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This list of cemeteries in Arkansas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Ash Flat was established in 1856. The community was so named for a grove of ash trees near the original town site. [3]In 1967, the Arkansas General Assembly designated Ash Flat as the single county seat of Sharp County, a title previously held by Hardy and Evening Shade concurrently.
Augusta Memorial Park is a cemetery in Augusta, Arkansas.It is located in the northeastern part of the city, accessible via Arkansas Highway 33B. The cemetery was established in 1852, on what is reported by local historians to be a Native American burial mound.
Forrest City Cemetery, also known as City Colored Cemetery and Purifoy Cemetery, [1] is a historic Black burial ground in Forrest City, Arkansas, United States. [2] It is thought that this burial ground was founded around c. 1880 , by members of the Spring Creek Baptist Church. [ 2 ]
The cemetery's oldest burials date to 1833, and consist of members of the Martin family, early settlers and surveyors of the area. The oldest portion of the cemetery, a 2-acre (0.81 ha) rectangular area located in its southeast, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, for its association with the region's early history. [2]
The cemetery contains the graves of two of its first settlers, Thomas Garvin (d. 1834) and Thomas Buchanan (d. 1836), and is the site of the community's first church and schoolhouse. [2] The Cane Hill area was the site of the Battle of Cane Hill , a running battle fought a few days before the Battle of Prairie Grove in November 1862.
Bethel Cemetery is a historic cemetery at the end of Bethel Road in rural eastern Ashley County, Arkansas. It is about 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) in size, with about 170 marked burial sites, and an unknown number of unmarked sites. The oldest marked burial is dated 1855, and it continues to receive new burials.
The Oakland–Fraternal Cemetery is a historic cemetery [2] on Barber Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It actually consists of six originally separate cemeteries, and lies adjacent to the Little Rock National Cemetery , of which it was once a part.