Married at Shelby County, Indiana.
The Anthony Journal
Anthony, Kansas
Thursday, April 14, 1887
page 8
A Dear Mother Gone.
Died - Mrs. J.R. Harris, aged 79 years, at her home three miles south of Anthony, April 1st, of erysipelas and pneumonia. She is no more. The light of another home is gone out, and the sweet image of its brooding dove taken flight forever. The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return, a mother's is beyond the reach of the now lonely, hapless ones, who were her sole care. To the sad inquiries and piteous supplications of the forlorn ones of that now desolate home, there is no answer save that of becoming tears. No other presence, however loving can fill that once so gentle, now silent Mother's place.
I miss thee, my Mother! they image is still
The deepest, impressed on my heart,
And the tablet, so faithful, must in death be chill
Ere in line of that, in age depart.
Mrs. Harris was born in the state of New York, but moved to Ohio at the age of 6 years, thence to Shelby county, Ind., and was married to J.R. Harris, the 27th of June 1839. They then moved to Illinois in 1864, where they lived till 1885, when they emigrated to Harper county, where they have lived since. She was an earnest member of the Presbyterian church from girlhood, a kind loving and indulgent wife, perfectly devoted to her husband and children, and always erred on the side of mercy. It is said that death loves a shining mark and with his keen sickle, has cut down the fairest flower of a home, and darkened the heart of an aged and loving husband whom, with three children, Julian, Theodore, and Virginia F., she leaves to mourn her loss. For the husband in this gloomy time words were empty. The blight, the agony, of such sorrow, only those whom it has thus touched can tell. It is of troubled water, an awful gulf - vexed and dark - which even the light of hope can but faintly relieve.
The funeral took place on the following Sunday from the residence, at 11 o'clock. Rev. Rehorn, of the Christian church conducted the services. The remains were laid to rest in the Spring Grove cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2023
The Anthony Journal
Anthony, Kansas
Thursday, April 14, 1887
page 8
A Dear Mother Gone.
Died - Mrs. J.R. Harris, aged 79 years, at her home three miles south of Anthony, April 1st, of erysipelas and pneumonia. She is no more. The light of another home is gone out, and the sweet image of its brooding dove taken flight forever. The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return, a mother's is beyond the reach of the now lonely, hapless ones, who were her sole care. To the sad inquiries and piteous supplications of the forlorn ones of that now desolate home, there is no answer save that of becoming tears. No other presence, however loving can fill that once so gentle, now silent Mother's place.
I miss thee, my Mother! they image is still
The deepest, impressed on my heart,
And the tablet, so faithful, must in death be chill
Ere in line of that, in age depart.
Mrs. Harris was born in the state of New York, but moved to Ohio at the age of 6 years, thence to Shelby county, Ind., and was married to J.R. Harris, the 27th of June 1839. They then moved to Illinois in 1864, where they lived till 1885, when they emigrated to Harper county, where they have lived since. She was an earnest member of the Presbyterian church from girlhood, a kind loving and indulgent wife, perfectly devoted to her husband and children, and always erred on the side of mercy. It is said that death loves a shining mark and with his keen sickle, has cut down the fairest flower of a home, and darkened the heart of an aged and loving husband whom, with three children, Julian, Theodore, and Virginia F., she leaves to mourn her loss. For the husband in this gloomy time words were empty. The blight, the agony, of such sorrow, only those whom it has thus touched can tell. It is of troubled water, an awful gulf - vexed and dark - which even the light of hope can but faintly relieve.
The funeral took place on the following Sunday from the residence, at 11 o'clock. Rev. Rehorn, of the Christian church conducted the services. The remains were laid to rest in the Spring Grove cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2023
Married at Shelby County, Indiana.
The Anthony Journal
Anthony, Kansas
Thursday, April 14, 1887
page 8
A Dear Mother Gone.
Died - Mrs. J.R. Harris, aged 79 years, at her home three miles south of Anthony, April 1st, of erysipelas and pneumonia. She is no more. The light of another home is gone out, and the sweet image of its brooding dove taken flight forever. The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return, a mother's is beyond the reach of the now lonely, hapless ones, who were her sole care. To the sad inquiries and piteous supplications of the forlorn ones of that now desolate home, there is no answer save that of becoming tears. No other presence, however loving can fill that once so gentle, now silent Mother's place.
I miss thee, my Mother! they image is still
The deepest, impressed on my heart,
And the tablet, so faithful, must in death be chill
Ere in line of that, in age depart.
Mrs. Harris was born in the state of New York, but moved to Ohio at the age of 6 years, thence to Shelby county, Ind., and was married to J.R. Harris, the 27th of June 1839. They then moved to Illinois in 1864, where they lived till 1885, when they emigrated to Harper county, where they have lived since. She was an earnest member of the Presbyterian church from girlhood, a kind loving and indulgent wife, perfectly devoted to her husband and children, and always erred on the side of mercy. It is said that death loves a shining mark and with his keen sickle, has cut down the fairest flower of a home, and darkened the heart of an aged and loving husband whom, with three children, Julian, Theodore, and Virginia F., she leaves to mourn her loss. For the husband in this gloomy time words were empty. The blight, the agony, of such sorrow, only those whom it has thus touched can tell. It is of troubled water, an awful gulf - vexed and dark - which even the light of hope can but faintly relieve.
The funeral took place on the following Sunday from the residence, at 11 o'clock. Rev. Rehorn, of the Christian church conducted the services. The remains were laid to rest in the Spring Grove cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2023
The Anthony Journal
Anthony, Kansas
Thursday, April 14, 1887
page 8
A Dear Mother Gone.
Died - Mrs. J.R. Harris, aged 79 years, at her home three miles south of Anthony, April 1st, of erysipelas and pneumonia. She is no more. The light of another home is gone out, and the sweet image of its brooding dove taken flight forever. The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return, a mother's is beyond the reach of the now lonely, hapless ones, who were her sole care. To the sad inquiries and piteous supplications of the forlorn ones of that now desolate home, there is no answer save that of becoming tears. No other presence, however loving can fill that once so gentle, now silent Mother's place.
I miss thee, my Mother! they image is still
The deepest, impressed on my heart,
And the tablet, so faithful, must in death be chill
Ere in line of that, in age depart.
Mrs. Harris was born in the state of New York, but moved to Ohio at the age of 6 years, thence to Shelby county, Ind., and was married to J.R. Harris, the 27th of June 1839. They then moved to Illinois in 1864, where they lived till 1885, when they emigrated to Harper county, where they have lived since. She was an earnest member of the Presbyterian church from girlhood, a kind loving and indulgent wife, perfectly devoted to her husband and children, and always erred on the side of mercy. It is said that death loves a shining mark and with his keen sickle, has cut down the fairest flower of a home, and darkened the heart of an aged and loving husband whom, with three children, Julian, Theodore, and Virginia F., she leaves to mourn her loss. For the husband in this gloomy time words were empty. The blight, the agony, of such sorrow, only those whom it has thus touched can tell. It is of troubled water, an awful gulf - vexed and dark - which even the light of hope can but faintly relieve.
The funeral took place on the following Sunday from the residence, at 11 o'clock. Rev. Rehorn, of the Christian church conducted the services. The remains were laid to rest in the Spring Grove cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2023
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