“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  Dallas;
  Walsworth Publishing Company, 1892.

PLEASANT P. HARRIS  was born in Greene county, Alabama, August 29, 
1848.  His father was born in Union district, South Carolina, September 15, 
1812, and in 1835 moved to Alabama.  In Greene county, that State, he was 
married to Margaret L. Steel, January 2, 1842.  She was born on the 29th of 
September, 1821, a daughter of Elmer Steel.  Mr. Harris moved from 
Alabama to Mississippi in 1850, and there reared his family.  He came to 
Texas in 1873, making the journey in wagons and being seven weeks en 
route.  The first year rented land, the second year he bought 160 acres, and 
by the third year had his farm improved so that he could move to it.  Mr. 
Harris died on the 19th of February, 1883, at the age of seventy-one years.  
His wife passed away on the 8th of September, 1887, aged sixty-five.  The 
names of their eight children are as follows:  Joseph, who died in prison at 
Elmira, New York;  Margaret A., wife of Samuel Hutson;  John B., 
deceased;  Pleasant P.;  Andrew C.;  Elizabeth J., wife of Dr. E.H. Ford, of 
Rockwall;  Caroline A.; and Ella P., wife of W.P Samuels.

The subject of our sketch and his sister Caroline are living on the home 
place, neither having married.  They had ten years of sickness in the family 
and four deaths, and when the father died he left some payments to be made 
on the farm.  Pleasant P. has since settled up all such claims, and he and his 
sister have improved the place and now have a nice home.  Two of their 
brothers served in the war, and both died.

Submitted by: L. Pingel