13.14.5.1 Cora Minerva Harrison was born on 5 May 1883 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan and died on 12 May 1977 in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California. She married married Frank Louis Moore in Chicago, they later moved to Alhambra, California. Frank was born in about 1876 in New York. After his mother died his father sent him to Chicago to learn a trade. Frank was a natural in trucking design and helped to build the first dump truck in the US. Frank later worked as a salesman for GMC Trucks. Cora attended the University of Michigan, and met Frank while on a trip with friends to Chicago. Frank died on 9 October 1961, he and Cora are both buried in Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier, California. They had two children:
13.14.5.1.1 Marion Nellie Moore, was born in 1908. She died in an automobile accident in Las Vegas on 30 June 1960 outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. She had a son who died young and a daughter.13.14.5.2 Mack Russell Harrison was born on 12 September 1894 in Michigan. He married Ethel Lucille "Lucy" Reed, she was born on 23 January 1897 in Michigan and died on 3 March 1984. Her parents were Eva May Crose and Charles M. Reed. Mack Harrison is buried in Rose Hills Cemetery with his son, Harold. Mack R. Harrison's son Ken, stated that his father attended Military School as a young man and worked at his father, James Baker Harrison's grocery store and then later also worked at the lumberyard in Schoolcraft. When Ken was about 3 years old in 1924, the Harrison family moved west, first to Oklahoma, and later to California near Mack's sister Cora (Harrison) Moore. Mack Harrison started working at the Standard Oil filing station until Frank Moore, his brother-in-law convinced him to buy a GMC, solid tire, 1927 Dump Truck (it had side curtains, no windows). That truck would begin the Harrison and later Harrison-Nichols Trucking Company. Listed below is the information shown on Mack Harrison's death certificate:
13.14.5.1.2 Robert Moore, was born 1918. He worked in the trucking business, married and had three children.
Mack Russell Harrison, photo contributed by Judy and David Mack.
Mack appears to be about 9 years old, the photo was taken in Schoolcraft.
Mack Russell Harrison, photo contributed by Tamara Lynn (Sheetz) Maellaro
"Mack Russell HarrisonIn the 1920 Federal Census of Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, roll T625_776, page 5B, listed the Mack R. Harrison household as:
DOD: 03/12/1980
Hospital: Saddleback Community Hospital, 24451 Via Estrada; Laguna Hills,
Orange Co., CA
male
white married
DOB: 09/12.1894 in Michigan
Age: 85
Occ: Corporate President at Harrison-Nichols Inc.
Nature of business: transportation
Father: James B. Harrison, born in Michigan
Mother: Nellie H. Mack, born in Michigan
Maiden name of surviving spouse: Ethel L. Reed
Burial or cremation: Burial
Date of interment: 03/15/1980
Place of interment: Rose Hills Memorial Park, 3900 S. Workman Mill Rd.,
Whittier, CA
Funeral Director: Rose Hills Mortuary, Whittier, CA"Submitted by Cathy Gowdy.
#148 150 Harrison, Mack R. head 24 salesman lumberyardA third son Ken Harrison, was born to Mack and Lucy Harrison in 1921. Mack R. and Ethel L. Harrison's three sons were:
Ethel L. wife 21 none
Harold L. son 2 5/12
Russell J. son 2/12
Photo titled "Ethel Reed Harrison's boys", contributed by Cathy Gowdy.
13.14.5.2.1 Harold Lorraine "Brick" Harrison, born on 24 July 1917 and died on 20 March 1997 in San Diego, California.
13.14.5.2.2 Russell J. Harrison, born in about October or November 1919 (census data was taken on 14 January 1920). He is listed in the Social Security death index as Russell J. Harrison, born 6 October 1919, died 20 February 2002 in Dyer, Esmeralda County, Nevada.
13.14.5.2.3 Ken Harrison, was born in 1921, worked in the trucking business, he married and had two children.
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