Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Maggie Monk Harris 1901
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(Cedartown Standard, March 7, 1901) 
Mrs. Maggie Monk Harris, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Desirous 
to live, yet ready to die, Mrs. C. H. Harris passed peacefully away at 6 
o,clock Monday morning after a long illness, surrounded by those whom she loved 
so well. Probably no lady in Cedartown enjoyed to a higher degree the love and 
esteem of the community than did Mrs. Harris. For thirty-five years she has 
lived and labored here, with a helping hand and cheering smile for all, and her 
death is felt as a personal loss by every one who knew her. She lived not for 
herself but for those she loved, and was a most devoted wife and mother and a 
self-sacrificing friend. She was a patient and uncomplaining sufferer for many 
years, from the disease of the heart which finally produced her death, but 
through it all her care was for her family and not herself. Mrs. Harris was 
born in North Carolina, May 19th, 1888, and the town of Magnolis which sprang 
up on her father,s plantation was named for her. As Miss Maggie Mook (or Moon 
unable to read clearly) she graduated from the female college at Warrenton, 
N.C., and on June 18th, 1857, was united in marriage with Dr. Chas. H. Harris. 
Their union was that of two popular and prominent young people with the 
brightest of prospects in life. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Dr. Harris 
went to the front as a surgeon in the Confederate army and sent his family to 
Tuskeegee, Ala., where they remained throughout the conflict. At the close of 
the war Dr. Harris came with his family in 1866 to Cedartown and this has ever 
since been their home. Ten children have blessed their union, a little girl 
dying in infancy. Their children have been their joy and pride, and have been 
an honor to them. Prot. J. C. Harris is the efficient superintendent of Rome,s 
public schools, Mrs. C. G. Janes is the estimable wife of the Judge of this 
judicial circuit, Capt. P. C. Harris is a gallant officer in the United States 
Army and has been honored by appointment to the Pan American Exposition 
Commission. Mr. Will J. Harris is the popular private secretary of Senator A. 
S. Clay, Fr. Seale Harris is a prominent practitioner at Union Springs, Ala., 
Miss Della Harris is a successful teacher in the State School for the Death at 
Cave Spring, and Misser Prairie and Lizzie and Mr. Hunter Harris are excellent 
young people. Their mother has been to them an inspiration and a guide, as they 
have been to her the objects of ceaseless devotion and affection. Mrs. Harris 
was a member of the Methodist church, and a devout Christian lady who sought to 
make her life tally with the teachings of the Great Examplar. Funeral services 
have been delayed until 10 o,clock this morning to permit the arrival of Capt. 
Harris from Buffalo, N.Y. Brief services will be conducted at the residence on 
Park Avenue, conducted by Rev. C. K. Henderson, assisted by Revs. T. B. McCarty 
and G. E. Benedlet. Dr. Henderson has been for many years the warm personal 
friend of the deceased, and she especially requested that he conduct the 
service. A large concourse of sorrowing neighbors and friends will follow the 
remains to their last resting place this morning, and give to the bereaved 
family the sweet assurance of the highest degree of human sympathy. (Cedartown 
Standard, March 7, 1901) 


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