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Joseph Pickens “Jodie” Harris

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Joseph Pickens “Jodie” Harris Veteran

Birth
Townville, Anderson County, South Carolina, USA
Death
6 May 1960 (aged 77)
Big Spring, Howard County, Texas, USA
Burial
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 31.7739194, Longitude: -106.4436806
Plot
Section X - Harris Family Plot
Memorial ID
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In 1900, Joseph, his parents and siblings are located in Cass Co, TX, where his father was working as a dentist: Joseph P Harris 59 Mary S Harris 49 Mary C Harris 25 Annie W Harris 21 Ruth M Harris 19 Joseph P Harris 17 M Reese Harris 15 Floride K Harris 12 E Bissell Harris 10 John A Harris 7 Rebecca C Harris 4 and Laura Smith 25. His 3 older sisters were school teachers.
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1910 Census in Lavaca County, TX, he was listed as 26 yrs old, a lodger and a drug store salesman.
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1920 Census he was listed at home in Mineral Wells, TX with widowed mother and siblings: Mary S Harris 68 Annie W Harris 41 Ruth Harris 39 Jodie Harris 37 Floride Harris 32 Jack A Harris 27 Callie Harris 24. He was a manager at Goss & Oil Company.
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1930 he and wife were still in Mineral Wells, TX and he was working as an oil operator in the oil fields: Jodie P Harris 46 & Ada L Harris 44
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1940 Census-Albany, Shackelford, TX: Jodie P Harris 56 & his partner Herbert E Roberts 72. He was still in the oil industry and listed as married.
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1942 WWII Draft Card shows him as Jodie Pickens Harris, born in Townville, SC, living in Mineral Wells, working in Shackelford, TX, and in petroleum production. He listed his sister Annie Harris.

When he died in 1960 at the VA Hospital in Big Spring, TX, he was married, a druggist and resided in Mineral Wells, TX. His sister Rebecca Harris-Monroe provided the information for his death cert. Why does his death cert show a druggist? From all Census and military documents, he was never a druggist but in the oil industry.

His sister Floride Harris requested his military headstone.
In 1900, Joseph, his parents and siblings are located in Cass Co, TX, where his father was working as a dentist: Joseph P Harris 59 Mary S Harris 49 Mary C Harris 25 Annie W Harris 21 Ruth M Harris 19 Joseph P Harris 17 M Reese Harris 15 Floride K Harris 12 E Bissell Harris 10 John A Harris 7 Rebecca C Harris 4 and Laura Smith 25. His 3 older sisters were school teachers.
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1910 Census in Lavaca County, TX, he was listed as 26 yrs old, a lodger and a drug store salesman.
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1920 Census he was listed at home in Mineral Wells, TX with widowed mother and siblings: Mary S Harris 68 Annie W Harris 41 Ruth Harris 39 Jodie Harris 37 Floride Harris 32 Jack A Harris 27 Callie Harris 24. He was a manager at Goss & Oil Company.
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1930 he and wife were still in Mineral Wells, TX and he was working as an oil operator in the oil fields: Jodie P Harris 46 & Ada L Harris 44
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1940 Census-Albany, Shackelford, TX: Jodie P Harris 56 & his partner Herbert E Roberts 72. He was still in the oil industry and listed as married.
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1942 WWII Draft Card shows him as Jodie Pickens Harris, born in Townville, SC, living in Mineral Wells, working in Shackelford, TX, and in petroleum production. He listed his sister Annie Harris.

When he died in 1960 at the VA Hospital in Big Spring, TX, he was married, a druggist and resided in Mineral Wells, TX. His sister Rebecca Harris-Monroe provided the information for his death cert. Why does his death cert show a druggist? From all Census and military documents, he was never a druggist but in the oil industry.

His sister Floride Harris requested his military headstone.

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