The Davis City Advance, Davis City, Iowa
Thursday, July 11, l895

'Mrs. Rena Harrison of Lowery, Cal., is Claimed by Death.
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Died, at the residence of W.W. Wheeler at Lowery, Tehama Co., Cal., on July 6th at 4:30 p.m., after a year's suffering of that dreaded disease consumption, MRS. RENA BELLE HARRISON, aged 24 years, 8 months and 29 days.

RENA B. WHEELER was born in the State of Iowa in the County of Poweshiek. She was the youngest child of the family of four children; three boys and one girl. One brother has preceded her in the journey from time to eternity. Her mother died when she was a mere child.

In the year l890, February 20, she was married to EUGENE HARRISON, with whom she lived until Oct. l894, at which time he was called away by the unsparing hand of death. To them was born one child, EDDIE, who also preceded his mother to the happy shores to the Eden fields of God.

She now leaves a father and two brothers and a host of friends to mourn her loss.

To know RENA was to love her. RENA in company with her father and one brother came to California for her health, where she gathered around her by gentle affections in her new home a host of friends who administered to her every earthly want, but alas, death claimed his own. She bore her pain and sickness with Christian patience, never murmuring at her misfortune, and her spirit took its happy flight to that golden shore there to meet her darling EDDIE, who stands with outstretched arms ready to welcome his loving mother.

In the loss of our beloved RENA, we lose a good and kind neighbor and a great Sabbath Shool worker, where she will be greatly missed. But our great loss is her eternal gain.

The funeral sermon was preached in the Lowery Church, where a large concourse of people followed the corpse to the neat little cemetery, where the body was interred.

Scriptures used were Acts 9:36-43 and lst Cor. l5:4l-58. Rev. T.F. Rawlins of the church of christ officiated. The service closed by the singing of her favorite hymn, "We'll Never Say Good Bye."

--R.M. COHENOUR
Lowery, Cal., July 8, l895.

MRS. HARRISON has a brother and many warm friends here, who regret to lose so loving a friend and sister. May God's loving hand help bear them up in this sorrowful affliction.

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September 4, 2003