"Undoubtedly there were many cemeteries in the early days of
Montgomery County but most were probably situated on private property and used
as family plots."
A good map to find cemeteries.
The abandoned East Washita Cemetery amongst the
pines.
Note the two crosses near a headstone in the background and the two field stones
covered with moss in the foreground.
Decoration Days
Visiting and transcribing - a hobby
Civil War veterans buried in Montgomery Co.
Montgomery Co. Veterans who gave their lives
Find A Grave has 14,474 records for Montgomery County, Arkansas in 2021,
12,885 with photos.
The oldest Katie Tweedle 1817 -1839 at the Tweedle-Vaught Cemetery, looks like a
new headstone.
Samuel Perrin 1780- 9 April 1842, Mount Gilead Cemetery, no photo.
Sara Whittington 1842 -1846, again looks like a new headstone.
Mary E. Kymes 18 Nov. 1829 - 4 Feb. 1853, Murphy Cemetery
Louisa Cauthron Stall 1823-1854 at Mount Ida Cemetery
Samuel Cunningham 4 Jan 1791 -July 1858 McKinney Cemetery
Eliza Basinger 12 Feb. 1845 - 18 April 1965, Basinger Cemetery
Henry G. Ellison 18 March 1849 -10 June 1865, Goodner Cemetery
Joel Waggoner, 1793 -Dec. 1868 Waggoner Cemetery, Fancy Hill.
Cemeteries
1. Mount Ida Cemetery
2. Mount Gilead Cemetery in the southern part of Montgomery County (near Black
Springs)
3. Gaston Cemetery
4. Pencil Bluff Cemetery
5. Mount Olive Cemetery near Oden
6. Oden Cemetery
7. Macedonia
8. Black Springs
9. Brushy Cemetery
Gravesstones.org
Some older cemeteries were once known by different names and
these names may appear on death certificates or in newspaper notices. Cemeteries
have a capacity to add quite a wonderful dimension to what is already written
about a district. The study of a cemetery was a wonderful way to get an
understanding of the tragedies, either through sickness, disease or accident,
that plagued many people at different times in a history of a district. There
was nothing like reading inscriptions on the graves of children to emphasise the
hardship of settlement or pioneering in a manner. The living recognised those
who died in the way that they built such "beautiful" headstones.
Off site - Montgomery County Cemeteries
Cemeteries - long & lat.
Cem. book
CEMETERY LOCALE GPS No. unmarked Adams-Woodall Bonnerdale offsite Alley(Goodner) Reed Mountain 8 Off site (17) Amerson Pencil Bluff 50 55 offsite Barber Sims 88 42 offsite Bassinger Caddo Gap 1 Off site (9) Bates Mount Ida 11 Off site (3) Bethel Caddo Gap 48 71 offsite Big Fir Reed Mountain 6 12 [2008 offsite] 'Black' Caddo Gap 54 Off site (32) Black Springs Norman 1,018 offsite Blish Reed Mountain Off site (85) Bonds Monroe Breashears Fannie partial listing 139 off site Brewer* Oden 50 Brushy Brushy Creek 78 286 off site Caddo Gap Methodist* Caddo Gap 4 Caney/Keith Bonnerdale 11 Off site (36) Chapel Norman 41 Coffman Hopper 5 offsite Off site (6) Cogburn Fancy Hill 16 offsite County Line Methodist Glenwood 314 offsite other site Cox-Head Sulphur Springs aka Caddo 23 offsite Off site (107) Diggs (Forest Hill) Caddo Gap 30 8 offsite Colin McKinney East Washita* Story 9 Off site (9) Edwards Pine Ridge Ewing Family Amity Family Caddo Gap Fancy Hill Fancy Hill 3 offsite Off site (133) Ferguson Norman 13 Off site (16) Forbes* Hog Jaw Garrett Mount Ida 30 does not exist anymore Gaston Oden 106 38 offsite Goodner Oden 38 Off site (19) Gortemiller Pine Ridge 26 Off site (2) Grenade Brushy Creek 12 21 offsite Off site (156) Helem under Lake Ouachita Hillside Sulphur Springs 229/240 graves. Originally called the Sulpher Springs Cemetery Hopper Fancy Hill 86 2 Nancy Elizabeth Floyd buried in 1864. Howerton Bonnerdale 19 offsite interments listed Off site (53) Howton Bonnerdale 9 Off site (203) Huddleston Pine Ridge Irby Norman 6 James Family* Reed Mountain 8 Johnston Family Fancy Hill Jones Caddo Gap 70 1 offsite Jones - ONeal Reed Mountain 11 Off site (71) Jones Valley Caddo Gap offsite partial Off site (70) Joplin Memorial McGraw Mountain 11 20 offsite Off site 192 Liberty Caddo Gap 56 3 off site Off site (138) Little Fir Reed Mountain 150 [offsite year 2008] 2 Lone Valley Sims 37 33 offsite Macedonia Pencil Bluff 57 116 off site Mayberry #3 Under Lake Ouachita McKinney Reed Mountain 21 Middleton-Crooks Norman 3 Montgomery Norman aka Old Norman Mount Gilead Church Polk Creek Mountain off site Mount Ida Mount Ida 11 early days aka Oakwood Cemetery. Louisa Cauthorn Stall bur. 1854 Mount Olive Hog Jaw 2 offsite Old Mount Tabor Welsh 366 off site 1435 offsite (quarter of graves unmarked) Mount Zion Caddo Gap Mountain Home Caddo Gap 52 4 offsite Mullenix* Hog Jaw 12 Murphy McGraw Mountain 179 Murphy Baptist Church Black Springs Music Family Reed Mountain Nelson Caddo Gap 61 23 offiste Newcomb* East of Glenwood 6 off site Newcomb Pike ARGenWeb site. another site On private property. In 1986 on Calvert Grant's property high on hill in clump of trees, overgrown up in poison ivy Calvin Golden Newcomb homesteaded the land. Sec. 23, Twp 4S, Range 23 W. Nicholson Caddo Gap Oak Grove Glenwood 1 offsite Oak Hill* Pencil Bluff 11 offsite Oakwood Story 102 102 offsite 3 Civil War Veterans, first ones buried in cemetery Oden Oden 62 69 offsite Old Salyer Mount Ida 16 Margaret Brewer buried in 1852, age 41, wife of Henry C. Brewer. Owley Mount Ida 43 offsite Pencil Bluff Pencil Bluff 8 offsite Pine Ridge Pine Ridge Cemetery was aka Waters until 1936 Piney* Reed Mountain 7 Putman* Athens Ramsey Family Hopper Reed 8 Story 170 434 offsite 17 images pre 1980 Jesse Polly Oller buried in 1859. Started in 1864 Robbins Norman Rock Springs Big Fork 14 offsite 9 offsite Rocky wayback Story partial listing offsite rd map 341 offsite Rockey Valley Mount Ida 40 Rowton (Hamilton) Norman 21 William D. Rowton buried in 1858 Scott * Mount Ida 53 Scott - Wehunt Norman 30 Susannah Scott was buried in 1858 Shirley Oden Abandoned Shockey Chapel Norman Sims - Willhite* Pine Ridge Smith Under Lake Ouachita Stanley - Standridge Reed Mountain offsite 233 listed listed with photos of headstones and map another listing 310 graves Stelter Family Glenwood 13 Stover Homestead Family Fancy Hill Sulphur Springs Sulphur Springs 14 offsite originally the Hutchinson Cemetery 27 Sweet Home Reed Mountain Tweedle-Vaught Norman Katie Tweedle died c.1838 Wacaster Bonnerdale 4 Waggoner Fancy Hill 9 offsite Waco School Norman West Washita Story 59 Whittington Reed Mountain 2 offsite 1 Whittington- Hiram, A. Mount Ida Willhite Pine Ridge 65
* Abandoned
"There are probably dozens of forgotten cemeteries scattered across the countryside, beneath flowerbeds and pastures, parking lots and barns; the resting place of our earliest pioneers."
Weekly newspapers serve in wonderful ways. Many cemeteries have unmarked graves or headstones with just the years and by going through the older newspapers looking for death notices and comparing against present cemetery transcriptions you can work out others who are buried there in unmarked graves or work out date and month of death. Lois Goodner 1923-1976.
G.W. Stapp, 2-4-1859 - 3-30-1944 Mt. Ida Cemetery - he must have been a
blacksmith.
Brushy Cemetery. John B. Ballard 1868 - 1901. A homemade
headstone.
Garrett Cemetery no longer exists
Garrett Cemetery, Mt Ida, Montgomery County, AR. Yes, we have a Garrett Cemetery
listed in our county cemetery book. This was a very old cemetery. It was located
north of the courthouse and on a knoll, were the
Circle R Restaurant was in the 1980s and in 2020 the dental office of Dr.
Ronnie Faulkner. In May 2020 a memorial marker was placed.
Garrett Cemetery Memorial
Ancestors of
MARTHA GARRETT WHITTINGTON
Active 1850s to 1960s
20 to 40 GRAVES
It was a small cemetery and just a few headstones.
There were no markers dozed off because they didn't exist. When the old house
was moved there were rumors of a grave behind it. Never located.
The owner of the land put in the restaurant several
years ago.
The land was sold
and became the location for the dental office in 2019. Martha Ann Garrett, the
oldest child and J.B. and Susan Garret, married Hiram Abiff Whittington in 1860.
Martha and three children and three grandchildren are buried on their farm on
Ball Park Rd.
In 1913, as workmen dismantled a pioneer home, the home of Granville Whittington, in Montgomery County, they discovered in the attic a neatly-bound volume of letters primarily contained letters written between 1827 and 1834 between Granville Whittington of Boston and his older brother Hiram Whittington of the Arkansas Territory. The letters were published in 1997 Observations of Arkansas: The 1824-1863 Letters of Hiram Abiff Whittington. Granville left Massachusetts with his wife, Cordelia Wilder whom he married August 31, 1831, and came to Arkansas in 1837. After his arrival in Arkansas, he spend a brief time in Hot Springs before he settled near present day Mount Ida Montgomery County, Arkansas and opened a general store.
Jesse Balding Garrett and family homesteaded in
Scott County in 1845 and moved to Mt. Ida c. 1849. Jesse was sheriff of Scott
County from 1842 -1846. In Montgomery County he was Sheriff, County Clerk and
Judge of Montgomery County from 1850 to 1853 at which time he died at age 40. He
owned lots 4,5, 7 and lots 15, 16 and 17 running parallel with the road leading
through Mt. Ida to Fort Smith. In the
1850 census they were listed in Sulphur Springs Township.
31 78 78 Garrett Jesse Balding 37 M trader 600 Ohio
32 78 78 Garrett Susan 33 F Ark.
33 78 78 Garrett Martha Ann 11 F Ark.
34 78 78 Garrett Jesse Franklin 8 M Ark.
35 78 78 Garrett Susan 8 F Ark.
36 78 78 Garrett Elizabeth 6 F Ark.
37 78 78 Garrett John Aaron. 4 M Ark.
38 78 78 Garrett William Adolphus M. 7/12 M Ark.
39 78 78 Laird James 17 M farmer Ark.
40 78 78 Laird Charles 15 M Ark.
In the 1860 census Susanna Garret nee Laird was
listed as living in Mt. Ida, and head of the household and occupation was a
seamstress aged 43 and born in Missouri. The home in Mt. Ida was where the
dental office is in 2020 with the small cemetery. No headstones exist.
Member s of the Jordon family also buried here. Info from the 1986 cemetery
book and Montgomery County News Thursday 4 June 2020.
Jesse B. Garrett 1813 -January 28 1853
Jessie Franklin Garrett killed at Battle of Murfreeboro during Civil War
John Aaron Garrett (no dates)
Mary Elizabeth Garrett (No dates)
Susanna Laird Garrett 1817 -1877
Can anyone provide information about the Garrett Cemetery?
I have looked myself. There isn't any signs of the cemetery today. During the 1940s there were still stone markers present. The Garrett Cemetery contains the family of Jesse B. Garrett who was in Montgomery Co. prior to 1850 from Ohio and not the John B. Garrett family from Tippah, MS. Both were in the county in 1850 and both were known as J. B. Garrett.
From the Cemetery Inscriptions of Montgomery County, Arkansas 1986. "Twenty to thirty graves also several graves with Jordon family. M.J. Jordan, William J. Jordan, and his son Jasper Jordan, all died of smallpox in 1866. Information obtained from P. Garrett.
Garrett, Jesse B. 1813 - Jan 28, 1853
Garrett, Jessie Franklin (Killed at Battle of Murfreesboro, TN Dec 31& Jan 2 1863)
Garrett, John Aaron (no dates)
Garrett, Mary Elizabeth (no dates)
Garrett, Susanna Laird 1817 -1877
Churches and cemetery entrances images: Macedonia, Mount Ida, Nelson, Oden, Owley, Pencil Bluff, Pine Ridge & Pleasant Hill
After a two year effort, Montgomery County, Arkansas Cemeteries was published December 1997. It is a beautiful hard-back book, which is fully indexed. Inscriptions in this book were taken from 11,802 tombstones located in 130 Montgomery County cemeteries. There are an additional 2,724 graves which are unmarked or unnamed, for a total of 14,317 known graves. Peak Cemetery was in Montgomery Co. until 1917, now located in Garland County, is included. The Dr. J. C. Bates buried at Blish Cemetery was not at Andersonville.
Arkansas Graves Stones
USGS list of Montgomery Co. cemeteries
USGenWeb Tombstone Project
Cemetery records online
Buckville Cemetery, Garland Co. another site
AR Cemetery Lookup mailing list Threaded e.g. WrightMt. Ida Cemetery
James A. Wanless
Feb. 25, 1914
Apr. 25, 1973
Louise Hyde Wanless
April 30, 1914
February 20, 1972
Nelson Cemetery - east of Glenwood, Montgomery County, Arkansas.
BURK, W. J. 2 September 1969 Age 66 years
BURNS, Adaline 28 August 1841 - 22 October 1919 Wife of Elias Burns
BURNS, Elias 27 November 1844 - 22 January 1914 Husband of Adaline Burns
BURNS, Elihu Dennis 1834 - 1890
BURNS, John Allen 31 July 1885 - 7 January 1886 Son of Elias & Adaline Burns
BURNS, Matilda M.31 October 1878 - 15 December 1955
CARTER, Allie 1878 - 1958
CARTER, Ben W. 23 November 1906 - 1 June 1981 Same stone with Lillian F. Carter
CARTER, Charlie 1912 - 1974
CARTER, Edgar Lonie 1 January 1910 - 28 September 1938
CARTER, G. W. 1869 - 1950
CARTER, Lillian F. 6 September 1920 - no date. Same stone with Ben W. Carter
CARTER, William F. 1898 - 1972
GANTZ, Cecil E. 1875 - 1966
GANTZ, Myra 1893 - 1979 Same stone with Cecil E. Gantz
Mountain Home Church Cemetery directions are: From Glenwood, take Mt.
View Rd. north 3 1/8 mi. to end of blacktop. Keep Rt. on dirt road 1 mile. Turn
left on dirt road 1 1/4 mi to fork, take right fork for _mi. On left about 100 yds off road.
1)Ponder, Alvin 1895-1936;
2)Ponder, G. Louise - Feb 28, 1928;
3)Ponder, Maxine Feb 14, 1928-Aug 31, 1929;
4)Ponder, N. Ray 1922-1983 (TEC 4 US Army WWll).
Having the Final Word!!
To avoid confusing (or otherwise) inscriptions, why not write your own
now and have it engraved on your stone!
Benjamin Franklin did at the
age of 22.
Birth date Calculator - Under the old (Julian) calendar, years ran from 25 March to 24 March. The Gregorian (new) calendar, New Year's Day became 1 January, rather than 25 March.
Perpetual CalendarOnce in a while a forestry worker will find a grave in the Ouachita National Forest and report the location.
Pines near cemeteries mark the spot, they are not milled.
Cemeteries in Montgomery County are often located on a flat knob, in amongst pine trees.
Here is an example - the East Washita Cemetery is on the top of this knob where the tall pine trees are located.
