Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of Charles Tillman Harris
    (29 Jan 1846-5 Apr 1928, buried Evergreen Alameda Cemetery in El Paso, TX.)
   
A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, 
  Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893; pages 737

    C. T. Harris, manager of M. T. Jones Lumber Company, of Mexia, and a leading
business man of the town, is a son of Simeon Sherrod and Sarah Harris. The father,
a native of North Carolina, was taken by his parents to Alabama in 1835, where 
he was reared to years of maturity. In 1854 he removed to Arkansas, but in 1864
fled to Freestone county, Texas, where he died in 1868, aged fifty-five years.
He was a farmer by occupation, was a plain, unpretenious man, and a good citizen.
Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was also Harris, was born in Alabama, was
married in that State, accompanied her husband to Arkansas, thence to Texas, and
died in Freestone county in 1868. The parents had a family of six children, namely:
C. T., our subject; Simeon Sherrod, manager of the M. T. Jones Lumber Company, 
at Coleman, Texas; Fannie, wife of J. A. Womack, of Freestone county; Penelope,
now Mrs. Bondy; and the remainder died when young.
    C. T. Harris was born in Pickens county, Alabama, January 29, 1846, and was
about nine years of age when his parents removed to Arkansas, his boyhood days
having been spent at Ashley county, that State. January 20, 1862, he enlisted
in the Confederate army, in Company G, First Mississippi Regiment, and served
in Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana. He participated in the engagements of 
Pleasant Grove, December 7, 1862; Helena, July 4, 1863; Little Rock, September 7,
1864; Jenkins' Ferry, Pleasant Hill, and many others. He was twice wounded, at
Prairie Grove and Little Rock, and at the latter place was shot in the thigh.
He entered as a private, and at the surrender at Marshall, Texas, had charge of
a brigade. After the close of hostilities, Mr. Harris joined his father in 
Limestone county, and was engaged in farming until 1870. In that year he removed
to Mexia, and for several years was engaged as bookkeeper for many of the leading
firms. In January, 18981, he took charge of the  M. T. Jones Lumber Company, which
is one of the leading lumber concerns in central and eastern Texas, and has 
offices at all the principal towns. The volume of business done in the Mexia office
is very large.
    Mr. Harris was married in Freestone County, in September 1869 [sic, 1870] to 
Miss Cornelia J. Womack, a native of Alabama but reared in Freestone county, and 
a daughter of Judge Noland Womack, an early settler of that county. Mr. Harris 
is a member of the Legion of Honor, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.