Thomas Gore Harrison
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 24 Mar 1837 - Davis Co., Kentucky Christening: Death: 23 Mar 1906 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 2 Burial: in Elk Spring Cem., Monticello, Wayne Co., Kentucky Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Lucy Verlinda Parker (2 May 1847 - 15 Apr 1918) 1 Marriage: 25 Sep 1866 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 3 4 5 Children: 1. Joseph Parker Harrison (1867-1954) 2. Robert E. Harrison (Abt 1870-Bef 1900) 3. Frank R. Harrison (1871-1957) 4. Matilda Tommie Harrison (1874-1957) 5. Lucy H. Harrison (1877-1961) 6. Edwin L. Harrison (1879-Bef 1900) 7. Nellie Harrison (1882-1919)
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1880 Hardin Co., Ky, Stephenburg Mag. Dist. No. 4, ED 68; June 15; pg 25
209/219
T. G. Harrison 45 Ky Ky Ky
Lucy V. " 33 wife Ky NY Va Keeping house
Jo P. " 12 son Ky Ky Ky At home
Robert E. " 10 son Ky Ky Ky At home
Frank " 8 son Ky Ky Ky At home
Mattie T. " 6 dau Ky Ky Ky At home
Lucy " 3 dau Ky Ky Ky
Edwin L. " 6/12 Dec son Ky Ky Ky </pre>
<pre>1900 Wayne Co., Ky, Monticello, ED 125; June 4; sheet 5
81/86
Thomas G. Harrison 63 Mar 1837 M33 Ky Ky Ky Minister
Lucy V. " wife 53 May 1847 M33/7/5 Ky NY Va
Joe Parker " son 32 Nov 1867 S Ky Ky Ky School teacher
Mattie T. " dau 26 Jan 1874 S Ky Ky Ky School teacher
Lucy H. " dau 23 Apr 1877 S Ky Ky Ky School teacher
Nellie " dau 18 Jan? 1882 S Ky Ky Ky </pre>
His son F. R. Harrison (28, Oct 1871, Ky Ky Ky, lawyer) lives at 86/91.
<pre>1910 Wayne Co., Ky, Monticello, Ward 1, ED 233; Apr 21; sheet 9
75/79
Lucy V. Harrison 62 W/7/5 Ky NY Ky None
Joseph P. " son 42 S Ky Ky Ky Attorney, Gen practice
Lucy " dau 32 S Ky Ky Ky None </pre>
Lucy V. owns a house. Frank R. Harrison (38, Ky Ky Ky, lawyer) lives at 82/86.
OBITUARY:
Find-a-Grave Memorial # 50444913:
Wayne County Outlook
29 Mar 1906
Rev. Thomas Gore Harrison, was born March 24, 1837 and died in his home in this town in the early morning of March 23, 1906. He lacked but a few months of having run his allotted time of three score and ten years. Having reached the ripe age of 68 years, 11 months and 29 days. Brother Harrison was reared in a Christian home under positive religious influence and at the age of 11 was converted and joined the Methodist church.
In early life he heard the call of God to preach the gospel, but having other plans in his mind with reference to his life, he hesitated for a time to enter upon a work involving such responsibility, and fraught with such privations to himself and to those who might be dependent upon him.
But finally yielding to this impression, and dismissing all other plans, he was granted a license to preach, and in the year 1860, was admitted on trial into the travelling connection of the Louisville
Conference. The fields in which he labored for his Master during the forty-six years that have come and gone since that time, are as follows,
From 1860 to 1861: Jamestown
From 1861 to 1862: Lebonon and Springfield
From 1862 to 1863: Bradforkville
From 1863 to 1864: Glasgow
From 1864 to 1865: Wayne
From 1865 to 1866: Louisville
From 1866 to 1867: Smithland
From 1867 to 1888: Greenville
From 1868 to 1869: Rumsey
From 1869 to 1870: Henderson
From 1870 to 1872: Franklin
From 1872 to 1873: New Haven
From 1873 to 1874: Campbellsville
From 1874 to 1876: Slaughtersville
From 1876 to 1877: Morganfield
From 1877 to 1878: P.E. Elizabethtown Dis.
From 1878 to 1879: P.C. Elizabethtown Station
From 1879 to 1882: Elizabethtown Dis.
From 1882 to 1884: Greensburg
From 1884 to 1885: Madisonville
From 1885 to 1886: Superannuated on account of ill health
From 1886 to 1887: Hawesville
From 1887 to 1889: Horse Cave
From 1889 to 1890: Mansville
From 1890 to 1891: he was again superannuated on account of ill
health.
From 1891 to 1892: Albany
From 1892 to 1893: Summer Shade
From 1893 to 1894: Ceralvo
From 1894 to 1896: Superannuated
From 1896 to 1897: Agent Preachers Aid Society
From 1897 to 1900: Monticello
From 1900 until his death he sustained a superannuated relation to the Conference, and made his home in Monticello
Thus we review briefly places in during a long Ministry he wrought so faithfully and efficiently for his Lord. But this necessarily a very imperfect record of his achievements as a servant of Jesus Christ. The number of hearts that have been comforted, the homes that have been blessed, the lives that have been uplifted upward by his influence and the souls that have been saved by his ministry will never be known till that day in which the books are opened and everyone is rewarded according to his work.
On September 19th 1866 he was very happily married to Miss Lucy V. Parker of Pulaski Co., Ky. with whom he lived in perfect conjugal happiness till his death. He bestowed upon her all the great wealth of his love, and failed not to give constant tokens of his devotion. She gave proof of her love for him by a life of uncomplaining devotion amid the hardships incidental to the life of an itinerant Methodist preacher. And by such devotion made possible much of his success.
To this union were born seven children. Two of these died in early life, while the other two sons and three daughters remained with their father to the end; a stay and comfort in his declining years.
These, with the bereaved wife, a brother, a sister, remain behind, weeping for the loved one whom for the time they have lost. No one ever loved his home more than Brother Harrison, he found his sweetest pleasure in the association of his family. And it was here that his christian character shown with brightest luster. The tyes which bound him to these loved ones here were of course hard to sever. It's always hard to say goodbye. But he will not be with strangers in that land to which he has gone.
There, father and mother, and eight brothers and sisters, and the two little ones together with multitudes with whom he has ministered, and who have been saved by his influence, wait to welcome him to the Father's home, and rejoice with him in the glories of the life eternal. He was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and faith, and much people was added unto the Lord.
We are bereft now, but we shall see him again.
T.L. Hulse
1 Personal Communication -- Helen Green Jupin.
2 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 50444913.
3 "Kentucky Marriages 1851-1900," Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.
4 Pulaski Co. Historical Society, "Pulaski Co. Marriage Records, Book 3, 1864-1886," pg 137. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
5
"Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965," pg 58 & 59. image 107/450. Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.
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