Arenac County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Harrison, Elijah 
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Diana Catlin catlindiana@yahoo.com September 28, 2011, 5:55 am

Cemetery:           Woodmere Cemetery
Name:               Elijah Harrison

Date Of Photograph: September 16, 2011
Photo can be seen at:
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   Stone reads:

            H
         HARRISON

          ELIJAH
        1863 - 19
         BERNICE G 
         HIS WIFE       
        1873 - 1935    

Elijah's death year was 1939.  The year of death was probably never engraved 
on the stone as his wife and only child, a daughter, preceeded him in death.

Additional Comments:
Elijah Harrison was born in Brant Ontario Canada to William Harrison and 
Martha Norris.  He was a twin to Elisha and a brother to Samuel, Charles, 
George and Nellie. His father was killed when he was 7 years old when the team 
he was driving collided with a train, leaving his mother with 5 living sons 
and an unborn daughter.

In 1886 at age 22 Elijah along with his mother and siblings came to Bay/Arenac 
County and in 1887 he married Bernice G. Canfield. They had a daughter, 
Bertha May who died at age 16 of tuberculosis and is buried next to her 
parents in Woodmere Cemetery in Standish Michigan.  The Harrison's lived in 
several counties and at the time of death the last recorded address was in 
Lansing, Michigan. 

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