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William
Harris was the son of Samuel
Harris and Rebecca Morrison. He was born October 5, 1760 in Rowan County, North
Carolina. He was married September 20, 1784 to Margaret Sloan in Rowan County,
North Carolina. She was born about 1763 in Rowan County, North Carolina and was
the daughter of Fergus Sloan and Ann or Elizabeth Robinson. They had 13
children. McGee Harris was the 10th child.
William Harris was a genuine
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian as were his ancestors for several generations. He
married Margaret Sloan who was also of Scotch-Irish descent. She was a lady of
great culture and education for that time. William was fond of adventure. He
seemed to be the personification of strength and vigor. He was six feet, three
inches tall, perfectly erect, a splendid athlete, of great moral and physical
courage, and loyal to his new republic.
With his restless nature William
determined to go where he had room, and as he crudely expressed it, "Where he
could not hear his neighbors call hogs." William took his wife from Rowan
County, North Carolina and moved possibly for a short time to Albermarie County,
Virginia, where his first two children might have been born. Later he passed
through the Cumberland Gap into the rich lands of Central Kentucky in Bourbon
County, where several of his children were born. Just before the turn of the
century he moved to Big Springs near Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee and settled.
It was in Wilson County, Tennessee, that his son McGee Harris, was born,
reared and married.
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