HEGG, Nora Harris - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Mrs. Nora Hegg, wife of the late William Hegg, died at her West Jefferson street home in this city (Covington), at 8:45 a.m., Tuesday,(December 13, 1918)aged 53 years, 8 months and 16 days, after months of illness from cancer. She was one of a family of nine children, two brothers alone survive her. Mrs Nora Harris-Hegg was the daughter of the late Rev. Francis and Suzanna Harris, a pioneer Methodist preacher, and was born at Edenburg, March 27th, 1865, the family later locating in Covington. Here October 11th, 1888, she was united in marriage to William Hegg, a well known resident of this city, who died September 7th, 1914. To this union were born two children, Miss Lera, and Lyle, both of whom have reached maturity and survive her. She is also survived by the two brothers, Rev. Mark Harris of Vincennes, and Milo J. Harris of Bethel, Ohio, who is engaged in journalism. The funeral services were held from her late home at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, conducted by Elder Will Switzer, assisted by Rev. Standforth, the male quartet furnishing the song service, interment following in Mt. Hope cemetery. Early in life Nora Harris united with the Methodist church and it always remained her church home, in which she was a diligent church and Sunday school worker, having taught a class for years and until her declining health made such service impossible. Her's was a beautiful Christian life, it always being a pleasure for her to minister where needed and to lighten the burdens of others. In her home her beneficent life and its sweet influences were most strongly felt, and the bereaved daughter and son who attended her last hours of suffering, with such filial love and care, who remain, will most fully realize the power of her sweet life and the magnitude of their loss. Mrs. Nora Hegg, her life work though done, will live on, nor be forgotten