Obit of Baker HARRISON (b.1839 d.1893) Wabasha Co., MN

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GRAPHIC SENTIANAL- LAKE CITY, MINNESOTA JUNE 30, 1893 PAGE 5 COLUMN 7
DIED HARRISON
   On Tuesday, June 23, 1891, at his home near this city, of pulmonary
consumption, Baker Harrison, aged 51 years and 9 months.
   Deceased was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1839. His father was one 
of the early settlers of the state, and comming to Lake City in '54, they 
continued their pioneering in the territory of Minnesota.
   Early in the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in Co., G. of the 8th
Minnesota regiment of volunteers, in which capacity he rendered loyal 
service till the close of the war, thus laying down three of the best 
years of his early manhood upon the altar of his country. After his 
discharge he returned to Minnesota, where his home has been ever since.
   It is generally supposed by his intimate acquaintances that the disease
which terminated his life was brought on by the exposure of army life.
   Twenty years ago he was married to Mary Merril, who has been a most 
devoted and faithful wife, tenderly caring for him during his many years 
of weakness and suffering. She with the son Charles, about 15 years if 
age survives him. 
They have sincerest sympathy of a wide circle of friends. The large 
concourse of people who followed him to the grave bears testimony of the 
esteem in which he was held by his neighbors and old comrades of the war. 
Although he had mever made a profession of religion, during his last 
illness he sought reconciliation to God in the pardon of sin through the 
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and gave evidence that he died in the 
hope of the gospel.
   He was buried on Thursday afternoon by Major Doughty Post, G.A.R., of 
which he was a member, the serice at the house being conducted by Rev. 
Wm. E. Baker, assisted by Revs. Lathrop and Moon.