| James Harris | |
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| Birth: | 11 February 1894 Culleoka, Tennessee, USA |
| Death: | 17 June 2004 Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
| Age: | 110 years, 127 days |
| Country: |  USA
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| Validated | |
James "Silas" Harris (11 February 1894 – 17 June 2004) was an American supercentenarian whose age is validated by Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography[]
James "Silas" Harris was born in Culleoka, Maury County, Tennessee, USA on 11 February 1894. His parents were James Harris and Ella Harris. His parents moved to Davidson County while he was a child. He had five siblings.
Harris owned a grocery store on Whites Creek Pike around 1945. He was also very active in his church, Greater Bethel A.M.E., where he worked as a secretary and treasurer. He also worked as a printer for several years at the A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union before working at Capitol News. He worked as an independent distributor of newspapers and magazines for Capitol News and retired at the age of 103.
He married Lula Bryant and had five children: James Harris Jr. (deceased), Norman Harris (1923–2005), Irene Caldwell (1925–1990), Dorothy Hogue (1922–2011) and Gladys Harris (1929–2010). He got widowed in 1945. Later he married Beulah Orton. He got widowed in 1990.
James Harris died at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA on 17 June 2004 at the age of 110 years, 127 days. He was survived by one sister Esther Weatherby; two daughters Dorothy Hogue and Gladys Harris; one son Maceo Harris; two step-children Gwendolyn Kirkland and Arcenta Orton; three nieces Millie Hunt, Naomi Adams and Geneva Cheatham; 23 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, 31 great-great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-great-grandchildren.
References[]
- Gerontology Research Group
- James Silas Harris Sr. Find A Grave