Birth Born on November 20, 1827 in Wilmot, Annapolis Co., NS Death Died on July 26, 1904 in Margaretsville, Annapolis Co., NS Buried in Evergreen Baptist Cemetery in East Margaretville, Annapolis Co., NS Marriages BAKER, Malvina Married on 1846 in Wilmot, Annapolis Co., NS Children HARRIS, George Burpee: December 31, 1852 - December 01, 1930 Notes Occupation: Ship Captain Obituary: The news of the sudden death of Capt. Joseph Harris of Margaretville comes as a shock to many who were not his immediate relatives. Many there are who cherish the memory of his genial companionship and many who can never forget his deeds of kindness and true charity rendered in time of need. In business we recall that while personally he abhorred obligations and would not be a debtor to any one, as a creditor he was lenient and forgiving, and in his domestic relations he was the faithful husband and kind father. It seems fitting that a tribute of affection and respect to his memory should come from Mass. for he has a large circle of friends and relatives in this state. He was a man of strong intellect and original ideas with rare insight on all matters of human interest, a man educated with college and literary by reason of that training which was obtained mainly from self culture. Whatever his surroundings he could hold sympathetic converse with the great minds of the past and the present and their grandest thoughts found an answering chord in his own nature. Many a dreary night at sea has been cheered for himself and for others by drawing on the literary gems stored in the cabinet of retentive memory. The writer has not seen the deceased for years, but knew that he was a member of the Baptist church, and was happy to learn from one who held christian converse with him in the last year of his life that he was firm in the faith and had no doubt of his acceptance through Christ. It is true despite his intense and forceful personality, he shrank from a display of religious feeling, true that with his clear intellect, and keen human sympathies he was at times depressed by the injustices, the cruelty, the wrong and the suffering that are summed up in man's inhumanity to man, but we know from his own lips that he realized it was not for him to solve the mystery, he looked forward to a time when a clearer light should show these things in harmony with the design of that God who is love. He believed that to man here it is given to see only an incomplete part of a perfected whole and he knew though \endash "Right be ever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne \endash That scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown, Standeth God amid the shadows, Keeping watch above his own." The Outlook Middleton,NS August 19,1904 Sources Annapolis Cemetery Records: East Margaretsville Cemetery #31A Images Joseph Harris