Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 415

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding McKelva Harris
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 415
Item Description: 
Harris, McKelva - Biographical information for Mrs. McKelvia Jane K. [or J.] McCuly Norris, Harris (aka "Ma Harris"); Charles Harris (son); "'Ma' Harris, Pioneer", interviewed by Mrs. Mayme L. Gantz for Stories of Pioneer Life; George M. Harris (son); "'Ma' Harris Is No More", Laramie Republican Boomerang, Feb. 16, 1914
Creator: 
Mrs. Maude B. Ingham
Location: 
Laramie (Wyo.)
Date: 
1939 February 23
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Memphis (Tenn.) b: Apr. 14, 1843
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Albany Co.
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homemaker--Wyoming
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Van Buren (Ark.)
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Pythian Sisters
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Womens Relief Corps [of Custer Corps]--Wyoming
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Episcopalian
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Harris, John W. (2d husband)
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Norris, Jesse G. (1st husband)
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plantation owners (Tenn.)
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Rolla (Mo.)
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born: Apr. 14, 1843, near Memphis (Tenn.)
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Grant, U. S. (General)
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Council Bluffs (Iowa)
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Harris, Ma
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Hermion Temple lodge
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Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
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Norris, Jesse (1st husband, born: ? - married: ? - died: Jul. 4, 1863 - buried: ?)
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Laramie (Wyo.) 1870
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children: John, Mary, Charles and George
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Harris, John Wesley (2nd husband, born: Jun. 17, 1840 - married: May 3, 1864 - died: Apr. 20 [or 28], 1897 - buried: Greenhill Cemetery at Laramie, Wyo.)
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children: Walter
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died: Feb. 16, 1914 (age: 70)
Notes: 
buried: Greenhill Cemetery (Plot: Row K, Lot 77, Space 5 - Memorial ID: 77833853) at Laramie (Albany Co., Wyo.)
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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