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'''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 [[1964 Harpersville tornado|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." {{BN}}

[[Category:Shelby County cemeteries]]
[[Category:Harpersville]]
[[Category:Alabama State Highway 25]]