Arkansas Cemeteries - Old Seminary Cemetery, Ouachita County, Arkansas

Arkansas Cemeteries

OLD SEMINARY CEMETERY

Ouachita County, Arkansas

Submitted June 29, 2007, by Jerry McKelvy

This old cemetery is overgrown with brush. It is about one acre in size and most of the monuments are in good shape. An African-American cemetery also called Seminary Cemetery, is located on another road about ¼ mile from this one, and it is still active.

Directions: From downtown Stephens, go north on Hwy. 57 for 2.5 miles. Turn left on a gravel road (Rd. 104) and go 9/10ths of a mile to a sharp curve to the right. Two dim roads will leave the gravel road in this sharp curve. The first one (Rd. 112) leads to the black cemetery still in use. The second road is very dim and is about 50 feet from the first one. The cemetery is about 2/10ths of a mile down this dim road and will be on your right. There are large oak trees at the site, and you will have to look closely to see the monuments in the underbrush.

About 25 graves marked by rocks or stones that could not be identified. A large pile of bricks marked one grave. There could be many unmarked graves in this cemetery.

This record was made 1-12-2000 by Jerry McKelvy.

Autry, (Infant) – b. 3-1-1893---d. 3-1-1893; son of Frank and Jacqueline Autry; inside concrete border

Burris, Cleropatro – b. 12-21-1876---d. 1-15-1877

Campbell, Ella Maud – b. 10-24-1885---d. 7-3-1886; daughter of W. J. and Josie Campbell

Campbell, Nanny – b. 10-24-1881---d. 11-30-1881; daughter of W. J. and Josie Campbell

Campbell, Caley – b. 7-4-1887---d. 9-2-1887; daughter of W. J. and Josie Campbell

Campbell, (Infant) – b. 9-25-1888---d. 10-6-1888; daughter of W. J. and J. F. Campbell

Campbell, Josephine Snelson – b. 11-25-1861---d. 9-29-1888

Campbell, Josie F. – b. 11-25-1861---9-29-1888; wife of J. W. Campbell; this stone is 20 feet south of Josephine Snelson Campbell stone; same dates on both stones; stone broken; name missing in 2007 survey; J. F. C. on footstone

Gatlin, Leo Temperance – d. 2-1?-1873; age ? days; daughter of Geo. W. and G. A. Gatlin

Gossett, John – b. 6-24-1813---d. 8-7-1877; double marker with Elizabeth Gossett

Gossett, Elizabeth – b. 3-3-1829---d. 9-2-1887; double marker with John Gossett

Gossett, Joseph Alma – b. 9-10-1893---d. 1-29-1894; son of J. B. and Ida Gossett

Gossett, J. B. – b. 5-2-1868---d. 10-11-1905; tall marker

Hall, Bernard – b.July, 1869---d. Jan., 1873; son of J. B. and M. J. Hall

Hall, (Infant) – b.8-22-1878---d. 8-23-1878; son of Theodore and Bettie Hall

Hall, John B. – b. 4-7-1819---d. 7-19-1888

Hodnett, R. R. – b. 7-25-1846---3-20-1939; Co. C – 1 GA Reserves – CSA

(Hodnett), B. R. – b. 10-25-1879---2-14-1898; broken stone between two Hodnett graves; assumed to be Hodnett; B. R. H. on foot stone; grave is six feet south of R. R. Hodnett

Hodnett, Mary S. – b.11-4-1873---d. Aug., 1883

Holt, William J. – b.7-14-1878---d.2-4-1900

Holt, Nancy D. Beard – b.11-27-1852---5-1-1894; wife of C. J. Holt

Holt, C. J. – no dates; Co. K – 6 Ark Inf. – CSA

Jones, J. W. – b. 12-8-1851---2-27-1900

Jones, Lena Bell – b. 8-19-1891---9-7-1922; daughter of J. W. and C. E. Jones

Jones, (Baby) – b.10-12-1890---10-12-1890; daughter of J. W. and C. E. Jones

Lary, William J. – b. 10-8-1857---d.2-19-1858; age 4 mths., 11 days; broken stone

Lary, Eugene W. – b.10-8-1858---11-22-1858; age 1 month, 14 days

Marshall, Recie – b.1-19-1884---d. 10-5-1892; daughter of D. W. and A. J. Marshall; grave near trail

Marshall, Annie F. – b. 11-2-1873---d.10-24-1882; daughter of T. L. and S. C. Meredith

Meredith, T. C. – b.11-12-1811---8-14-1880

(Meredith), ???? – rock marking grave between T. C. and Annie Meredith; assumed to be Meredith

Morgan, Beverly – d. 6-5-1883; age 37 yrs., 11 months, 8 days

Morgan, Elizabeth - d. 11-28-1874; age 65 years, 11 months, 20 days; marker off base near large oak tree

Morgan, G. A. – d. 3-16-1877; age 25 yrs., 1 mth., 23 days; marker lying on ground, but not broken; found a foot stone in cemetery with initials G. A. M., but it was not near this head stone; did not find this stone in 2007 survey

Parker, G. W. – b.7-16-1836---10-9-1857; broken stone by oak tree with bricks

Pelky, L. B. – b. 1835---d. 1894

Polk, (Infant) – b.11-27-1886---12-24-1886; son of Frank and M. L. Polk

Polk, Loyd – b.1-17-1888---d. 8-3-1888; son of Frank and M. L. Polk

Ray, B. F. - b. 6-23-1837---d. 11-14-1859

Smith, William - b. 1-15-1803---d.7-30-1889; grave near trail

Snelson, James M. – b.12-18-1856---7-10-1884

Tribble, Lelia White – b.9-19-1881---8-30-1906; mother of J. D. “Jeff” Tribble; foot stone has same dates and “wife of H. C. Tribble”

Watkins, Katie – d. 12-29-1898; mother; age 40 years; double marker with A. J. Watkins; she also has a single stone 10 feet south of double marker

Watkins, A. J. – b.12-16-1829---d. 4-20-1915; double marker with Katie Watkins

Watkins, Margaret A. – b.2-29-1836---10-15-1884; “our sister’s grave” on top of marker

Wesson, Eliza Jane Rideout – b.8-12-1810---7-21-1896; wife of William T. Wesson

Wesson, William T. – b.1-11-1810---4-16-1886

Wesson, J. W. – b.2-18-1851---d.11-8-1902

Wesson Margaret E. – b.8-15-1854---d.9-30-1891; wife of J. W. Wesson

Wesson, Willie M. – b.3-25-1883---d.8-13-1885; daughter of J. W. and M. E. Wesson

Wesson, Addie E. b. 7-15-1878---d. 8-2-1885; daughter of J. W. and M. E. Wesson

Wesson, Irene – b.12-24-1888---d.1-24-1889; daughter of J. W. and M. E. Wesson

Wesson, J. Ernest – b.9-11-1873---d.11-6-1897

White, Martha N. – b.11-20-1853---8-28-1900; age 46 yrs., 9 mths., 8 days; wife of John C. White

White, W. F. – b. 10-5-1876---d. 8-18-1902; son of J. C. and M. N. White

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