It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of our beloved and much lamented brother, Rev. Daniel Bluford Harrison. The subject of this notice was born September 15, A.D. 1815, Maury county, Tennessee. He professed faith in Christ in early life, and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The writer, not being furnished with dates and other necessary information, is not prepared to give a correct history of that part of the life of the deceased from his conversion up to his ordination. He placed himself under the care of Presbytery, as a candidate for the ministry, in the State of Mississippi; and by the same Presbytery was licensed to preach the gospel. Afterward he removed to Arkansas, and united with the Ouachita Presbytery, where he was ordained to the whole work of the ministry, at the age of about thirty years. He died May 30th, 1875; aged fifty-two years, eight months, and fifteen days.

Bro. Harrison was a faithful, zealous, and efficient minister; spent the last thirty years of his life chiefly in Southern and Western Arkansas, in preaching, organizing and supplying churches; laboring to defend the cause of his blessed Redeemer, and extend the doctrines of our holy religion. The deceased was commissioned from (his) the King Presbytery to the General Assembly, at Jefferson Texas, last May; left home for that point on the 8th, of the month; was taken ill on his way, but reached Jefferson in due time; and although sick, as we are informed, attended to his duty as delegate through the sessions of the Assembly. The day the Assembly adjourned, he started home on the train, reached the house of a friend the same evening, near the depot, at Texarkana, Texas. Although still sick and feeble, he walked from the depot to the house of his friend, a distance of three-fourths of a mile. The next day, Saturday, he grew worse; said he was going to die, and asked his sister-in-law to write a letter, which he would dictate, to his kind family, advising them in the management of business, telling them he would see them no more until he would meet them in heaven; telling them he was at his post, and all was right with him, except that he was from home. The next morning, being Sabbath, May 30th, at 4 o'clock, perfectly in his right mind, he laid his armor down--died in the triumph of a living faith. Thus lived and died one of the noble sons of the Church.

The writer had an intimate acquaintance with Bro. Harrison for the last seven or eight years. They were thrown together at Presbytery, lodging in company, holding protracted meetings, etc; and he would say, to know him was to love him. The deceased was devoted to the Church of his choice, a sound theologian, safe counselor, spiritual, zealous, efficient minister; kind, obliging neighbor, a devoted and affectionate husband, and an indulgent father.

Just previous to his death, he was pastor of three organized congregations, with whom he labored faithfully for a time, and eternity only can tell the amount of good done through his instrumentality. Those churches have lost a faithful pastor, his neighborhood a good citizen, his family a devoted companion and father. But we would say to all: Our loss is his eternal gain. He has crossed the flood, and can no more come to us, but we can go to him. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, they rest from labors, and their works do follow them."
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, August 12, 1875, page 2]

Committee on Deceased Ministers
Rev. D. B. Harrison, King (Presbytery)
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1876, page 27]

Minister: Harrison, Daniel B.
How Added: Ordained
Presbytery: by Mound Prairie
Year: 1850
Presbytery or Church: left blank
Last Record: died
Year: ca. 1876
[Source: Campbell, Thomas H. Arkansas Cumberland Presbyterians 1812-1984: A People of Faith. Memphis Tennessee: Arkansas Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1985, page 307]