Harriet E Taft
- Marriage (1): Almon C Miner in 1854
- Buried: Crescent, OK, Crescent Cemetery
Noted events in her life were:
• Obituary. "HARRIET H. TAFT
Harriet E. Taft was born at Yonkers, New York, September 11, 1833. Died in Crescent, Oklahoma, April 6, 1909. Was married to Almon Miner at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1854.
Mr. Miner was a Union soldier in the civil war, his wife
accompanying him as nurse for the soldiers for almost 3 years. She never neglected duty in careing for the soldiers on either side when she was needed. Many times when she wasn't on duty she would mold bullets for the soldiers. During these years of service, she lost one child which was buried at Cameron, Missouri, near a battle field.
Mr. Miner went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, for his health, where he died February 13, 1889.
To this union 9 children were born 4 of whom survive her. They are;
Mrs. Amon Branson of Billings, Oklahoma; Mrs. A.J. Hahn of Hunter, Oklahoma, Mrs. Ruby Dean of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Mrs. G.W. Sloan of Crescent, Oklahoma. All were at her bedside when she passed away.
Mrs. Miner was a member of the Rebekah lodge, having united with this lodge at Humansville, Missouri, in the fall of 1878. She united with the Crescent Lodge in December, 1894, in which she was a member in good standing at the time of her death.
She united with the Christian Church, January 17, 1898 at Crescent and continued faithful until the summons came calling her home. The funeral services at the church were conducted by Rev. Mart Gary Smith of Enid, after which the Rebekahs took charge and she was laid to rest in the Crescent cemetery.
-- Logan County News (Crescent, Oklahoma), 16 April 1909.
Contributor: Jonathan Plant (47312756)
Inscription
Top Left Page of Book: "Gone But Not Forgotten" Woodman Symbol - Bottom below dates: " Age 75 Yrs".
'In her grave robes, calmly sleeping,
Lies our mother still and cold,
But her spirit, angels wafted
To the gentle shepherd's fold
One by one the white robed boatman
Takes them to their home on high,
And our dear home was broken
When our mother said goodbye'"
Harriet married Almon C Miner in 1854. (Almon C Miner was born on 9 Sep 1827 in NY, died on 13 Feb 1890 and was buried in Eureka Springa, AK, IOOF Cemetery.)
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