Batteal Harrison
Batteal Harrison, farmer and stock-raiser, P.O. Range, was born November 6, 1839, and on December 24, 1861, married Lida A. Rogers, by whom he has had six children, as follows: Ettora B., born December 30, 1864; Alvin M., born June 13, 1867; Benjamin, born March 8, 1869; Massie, born December 31, 1872; Martha D., born February 15, 1881, and Sherman, born April 21, 1863, and died November 6, 1870. Mr. Harrison is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has risen to the thirty-second degree. He was raised on a farm and has devoted his life largely to that occupation. He is a good farmer, a practical stockman and a whole-souled, genial citizen.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]