Cabarrus County, NC - Dr. Charles Harris

Dr. Charles Harris
 
The Tombstone of of Dr Charles Harris tells a great deal about him. 
It reads as follows: "This monument is erected to perpetuate the memory 
of Charles Harris, MD, born 23rd of November 1762; died 21st of  
September, 1823, aged 63 years.
 
Dr Harris was engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery forty 
years; eminent in the former, in the later preeminent. He was a man of 
extensive reading, of an acute inquisitive mind, friendly to all and 
beloved by all. His heart entered deeply into the suffering of his 
patients, mingling the medicine he administered with the feelings of a 
friend. He lived usefully and died resigned, and we humbly trust, 
through the sovereign virtue of the all-healing medicine of the Great 
Physician he was prepared to rest in this tomb, where the wicked cease 
from the troubling and the weary are at rest".

He was studying in Charlotte at the time of the Revolution. He left  
his studies to become a calvaryman and fought with Colonel Davie. After 
the war he went to Iredell and continued his studies at Clio Academy, 
he finished his course in medicine in Philadelphia, started practice in 
Salisbury but later moved to "Favoni", Cabarrus County, where his 
practiced until his death. He conducted a medical school and taught 
ninety three young men in this school.

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