Directions: Take Highway 79N from Clarendon, go approx 2.7 miles, turn left onto Hwy 17N. Go approx 5.3 miles and turn right at Hwy 241. Go approx .5 miles, there is an old driveway on the right, it is beside a broken down house with the yard overgrown. On the other side of the Hwy is a street sign that says “Woods Ln”, turn right here. Approx .3 miles is the cemetery. There are no signs and it cannot be seen from the road b/c of the fields surrounding it.
The cemetery is extremely well kept. Anytime I go there to visit my parents, it has always been mowed and cleaned. There are several tombstones with flowers around them that bloom every year. It is my belief that since the only perennials growing are around gravesites, there are possibly 4 or 5 unmarked graves. It’s not a big cemetery or a well known one but nevertheless, it’s there.
I dedicate this to my mother who was killed in an automobile accident earlier this year. We all miss her and love her, but as for myself, I know that she’s where she was meant to be…laying beside my daddy (step-father), flying with the angels, AT PEACE.
BURTON, Aaron T. – Dec 10, 1960 Jan 23, 1988
BURTON, Erick – Aug 3, 1913 Sept 8, 1986
GRADY, Baby – Born Dec 3, 1917
“Son of Floyd & Edith Grady”
This stone was hard to read b/c it is a small piece of concrete and the words had been carved.
GRADY, Oleta Janice – Nov 12, 1939 April 1, 1940
GRAY, Jack – Aug 31, 1876 March 4, 1939
“Gone but not forgotten”
GUNTER, Andrew Jackson – Aug 30, 1876 Dec 13, 1937
HENLEY, Dollie A. – 1894-1936
Double stone w/ Jessie L. Henley.
“mother”
HENLEY, Jessie L. – 1880-1939
Double stone w/ Dollie A. Henley.
“father”
HODGE, James Monro – Feb 14, 1875 June 13, 1930
HOWARD, James Elcie – Aug 27, 1916 Dec 6, 1918
“Dau of J.H. & A.R. Howard”;
There is another inscription toward the bottom, but it was unreadable.
HOWARD, Ruthie May – Feb 21, 1909 Oct 28, 1920
“Dau of J.H. & A.R. Howard”; “Darling, we miss thee.”
HURST, Grace Howard – 1903-1934
“Mother”; “Wife of Will D. Hurst”; “Rest In Peace”
HURST, James E. – May 4, 1925 Nov 13, 1997
Double stone w/ Vianna Hurst. There is also a funeral home marker from Bob Neal & Sons – James E. Hurst 1925-1997.
HURST, Vianna – Oct 21, 1948 Jan 20, 2002
Double stone w/ James E. Hurst. (James was her 2nd husband).
JEFFERIES, Ailene Kelly – Nov 10, 1907 Aug 1, 1973
“Our Father Which Art In Heaven”
Double stone w/ Claude William Jefferies
At the foot of the grave is a small stone that reads: “Mother”.
JEFFERIES, Claude William – July 23, 1906 July 19, 1960
“Our Father Which Art In Heaven”
Double stone w/ Ailene Kelly Jefferies
At the foot of the grave is a small stone that reads: “Daddy”.
JEFFERIES, Claudine – Sept 30, 1929 Dec 16, 1931
JEFFRIES, Mary J. Smith – April 9, 1937 Jan 11, 1985
“In Loving Memory”
KING, Eva M. – Sept 29, 1882 Aug 15, 1960
Double stone w/ James D. King.
KING, James D. – Nov 7, 1878 Dec 26, 1951
KING, Lawrence Vernon (Doc) – July 14, 1907 May 27, 1984
RICE, Elizabeth – Born April 17, 1883 Died April 19, 1883
“daughter of C.S. & M.B. Rice”
RICE, Mary B. – Sept 27, 1853 Aug 20, 1911
“Age 57 yrs 10 mos & 23 days”; “The loss we deeply feel”
RODGERS, B.M. – June 24, 1885 March 24, 1939
ROSE, Tennie S. –
There were no dates, only the name.
SCEMONS, Billie Kelly – Jan 21, 1929
Double stone w/ Jack R. Scemons.
SCEMONS, Edna Mae – Sept 26, 1901 Dec 22, 1922
SCEMONS, Jack R. - June 30, 1920 July 20, 1993
There is a military stone at the foot of the grave, it reads: “Jack R. Scemons CPL US ARMY World War II Jun 30, 1920 Jul 20, 1993
Double stone w/ Billie Kelly.
SIMPSON, Allie G. – April 27, 1884 Jan 16, 1920
Triple stone w/ Orville D. & O. McDuff Simpson.
SIMPSON, O. McDuff – Dec 17, 1876 June 9, 1943
Triple stone w/ Allie G. & Orville D. Simpson.
SIMPSON, Orville D. – June 24, 1914 Oct 13, 1917
Triple stone w/ Allie G. & O. McDuff Simpson.
STAFFORD, Joy Anne – Sept 3, 1938
“After night, Eternal morn”
STAFFORD, Mattie Helen Henley – Sept 13, 1913 Aug 6 1941
UETZ, Mrs. Ann – Feb 7, 1890 July 12, 1936
There is an inscription toward the bottom, but it was unreadable.
YOUNG, Floyd D. – Born Feb 22, 1891 Died Nov 19, 1918
“In Memoriam Woodmen Circle”; “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Rev. XIV 13”; “Thompson Grove No. 204 Keevil, AR”
YOUNG, Murlin C. – Oct 18, 1922 Aug 12, 1925
UNKNOWN - ? 17, 1925 ?6, 1927
This is an unreadable funeral marker. It was surrounded by perennial flowers.
Submitted by: Martha Henderson on August 11, 2002.
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