The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, October 26, 1884
pg. 3

A SUDDEN DEATH
Up to 3 o'clock Tuesday evening Mrs. E.C. Harbison was enjoying ordinary health, but at that hour, and while watching over her sick children, death swooped down and snatched her life away, and draped her household in mourning.  The physicians ascribe her sudden demise to heart disease.
Deceased was the wife of E.C. Harbison, of the grocery firm of Harbison & Wilson.
The sincere sympathy of the entire community go out in chorus to Mr. Harbison and his motherless children.



The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, November 16, 1884

Only two weeks ago Mr. E.C. Harbison had the misfortune to lose his wife by death.  True to the old adage that misfortunes never come singly, fate calls upon us to record the death and burial of his five-year-old daughter, Lizzie.  She died Tuesday and was buried the following day.