William and Ellendor Harris

William J. Short, Jr.

We know very little regarding the life of William J. Short, Jr.  William was born in May 1845 in Lee County, Virginia.   William is the son of Greenberry Short and Catherine Ferrel.   William married Ellendor on October 20, 1864 in Knox County, Kentucky.    The couple was married by J. W. Ridgell.    He was a bootlegger according to family tradition.   According to the census we know that William and Ellendor lived in Hancock County, Tennessee in 1880.   They had moved to Lee County, Virginia according to the 1900 census.   But according to William's death certificate he died on February 18, 1918 in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tennessee.    We do not know where William is buried.

Come meet William J. Short, Jr.'s Parents:
Greenberry Short and Catherine Ferrel.

Ellendor Rachel Harris

Ellendor was born May 1846 in Virginia.   Ellendor was the daughter of Elijah Harris and Eliza Jane Smith.  According to the book written by Vernor G. Harris, "Decendants of Elijah Harris and Eliza Jane Smith", Ellendor also went by the name of Ellen or Aunt Eli.    Her name is listed as Rachel in the 1900 census of Lee County, Virginia.   Based on the death records of her daughter, Martha Elizabeth Short, in Claiborne County, Tennesseee, her middle name may have been Rachel.  We have found no record of Ellendor death or burial.



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