John Hampton Harrison

He came to Texas from Mississippi in 1858 and was a planter in McLennan County when he enlisted in Waco as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was slightly wounded in the shoulder at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

On 22 January 1863 he was transferred to Company C of Speight's Regiment (15th Texas Infantry) with service in the Trans-Mississippi Department. He was detached for recruiting duty on 15 December 1863 with no later military record.

By 1880 he was a Baptist preacher and farmer in McLennan County. He was elected to 2 terms in the Texas State Senate (21st and 22nd Legislatures, 1889-1893). He was Postmaster of Waco from 1894-90 and by 1900 and to at least 1910 he farmed in McLennan.

Service information from Davis,1 as G.H. Harrison, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880-1910, and his bio sketch in Personnel of the Texas State Government (1889), [PDF] online from the Legislative Reference Library of Texas. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Alice Sophia Nelson (1845-1932) in Waco in June 1865 and they had 4 sons and a daughter.

11/03/1842; Monroe County, MS

01/11/1915; Hewitt, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, TX