Harrison, Alta

1887 - 1976  (88 years)

• Name	Harrison, Alta   [1, 2]
  Born	24 Oct 1887	Piney Township, Texas County, Missouri   [1, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Also Known As	Altie
  Census	04 Jun 1900	United States Federal Census Record   [1]
  Census	25 Feb 1920	Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  Residence	Feb 1927	Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma   [2]
  Died	23 Apr 1976  [4]
  Buried	Aft 23 Apr 1976	Duncan Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  Person ID	I276	Harrison-Hennessee
  Last Modified	7 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Harrison, Obediah,   b. 13 Feb 1862, Warren County, Tennessee ,   d. 20 Jun 1900, Piney, Texas, Missouri, USA  (Age 38 years)
  Mother	Harrison, Laura E,   b. 14 Feb 1862, Bado, Texas County, Missouri ,   d. 07 Feb 1927, Faxon, Comanche County, Oklahoma  (Age 64 years)
  Married	06 Dec 1882	Morris Township, Texas County, Missouri   [2, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F113	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wheeler, Arthur,   b. 11 Mar 1885, Kentucky ,   d. 18 Dec 1959, Duncan, Stephens, Oklahoma  (Age 74 years)
  Children	1. Wheeler, Raymond Lee,   b. 25 Sept 1904, Texas ,   d. Aug 1975, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma  (Age 70 years)   2. Wheeler, Leonard Alphus,   b. 4 Feb 1906, Texas   3. Wheeler, Maybell,   b. 10 Dec 1907, Stephens County, Oklahoma ,   d. 29 Dec 1995, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma  (Age 88 years)   4. Wheeler, Hurman Orval,   b. 18 Mar 1910, Oklahoma ,   d. May 2002  (Age 92 years)   5. Wheeler, Charles Eural,   b. 14 Jan 1911, Oklahoma ,   d. Abt 1930, northeast of Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma  (Age 18 years)   6. Wheeler, Marvin Ray,   b. 22 Nov 1913, Oklahoma ,   d. 20 Jul 1994, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma  (Age 80 years)   7. Wheeler, Birdie Lorene,   b. 2 Jan 1916, Oklahoma ,   d. 22 Nov 1991, in a Duncan Hospital,Stephens County,Oklahoma  (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F137	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Obediah and Laura E Harrison Family This photograph of Obediah and Laura E Harrison's family is a tintype photograph. It was taken in 1898, in Texas County Missouri, just a short time before Obediah passed away, and found in the home of Juanita Clower Kirby Wells. Juanita still lives on the farm which has been in the family since the early 1900s. Shortly after Obediah passed away in 1900, his wife Laura and her children went to Oklahoma where her son Alph Harrison married Nellie Laurence who's family owned this farm. Laura passed away in their home on this farm and it is believed that this photograph was in her possessions. Back: Ulysses Adolphus “Liss”, Alta and George Alphus “Alph” Middle: Obediah, Belle and Laura E (Laura’s maiden name was Harrison) Front: Cassie

  
  

  Documents

  Laura E Harrison Obituary Laura E Harrison Obituary written by her son Alph Harrison who she was living with at the time of her death in Lawrence Township, Comanche County, Oklahoma.

  
  

• Notes

  As per Carol Denise Foster Land. About thirteen days prior to her death, the decision was made to place her in a nursing home in Comanche, Oklahoma, near her daughter Lorene, her daughter Maybell had been caring for her. Maybell's husband was being treated for cancer, when she asked her siblings for help in caring for their mother, they went behind her back and placed Alta in the nursing home. Alta was very frail and didn't like the place. She felt as if she had been thrown away, she wouldn't eat or drink. She cried alot and no one could console her. I was fifteen when she died, what is so very sad to me is that Maybell always felt guilty and thought that her mother died angry with her for putting her in the nursing home, and she had nothing to do with the decision. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] 1900 Census Morris Township, Texas County, Missouri, 239 A Sheet No. 3. [S74] Obituary for Laura E Harrison. [S11] Texas County Birth Register 1883 - 1890 Books 1 & 2, (Name: Transcribed and compiled by Edward & Millie Preissle for the Texas County Missouri Genealogical Society, 1983;), Register # B2-161 HARRISON. [S119] Wheeler - Tucker Family Records (Reliability: 3). [S109] DAR File, Number 840385. [S12] Texas County Missouri Marriages 1876 - 1888, by Erma Lee Skyles Brown, (Name: 1979;). [S16] Zula Juanita (Harrison) Clower family bible and records. [S7] Laura Viola (Harrison) Rodgers family record book.