Robert Harrill
Farmer, Deceased Person
1893 – 1972
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Who was Robert Harrill?
Robert E. Harrill was an American man known as "The Fort Fisher Hermit". He became a hermit in 1955 at the age of 62 after a string of unsuccessful and unsatisfying jobs and a failed marriage. Harrill hitchhiked to Fort Fisher on the North Carolina Coast from Morganton, North Carolina, a distance of 260 miles. He had been committed to a mental hospital in Morganton by his in-laws, after his wife, Katie Hamrick, left him and asked for a divorce. Harrill apparently walked away from the hospital or made a key from an old spoon and used the key to escape the facility.
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1893
Gaffney - Spouses
- Katie Hamrick
(1913 - )
- Katie Hamrick
- Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Died
- Jun 3, 1972
Fort Fisher
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on July 23, 2013
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