OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 166, 30 November 1912, Page 6

OBITUARY.

(Contributed)

Another of Taranaki oldest settlers, in ! the person of Mrs. Thomas Harrison, passed away at Ingle wood last Saturday at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Merry, with whom she had been living for the last ten years. Mrs. Harrison was the eldest daughter of the late John Perry, of New Plymouth, and came to Taranaki in the Amelia Thompson, nearly seventy years ago, and, with the exception of a short time in Nelson during the Maori war, and, I believe, one short visit to Auckland, she .has lived the-whole time in Taranaki. Mrs. Harrison survived her husband by sixteen years. Needless to say, Mrs. Harrison passed through all the vicissitudes of the Maori war, during which troublous time she had to take ,a mother's care of a large family of ten sons and three daughters, the majority of whom are now settled in the Nor.tl) Island. Though Mrs. Harrison had attained the age of 80 years, there is little doubt that her end was hastened by meeting with a painful accident a few months ago. A feature of the interment was that the coffin was borne to its last resting place by the six greyhaired sons of the deceased.