Angelia Lawrance Morrison Harris

Angelia Lawrance Morrison Harris (March 24, 1912 – July 13, 1983) was an American heiress, political hostess, philanthropist, and businesswoman. She served as First Lady of North Carolina during the administration of her widowed father, Governor Cameron A. Morrison, from 1921 to 1924, until her father remarried to Sara Virginia Ecker Watts. She was the second daughter of a North Carolinian governor to serve as First Lady during his term, after Helen Whitaker Fowle Knight. Throughout the Morrison administration, she was known as the "little mistress of the mansion." In her later life, she lived at her Charlotte estate, Morrocroft, and operated an antique business. Harris was a benefactor of multiple institutions including Queens College, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and the Mint Museum, and was appointed by Governor Dan K. Moore to serve on the North Carolina Executive Mansion Fine Arts Commission.

Early life Angelia Lawrance Morrison was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 24, 1912, to Cameron A. Morrison, a lawyer, and Lottie May Tomlinson Morrison. She was the only one of her parents' four children to survive infancy. Her mother died in 1919. She accompanied her father to the wedding ceremony at Harwood Hall, which had been Watts' home during her first marriage to George Washington Watts. with whom she had four children: James Jackson Harris Jr.; Sara Harris Bissell; Cameron Morrison Harris; and John William Harris.

In 1964, she opened and operated a successful antique business in Charlotte. In 1967, at the behest of First Lady Jeanelle C. Moore, she was appointed by Governor Dan K. Moore to serve as a member of the Executive Mansion Fine Arts Commission. She was active in many organizations, including the Charlotte Debutante Club, and was a parishioner at Covenant Presbyterian Church. Harris was a benefactor to Queen's College, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, the Mint Museum, and Charlotte Country Day School.

Harris died on July 13, 1983, aged 71. Following her death, her children had ginkgo trees planted along Ballantyne Commons Parkway in Charlotte in her memory.