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Cooper-Harris Cemetery
Sabine County, Texas
Transcribed and submitted
by Sharisse Tompkins
| DIRECTIONS Cooper-Harris Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas - From the courthouse in Hemphill take FM 83 East 1 block to State Hwy 87. Go North or Left 7 miles to Milam. At the intersection of Hwy 87 and Hwy 21 in Milam turn West or Left on Hwy 21 for 3.6 miles to Lickskillet Road. Turn North or Right onto Lickskillet Road and go 3.1 miles to the cemetery on the Right. This cemetery has a cyclone fence and is well kept. Additional information added in parenthesis. Directions and some additional notes supplied by Kay Parker McCary
Note: This cemetery reindexed on
10 June 2001 by
Mackie & Kay Parker McCary and Billy Neal Fussell. |
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| Name | Born | Died | Inscriptions | Comments | ||
| 1 | COOPER, W. H., Sgt. (William) | 1840 (3 Jan 1841) |
(3 Feb) 1920 | "Co F 11 Regt Texas Inf CSA" | 2/h of Arlethia ("Lethia") Harris Alford | |
| 2 | COOPER, Arletha H. (HARRIS) | 23 Apr 1837 | 2 Jan 1904 | "wed Jan 17 1867" | (beside W. H. Cooper -
kpm) 1/h Britton Alford - 2/h William H. Cooper |
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| 3 | SMITH, Lemuel Jerome | 1874 | 1954 | dbl/w Nancy Emma Cooper Smith (m. 30 Mar 1902) | ||
| 4 | SMITH, Nancy Emma (COOPER) | 1876 | 1953 | dbl/w Lemuel Jerome Smith (m. 30 Mar 1902) | ||
| 5 | HARRIS, Mary E. | 10 Apr 1869 | 1 Nov 1869 | |||
| 6 | HARRIS, Henry Leo | 1 Jun 1890 | 14 Aug 1891 | shares headstone with Judge Leon Harris | ||
| 7 | HARRIS, Judge Leon | 1 Jun 1890 | 21 Aug 1891 | shares headstone with Henry Leo Harris | ||
| 8 | HARRIS, Infant Dau | no other date | Mar 1892 | only one date | ||
| 9 | HARRIS, Julya Lou | 16 Feb 1887 | 8 Oct 1898 | |||
| 10 | POLLEY, Sydney A. | 5 Mar 1899 | 26 Aug 1899 |
"Son of Dr. R A & E E Polley" "Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven" |
This tall monument is shared with his mother, Edna Earl Polley. | |
| 11 | POLLEY, Edna Earl (HARRIS) | 5 Nov 1872 | 23 Mar 1899 |
"Wife of Dr. R A Polley" "Too good for earth God called her home" |
(w/o Ralph A. Polley - m. 11 Jun 1898 SCT) This tall monument is shared with her son, Sydney A. Polley. |
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| 12 | HARRIS, Judge (Joseph L.) | no date (18 Nov 1839) |
14 Nov 1902 |
"Aged 62 YS 11 MS 26 DS" "Here lay my burden down, Change the grass into the green" |
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| 13 | HARRIS, Syrentha COLLIER | 1 Sept 1848 | 19 Jan 1914 | "Mother" "Gone, But Not Forgotten" | ||
| 14 | HARRIS, Lena | 28 Oct 1904 | 19 Jun 1906 | "At Rest" | shares headstone with Opal Harris | |
| 15 | HARRIS, Opal | 18 Jul 1910 | 11 Oct 1911 | shares headstone with Lena Harris | ||
| 16 | COOPER, Mary Elizabeth | 26 Aug 1889 | 4 Mar 1906 | "Daughter" | ||
| 17 | COOPER, James Alex | ?__ Jul 1898 | 25 Apr 1983 | "Precious Memories, Oh How Sweet - Together with Christ" | ||
| 18 | COOPER, Lula Elizabeth (FULLEN) | 25 Dec 1870 | 30 Apr 1902 |
"Family of A. R. Cooper" "Thy trials ended thy rest is won" -- "Wife-" |
shares headstone with Alexander and Lita Cooper 1/w of Alexander Randle Cooper |
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| 19 | COOPER, Alexander Randle | 12 Jun 1868 | 3 Oct 1947 | "Family of A. R. Cooper" | shares headstone with Lula and Lita Cooper | |
| 20 | COOPER, Lita (Telitha) Irvine | 27 Jul 1867 | 30 Jun 1955 | "Family of A. R. Cooper - Wife" |
shares headstone with Lula and Alexander 2/w of Alexander Randle Cooper |
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| 21 | PRATT, Howard L. | 14 Aug 1900 | 16 Oct 1905 | shares headstone with William H. Pratt | ||
| 22 | PRATT, William H. | 14 Aug 1904 | 16 Apr 1907 | shares headstone with Howard L. Pratt | ||
| 23 | JAMES, Jesse H. | 2 Apr 1897 | 18 Dec 1984 | "Daddy's Hands" | ||
| 24 | JAMES, Arlie J. | 23 Aug 1901 | 26 Oct 1992 | "Mama's Love" | ||
| 25 | JAMES, Cole Harrold | 15 Nov 1929 | 24 Sep 1936 |
"Son of Jesse H & Arletha James" "Little Ones to Him Belong" "Brother of Dorothy, Bennie, Betty and Linda" |
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| 26 | HARVILL, Alfred A. | 19 Dec 1911 | 12 Feb 1984 | |||
| 27 | HARVILL, A. L. | 23 Dec 1890 | 21 Jun 1973 | "At Rest in Jesus For in God We Trust" | shared headstone with Lorena & Lula Harvill | |
| 28 | HARVILL, Lula A. | 27 Jun 1912 | 30 Sep 1912 | shares headstone with A.L. and Lorena Harvill | ||
| 29 | HARVILL, Lorena | 4 Oct 1894 | 1 Nov 1965 | shares headstone with A.L. and Lula Harvll | ||
| 30 | TOMPKINS, Bennie H. | 1910 | 1962 | "Gone but not forgotten" | ||
| 31 | HARVEY, Abbie (Tompkins) | 2 Sep 1914 | 12 Mar 1995 | "In loving memory" | dbl/w Martin Dies Harvey | |
| 32 | !HARVEY, Martin D. (Dies) | 24 Aug 1917 | 25 Apr 2001 | dbl/w Abbie Tompkins Harvey - (son of Ebb Harvey) | ||
Presently, descendants of W. H. and Arletha Cooper maintain the cemetery.
There are two unmarked graves within the fence: a child and a laborer.
There is a possibility of a third unmarked grave located outside the fence.
Coded for Internet by Barbara Yancey Dore
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