Harriet was born June 30, 1810 in Surry County, NC the the eldest child of eight. Of the eight children, six daughters and two sons, Harriet is the sole survivor.
In September 1827, her father had contracted yellow fever and wrote to her mother from Wilkesboro, SC. Harriet and her mother set out to be by her father's side, but when they arrived, they had been advised that he had passed on the day they had received the letter. They visited his grave and returned home to NC.
Two years after the death of her father, Harriet met her future husband, Pleasant Baity, when she was just 19 years of age, and were married on January 28, 1830. They spent 62 years of wedded bliss until his death on December 9, 1891.
To their union, nine children were born, one son and eight daughters. Enoch, the eldest, died in 1908 at Cooleemee. Still living are daughters Margarete, who lives near Elkin, NC; Martha of Blacksburg, SC; Caroline and Rachel, of Yadkin county, who tend to their aging mother.
In September 1827, her father had contracted yellow fever and wrote to her mother from Wilkesboro, SC. Harriet and her mother set out to be by her father's side, but when they arrived, they had been advised that he had passed on the day they had received the letter. They visited his grave and returned home to NC.
Two years after the death of her father, Harriet met her future husband, Pleasant Baity, when she was just 19 years of age, and were married on January 28, 1830. They spent 62 years of wedded bliss until his death on December 9, 1891.
To their union, nine children were born, one son and eight daughters. Enoch, the eldest, died in 1908 at Cooleemee. Still living are daughters Margarete, who lives near Elkin, NC; Martha of Blacksburg, SC; Caroline and Rachel, of Yadkin county, who tend to their aging mother.
Harriet was born June 30, 1810 in Surry County, NC the the eldest child of eight. Of the eight children, six daughters and two sons, Harriet is the sole survivor.
In September 1827, her father had contracted yellow fever and wrote to her mother from Wilkesboro, SC. Harriet and her mother set out to be by her father's side, but when they arrived, they had been advised that he had passed on the day they had received the letter. They visited his grave and returned home to NC.
Two years after the death of her father, Harriet met her future husband, Pleasant Baity, when she was just 19 years of age, and were married on January 28, 1830. They spent 62 years of wedded bliss until his death on December 9, 1891.
To their union, nine children were born, one son and eight daughters. Enoch, the eldest, died in 1908 at Cooleemee. Still living are daughters Margarete, who lives near Elkin, NC; Martha of Blacksburg, SC; Caroline and Rachel, of Yadkin county, who tend to their aging mother.
In September 1827, her father had contracted yellow fever and wrote to her mother from Wilkesboro, SC. Harriet and her mother set out to be by her father's side, but when they arrived, they had been advised that he had passed on the day they had received the letter. They visited his grave and returned home to NC.
Two years after the death of her father, Harriet met her future husband, Pleasant Baity, when she was just 19 years of age, and were married on January 28, 1830. They spent 62 years of wedded bliss until his death on December 9, 1891.
To their union, nine children were born, one son and eight daughters. Enoch, the eldest, died in 1908 at Cooleemee. Still living are daughters Margarete, who lives near Elkin, NC; Martha of Blacksburg, SC; Caroline and Rachel, of Yadkin county, who tend to their aging mother.
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