NAME: Phil Vinyard
EMAIL: pkvinyard@aol.com
DATE: Feb 03 2001
Death of Henry Fillmore Harris
Henry Fillmore Harris was born September 29th, 1836, in Putnam County, Indiana, and died August 26, 1919, at his home in Harrison Township, Adair County, Iowa, at the age of sixty-two years, nine months and twenty seven days.
When a small child he moved with his parents to Kansas, thence to Missouri, coming to Iowa in 1874 where his father bought and built the present homestead.
After the death of his father he purchased the farm and lived there until his death, a period of forty-five years, having seen this country change from a vast prairie wilderness to a great agricultural industry.
He was married March 21, 1888 to Martha J. Moyers, of Boone County, Iowa. To this union were borh three children, Walter A., Delta I., and Howard F., all of whom reside at home.
He was a kind and loving husband and father. While he never united with any church, he was a devouted believer in the Christian faith. He...at Stuart, Iowa.
He leaves to mourn his departure a wife and three children, also three brothers and three sisters; Simpson Harris, Urich, Missouri; Henmon Harris, Alice H. Scott, Bakersfield, CA; Theodore Harris, Filmore California; Hattie Beaman, Leon, Kansas; Josephine Loucks, Indianola (Mrs. Loucks being the only one present,) and a host of friends and neighbors.
The funeral was held at Fairview August 28th at 2:30, Rev. W., E. Hardaway, of the Stuart Methodist church officiating. Mrs. R. H. Dosh accompanied Mesdames Georgie Taylor and Maude Shoemaker as they sang Beautiful Isle and Jesus Lover of my Soul. The burial was in South Oak Grove Cemetery, the following old friends serving as pall bearers:--Messrs. Herbert and Leonard Dwigans, Elmer Maynes, M. D. Jones, W. Lewis and C. E. B...
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