Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Harris. Elizabeth Jane Raikes was born in Kentucky February 7, 1830 and passed away at the home of her daughter Mrs. Josephine Loucks, 100 West Boston Avenue, Indianola, Iowa, January 2, 1916, aged eighty-vie years, ten months and twenty-five days. She was married in 1847 to Josiah Harris and to them were born twelve children, seven of whom survive her: Simpson Harris, Urich, Missouri; Henman Harris, Bakersfield, California; Mrs. Alice H. Scott, Bakersfield, California; Fillmore Harris, Stuart, Iowa, Theodore Harris, Denver Colorado, Mrs. Hattie Beaman, Leon, Iowa; Mrs. Josephine Loucks, Indianola, Iowa. Mrs. Harris was converted and joined with the Methodist Episcopal church when she was but a child four or five years old. Hence she has given eighty years of service to the church and to her Christ. And it has been a service cheerfully and loyally given. Since coming to Indianola, she has been unable to attend church, but her interest in its work was in no wise diminished thereby. Her faith was clear and steady. Her Christ was real presence to her and her Christian experience satisfying. She knew the joy of salvation. Mrs. Harris came from historic stock. Her father John Raikes was a cousin of Robert Raikes, the founder of the Sunday School. Her life was a part of the great sacrifice which the pioneers of this country made to develop it. She was carried in her mother's arms, on horseback across the mountains of Kentucky and into Indiana when only nine months old. In this state, later in life, she lost five of her children within six months. She was the second white woman to enter Kansas as a settler in the days of the bloody drama enacted there before the war. Thus her life has been built into the very foundation of our commonwealth. Her husband preceded her into the other world thirty-five years ago.