Effie (Hardin) Harmon (1876 - 1946)

Died 5 Jun 1946 at about age 70 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

She was the daughter of Stewart Sanford and Esther (Kennedy) Hardin. Her siblings included Melville Coxe, Arthur, and Lee Hardin.

She married August Harmon, 18 November 1900 in Coffeyburg, Missouri.

She was the mother of Dr. Paul Harmon.

In September 1943, it was announced in her local newspaper that her nephew, Major Stuart Hardin, was appointed to military governorship. He is the son of her brother Melville Coxe "M.C." Hardin. This helps solidify proof that this Effie Hardin was Effie Harmon, as her parents names are not on her death certificate, and Effie is often confused with other Effie Hardins in the same area.

She owned an apartment house at 105 South Wilbur Avenue and Hayden Street in Sayre, Pennsylvania that caught fire in the winter of 1943 or 1944. The damage was estimated to be between $60,000 and $80,000. She was coincidentally in Chicago at the time. She also owned an apartment house there.

She passed away in the LaSalle Hotel Fire in Chicago, Illinois. She had left her home in Sayre for Chicago in order to make preparations to move to West Virginia with her son Paul and his wife. He had left Sayre 6 months previously. After Effie's death, her hotel room was looted. Jewelry was missing, including a $2,000 diamond ring, a diamond studded wrist watch, and a ring with a diamond weighing one and a half carats - believed to be taken off of Effie's body.

Effie was widowed at the time of her death.

Sources

• Star-Gazette (Elmira, New York) 05 Jun 1946, Wed Page 1 Accessed through Newspapers.com.
• The Evening Times (Sayre, Pennsylvania) 05 Jun 1946, Wed Page 1 Accessed through Newspapers.com.
• The Daily American (Somerset, Pennsylvania) 10 Jun 1946, Mon Page 1 Accessed through Newspapers.com.
• "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3CV-84B : 8 March 2018), Effie Harmon, 05 Jun 1946; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,991,075.
• "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2M8-XV4M : 18 March 2018), Effie Harmon, 05 Jun 1946; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6X7-S9W : 7 September 2017), Effie E Hardin in entry for S S Hardin, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 297, sheet 119A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0689; FHL microfilm 1,254,689.
• The Evening Times (Sayre, Pennsylvania) 02 Sep 1943, Thu Page 10 Accessed through Newspapers.com.
• Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Ancestry Record 1171 #506827797
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXT-R34 : accessed 15 July 2019), Effie Harman in household of August Harman, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Washington, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 121, sheet 27A, family 230, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1475; FHL microfilm 1,375,488.