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- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), HARRISON John Scott 1804-1878.
Son of President William Henry Harrison, Father of President Benjamin Harrison. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana. John Harrison graduated from law school valedictorian of his class. He was forced back to the family farm to manage affairs. His father gave him 600 acres bordering his own vast estate dubbed with the name "The Point Farm." He was left with three children when his first wife died. Harrison married a second time. He was a member of the 33rd and 34th Congress but was unsuccessful for reelection retiring to "Point Farm." Their existence was tied to the rise and fall of the Ohio River. Barely navigable in dry season and then in the spring it was turbulent and destructive washing away land and buildings. Their second child was Benjamin, the future president was born at the "Big House" the resident of his grandfather, President William Harrison. It was a relentless struggle for the family of nine children to survive. John's wife Elizabeth died while Benjamin was away at school. Money was so tight, he seriously doubted that he could keep the two oldest boys in school. The family was laid low due to illnesses, cholera, smallpox, typhoid and dysentery. John Harrison was well along the road to financial ruin, but managed to send his son Ben to Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He died at home at the age of seventy three. Following the funeral, the family accompanied the body to the Congress Green Cemetery, where the Harrison family plot overlooked the Ohio River. Prior to burial, they discovered a nearby body was missing from an uprooted gravesite. A decision was made to hide the body of John Scott Harrison. Benjamin supervised the lowering of his father in a secret grave, an eight foot excavation was made secure by placement of concrete slabs around the remains and two watchmen were hired. Ben was determined his father's body would be safe and returned to Indianapolis. The oldest son, John Harrison Jr. set about solving the mystery of the missing body. Grave robbing and selling the remains to a research facility was commonplace. A tip led him to the Ohio Medical School in Cincinnati where instead of finding the missing corpse, located his father who it was thought safely buried just 24 hours before. The body was briefly interred in a temporary vault at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. Some time later he was reinterred securely in the vault of his father, President William Henry Harrison, at North Bend, down the road from Congress Green Cemetery. Not much remains: The Harrison residence "The Point," which was a brick two-story farm house located on the six hundred acre farm in North Bend deteriorated and was razed in 1959 despite attempts by the Daughters of the American Revolution to save it. It was here that the mother of John Harrison after the "Big House," on the President William Harrison estate, was destroyed by fire and came to live with her son and where she died.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8624/john_scott_harrison
- [S11550] Wikipedia: John Scott Harrison, John Scott Harrison.
John Scott Harrison (October 4, 1804 – May 25, 1878) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1853 to 1857. He was a son of U.S. president William Henry Harrison and First Lady Anna Harrison as well as the father of U.S. president Benjamin Harrison. He is the only person to have been both a father and son of a U.S. president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Harrison
- [S11421] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;).
- [S11549] Wikipedia: William Henry Harrison, President William Henry Harrison.
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) served as the ninth president of the United States from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office, causing a brief constitutional crisis since presidential succession was not then fully defined in the U.S. Constitution. Harrison was the last president born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies and was the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd U.S. president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison
- [S11421] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 16.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RC3.
- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), First Lady SYMMES Anna Tuthill Harrison 1775-1864 - Wife of President William Henry Harrison.
Presidential First Lady. She was born Anna Symmes on a farm near Morristown, New Jersey, the daughter of a judge and a senator. With the death of her mother, she was taken to live with her grandparents in New York City, New York and received a superior education. As an adult, she joined her father on his extensive land holdings along the Ohio River near Cincinnati. While in Lexington, Kentucky awaiting the completion of a house, she met the future President William Henry Harrison. Her father would not give his blessings to this marriage. However, while away on business, they were secretly wed. The marriage produced ten children. Her husband had a successful career in the army and in politics. After her father's death, she inherited a farm in North Bend, Ohio which became known as "The Bend". The children kept the Harrison's in constant debt with their educating and marriages, and Anna Harrison outlived them all but one. When her husband was elected to the United States Presidency at the age of sixty-eight, she was recovering from a serious illness and waiting until feeling better before attempting the journey to join her husband in Washington, DC. During his inauguration President Harrison caught pneumonia and died 31 days into his term. Anna was packing when word of her husband's death arrived. After a state funeral in Washington, he was interred in Congressional Cemetery there. However, Anna selected a site on a knoll near Congress Green Cemetery in North Bend, where her father was buried, and began construction of a final burial place. A few years later, he was brought home and placed in the tomb. It fell into neglect after her death and the family deeded it to the state of Ohio who erected the imposing monument over the tomb and maintain the site. Anna Harrison outlived her husband by twenty-two years. Other than the tomb, nothing physical remains in North Bend, the town founded by her father. Their 22-room residence, "The Bend", burned to the ground. The property was sold and divided while today a golf course surrounds the burial site where many foundations of buildings are still visible. The chapel where President Harrison lay in state was demolished. Anna was forced to live at the home of her only living child where she died at the age of 88 and was placed in the Harrison vault. She holds the distinction of being the wife of a president and grandmother to another, Benjamin Harrison.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19596/anna-tuthill-harrison
- [S10407] Find a Grave - US Index, IRWIN Elizabeth Ramsey Harrison 1810-1850.
Mother of President Benjamin Harrison, she married John Scott Harrison, United States Representative from Ohio and son of President William Henry Harrison, in 1831; she died in 1850 at age 40.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6661710/elizabeth_ramsey_harrison
- [S10407] Find a Grave - US Index, JOHNSON Lucretia Knapp Harrison 1804-1830.
First wife of John Scott Harrison - Son of President William Henry Harrison & father of President Benjamin Harrison.
Lucretia had three children: Elizabeth, William and Sarah. In 1829, William died when he was just two and a half years old. More tragedy struck the family the following year. After giving birth to Sarah, Lucretia became weaker and weaker. Sarah's birth became difficult, and the doctors were uncertain if Lucretia would survive. She died in 1830, leaving her husband to manage two children and a large farm by himself. Soon after his wife's death, John Harrison remarried.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33830176/lucretia-knapp-harrison
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