County.History.1913.Muhlenberg.HISTORY-Books
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County History 1913 
Muhlenberg County KyArchives History Books 

Book Title: History Of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky 

page 347 

     It is probable that during the third quarter of the last century Buxton 
Harris wrote more for publication than any other one man in the county.  He 
came to Muhlenburg in 1848.  It is said that he was a good public speaker, 
that many of his poems and stories were printed in some of the then widely 
known newspapers and magazines, and that copies of his published works were 
preserved by him; all of them were destroyed thirteen years after his death, 
when his residence was burned to the ground.  And now, after a lapse of less 
than fifty years, no one call recall the titles of more than two of his 
stories--"The Buried Trunk" and "Emma Legure or the Lost Child." 

     Buxton Harris was born in Virginia in 1807, and at the age of forty one 
he and his family moved from Tennessee to Muhlenburg County.  He bought the 
Luckett farm (now the town of Powderly) and continued to live on it up to the 
time of his death, December 29, 1874.  Before the emancipation of his slaves 
he was considered one of the wealthiest men in the county.  Of his twelve 
children Bennett Harris, of Central City and N.J. Harris of Wichita, Kansas, 
are the only two now living.  




Submitted by: Nancy A. Shattuck 
nshattuc@mcn.org 




Additional Comments: 
     It appears that it was Hume H. Harris that removed to Wichita, Kansas as 
Nathaniel J. Harris was residing in Paducah, McCracken Co., KY as a very 
elderly man.  Hume was Nat J.'s brother.  Bennett Smith Harris, his other 
brother, was my great grandfather and moved about the time this book was 
published to West Chicago, DuPage Co., Illinois.   

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