| From Racine
Walking Tour Guide published 1994. HARRIET (STEWARD) HARRINGTON (1816 - 1917) Harriet (Steward) "Hattie" Harrington, the granddaughter of a Cherokee leader named Grey Eagle. Her mother, White Cloud, was the second wife of a Scottish descendent of the House of Argyle who had fought in the War of 1812. Hattie served as a field nurse during the Civil War and left military service when she was hospitalized in Chicago with inflammatory rheumatism. In 1867 she moved to Racine, where she and her second husband, John Harrington, farmed thirteen acres on the Milmine Road. Though deaf and blind in her later years, Hattie remained physically strong, being somewhat over six feet in height. Born in 1816, she lived to be 101 years old. She is the only women buried in the Civil War plot in Mound Cemetery. Submitted by Deborah Crowell |