Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-06

After Il years illness, Mr.. John
L. Harrison, one OF Audrain coun-
tvs best known citizens died at his
home near Benton City August so,
and his remains were inferred at
the cemetery in Benton on the af-
ternoon of August 31st, by the Ma
sonic Fraternity. The services at
the grave were conducted by Sir
Knights Edwards and Treloar. The
paIlDearers were $. NJ. Edwards, S.
s. Craig, a. G. Turner, John Yates,
J. +. Moore and \. j. Douglass.
The following Knight Templars
were present: Sir Knights Treloar,
Edwards, Craig, White, kabrich,
Tucker, Mcmillan, Wright, Steele,
Maddox, Yates and Trimble. Mas
ter Masons who attended the funeral
were MesSrs Houston, Turner, Bick-
ley. Blum, Ryerson, Barnes, Moore,
Minor, Fowle, Rebman, Cant,
Harper. Douglass, Houghland and
Hatcher. Mr.. Harrison was greatly
liked by all who knew him and was
one of our most highly respected
citizens. The funeral was one OF
the largest if not the very largest we
ever attended in Audraln county.
Mr.. Harrison n Il prominent
Mason and 4 member of the State
Democratic CentralCommittee and Il
very active farmer and stock raiser.
His loss will he greatly felt in this
county.
John T. Harrison, in 1852, then
Il young man, and ambitious to get
a start in life, concluded to cast his
fortunes with the great West beyond
theCordilleras and accordingly cross
ell the plains over to the Pacific
coast and spent six years engaged
III mining and teamingin California.
Going for IA purpose, and having
the industry and courage to perse-
we're liz that purpose--the accumu-
latiOn Of Il start i'll life-he worked
faithfully in asO and out of sea-
son, and was not disappointed in
his expectations or unrewarded for
his toll. He had been reared in
Galloway county, born there on the
10th of August, 1927, and at the
end of his six years of hard work
in California he gladly turned his
course homeward. For besides de-
siringt to spend his days in old Mis-
souri,, there was one here of whom
he had long and fondly dreamed,
and whom he hoped soon to make
the wife of his bosom. Soon after
his return, in 1857, he was mar
ried TO Miss Sallie A. Billiard, the
loved one of his boyhood days and,
later, of the morning of his man.
hood. Married and having by his own
labor accumulated enough to estab-
lish himself rs a farmer, he came to
Audrain county and bought a tract
of 300 acres on the Galloway line,
where he went to work with courage
and a light heart to make himself a
home which, with her whom he
loved, he knew would be a happy
one. He opened a fine farm, and
Us the years in after life came and
went he prospered abundantly. But
alas for human hopes of happiness
in this life. With the blooming of
the flowers in the spring of 1868,
and the waiting of the zephyrs from
the sunny Southland, came the
messenger Of death, and bore away
the gentle spirit of his loving wife
to its home beyond the grave. She
left one child, the memento of the
happy life she had lived with her
devoted husband. 1t, too, IA
borne to the grave, while still in
childhood. Mr.. Harrison sustain
ed himself in his lonely home with
the fortitude such as only the man
with Il brave heart can do in the
midst of so sad 4 bereavement.
Wearing his sorrow for two years,
he now saw that tender as was the
memory of his buried love, tho
most of life was still before him, and
that having been so happy in his
home with her who was now gone,
he might hope to restore that bright
ness in his household with another,
who was in every way worthy OF
his affection. He was, therefore,
in 1865, married to Miss Mary a.
Baker. This union proved, also,
n happy one, but was not of long
duration. On the 2Sth Of April,
1872, she was called away by the
Angel OF Death. Four children were
born OF his second wife. Their
names: Charles r., Lena and James
Erwin. One was unchristened. On
the 2Sth of May, 1874, Mr.. Harri-
son was married to Miss Elizabeth
H., an amiabIe daughter Of Nicholas
Harper, one of the early settlers of
Galloway county. MIR. Harper came
TO the Kingdom of Galloway as early
as 1924. He died there in 1850.
His wife's maIden name was Lucy
Jamison. Mrs. Harrison has long
been an exemplary member of the
Christian church Mr. Harrison ,vas |