Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harrison, Merritt T. September 6, 1899
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Virginian-Pilot September 7, 1899
ENGINEER HARRISON DIES ON YACHT CYRENE
Mr. Merritt O. Harrison, engineer on the John L. Roper Lumber Company's yacht 
Cyrene, commanded by Captain Snow, died very suddenly about 9 o'clock yesterday 
morning under the following circumstances:
The two men were conversing together on a box, when Mr. Harrison, without giving 
any previous sign of illness, called to Captain Snow for help and fell over, 
expiring within less than a minute, without again speaking. Dr. Payne was 
hastily summoned, but arrived too late to render assistance. He attributed the 
sudden death to heart disease. Coroner Newton was notified and, after viewing 
the body, turned it over to Undertaker Smith.
Mr. Harrison resided on Camp avenue, Atlantic City Ward, and leaves a widow and 
two children. He came to Norfolk from Brandon, on the James, and had been 
employed by the Roper Lumber Company about three years. It is said that he 
occasionally complained of pains about the heart. 

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