Mount Holly Springs - Mount Holly Springs Colored Cemetery

Heading south from Mechanicsburg, we reach Mount Holly Springs where you will find the Mount Tabor Cemetery of Mount Holly Springs.  Located just southeast of Mount Holly Springs.  It is believed that the cemetery and nearby church was founded by freed slaves in the years immediately following the American Civil War.

The cemetery includes seven African-American Civil War veterans:

1.      Elias Parker, Company I, 38^th Regiment, USCT

2.      Henry Brown, Company I, 127^th USCT

3.      James H. Tyson, Company F, 32 Regiment, USCT,

4.      William Jones, Company G, 27^th USCT

5.      Richard J. Jordan, Company E, 24^th USCT

6.      Henry Ward, US Calvary Infantry, Company E, 25^thRegiment, USCT

7.      Jesse Tarleton , Company K, 1^st Regiment, USCT 

The Reverend Elias Parker lived in Williamsport, Maryland with his first wife Harriet.  Following her death, he relocated to the Carlisle/Mt. Holly Spring area. He married his second wife, Lucinda Jane Johnson Parker, in 1886. She is buried with him in the Mt. Tabor Cemetery. Their daughter, Harriet Parker Gumby and other members of the Gumby family (who are descendants of Elias Parker) are also buried here.

The cemetery also includes other African-American military veterans, including veterans fo the Spanish-American War and World War I.

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