Richard Harris, Madison Co., Alabama
 

Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography

RICHARD HARRIS, soldier of the American Revolution, aged 75, and a
resident of Madison County; private Massachusetts Militia; enrolled
on September 26, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to
date of publication of list, $200. --- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
vol. XIV, Sen. doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided
in Madison County, June 1, 1840. --- Census of Pensioners, 1841, p.
148.
          ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER GONE
"Died in Madison County, Ala., January 23d, 1853, Capt. Richard
Harris. The deceased wass born in Powhatan County, Va., on the 20th
November, 1758.  When but a youth, at the age of 17, he entered the
army, and with that veteran band of soldiers, fighting for liberty
and truth, devoted himself to his country's interests till the close
of the war. he was an eyewitness of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis
at Little York. After having shared with his countrymen the hardships
of war, he returned to his home and friends to enjoy that glorious
boon, liberty for which he had so earnestly contended.
"Soon after the war, he devoted himself to the service of God and the
good of his fellow men. He professed religion in Powhatan County,
Va., and soon after united himself with the M.E.Church, where he
remained, for more than half a century, a consistent, useful, and
much lived member.---Hospitable, kind, generous, you had only to look
upon his noble face to behold all those commanding and ennobling
virtues which adorn human nature. He removed from Virginia to Madison
County, Ala., in 1809, and resided near Blue Spring till the day of
his death.  We do not say he was without fault, but we do say that
few men have lived as long as he did with as few censurers and with a
few enemies. He closed his earthly warefare as he closed the
revolutionary war, in triumph and glory.  He has left many friends to
mourn his loss." Southern Advocate, Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 9, 1853.

Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana