GRANDMOTHER JULIA HARRIS PASSED AWAY MONDAY
Has Been Ill Several Years-Funeral Services at Evangelical Church At 2 O'clock Today
Julia Amanda Jones Harris was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, Jan. 13, 1830, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks, May 10, 1915, aged 85 years, 3 months and 27 days.
When about six years of age her father died and she went to live with an aunt in Coshocton Co., Ohio. June 1846, at the age sixteen and a half years she was married to William Harris. Shortly after marriage they moved to Knox Co., Ohio. In June of 1849, with their goods loaded in a one-horse wagon, they started for Adams Co., Ind., where they had entered the land on which she lived for 66 years.
Her husband died Sept. 6, 1871. She was the mother of six children. Those living are Bernard P. Harris of Portland, Mrs. John W. Reffey of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks of Berne, Ind. those that preceded her in death are Samuel, an infant, Sarah J. Ray Handley, and Thomas H. Harris. She leaves twenty-two grand-children and thirty-four great-grandchildren.
At the age of fifteen she united with the Baptist church at Coshocton Co., Ohio. After moving to Indiana she was not affiliated with any church until in 1875, when she became one of the organization members of the Sharon Evangelical Lutheran church, which was located three and a half miles northeast of Berne.
May 9 1907, she fell and broke her hip and has not been able to walk since. For the last eighteen weeks she was confined to her bed. During all these years of feebleness and suffering she was very patient, never complaining, but was cheerful and resigned, always trusting in the Lord.
Has Been Ill Several Years-Funeral Services at Evangelical Church At 2 O'clock Today
Julia Amanda Jones Harris was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, Jan. 13, 1830, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks, May 10, 1915, aged 85 years, 3 months and 27 days.
When about six years of age her father died and she went to live with an aunt in Coshocton Co., Ohio. June 1846, at the age sixteen and a half years she was married to William Harris. Shortly after marriage they moved to Knox Co., Ohio. In June of 1849, with their goods loaded in a one-horse wagon, they started for Adams Co., Ind., where they had entered the land on which she lived for 66 years.
Her husband died Sept. 6, 1871. She was the mother of six children. Those living are Bernard P. Harris of Portland, Mrs. John W. Reffey of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks of Berne, Ind. those that preceded her in death are Samuel, an infant, Sarah J. Ray Handley, and Thomas H. Harris. She leaves twenty-two grand-children and thirty-four great-grandchildren.
At the age of fifteen she united with the Baptist church at Coshocton Co., Ohio. After moving to Indiana she was not affiliated with any church until in 1875, when she became one of the organization members of the Sharon Evangelical Lutheran church, which was located three and a half miles northeast of Berne.
May 9 1907, she fell and broke her hip and has not been able to walk since. For the last eighteen weeks she was confined to her bed. During all these years of feebleness and suffering she was very patient, never complaining, but was cheerful and resigned, always trusting in the Lord.
GRANDMOTHER JULIA HARRIS PASSED AWAY MONDAY
Has Been Ill Several Years-Funeral Services at Evangelical Church At 2 O'clock Today
Julia Amanda Jones Harris was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, Jan. 13, 1830, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks, May 10, 1915, aged 85 years, 3 months and 27 days.
When about six years of age her father died and she went to live with an aunt in Coshocton Co., Ohio. June 1846, at the age sixteen and a half years she was married to William Harris. Shortly after marriage they moved to Knox Co., Ohio. In June of 1849, with their goods loaded in a one-horse wagon, they started for Adams Co., Ind., where they had entered the land on which she lived for 66 years.
Her husband died Sept. 6, 1871. She was the mother of six children. Those living are Bernard P. Harris of Portland, Mrs. John W. Reffey of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks of Berne, Ind. those that preceded her in death are Samuel, an infant, Sarah J. Ray Handley, and Thomas H. Harris. She leaves twenty-two grand-children and thirty-four great-grandchildren.
At the age of fifteen she united with the Baptist church at Coshocton Co., Ohio. After moving to Indiana she was not affiliated with any church until in 1875, when she became one of the organization members of the Sharon Evangelical Lutheran church, which was located three and a half miles northeast of Berne.
May 9 1907, she fell and broke her hip and has not been able to walk since. For the last eighteen weeks she was confined to her bed. During all these years of feebleness and suffering she was very patient, never complaining, but was cheerful and resigned, always trusting in the Lord.
Has Been Ill Several Years-Funeral Services at Evangelical Church At 2 O'clock Today
Julia Amanda Jones Harris was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, Jan. 13, 1830, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks, May 10, 1915, aged 85 years, 3 months and 27 days.
When about six years of age her father died and she went to live with an aunt in Coshocton Co., Ohio. June 1846, at the age sixteen and a half years she was married to William Harris. Shortly after marriage they moved to Knox Co., Ohio. In June of 1849, with their goods loaded in a one-horse wagon, they started for Adams Co., Ind., where they had entered the land on which she lived for 66 years.
Her husband died Sept. 6, 1871. She was the mother of six children. Those living are Bernard P. Harris of Portland, Mrs. John W. Reffey of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Mrs. Wm. P. Hendricks of Berne, Ind. those that preceded her in death are Samuel, an infant, Sarah J. Ray Handley, and Thomas H. Harris. She leaves twenty-two grand-children and thirty-four great-grandchildren.
At the age of fifteen she united with the Baptist church at Coshocton Co., Ohio. After moving to Indiana she was not affiliated with any church until in 1875, when she became one of the organization members of the Sharon Evangelical Lutheran church, which was located three and a half miles northeast of Berne.
May 9 1907, she fell and broke her hip and has not been able to walk since. For the last eighteen weeks she was confined to her bed. During all these years of feebleness and suffering she was very patient, never complaining, but was cheerful and resigned, always trusting in the Lord.
Inscription
William Harris, Julia A, His Wife
