Los Angeles Times – August 8, 1916:
WOMAN PATRIOT IS CALLED BY DEATH
Was Army Nurse, Traveler and Lecturer
Received Pension From Government Because of Civil War Service and Later Talked Publicly on Psychology and Metaphysics. Funeral Services this Morning.
Mrs. Hattie Harris, 77 years old, nurse in the field during the Civil War and traveler and lecturer in later years, died at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in the Angelo apartments, No. 209 South Olive street. The funeral will be conducted this morning at 10 o'clock at the Faris, Carmichael chapel, Tenth and Flower streets, under the auspices of Stanton Woman's Relief Corps. The interment will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris was born in New York and when a young woman went to Wisconsin, where she married Nathan Hungerford, who enlisted as a volunteer when the Civil War started. She was a woman of intense patriotism and decided to follow her husband into the field. She became an army nurse and gave loyal service during the rebellion.
Several years after the death of Mr. Hungerford she married Charles Harris of Wisconsin. Later she moved to Denver, and about three years ago came to Los Angeles, to be with her only daughter, Mrs. Ida Shattuck. For years she was prominent in patriotic organizations and philanthropic work. She was a speaker of rare ability, a deep student and thinker, and traveled throughout the United States, giving lectures on patriotic subjects and psychology and metaphysics. Recently she had lived a retired life, on account of growing infirmities.
She was a member of the Army Nurses' Association, as well as of the Relief Corps at Cripple Creek, Colo., and was pensioned by the government as an army nurse. She was a woman of beautiful character and wide sympathies with humanity.
After coming to Los Angeles Mrs. Harris frequently lectured in Hollywood and before private assemblages, especially on metaphysics.
WOMAN PATRIOT IS CALLED BY DEATH
Was Army Nurse, Traveler and Lecturer
Received Pension From Government Because of Civil War Service and Later Talked Publicly on Psychology and Metaphysics. Funeral Services this Morning.
Mrs. Hattie Harris, 77 years old, nurse in the field during the Civil War and traveler and lecturer in later years, died at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in the Angelo apartments, No. 209 South Olive street. The funeral will be conducted this morning at 10 o'clock at the Faris, Carmichael chapel, Tenth and Flower streets, under the auspices of Stanton Woman's Relief Corps. The interment will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris was born in New York and when a young woman went to Wisconsin, where she married Nathan Hungerford, who enlisted as a volunteer when the Civil War started. She was a woman of intense patriotism and decided to follow her husband into the field. She became an army nurse and gave loyal service during the rebellion.
Several years after the death of Mr. Hungerford she married Charles Harris of Wisconsin. Later she moved to Denver, and about three years ago came to Los Angeles, to be with her only daughter, Mrs. Ida Shattuck. For years she was prominent in patriotic organizations and philanthropic work. She was a speaker of rare ability, a deep student and thinker, and traveled throughout the United States, giving lectures on patriotic subjects and psychology and metaphysics. Recently she had lived a retired life, on account of growing infirmities.
She was a member of the Army Nurses' Association, as well as of the Relief Corps at Cripple Creek, Colo., and was pensioned by the government as an army nurse. She was a woman of beautiful character and wide sympathies with humanity.
After coming to Los Angeles Mrs. Harris frequently lectured in Hollywood and before private assemblages, especially on metaphysics.
Los Angeles Times – August 8, 1916:
WOMAN PATRIOT IS CALLED BY DEATH
Was Army Nurse, Traveler and Lecturer
Received Pension From Government Because of Civil War Service and Later Talked Publicly on Psychology and Metaphysics. Funeral Services this Morning.
Mrs. Hattie Harris, 77 years old, nurse in the field during the Civil War and traveler and lecturer in later years, died at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in the Angelo apartments, No. 209 South Olive street. The funeral will be conducted this morning at 10 o'clock at the Faris, Carmichael chapel, Tenth and Flower streets, under the auspices of Stanton Woman's Relief Corps. The interment will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris was born in New York and when a young woman went to Wisconsin, where she married Nathan Hungerford, who enlisted as a volunteer when the Civil War started. She was a woman of intense patriotism and decided to follow her husband into the field. She became an army nurse and gave loyal service during the rebellion.
Several years after the death of Mr. Hungerford she married Charles Harris of Wisconsin. Later she moved to Denver, and about three years ago came to Los Angeles, to be with her only daughter, Mrs. Ida Shattuck. For years she was prominent in patriotic organizations and philanthropic work. She was a speaker of rare ability, a deep student and thinker, and traveled throughout the United States, giving lectures on patriotic subjects and psychology and metaphysics. Recently she had lived a retired life, on account of growing infirmities.
She was a member of the Army Nurses' Association, as well as of the Relief Corps at Cripple Creek, Colo., and was pensioned by the government as an army nurse. She was a woman of beautiful character and wide sympathies with humanity.
After coming to Los Angeles Mrs. Harris frequently lectured in Hollywood and before private assemblages, especially on metaphysics.
WOMAN PATRIOT IS CALLED BY DEATH
Was Army Nurse, Traveler and Lecturer
Received Pension From Government Because of Civil War Service and Later Talked Publicly on Psychology and Metaphysics. Funeral Services this Morning.
Mrs. Hattie Harris, 77 years old, nurse in the field during the Civil War and traveler and lecturer in later years, died at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in the Angelo apartments, No. 209 South Olive street. The funeral will be conducted this morning at 10 o'clock at the Faris, Carmichael chapel, Tenth and Flower streets, under the auspices of Stanton Woman's Relief Corps. The interment will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris was born in New York and when a young woman went to Wisconsin, where she married Nathan Hungerford, who enlisted as a volunteer when the Civil War started. She was a woman of intense patriotism and decided to follow her husband into the field. She became an army nurse and gave loyal service during the rebellion.
Several years after the death of Mr. Hungerford she married Charles Harris of Wisconsin. Later she moved to Denver, and about three years ago came to Los Angeles, to be with her only daughter, Mrs. Ida Shattuck. For years she was prominent in patriotic organizations and philanthropic work. She was a speaker of rare ability, a deep student and thinker, and traveled throughout the United States, giving lectures on patriotic subjects and psychology and metaphysics. Recently she had lived a retired life, on account of growing infirmities.
She was a member of the Army Nurses' Association, as well as of the Relief Corps at Cripple Creek, Colo., and was pensioned by the government as an army nurse. She was a woman of beautiful character and wide sympathies with humanity.
After coming to Los Angeles Mrs. Harris frequently lectured in Hollywood and before private assemblages, especially on metaphysics.
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