Young Cemetery, Viola, Fulton County, Arkansas

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 stated 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.

 

NAME

DATE(S)

Barker, Caroline (Gillispie)

Unmarked grave.  Information from descendant of Zachariah D. Barker said Caroline (Gillispie) Barker was buried in the Young Cemetery beside her husband Zachariah D. Barker.

Barker, Zachriah D.

30 March 1818 - 28 March 1890

Belt, Pleasant H.
husband of Elizabeth Belt
"A kind and loving husband"

21 Jan 1827 - 22 Nov 1892

Carter, Meridieth C.

Carter, Angeline Malinda Palestine Young

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

Carter, Nancy (Webb)

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

Faulkenberry, John F.
son of F. A. & J. G. Faulkenberry
"Gone but not forgotten"

15 March 1897 - 12 Aug 1898

Rosier, Amey
Age 46 yrs.

Died 18 Jan 1892

Rossier, T. R.
(inscribed on rock)

No Dates

Young, Infant
dau of L. J. & E. Young

15 June 1913

Young, Lucy
"She came to pause and hearts to heaven, She goes to call us there"

6 Feb 1906 - 30 Sept 1910

Young, Sophia (Lucy) Aza

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

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