Harless Cemetery

Harless Cemetery was established as a burying ground in the early 1800s on land homesteaded by Henry Harless, Jr., later owned by members of the Wyatt family and deeded to the cemetery. The oldest surviving marker is for Henry Harless, Jr.'s sister, Hannah Harless Wilson (1783-1833). Hannah and her husband, Benjamin Wilson, arrived in the area about 1814 and are believed to have been the first white settlers in the Ebenezer community. Because of its proximity and connections with nearby Ebenezer United Methodist Church, established in 1818, the cemetery is sometimes called Ebenezer Cemetery. Most of those buried there are linked by blood or marriage, and their lives reflect the history of the area. Those buried there include descendants of American Revolutionary War patriots and veterans of five wars of the 1800s and 1900s: the Civil War, World War I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. It is listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.

Alabama · United States