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Submitted: 9/14/14 • Approved: 9/16/14 • Last Updated: 9/18/14 • R1038556-G1038556-S3
Harrison
SURGEON Confederate States Army
5th Alabama Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
January 22, 1822 - August 9, 1902
*Obituary
The Springdale News
Friday, August 15, 1902
WELCH, Harrison M. - {from The Fayetteville Democrat} Rev. Harrison M. Welch died at his home at Cane Hill at noon Saturday. He was buried in the McClellan graveyard there at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. He had been in feeble health for several years but the immediate cause of his death was a carbuncle on his chin. He was a brother of Dr. W.B. Welch of this city, now traveling in Europe, and of Mrs. Thomas J. Campbell of Cane Hill. Another brother, Thomas Welch, lives in California. Deceased was about 76 years old and was a native of Alabama, from whence he came to Washington county and located at Cane Hill immediately after the civil war. While a regular minister of the M.E. Church, South he was physically incapacitated from entering upon the regular work and only preached when circumstances would admit. For many years he was engaged in teaching but was forced to abandon all work on account of failing eyesight and since 1896 has been totally blind. He was universally admired as a man of deep piety and Christian charity. His mission on earth was to do good and few equaled him in this respect. As a pulpit orator he was eloquent, earnest and instructive. He was one of the most popular and best beloved men in Washington county and has gone to his reward. He was a member of the Prairie Grove Camp, U.C.V., and was as true a Southern man as ever lived. In accordance with his request the Camp and Masonic lodge conducted the burial service.
*Obituary (Article)
WCHS Flashback Vol. 7, No. 3
WELCH, Harrison M. – (from The Confederate Veteran, Oct. 1902. page 465) On August 9, 1902 Harrison M. Welch departed this life at Cane Hill, Arkansas and his spirit passed over the river into eternal rest. During the Confederate war he was surgeon of the Fifth Alabama Cavalry, commanded by Col. Josiah Patterson. He was an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and after the war he abandoned his practice of medicine and devoted the remainder of his life to preaching and teaching, and under the presidency of Gen. D.H. Hill was for a time a member of the faculty of the Arkansas State University. He was a member of Prairie Grove Camp, No. 384, U.C.V. and was always deeply interested in the work of the organization and in everything that affected the welfare of the old Confederate soldiers. He was also a member of the Cane Hill Lodge No. 57, F&AM, and his burial service was conducted by the two fraternities. At a regular meeting of the Camp a resolution was adopted requesting the CONFEDERATE VETERAN to publish the foregoing notice in memory of Comrade Welch. – W.C. Braly, Clem McColloch, W.S. Moore, Committee.
*Obituary (Pension)
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
Dr. H.M. Welch filed Veteran Application #2424 with the State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Board for a Confederate pension and he was allowed one on August 24, 1896, citing service with the 5th Alabama Cavalry from 1862 onward.
Elizabeth
January 31, 1824 - May 23, 1907
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