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Sarah Elizabeth McClure was born January 25, 1869, in Van Buren County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of James Orsen McClure and Alzira Scarlett.
Sarah Elizabeth married J. G. Burns on July 19, 1885, in Cleburne County, Arkansas. The marriage is recorded in Book 1, page 118.
Sarah then married Major James Harris on October 21, 1897. Major James Harris was born February 29, 1852, in Alabama. He was first married to Eudora T. _____, who was born in 1858 and died in 1891, buried in Maple Springs Cemetery near Oil Trough, in Independence County, Arkansas. Eudora and Major had at least one child, Ethel A. Harris, born in 1889, died in 1897, buried in Maple Springs Cemetery. Major died November 16, 1922, and is buried at Maple Springs Cemetery with his first wife and his daughter Ethel.
Sarah Elizabeth died October 18, 1959, at Houston, Texas.
Children of Major J. Harris and Sarah E. McClure
1. Major Orsen Harris, b. Dec 18, 1899; d. 1974
2. Beulah Harris, b. Mar 2, 1902; d. Mar 1972 at Union City, IN
3. Obert Harris, b. Oct 4, 1903; d. May 15, 1977
4. Thelma Harris
5. Carl Vernon Harris, b. Jan 12, 1907; d. 1989