This ca. 1860 black-and-white photograph depicts Nancy Walker Lyon Harris, who was born in 1803. Nancy’s father, William Lyon, served as clerk of the court when Cass County, Missouri (originally Van Buren County) was first established. Nancy’s husband, Fleming Harris, helped found Harrisonville, Missouri, in Cass County, and served as its first town commissioner. Nancy died in Cass County in 1864.

Picturing the War
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Women

Cass County, Missouri

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Cass County Historical Society

Photographs, PH684 Box 8

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