Young Cemetery

Young Cemetery is near Viola, Arkansas, in Fulton county, location T20N-R9W- Sec., Fulton Township, Flint Springs and Shady Grove communities.  This cemetery is in the center of the Thurlo Ray Minge farm. The cemetery is deteriorated with trees, brush and thicket.  Thirty three visible graves with only seven graves that have markers with inscriptions and one of these is a rock inscribed.  This inventory was prepared by Erceil Shrable in 1988, and submitted by Jim Young.

Mr. Young wrote me that the property where the cemetery is located was once owned by Lewis Jackson Young and his wife, Elizabeth Mires Young.  They sold this property to their son, Leonard Jasper Young, shortly before Lewis died in 1890.  Elizabeth remarried to G. W. Ham in 1895. Leonard sold the land in 1914 to John W. Carroll.

Many thanks to Mr. Young for submitting the following information.

NAME DATE(S)
Lucy Young 6 Feb 1906 - 30 Sept 1910 "She came to pause and hearts to heaven, She goes to call us there"
Infant dau of L.J. & E. Young 15 June 1913
Amey Rosier Died 18 Jan 1892, Age 46 yrs.
T.R. Rossier (inscribed on rock) No Dates
Pleasant H., husband of Elizabeth Belt 21 Jan 1827 - 22 Nov 1892 "A kind and loving husband"
Zachriah D. Barker 30 March 1818 - 28 March 1890
John F., son of F.A. & J.G. Faulkenberry 15 March 1897 - 12 Aug 1898 "Gone but not forgotten"

NOTES from submitter: Persons known to be buried in the Young Cemetery but graves are unmarked -- Information from descendant of Zachariah D. Barker said Caroline (Gillispie) Barker was buried in the Young Cemetery beside her husband Zachariah D. Barker.

A long time neighbor of Meridieth C. Carter said she thought he buried his mother Nancy (Webb) Carter in this cemetery.

Sophia (Lucy) Aza Young, dau. of Leonard Jasper and Emily Young - 1910 Fulton Township, Fulton county, AR Census 95/95

Infant Lizzie died at birth

Zachariah and Caroline Barker - 1880 Fulton Township, Fulton county, AR Census 102/102

John C. And Frances A. Faulkenberry - 1900 Benton Township, Fulton county, AR Census 188/189

Meridieth C. Carter married Angeline Malinda Palestine Young in 1891. She was the youngest sister of Leonard Jasper Young.

Updated 16 Jul 2007