Gloria Hope Matthews [Parents] was born ¹ on 20 Oct 1919. She died after 1969. Gloria married Claude G. Metzler on 2 Sep 1944 in Evanston, Illinois.

Thomas Harris [Parents] was born ^{1, 2} on 2 May 1797 in Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA. He died ³ on 26 Jan 1864 in Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana, USA. He was buried ^{4, 5} in Presbyterian Cemetery, Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana, USA. Thomas married Elizabeth McCarley on 14 Jan 1819 in Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA.

Thomas worked ⁶ as farmer in 1850 in Owen County, Indiana, USA.

Thomas was living with his Uncle and Aunt, Richard and Elizabeth (Overstreet) Jones, in Louisa Co, VA in 1818 before his marriage.  Appeared in 1818-1833 Jess. tax records.  Living in Washington Township, Owen Co IN in 1850. d 26 Jan 1864 Owen Co, IN.

Came to Monroe County, IN, from Kentucky in 1829. Married abt 1812. Children listed: James, William, Samuel B, Thomas, Oliver, Elizabeth, Rice. Died 26 Jan 1864, Ellettsville, IN, interred Pres Cem, Ellettsville. Tombstone "died 1-26-1864 age 66-8-24" implies birth as 2 May 1797.

Census 1860, Richland Twp, Monroe City, IN.  Living with J.M.Harris, Age 62, b. Virginia.

Marriage bond Jessamine Co, KY made by Thomas Harris and Moses McCarley. "Mr Thomas Harris and wife Elizabeth McCarley married this 14 day of January in the year of our lord 1819."

Elizabeth McCarley [Parents] was born ¹ on 9 Nov 1802 in Kentucky, USA. She died ² on 17 Oct 1868 in Owen County, Indiana, USA. She was buried ^{3, 4} in Presbyterian Cemetery, Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana, USA. Elizabeth married Thomas Harris on 14 Jan 1819 in Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA.

Elizabeth McCarley was living in Owen Co, IN in 1845 (from the will of Moses McCarley, her father).

LDS library, Salt Lake City (1994) there. Film 1,295,990, Batch 8,510,208, sheet 94, near the end of the film: McCarley, Elizabeth m. Harris, Thomas 14 Jan, 1819, Jessamine Co, KY. Bond made 11 Jan by Thomas Harris and Moses McCarley.  "Mr Thomas
Harris and wife Elizabeth McCarley married this 14 day of January in the year of our lord 1819."

Thomas fifth son of William and Jane Harris was born in 1797. At about the age of twenty one Thomas was married to Elizabeth McCarley daughter of Moses McCarley whose wife was a Boyd. In the year 1829 Thomas Harris and wife with their children James M., William J., Samuel B., Thomas Jefferson, and Oliver A., came to Monroe county Indiana. After a short residence at Clear Creek the family moved to Owen county settling in a dense forest camping until a cabin could be erected. With a small amount of money a few skillets and pots, sufficient bedding and clothing. the trusty flint lock. a Methodist hymn book. and a well worn Bible and courage without bounds the work of clearing a farm began. To add spice and life to the primitive home in due season a daughter Elizabeth and another son Rice C. were born. The second year of this pioneer home gave evidence of thrift and comfort. With a family of rugged boys a few acres had been cleared and in 1832 one hundred bushels of corn was shelled by mauls in a trough dug in a large poplar log and carried on horseback to Mt Tabor to be taken by flat boat to New Orleans by Hezekiah Wampler of Gosport the flat boat king of those days. For this one hundred bushels of corn the munificent sum of eight dollars and thirty three cents was received. During these years the head of this family did not handle to exceed fifty dollars actual cash in a year but with squirrels so plentiful and tame they had to be driven out of the corn field with clubs and wild turkeys and all kinds of game in abundance with the virgin soil so graciously responding in the production of vegetables the food problem was easily solved .The father was a shoe maker and harness maker by trade and the mother knew all about converting hemp into clothing with willing hands and loving hearts abundance of raiment was provided. As the boys grew and other families entered the neighborhood a road was shrubbed and built to Mt Tabor and the products of the enlarged farm were hauled to this market center in the typical scoop bed Kentucky wagon Guided by pious Christian parents whose lives were centered in the service of the Master and the simple comforts of the family at the very fountain of nature with only the simple needs to be supplied stripped of all the social deceits and allurements it was easy to develop a family of boys and girls with that sternness of character and faithfulness to duty required of the pioneer. These environs had their willing echo in this family of five boys and one girl who bore well their part in the development of our county They have all passed to their reward.  

James M Harris studied medicine and was the first practicing physician in Ellettsville He was trusted and well respected here for more than fifty years.

Rice C. Harris graduated in medicine at Ann Arbor Michigan and for many years was one of the leading physicians of Monroe county.[https://books.google.com/books?id=rVM0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA757&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1pszoVHQL0q1LxwNVQlLwNkxb8PA&ci=74%2C111%2C428%2C613&edge=0]

Zacheus Chambers [Parents] was born ¹ on 8 Dec 1798 in Burke County, North Carolina. He died ² on 12 Feb 1869 in Owen County, Indiana. He was buried ³ in Chambersville Cemetery, Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, USA. Zacheus married ⁴ Isabella Blaine on 8 Apr 1822 in Monroe County, Indiana.

Zacheus worked ⁵ as farmer in 1850 in Owen County, Indiana, USA.

Zacheus Chambers is believed married in Owen Co., IN. Birth, death: Cemetaries of Owen Co, IN pg 422. Killed by a falling tree in 1869. All siblings deceased in 1906. When town of Spencer laid out in 1820 took 2 lots. First child listed, name spelled Zaccheous; native of NC, immigrated to IN early, settled, ended days Washington Twp, Owen Co. Pg. 8 states that he died 1868.  Pg 9 incorrectly lists birth as 1868 in NC.

Isabella Blaine [Parents] was born ¹ on 28 Nov 1801 in Davis County, Kentucky. She died ¹ on 30 Sep 1874 in Washington Twp, Owen Co, Indiana, USA. She was buried ² in Chambersville Cemetery, Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, USA. Isabella married ³ Zacheus Chambers on 8 Apr 1822 in Monroe County, Indiana.

Isabella's name was BLAIR according to Owen County IN marriage records.

Joseph W Cron was born ¹ in Sep 1837 in Indiana, USA. He died ² on 1 Nov 1906 in Monroe County, Indiana. Joseph married ³ Mary Elizabeth Harris on 15 Mar 1866.

Mary Elizabeth Harris [Parents] was born ^{1, 2} in Jun 1847 in Indiana, USA. She died ³ on 31 Jan 1907 in Monroe County, Indiana. Mary married ⁴ Joseph W Cron on 15 Mar 1866.

William B Harris [Parents] was born ¹ on 6 Mar 1856 in Indiana, USA. He died ^{1, 2} on 9 Nov 1939 in Monroe County, Indiana, USA. He was buried ³ in Presbyterian Cemetery. William married ⁴ Allie P. Braxton on 9 Mar 1876.

William resided ⁵ in 1900/1920 in Richland Twp, Monroe County, Indiana, USA.

William B. Harris was born on March 6, 1856 and grew to be an owner of a chain of 135 country newspapers.

When Harris was 16 years old he became the editor and publisher of the Ellettsville Republican. The paper's name was later changed to the Ellettsville Farm.

He studied at Asbury College, now DePauw University.

Late in 1882 he was issuing the weekly folio Monroe County Citizen in Ellettsville. In June of 1886 he started the Harrodsburg Review. It too was printed at Ellettsville and then mailed to Harrodsburg. It became evident to Harris that printing papers with his own press in Ellettsville and then mailing them to subscribers would be much more profitable than trying to set up presses in each town.

Traveling from town to town, sometimes visiting several in one day, Harris exchanged railroad tickets for advertising space in his newspapers. His chain began growing and expanded from Indiana into Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio. The most he owned at one time was 135. Harris would not sell a town paper if the business was not profitable. By not selling, he was still able to return in a year or two and start again.

He filled his newspapers with ads and editorial matter rather than local news and features. Harris used a patent readyprint for his inside pages from either the Western, Chicago, or Indianapolis Newspapers Unions. In 1892, he supplied his chains with his own patent readyprint under the trade name of Hoosier Newspaper Union.

In 1905 Harris entered the magazine field by publishing the monthly Our Boys and Girls. He had an unusual circulation plan for the magazine. In order to gain as many subscriptions as possible he decided to give a Shetland pony each month to the boy or girl who sold the most subscriptions. The ponies were raised on his farm and after eight were given away, the magazine attained a circulation of 35,000. He then sold it to Colonel Hunter of Chicago, publisher of the Star Monthly.

In 1907 he sold his chain because he was growing tired of traveling and wanted to be at home with his children who needed his guidance and friendship.

Harris served as a Republican representative from Monroe County in the state legislature in 1924-25. He was also the president of the Ellettsville town board and was a member of the Ellettsville Methodist Church.

Harris died on November 9, 1939 after 67 years as an active publisher in the newspaper and magazine field.

W. B. HARRIS, editor-in-chief of the Monroe County Citizen, is the son of S. B. and Endemile (Chambers) Harris, natives respectively of Kentucky and Indiana. He was born March 6, 1856, in Ellettsville, Ind., where he passed his boyhood in going to school and working on a farm. In 1872, he entered the Ellettsville Republican office, as a type-setter, for eighteen months, and then became editor for one year. Soon after this, he went to Indianapolis, and assisted in the office of the Herald. In 1875, he returned to Ellettsville, managed the Sun, and afterward published the Owen County People, which he disposed of in 1881, and retired to a farm for a year, when he purchased the Ellettsville News, and changed the name to the Monroe County Citizen, a popular and efficient journal, of Republican shade in politics. March 9, 1876, he married Miss Allie, daughter of Hiram Branton, and born November 30, 1856. This union gave issue to four children-Carl B., Edmund B., Kate H. and Henry B. Mr. Harris is a member of the I. O. O. F., and Mrs. Harris of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Allie P. Braxton was born ¹ on 30 Nov 1856 in Indiana, USA. She died on 10 Oct 1948. She was buried in Presbyterian Cemetery, Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana, USA. Allie married ² William B Harris on 9 Mar 1876.

Allie resided ³ in 1920 in Richland Twp, Monroe County, Indiana, USA.

Boyd Cron [Parents] was born ¹ in Mar 1868 in Indiana, USA. Boyd married Winifred about 1900.

Joseph and Mary E in 1880 census had a son Boyd 13. Boyd is only surviving child per 1900 census.

Winifred was born ¹ in Oct 1872 in Illinois, USA. Winifred married Boyd Cron about 1900.

Peter Neil Jr. [Parents] was born ¹ in 1770/1775 in Ireland. He died ¹ on 10 Oct 1843 in Shelby County, Illinois, USA. Peter married ² Seleta McCubbin in 1808.

Other marriages:

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Sarburn, Pensy
Harmon, Ruth

Seleta McCubbin [Parents] was born ¹ in 1775 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died ² about 1815 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Seleta married ³ Peter Neil Jr. in 1808.

Other marriages:

Anderson, Tom

Per Sarah Lizzie Donnels story, "Just A Bit Of FamilyHistory.