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WILLIAM THOMAS HARRIS married ELSIE ALICE COOP
1910 census - Burkesville, Cumberland Co, Kentucky
(b 1869) HARRIS, WILLIAM T - white male age 41, married for 19 years, born in TN, father TN, mother TN, run a boarding house, everyone in the house could read write speak English
(b 1872) HARRIS, ELCIE A - white female age 38, married 19 years, had 9 kids all 9 still living, born in KY, father born in KY, mother born in TN,
(b 1892) HARRIS, IDA B - white female, age 18, born in KY
(b 1894) HARRIS, LERA E - white female age 16 born in KY
(b 1895) HARRIS, MATTIE A - white female age 15 born in KY
(b 1896) HARRIS, HATTIE F - white female age 14 born in KY
(b 1898) HARRIS, JEFFERSON D - white male, age 12, born in KY
(b 1900) HARRIS, CLAUDE E -white female age 10, born in KY
(b 1903) HARRIS, LUCY L - white female age 7 born in KY
(b 1906) HARRIS, ESEC - white male age 4 born in KY
(b 1908) HARRIS, HUGH T - white male age 2 born in KY
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1920 census - Hamilton Co, Chattanooga TN ward 5, all could read write speak English
(b 1869) HARRIS, WILLIAM T age 51, watchman, storekeeper
(b 1872) HARRIS, ELSIE, age 48
(b 1893) HARRIS, IDA, age 27
(b 1903) HARRIS, LUCILE, age 17, ??? Picture Show
(b 1898) HARRIS, JEFF, age 22, clerk, transfer company
(b 1905) HARRIS, ESCOE, age 15, clerk, transfer company
(b 1908) HARRIS, HUGH C, age 12
(b 1911) HARRIS, ALICE, age 9
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Crossville Chronicle, 29 November1911 --Harris and family have recently moved here from Albany, Kentucky and expect to make this their future home. Mr, Harris was born in the old 9th district of this countyf but moved to Kentucky when a little child. He is a photographer of 18 years experince
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Crossville Chronicle, 16 December 1911 -- W. T HARRIS, who recently moved here from Kentucky, has been appointed Marshal by Mayor George p. Burnette. Marshal Harris seems to have in him the stuff of which a good officer is made. He busied himself to such an extent that aside from maintaining order in town he succeeded in rounding up over a dozen hogs that were running at large within the corporate limits. Some persons did not seem to enjoy the joke very much, but Leon Burnett gave vent to one of his characteristic big laughs and remarked, he got two of mine, but that is alright let him get them every hour of the day if 17dont keep them up,
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Crossville Chronicle, 12 February 1913 -- Marshal Harris was home from Spring City for a brief visit and was accompanied by Mrs., Harris on his return. They are to move to Spring City within the next few weeks,
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Crossville Chronicle, 17 February 1913 -- The family of William Harris shipped thier household goods to Spring City Friday and the family left Saturday, They have numerous friends here who regret to have them go away, but as Mr, Harris is employed as Marshal at Spring City it was necessary for them to make the move.
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Crossville Chronicle, Thursday October 25, 1928
--WILLIAM T HARRIS FOUND DEAD NEAR ROAD CROSSING: Former city marshal killed in Chattanooga
while acting as a traffic officer.
Thursday morning (Thursday, October 18, 1928) of last week
at 2:10 o'clock, William T. Harris, age 59, father of Mrs. Ben H. West, was
found dead near a railroad crossing in Chattanooga, where he was acting as
traffic officer. He had been acting as
traffic officer for 14 years and indications are that he was killed by a passenger
train that left the Union Station at 2:00 a.m., and he cleared it, but from the
mangled condition of his body and the fact when struck the force of the blow
threw his watch and gun from his pocket, and the further fact that his watch
was stopped at 2:10 and is so badly damaged that it has run none since, leads to the conclusion
that by some means the passenger train, a freight train, reached the crossing
and as no clearance signal was given, the train stopped and the train men found
the body. Both legs were broken at the
ankles, the skull was fractured from near the left eye, while the body showed
other bruises.---The remains were interred
Friday. He leaves a wife and 10
children, 7 daughters and 3 sons, all of whom were present at the funeral,
except two sons who live in the west and could not get there in time. ---Some
12 or more years ago, the deceased acted as city marshal in Crossville. He moved his family from here to Chattanooga,
where they have resided since. He
visited his daughter, Mrs. West, here about three weeks before the accident.
ELSIE ALICE COOP-HARRIS (daughter
of Milburn)
Burkesville KY Newspaper, Date unknown - Left to right
Arthur Coop, Mrs. Elsie Harris, Mr. Wint Coop. Mrs.
Harris and Mr. Coop are visiting their sisters Mrs. R.H. Shearls
and Mrs Lora Long and brother Wint
Coop. Mrs. Harris left here 42
years ago and Mr. Coop 82 years ago,
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MRS ELSA HARRIS, 85, died Wednesday night in a Knoxville, TN hospital. She is survived by six daughters; Mrs Ben West of Crossville, TN; Mrs. G. C. McCary, Columbia SC; Mrs H. Faye Turner; Mrs Allen Smith of Chattanooga; Miss Lucille Harris, Los Angeles CA; Mrs m J Garmany, Atlana GA; one son H C Harris, Waukegan, IL; tow brothers, Winton Coop Burksville KY; Arthur Coop, Indianapolis, IN, one sister Mis Dick Sherrill, Burksville, KY; One Neice, Mrs. Fletcher Sims, Chattanooga. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon from the graveside at Chattanooga memorial Park with Dr. Carl Giers officiating. The body is at the funeral home.
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Former Resident, Mrs. Harris, Dies Funeral services for Mrs. Elsa Coop Harris, age 85, widow of the late William Thomas Harris, were held at 3 P. M. Friday, February 14, at the graveside in Chattanooga Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Harris died Wednesday, Feb. 12 about 9 P. M, in a Knoxville Hospital, after several years of invalidism. Dr. Carl Giers of the Baptist Church was the officiating minister. The Harris family made their home here, several years ago prior to Mr. Harris’ passing in 1928; and Mrs. Harris had made her home here with her daughter, Mrs. Ben West for most the past ten years. Besides her daughter, Mrs. West, she is survived by five other daughters: Mrs. G. C. McCary, Columbia, S. C; Mrs. H. Fay Turner and Mrs. Allen Smith, of Chattanooga; Miss Lucille Harris, LosAngles, Calif.; Mrs. M. J. Garmany, Atlanta, GA.; three sons: H. C. Harris, Waukegan, 111.; Esco and Jeff Harris, of California; eighteen grandchildren; twenty-six great grandchildren; two brothers: Winston Coop Burksville, Ky.; Arthur Coop, Indianapolis, Ind.; and one sister, Mrs. Dick Sherrill, of Burksville, Ky.