Aged 78 years 5 months 5 days. According to her death certificate she was born in 1854, but stone is inscribed 1853. She was a widow of Peter Harrison and the daughter of M. A. Cartwright.
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Mrs. Elizabeth F. Harrison of Springfield, a resident of this city for many years, died suddenly yesterday morning at her home. She was 82 years old. Mrs. Harrison was a granddaughter of Rev. Peter Akers, a Methodist clergyman and educator of this section of the state for nearly a century. He was president of McKendree college at Lebanon two different times and spent the declining years of his life in Jacksonville, where he died in 1886 in his ninety-seventh year.
Surviving Mrs. Harrison are a daughter, Mrs. F. L. Cogswell of New York City, and a granddaughter living in Chicago.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 8-1-1929
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Mrs. Elizabeth F. Harrison of Springfield, a resident of this city for many years, died suddenly yesterday morning at her home. She was 82 years old. Mrs. Harrison was a granddaughter of Rev. Peter Akers, a Methodist clergyman and educator of this section of the state for nearly a century. He was president of McKendree college at Lebanon two different times and spent the declining years of his life in Jacksonville, where he died in 1886 in his ninety-seventh year.
Surviving Mrs. Harrison are a daughter, Mrs. F. L. Cogswell of New York City, and a granddaughter living in Chicago.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 8-1-1929
Aged 78 years 5 months 5 days. According to her death certificate she was born in 1854, but stone is inscribed 1853. She was a widow of Peter Harrison and the daughter of M. A. Cartwright.
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Mrs. Elizabeth F. Harrison of Springfield, a resident of this city for many years, died suddenly yesterday morning at her home. She was 82 years old. Mrs. Harrison was a granddaughter of Rev. Peter Akers, a Methodist clergyman and educator of this section of the state for nearly a century. He was president of McKendree college at Lebanon two different times and spent the declining years of his life in Jacksonville, where he died in 1886 in his ninety-seventh year.
Surviving Mrs. Harrison are a daughter, Mrs. F. L. Cogswell of New York City, and a granddaughter living in Chicago.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 8-1-1929
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Mrs. Elizabeth F. Harrison of Springfield, a resident of this city for many years, died suddenly yesterday morning at her home. She was 82 years old. Mrs. Harrison was a granddaughter of Rev. Peter Akers, a Methodist clergyman and educator of this section of the state for nearly a century. He was president of McKendree college at Lebanon two different times and spent the declining years of his life in Jacksonville, where he died in 1886 in his ninety-seventh year.
Surviving Mrs. Harrison are a daughter, Mrs. F. L. Cogswell of New York City, and a granddaughter living in Chicago.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 8-1-1929
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