Born in Rockingham County, Virginia at Lacey Springs, the son of Capt. Reuben and Lydia Donnell Harrison and twin brother of Reuben H. Harrison. Joseph and his brother Reuben settled first in Monroe County, WV on Second Creek not far from Gap Mills, where they met and married the only wives either would have in their lives. In 1789 Reuben married Mary Higginbotham, the daughter of Moses Higginbotham (a large landowner in the Second Creek area), and in about 1795, Joseph married Isabella Jeffers. Near the turn of the century, both Joseph and Reuben had migrated northwestward with their young families into the Kanawha Valley and finally settled on the lands where they would later be buried. Reuben near (according to family tradition) the Dog Fork of the Pocatalico near Goldtown in Jackson County, and Joseph on the banks of Mud Lick Fork of Thirteenmile Creek at what was later to become known as Elmwood. Joseph's land lay just to the west and north of the site of Elmwood Cemetery.
West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Inc.
West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Inc.
Born in Rockingham County, Virginia at Lacey Springs, the son of Capt. Reuben and Lydia Donnell Harrison and twin brother of Reuben H. Harrison. Joseph and his brother Reuben settled first in Monroe County, WV on Second Creek not far from Gap Mills, where they met and married the only wives either would have in their lives. In 1789 Reuben married Mary Higginbotham, the daughter of Moses Higginbotham (a large landowner in the Second Creek area), and in about 1795, Joseph married Isabella Jeffers. Near the turn of the century, both Joseph and Reuben had migrated northwestward with their young families into the Kanawha Valley and finally settled on the lands where they would later be buried. Reuben near (according to family tradition) the Dog Fork of the Pocatalico near Goldtown in Jackson County, and Joseph on the banks of Mud Lick Fork of Thirteenmile Creek at what was later to become known as Elmwood. Joseph's land lay just to the west and north of the site of Elmwood Cemetery.
West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Inc.
West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Inc.
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