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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Robert Henry Harrison Dr. Note Born: 13 Nov 1826 at Gainsville, , , Georgia Married: 6 May 1856 at Shelby County, , , Tennessee Died: 17 Oct 1905 at Columbus, , Colorado County, Texas Father: Jesse Harrison Dr. Mother: Margaret Ann Hulsey
WIFE
Name: Martha Virginia Towell Born: 2 Dec 1835 at White County Illinois Or Tipton County, , , Tennessee Died: 28 Mar 1924 at Houston, , , Texas Father: Isaac Towell Mother: Mary Whitworth
CHILDREN
Name: Martha Virginia Harrison Born: 9 Oct 1857 Died: 1948 at Sugarland, , , Texas Husband: Edward Julius Sandemeyer
Name: Robert Henry Harrison Dr. Born: 8 Mar 1861 at Shelby County, , , Tennessee Died: 14 Jul 1934 at Houston, , , Texas Wife: Hattie Munroe
Name: Helen Shannon Harrison Born: 28 Feb 1866 at Atoka, , Shelby County, Tennessee Died: 19 Feb 1942 at Uvalde, , , Texas Husband: Thomas Rodger Knox Dr.
Name: Marie Harrison Born: 1869 at Mississippi, , , Died: 21 Mar 1946 at Houston, , , Texas Husband: Thomas J. Windham Reverend
Name: John Whitforth Harrison Dr. Born: Abt 1877 Died:
NOTES
1). Robert was born 13 Nov 1826 in Gainesville, Georgia. H e married Martha Virginia TOWELL May 5, 1855 in Covington , Tipton Co., Tennessee. Dr. Robert Henry Harrison first at tended schools at Clarksville, Tennessee and the John Tyle r High School, in KY but near Clarksville, and bore off th e honors of his class at the age of seventeen. He at once b egan the study of medicine under his father, Dr. Jesse Harr ison, at his hospital in Nashville. Robert entered the Phys io Medical College of Cincinnati of Ohio, graduated and ent ered the Medical Department of the University of Alabama a t Mobile and graduated. He then finished the medical cours e at the Medical College in Cincinnati at the age of twenty . He began the active practice of medicine with his fathe r Dr. Jesse Harrison at Troy and Clarksville from 1846 to 1 850, then went to Memphis, where, in addition to his practi ce, he became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutica . After three years he went to Holly Springs, Mississippi a nd after a time bought property in Shelby Co., Tennessee, r etired from practice, opened a mill and engaged in the merc antile business. From Louise Carter Harper, Union City, Tennessee Afte r Jesse Harrison Sr. died his wife, his children and his si ster went to live with Robert Henry Harrison II near Coving ton, Tenn. He had a country store and the community was kno wn as Harrison s Store. At the outset of the Civil War Robt. H. Harrison starte d a heavy artillery unit at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee which h e commanded, and which immediately after the battle of Shil oh was attached to the Ninth Tennessee Infantry, and becam e the color bearing company or Company E. He was Captain o f his company and at the battle of Perryville, his compan y went in forty men strong and in fifteen minutes only fift een men were left, and of his regiment Dr. Harrison was th e ranking officer, all others having beenkilled. He was re commended for promotion and was in the battle of Murfreesbo ro, and was then ordered by Gen. J. E. Johnston to report t o Gen. Pemberton at Vicksburg, and took command of a compan y of conscripts which he was to recruit. He was taken priso ner in Shelby Co. while he was on this duty, and was firs t taken to Columbus, Kentucky, thence to Alton, Illinois an d finally to Johnson s Island, Ohio. His niece, Mary Towel l Carothers, told this story about her Grandfather and Robe rt Henry Harrison and the Civil War.

						

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