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HARE CEMETERY DECORATION 1933

W. V. Barry

June 16, 1933
Lexington Progress
Last Saturday and Sunday in Lexington

 …At about 9:30 o'clock, as Sunday morning wore on, I was invited by my good friend and neighbor, J.Walter Wright, to go with him to the Hare graveyard, eight miles north, to attend the decoration of the graves, listen to the services and partake of dinner spread on tablecloths under the giant oaks at the home of Duncan Roberts, which I discovered to be the old Martin Hare home, where I had spent a night more than 30 years ago, when the late H.E. Graper made a race to be be beaten for the legislature by the late Judge T.A. Lancaster. As a homesite, there is no lovelier in Henderson County, surrounded by broad upland fields, and as I have said, a number of magnificent oaks between the dwelling house and the road, the graveyard being some 200 yards or more on this side of the residence building. When a gravel road is made from Highway 22 to the home of Duncan Roberts or some point to the County line, there will be no more desirable section in which to live.

 Before the noonday meal was spread, Brother Tommie Jowers preached in the cemetery where there are many graves of the Hares, the Overmans, the Walls, and at least one Parker (George, whom I remember as a merchant, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. W.G. Rains) whom I knew.

 After the bounteous dinner another address was made by a young man, Bob Roberts of Clarksburg.

 I was glad to go to the burial ground of my old friends, the elder Hares-Martin, Albert, Lem and others. I can say for the Hare family that their dominating characteristic has been Honesty. I appreciated the opportunity to visit the lovely cemetery in which each grave, but slightly elevated, was covered with real white sand. Monroe Overman told me of a nearby wonderful deposit of sand in a variety of colors in addition to white.

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