Location: Drive down Fairgrounds Rd on the east side of Mount Ida, AR and follow it around to Ball Park Rd and watch for the cemetery at the verge of the road, you won't miss it. The area is maintained with half a dozen fence posts but no fence, soon after the road becomes gravel and will take you back out to Hwy 270, completing a loop. Only eight headstones readable, two fieldstones, and one CSA marker with no name. The cemetery is right by the roadside on top of a ridge with a view looking NW and is maintained. Looks like two headstones have been preserved by placing them on a concrete backing. Photos were taken on Monday 22nd March 2021.
Granville Lee WHITTINGTON son of Hiram A. & Martha A. WHITTINGTON died
Oct. 22 1881 aged 11 years. 2 ms, 12 days.
Stonemason was ?K. _., Funston, Little Rock.
Guy WHITTINGTON born Nov. 17 1893, died Nov. 17 1892.
H.A. WHITTINGTON born Feb. 17. 1832. Died Jan. 1917. Aged 85.
CSA metal sign were placed on graves of veterans.
Historical United Daughters of the Confederacy Southern Cross of Honor marker,
established in 1899.
Whittington, Hiram A., 33rd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Confederacy
COMPANY: I
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: First Lieutenant
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: First Lieutenant
FILM NUMBER: M376 ROLL 25
Wm. Franklin son of Martha and H.A. Whittington. A unique way to preserve an
old headstone. lamb.
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Whittington, Ida Susan
dove
Martha Ann WHITTINGTON wife of H.A. WHITTINGTON born Aug. 17 1838. Died
Mar. 12 1887. Aged 49 Years.
A kind affectionate wife and mother has gone to dwell with our children. [nee
Garrett]
Ira WHITTINGTON born Aug. 27 1897 Died Jan 31 1890.
Lee WHITTINGTON born July 11 1890. Died Dec. 25 1891.
fieldstone with marker and footstone marker.
Looks like a wild pear tree blooming to the NW. Broom sedge grass is a
perennial, found in open fields, a pasture weed, found on overgrazed pastures,
right of ways, in the background
with an old pine tree.
