New Hope Cemetery
Jeddo community, Monroe County, Alabama

Transcribed by Marsha King Grady, December 2000
e-mail: myfamilypast@yahoo.com

Directions: Take Highway 21 South from Frisco City toward Uriah. After you pass through Goodway, turn right onto County Road 8. Go 4.7 miles (continuing past the Poplar Springs Baptist Church). Take a right onto the 2nd paved road past Poplar Springs Baptist Church. Go .7 miles to the first dirt road on the right. The cemetery is about 100 yards down the dirt road behind the first lot, where New Hope Primitive Baptist Church used to stand. The cemetery is enclosed in a wire fence and is marked with a painted wooden sign.

Note: Underlined sections represent Marsha Grady's notes on known and suspected relationships)

James N. White, born 29 May 1899, died 18 August 1900 (son of Henry Robert White and Lyddia Lee Roberson White)

Eliza A. White, wife of Jno. A. White, born 22 October 1820 died June 1898 (Elizabeth A. McKinney; wife of John A. White)

Marcus N. Harrison, born 21 December 1860, died 23 May 1910 (son of Henry Moses Harrison and Lucinda Kitchen/Kinchen)

Matilda A., wife of G. Long, born 28 April 1847, died June 1900 (Matilda A. White Long; daughter of John A. White and Elizabeth A. McKinney White)

Elvira Harrison, born 1888 died 1897 (daughter of Marcus N. Harrison)

William Harrison, born 1884, died 1925

Sarah Harrison, born 1868,  died 1913

Edward Harrison (no dates)

F. R. Parmer, born 11 June 1855, died 17 April 1929 (Foster Rowan Parmer; husband of Samantha Harrison Parmer)

“Mother”, Samantha C. Parmer, born near Elba, Ala. 25 May 1852, departed this life 12 September 1905 (Samantha Harrison Parmer; daughter of Henry Moses Harrison and Lucinda Kitchen/Kinchen)

“Grandmother”, Angielina Harrison, “Trust in God” (no dates) (Angielina McKinney Harrison; 2nd wife of Gaines Harrison; born ca 1840)

Elvira McKinney, born 1834, died 1920

“Granddad”, Gaines Harrison, “Trust in God” (no dates) (Son of Henry Moses Harrison and Lucinda Kitchen/Kinchen; born 1839)