Eli "Cap" HARRIS

Birth:
13 Feb 1842
Marion, Williamson, Illinois
Death:
28 Sep 1902
Marysville, Fremont, Idaho
Marriage:
20 Dec 1867
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources:
Family Tree
Notes:
                   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
                  
Elizabeth Harriett Mahala GAMMELL
Birth:
22 Jul 1851
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Death:
9 Jul 1919
Marysville, Fremont, Idaho
Sources:
Family Tree
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
25 Sep 1868
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
28 Mar 1906
Groveland, Bingham, Idaho
Marr:
23 Feb 1887
Logan, Cache, Utah 
2
Eli M. HARRIS
Birth:
1871
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
21 May 1929
Clementsville, Teton, Idaho
 
Marr:
 
3
Birth:
17 Nov 1872
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
3 Feb 1919
Smithfield, Cache, Utah
Marr:
8 Feb 1893
Logan, Cahce, Utah 
4
Mary R. HARRIS
Birth:
1875
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
27 Jan 1914
 
Marr:
 
5
Birth:
1876
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
5 Jun 1952
Marr:
14 Nov 1905
 
6
Emily Virginia HARRIS
Birth:
27 Sep 1880
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
13 Jun 1883
 
Marr:
 
7
Jeannette HARRIS
Birth:
1 Feb 1883
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Death:
1884
 
Marr:
 
8
Edna HARRIS
Birth:
1885
Lewiston, Cache, Utah
Death:
1 Jan 1900
 
Marr:
 
9
Birth:
30 Oct 1887
Lewiston, Cache, Utah
Death:
8 Sep 1963
Whittier, Los Angeles, California
Marr:
 
10
Vernon HARRIS
Birth:
14 Oct 1889
Lewiston, Cache, Utah
Death:
14 Oct 1889
Lewiston, Cache, Utah
 
Marr:
 
11
Iva HARRIS
Birth:
1888
Death:
 
Marr:
 
12
William V. HARRIS
Birth:
1890
Lewiston, Cache, Utah
Death:
10 Mar 1962
Richmond, Cache, Utah
 
Marr:
 
13
Laverna HARRIS
Birth:
1892
Marysville, Fremont, Idaho
Death:
21 Sep 1961
Ashton, Fremont, Idaho
 
Marr:
 
14
Effie HARRIS
Birth:
1894
Marysville, Fremont, Idaho
Death:
27 Jan 1952
 
Marr:
 
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Eli "Cap" Harris - Elizabeth Harriett Mahala Gammell

Eli "Cap" Harris was born at Marion, Williamson, Illinois 13 Feb 1842. His parents were McGee Harris and Mary (Polly) Givens.

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 .