HARRIS, Sarah Catherine “Kate” (Tilson)

Date of birth:  abt 1858
Date of death: 8 Sep 1897 – Rocklane, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 17, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 10, page 6 column 5

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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ROCKLANE.

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Mrs. B. F. Harris, after several weeks illness of typhoid fever, departed this life on Wednesday evening of last week, age 39 years. She united with the church in her maidenhood and remained a true Christian until death. She leaves a husband, three sons and three daugh­ters, the youngest being an infant which is very ill with typhoid fever.

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 87, referencing Book H-18, page 28, records that Kate Harres [sic], a thirty-nine-year-old white female, died 8 Sep 1897 in Rocklane.

Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1875–1901 Volumn 3, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 35 that Benjamin F. Harris married Sarah C. Tilson 9 Aug 1877.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson