Elizabeth Bassett Harrison
(1796-1846)
BIRTH
September 29, 1796
PLACE
DEATH
September 27, 1846
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
William Henry Harrison
(1773-1841)
MOTHER
Anna Harrison
(1775-1864)
SISTER
Mary Symmes Harrison Thornton
(1809-1842)
SISTER
Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor
(1813-1865)
BROTHER
Carter Bassett Harrison
(c. 1756-1808)
SISTER
Marie
(dates unknown)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Bassett Harrison Short (1796–1846) was the eldest daughter of William Henry Harrison and Anna Symmes, born at Fort Washington in Ohio. She married lawyer John Cleves Short, joining two families rooted in the early Ohio settlement. Their letters survive in the Short-Harrison-Symmes papers at the Library of Congress. She lived through her father’s brief presidency. Family compilations agree on her identity but differ by a day on her death in September 1846.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Bassett Harrison’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Bassett Harrison is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Bassett Harrison died on Sep 27, 1846. Elizabeth Bassett Harrison Short was the eldest daughter of William Henry Harrison and Anna Symmes, born at Fort Washington in Ohio. She married lawyer John Cleves Short, joining two families rooted in the early Ohio settlement. Their letters survive in the Short-Harrison-Symmes papers at the Library of Congress. She lived through her father’s brief presidency. Family compilations agree on her identity but differ by a day on her death in September 1846. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Berkeley Plantation
12602 Harrison Landring Road, Charles City, VA
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