Caroline Rivers (Lambert) Harrison (1817 - 1909)

Born 1817 in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia

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Died 2 Jul 1909 at about age 92 in Charles City County, Virginia

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In the following 1835 diary entry, Charles Ellis, Jr. recounts receiving a letter from his mother, Margaret Keeling Nimmo Ellis (Mrs. Charles Ellis) that states that Caroline Lambert became engaged to a grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall. The Ellis, Lambert and John Marshall families were all members of Monumental Church.
THE STUDENT DIARY OF CHARLES ELLIS MARCH 10 TO JUNE 25, 1835 EDITED BY Ronald B. Head University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 1976:
"April Friday 10th 1835. . . .[37] . . . .[25] . . . .Received my bundle and a letter from ma, In which, she speaks of Caroline Lambert(P47590)'s being engaged to Marshal105, grandson of Chief Justice Marshal."

However,
In a letter from Caroline Lambert to Elizabeth Galt dated 23 Jul 1835, Caroline writes that she "is tired of having people think she is engaged to someone she does not care for."

In a letter from Caroline Lambert to Elizabeth Galt dated 17 Dec 1838, Caroline mentions "the wedding of Miss Ellis to Mr. Munford." This is Charles Ellis, Jr.'s sister Elizabeth Throwgood Ellis who married Col. George Wythe Munford.

Edgar Allan Poe hoped the crowning achievement of his career to be the creation of his own literary magazine, The Stylus: A Monthly Journal of General Literature. A most touching discovery is that two of the 10 listed Richmond subscribers for The Stylus were Mrs. Caroline Harrison (#137) and her father Gen. William Lambert (#138). This suggests that they certainly met up with Poe, most likely, during his last visit in 1849. Alas, publication of The Stylus never came to be.

Caroline is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in the City of Richmond, Virginia.

Sources

THE STUDENT DIARY OF CHARLES ELLIS MARCH 10 TO JUNE 25, 1835 EDITED BY Ronald B. Head University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 1976
https://juel.iath.virginia.edu/exist/cocoon/juel/juel_one?doc=/db/JUEL/ellis_diary/typed_original.xml&key=P44376

Cary (Caroline Lambert), Richmond, to Elizabeth J. Galt, Williamsburg, 1835 July 23, id84050, Box: Series 2, Box 3, Folder: 26. Galt Papers (I), Mss. 78 G13. Special Collections Research Center. https://scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/295965

Cary (Caroline Lambert), Richmond, to Elizabeth Galt, Williamsburg, 1838 December 17, id86247, Box: Series 2, Box 4, Folder: 34. Galt Papers (I), Mss. 78 G13. Special Collections Research Center. https://scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/296165

Alexander G. Rose III and Jeffrey Alan Savoye, Such Friends as These: Edgar Allan Poe's List of Subscribers and Contributors to His Dream Machine. Published by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Edgar Allan Poe Society, and the Library of the University of Baltimore. Baltimore, Maryland: 1986. p15
(Out of print)

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8D7-DSS : 23 December 2020), Caroline Harrison in household of William M Harrison, Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M41N-LP1 : 18 February 2021), Caroline R Harrison in entry for Wm M Harrison, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLL-6Y2 : 29 May 2021), Caroline Harrisson, 1870.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93880986/caroline-rivers-harrison: accessed 03 September 2022), memorial page for Caroline Rivers Lambert Harrison (1817–2 Jul 1909), Find A Grave: Memorial #93880986, citing Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Lynx Lady (contributor 46776859) .