Richard Norfleet Harris/Amanda Banks of Tuscaloosa Co., Ala.
 

Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography

RICHARD NORFLEET HARRIS SR., planter, was a native of North Carolina
and died in Tuscaloosa; son of Norfleet and Mary (Hunter) Harris, of
Scotland Neck, North Hampton County, N.C. the Harris family is of
English descent.  Richard Norfleeet Harris removed to Alabama about
1822 with his mother, then a widow for the second time, having
married a Mr. Boykin, after the death of her first husband.  They
settled on a plantation near Courland, Lawrence County, began raising
cotton, and became very successful as Mr. Boykin was a skillful
manager. Later he removed to Tuscaloosa. Married: Amanda Banks,
daughter of William Banks. Children:1.Cornelia, m. Hon.H.M.
Somerville, judge of the supreme court, Lawrence County; 2.Amanda, m.
Dr. John Little, a pysician of Tuscaloosa; 3. John James m. Margaret
Louisa Fitts; 4. William, planter; student at the University of
Alabama, 1851-53; private in Selden's Alabama battery, C.S.Army; d.
November 1865; 5. Richard Norfleet, Jr., planter; student at the
University of Alabama, 1860-62; drill officer of the 37th Alabama
infantry regiemnt, 1862; orderly sergeant, 1863-64; lieutenant, 1865,
C.S.Army; m. Sallie Melville Minge, of Faunsdale; 6. Norfleet, m.
Bettie Cooper Blocker. Last residence: Tuscaloosa.

Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana