Category Archives: Birth Records

1800s

Family Bible: Harper family births and deaths

Birth Records, Death Records, Documents
1876
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Family Bible: Harper family births and deaths

September 15, 1876

The Harper family Bible's Births and Deaths pages record Dr. J. R. Harper's six children, born 1876 to 1893, and family deaths from 1876 to 1984, including Fern Harper Fortenberry, who married into the Fortenberry family and died on 15 January 1977.

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1900s

Gravestone Notes: Lela Mae records dates for family gravestones

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1971
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Gravestone Notes: Lela Mae records dates for family gravestones

1971

Lela Mae Fortenberry Douglass jotted down the dates for three gravestones: Eula W. Fortenberry, Aunt Ann (Mary Ann F. Murphy), and "Granny Kate," Kathryn Georgia Ann Moore Fortenberry. She also recalled that Aunt Ann's funeral came at such a muddy time that the hearse stayed in the family barn for several weeks.

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