HARRIS, Anna 1870 - 1888

HARRIS, JONES

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/4/2024 at 20:29:19

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, August 8, 1888
Page 3, Column 9

DEATH OF ANNIE HARRIS.

Died, in Fairfield, Iowa, Aug. 24, of bilious fever, Annie HARRIS, aged 7 years (sic), 11 months and 7 days. A devout communicant of the Episcopal church; modest, dutiful and faithful in every relation of life. They only truly mourn the dead who endeavor so to live as to insure a reunion in heaven.

"How short the race our friend has run,
Cut down in all her bloom;
The course but yesterday begun,
Now finished in the tomb.

Thou joyous youth, hence learn how soon
Thy years may end their flight;
Long, long before life's brillians noon
May come death's gloomy night.

To serve thy God no longer wait,
Today His voice regard,
Tomorrow mercy's open gate
May be forever barred."

H.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday Morning, August 8, 1888
Page 3, Column 3

DIED.--Thursday, July 21, Annie HARRIS, aged 17 years, 11 months, and 7 days. A devout communicant of the Episcopal church; modest, dutiful and faithful in every relation of life.

"How short the race our friend has run,
Cut down in all her bloom;
The course but yesterday begun,
Now finished in the tomb.

"Thou joyous youth, hence learn how soon
Thy years may end their flight;
Long, long before life's brillians noon
May come death's gloomy night.

"To serve thy God no longer wait,
To-day His voice regard.
To-morrow mercy's gate
May be forever barred."

H.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Friday, September 14, 1888
Page 3, Column 6

Marriages, Births and Deaths.

... Deaths.--Aug. 2, in Fairfield, of gastric fever, Anna HARRIS, aged 17 years, 11 months, 24 days. ...

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, in Lot Old.P.198, with no gravestone. Her obituaries provide differing dates of death, however according to her Death Certificate, she died August 2, 1888, at 6 a.m., and was buried on August 3rd. Her death was not reported until September 8th, for whatever reasons. She was born August 8, 1870, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth JONES HARRIS.