Isaac HARRISON (VETERAN CSA)

PRIVATE
Company K 34th Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
April 18, 1834 - September 16, 1898

*Obituary
The Springdale News
Friday, September 30, 1898

HARRISON, Isaac – Isaac Harrison was born in the state of Indiana on April 18, 1834 and in childhood moved with his parents to Washington county, Ark. where he lived until his death except two years he spent in Madison county. On September 11, A.D. 1853, he was married to Miss Sarah Ann Peerson and to this union was born twelve children, five of whom have passed away. In October the same year he and his wife joined the Primitive Baptist church and was baptized by Elder William Ingram, the oldest minister in Washington Association at this time. For forty-five years he lived a very quiet and consistent member of said order, his doors ever open to them who loved and served the Lord and hands ever ready to minister to the needy and afflicted. In June 1897 he became the victim of typhoid fever, suffering severely, but having close attention and skillful medical treatment he recovered, only to be attacked on March 1898 by similar troubles from which he again partially recovered but failed to regain his former strength, but got able to work some. In the latter part of July last was again prostrated by class of ailments that seemed to somewhat baffle the skill of the best medical aid available, continuing to linger, being carefully and patiently nursed by kind friends and relatives anxiously waiting for relief to be brought. But to the sad disappointment of a loving family who surrounded his bedside, on the morning of the sixteenth, about 4 o'clock a.m. he quietly passed away without a struggle but with a pleasant smile playing over his pale face, indicative of the joy that attends the death of the righteous. By request of the bereaved family, on the seventeenth at 3 o'clock p.m. funeral services were conducted at the Shady Grove church by Elders James Dodson and J.R. Loving. The entire family, together with a large and attentive congregation, were present to witness the sad ceremonies of the day, after which the remains were interred in the Shady Grove cemetery to await the last and final call of the Master. A Brother.

*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge

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