Sara Elizabeth Harrill
1913 - 1977 (64 years)
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Name Sara Elizabeth Harrill Birth 12 Nov 1913 Mooresville, Iredell , NC 
Gender Female Death 17 Dec 1977 Albemarle, Stanly, NC Burial 19 Dec 1977 Albemarle, Stanly, NC Person ID I13284 Drollinger Genealogy Last Modified 22 Sep 2023
Father James Albert Harrill, Sr., b. 23 Mar 1885, Catawba County, NC d. 5 Dec 1935, Mooresville, Iredell, NC (Age 50 years) Mother Nannie Laura Trollinger, b. 24 Jan 1883, Catawba County, NC d. 23 Jul 1979, Pfafftown, Forsyth, NC (Age 96 years) Family ID F5228 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family William Adair Lyon, b. 17 Mar 1911, Clarksville, Montgomery, TN d. 11 Apr 1986, Albemarle, Stanly, NC (Age 75 years) Marriage 18 Dec 1937 Iredell, NC Children 1. William Bradford Lyon, b. 8 Jul 1939, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina d. 8 Nov 2018, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina (Age 79 years)Family ID F5249 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 17 Jan 2017
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Birth - 12 Nov 1913 - Mooresville, Iredell , NC 
Marriage - 18 Dec 1937 - Iredell, NC 
Death - 17 Dec 1977 - Albemarle, Stanly, NC Burial - 19 Dec 1977 - Albemarle, Stanly, NC = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Miss Sara Elizabeth Harrill Wedding Announcement
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JAMES HARRILL OF MOORESVILLE KILLED HIMSELF ILL HEALTH GIVEN AS CAUSE FOR ACT Was A Prominent Telephone Company Executive For Many Years
Mr. James Albert Harrill, general manager and secretary and treasurer of the Mooresville Telephone company, committed suicide early this morning at his home on Academy street. Mr. Harrill had been ill since the latter part of the summer when he fell In his office, fracturing his hip. He had previously suffered a fractured knee when he fell from a fire truck while rushing with the local company to answer a fire alarm. He was just able to be back in the office when he fell and fractured his hip. He had been a patient since that time in the Lowrance hospital here, until about ten days ago, when he was able to return to his home. Members of the family were about household duties when the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Harrill, upon returning: to the room found Mr. Harrill breathing his last, with his throat cut. A razor was lying at his side. Medical aid was hurriedly summoned, but Mr. Harrill did not live until doctors arrived. Mr. Harrill was a native of Catawba county, a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Harrill, who, live at Newton. He was fifty years of age. Surviving besides his parents are his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Nannie Trollinger of Catawba county; a son, Dr. James Albert Harrill, an interne at King County hospital, New York; and a daughter, Miss Sarah Harrill of Mooresville, who teaches in the Troutman schools. A sister, Mrs J. A. Coley, of Newton, also survives. Mr. Harrill was a member of the First Baptist church here, and of the local Fire Department. He had been associated with the Mooresville Telephone company for the past twenty-six years. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, pending the arrival of Mr. Harrill's son and other members of the family.
Sara Elizabeth Harrill Marries
MISS SARA ELIZABETH HARRILL of Mooresville daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Albert Harrill of that city is engaged to William Adair Lyon. The wedding to take place Saturday December 18 Mr. Lyon is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Scott Cary Lyon of Davidson. Announcement of the engagement is being made today by the bride-elect's parents.
Lyon Harrill Vows Are Solemnized
Special to The Observer MOORESVILLE Dec 18—The wedding of Miss Sara Elizabeth Harrill daughter of Mrs. James A. Harrill and the late James Albert Harrill of this city and William Adair Lyon son of Dr. and Mrs. Scott Cary Lyon of Davidson was solemnized this morning at 11 o'clock at the home of the bride's mother with Rev. C. H. Myers officiating. Prior to the ceremony Mrs. Eugene Johnston pianist played and Mrs. R. Dewey Farrell of Greensboro sang The bride and bridegroom entered together The bride wore a three-piece wool suit of Dubonnet with a collar of Canadian lynx. Her off the face hat with short veil was slate blue as were her other accessories. A shoulder corsage of Narca orchids completed the costume. After the ceremony Mrs. Harrill entertained the out-of-town guests and members of the families at a buffet luncheon. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Lyon will make their home in Concord. Mrs. Lyon attended Meredith college and Greensboro college at Greensboro where she was graduated. She was vice president of the students association secretary of her class and chief marshal. Mr Lyon was graduated from Battleground academy in Franklin Tenn. and from Davidson College. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and of the Scabbard and Blade military honorary fraternity. He is now connected with the Cannon mills at Kannapolis.
William B. Lyon Birth
Name
William B Lyon
Mother
Sara Harrell
Father
William Lyon
Birth
1939 Mecklenburg, North Carolina
General Index to Vital Statistics Stanly County NC Deaths For William Adair Lyon and Sara H Lyon