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Dr. D.R. JOHNSON
is nursing ugly scars on his face and breast as the result of a mix up with his faithful
old horse the first of the week. He was kicked in the face and breast. Just how the affair
occurred the doctor is unable to say - all he knows about it is that he entered the stable
the other morning to feed the horse, and when he returned to the house his appearance
resembled that of a man who had fallen out of a flying machine.
James D. HARRISSON, whose illness has been repeatedly mentioned in
this paper, died on Wed. night about 12 o'clock. His condition had been
serious from the beginning of his sickness about three weeks ago. He seemed
to improve at intervals, but the enfeebled condition of his heart gave his
physicians little hope of his ultimate recovery. Some years ago a severe
attack of typhoid fever left him weakened, and his had suffered from the
effects more or less ever since. Besides a wife he leaves four children, two
sons and two daughters, viz: Willie, Harvey, Mary Olive and Margaret; one
brother, William G. HARRISSON, one sister, Mrs. Mary HARMAN.
He was a son of the late Col. Joseph and Mrs. HARRISSON, and was
about 57 years of age. James D. HARRISSON had been a prominent,
well-known and successful merchant nearly all his life. For a number of
years the firm of J. D. HARRISSON and Company conducted a large and
successful mercantile business at Liberty, in this county. In the summer of
1906, the company of Harrisson, Barns & Co., was formed here, purchasing the
large building and stock of Buston and Sons. He was general manager of this
business from the first to the time of his death. His familiar face will be
missed and his place will be difficult to fill. His friends and associates
as well as his customers all over the county bear willing testimony to his
integrity as a merchant, and his fidelity as a friend. He goes to his grave,
in the prime of life, with the respect and love of all who knew him. His
death is mourned as that of a friend. In his death the town loses one of its
most active business men, and his family, most of all mourn the loss of a
kind husband and father. His wife, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. PEERY,
a woman of unusual strength of character and deep piety, has been a true
helpmate, and built a home for him and their children peculiarly happy, and
it is here that the weight of the blow falls the heaviest. The unbound
sympathy of a wide circle of friends and relatives go out to the stricken
home. The funeral will take place today at noon from the residence, and
interment following in the Jeffersonville cemetery.
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