Z 1804.000
JOHNSON-HARRIS FAMILY PAPERS
1827; 1829 - 1851; 1864 - 1884; 1901
Biography:
Andrew Johnson was born on October 31, 1793, and was apparently settled
in Tennessee by the 1820s. He was living in Lawrence County, Mississippi,
by 1835. Johnson's first wife, Fanny Norman Johnson, died in 1841, and
he married Elizabeth Davis on July 21, 1842. A son, Andrew Henry Johnson,
was born of this second marriage on January 20, 1845. Andrew Johnson, Sr.,
died in 1849.
Andrew Henry Johnson, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Davis Johnson,
married Sivilia Ann Harris on December 26, 1866. Harris was from Rockport,
Copiah County. She had at least two brothers, Allen J. and
Benjamin T. Harris, who served in the Sixth Mississippi Infantry, Company
G. Benjamin T. Harris died on December 1, 1864, from wounds received the
previous day in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
Scope and Content:
The collection contains correspondence and land, slave, tax, and genealogical
records of the Johnson and Harris families of Copiah and Lawrence counties
in Mississippi. The correspondence includes Civil War letters written by
Benjamin T. Harris to his sister, Sivilia Ann Harris, of Rockport, Copiah
County. In the letters Harris revealed his thoughts on the
war and why he was fighting. He also described the movement of his company,
the Sixth Mississippi Infantry, Company G, and asked for news from home.
The letters begin in the early part of 1864 while Harris's company was
in east-central Mississippi. They trace its movement through Alabama, Georgia,
and Tennessee, where Allen J. Harris wrote of the death of his brother,
Benjamin T. Harris, on December 1, 1864, following the Battle of Franklin
on November 30, 1864.
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FOLDER 1—Johnson Family Land Records. 12 items. 1840, 1868, 1873, 1882–1886
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FOLDER 2—Andrew and Elizabeth Johnson Slave Receipts. 9 items. 1829–1851
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FOLDER 3—Andrew and Elizabeth Johnson Tax Receipts. 20 items. 1851–1864
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FOLDER 4—Harris Family Civil War Letters. 20 items. 1864. (Letters from
Ben Harris to Ann Harris and father, dated 1/13/1864–12/10/1864)
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FOLDER 5—Harris Family Genealogical Information, Arms Permit, Receipt
for Iron Purchase. 4 items. 1827, 1865, 1901, n.d.
