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CUMMINGS FAMILY CEMETERY
ca 1868
Located Northwest of Junction City, Union County, Arkansas.
From
Junction City travel north on Hwy. 167, toward El Dorado
for
approximately 5 miles turning left (west) onto the old county road #7.
(Road
to the right(east) is Caledonia Road. You
will be traveling on county road
#7,
which is now currently named “Southfield Rd.” Continue traveling
north
on Southfield Rd., going by Turtle Dove Lane, and once you cross the old
railroad tracks, the Cummings cemetery is about 1 mile farther north, off
Southfield Rd. to the west in heavy woods.
Former location of the old Cummings Plantation.
There
was an adjoining cemetery for the slaves, but none of their graves were
marked. This canvass of the cemetery
was done by Lucile Combs Johnson in
1995. Cemetery is on private land. (2012)
{Section
1 ~ Township 19 ~ South Range western Union County}
Posted September 2015 jcsh432@gmail.com
M.
B. (no dates or other info on this marker)
MARGARET
CUMMINGS BRUMBELOW 11-28-1837 to 11-3-1899
*D/of John
Cummings(1779-1848) & Elizabeth H. Cummings(1799-1884)
*Asa
Brumbelow (10/3/1820 NC – 2/19/1889) *Buried Old Parkers
Chapel, Union Co., AR
FRANCES CORDELIA "NELIE" LOWERY CATES
3-8-1883 to 10-27-1917
*D/of William Jesse Lowery(1858-1902)
& Margaret Ann Elizabeth Rester Lowery(1856-1945)
*Wf/of
William Henry Cates
F.
M. CATES 4-20-1904 to 1946 *Age 42 yrs.
HUBERT CATES
10-10-1917 to 3-27-1918
*S/of
William Henry Cates & Frances Cordelia "Nelie" Lowery Cates
Infant
CATES born b & d 8-10-1887
*S/of
J.C. Cates(1856-1905) &
Francis Cates
J.
C. CATES 3-5-1856 to 6-11-1905
*H/of
Francis Cates
MARY E.
CATES 10-10-1884 to
8-1-1889
*D/of
J.C. & Francis
Cates
REBECCA M.
CATES (no
dates) *Age about 8 mos.
*D/of J. C. Cates (1856-1905)
& Francis Cates
CAROLINE JANE
RUSHING COMBS
6-25-1825 TN
to 2-11-1879 AR
*D/of
Elizabeth H. Rushing Cummings (1799-1884)
& John Cummings(1779-1848)
CHARLES ALLEN
COMBS 11-28-1811 KY
to 1-20-1880 AR
*H/of
Caroline Jane Rushing Combs
A.
P. C. (no dates or other info
on this marker)
ALEXANDER P. CUMMINGS
3-12-1833 to 3-1-1898
*S/of
Elizabeth H. Rushing Cummings
(1799-1884) & John Cummings (1779-1848).
*CSA
Co. G, 3rd AR Infantry
*Died at age 64. {Source:
Loretta Hughes Find-A-Grave}
JOHN CUMMINGS
1779 TN to 1848
AR
*Md:
widow, Elizabeth H. Rushing ca 1827 Fayette Co., TN
ELIZABETH H. CUMMINGS 1799 to d: 10-28-1884 *Age 85
JOHN W.
CUMMINGS 1831 TN
to Oct 1882 AR *abt.
Age 50
*S/of
John Cummings(1779-1848) & Elizabeth H. Rushing Cummings(1799-1884)
MARY CUMMINGS
8-16-1835 to 2-28-1899
*D/of
Elizabeth H. Rushing Cummings
(1799-1884) & John Cummings (1779-1848).
ELLA
CATES LOWERY
2-12-1882 to 10-22-1910
*D/of William Cates(b:ca 1850) &
Sarah E. McLaughlin
Cates(b:ca 1860)
*Wf/of Richard Marion Lowery(1888-1963) ~ *Buried in Rehobeth Primitive Baptist
Cemetery, Union Co., AR.
(W.
J.) WILLIAM JESSE LOWERY 1-20-1858 NC to 10-4-1902AR
*S/of William H. Lowery(Lowry) (1825 NC-1862 VA) & Frances L. Sheppard (1832-1910)
*H/of Margaret Ann Elizabeth “Lizzie” Rester Lowery (2/29/1856 NC to 4/24/1945 AR)
“Lizzie” is buried in
Rehobeth Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Union County, AR.
Infant RESTER (no
dates)
*S/of William D. Rester & Rebecca Cummings Rester
REBECCA B. CUMMINGS RESTER 1829 TN
died 2-28-1868 AR
*D/of
Elizabeth H. Rushing Cummings (1799-1884) & John Cummings
(1779-1848).
*Rebecca Md:8/24/1854 Union Parish, LA,
William Rester
*Rebecca's brother-in-law was the JP
presiding over the ceremony.
*William & Rebecca Rester moved
with Charles Allen Combs & Caroline Combs along with
other Resters to Alexandria, VA, where
they resided until the Civil War
After
the war began, Rebecca, her mother, siblings and children llived in
Jackson
Twsp., Union County, AR…..where she died at the age of 39, in 1868.