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Edward Seton Harris

Birth
District of Columbia, USA
Death
12 Feb 1896 (aged 17–18)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Amphitheater, Lot 134 East. Unmarked burial.
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Age 18 years. Buried February 15, 1896.

The Evening Star February 14, 1896
Washington, D.C., Page 12
Death of Edwin Seaton Harris.
Edwin Seaton Harris, aged nineteen years, only son and child of Mrs. Harris, a widow, living at No. 26 Grant Place Northwest, died late Wednesday night, after an illness of about three weeks from typhoid fever. Young Harris was a student at Central High School, member of the Four Leaf Clover Club and also a member of the Ready Circle of King's Daughters and Sons of Epiphany Protestant Episcopal Church. The funeral will take place tomorrow at noon from that church. The services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. McKim and the interment will be made in Rock Creek Cemetery. The pallbearers will be selected from among the members of the above name societies. A meeting of Ready Circle was held last evening in the lecture room of the Church of the epiphany and after suitable eulogies on the life of the young man were paid by a number of those present, resolutions were passed deploring the loss felt by the members. It was also determined that the circle send floral offerings to the funeral.

The Evening Star February 13, 1896
Washington, D.C., Page 7
Died.
Harris. On the 12 of February, 1896 at 28 Grant Place, Edward Seton Harris, in the nineteenth year of his age. Funeral Saturday, February 15, at 12PM, from Church of the Epiphany.
(New York Herald and Boston Globe please copy.)
Age 18 years. Buried February 15, 1896.

The Evening Star February 14, 1896
Washington, D.C., Page 12
Death of Edwin Seaton Harris.
Edwin Seaton Harris, aged nineteen years, only son and child of Mrs. Harris, a widow, living at No. 26 Grant Place Northwest, died late Wednesday night, after an illness of about three weeks from typhoid fever. Young Harris was a student at Central High School, member of the Four Leaf Clover Club and also a member of the Ready Circle of King's Daughters and Sons of Epiphany Protestant Episcopal Church. The funeral will take place tomorrow at noon from that church. The services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. McKim and the interment will be made in Rock Creek Cemetery. The pallbearers will be selected from among the members of the above name societies. A meeting of Ready Circle was held last evening in the lecture room of the Church of the epiphany and after suitable eulogies on the life of the young man were paid by a number of those present, resolutions were passed deploring the loss felt by the members. It was also determined that the circle send floral offerings to the funeral.

The Evening Star February 13, 1896
Washington, D.C., Page 7
Died.
Harris. On the 12 of February, 1896 at 28 Grant Place, Edward Seton Harris, in the nineteenth year of his age. Funeral Saturday, February 15, at 12PM, from Church of the Epiphany.
(New York Herald and Boston Globe please copy.)


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97408741/edward_seton-harris: accessed ), memorial page for Edward Seton Harris (1878–12 Feb 1896), Find a Grave Memorial ID 97408741, citing Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA; Maintained by SLGMSD (contributor 46825959).