The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-18
GEN.G.P. HARRISON DIES SUDDENLY AT
 HOME IN OPELIKA
Former Commander of U. c. V. Dies at 0pelika, Leaving EnviabIe Record as Mill
 tary Leader

Opelika. July 17.-(Special.)- Funeral services for Gen. George P. Harrison, whose death occurred here this morning at 11:2O after an i'll. ness of three weeks, will be held Wednesday afternoon at o'clock from the First Methodist church. The services will be conducted by the local Masonic order of which Gen erai Harrison was prominent mem- Der of long standing.
 General Harrison had been In de- clining health for three years. but three weeks ago his condition be- came serious and the end this morn ing, which came as though he were falling asleep. was not unexpected. For the greater part of his life ne had heen foremost citizen of 0pe- lika, Lee county. and always took a very active and prominent part in the public life and affairs of this section. as well as the state at large
 Surviving, besides the wife, are one daughter. Miss Mamie Harrl- son, and one son. George Paul HarrI- son. Jr.
 General Harrison entered the Com federate army when he was IS years old as a second lieutenant in the Fitst Georgia regiment Promotion followed rapidly and at 20 he was a colonel. Two years later he received q commission as brigadier general.
 He occupied a seat in the lower house of Congress from 1894 to 1897 and was a state senator for 12 years
 Railroad Counsel.
 For many years General Harrison was counsel for the Western Rail way of Alabama and the Central of Georgia. Funeral arrangements wee not completed at an early hour this afternoon.
 Besides occupying a seat in the lower house of the National House of Representatives from 1894 to 1887 he was a state senator for 12 years and president of the Alabama senate from 1882 to 1884. He was a delegate to the Alabama constitutional con ventions of 1875 and 1900. He rep resented his state at the Democratic national convention in Chicago In 1892.
 He was president of the Alabama Bar Association for two years. be- Ing elected Tn 1905.
 Sketch Of His Life.
 General Harrison was born at Monteith plantation, near Savannah, Ga.. March 19. 1S4f. Ills parents were General George P. and Ade- laide Quinn Harrison. He was a direct lineal descendant of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia. signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was married to Miss Sara Nunnally, of LaGrange, Ga, November 20. 1900.
 lie was graduated with first hon ors. rank of captain, from the Georgia Military Institute. He en- tered the Confederate army as sec- ond lieutenant of the First Georgia regiment. He was promoted to first lieutenant. then to major, colonel and brigadier general.
 Prominent Lawyer.
 After the war he followed the quiet occupation of farming in Ala bama for several years. He took up the study of law in 1871 after a year as commandant of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn. and for many years he divided his time between the practice of his pro- fe ssion and politics.
 He was grand master fthe Ala bama Masons from 1894 to 1896. He took much interest in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, of W hich he was an active layman. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.