Phoebe F. FULKERSON

17 Nov 1830 - 1 Nov 1917

• OCCUPATION: Keeping House
  
• BIRTH: 17 Nov 1830, Montgomery Co, IN
• DEATH: 1 Nov 1917, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA
• BURIAL: November 1917, Fulkerson Cemetery

Father: Richard FULKERSON
Mother: Sally Shepherd CLAWSON

Family 1 : Jacob HARRIS

• MARRIAGE: 7 Dec 1848, Bloomfield, Davis Co., Iowa

1. +Thompson Mize HARRIS
2. +Sarah Isabelle HARRIS
3.  Alice Clara HARRIS
4. +Richard Alexander HARRIS
5.  Phoebe Florence HARRIS

                                                _John FULKERSON __
                           _Fulkard FULKERSON _|
                          |                    |_Margaret BRUNER _
 _Richard FULKERSON ______|
|                         |                     _Theodore DAVIS __
|                         |_Sarah DAVIS _______|
|                                              |_--- (DAVIS) _____
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|--Phoebe F. FULKERSON 
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|_Sally Shepherd CLAWSON _|
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Notes:

Phoebe F. Fulkerson: She and Jacob Harris were 2nd cousins, making Jacob both Richard's cousin and his son-in-law. They had two children born in Iowa. Great-grandmother of Elaine Z. Minney the daughter of Mrs. William R. Duncan. Mrs. William R. Duncan's brother is C. W. Harris. Phoebe had another daughter Mrs. Frederick Casani -- this according to the Press Democrat article from 1951.

Was a poetess and her poetry appears in newspaper articles about various Fulkerson family functions of her time. One of her poems is also on the wall of Richard and Sally's crypt. There is a published collection of her pieces: Poems, by Mrs. Phoebe Fulkerson Harris (Republican Press: Santa Rosa, California, 1900). The titles for the poems are: "Sea Flowers," "Greeting to Mr. And Mrs. S. T. Fulkerson on their Pearl Wedding Anniversary," "The Ruined Home on Fulkerson Summit," "Reflections on the Spanish-American War," "Camp on Higher Ground," "Our Dead Heroes," "Lines Accompanying a Bunch of Violets Sent on St. Valentine's Day," "A Tribute to Those Gone Before," "Autograph for a Friend's Album," "Ode to Mary," "A Christmas Greeting," "The Beauty of Nature," "To Hazel," "To Gracie," "Our Honored Dead," "On the Birthday of Spiritualism," "A Reverie," "To Claude," and "Golden Wedding."

Sonoma County Deeds:

Grantee -- Harris, Phebe:

Grantor: Harris, Phoebe (and as "Phebe"):

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