Charles was the son of Capt. John Harper and Sarah Wells. He first married Sarah Janney; they had one son, Joseph, who married Mary Ann Miller. After Sarah's death, Charles married Lucy Smither in 1797; they were the parents of nine children.
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"He ordered that his name only be put on his tombstone and that his coffin be made of old worm eaten wood, unfit for working better, and flat and made on the place by a certain negro servant. His father was a sea captain in West Indian trade. His father had twenty children by his first marriage and nine by his second. This captain moved from Philadelphia to Alexandria. Charles moved from Alexandria to Culpeper and then to "Spring Hill", Ivy, Va."
Blind in his later years, he and his wife lived with Dr. and Mrs. Anderson at "Locust Hill" where he died at 81 and is buried "with his wife... amid the graves of beloved friends and relatives."
∼TMSI [12276]
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"He ordered that his name only be put on his tombstone and that his coffin be made of old worm eaten wood, unfit for working better, and flat and made on the place by a certain negro servant. His father was a sea captain in West Indian trade. His father had twenty children by his first marriage and nine by his second. This captain moved from Philadelphia to Alexandria. Charles moved from Alexandria to Culpeper and then to "Spring Hill", Ivy, Va."
Blind in his later years, he and his wife lived with Dr. and Mrs. Anderson at "Locust Hill" where he died at 81 and is buried "with his wife... amid the graves of beloved friends and relatives."
∼TMSI [12276]
Charles was the son of Capt. John Harper and Sarah Wells. He first married Sarah Janney; they had one son, Joseph, who married Mary Ann Miller. After Sarah's death, Charles married Lucy Smither in 1797; they were the parents of nine children.
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"He ordered that his name only be put on his tombstone and that his coffin be made of old worm eaten wood, unfit for working better, and flat and made on the place by a certain negro servant. His father was a sea captain in West Indian trade. His father had twenty children by his first marriage and nine by his second. This captain moved from Philadelphia to Alexandria. Charles moved from Alexandria to Culpeper and then to "Spring Hill", Ivy, Va."
Blind in his later years, he and his wife lived with Dr. and Mrs. Anderson at "Locust Hill" where he died at 81 and is buried "with his wife... amid the graves of beloved friends and relatives."
∼TMSI [12276]
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"He ordered that his name only be put on his tombstone and that his coffin be made of old worm eaten wood, unfit for working better, and flat and made on the place by a certain negro servant. His father was a sea captain in West Indian trade. His father had twenty children by his first marriage and nine by his second. This captain moved from Philadelphia to Alexandria. Charles moved from Alexandria to Culpeper and then to "Spring Hill", Ivy, Va."
Blind in his later years, he and his wife lived with Dr. and Mrs. Anderson at "Locust Hill" where he died at 81 and is buried "with his wife... amid the graves of beloved friends and relatives."
∼TMSI [12276]
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CHARLES HARPER
March 7, 1768
May 9, 1848
Son of CAPT JOHN HARPER and SARAH WELLS HARPER of Alexandria, Va.
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