Lauraetta Mandigo

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OBITUARY OF MRS. HARRIS.

Lauraette Mandigo, daughter of Stephen and Sarah Mandigo was born near Watertown, N. Y., March 5, 1841. She was united in marriage to Robert Burns Harris March 4, 1857. To this union were born ten children, four of whom survive her—Robert, Edward, Charles, living at home and Mrs. Emma Thompson residing in the city. Her husband preceded her in death by twenty-six years, having passed away May 10, 1891, at the age of 56 years. She is survived by three sisters—Miss Rachel Mandigo, Mrs. Jane Morgan of out of the city and Mrs. O. W. Webster, living in the city and Mrs. Sadie Johns a half-sister also eleven grandchildren, two of whom have made their home with and been raised by her since the death of their mothers, one Mrs. George Blaine, who has been with her grandmother since she was but 18 months old and the other John Bevans.

Mrs. Harris had been in ill health for the last six years but had been critically ill for only about six weeks. She had been a resident of Iowa for more than seventy years.

Interment was to be at the village cemetery at the old family home of Villaca, where she resided for twenty-one years, having removed to Cedar Rapids but eight years ago.

(The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) • Wed, Jan 31, 1917 • Page 7)

Lauraetta married Robert Burns Harris on 4 Mar 1857. Robert (son of Martin Harris and Margaret Thompson) was born in ca 1836 in Livingston County, New York; died on 10 May 1891 in Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa; was buried in Villisca Cemetery, Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]