Cosby Berryman Harrison was born in about 1801 in Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County). He moved to Boonville, Missouri (Cooper County) around 1826. In 1827 He married Mary Callaway, whose great uncle Flanders Callaway eventually married Daniel Boone’s daughter. They had 12 children:
James Abram Harrison, married Fannie Smith
Sidney Ann Harrison, married Willis Tackett
Mary Catherine Harrison, married [...]





