The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-27
GEO. N. HARPER HAS
FALLEN TO. SLEEP
LONG PERIOD OF PATIENT
SUFFERING WAS ENDED
LATE YESTERDAY
FUNERAL TODAY
Services Will Be Held at the
Home at q O'Clock-Inter-
ment at Silver Brook
FUNERAL TODAY

! George Marshall Harper. after a
long life fraught with sweetness
and gentleness that cndeared him To
the hearts OF all who knew him. has
fallen asleep. the end coming peace
fully in the hush of late yesterday af-
ternoon and bringing surcease from
pain OF an illness that had held him
since the first of the year.
The news OF his death will bring
sadness to the hearts of g multitude
of people. who loved and admired him
for what he was. kind, gentle ard
unassuming Christian, who preferred
his own hearthstone. and to do good
In his quiet way, rather than the ways
OF public life. His death takes away
a father who was the embodiment OF
the ideal. and removes from the COM
munity citizen who bore an unfair
nished name and whose influence for
righteousness worked quietly but none
the less effectively
Funeral Today.
The funeral services will be held
this afternoon at o'clock at the
home. 233 Greensiiie street and Will
be conducted by the Rev. John w.
Speake pastor of st. Johns Methodist
church. of which Mr.. Harper was a
consistent and consecrated member.
DIR. w. n. Frazer, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church. will assist in the
funeral services. Interment will be
in the family plot at Silver Brook
cemetery.
Those who will serve as pallbearers
are: Active: Messrs. r. s. Ligon, c..
Y. Browne. w. w. White. L. p. Smith,
b. b. Bleckley and Fred G. Tribble.
Honorary: Messrs. ]. b. Sanders.
Frank Crayton. A. H. Osborne, ]. F.
Ciinkscales. W. T. w. Harrison and
Cowan Brock.
| 4 Patient Sufferer.
MIR. Harper was taken sick the first
OF January. this year. and for the past
two weeks his death was expected AL
most hourly. Several weeks ago It
was thought that he was dying and
members of the immediate family
were summoned to his bedside. but
he rallied and continued to improve
a few days ago q turn for the worse
took place. and again the members of
the family were summoned. With the
exception OF one son. DIR. William G..
Harper. who lies i'll In Pennsylvania
hospital. all the members of the i'm
mediate family were at Mr.. Harper's
bedside when the end came. He was
patient sufferer and bore up under
MS Illness with Christian fortitude.
He was Ill for eight weeks.
"a Years of Age.
MIR. Harper was q son of William
~ and Nancy Harper. and was born
IN the lower part of Anderson County
November 26, 1841 EARLY In life he
was married to Miss Anna III. Browne.
daughter OF the late Samuel Browne.
OF broadway township, their wedding
taxing place on December 1S. 1867.
(, Up until the breaking out of the
civil War Mr.. Harper made his home
In the section where he was born.
When the call TO arms came he enlist
ed In Co. X, Orr's regiment. and
served throughout the war. mostly in
virginia and Maryland He was in
some of the most important battles of
tue war and received wounds on two
battlefelds. first at the second battle.
OF Manassas and second at the bat
tie OF Chancellorsville.
Moved to Greeutllle.
After the war Mr.. Harper returnea
TO Anderson County, but in 1875 moy-
ed to Greenyille County. He made his
home in that county until 1855 when
ne bought the Willis Pruitt place
four miles north of Anderson and set
tied there. He continued to live ON
the farm until about ID years ago
When he sold his plantation and
moved to the city
some four years ago his wifa died
On the first of january, this year. his
only living sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Hal
lentine. died. He In snrvivad hv sd,
children and one brother. The chill,
arep are: Rev. S. B. Harper. pastor of
bethel Methodist church, Charleston.
and one of the hest known figures In
,he South Carolina conference SAM
icl ID. Harner of this eitv MEG yKys IN.
Folly OF Anderson, Mrs. Clarence GA
borne of this CITY; DR.. William q,
Harner OF AbbevilIe. and DR. DANES
2, Harper OF Ba,to1. HIS SURVIVING
brdther is 7. NJ; Harl,er of the EureJSa
section of the county. He is survived
also by eight grandchildren y 9s - ~