Sumter County GaArchives Photo tombstone.....Henry Harrison Hand DAR Marker 
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Laura Stotler LStotler@aol.com June 9, 2004, 7:32 pm

Source: Old Pleasant Grove Methodist Church Cemetery
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Photo taken May 27 2004

Henry Harrison Hand gravemarker in the old Pleasant Grove Methodist Church 
Cemetery by Methvins, Sumter Co., Georgia.  It's a slab-style and the only 
writing on it is a DAR marker, placed there in 1938.  This grave is located 
directly next to the grave of Columbus Washington Hand (the white upright 
tombstone visible behind the slab.


Additional Comments:
DAR records for Henry Harrison Hand state that he was born February 23, 1791 
and died March 10, 1870. Thus, there is a question about why the DAR placed a 
marker here.  Rev. Henry Hand, father of Henry Harrison Hand, appears to have 
served in the Revolutionary War as a private soldier of the line in North 
Carolina. (NSDAR #456378 Elizabeth Hand Hale application which cites McCalls' 
Roster of Rev. Soldiers in Georgia pg 82-83, Vol. III, and Authentic List of 
All Land Lottery Grants made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State 
of Georgia complied by Alex M. Hertz. Atlanta 1955, p. 33.)

Records for the War of 1812 show a Henry H. Hand served as a private and 
sergeant with Bowling's Detachment, Georgia Militia. (Reference U.S. Military 
Records: War of 1812 Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers 1812 - 1814  Hami - 
Hanf.  National Archives Microcopy M-602, Roll No. 90)

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