tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429281538273738402023-11-16T03:14:38.659-08:00Harless HomepageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-84679100534671100022016-02-15T14:46:00.000-08:002016-02-15T14:46:57.516-08:00How many clues have you overlooked?I think we all know how important it is to take note of all the information on a document that concerns our ancestors, but who hasn't quickly scribbled down the important parts and then forgotten to go back and do things properly? Today I finally got back to one and I'm kicking myself!
Here's what I knew:
Martha Harless was born in Tennessee some time in October 1860 to William Harless and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-72001259489343208642015-10-14T12:36:00.000-07:002015-10-14T12:36:07.318-07:00Last Will and Testament of John Harliss of Hardy County, 1829I John Harliss of Hardy County and State of Virginia do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say 1st it is my will and desire that all my debts and funeral expences be first paid. 2nd I give and bequeath unto my two son in laws Samuel May and Michail Handgardner the tract of land they now live on to be equilly divided between the two be it further Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-35182807442439099972014-08-09T14:17:00.000-07:002014-08-09T14:17:06.473-07:00Lloyd Charles Harless 1921-1944I look through a lot of records, some are quite boring if I'm perfectly honest, but most are interesting or informative and once in a while one makes me smile. Today I smiled. It wasn't a happy subject. I was searching through military headstone applications on Ancestry.com, which right away tells you the subject matter is pretty gloomy.
The record that brought a smile to my face was that for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-21951703075311043852014-08-06T13:02:00.000-07:002014-08-06T13:02:28.002-07:00Harless's StoreThe Tennessee Valley Authority, Family Removal and Population Readjustment Case Files, 1934-1953 on Ancestry.com make for emotional reading - all of those people, families, house, farms and communities relocated. So many people had lived in the same place for their whole life, relocation was going to be hard.
I'm sure the workers meant well, but it is heartbreaking to read the descriptions - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-26844455551644725302014-06-29T13:11:00.000-07:002014-06-29T13:11:32.302-07:00Heirs of Joel Tillman Harless, Madison County, AlabamaOn 8 September 1847, Joel Tillman Harless, along with his wife, Sarah, sold 80 acres of land in two parcels to Benjamin R. Harris and his wife, Caroline. Unfortunately for Benjamin, the deed was written incorrectly and he needed to have it corrected. I do not know when he first noticed the error, but by the time he got around to getting it put right, Joel T. Harless had died. Benjamin's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-86241070345170155192014-06-04T13:23:00.001-07:002014-06-04T13:23:34.247-07:00Live By The Sword... or gunThe newspaper headline was tantalizing - "Twists of Fate. Man Slew Ex-husband First Wife; Slain Himself" and the article didn't disappoint, but it left me confused.
Birmingham, Ala. Jan. 21. (UP) -The first time Charlie C. Graham, 45, married a divorcee, he killed her former husband.He went to prison on a life sentence, but was paroled and married another divorcee.Friday night the second Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-87121421803433732832014-05-25T11:22:00.001-07:002014-05-25T11:22:12.623-07:00Emiline Niday Re-Visited!Genealogy is only as good as the next record you find! I was reminded of this all too clearly today when Pamela McCunn kindly shared a copy of the death record for Sarah Nida. Although there were several Sarah Nida's, this record clearly stated that this Sarah was the daughter of Ferdinand and F. Harless.
Sarah Nida died 20 Apil 1859 in Roane District, Roane County, West Virginia. Cause of deathUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-71754016018821423132014-01-02T15:08:00.001-08:002014-05-25T08:03:39.502-07:00Emiline Niday Wrap UpA few days ago I was questioning the identity of the Emiline Niday who intended to marry Greenberry Stump in Giles County, Virginia in 1847. The marriage bond named her father as John Nida and I believed that to be the John Nida who married Sarah Harless. Could I prove that, I asked. The answer is no, I can't. Does this mean I believe the marriage records were wrong and that she was the daughter Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-7760585062825463712013-12-29T10:25:00.000-08:002014-05-25T08:03:24.338-07:00Stumped! Who Was Emiline Niday?Our first introduction to Emiline Niday is when she planned to marry Greenberry Percy Stump. In Therese A. Fisher, compiler, Marriages in the New River Valley (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991), page 229 is the entry: "STUMP, Green B. & Nidah, Emaline (d/o John Niday); 18 Jun 1847 (GB)" Spelling inconsistencies aside, this tells us that a marriage bond was taken out for the marriage of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-82794206362835538172013-12-21T15:42:00.002-08:002013-12-21T15:42:31.047-08:00Got My Favourite Database Back Online Today.I absolutely love "On This Day in Harless History." I know that sounds a bit vane considering I created it, but although I am proud of it, that isn't really what I mean. I developed this database as a fun thing so people could see who they shared a birthday with. I thought it would be a good way to introduce children to their heritage and genealogy - on their birthday go to the Harless Homepage Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-36237227823742477682013-12-18T18:52:00.000-08:002013-12-18T18:52:14.745-08:00Webpage OverhaulI spent today giving the Harless Homepage a new look - it was long overdue but it is one of those things that aren't really urgent enough to make it to the top of the to-do list. One thing that was much higher up that list was getting some of the databases back online. These were incompatible with the (new a few years ago) server and I knew I needed to write a new script and make new databases - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-38610485551975881522013-10-29T17:51:00.001-07:002013-10-29T17:54:41.951-07:00Harless Family Tree UpdatedYesterday I wrote about the big corrections I had to make to the family of Anthony Harless Sr. I worked on it most of yesterday and today I have uploaded the latest version of the family tree. There are now 71,704 people. Lots of the new people are in Anthony's line, but also lots of new people and details from Indiana.
http://harless-homepage.com/tree/index.htmUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-6146798352424132622013-10-28T07:41:00.000-07:002013-10-28T07:41:31.699-07:00Correcting Errors - an ongoing processI have always tried to be quite clear that I make mistakes and implore people to point them out to me. My Harless database is quite large and contains over 70,000 people. I work on parts of it at a time - and here is something I don't think I have ever mentioned before, but if you want me to add more to your branch the best way to get that done is send me an update. Every time I receive updates Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-52699666349230644582013-10-12T11:59:00.000-07:002013-10-12T11:59:02.704-07:00Sporting Saturday - Taught Notre Dame How to Play
William Warren Harless
University of Michigan
William Warren Harless was a natural athlete and handsome with it. Born on 9 March 1867 in Chigago, Illinois to Thomas Henry and Barbara Ann King Harless, he was the youngest of 8 children (2 older half-siblings had died as children almost 20 years before William was born). William Warren was only 3 years old when his father died, but his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-73482564512007857342013-10-10T06:59:00.000-07:002013-10-10T06:59:57.624-07:00Thriller Thursday - Stabbing Affair In Evanston Leads to Operation
Stabbing Affair In Evanston Leads to Operation
To escape from under the shadows of the gallows through a surgical operation performed upon another man, was the peculiar, if not harrowing, experience of Jack Harless, an Evanston, Wyo., railway clerk, last Sunday. The man who underwent the operation is J. R. Schillerman, telegraph operator, who is now confined in the Dee hospital with a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-23291365923112733352013-10-09T11:08:00.001-07:002013-10-09T11:08:32.174-07:00Harless Family Tree UpdatedI have just uploaded a new Harless family tree update. Over 450 new people have been added and a few duplicate entries were removed. Hundreds of records have been updated or corrected. In all there are now 71,354 people on 1,789 pages in the online tree. Most of the new entries are from the Ohio Marriage records, but I was surprised to see people from Indiana, Alabama, Michigan, Kentucky and WestUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-47269510190205175742013-10-07T12:56:00.000-07:002013-10-07T12:59:05.729-07:00Military Monday - Killed at Camp PerryCharles Horneff [sic], Jr., of Wadsworth, a private in Company G, Eight
Regiment, Ohio National Guard, was struck in the abdomen by a bullet
from a rifle accidentally fired by an unknown member of Company F,
Eighth Regiment, of Akron, at Camp Perry last Friday evening and
almost instantly killed.
Later it was learned that the shot was from a rifle in the hands
of Okey Harless who had borrowed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-47239456191255935962013-09-30T11:28:00.000-07:002013-09-30T11:29:16.547-07:00Military Monday - Cpl. Fred Harless
Cpl. Fred Harless Cited For Bravery
Seng Creek, March 14 - Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harless, of Seng Creek, have just received word that their son, Cpl. Fred Vernor Harless, recorder for Battery C., 30th F.A. Battalion, displayed unusual bravery and quick thinking during the recent exercise Leap Year in Erlangen, Germany.
Cpl. Harless, who is in the U. S. Army in Germany, was near a combat-loadedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-5778478010032444932013-09-27T06:43:00.000-07:002013-09-27T06:52:25.929-07:00Friends of Friends Friday - Henry Harless Estate, 1857
"Alabama, Estate Files, 1830-1976," digital images, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 27 September 2013), image copy, Sale of Negroes, dated 13 January 1857, Greene County Estate Files, Henry Harless #1316
An Account of Sales of negro Slaves of the Estate of Henry
Harless, deceased, sold by attorney R. Davis the administratorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-18299270567633827792013-09-25T10:43:00.001-07:002013-09-25T10:52:36.643-07:00Wedding Wednesday - Marie Harless and Norman Brogan
The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV, 27 September 1940.
Almost 73 years ago, Marie Harless, the 17 year old daughter of Belva Lockwood Brown and Lightburn Bernie Harless, married Norman B. Brogan in Russell, Greenup County, Kentucky. I have often wondered if the couple chose to marry in Kentucky because Marie was under age to marry in West Virginia without parental consent.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242928153827373840.post-88014017336789011942013-09-23T14:35:00.000-07:002013-09-23T14:46:51.592-07:00Amanuensis Monday - J. B. Harless' Will 1914
Will of James Burwell Harless
"West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971," digital images, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 September 2013), image copy, will of J. B. Harless, dated 24 February 1914, Kanawha County Wills, Vol. 7, p. 285.
State of West Virginia, County of Kanawha and town of Marmet.
I, J. B. Harless, with a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1