Adeline Harper Cemetery, Butler County, Kentucky ************************************************** Submitted by: Tamara Kincaide Date: August 28, 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************** I went down to Butler County for the first time in 1999 and just drove aimless thru the area for hours. I had not before that ever ventured futher than Muhlenberg Co in the Central City / Greenville areas. Anyway while making that drive I came across a clump of trees with what appeared to have had once a metal fencing around the immeadiate area, I pulled over and found a couple of broken markers entangled in weeds but there were some readable and if I remember 5-6 standing upright. Not having ever been there prior I had to estimate where I was On Russellville Rd just off highway 106 going north abt a mile from a church named Mt Olivet there is a farm field with a grouping of old trees probably 5-8 trees standing alone in the field. There was a painted sign in white small block letters ADELINE HARPER CEMETERY I suspect it was homemade and had been there a few years it was weathered wood. These were all I could read while there ELMIRE HARPER DIED AT AGE 87 YRS ON SEPT 28 1867 WIFE OF J HARPER FLORA HARPER FEB 11 1901 TO MAR 1 1920 LYDIA HARPER FEB 1 1781 TO MAY 11 1863 OR 1868 JOHN K HARPER AUG 25 1843 TO NOV 201 1860 A????? FLEMMING FEB 3 1823 TO MAR 13 1859 LYDIA CORLEY 1903-1939 RICHARD RIVES AUG 15 1850 TO JUNE ? 1880 BURTIN OR BURRIN RIVES MAR 13 1842 TO FEB 24 1912 OR 1919 RUSSELL CA?R??L (I think CARROLL)AUG 30 1879 TO FEB 20 1910 There was a rock with J H on it next to or near ELMIRE I assume her husband ? it was painted on in white letters Probably same day or by same person who made the sign.. There was a small bundle of plastic red poinsetta(christmas) flowers on the ground in front of the Harper womens stones,also a red plastic basket with white poinsetta flowers that was turned over on the ground. It was summer when I went so they had been there for while if not from a christmas yrs before my visit. There are probably more graves there but without markers it seems that it may have once held at least 20-30 graves in that area.