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Corra Mae Harris (March 17, 1869 – February 7, 1935) was an American writer and journalist. She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I.
Biography
Corra Mae White was born in Elbert County, Georgia, March 17, 1869, the daughter of the Confederate veteran Tinsley Rucker White (1843–1930) and Mary Elizabeth Matthews (1846–1890). Her grandfather was a State senator (1853–1854) named William Bowling White (1811–1858). He owned 46 enslaved women, children and men in the 1830 U.S. census and 33 in 1860. Her father, at age 17, owned five slaves, who were emancipated by the federal government three years later.
A stone monument marks her birthplace, the ancestral plantation of the White Family, who arrived November 11, 1792, and began growing tobacco in the region south of Ruckersville. The marker, on Highway 72 to the east of Elberton, reads: "Farm Hill: Girlhood Home of Corra Harris."
Her great-great-grandfather, Thomas White, and his second wife, came from a tobacco plantation along the Rapidan River at White's Ford north of Scuffletown, near the intersection today of Greene and Orange Counties in Piedmont Virginia. He was the son of John White (1696-1787), the emigrant of Leicestershire, England, who was granted 235 acres (95 ha) from George II, in 1738, in Orange County. He later purchased 356 acres (144 ha), part of the Octonio Grant, signed by the father of future president, James Madison, on the banks of the Rapidan River that included White's Ford.
Corra White had a formal education limited to teacher training at nearby female academies, though she never graduated from any of the schools she attended.
