- Birth: 12 Jun 1797, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York
- Death: 30 Mar 1847, Sandusky, Erie, Ohio
- Burial: Harpersfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio
Father: David HENDRY
Mother: Selina HOTCHKISS
Family 1:
Robert HARPER
- Marriage: 20 Aug 1815, Ohio
- Ellen HARPER
- Stella HARPER
- Anne H. HARPER
- Baby Boy HARPER
- Goodloe HARPER
- Jane HARPER
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_Thomas HENDRY _|
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_David HENDRY _____|
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| |_Ann MILLER ____|
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|--Polly HENDRY
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|_Selina HOTCHKISS _|
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INDEX
Notes
I have an obituary for Polly Hendry Harper that was printed in the April 12
edition of the Ashtabula Sentinal. She died in Sandusky Ohio while attending a
daughter who was ill.
The following appeared in the Ashtabula Sentinal, April 12, 1847.
Died
At Sandujsky City, Erie Co. Ohio on the 30th ult., Mrs. Polly Harper, consort
of Col. R. Harper of Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, O. aged 49 years and
9 months.
The deceased was daughter of Mr. David Hendry, born Harpersfield, Delaware
Co. N.Y. June 12, 1797 - She came to the State of Ohio in 1806 and was married
the 20th of August, 1815, and has raised a family of four daughters; the second
of whom, Mrs. M. F. Miner, departed this life at Sandusky City on the 7th of January
last. During her illness, the anxieties of the mother, though in a feeble state
of health and unable to withstand the fatigues of a journey, prevailed over
every obsticle, and braving the wintry tempest she hastened to the bedside
of the afflicted one. Death had nipped the tender bud; afllicted parents arrived
at the hour appointed for the funeral. The excitement and over exertion were
somewhat prolonged by the sickness of another daughter, Mrs. Doct. Austin
of the same place, but she soon sunk under the effects of these over exertions
upon a constitution already worn down by care and chronic disease. She lacked
nothing that the most strict attention, the warmest affection and approved medical
advice could render.
That savior whom she had adored and served in her childhood sustained her
in all her trials and sufferings. The ministrations of the pastor were particularly
gratifying to her and in adopting the sentiments of the text from which her
daughter's funeral sermon was preached [Phil 1 21-23. -- "For me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain."] she added the following verses as expressive of
her feelings and as applying to herself and family. - "but if I live in the flesh, this
is the fruit of my labor; yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a straight
betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; which is far better. --
Never the less, to abide in the flesh is ... needful for you." Through the kindness of
her near friends Robt. Harper, Esq. and Mr. M. F. Miner of Sandusky her remains
were accompanied by these gentlemen to the house of her husband in Harpersfield,
in this county and interred in the family burying ground on the 3rd inst. Funeral
services were attended at St. Michael's Church, Harpersfield, on the Sabbath the
4th inst. Sermon by the Rev. H. Hollis, from St. Luke, 12: 40 "Be Ye ready always
for the son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not." She united with the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the year 1823, of which she has ever since been
a very active and efficient member. In all her relations in life her course has been
marked by an enlightened liberality and benevolence.
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