In an e-mail from Ted McClellan:
William M Harris, age 49 born GA, is in the 1850 census of the southern division of Marshall Co, MS with his wife Lucinda and family but by the time of the 1860 census Lucinda has apparently died and he (age 59 born GA) is in Crittenden Co, AR. He owned 10 slaves (ages 60m, 35m, 25m, 22m, 18f, 16m, 14m, 10f, 2m, 1f according to the Slave Census.) He is listed in that census as W W Harris but it is not uncommon for the census enumerator to misread his field notes and mix up the initials M and W when completing the census form. William's son Cicero Harris is with him as well as M S Harris who is listed as a female in this census but was listed as a male in the 1850 census.
Also with him is a male who appears to be the one listed with the family in the 1850 census as Henderson Harris, age 22, but is listed here (age 33) with a first name that looks like Iny and a middle initial E.
The 1870 census of adjacent Cross Co, AR shows W M Harris, age 69 born GA, with a probable new wife, L T, age 38 and two small children, C L (male), age 4, and M H (female), age 1. With them are I E Harris, age40, and C Harris, age 34. The last two are the same ones with him in the 1860 census.
William M Harris apparently died before the 1880 census was taken because Edward (I E in 1870), age 51, and Cicero (C in 1870), age 44, and Mary H (M H in 1870), age 11, are listed together, and are still in Cross Co, AR.

DEEDS & COURT RECORDS

1830 Clarke Co.,GA Census, page 312:
Willam Harris with 2 sons under 5, 1 male 30-40; 1 f. 20-30 and 30 slaves

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Also in Clarke Co. 1830 was Samuel B. Harris(p.298), Tyre (p.313)
Virginia (302)
Sarah
William D. (313) with 1 m. 50-60, 1 f. 30-40 and 1f. 50-60 and 17 slaves

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1840 Clarke Co, GA census for William M. Harris with his family:
Males:
Under 5---2 (Jeptha and Joel Moten)
5-10---3 (Cicero, Felix, and Robert)
10-15---2 (Ira Ed and Tyre)
15-20--2 Albert and William M., Jr
30-40---1 William M., Sr.
Females:
Under 5---1 (M.D.S.)
30-40---1 (Lucinda)

Other Harrises in 1840 Clarke Co.,GA:
John Harris
William D. 50-60 1 f. 40-50 1 f. 60-70
Parmenas Harris
Robert L. Harris

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William M. Harris and family were in Marshall County, Mississippi by 1846, for the tax roll for 1846 was as follows:
William M. Harris--6 slaves under 16 years of age
1 free white poll (20-60 yrs)
1 clock--value $10 @ 1%
State tax $4.20
William M. Harris, Jr.--1 slave tax $.50
Albert H. Harris--1 free white poll tax $.50
David Harris--1 slave tax $.50

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CENSUS, DEEDS, COURT RECORDS

1860 Crittenden Co.,AR Census

1870 Cross Co.,AR Census

1880 Cross Co.,AR Census

1900 Cross Co.,AR Census (Felix)

Harris Guardianship Papers-Cross Co.,AR

Wm. Harris & Lucinda Scogin Marriage Certificate

Cicero Harris 1870 Census: Crittenden Co.,AR
M.L. Harris 1870 in Crittenden Co,.,AR
Henderson (Edward) 1870 in Cross Co.,AR

1880 Cross Co.,AR Census: Smith Twp.:
Edward Harris age 51 GA (Felix)
Cicero Harris age 44
Mary H. age 11 sister

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WILLIAM M. HARRIS TAX RECORDS: CROSS CO.,AR
From Marvin and Sandra Harris
CROSS COUNTY REAL ESTATE TAX BOOK 1869, 1870, 1871:
1869--page 114
William M. Harris Township 7North; Range 3 East; NE SE Section; Section No. 25; 40 acres; State tax .20; school tax .08; military tax .10; county tax .60
p. 118:
W. M. Harris Section NW NW; Section No. 36; 22 acres; Valuation 98; state tax .49; school tax .19; military tax .25; county tax 1.47 paid
1870--p. 83
Wm. Harris, Twp 7 North; Range 3 East; Section NE SE; Section 25; 40 acres; Valuation 200; Valuation as equalized 340; State tax 1.00; school tas .40; sinking fund tax .50; county tax 2.50; road tax .20; district school tax .50 paid
(I did not find an entry for Section NW NW; Section No. 36; 22 acres.)
1871-- p. 48
W. M. Harris Section NE SE; Section 25; 40 acres, Valuation 200; valuation as equalized 340; State tax 1.10; School tax .68; Sinking fund tax .85; County tax 2.72; District school tax 1.70 paid
1876-- p. 61
Wm Harris Estate of Township 7; Range 3; Section NE SE; Section 25; 40 acres; Valuation 300.00; State taxes: General expenses 1.50; State taxes Interest on debt .90; School tax .60; Old county tax 1.50; Indebtedness ordinance tax .30; County bridge purposes .60; Pauper purposes .60 Total: 6.00 paid
Next entry:
Same [i.e, W. M. Harris] Township 7; Range 3; Section SW; Section 25; 40 acres; Valuation 300; State taxes: General expenses 1.50; State taxes Interest on debt .90; School tax .60; Old county tax 1.50; Indebtedness ordinance tax .30; County bridge purposes .60; Pauper purposes .60 Total 6.00 paid
p. 63--
Wm M. Harris Estate
(Line 1) Township 7; Range 3; Section E NW; Section 36; 80 acres }
(Line 2) Township 7; Range 3; Section W NE; Section 36; 80 acres }
Valuation 500.00 (Line 3) Township 7; Range 3; Section NW N; Section 36; 22 acres }
State taxes: General expenses 2.50; Interest on debt 1/50; School tax 1.00; Old county tax 2.50; Indebtedness ordinance tax .50; County bridge purposes 1.00; Pauper purposes 1.00 Total: 10.00 paid

NOTES FROM MARVIN and SANDRA HARRIS:
From the above records I assume William M. Harris owned 40 + 40 + 80 + 80 + 22 = 262 acres in Cross County at the time of his death. I could not find tax records for the years 1872-1875. Likely they were misstored. Hopefully they are not lost. I wonder who got this estate? Since we could not find a will, we may never know.
I searched land records for the period and found only two items for a William Harris. In Book H on p. 44, dated June 15, 1872, William Harris mortgaged to James N. Dobson [and Company] for $50, 750 pound of lint cotton and 50 bushes of corn to be gotten out of his crop on the Allen farm. Then on p. 555, dated September 11, 1872 is a similar mortgage to said James N. Dobson and Company for $90.00 750 pounds of lint cotton and 50 bushels of corn on the Allen farm. He signed by making his X.(Was he illiterate?)
NOTE:The first mortgage for $50.00 is likely for the cotton and corn crop of 1772, while the second (Sept. 11) mortage for $90.00 is likely for the 1873 crop.
The mortgages are evidently for cash lent to William M. before the crop was harvested. The mortage was security for money paid William M. for his yet-to-be-harvested crop of cotton and corn.

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Edward Harris Marriage to Mollie Anderson:December 22, 1881 in Cross Co., AR Bk. D, page 92

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas, published by Goodspeed in 1889. No author was given.
"Edward Harris, one of the Smith Township's successful farmers, is a native of the State of Georgia, and a son of W. M. and Lucinda Scaggin [i.e., Scoggin], also originally from that State.
W. M. Harris moved to Mississippi in 1840 and in 1859 to Crittenden County, Ark. Three years later he came to this county, where he died in 1876. His wife survived until 1879, leaving at her death eight children, three of whom are living.
Edward Harris was born in 1832 and remained with his parents until their demise, passing his youth in a manner similar to the early days of other boys. In 1881 he was married to Miss Mary Anderson, daughter of William and Timby Anderson, all natives of Alabama.
Mr. Harris enlisted in the Confederate army, in 1862, in the Twenty-third Arkansas Infantry and served through the war, his career as a soldier being one to which he may refer with pride. Himself and wife are the parents of two children. Mr. Harris owns a fine farm of 222 acres, with about thirty acres under cultivation. He is a member of the Masonic order. His wife belongs to the Baptist Church" (pp. 356-67).

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RE: JOEL M. HARRIS in the Civil War:
FROM: MARVIN HARRIS.......................
When his older brothers Felix and Cicero went down to Granada, Mississippi, to join Compay D. 42nd Mississippi Volunteers, CSA Joel joined them in Captain R. W. Locke's company. Captain H. W. Miller enrolled all three brothers as privates on May 14, 1862. Although the company was to participate in a number of battles, Joel's record of engagements indicated that he did not participate in most of them--for good reason. In May, June, and early July (when the company was battling at Gettysburg and Fallen Waters), he lay sick in Samaritan Hospital, Richmond, Virginia. He recovered sufficiently, however, to fight in the Bristoe battle on October 14, 1863. He was wounded May 5, 1864, in the Wilderness Battle, which wounds were severe enough to send him to the hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia, and to keep him from seeing further battles that year with his company at Shady Grove and Spottsylvania in May. Hanover Junction in June, Weldon Railroad in August, and Squirrel Level R and Hatcher's Run in October. For these engagements he was listed as either "a.w." (away wounded) or "a.f." (away furlough or satisfactorily). Sometime in 1865 he was discharged to return to his home in Mississippi.

RE: MARY L. HARRIS (M. L. HARRIS): In 1884 Keiffer Bros., H.B. Clayton and Company maintained a suit against M. L. Harris [Court Case Files of the Inferior Court and County Courts, 1805-1895 (Record Group 129-2-2), p. 38].

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RE: WILLIAM M. HARRIS was born October 14, 1824 in Clarke Co., GA, and died 1885. He married MARTHA BRITTON. She was born March 17, 1828 in VA, and died 1900.
Notes for WILLIAM M. HARRIS:
FROM: Marvin Harris..............
On July 20, 1850 William bought from Brantley Sugg for $240 a tract of land "known and distinguished as the North West Quarter of Section Twenty Five and Township Four and Range five (5) west of the Basis =Meridian of the Chickasaw session Mississippi" (Marshall County Mississippi Deed of Record, Book ---, pp. 172-173). The number of acres was not specified.
Listed with the William M. Harris (Jr.) household in the 1850 Marshall County, Mississippi, census is John Britton, age 17, farmer.
The cemetery record gives birth date as October 24, 1824 and date of death as December 30, 1885, followed by "aged 62 yrs, 2mos., 19 days." The age indication does not match the birth/death dates.
The 1860 Marshall County, Mississippi Slave Census shows: William M. Harris 1f 38 yrs Black, 1m 5 yrs Mulatto. According to the slave index, he was a neighbor of G.A. Strickland.
Burial: Marshall County, Mississippi--Burrow Cemetery 33 Probate: 1870, Value Personal Property: $1150--from 1870 Census, MS Property: 1860, Value Real Estate: $2, 400--from 1860 Census, MS

FROM Marvin Harris:
ALBERT HARRIS
Interestingly, Albert hopped around. In 1850 he was in Marshall County, MS along with his parents and siblings. But in 1860 he is in Morgan County, AL. Then in 1870 he is back in Mississippi. By 1880 until his death in 1899, he is again in Morgan County, AL.
Albert was inducted into the Chulahoma Masonic Lodge #55 in 1849 (Nockton). By 1870 he was back in Marshall County, MS, living next door to his brother, William M. Harris, Jr.

1860 Alabama Slave Schedule, Morgan County (#10, p. 301): Albert H. Harris No. Slaves/Age/Sex/Color
1 65 f B
1 47 f B
1 45 f B
1 18 m B
1 14 m B
1 9 f B
1 7 m B
Tombstone shows birth year as 1820, not 1823. However, this date is likely in error, as his parents did not wed until December 1821.

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FROM MARVIN HARRIS RE: FELIX HARRIS

On May 14, 1862, sixteen months after hostilities had begun in South Carolina, Felix left his young family to accompany his brothers Cicero and Joel to Granada, Mississippi, to enlist as a private in Company D, 42nd Mississippi Infantry, CSA, led by Captain R. W. Locke. Mustering officer was Captain H. W. Miller; enlistment was "for 3 years or the war," the common enlistment period at the time. Toward the end of the hostilities, Lieutenant General R. Taylor of the CSA surrendered his army to Major General E.P.S Canby, USA, on May 4, 1865, at Citronelle, Alabama. Felix's unit--Company D, 38, 14, 3 Consolidated Regiment Mississippi Calvary, commanded by Colonel James McGuirk--was a part of that army and became prisoners of war. A week later on May 12, 1865, Felix as paroled at Gainesville, Alabama. Military service: 14 May 1862, Enlisted in Granada, MS as private in Company D, 42 Mississippi Infantry, CSA, in Capt. R. W. Locke's Company by Capt H. R. Miller "for 3 years or the war"

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FROM: Billie Etchells
In 1880 Felix and Velenia are in Tate County, MS. In 1876 Velenia signed an indenture in which she bought part of a section of land. (Where was Felix at that time as it was strange for wives to carry out this type of a transaction.) In 1878 the same land was sold by Velenia and J. S. Harris. J.S. might be James S. Harris, the son to Albert H. who was a brother of Felix -- Velenia�s brother-in-law.
13 March 1891 issue of the TATE COUNTY, MISS, included this notice: �Mr Felix Harris and family intends to move to Texas next month. Uncle Felix is a Jolly man and a good citizen and we hate to see him go, especially do we hate to have his most esteemable wife leave our community.�
17 April 1891: "Our neighbors are having the Texas fever. Messrs. Felix Harris and Mack Gillespie have left for the state of Texas. . . . "
1900 Tate County, MS, lists Felix Harris in the household of his stepson, William Wilborn, and he is cited as 67 years of age.
2 January 1909 is stated as the day Felix Harris died on the footstone of a grave in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Georgetown, Williamston County, TX. The footstone lies in a family plot belonging to his son, Charles Morton Harris. Felix�s second son, Richard Henry Harris, (my grandfather) had mover earlier from Tate Co., MS, to Hays Co., TX, which was located relatively close to Williamson County. Hays County Cemetery contains several of the descendents of the other sons of William M. Harris.