The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Guilford Township, pages 616-617
Harris Almond, eldest son of Mathew and Rebecca Almond, was born in Richmond County, N.C., Jan. 5, 1809. His father immigrated with his family to Indiana in the fall of 1811 and settled in what is now Wayne County where his wife died. He then removed to Winchester, Ind., where he remained four years, and in the fall of 1827 he located in Hendricks County, and in the fall of 1828 he removed to Bridgeport, Marion Co., Ind., where he resided twelve years. He then settled in Henry County, Iowa, where he died in 1876. He had a family of six children by his first wife and two by his second. Harris Almond, whose name heads this sketch, being the eldest son, he was obliged to assist his father on the farm, this his educational advantages were limited, he having the benefit of school but a few months during the year. He was married in 1829 to Ruth Lakey, a native of Ohio. After marriage he settled on eighty acres of land in Marion County, going in debt for the land, which he afterward sold, and bought eighty acres in Washington Township and later bought another eighty acres adjoining, and on this land he resided about thirty-three years. His wife died April 12, 1841, leaving three children--Sarah J., wife of Samuel Weer; Pleasant and John. He was again married Oct. 17, 1841, to Anna Montgomery, and to this union were born two children, one dying in infancy and the other after reaching maturity. His wife died March 4, 1877, and he was married in October, 1877, to his present wife, Mrs. Parthena Tucker. She was the widow of George Tucker by whom she had seven children, four of whom survive. She is a native of Kentucky. Mr. Almond is now in his seventy-seventh year, and has been a member of the Christian church for forty-eight years, of which he has been Deacon twenty-one years, and he has served as Trustee about thirty years. In politics he is a staunch Republican.