Monday 17 January 2022

Elizabeth (1894-8/7/1920) and Pearl (1920-6/7/1920) Harris.

New Zealand newspapers, through history, have tended to be very coy around matters of human reproduction.  It is an occasional thing to find, in a cemetery, a coincidence of names and dates which clearly show that a mother has died in that dangerous but frequent activity of childbirth.  Elizabeth and Pearl's deaths were reported as local events but only sparely.  The anguish behind the dry sentences can only be imagined.


TUAPEKA COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Tuapeka County Council was held yesterday afternoon. Present — Crs. Bennetts (chairman), Mclnerney, Brown, Mac Donald, Rodger, Herbert, Cotton, and Simpson. 

SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCE.

The Chairman made feeling reference to the bereavement which had befallen Cr. McLennan in the death of his daughter, Mrs J. F. Harris, of Moa Flat, and moved that the Council record its sympathy with Cr. McLennan and his family, and that the clerk send a telegram conveying their sympathy. The Council then adjourned for a few minutes out of respect to Cr. McLennan.  -Tuapeka Times, 13/7/1920.


MR JOHN F. HARRIS, "The Homestead," Moa Flat, desires to Thank his many friends for kind expressions of sympathy in his recent bereavement. -Otago Daily Times, 13/7/1920.


Deaths

HARRIS. — At Tapanui, on July 6, the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John F. Harris, of “The Homestead,” Moa Flat; aged two weeks.

HARRIS.— At Tapanui, on July 8, Elizabeth, dearly beloved wife of John F. Harris, of “The Homestead,” Moa Flat, and eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Duncan McLennan, of “Humebank,” Dunrobin; aged 26 years. Deeply mourned.   -Otago Witness, 13/7/1920.


Tapanui Cemetery.

 

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