Freedom Creek Cemetery, Scott County, Arkansas

Arkansas Cemeteries

Freedom Creek Cemetery

Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas

Transcription & Photos Submitted by Copyright of John Beran, Drakvlk Historical Research, May 28, 2003

This transcription is to his memory.

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While out and about on the back forest roads of Scott County, I

ran across Freedom Creek Cemetery. Noting how beautifully kept it was and its

location out in the middle of nowhere, I took pictures.

On Forest service road about 6 miles off of Hiway 248 east of Waldron is

Freedom Creek Cemetery. It is enclosed with a white fence and has only

sixteen grave sites, three have marked stones and they read as follows:

Mary E. Horton Dec. 11, 1831 - May 15, 1914

Savannah Yandell 1869-1913 (Mother)

Myrtle Starr Daughter of J.S. & Mary Starr Feb 17,1904 - May 17, 1908

*note for Myrtle there are two stones for her the original is by the tree

and then a new one has been placed beside it.

There are 13 umarked grave sites with stones. I have no idea who they are but

from the looks of it, they are mostly kids. Talking to people from the area of Cardiff and Freedom Mountain, in 1904 -1908

a plague went through the area and killed a lot of people. Kids were the ones that were hit hard.

This was one of the reasons the people of Cardiff and Freedom Creek Communities started to move away.

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