ANDERSONVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
to this church cemetery by the Corp of Engineers, because of the Hartwell Dam and Reservoir Project around 1961.
Mary Eunice PERRIN Harrison was the oldest surviving daughter in the Perrin family. She was educated in the Abbeville schools and attended the private school of Madame Dupre.She married Francis E. Harrison, as his second wife, on 10 May 1861 at Abbeville, and accompanied her new husband to his family plantation at Andersonville on the Savannah River. She was a bride of two months when her husband left for service in the Civil War. Mary remained at their home in
Andersonville and cared for her four young stepchildren. Letters exchanged between her and her husband during the Civil War are in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the papers of her son, Thomas Perrin Harrison. These letters, some of which were published in a book about the Harrison family written by her son, reflect her anxiety for her husband, her loneliness during the War years, and her fear when Yankee soldiers invaded and looted her home in July 1865.When she died in 1874 at age 42, her five children were aged four to nine. Her husband's third wife was Mary's first cousin, Elizabeth Perrin Cothran.
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ANDERSONVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
to this church cemetery by the Corp of Engineers, because of the Hartwell Dam and Reservoir Project around 1961.
Mary Eunice PERRIN Harrison was the oldest surviving daughter in the Perrin family. She was educated in the Abbeville schools and attended the private school of Madame Dupre.She married Francis E. Harrison, as his second wife, on 10 May 1861 at Abbeville, and accompanied her new husband to his family plantation at Andersonville on the Savannah River. She was a bride of two months when her husband left for service in the Civil War. Mary remained at their home in
Andersonville and cared for her four young stepchildren. Letters exchanged between her and her husband during the Civil War are in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the papers of her son, Thomas Perrin Harrison. These letters, some of which were published in a book about the Harrison family written by her son, reflect her anxiety for her husband, her loneliness during the War years, and her fear when Yankee soldiers invaded and looted her home in July 1865.When she died in 1874 at age 42, her five children were aged four to nine. Her husband's third wife was Mary's first cousin, Elizabeth Perrin Cothran.
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Family Members
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Amanda Elizabeth Perrin
1830–1831
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James Wardlaw Perrin
1833–1890
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Emma Chiles Perrin Cothran
1834–1916
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Hannah Clarke Perrin
1836–1918
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William Henry Perrin
1838–1862
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Lewis Wardlaw Perrin
1839–1907
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Sarah Eliza "Sallie" Perrin White
1841–1925
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Thomas Samuel Perrin
1845–1863
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Francis Hugh Perrin
1846–1854
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George Clopton Perrin Sr
1850–1912
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Robert Coalter Perrin
1852–1853
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