Re: Harmons near Generys Gap, Alabama
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Harmons near Generys Gap, Alabama
Nelson Walters 7/20/11
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Most of these HARMONS are buried in the cemetery at Genery's Gap Macedonia Church on Shades Mountain between Helena, AL. and Bessemer, AL. not far from the Shelby Co./ Jefferson Co. line.
Shades Crest Road has every other section touching Jefferson
County. Genery's Gap is on the Jefferson County Side of the
line. According to the hand drawn map in Madge Pettit's book, one that is
supposed to depict 1875, it shows William Genery Homestead at Genery's Gap
and near Genery's Church and Cemetery below Bee Ridge - Shades
Mountain. At one time the road did not go through the Gap to Shelby
County. It was only an old wagon road that was near impassible as late as
1950. I don't know what they called the section after you top the hill and go
into Shelby County on Highway 52, but that section of Shelby County was
sparsely inhabited in 1875.
> I saw your posting on this cemetery. Sturdivant-Henderson Cemetery is a
> separate cemetery from the Sturdivant Cemetery located in Bamford (off of
> Hwy 277 in Helena).
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> Sturdivant-Henderson Cemetery is located on Hwy 13 in Helena (Shelby Co
> AL) east of Shiloh Church Cemetery on the Cahaba River. This land is owned
> by US Steel. This cemetery has never been surveyed.
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> This is what I know about the cemetery. There are approximately 24-30
> graves in the cemetery and only two are marked.
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> Holly Middleton Henderson
> Born 30 June 1823 Shelby Co AL, son of Mike and Martha Massey Henderson
> Died 7 May 1862 of disease in Selma, Dallas Co AL (44th AL Infantry, Co E)
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> Sarah Elizabeth Harmon Henderson
> Born 30 June 1829, daughter of Allen and Rebecca Lindsey Harmon
> Died 11 December 1895
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> Holly Middleton Henderson married Sarah Elizabeth Harmon on 10 August 1848
> Shelby Co AL
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> Others believed to be buried in this cemetery:
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> Sarah Gibson and her parents
> James Harmon
> Pleasant Henderson (infant son of Holly and Sarah Henderson)
> John Nichols (who married Lydia Harmon)
> Mike and Martha Massey Henderson (parents of Holly M. Henderson)
> John Lindsey (son of David Lindsey)
> Elizabeth West Lindsey (wife of John Lindsey)
> Daughter of John and Elizabeth West Lindsey
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