CEMETERY: Harper Cemetery, Hart Co., KY ----------------------------------- Transcibed by: Gaye Hill rjhistory@yahoo.com Date: Sept 2004 ----------------------------------- ************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legalrepresentative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWebarchivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ********************************************************************* This is a small and well-kept cemetery just inside the Munfordville city limits. It is located off 31W at the I-65 Interstate exit ramp. Turn off 31W onto Harper Cemetery Road and go about 200 yards. It has steps leading up the hill and a little further, plenty of off street parking. They do not sell lots, it has always been for free burials. stone - no name, no dates stone GOBEL nothing further legible Fred H. LAWSON May 11, 1928 Dec 19, 1991 doublestone LAWSON Leamon V Lue Veagie Apr 27, 1882 June 26, 1902 Nov 13, 1965 July 30, 1961 Virgil Lee LAWSON Mar 13, 1930 May 20, 1990 "Father" Ernest L. VASS 1878-1943 doublestone "Father" "Mother" William E. Mary A VASS Oct 12, 1854 Feb 14, 1854 Mar 23, 1925 no date "Gone But Not Forgotten" doublestone VASS Robert G. Annie HARPER 1974-1943 1876-1969 "Father" "Mother" Thomas D. VASS June 3, 1900 Apr 3, 1955 Infant HARPER Dau of Wm & Ester COX HARPER Sept 30, 1960 doublestone HARPER Wiley M. Ester COX Sept 25, 1919 Mar 31, 1918 June 5, 1982 Mar 17, 1994 back of stone Married July 25, 1944 Our Children - Laura & Jane Ann doublestone HARPER Wiley Macy Nora LOGSDON Arp 13, 1887 Jan 18, 1898 (yes, Arp is on the stone - presumably for April) Aug 1, 1947 Sept 24, 1970 "Father" "Mother" Bessie J. LOWRY Dec 3, 1910 - July 19, 1959 Thomas D. HARPER May 25, 1878 - Nov 16, 1944 small column style stone base reads HARPER "Dear parents though we miss you much We know you rest with God" Ellen F. HARPER died July 11, 1901 Silas J. HARPER died Feb 1, 1889 Henry L. HARPER died June 29, 1899 Aged 16 years "Gone But Not Forgotten" short column Agnes E. HARPER Oct 9, 1887 Jan 27, 1912 "Dying is But Going Home" "Uncle" Tommie FUQUA Apr 13, 1898 July 1972 footstone Evelyn FUQUA July 13, 1898 July 1972 footstone Bronze Plaque Charles D. FUQUA Cpl US Army World War II 1916 - 1977 footstone "He Died For His Country" Idreal M. FUQUA 1913 - 1944 footstone Ossie FUQUA June 14, 1881 Apr 21, 1968 footstone Mary E. FUQUA Apr 17, 1885 Dec 2, 1955 fieldstone fieldstone doublestone Edwin V. EDWARDS 1868-1940 Florence EDWARDS 1872-1899 "Wife" "Husband" Winnie T. HARPER Aug 6, 1889 Sept 28, 1966 "Husband" Ono T. GILLOCK 1872-1937 large marker O. T. GILLOCK B. M. GILLOCK Born Aug 16, 1872 Born Nov 1, 1874 Died no date Died May 3, 1903 Truest GILLOCK Carrie L. GILLOCK Born June 15, 1893 Born Dec 21, 1897 Died June 23, 1893 Died Apr 3, 1903 fieldstone fieldstone fieldstone fieldstone small column Dugles. OR Ougles. JAGGERS (I cannot tell if the first letter is "D" or "O", also there is a "." after _ugles) Born Sept 3, 1882 Died no date Myrtle wife of D or O JAGGERS Born Jan 7, 1889 Died Oct 19, 1918 "Darlings We Miss Thee" G. M. JAGGERS Born Nov 5, 1851 Died Dec 4, 1930 "Alight from our home is gone, A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled." Mary E. wife of G. M. JAGGERS Born Aug 5, 1848 Died Aug 3, 1905 "A loved one has gone from our circle, On earth we shall meet her no more, She has gone to her home in heaven, And all her ---------------------- are o'er." small column - marble - very weathered Emma wife of H. BUCKNER Jan 29, 1888 Aug 10, 1919 inscription illegible Infant Dau of KL & Ella LOGSDON Nov 17, 1919 "At Rest" Dau of EB & Maggie LOGSDON Oct 19, 1923 R. A. Jr. son of RA & EE LAWLER Jan 1, 1929 Jan 4, 1929 doublestone LOGSDON Preston W. Martha G. 1850-1925 1851-1923 doublestone JOHNSON Wm. H. "Billy" Ann STAPLES Mar 29, 1942 Feb 26, 1944 Nov 6, 1975 no date JOHNSON Lena B. Nov 5, 1899 Mar 7, 1990 "Daughter" doublestone JOHNSON Sarah E. Willie Lee Apr 10, 1870 Jan 24, 1866 Apr 14, 1935 Mar 4, 1954 Marjorie SELF Oct 14 1928 Nov 4 (there is no other year date given, I read this to be an infant who died in 1928, the year of their birth) Dec 18, 1849 P. D. LOGSDON May 15, 1924 "Father" fieldstone fieldstone fieldstone Lener ASH Sept 24, 1889 Aug 3, 1927 "He Believed and Sleeps in Jesus" doublestone JAGGERS John W. "At Rest" Stella 1879-1934 1884-1960 footstone - "Father - Mother" Rosa Nell CLAUSON Dec 6, 1914 Mar 18, 1946 "Asleep in Jesus" doublestone MINTON Paul H. "Jeep" Delores J. "Doe" Sept 4, 1942 June 8, 1947 June 4, 1985 no date double wedding rings - Married Aug 7, 1962 back of stone - "Parents of James and Robert" doublestone MINTON Charles A. Opal TERRY Jan 19, 1911 Nov 13, 1918 Apr 5, 1993 no date footstones - "DAD" "MOM" back of stone - "Parents of Frances - Jeep & Charline" Raymon T. son of AV & LG JAGGERS Nov 12, 1905 Nov 19, 1927 "A precious one from us is gone, A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our home, That never can be filled" "He died so happy" JOHNSON Dorothy M. Mar 18, 1916 Jan 15, 1934 Dau of Clarence & Ollie B. JOHNSON doublestone JOHNSON "Father" "Mother" Clarence L. Ollie BRENT 1897-1974 1895-1982 Married Dec 3, 1912 Samuel Walton JOHNSON June 1943 -Aug 1943 doublestone JOHNSON "Father" "Mother" William F. Emma L. Jan 16, 1919 Sept 9, 1920 Nov 10, 1989 July 9, 1966 Terri L. HEAD Sept 10, 1950 Infant Dau. of Becky JOHNSON HEAD Nancy GARDNER Mar 20, 1868 Mar 11, 1937 "Father" Jennings B. GARDNER Mar 19, 1897 Jan 10, 1968 doublestone GARDNER Oscar Ida WEBB Oct 10, 1886 Aug 9, 1894 Apr 17, 1970 June 17, 1990 Married Nov 1910 (no day is given) "Daughter" Maudie GARDNER Jan 18, 1920 Feb 25, 1938 "Son" Woodrow GARDNER Nov 7, 1924 Dec 19, 1929 doublestone TERRY Jennie Duke 1850-1940 1844-1933 footstones Edward N. TERRY Mar 28, 1921 Feb 15, 1942 footstone James M. TERRY Mar 28, 1921 Feb 15, 1942 footstone doublestone TERRY Fillie C. Lizzie A. Oct 6, 1887 His Wife Nov 1, 1981 Aug 8, 1891 Nov 12, 1944 "Wife" Matilda B. TERRY June 30, 1898 May 27, 1979 triplestone KING James Duard Paul Branham Ernest Lee Dec 2, 1882 Sept 13, 1887 Dec 24, 1907 Feb 21, 1971 Nov 9, 1956 June 28, 1981 back of stone "Erected in Memory of my Family by Adam Holbert King" doublestone LOGSDON Lauuna Hade A. Oct 12, 1885 Oct 24, 1880 Mar 8, 1968 Apr 20, 1946 Dewey LOGSDON Nov 15, 1904 June 19, 1935 James Elbert LOGSDON US Army World War II Oct 11, 1918 (the rest of the stone is buried) Bennie GARDNER 1906-1975 William H. LOGSDON Apr 17, 1922 July 14, 1996 back of stone has an illustration of a tractor and "Massey Ferguson 135" and "Son of Haden & Lauuna" Mattie DAWSON Mar 30, 1895 Apr 15, 1967 Frank DAWSON Feb 17, 1890 Dec 29, 1947