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Harnett Chapel Cemetery

Coordinates: 35.53621 N, Longitude: -78.78158 W

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Name Birth Death
Last First Occupation Date Location Date Location Cause Age
George Henry "Tobe" Barbour
George Henry Barbour 		Barbour George Henry "Tobe" Farmer
Merchant 		May 7, 1871 Johnston Aug 18, 1928 Raleigh Kidney Cancer 57 years, 3 months, 11 days View More
Maranda Catherine (Stuart) Betts
 Betts Maranda Catherine (Stuart)   Jul 29, 1855 Holly Springs Mar 28, 1903 Fuquay-Varina   47 years, 7 months, 27 days View More
Helen Frances (Stuart) Holloway
 Holloway Helen Frances (Stuart) Teaching School Aug 14, 1844   Jun 23, 1914     69 years, 10 months, 9 days View More
Malcom McNeill Holloway
 Holloway Malcom McNeill Farmer Jul 4, 1830   Sep 23, 1897     67 years, 2 months, 19 days View More
Edith E. (Campbell) Revels
 Revels Edith E. (Campbell) Farm Laborer Aug 12, 1846 Cumberland Oct 14, 1909     63 years, 2 months, 2 days View More
William Henry Revels
 Revels William Henry Farming Nov 25, 1854 Cumberland Mar 12, 1923 Wake Atelectasis of lungs 68 years, 3 months, 15 days View More
Infant Daughter Smith
 Smith Infant Daughter   Apr 20, 1923   May 5, 1923     0 years, 0 months, 15 days View More
Joseph Alfred Smith
Joseph Alfred Smith 		Smith Joseph Alfred Farmer Nov 20, 1814 Cumberland Jan 15, 1899 Harnett   84 years, 1 month, 26 days View More
Mary Elizabeth (Whittington) Smith
 Smith Mary Elizabeth (Whittington) Keeping House Dec 14, 1820 Cumberland Sep 21, 1906 Harnett   85 years, 9 months, 7 days View More
Charlie David Wray
 Wray Charlie David Real Estate Dealer Oct 9, 1875 Harnett Dec 7, 1910 Raleigh Chronic Melancholia 35 years, 1 month, 28 days View More
James Benton Wray
 Wray James Benton   Aug 13, 1881   Apr 1, 1902     20 years, 7 months, 19 days  
John Roberson Wray
 Wray John Roberson Traveling Supt. Oil Co. Mar 10, 1872 Harnett Mar 21, 1914 Wake Typhoid Fever 42 years, 0 months, 11 days View More
Mary M. (Jones) Wray
 Wray Mary M. (Jones) Keeping House Oct 10, 1845 Wake Nov 21, 1895 Harnett   50 years, 1 month, 11 days View More
Mildred Rheid Wray
 Wray Mildred Rheid   Jan 3, 1918 Harnett Oct 19, 1918   bronchopneumonia 0 years, 10 months, 16 days View More
Pinkney Herman Wray
 Wray Pinkney Herman Supt. Oil Mill Nov 20, 1879   Feb 14, 1916 Macon Pulmonary Tuberculosis 36 years, 2 months, 25 days View More
Sallie Elizabeth Wray
 Wray Sallie Elizabeth   Sep 23, 1873   Jul 27, 1909 Fayettville   35 years, 10 months, 4 days  
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Thomas Hopkins Wray
 Wray V Thomas Hopkins Laborer
Farmer 		Mar 29, 1830 Harnett May 17, 1890 Harnett   60 years, 1 month, 18 days View More
Harnett Chapel School

Harnett Chapel School

Fuquay-Varina, NC

The church did not burn down as previouisly thought!

I heard from a friend whom I had asked about family knowledge of the Harnett Chapel Church. The school and church were the same building.

It was located either on the Holloway or Chapel property on Purfoy road where the cemetery is today. Holloway family is not positive of exact location of the building and the property lines.

Don Holloway remembers playing in the one room building as a boy with Larry King and Gordon Clark during the 1945-50 period.

The building was moved to Chalybeate Springs (north of the former Lena’s restaurant) after being given to a black church congregation. James Tutot moved the building.

The Holloway family recalled that Mrs. Pearl Proctor came from Fuquay Springs in horse drawn carriage to teach in the school. The general thinking is that the school closed when Lafayette opened. (The Rawls school closed then as well I have been told.)

Information courtesy of: Don Holloway and Judy Holloway Haire & family. Members of their family are buried there as I assume you would know. Herman Holloway, sister Linda Roy or Ray? And Frances Holloway mother of Herman.

Shirley Simmons - Town Historian
References to Harnett Chapel Church/Cemetery
  • "Anderson N. Betts (1830-1912) was a brother of Andrew N. Betts (1824-1894) who was licensed as a local elder as early as 1863 at Harnett Chapel, which was a Methodist church in Harnett County just south of the Wake County line. Both were brothers of Alexander D. Betts, affection-ately known to his congregations as Uncle Betts. While only A. D. Betts achieved Conference membership, both of these brothers were active in the work of the church, although their contribution is not recorded." Source: https://archive.org
  • "Cowpens and Guilford Court-House. His sword has been placed in the museum of war relics at Guilford Battle Ground. Etheldred Jones had a brother, Jesse. Both came from Virginia before the Revolution and settled in that part of Wake County now embraced in Middle Creek Township, at the place once known as the Barney Jones precinct, being the place where Gales Johnson now resides. The mother of Mr. Johnson Avas a granddaughter of Etheldred Jones. The Jesse Jones place is that which is known as the Andrew Betts old homestead, in Wake County, near the line of Harnett, in the vicinity of Harnett Chapel Church. Etheldred Jones owned most of the land now included in Middle Creek Township, and a large part of Holly Springs, Swift Creek and Buckhorn townships." Source: https://tile.loc.gov
  • Harnett Chapel was established in August 1857 by Bro. Heflin of the Haw River Mission. J.B. Long publishes in the North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, NC) of a new church called Harnett Chapel and that "both Baptists and Methodists united harmoniously, as Christians should, in the work of the Lord." The North Carolina Christian Advocate held quarterly meetings at the church. Early on it was described as part of the Haw River Circuit, but later it was described as being part of the Fayetteville or Cape Fear Circuit. In 1900, there is a report in the paper of a couple who attended "the Methodist Quarterly meeting at Harnett Chapel last Sunday."
  • In 1909, a report from The Harnett County News states that "Chalybeate Springs, Olive Branch, Harnett Chapel, and Rawls have been combined for a high school and the building to be located at a site to be agreed upon somewhere on the highway between Kipling and Chalybeate Springs." It wasn't uncommon for early schools to be operated out of churches, or vice versa.

  • Pictures of many early churches in Harnett County (pages 10-15)

  • Harnett Chapel listed on Soil Map from 1916 (zoom top center)