Chamberlain or Smiley Cemetery

Recorded by members of Tri-County Genealogical Society. This cemetery is located 9.2 miles
from Plaza on 4th Street Road, West Helena, Phillips County, S1 T1S R4E. The cemetery has
been neglected, the ground eroded and stones broken and mixed together so there was no way to
put the pieces together. It has not been determined if there are two separate cemeteries, or one
large cemetery divided by a gully. Some of the following information was also recorded in the
Phillips County Historical Quarterly, March 1965.

Chamberlain, Cora                                        Aug 5, 1869 - Nov 11, 1871
   Youngest daughter of Eligah R. and Frances E. Chamberlain.
Chamberline, Eligah R.                                 Age 37 years - Mar 15, 1872
   Died at Sterling, Ark. Husband of Frances E. Chamberlain.
Chamberlain, Frances E.                              March 5, 1872 (?) 
                     Died at Sterling, Ark.             Aged 37 years
Clifft, Lucinda B.                                        Aug 13, 1848 - Aug 7, 1851
   Daughter of W. W. and P. E. Clifft.
Hale, Mattie B. Smiley   Wife of J. D. Hale   Oct 24, 1872 - Dec 14, 1894
Hopkins, Maria         Wife of J.P. Hopkins   Aug 27, 1831 - Mar 1, 1852
Mahaffey, Wm. R.               Age 21 years - May 12, 1848
Mahaffey, David R.                                    Jun 1, 1835 - Feb 1853
Miller, Martha M.                                      Oct 20, 1854 - Aug 20, 1859
   Dau of C. H. and S. J. Miller.
Murphy, Drury M.                                     Sep 4, 1824 - Aug 1, 1856
Neely, Mary Ann                                       d. Jul 9, 1851 
   Wife of John G. Neely, Age 26 yrs 3 mos 
Smiley, Amanda J.                                     Oct 28, 1846 - Jan 15, 1888
   b. IN, wife of W. Green Smiley.
Smiley, William Green                                Sep 24, 1842 - Mar 2, 1911
Smiley, Nancy Elizabeth Floyd                   Nov 30, 1851 - May 28, 1908
   Wife of W. G. Smiley.
Smiley, Harry B.                                       Sep 27, 1877 - Oct 6, 1904
   Son of W.G. & Amanda 
Smiley, Herman E.                                    Jul 12, 1875 - Dec 1, 1903
   Son of W.G. & Amanda 
Smiley, W. G., Jr.                                     Dec 17, 1886 - Dec 27, 1886
  Son of W.G. & Amanda 
What appears to be infant graves, small stones. 
   W. G. S., Jr. and B. S.
Watkins, Martha                                      Dec 18, 1847 
   Age 27 years - Wife of A. W. Watkins.

Wrought iron fenced enclosure, one family stone, no dates:
W. N. W. Martin                     Josephine Martin
Josephine C. (G?) Martin        Albertis I. Martin

It is general knowledge that when the town of Sterling was lost to the Mississippi River,
tombstones were moved from Sterling and relocated on this ridge. This burial place has also
been referred to as Utica Cemetery, and by one person as Baldwin Cemetery.