Eighth Generation


9734. Peachy Priscilla "Priscilla" Harris was born on 7 September 1880 in Lyndhurst, Augusta Co., VA. Peachy died on 20 February 1964 at the age of 83 in Waynesboro, Independent City, VA and was buried at Pines Chapel Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Greenville, Augusta Co., VA.29364
Obituary, The Waynesboro News Virginian, Feb. 22, 1964

Mrs. Peachey Priscilla Harris, 83, of 239 Arch Ave. died at 5:40 p.m. yesterday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Harris. Mrs. Harris was a member of the Finley Memorial Presbyterian Church and was born Sept. 7, 1880 in Augusta County, the daughter of the late John and Mollie Coffey Harris. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marcellus S. Harris, in 1950. She is survived by four sons, James W. Harris of Waynesboro; Roy B. Harris of Burkeville, Thomas W. Harris and Robert L. Harris, both of Route 1, Greenville; five daughters, Mrs. Bertha Dull of Route 1, Staunton, Mrs. Lottie Walls of Providence Forge, Mrs. Edith Browne of Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Virginia Muir of Novinger, Mo., and Mrs. Agnes Fitzgerald of Stuarts Draft; and two brothers, George Harris of Lyndhurst and Edgar Harris of Route 1, Greenville; also a number of grand-children and great grand-children. The body will remain at the Etter Funeral Home until Noon Sunday when it will be placed in the Pines Chapel Presbyterian Church near Vesuvius where a funeral service will be held at 2 p.m., conducted by Dr. David R. Holt II, assisted by Dr, James Sprunt. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Guy Brooks, William Brooks, Moffett Black, William Black, Herbert Nuckols, and Willie Nuckols. Honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons.

Peachy Priscilla "Priscilla" Harris and Marcellus S. Harris were married circa 1899 in Virginia. They appeared in the census on 9 June 1900 in Greenville, Augusta Co., VA.29365 Marcellus S. Harris was born on 8 October 1878 in Virginia. Marcellus died on 9 October 1950 at the age of 72 in Augusta Co., VA and was buried at Pines Chapel Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Greenville, Augusta Co., VA.29366

Peachy Priscilla "Priscilla" Harris and Marcellus S. Harris had the following children:

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Roy Baxter Harris.

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Virginia M. Harris.
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