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Thumbnail Word-Sketch: C.S. Harris, 1861-1935 By JIM Charles Snow "C.S." Harris, born to A.W. and Frances Harris, made his advent near Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia on the last day of December 1861. C.S. came to Adair County, Ky. in the 1880s, where he met Margaret Scott "Maggie" Murrell; they were married in the late summer of 1888, and the couple owned and farmed property just past Russell's Creek, "one mile east of Columbia" on the Stanford Road. For a few years in the 1890s, he and Mr. W.F. Jeffries partnered in the Columbia firm that later became known as Jeffries & Sons Hardware. However, Mr. Harris is best remembered in Adair County as the founder and 20-year editor of the Adair County News, from its first issue in November 1897 until he sold the operation to Barksdale & Daisy Hamlett in the fall of 1917. Not quite a year and a half later, he, Maggie, and several of the children moved to near West Point, Mississippi, some 160 miles south-southeast of Memphis and not far removed from the Alabama state line. There, he continued farming for the remaining sixteen years of his life. During that time, his loquacious letters occasionally graced the pages of the Adair County newspaper, always with a good word for his old home and friends of so many years. Said the Adair County News of him in a lengthy obituary published in the July 31, 1935 edition, "Mr. Harris was one of the most progressive and public-spirited men in this community. He was not only a successful farmer, but took an active part in the civic and political affairs of Columbia and Adair County. During the years that he lived in Columbia there was no progressive movement with which the name of C.H. Harris was not identified."In addition, The News commented that he was a Mason, a deacon in the Columbia Baptist Church, and "a Democrat of the old school." Mr. Harris was campaigning for re-election at the time of his death on July 30, 1935. An article in the Biloxi Daily Herald stated, in part, Candidate Seeking Re-Election Dies On Speakers PlatformAccording to the Adair County News, his remains were entrained on the afternoon of July 31 with arrival in Columbia on Thursday, August 1st, the funeral to be held at the Baptist Church there on Friday. As noted above, he and Maggie reared 10 children, all living at the time of Charles' passing:
At the time of C.S.'s passing, Margaret was somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean, homeward bound from a trip abroad. He and his beloved Maggie were reunited in eternity in January 1966 when she passed away at the home of their daughter, Elizabeth Blakeman, in Middlesboro, Ky., a few months past her 95th birthday. This story was posted on 2024-03-23 09:26:54
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Thanksgiving activities 1938 Haulin' the mail (1858 style) Some (mostly) front page advertising, mid-October, 1928 Massie and Montgomery sign $10 bill in local collection Columbia and Adair Co.: buzzing and booming, September 1902 Rays of sunshine in the shadows of the Great Depression 100 Years Ago: Goings-on in early September 1923 News, deals, and help wanted, mid-August 1973 Nu-Art Studio, August 1943 A History of Mr. F.H. Durham and the Durham Grocery Co. View even more articles in topic Jim: History |
 
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