The Kaysville, Utah, cemetery contains the prominent headstone of Robert Harris, Jr., who was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Wilford Woodruff in England, lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, from 1841 to 1846, marched in the Mormon Battalion, and helped settle Kaysville and Portage, Utah. There are two women buried at his side. One is his wife, Hannah Maria Eagles Harris; the other is his sister, Elizabeth Harris Browett. Elizabeth’s husband, Daniel, is buried in California, where Indians murdered him and his two companions in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains as he tried to lead Mormon Battalion soldiers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1848.

Robert Harris stands out as a significant individual in Church history because he walked some 5,000 miles, delivered a mule to the wife of a friend after his release from the Mormon Battalion, and has a huge posterity.

Robert Harris, who had 15 children and 132 great-grandchildren, has posterity of more than 230,000 persons! I arrive at that figure by calculating that my grandfather, Joseph Memorial Harris, a great grandson of Robert Harris, Jr., has, at the time of this writing, 175 descendants (19 grandchildren, 73 great grandchildren, and 83 great-great grandchildren). Joseph Memorial Harris, my grandfather, came from a family of 14 children. If each of his brothers and sisters by now has a posterity of 175 persons, that equals 1550.