Henry County GaArchives Photo Tombstones.....Harper/Carter/Maddox Cemetery
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Cemetery Name:             Harper/Carter/Maddox Cemetery
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Harper/Carter/Maddox Cemetery, Henry Co. GA

In this 1980s photo, Bernard F. Knowles-late of Conyers, stands in front of 
this long neglected cemetery. Just to his right, the only marked graves were; 
R. R. Maddox, 1837-1913, and his son George, 1866-1869. In the late 1990s the 
cemetery was cleared following a dispute with the landowner, and new stones 
were placed for Rueben J. Harper, 1815-1895, and his wife Martha Carter Harper, 
1821-1873, by members of the Folds family, Harper descendants. Martha Carter 
was the daughter of Daniel and Martha(Scott)Carter who had married in Warren 
Co. In 1844, Martha Harper and her brother Leonidas Daniel Carter were deeded 
portions of the original land lot won by their father-in the Georgia land 
lottery, by their uncle, Rev. James Carter of Butts Co. James Carter, a long 
time pastor at Macedonia Baptist Church, had purchased the lot when Daniel 
Carter had defaulted on taxes. In the early 1900s, Alexander Carter, son of 
Leonidas and Priscilla(Nelms)Carter-who married in 1852, told of helping build 
a rock wall around the cemetery. It is likely that his parents were buried in 
that enclosure near Rueben and Martha Harper, and Rueben‘s sister, Frances. 
Rueben Harper & Leonidas Carter were double brothers-in-law; Leonidas having 
first married Rueben’s sister, France Ann in 1850. For more see the Carter 
biography on this site.

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