Biography:

Historian; teacher. Born– October 4, 1933, Birmingham. Parents– William Guy and Frances Elizabeth (Stuart) Harris. Married– Barbara King Cooper. Children– Four. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1957; M.A., 1966; Ed.  D., 1970.  Taught in Mountain Brook school system and Birmingham University School; chairman of History Department, Marion Military Institute; professor, Judson College. Storyteller and historical researcher. Colonial Wars Teacher Award, 1979. Member, Alabama and Mississippi Historical Societies, Alabama Genealogical Society, and National Speleological Society. Died October 3, 2017.

Source:

Jacket information, Alabama Place Names; Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 1; obituary

Publication(s):

Alabama Place Names. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1982.

A History of Alabama; a Secondary Course. Montgomery, Ala.; Clairmont Press, 1986?

Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1977.

Perry County Heritage.  Marion, Al.: Perry County Historical and Preservation Society, 1991.

A Short History of Marion, Perry County, Alabama; Its Homes and Its Buildings. Marion, Ala.; s.n., 1970.

Things That Go Bump in the Night. Marion, Ala.; W. S. Harris, 1970.

Joint_Publications;

Haunted Southland Tales.  2013.

Editor:

Eyes on Europe. London; Hodder and Stoughton and the European Christian Mission, 1970.