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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. James Madison (Matt) Harper: Birth: 1817 in Tennessee. Death: 27 SEP 1873 in Illinois

  2. Millie Harper: Birth: BEF 1823. Death: UNKNOWN

  3. Elizabeth Harper: Birth: 15 MAY 1822 in Tennessee. Death: UNKNOWN

  4. Frances Anna Harper: Birth: 1826 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. Death: 1890 in Flint, Illinois, USA

  5. George Washington Harper: Birth: 1828 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. Death: ABT OCT 1866 in Fannin County, Texas

  6. Sarah Ann (Sallie) Harper: Birth: ABT 1830 in Tennessee. Death: UNKNOWN

  7. Mark Harper: Birth: 26 OCT 1831 in Jackson Co., Tennessee. Death: 23 NOV 1875 in Hamilton Co., Illinois

  8. Matilda Jane Harper: Birth: 15 JAN 1836 in Wilson Co., Tennessee. Death: 14 AUG 1920 in McLeansboro, Illinois

  9. Susannah B. Harper: Birth: ABT 1842 in Tennessee. Death: UNKNOWN


Sources
1. Title:   1850 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1850; Census Place: District 10, Hamilton, Illinois; Roll: M432_108; Page: 195; Image: 392.
Source:   S-2128901270
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432,
2. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1860; Census Place: Division 7, Ellis, Texas; Roll: M653_1293; Page: 50; Image: 104; Family History Library Film: 805293
Source:   S-2135069018
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1
3. Title:   1840 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1840; Census Place: District 13, Jackson, Tennessee; Roll: 524; Page: 303; Image: 619; Family History Library Film: 0024545
Source:   S-2135293998
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1840. M704, 58
4. Title:   1820 United States Federal Census
Page:   1820 U S Census; Census Place: Jackson, Tennessee; Page: 139; NARA Roll: M33_123; Image: 81
Source:   S-1050344805
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
5. Title:   North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931
Source:   S-1050073118
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
6. Title:   1820 Federal Census for Jackson Co., TN
Page:   Image 13
Source:   S-2128900128
7. Title:   1840 Federal Census, Jackson Co., Tennessee
Page:   Dist. 13, p. 303
Source:   S-2128900174

Notes
a. Note:   , 1851. Vol. III, p. 003 in section 033.
 His sons made purchases too in the same area. There are three George Harper purchases, one James M. Harper, and three Mark Harper purchases.
  When George died, his estate was probated in 1866 in Fannin County, Texas, and his possessions consisted of 1 horse, 9 cattle, 20 hogs and 58 and 1/4 acres. (Box 10, case #332, George and Susan Harper)
  Harper Cemetery
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  The Harper Cemetery is located where the Bartley School was located
 and the land had been settled early by the Harper Family.
 Only 4 graves are recorded there,
 2 are only the base with no writing left and the other two are;
 Emmet Burrows b&d 1866 son of J.S.E.Burrows
 G.W. Harper ( George Washington Harper) b. 1828 (in Wilson Co.Tenn) and died in 1866 from illness from his service in the war.
 He was married to Elizabeth Crook in 1847. She remarried to a Mr.Clark.
 This from :Becky Harper McMichael
  "George Washington Harper Sr is also buried there. He was b. 1797 in Va. and He was married to Susannah Mansell and they moved to Texas before the 1860 census from Illinois and Tennessee."
  Some of G.W.Harper's are buried in the nearby Providence (Bartley-Woods Cemetery)
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~txfannin/ceme-harper.html
Note:   It seems that the Harper family moved to Illinois before 1850 and began to purchase public land. There are two George W. Harper purchases of 40 acres each for 1.25 an acre that took place on March 25

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