... Mrs. Keturah Harris, whose daughters, Mrs. James J. O'Fallon, of St. Louis, and Mrs. James Van Voast, of Cincinnati, and granddaughter, Mrs. C. A. Doremus, of New York, are well-known "Colonial Dames."
Mrs. Harris' husband, Horatio Turpin Harris, was a son of Major Jordan Harris, a Virginian, of the Continental army, 1763- 1826 a member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati, and a grandson of Major John Harris, of "Norwood," Powhatan county, Va., member of the Cumberland County Committee of Safety, 1776, whose wife was a cousin of President Jefferson. The descent from Alfred the Great and the Plantagenet kings of England of this Harris family is shown in Pedigree CCXXXIX. of "Americans of Royal Descent."
