Harris, Harriet (Wilcoxson) 1916

Posted By: Dick Folkerth
Date: 11 November 2002

Hattie Wilcoxson Harris; 1916

OBITUARY

Hattie Wilcoxon (sic) was born August 18, 1851, at Cleveland, Ohio. She died November 15, 1916, at Palestine, Ohio, aged 65 years, 2 months and 27 days.

Her father, Archie Wilcoxon (sic), died when she was two and a half years of age. When she was 10 years of age, her mother moved to Kentland, Ind., placing mother in school until the war broke out. Leaving mother with her aunt, she enlisted in the entire war, her husband, Edwin Mattocks ( mother's step father ) serving in the infantry.

Mother received her common school education in the Indiana schools. She finished her education in the high schools at Cleveland, Ohio, and taught her first term in the Cleveland high school at 16 years of age, after which she went to her mother in Indiana who was in ill health. She then taught school in Indiana and Illinois for about twenty years.

Her mother died in October, 1871, after which time she lived with her aunt until her marriage to C. E. Harris, which took place in the M. E. Church at Raub, Ind., September 18, 1876. To this union were born three children, Laura Harris Jefferis, W. Sherman Harris and George Harris. All the children are grown up and have families of their own. All live in or near Palestine, Ohio.

Mother was an ardent church worker, being connected with and an active member in the M. E. Church. She was devoted to her lodges, being the founder of the Juvenile Grange, a great lover of the Pythian Sisters Lodge and has been connected with the W. C. T. U. all her life.

She leaves a husband, daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn her departure.

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Source of the clipping;
Garst Museum, Greenville, Ohio, contained in the Harris family file. The newspaper is not identified. The clipping is hand-annotated '1916'.

Analysis of the clipping;
The clipping had several typos, which I have fixed. However, I left the spelling as Wilcoxon in spite of the fact that the name actually was spelled Wilcoxson. The 1870 Newton County census shows Hattie living with Edward Mattocks, Louisa C. Mattocks and Lucinda Cady. Louisa Caroline Wilcox Wilcoxson Mattocks was Hattie’s mother and Lucinda Wilcox Cady was her aunt … both being the daughters of Asher Wilcox, a resident of Newton County.

Frank Richard Folkerth, November, 2000.

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