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Thomas Harrison (3), 1665-1/46, married Cynthia Elizabeth Short, and was a justice and burgess of Prince William County, 1741-1746. They had seven children.
Thomas Harrison (4), died 1774, married Ann Quarles. He must have been a man of substance because the record says he owned seventy-three negroes and forty-five booksl He and Ann Quarles had seven children.
Burr Harrison (5), 1738-1822, was our Revolutionary ancestor. He was one of the sons of Thomas (4). He served from Feb. 15, 1776 under Captain Richard Phillip Francis Lee, Third Virginia Regiment, and was transferred in December, 1777 to Captain Francis Murphy's company. Notes preserved by Mrs. May Bates indicate that the following information was furnished by Adjutant General F. O. Ainsworth, U. S. Army: "It is shown by record that one, Burr Harrison, served as corporal in Captain Richard Francis Lee's company and in Captain Francis Murphy's company, Third Virginia Regiment, co-manded at various times by Col. Thomas Marshall and Lieut. Col. William Hoth, in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted Feb. 15, 1776, and his name appears last on the muster roll June 4, 1778." Burr Harrison (5) had twelve children, the one through whom our line comes down being his daughter Sophia (6). It is said that he was a planter of wealth and influence, and that the descendants of his slaves are still living in Holmes County, Mississippi. He died at the home of his daughter, Sophia (6) in Chester District, South Carolina. The following newspaper clipping is also taken from notes preserved by Mrs. Bates: "Died: On the 18th of August, 1822, in Chester District, South Carolina, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, Burr Harrison, Esq. He was a native of Virginia, but had resided in this State for the last thirty-eight years of his life. He was a man possessed of a high sense of honor and integrity and was much respected xand esteemed by a numerous circle of friends and acquaintances. He served under Maj. General de La fayette in the Revolutionary Army. He was an affectionate husband,\ a tender parent and a humane master. He had twelve children,' eighty-four grand-childen and sixty-eight great grandchildren.
Sophia Harrison (6),\] 776-1 825, married Chistopher Thompson, and they had ten children, one of whom was a daughter, Rebecca (7), through whom our immediate line continues.
Rebecca Thompson, (7) 1818-1878, married Rev. Humphrey Williamson, one of the early Methodist ministers and so-called circuit riders in Mississippi, in 1836, and her eldest child was Mary
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Eliza (8) A?ho was one of ten brothers and sisters and who later became Mrs. William Henry Meek. Rebecca's other children were Emma, Robert Paine, George Edwin, Harriett, Alvin, Hartwell and three others. It is of interest at this point to note that Dorcas Harrison one of the daughters of Burr Harrison (5) married Hartwell Macon, and became known in the family later as "Aunt Macon", and that the town of Macon, Mississippi is said to have been named for her. She was thus the aunt of Rebecca Thompson, and it is recorded that Rebecca came to live with her in Mississippi as a girl and was reared by her.
Mary Eliza Williamson (8), 1837-1915, first married William Fatherree, who was killed in the Civil War at Vicksburg. They had the following children: Carrie (9), Mollie, (9), Emma, (9) and Melville (9). She married Dr. William Henry Meek in 1870. Dr. Meek had been an Army doctor during the Mexican War, and later practiced his profession and had farming interests at Pickens, Miss., from which point he and his wife and their family moved to Bay St. Louis, Miss. Dr. and Mrs. Meek had the following children: Lou (9), \Aay (9), Pearl (9), and Lillian (9).
Lou Meek (9), 1872-1951, married John Osoinach of Bay St. Louis, Miss, in 1889 and they had the following children: John A. (10), Henry Watlerson (10), Clarence Wyche (10), Cleo (10), Lucille(lO), and Ethel May (10).
May Ellen Meek (9), 1875-1950, married Harvey Bates.
Pearl Meek (9), 1878, married Louis Dietrich Lindau July 30, 1911.
Lillian Meek (9), 1883, married Marius Raynaud Jan. 29, 1903; some years after his death, married Patrick Edward Stringfield March 4, 1914.
John A. Osoinach (10), 1890, married Ruth Campbell of Petoskey, Mich. Jan. 18, 1913 and they had the following children: John Campbell (1 1), 191 7, and Harrison Kirkland (11), 1932.
John Campbell Osoinach (11), 1917, married Margaret Kirkpatrick of Memphis, Tenn. Nov.?1943, and they have the following children: John Kirkpatrick (12), 1947, and Margaret Ann (12), 1952.
Henry Watterson Osoinach (10), 1892, married Dora Busbee 1913, Married CeCelia Yaeger in April, 1921, and they had the following children: CeCelia Verner (11) 1922; Henry Watterson, Jr. M IV 1923: Grace Lou (1 11 1925:	Ethel Jane (11) 1927; Elizabeth
Marie (1 1) 1928; John Edwin (11) 1931. Married Lucille Snow Feb. 21, 1946.