 1885.
Ivy Harris
born 30 Oct 1887.
Vernon Harris
born 14 Oct 1889.
Iva Harris
born 1888.
William V. Harris
born 1890.
Laverna Harris
born 1892.
Effie Harris
born 1894.
Eli "Cap" Harris died 28 Sep 1902 at Marysville, Fremont, Idaho .
Elizabeth Harriett Mahala Gammell died 9 Jul 1919 at Marysville, Fremont, Idaho .