Edward Franklin Harris

I chose Edward because of my brother, Ted Heath, and my mother's father, Theodore Harris. Ted first started researching the family about 2010 and, of course, started with his immediate family.  He found our mother on the 1920 and 1930 census in Texas with her parents and brothers.  Brothers?  She only had one brother, Ted Guinn Harris.  So....who was Edd Harris, age 21 and born in South Carolina?  My mother passed away in 2005 and there was no one else to ask.  Hmmmmmm?

My brother, being male and having y-DNA, got involved in tracing our father's line, Heath, as far back as he can.  He did work on the Harris side but basically names and dates of the primary ancestors.  Then here comes me and I realize how much fun this stuff is.  Ted points out the 1930 census to me and we decide that my grandfather, Theodore, couldn't be bothered with census takers and answered questions with the least resistance.  Edd? Son! Why not?  Since Ted was involved on the Heath side, I decided to concentrate my first efforts on the Harris side.  It took me months to work my way through but I finally found about Edd Harris.  He is my first cousin, once removed.

Edward Franklin Harris was born about 1908 in South Carolina, USA as the first child of Frederick Harris and Agnes M Taylor. He had three siblings, namely: Mary Brennan, Nancy C, and W Frederick. When he was 26, he married Dorothy May Kinnebrew, daughter of Thomas C Kinnebrew and Ethel S (maiden name unknown), on 02 Nov 1934 in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA.  He died sometime after 1955 but whether it was in Texas or Oklahoma I'm not sure.

Edward Franklin Harris lived in Fort Mill, York, South Carolina, USA on 18 Apr 1910, he was 2. His father is the manager of a hotel on Confederate Street in Fort Mill, SC; and his mother, Agnes, and baby sister, Mary . Sadly, his father dies 5 years later in 1915 of tuberculosis.

He lived in Fort Mill, York, South Carolina, USA on 07 Jan 1920, he was 11. Around 1918, his mother must have decided that she could not keep her children with her while providing an income.  She heads to Charlotte NC and gets a job as a clerk at Belk Bros and is living in rooms at the YWCA.  Her children are living with her in-laws, William Franklin Harris and Dixie Lillian Potts.

He lived in Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, USA on 11 Apr 1930 and he was 21. It is here that he is living with his uncle (my grandfather), Theodore Harris and family.  They have never appeared in the same document or household until this one and never do again.  I do not, nor does my brother, remember any talk of a brother-nephew-cousin Edd (though he was still alive when my brother was born).  My grandfather was an oilman and perhaps that is what enticed Edd to head west and leave his family in SC.

According to the 1940 census, he lived in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas in 1935 with his new wife, Dorothy May. In 1936, his daughter Charlotte Brennan was born and in 1937 his son, Edward Franklin, Jr was born.  Again, the 1940 census shows he was now 31 and lived in Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma, USA on 01 Apr 1940.
Last time I find him is in a city directory and it shows he lived in Abilene, Texas, USA in 1955.

Edward Franklin Harris and Dorothy May Kinnebrew had the following children:

Charlotte Brennan Harris was born on 02 Feb 1936 in Rusk County, Texas, USA.
     She died on 08 Mar 1974 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA.
     She married James Bradley about 1955 in Texas, USA.
     It is unknown if they had any children

Edward Franklin Harris Jr was born on 01 Dec 1937 in Rusk County, Texas, USA.
     He died on 18 Dec 2008 in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas.
     He married Elma J Harris on 07 Jun 1958.
     He married Sharon K Berryhill on 26 Apr 1990 in Lee County, Texas, USA.
     He married Kerry R Hart on 01 Oct 1994 in Dallas County, Texas, USA.
     He had no children according to the divorce papers.