The Lovins/Harper Cemetery



This is a panoramic view of the Lovins/Harper Cemetery (see location map) on Line Creek. The only original stone which is still readable belongs to Hepsey Turner Harper, wife of Drewry Harper. She was born 11 Jun 1819 and died 27 June 1857. A new stone has been set for Drewry, who passed away in 1877.

It was called the "Harper graveyard" in an 1880s-era deed.

There are about 35 graves in the cemtery, many are marked with fieldstones. The cemetery is in fairly good shape, other than the ground cover. It doesn't appear to have suffered from vandalism or grazing livestock.

The cemetery is very near land granted to Cyrenius W. Warren 29 Oct 1845. His property joined his father Mathew's on the east. This cemetery is mentioned in one of the 1890 James Cooper heir's deeds (Cooper ultimately bought all of the Warren family land). Drewry Harper's son Silas owned land just to the south of the cemetery. The land boundaries in this particular area are confusing and seemingly contradictory. Drewry himself had a farm in the area, but there is no record of it in the deed on file in the Pulaski County Courthouse prior to his 1866 grant for 16 acres. I believe Harper family tradition has the cemetery as being on Drewry's land, but, at this point, deed records do not back up that contention. However, in the 1860 census, he is listed with $300 worth of real estate. Further research should clear up the questions of the Harper lands.