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Submitted: 10/14/12 • Approved: 7/3/18 • Last Updated: 7/6/18 • R766335-G0-S3
Julia
January 16, 1944* - January 16, 1925
*Obituary
Benton County Record
Friday, January 23, 1925
HARRIS, Julia Laura ANDERSON - Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church in Bentonville for Mrs. Julia A. Harris, a well known resident of Bentonville. Just 81 years from the date of her birth until she was laid to rest was the span of her life. During her lifetime she saw the infant State of Arkansas pass through its early hardships that were the lot of pioneers, through the dark days of war and privation, until it finally took its place among the great states of the Union. Julia Anderson Harris was born on the old Barraque plantation near New Gascony, Jefferson county, Ark. on Jan. 16th, 1844. She was the daughter of Dr. Richard S. Anderson, one of the pioneer physicians. He sometimes traveled 50 miles on horseback to see a patient. A grandfather, Antoine Barraque, was one of the early French settlers in that part of the state who came to America after the banishment of Napoleon to St. Helena. He was a soldier and officer under the "Little Corporal" and fought in the great battles of Marengo, the bridge at Lodi and at Austerlitz. He also was one of the Old Guard in its disastrous march to Moscow. M. Barraque came to Arkansas in 1816 and named his new home in Jefferson county, New Gascony, after his old province in France. He died in 1858. During the Civil War she married Captain W.D. Harris, an officer in the Confederate Army. In the early '90s the Harris family moved to Fayetteville and a few years later moved to Bentonville. Captain Harris died about 12 years ago. Surviving her are two sons - Frank P. Harris of this city and Robert C. Harris of St. Louis; also by four daughters - Misses Laura, Alice and Rowena Harris of the home address and Mrs. F.C. Holland of Lake Village, Ark. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon by her pastor, Rev. J.M. McMahen, in the presence of a congregation of friends that filled the church.
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, January 22, 1925
Mrs. Wm. D. Harris, one of the beloved women of our city and member of a pioneer Arkansas family which was identified with the early history of the state, died at her home Friday afternoon after a brief illness. Funeral services, held at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon by the pastor, Rev. J.M. McMahen, were largely attended. Julia Laura Anderson Harris was born Jan. 18, 1844 in Jefferson County, Arkansas and died Jan. 16, 1925, her funeral being held on her eighty-first birthday. Her father was Dr. Richard Cuthbert Anderson, pioneer Arkansas physician. Her grandfather, Antoine Barraque, who came from France in 1816 and on whose plantation near New Gascony in Jefferson county she was born, was an officer under Napoleon Bonaparte and came to America after the fall of Napoleon and after the confiscation of his own estate. The family was one of influence and its members, related by blood and marriage, were leaders in the affairs of the communities in which they lived. She was married July 18, 1861 to William Daugherty Harris, who died here thirteen years ago. Having grown up on a southern plantation and having had a part in the stirring events of the war and reconstruction periods, this Daughter of the Sixties, who was the wife of a Confederate soldier, was throughout her life interested in the perpetuation of the ideals and traditions of the old-time South. Mrs. Harris moved from South Arkansas with her husband and family to Fayetteville and a few years later to Bentonville where she has since resided. With husband, sons and daughters always interested, like the mother, in the church, the school, and all organizations devoted to the advancement of the community of which they were a part, this home of culture and refinement, over which Mrs. Harris presided, has been for many years one of the most prominent and influential in this community. The Benton County Democrat, with which her son, Frank P. Harris, has been identified for some years, joins in the expression of sympathy for this family whose members have so devotedly and so tenderly cherished their home and their mother for so many years. In her early girlhood she had joined the old Coliseum Baptist church of New Orleans and at her funeral her pastor paid tribute to her lifelong devotion to her church and made special mention of the valuable work, directed for so many years by her daughter, Miss Laura Harris, in the Sunday school of the local Baptist church. She is survived by two sons, Robert Cuthbert Harris of St. Louis and Frank P. Harris of Bentonville; and by four daughters, Mrs. Frank C. Holland of Lake Village, Ark. and the Misses Laura, Rowena and Alice Harris of Bentonville. Another son, William Frederick, and a daughter, Sarah Gertrude, died in childhood. She is also survived by one brother, Fred T. Anderson of Memphis, an artist, who is now in Rye, New York; by one sister, Mrs. Hortense Ferguson of Los Angeles, and a cousin, Miss Elmira Carson of Hensley, Arkansas. Interment was made in the Bentonville Cemetery by the side of her husband.
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