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Submitted: 10/27/11 • Approved: 2/7/13 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R137924-G0-S3
Rufus Derry HARRISON
merchant, born Wilkesville, Vinton Co., Ohio
APR 4 1878 - MAY 22 1940, aged 62y1m18d
h/o Izetta (HARKINS) HARRISON
s/o John W. & Jemima (HARTLEY) HARRISON
Married OCT 18, 1908 Izetta Harkins in Meigs Co., Ohio
Rufus Derry and Izetta had only 1 child, a son, who is also buried at Wilkesville- John Lonnie Harrison. He was the High School Superintendent at Wellston; was struck by an automobile in Wellston, when only 37, single, in 1947, he was a 2nd Lt. during WW II- Rufus died of a heart attack in 1940, before his son was killed
Photo by Ceci Calvin
Contributed on 10/27/11 by ccalvin1
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