Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Charles Hooks Haarris 1917
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(Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA., August23, 1917) 
Dr. Charles Hooks Harris, A golden-hearted gentleman of the old school passed 
way Sunday morning in Cave Spring, when Dr. C. H. Harris departed this life at 
the home of his son, Prof. J. C. Harris. The remains were brought here for 
interment Monday morning, funeral services being conducted at the cemetery by 
his life-long friend, Dr. C. K. Henderson. Charles Hooks Harris was born Feb. 
22, 1835, at Tuskeegee, Ala. and received his education at the University of 
Alabama (where he was a classmate of Hillary A. Herbert, who became Secretary 
of the Navy in President Cleveland’s Cabinet,) and at the University of New 
York. In 1857 he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Ann Monk, of 
Magnolia, N.C., of sainted memory. Both were of distinguished Carolina 
ancestry, and they brought into the world an exceptional family. Standing at 
their father’s grave Monday were five sons who have achieved eminence in their 
life work, Prof. Jas. C. Harris, one of Georgia’s leading educators, now at the 
head of the State School for the Deaf; Adjutant General Peter Charles Harris, 
who has had a long and highly honorable service in the army, and is now one of 
the directing forces in our new army organization; Hon. Wm. J. Harris, now the 
honored chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and who will probably be 
called by the people of Georgia next year to serve them as United States 
Senator; Dr. Seale Harris, of Birmingham, one of Alabama’s leading physicians 
and a medical writer of note; and Capt. Hunter Harris, who has just passed his 
examination for a Major’s commission in expectation of early service in France. 
There are four daughters, Narcissa Ann, the widow of the late Judge C. G. 
James; Miss Margaret; Prairie; Adela wife of Prof. W. T. Garrett; and 
Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John Quinn, of Sandersville. Dr. Harris served as a 
Surgeon throughout the war in the Army of Virginia, and in his young manhood 
came to Cedartown where he was a successful practitioner for half a century, 
ill health causing his retirement a few years ago. He was a loyal member of the 
First Baptist church. Thus is written "finis" to the long and useful life of a 
genial gentleman and scholar, for many years a much loved leader of his 
profession in this section, to whom death has come as a welcome relief from the 
infirmities of age, as gently as sleep comes to a tired child at night. 
(Cedartown Standard, August 23, 1917) 


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