Paul Richard Harp was the son of Albert and Abbie Harp of Marion County, Alabama. He was married to Leona Fell Harp Turner. Together, they had one child, Paul Ralph Harp.
During World War I, Paul joined the U.S. Army in view of serving his country. He left his young wife of eighteen and his six-month-old son to enter the European Campaign. He contracted Influenza and died in England before ever seeing combat. He left a grieving family behind.
Recent information arrived on (04.10.2022):
Magdalen Hill Cemetery Winchester burial registers. Paul died in a military hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire England. He was buried at Magdalen Hill on 15 October 1918. Plot Number U150.
His death certificate can be ordered from the General Register Office England quoting reference Volume-2b Page-1014.
His remains were exhumed on 27 April 1920 by order of The Home Office. At the request of his family, his body was repatriated to the US.
According to the US Army Transport Service arriving and departing passenger lists 1910-1939, Paul's body left Southampton, England, on 11 May 1920 onboard the "Princess Matoika." The ship arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 23 May 1920. His next of Kin was noted as Cora H. Harp of Haleyville, Ala." [from Lorraine Boardman (46995392), [email protected], a genealogy researcher from Winchester, England.]
When his body reached the family, it was interred near his parents in Marion County's New Hope Cemetery. When his son, Ralph, purchased lots out at Winston Memorial Cemetery, he had the body moved once again to its present resting place, now between his son and his sister, Pearl Harp Green.
Ralph called another man dad all his life; the greatly loved and esteemed Stonewall Turner. (Memorial 36151315) However, Ralph equally honored the father's memory that he never knew, kindly recalling at every opportunity the good things he learned of his physical father, Paul Richard Harp.
During World War I, Paul joined the U.S. Army in view of serving his country. He left his young wife of eighteen and his six-month-old son to enter the European Campaign. He contracted Influenza and died in England before ever seeing combat. He left a grieving family behind.
Recent information arrived on (04.10.2022):
Magdalen Hill Cemetery Winchester burial registers. Paul died in a military hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire England. He was buried at Magdalen Hill on 15 October 1918. Plot Number U150.
His death certificate can be ordered from the General Register Office England quoting reference Volume-2b Page-1014.
His remains were exhumed on 27 April 1920 by order of The Home Office. At the request of his family, his body was repatriated to the US.
According to the US Army Transport Service arriving and departing passenger lists 1910-1939, Paul's body left Southampton, England, on 11 May 1920 onboard the "Princess Matoika." The ship arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 23 May 1920. His next of Kin was noted as Cora H. Harp of Haleyville, Ala." [from Lorraine Boardman (46995392), [email protected], a genealogy researcher from Winchester, England.]
When his body reached the family, it was interred near his parents in Marion County's New Hope Cemetery. When his son, Ralph, purchased lots out at Winston Memorial Cemetery, he had the body moved once again to its present resting place, now between his son and his sister, Pearl Harp Green.
Ralph called another man dad all his life; the greatly loved and esteemed Stonewall Turner. (Memorial 36151315) However, Ralph equally honored the father's memory that he never knew, kindly recalling at every opportunity the good things he learned of his physical father, Paul Richard Harp.
Paul Richard Harp was the son of Albert and Abbie Harp of Marion County, Alabama. He was married to Leona Fell Harp Turner. Together, they had one child, Paul Ralph Harp.
During World War I, Paul joined the U.S. Army in view of serving his country. He left his young wife of eighteen and his six-month-old son to enter the European Campaign. He contracted Influenza and died in England before ever seeing combat. He left a grieving family behind.
Recent information arrived on (04.10.2022):
Magdalen Hill Cemetery Winchester burial registers. Paul died in a military hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire England. He was buried at Magdalen Hill on 15 October 1918. Plot Number U150.
His death certificate can be ordered from the General Register Office England quoting reference Volume-2b Page-1014.
His remains were exhumed on 27 April 1920 by order of The Home Office. At the request of his family, his body was repatriated to the US.
According to the US Army Transport Service arriving and departing passenger lists 1910-1939, Paul's body left Southampton, England, on 11 May 1920 onboard the "Princess Matoika." The ship arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 23 May 1920. His next of Kin was noted as Cora H. Harp of Haleyville, Ala." [from Lorraine Boardman (46995392), [email protected], a genealogy researcher from Winchester, England.]
When his body reached the family, it was interred near his parents in Marion County's New Hope Cemetery. When his son, Ralph, purchased lots out at Winston Memorial Cemetery, he had the body moved once again to its present resting place, now between his son and his sister, Pearl Harp Green.
Ralph called another man dad all his life; the greatly loved and esteemed Stonewall Turner. (Memorial 36151315) However, Ralph equally honored the father's memory that he never knew, kindly recalling at every opportunity the good things he learned of his physical father, Paul Richard Harp.
During World War I, Paul joined the U.S. Army in view of serving his country. He left his young wife of eighteen and his six-month-old son to enter the European Campaign. He contracted Influenza and died in England before ever seeing combat. He left a grieving family behind.
Recent information arrived on (04.10.2022):
Magdalen Hill Cemetery Winchester burial registers. Paul died in a military hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire England. He was buried at Magdalen Hill on 15 October 1918. Plot Number U150.
His death certificate can be ordered from the General Register Office England quoting reference Volume-2b Page-1014.
His remains were exhumed on 27 April 1920 by order of The Home Office. At the request of his family, his body was repatriated to the US.
According to the US Army Transport Service arriving and departing passenger lists 1910-1939, Paul's body left Southampton, England, on 11 May 1920 onboard the "Princess Matoika." The ship arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 23 May 1920. His next of Kin was noted as Cora H. Harp of Haleyville, Ala." [from Lorraine Boardman (46995392), [email protected], a genealogy researcher from Winchester, England.]
When his body reached the family, it was interred near his parents in Marion County's New Hope Cemetery. When his son, Ralph, purchased lots out at Winston Memorial Cemetery, he had the body moved once again to its present resting place, now between his son and his sister, Pearl Harp Green.
Ralph called another man dad all his life; the greatly loved and esteemed Stonewall Turner. (Memorial 36151315) However, Ralph equally honored the father's memory that he never knew, kindly recalling at every opportunity the good things he learned of his physical father, Paul Richard Harp.
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