Baldwin-Fulton-Randolph County GaArchives Biographies.....Harrison, Frances Simpson West February 7, 1807 - October 29, 1901
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Author: Lois Harrison Colwell

Frances Simpson West Harrison
1807-1901



	Frances Simpson West Harrison was the second wife of George W. 
Harrison.  She was born 7 February 1807 in North Carolina the daughter of 
Joseph and Sarah (Stanley) West.  Frances was living in Baldwin County, Georgia 
when she met and married George W. Harrison.  They moved to Randolph County, 
Georgia early in their marriage and remained there until moving back to 
Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia when her husband was elected Secretary 
of State.  Milledgeville was then the Capitol of Georgia.  Only four years 
later George died leaving Frances with six young children to raise.  She did 
this by turning her home, across the street from the Capitol, into a boarding 
house.
	Education was very important to Frances and she saw that all her 
children were educated, even the girls, either through "higher" education or 
apprenticeships.  She did well in this endeavor as all of her children achieved 
in their varied fields and were later recognized by their peers, communities, 
counties and state.  She taught them to be "good citizens" of this new country, 
new state, new city and they learned well.  In her 94 years she was able to see 
the results of her early labors.  She was a strongly religious woman of strong 
character with many friends and close family.
	Frances saw her family through the years before, during and after the 
War Between the States.  Following that War she and her family moved to 
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia where they became involved with the 
reconstruction of that city and the state of Georgia.  Her sons were, John 
Thomas Harrison, the only son to be in the regular confederate army; Zadok 
Daniel Harrison, Clerk of the Georgia Supreme Court for 60 years; James Polk 
Harrison was part owner of the Franklin Steam Printing House in Atlanta and 
owner of The Christian Index; youngest son, George Washington Harrison was well 
known and respected in the publishing circles of Atlanta and Georgia as was his 
older brother.  He became owner of The Harrison Printing Company, state 
printers in Atlanta.  Her daughters were, Georgia Harrison who married 
Alexander Wallace Starke of Virginia.  He was a lawyer, printer and Alabama 
politician.  She became a teacher in Atlanta after his death.  Daughter Nora 
married E. Y. Clarke, one-time owner and Editor of the Atlanta Constitution. 
Nora was an accomplished pianist.
	Frances West Harrison died in 1901 in Atlanta, Georgia.  She was 
taken "home" to Milledgeville to rest beside her husband and son, John Thomas, 
in Historic Memory Hill Cemetery. She was indeed a pioneer woman!   

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