Harriet Elizabeth (McAllister) Peck (1839 - 1920)

Harriet was my great grandmother. Her son Paul Sommers Peck was my grandfather. In searching for my ancestry, I was saddened by the amount of heartache Harriet endured. In 1874, Harriet’s husband William Peck, a doctor in Cincinnati, her father in law, an Ohio Supreme Court judge, William Virgil Peck, and his wife, all died. Harriet had 8 children to raise on her own. She never remarried. I was able to locate the house she and her children lived in after the death of her husband. It was a very small house, with the railroad in front of the house in downtown Cincinnati. I was further saddened to find out that all her children died before her. Her last child died 2 days before she died. Her husband, her in-laws have large grave monuments in Portsmouth Ohio. Her children, my grandfather, has a nice monument. However Harriet has no marker in the Cincinnati cemetery. The one thing Harriet did do is keep her family together, and did her best from 1874-1920.