Amis Harris
(1880-1959)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Rev. Alonzo Pruitt
2. William Curtis Parker

Amis Harris 1 4

  • Born: 17 Jan 1880, Smithland, Woodbury, IA 2 4
  • Marriage (1): Rev. Alonzo Pruitt on 4 Mar 1931 in , , IA 1 2
  • Marriage (2): William Curtis Parker on 11 Dec 1907 in Smithland, Woodbury, IA 2 3
  • Died: 23 Jan 1959, Lynwood, Los Angeles, CA at age 79 2 4
  • Buried: 28 Jan 1959, Smithland, Woodbury, IA 4

   FamilySearch ID: MCKL-CFF.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: in 1945 in , , CA. 2

2. Obituary: Sioux City Journal: obituary of Mrs. Amis H. Pruitt on 27 Jan 1959 in Sioux City, Woodbury, IA. 2 Funeral services for Mrs. Amis H. Prultt, 79, former Smithland resident who died Friday at Lynwood, Cal., will be at 3 p. m. Wednesday at the Smithland Methodist church. Rev. Lawrence Murphy will officiate. Burial will be in the Smithland cemetery under direction of the Willman funeral home.
Mrs. Pruitt was born near Smithland January 17, 1880. She was married to William Parker December 30, 1907. He was killed in action in world war 1.
She was married to Rev. Alonzo Pruitt in 1931. Rev. Mr. Pruitt died in 1945 and Mrs. Pruitt had made her home in California since that time.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Audrey Evans of Lynwood; three sons, Milburn Parker of Missoula, Mont., Basil Parker of Smithland and Ronald Parker of Sioux City; a twin sister, Avis, and seven grandchildren.


Amis married Rev. Alonzo Pruitt, son of Daniel Pruitt and Sarah Ann Wilson, on 4 Mar 1931 in , , IA.1 2 (Rev. Alonzo Pruitt was born on 22 May 1858 in Milford, Iroquois, IL,5 6 died on 15 Nov 1944 in Smithland, Woodbury, IA 6 and was buried on 18 Nov 1944 in Sioux City: Graceland Park Cemetery, Woodbury, IA 6.)


Amis next married William Curtis Parker on 11 Dec 1907 in Smithland, Woodbury, IA.2 3 (William Curtis Parker was born on 15 Feb 1882 in Persia, Harrison, IA,7 died on 10 Nov 1917 in , , , FRA 1 7 and was buried in Nov 1917 in Zonnebeke, , West-Vlaanderen, BEL 7.)


Sources


1 Grace Widney Brown, "Grace Widney Brown, wife of Winfred A. Brown : 1104 South Elm St., Shenandoah, Iowa, revolutionary ancestory Jacob Young (Jung), N.C." (Proof for Daughters of the American Revolution Application prepared in 1957 by Thelma K. Frazee, Genealogist, Washington D. C. - View online at https://archive.org/details/gracewidneybrown00unse/page/n5/mode/2up/search/beeker?q=beeker), Page 12. Biography written by Alonzo Pruitt.

2 "Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA)," 27 Jan 1959, page 10. Obituary of Mrs. Amis H. Pruitt.

3 FamilySearch.org, Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDS-CRVJ William C Parker and Annis [sic, as transcribed] Harris, 11 Dec 1907, Woodbury, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,451,564.

4 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209497769.

5 Grace Widney Brown, "Grace Widney Brown, wife of Winfred A. Brown : 1104 South Elm St., Shenandoah, Iowa, revolutionary ancestory Jacob Young (Jung), N.C." (Proof for Daughters of the American Revolution Application prepared in 1957 by Thelma K. Frazee, Genealogist, Washington D. C. - View online at https://archive.org/details/gracewidneybrown00unse/page/n5/mode/2up/search/beeker?q=beeker), Pages 6-7.

6 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168053528.

7 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10839287.



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