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Descendants of

Nathanial Greenberry Tolby
Francis Marion Harris

and

Millie Malinda Mathias

 

1. Millie Malinda2 Mathias (Peter1) was born March 23, 1838 in Ohio, and died October 03, 1908 in Buried Mathias Cemetery, Ramsey, Illinois. She married (1) Nathanial Greenberry Tolby December 17, 1857 in Fayette County, Illinois, son of James Taulbee and Sidney Harris. Nathanial was born January 7, 1836 in Fayette County, Illinois and died March 25, 1864 and is bured in the Mathias Cemetery, Ramsey, Fayette County, Illinois. She married (2) Francis Marion Harris August 10, 1865 in Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois, son of William Harris and Martha Anderson. Frances was born February 1837 in Ramsey, Fayette County, Illinois and died October 31, 1909 in the same.


Children of Millie Mathias and Nathanial Tolby are:

The children of Sidney and James Perry Tolby/Taulbee are 1st cousins twice removed from Francis M. Harris. After Nathanial Tolby died, Malinda married Francis M. Harris making him only a distance cousin, but now a step-father as well.

Francis Marion Harris was the 4th child of his parents. He had light brown hair, a light complexion and stood 5'5" tall. He had only a few years of public education. He began working on a farm as a very young boy. From about June 1860 to December 1861, before the Civil War, he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad as an engineer, making his headquarters in Centralia, Marion County, Illinois.

In the town of Ramsey, Fayette Co., Illinois, 21 Aug. 1861 the Union Militia roll included these four brothers: William Forester, John Carl, David and Francis Marion Harris. On Dec. 10th 1861 Francis and his brother William F enlisted in the Union Army for a period of three years. They were mustered into service in Jonesboro, Illinois by Capt. Watson, serving in the 54th Infantry, Regiment Co. K. Francis was discharged 17 Oct. 1863 in Little Rock, Arkansas on a certificate of disabilities: an eye infection and rectal colonitis.

In Apr. May and June of 1862, he was hospitalized in Columbus, Ky., suffering from diarrhea contracted by exposure to the elements and to inferior food. In Sept. and Oct. of 1862, he was in the Regimental Hospital in Union City, Tenn. He was sent to a hospital in Jackson, Tennessee, Jan. 1863, his right eye badly swollen. It was thought the infection was caused by sleeping on the ground with no shelter and marching miles in sleet and rain. An operation was performed on his right eye, which he said affected the vision in his left eye. He was kept in this hospital through Jan. and Feb. of 1863. He was then sent to a convalescent ceter in Duvall's Bluff, 29th Aug., 1863. Later in life, he lost all vision in his right eye and had only partial vision in his left eye.

Francis loved to play the violin and go to dances, and to spelling bees, and other rural festivities.

Francis was the cousin to Sidney Harris, daughter of David and Frances Harris who first married James Taulbee. Together, James and Sidney had 3 children. One of them was Nathaniel Tolby, who was the first husband of Millie Malinda Mathias. When Millie Malinda married Francis M. Harris, the children who were 1st cousins twice removed from Francis M., they also became his step-children. This was the beginning of multiple relationships in this branch of the family. Francis' cousin, Sidney Harris, married John Jackson after James died and they had a number of children, 4 of whom married into the McClary, Mathias and Harris families. One lady had 4 seperate relationships with Clarence F. Harris, the husband of this author. [Mrs. Vera Harris' Taulbee Family History]

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