Harriet McConnell autograph

“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long,

And so make life, death, and that vast Forever

One grand, sweet song.”

Harriet McConnell

Sutter Creek, Cal

April 2, 1884

[Note from Lizzie Dunlap: My teacher in Sutter Creek]

Harriet McConnell was listed as a single woman, School Teacher, born in Vermont, age 35 (born about 1845) on the 1880 census. She was living in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. In the autograph album Harriet’s signature follows that of Mary Nickerson.

Harriett McConnell is found in the FindAGrave site. It notes from her headstone that she was born in 1845 and died in 1890. She is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California. Her headstone is cut the same way Mary Nickerson’s headstone is.

Harriett McConnell: https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=mcconnell&GSfn=harriet&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=6&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=52903019&df=all&

Mary Nickerson: https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=nickerson&GSfn=mary&GSiman=1&GScid=8191&GRid=52926958&

The obituary appeared for Miss Harriet McConnell: [i]

I believe that Harriet McConnell and Mary Nickerson were siblings.

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[i] Miss Harriet McConnell obituary, San Francisco Chronicle, (San Francisco, California) 25 Nov 1890, page 3 column 5; database with images, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com/ : accessed 28 Nov 2017).