As we research Harnett County cemeteries, we rediscover lost family connections. People's lives who were intertwined yet lost to time. Here are some interesting family connections that show how connected Harnett communities really were.
Angier/Fuquay-Varina, NC
Helen Frances (Stuart) Holloway and Maranda Catherine (Stuart) Betts are sisters and both buried at Harnett Chapel Cemetery. Their brother, Joseph Kirk Stuart, is burried at the Stuart Family Cemetery just over a mile away.
"Family tradition is that this cemetery was the side yard of the Stuart family and that James Hinton Stuart is buried very close to his father, Joseph Kirk Stuart. I do not see a marker for Joseph though." - Patricia Stuart Sistare
Mary Elizabeth (Whittington) Smith is also burried at Harnett Chapel Cemetery. She is the aunt of Samantha Helen (Whittington) Stuart who is burried at the Stuart Family Cemetery. Samantha's father, Seth Littleberry Whittington, was Mary's older brother.
Lillington, NC
Benjamin Franklin & Dicey (Blanchard) Morrison from the Morrison Family Cemetery were members of Tirzah Presbyterian Church. The church was later renamed Summerville Presbyterian Church Cemetery. This was the cemetery we visited on Veteran's Day 2023 to clean the headstones of all veterans inturred there.
Source: https://ncgenweb.us
Harnett County, NC
The following men all fought in Co I, 31 NC INF for the Confederate States of America:
Inmates
Individuals from several of our cemeteries were inmates at the State Hospital, Raleigh. All three of these Harnett County residents died as inmates at the hospital but their .