WATAUGA COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Hester Mast Harmon, 26 Jan 1934
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Hester Mast Harmon

Mrs. Hester Mast Harmon was born Nov. 29,1852 in Watauga
Co., N. Car. and died Jan. 26, 1934 at her home in Lee,
Oregon.

Married in Sugar Grove, N. Car. Dec. 23, 1869 to Leason L.
Harmon.  In April 1872 a party of 65 left North Carolina.
The arrived in Douglas Co., Oregon in June 1872. In the fall
of 1873 Mr. and Mrs. Harmon  and baby daughter, Cora, who
later married Rev. R. G. Sumerlin and  who was born before
they left North Carolina, moved onto the  Harmon place at
Lee and have lived there since.
Of the the party of 65 who came, only Judge R. H. Mast, E.
P. Mast,  Porter Whittington and the Hayes brothers of
Gaylord are living.

 She was the mother of 6 children, 2 of whom died in infancy
and one,  Cora Sumerlin, died Jan. II, 1923. Mr. Harmon died
in 1891. The deceased raised 3 granddaughters, Mrs. Ina
Davis, Lee; Mrs. Carl Anderson, Bald Hill; and Mrs. Herbert
Ballin, Portland. Survivors:  brother, E. P. Mast, Lee; a
son, W. H. Harmon, Lee; 2 daughters,  Miss Sadie Harmon, Lee
and Mrs. Ruby Clinton, Gravelford. 15 grandchildren and 6
great grandchildren.

-- Myrtle Point Herald. Jan. 25. 1934