Harpersville Garden of Memories

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 became one of 40 cemeteries on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, the 6th in Shelby County.

A tornado hit the cemetery on January 24, 1964, destroying many of its older markers and monuments.

Notable burials

• Boz Shepard (died c. 1837) last chief of the Kewahatchie Tribe of the Creek Nation
• William Jennings (1761–1840), Revolutionary War veteran
• Members of the Kidd family, early settlers of the area.
• Orpah Moore (1772–1823), consort of Lemuel Moore

References

• McAlister, Laura (September 14, 2006) "Cemetery's historic designation an opportunity to recall the past." The Birmingham News