Other Possible Harlan Burial: Susan (Phillips) Harlan [?]

 

An additional (Phillips) Harlan name appears on only one source list, Mrs. Ennis Johnson’s letter [2]:

[2] 20. “Susan Phillips, wife of Enoch Harlan” [Susan (Phillips) Harlan, wife of Enoch Harlan]

 

This appears to be an erroneous entry, as discussed below. There were three different Enoch Harlan’s in Hendricks County:

 

1. Enoch Harlan (1798-1840), and his wife, Rachel (Osborn) Harlan (1797-1871), were Quakers, from North Carolina; they were the parents of John Smith Harlan, Enoch Harlan (1838-1918), and five other children. The elder Enoch’s burial record is found in the Mill Creek Monthly Meeting, in Hendricks County; Enoch and his wife Rachel are both buried in Mill Creek Cemetery, Hendricks County [5e]; “Rachel (Osborn) Harlan” (died 1871) is clearly not “Susan Phillips, wife of Enoch Harlan”.

 

2. Enoch Harlan (1838-1918), the son of Enoch Harlan (1798-1840) and Rachel (Osborn) Harlan (1797-1871). This younger Enoch Harlan married Susan(nah) Elizabeth Phillips, on 5 May 1867, in Hendricks County; Susan(nah) was the daughter of Samuel Phillips (1808-1880) and Rachel (Newman) Phillips (1818-1901) (see Phillips section, below). Enoch’s wife Susan died in 1903, and Enoch died in 1918; this Enoch Harlan, and his wife, Susan (Phillips) Harlan, are both buried in the Amo Cemetery [5b], and are not buried at Pleasant Hill.

 

3. There was another contemporary Enoch Harlan in Hendricks County at that time. Enoch B. Harlan, b.ca.1832-1833, in North Carolina, was the son of Hiram Harlan (b.1796) and Sarah (Hodson) Harlan (b.ca.1799). Enoch B. Harlan married Sarah A. Allee, 7 Mar. 1858, in Hendricks County. This Enoch B., his wife Sarah, and her mother, Sarah, are living together in the 1860 census (25 July 1860) [47]:

“Enoch B. Harlan 27 Laborer b.N.Carolina / Sarah Harlan 20 "[N.C.] / Sarah Harlan 62 " [N.C.]”

This “Sarah (Allee) Harlan” is clearly not “Susan (Phillips) Harlan”, and is almost certainly not buried in (Old) Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

 

So, unfortunately, the possible burial listed in Mrs. Johnson’s letter [2]

[2] 20. “Susan Phillips, wife of Enoch Harlan”, appears to be an erroneous entry.

 

 

“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch       page 30 of 68

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