Hancock County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Harper Family Cemetery
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Copyright Anne and Tilmon Chamlee chamlee@accucomm.net 

 
Near the homeplace (burned) of Wilkins J. Harper and Elizabeth Hitchcock
Harper on Harper Cemetery Road in Hancock County, Georgia:

In an iron rail/cement post enclosure, to the west:
W. J. HARPER, Oct. 21, 1838 / Nov. 23, 1919
ELIZABETH HITCHCOCK, wife of W. J. Harper, Sept. 30, 1843 / Jan. 18,
1933
MINNIE E. HARPER, daughter of W. J. and E. Harper, died July 24, 1918
F. M. HARPER, Oct. 30, 1867 / Dec. 16, 1930
J. H. HARPER, April 21, 1874 / March 13, 1933

On the east side of the enclosure:
An obelisk:
IN MEMORY OF SALLIE P., wife of Saml Walker, died Sept. 22, 1824
(the obelisk has engraved  on it a cabbage rose)

To the north of the enclosure and outside of it:
An obelisk:
SARAH A. E. BURTON, consort of G. W. BURTON, MD
who died July 5, 1853 in the 20th year of her age
She died n the belief that she was going to rest with her
Heavenly Father.  Beloved in life; regretted in death

To the east and outside of the enclosure:
ALFRED P. HARPER
CO. H
4th GA INF.
CSA

JEREMIAH WARREN
GA TROOPS
REV. WAR

JESSE WARREN
GA TROOPS
REV. WAR

On the southeast corner and outside of the enclosure:
BEN WINGFIELD BUTTS
1859 / 1917 (with Masonic emblem)

A small brick enclosed area may be the gravesite of two babies -
unmarked

Visited and recorded August 7, 1988;  Tilmon P. Chamlee (great grandson
of W. J. and Elizabeth H. Harper) and his wife, Anne Barrett Chamlee, of
Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, Georgia.