Harper-Gorley Family Cemetery Index, Baldwin County, GA

HARPER - GORLEY FAMILY CEMETERY INDEX, BALDWIN COUNTY, GA

Submitted:  09-11-2000

Compiled by:  
Betty Dawson - sharring@mail.gcsu.edu

Copyright (c) 1999 by Susan J. Harrington. This copy 
contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Susan J. Harrington, sharring@mail.gcsu.edu, representing the
volunteers of the Baldwin County cemetery project of 1999.

Abbreviations used below: 
"Insc:" = Inscription
"ca" = circa or approximately
"per TT" = according to "Tombstone Records of Baldwin Co.,
Georgia, Exclusive of Milledgeville" compiled by Mrs. George H.
Tunnell (chairman) and Mrs. Guy Wells (regent), as part of a
project by the Nancy Hart Chapter of Daughters of the American
Revolution, Milledgeville, 1939. 
                                                                
                                  
G.M.D. 318       G.M.D. = Georgia Militia District.  
This number appears on maps of Baldwin County and indicates 
a general area of the county when looking for cemetery locations.

Predominant race: White     Cemetery status: Inactive   

Best directions available [Location not confirmed]: From the Baldwin County Courthouse, go
west on Hancock Street for 2 blocks or 0.2 mile (or the one large block containing Georgia
College & State Univ.).  Turn right on Clarke Street.  Go one large block or 0.2 mile.   Turn left
onto Business Highway 441 North (Montgomery St.) and follow the signs for Business 441 N
(turn right on North Columbia St.).  Go approximately 7-1/2 miles on 441N.  Turn left on
Meriwether Rd.  Go about 0.5 mile to an old dirt road in poor condition on the left.  Walk down
the road - the cemetery is believed to be on the right side of the dirt road and before you reach
the site of where the old Epsie Harper Gorley home stands or stood.  The graves were in a garden
beside the old Harper home which has burned.

All grave information per TT.   Canvassers have not been able to find this cemetery.

Cemetery listing:                                               
                                                          
     1   Robert Hutchins Harper         ca 1817 May 28 1884                               
     2   Eliza A. Harper                Aug 21 1821 Aug 21 1881                         
            Insc: w/o Robert H. Harper                          
                                         
     3   Mrs. Epsie Harper Gorley     
            Sister of W. I. Harper, per family records.
            TT had her name as Garley but the family name is Gorley.