Week 10 - Siblings - Harris family & Yaw family

Eseck Harris and Prudence Pratt would have eight children and three of them would migrate to Michigan....

Pardon Yaw and Sylvia Bliss would have 18 children (!) and nine of them would migrate to Michigan....sisters Lydia Yaw and Lois Yaw were part of the nine.

Eseck Harris and Prudence Pratt married 3 February 1820 in Stamford, Bennington, Vermont. From their eight children: Oliver, Seymour, Anderson, Jane, Daniel, Ebenezer, David and Eseck, Jr, it was Jane, Daniel and Ebenezer who would make the long trek to Galien, Berrien County, Michigan while the other children all stayed and lived their lives in Vermont and Massachusetts. 

Jane Harris married Simeon Stoddard 5 Sept 1846 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont and they traveled to Michigan to settle.  They had one daughter Mary Stoddard. Simeon died in 1870 and in 1873 Jane remarried to Edmond Fairfield. Jane died in 1921 in Wayland, Allegan County, Michigan.

Daniel Harris was born 16 July 1833 in Stamford, Vermont and he married Lydia Yaw 4 July 1852 in North Adams, Massachusetts. Daniel and Lydia would settle in Galien, Berrien County, Michigan about 1853. They would have children Seymour, Prudy and Emily.

Daniel enlisted in the Civil War in 1862 with the 26th Michigan Infantry. His unit saw battle at Wilderness and Spotsylvania among others. At Ream's Station, Virginia on August 25, 1864, he was taken prisoner. He died of disease while in prison at Salsbury, North Carolina in December 1864.

Brother Ebenezer Harris was born 12 March 1839 in Stamford, Vermont and married Lois Yaw in Clarksburg, Massachusetts on 30 September 1854.  In 1856/58 they joined Daniel and Lydia in Galien. They would have six children: Wesley, Willie, Clarinda, Norman, Lillian and Clyde.  Wesley (age 2) and Willie (one day shy of his first birthday) died before their father left to fight in the war. 

Ebenezer would enlist in Company E, 12th Michigan Infantry in 1861. He was listed as Corporal Harris when he mustered out of the Civil War. He would endure many battles and also see action at Shiloh (April 1862) and Hatchee Bridge (October 1862).

When he returned, Norman and Clarinda had died at ages 3 months and 17 months. Their daughter Lillian was born in 1867 following her father's return from the war. Son Clyde was born in 1878.

Siblings Lydia Yaw and Lois Yaw married siblings Daniel Harris and Ebenezer Harris. 

Ebenezer and Lois were my great-great grandparents. 

Barbie





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  1. Colleen G. Brown PasqualeMarch 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM

    Those big families die us lots of people to research. Nice post!

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