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Revision as of 16:59, 16 October 2006
Harpersville Garden of Memories is a roadside cemetery located on Alabama Highway 25 in the present city of Harpersville in Shelby County. The cemetery contains well over 1,000 graves, including those of the first settlers of Big Springs in the first decade of the 19th century. On September 17, 2006 the roadside cemetery will become one of 40 cemeteries on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, the 6th in Shelby County.
A tornado destroyed a number of markers in January 1964.
Notable burials
- Boz Shepard, last chief of the Kewahatchie Tribe of the Creek Nation
- William Jennings, present at Yorktown when the British surrendered to Washington
- Members of the Kidd family, early settlers of the area.
References
- McAlister, Laura (September 14, 2006) "Cemetery's historic designation an opportunity to recall the past." Birmingham News.