Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....Harris, Sr., Uncle Alsie G. October 1896
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The Henry County Weekly, Oct. 23, 1896
Death of Uncle Alsie Harris.
     The news that Mr. A. G. Harris, Sr. (Uncle Alsie, as he is familiarly 
known) had taken his own life at Flippen last Saturday, caused much surprise
and sadness throughout the community.
     It was the result of mental abberation. For two or three weeks his family
have been aware that his mind was giving away, and though nothing serious was
apprehended, had been carefully looking after him in order to prevent an 
accident befalling him, on account of his condition and extreme age.
     Everything possible has been done for Mr. Harris by his family to provide
for his comfort and pleasure, in his age, and Mr. Ab Harris, his son, occupied
a room adjoining his. At 2 o'clock Saturday night he went in to see how his
father was resting, and found him quietly sleeping. He made another visit about
4 o'clock, and was astonished to find the bed empty. He peered out a window 
which was found open, and almost in an arms length was horrified to find his 
aged father hanging by the neck to the limb of a tree, with life extinct. He 
had taken the sheet from his bed, twisted it into a rope, which he tied to a 
limb of a tree and stepped from a chair.
     Mr. Harris was 90 years of age, and was one of the best men that ever 
lived. No man was ever absolutely freer from harm to anyone, and his friends
were numbered by the score. He had the unreserved confidence and esteem of all
who knew him. Verily a good man has gone to his reward, leaving behind him a 
clear record and the example of a pure life.
     His remains were interred in the Flippen cemetery Sunday afternoon, Rev.
J. A. Thurman performing the funeral ceremony, and a very large number of people
gathered to pay the last sad tribute of respect.

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