Harris, Jessie May

Female 1878 - 1908  (29 years)


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  • Name Harris, Jessie May 
    Born 16 Jun 1878  Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Died 20 Feb 1908  Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    • Jessie died in childbirth.
    Buried Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Jessie was buried in Alton Cemetery.
    Person ID I6500  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 2 Jun 2011 

    Father Harris, William Lee,   b. 18 May 1832, Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jan 1891, Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Mother Pope, Elizabeth,   b. 15 Jul 1845, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Sep 1937  (Age 92 years) 
    Married 20 Oct 1869  [6, 7
    Family ID F2088  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Boynton, William P.,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Y  [8, 9
    • Details of the marriage are not known at this time.
    Children 
     1. Boynton, William Edson,   b. 16 Feb 1908, Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Feb 1908, Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2101  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S199] Charles Dean Harris, The Story of the Warren H. Harris Family and its American Ancestry, revised edtion (Charles D. Harris, 2005), page 4.
      "William and Lizzie Harris had nine children--Effie, William Arthur, Abraham Webster, Roland Preston, Jessie May, Frank Edward, Bertha Irene, Melvin Jameson, and, the youngest, Harvey Pope."

    2. [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), Jessie May (Harris) Boynton.
      Memorial #29621726. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29621726). Accessed on 2 June 2011. Record created by "Charles Dean Harris" on 6 September 2008. Gravestone photo posted by "Charles Dean Harris."
           Birth: 16 June 1878 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Death: 20 February 1908 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Burial: Alton Cemetery; Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Places of birth and death not shown on gravestone.
           Charles Dean Harris include information not shown on the gravestone: "Jessie (Harris) Boynton was one of the nine children of William Lee Harris (1832-1891) and Elizabeth (Pope) Harris (1845-1937)."

    3. [S199] Charles Dean Harris, The Story of the Warren H. Harris Family and its American Ancestry, revised edtion (Charles D. Harris, 2005), page 4.
      "...Jessie May who had married William P. Boynton, an attorney, and died in childbirth at the age of 29 years old in 1908. Her newborn son, William Edson Boyton--the couple's only child, also died."

    4. [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), Jessie May (Harris) Boynton.
      Memorial #29621726. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29621726). Accessed on 2 June 2011. Record created by "Charles Dean Harris" on 6 September 2008. Gravestone photo posted by "Charles Dean Harris."
           Birth: 16 June 1878 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Death: 20 February 1908 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Burial: Alton Cemetery; Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Places of birth and death not shown on gravestone.
           Charles Dean Harris include information not shown on the gravestone: "Jessie died February 20, 1908 at the age of 29 from complications from the birth of her only child, William Edson Boynton. Her son died four days before her on February 16, 1908."

    5. [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), Jessie May (Harris) Boynton.
      Memorial #29621726. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29621726). Accessed on 2 June 2011. Record created by "Charles Dean Harris" on 6 September 2008. Gravestone photo posted by "Charles Dean Harris."
           Birth: 16 June 1878 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Death: 20 February 1908 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Burial: Alton Cemetery; Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Places of birth and death not shown on gravestone.

    6. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 109.
      Harvey Pope Harris, child of William Harris and Elizabeth Pope, was born on 24 January 1889 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois.

    7. [S199] Charles Dean Harris, The Story of the Warren H. Harris Family and its American Ancestry, revised edtion (Charles D. Harris, 2005), pages 3-4.
      "William Harris married Miss Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Pope (1845-1937) on October 20, 1869."
           Although a place of marriage is not explicitedly stated, the context implies that the wedding took place in Alton, Illinois.

    8. [S199] Charles Dean Harris, The Story of the Warren H. Harris Family and its American Ancestry, revised edtion (Charles D. Harris, 2005), page 4.
      "...Jessie May who had married William P. Boynton, an attorney...."

    9. [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), Jessie May (Harris) Boynton.
      Memorial #29621726. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29621726). Accessed on 2 June 2011. Record created by "Charles Dean Harris" on 6 September 2008. Gravestone photo posted by "Charles Dean Harris."
           Birth: 16 June 1878 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Death: 20 February 1908 at Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Burial: Alton Cemetery; Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Places of birth and death not shown on gravestone. Gravestone identified Jessie as "wife of William P. Boynton."