Harmon, Elizabeth (Fox) -- 1818 - 1894

HARMON, FOX, MADDEN, KEEFE, DWYER

Posted By: William J. Hughes (email)
Date: 12/10/2005 at 19:06:01

Transcript of Obituary of Elizabeth Fox Harmon Decorah Iowa Republican October 11, 1894

Transcribed because the copy of the original is alomost unreadable.

DIED

HARMON - At her home in Decorah on the morning of the 6th, Mrs. Bernard Harmon, in her 77th year.

Elizabeth Fox was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, May 11, 1818. In 1836 she married Bernard Harmon, and the following year they immigrated to America, settling in Ohio. Subsequently they moved to Kentucky thence to New Orleans and in 1850 their eyes were turned toward Iowa and Providence led them to this county. They preemted what is now the Jacob Headington farm on Franklin Prairie and there they lived until 1861, when the family came to Decorah to reside. In 1869 the husband died, and since then deceased has made a home with and for her children. She was the mother of eleven children, six of whom survive her. These are Mrs. Richard Madden, Mrs. Patrick Keefe, and the sons John, Bernard, Michael A. and Joseph, the latter residing in Duluth. To a host of young people, many of them not of kith or kin, she was the genial "grand ma". She was smitten with a apopletic stroke while engaged in early morning labors Friday, from which she died on Saturday morning. The funeral was held on Teusday forenoon from her home on the corner of River and Vernon streets, thence to the Catholic church from which the remains were taken to their last resting place in the cemetery. A kind old mother, and another of the early pioneers is at rest.

Coordinator's note: There is a Bernard Harmon buried in the Phelps cemetery