FRIENDSHIP PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY

Est. ca 1932

 

 

This cemetery is located in El Dorado, behind the church, located on the west side

of Hinson Road or Hopewell Road. This church and cemetery is in an industrial

area of refineries and chemical plants. On the above photo, off the right end

you can see some of the holding tanks of a plant next door. 

Janice Holzer  JCSH432@gmail.com

*New canvass October 2012.  Last update April 2019

 

 

* “&”    denotes a double or multiple headstone

* SSDI   some info obtained from Social Security Death Index

* ARDI  death info was obtained from Arkansas Death Index 1914-1950

* MM  indicates info was from a mortuary/ funeral home marker

* OB   indicates info came from an obituary

* WOW indicates a Woodman of the World headstone.

     

JAMES  "JIM"  RICHARD  ALLBRITTON  

10-9-1890   to  4-10-1938

*S/of Peter J. Allbritton (Jan 1860 LA/ 11-18-1939)  &  Sarah Dora Coker Allbritton  (2-1858 /11-4-1932)

"His Deeds Live On"   "A Devoted Mother"  Peter J. Allbritton Md: Sarah Dora Coker 1/15/1881

*Peter J. & Sarah Dora Allbritton are buried in Ogden Cemetery,  Franklin Parish, LA

"At Rest"

     

HERMAN  BAKER   12-28-1891  to  1-6-1940

*S/of  William James Baker(1861-1945) & Mary Ann Baker(1867-1946)

*Arkansas   Pvt  1^st CL 7 SN TN DIV

*Wife, Bynie Pearl Cameron Ballard Baker (7/27/1889 to 3/30/1965)

*Bynie md: *1^st William Arthur Ballard (1872-1918) *2nd Herman Baker

*Bynie is buried at Bethel Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Union County, AR

"Blessed are the pure in Heart for they shall see God"

HAZEL  T.  BATES   8-10-1936   (One date)

     

"D.W."  DANIEL  W.  BLAIR  

10-30-1867 KS  to  4-10-1945 AR

  *H/of Mattie Shaw Blair

*Daughter, Margaret Blair Robertson (1898-1977)  "I Have Kept The Faith"  

MATTIE  SHAW  BLAIR   8-22-1873  to  6-19-1955

*D/of George Washington Shaw(1839-1919) Margaret J. Wood  Shaw(1839-1896)  

*Born: Huntsville , AR  Died: Houston, TX     "Tender Mother And Faithful Friend"

 

HERBERT  BLAIR  11-15-1915   to  12-27-1939

"His Memory Is Blessed"

ALLISTER  A.  BOYD   11-30-1879  to  12-4-1953

ETTIE VEE LEWIS  CRAFT BURROW 

8-27-1906   to  6-18-1974

*D/of Ezekiel Lewis(1881-1959) & Laura Elizabeth Coward Lewis(1884-1971)

*Md:  in 1924, *1^st George Audie Craft (1902-1940)  

"Beloved Mother Rest In Peace"

     

EDWIN MARSHALL CAMERON  

7-23-1891  to  6-25-1937

*S/of John Y. Cameron (1837-1915) & Catherine Elizabeth Coleman Cameron(1859-1907)

*H/of MARY TYRE DAVIS CAMERON  5/22/1891  to  1/15/1974

* Mary Tyre Davis,  buried Bethel Primitive Baptist Cemetery

*D/of  James Calvin Davis(1855-1932) & Lula P. Grant Davis (1866-1929)

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

Rev. PETER NORMAN CLEMENTS "(P.N.)"  

11-3-1888TX   to  10-31-1936AR   *ARDI

*S/of Jasper Jackson "Jack" Clements (1858 AL-1936 TX) &

Mary Emmaline Steelman Clements (1869TN-1036TX)

Peter's wife, Vetie Jackson Clements(1890AL-1971AR)

MARGARET  ANN  HAUGHTON  CONLEY(79)

1-24-1920 MS   to  4-23-1999 AR  {*OB  /*MM }

*D/of  Hortense Kimbrough McGraw(1888-1967) &  Robert Henry Haughton (1870-1943)

*Md: 1^st Husband, in 1937  GRADY  L.  PERDUE (1908-1965)

*Grady buried in Bethel Methodist Church South Cemetery (Hwy. 167 S)

     

GEORGE  AUDIE  CRAFT  

12-19-1902   to  7-13-1940

*S/of  Nelson Anderson Craft(1881-1945) & Sibbie Ann Puckitt Craft(1884-1962)

*1^st H/of  Ettie Vee Lewis(1906-1974) (See above Ettie V. Lewis Craft Burrow)

"A Most Noble Example Was His Life"

 

JAMES  MONROE  CRAFT  

7-29-1904   to  6-20-1958

*S/of  Nelson Anderson Craft(1881-1945) & Sibbie Ann Puckitt Craft(1884-1962)

"Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Heal"

 

NELSON  ANDERSON  CRAFT 

1881  to  6-22-1945  *ARDI

*Born Vernon Parish, LA  Died Union Co., AR

*S/of James Isom Craft (1854-1936) &  LaVica A. Craft (1857-1929)

*Some give Nelson's  birth date as 9/8/1879

*Wife, Sibbie Ann Puckitt Craft (1884-1962)

"Dying Is But Going Home"

SIBBIE  ANN  PUCKITT  CRAFT 

5-5-1884  to  4-13-1962

*D/of  George W. Puckitt (1850-1916) & Armendia Chandler Puckitt(1853-1934)

*Husband, Nelson Anderson Craft (1881-1945)

"Fear Not For I Have Redeemed Thee"

           

CHARLES  ARTHUR  DARDEN (82)  

3-27-1934  to  10-8-2016

*Charles resided in Rockwood, TX & passed away in Rockwood.

*Born in El Dorado, AR to Florine Rowell Darden & Courtney Charles Darden

*Charles was a retired air plane pilot for Pennzoil Oil and Gas for 30 yrs.

*Member of Rockwood Baptist Church. Late wife of 52 years was

Betty Cogburn Darden.

 

CHARLES  O.  DAUNIS   (No dates)  *MM

     

WILLIE  BELLE  DENSON  DUHME  

6-4-1888   to  8-27-1969

*D/of Thomas Elbert Denson (1862-1890) & Mary A. R. Emmons Denson Herring

( Mary A. R. Emmons b: ca 1866 LA)   *(80 yrs-2 mos-23 dys)

*Spouse: Edward Henry Duhme (1887-1946) buried Metairie Cemetery,

New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA  *Section 49 –Duhme tomb

            

EARL WAYNE  EASTRIDGE 

7-14-1918   to  12-11-1934

*S/of Earl Wolsey Eastrudge (1897-1981) &  Carrie Lee Powledge Eastridge (1893-1981)

*Carrie Lee Powledge Eastridge b: ca 1893 GA & died in NM)

"Weeping may endure for a night, But Joy cometh in the morning"  *Psalms  30:5

 

JOHN  FRANKLIN  EASTRIDGE  

12-24-1870   to  8-2-1934

*S/of  Mary Francis Britt Eastridge(1849-1925) *Buried Shiloh Cemetery

*Mary md: Henry Eastridge 7/27/1865, Union Co., AR

 "Tho lost to sight to memory dear"

 

ERSULA  LEMONTIRE 'SULA' WOOLSEY 

EASTRIDGE (80)

1-28-1872   to  6-25-1952

*D/of  Michael M. Woolsey (1845-1930) 

*Wf/of  John Franklin Eastridge (1870-1934)

"Tender Mother and a Faithful Friend"

 

ROBERT  HENRY  EASTRIDGE 

11-22-1941  to  7-13-1996

*U.S. Navy  Vet   "Gone But Not Forgotten"

GLENDA  DARDEN  FITE (79)

8-3-1932   to  3-22-2013  *OB

*D/of  Winnie D. Hulsey (1901-1997) & Wallace Glen Darden (1892-1977)

*H/of  57 yrs, Lynn J. Fite  of El Dorado

   

EVERETT  CASH  FORE 

1-28-1912  to  5-9-1992

*S/of  Robert Green Fore (1877-1951  &  Rosa Jane Cash Fore(1878-1965)

*MM  (Rumph-Owers Funeral Home)    "An Inspiration To All Who Knew Them"

&  RUBY HINSON  FORE 

11-30-1920  to  2-25-2008

     

"T.J." TOM  J.  FULTON  

1861OK  to  1-20-1935  Pulaski Co., AR  *ARDI

*H/of  Katie V. Fulton (b: ca 1875 OK)

WILEY  WILLIAM  "BILL"  GINGER

1-18-1886 MO  to  2-14-1933 AR

*S/of Mary Alice Gibson(1853-1915) &  Jerome Bonaparte Ginger (1856-1939)

*Wife, Mary S. McCarver Schliebe (1895 – unk)

      

GEORGE  LEWIS  HARPER   

4-15-1912   to  3-18-1958

*Arkansas  Pvt  CO B  4  BN  ARTC   *World War II

     

HORTENSE  KIMBROUGH McGRAW  HAUGHTON 

12-4-1888MS  to  4-19-1967AR

*D/of  Wilson John McGraw(1855-1908) & Annie M. Kimbrough McGraw (1863-1919)

*Wf/of  Robert H. Haughton

ROBERT HENRY HAUGHTON  

2-19-1870 MS  to 11-9-1943 AR

*H/of  Hortense McGraw Haughton

 

RUBY  HAUGHTON  2-26-1894 MS  to 1-1-1944 AR

*D/of Hortense Kimbrough McGraw (1888-1967)  &  Robert Henry Haughton(1870-1943)

     

MARY KATHERINE FAITH  HICKS(32)  

7-24-1977FL  to  11-19-2009AR

*D/of  Norman Faith Jr. Msgt USAF Ret.  &  Wongduan Khamkrua Faith of Thailand

*Born at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton, FL    *OB

*Survived by her husband, Jeremy Hicks & son, Logan Aaron Hicks

      

SALLIE  B.  MONTGOMERY  HILL

12-23-1891  to  3-3-1941*OB

"Mother"  *Wf/of  Jett Asbury Hill (12/12/1885 to 4/26/1972)

*Jett Asbury Hill, 86, buried in Dickson Cemetery, near Harrell, Arkansas.

     

CAROLYN  LOUISE  HINSON 

2-25-1935   to  4-24-1935

*Infant  D/of  Coy Bruce Hinson(1905-1981) & 

Lottie Jane Smith Hinson (1910-1994)

 

OBIL  LEE  HINSON   2-24-1908   to  5-9-1985

*S/of  Thomas C. Hinson (1883-1956) & Rosa Cook Hinson (1882-1935)

*Md:1933 (Bk 14-379)   "In God's Hands"

&  NOVIE  MAE  HINSON  10-2-1913  to 1-6-1992

 

THOMAS  C. HINSON   3-2-1883   to  10-13-1956

*Spouses: *1^st Wife, in 1900, Rosa Cook   *2^nd Wife, in 1936,  Nevada House Burks Hinson

*2^nd Wife, Nevada House Burks Hinson(7/30/1902 to 9/17/1953) *Arlington Memorial Cemetery

*Md:1^st Amos Burks(1896-1981) *2^nd Md: Thomas C. Hinson

*Nevada  D/of Wm. Walter House(b:ca 1871 AR)  & Nannie House(b:ca 1877 AR)

& ROSA COOK  HINSON  1-8-1882AL  to  7-11-1935AR

*Rosa Cook , 1^st wife md: 1900,  Thomas C. Hinson(1883-1956)

     

EFFIE  MAY  BENNETT  HUDSON   

May 1882 LA  to  7-24-1935 AR *ARDI

*Husband, Tuble Jefferson Hudson(1867-1925) *Md: 1902

"To Live In The Hearts We Leave Behind Is Not To Die"

DONALD "Donnie"  E.  JINKS  

7-1-1942   to  10-29-1976

*S/of  Donald Jinks(1913-2012) & Beatrice Jinks(1917-2004)

"It's Not Sorrow That Last Forever, It Is Love"

 

 

JEFFERY  "JEFF"  TODD  JINKS (48)

  9-11-1970   to  12-8-2018   *OB

*S/of  Donald "Donnie" E. Jinks  &  Sandra Jinks

*Graduated Parkers Chapel High School

*Member of Murmill Baptist Church. Worked as a welder & pipe fitter for 28 yrs.

*Jeff  md:  "BRANDY"  July 17, 2010

Infant  JOHNSON  B & D  3-11-1943

     

EZEKIEL LEWIS  10-5-1881MS  to  3-17-1959AR

*S/of William Jackson Lewis(1840-1904)  &  Harriet Adaline Allred Lewis (1847-1923)

&  LAURA  ELIZABETH COWARD  LEWIS

12-1-1884 *Brookhaven,MS   to  5-11-1971AR

*D/of  Permelia Isabelle Whittington(1860-1917) & James Lafayette Coward(1848-1906)

CHARLES  W.  LOVE    7-6-1861  to  3-20-1939

   *H/of  Lucy L. Haire Love(1875-1954)  *Md: 1892

"His Memory Is Blessed"

JAMES “JIM”  LOVE  12-28-1901  to  6-13-1936

*S/of  Charles  W. Love (1861-1939) Lucy L. Haire Love(1875-1954)

"Beloved Father"   "Gone But Not Forgotten"

     

BEATRICE  MOORE  McDANIEL 

12-16-1920   to  1-26-2013 *OB

*D/of  Nelson Moore & Rossie Sargent Moore  *Md:10/21/1939  Melvin McDaniel, Sr.

     

ALLINE  McGRAW   10-7-1897  to  4-1-1976

DOROTHY ARENA  McHAN 

4-28-1938  to  8-28-1938

*Infant  D/of  Roy & Dorothy McHan   "Only Sleeping"

 

JUNE  FRANCES  McHAN 

6-17-1928  to  4-11-2007

"She is singing "Come Spring" with the angels"

 

ROY  McHAN   6-14-1916   to  6-4-1989

*Md:4/17/1937  "Rest Is Thine Sweet Remembrance Ours"

&  DOROTHY  REBEL  BRASHER McHAN

10-20-1917  to  4-13-1987  

"Here Lies Our Beloved Mother Who's At Rest In Heaven"

 

WILLIAM  TOLLIVER  McHAN  

3-11-1869  to  4-22-1944

&  ARENA  LACROIX  McHAN  

3-11-1884  to  4-4-1972

"Our Beloved Mother And Daddy"

 

WRIGHT  McHAN   6-29-1917  to  1-7-1992

"I saw heaven in a vision last night"  "Beloved Husband, Precious Daddy"

BOBBY  VAN  MEEKS   11-24-1937  to  7-12-2007

"Have Faith In God"

 

“VANDY” VALENTINE  MEEKS  

10-27-1907  to  5-21-1979

&  SADERIA  ANN  MEEKS  

4-12-1915   to  11-18-1987

* 2^nd wife of Vandy Meeks   *Md:11/11/1934   "Beloved Father and Mother"

 

WILLIAM  COLUMBUS  MEEKS  1875   to  3-9-1934 *ARDI

     

GEORGE "TOMMY"  MELLINGER  9-28-1939 (One date)

*Md:8/26/1960    "Present With The Lord"

&  MARY ANN  TAYLOR  MELLINGER  3-14-1942 (One date)

LETTIE  MAE  MOORE  MULLINS(98)

8-12-1915   to  10-10-2013*OB

*D/of  Nelson & Rossie Sargent Moore  *Late husband, Sterling Mullins

*Late children: Velma Hildreth, Earvin Mullins, Rossie Lee Mullins, Carrie Mae Mullins,

& Sterling Mullins, Jr.

CLARA  EASTRIDGE  MURPHY 

10-29-1910   to  2-27-2005

"In Loving Memory"

     

FRED  W.  NIPPER   6-3-1926   to  6-11-1995

*S/of Walter Fred Nipper(1903-1984) & Ethel Izora Smith Nipper(1906-1983)

*TEC  5  U.S. Army *World War II

DELMAR  OWENS   9-3-1923  to  10-10-1967

*S/of  Josh & Arkaney Owens   "Gone But Not Forgotten"

Mrs. JOSH  OWENS  died 12-2-1940  (One date)  *MM

*Mrs. Josh Owens, aka Arkaney died in a wagon, car accident.

 

LILLIE  G.  HATCH  DARDEN OWENS(94)  

3-13-1919   to   1-7-2014 

*D/of  Charlie R. Hatch and Mollie M. Huddleston Hatch

*Wf/of late Aubrey L. Darden

FLOY VIRGINIA  PRIMM (80)  8-25-1928  to  3-27-2009 *OB

*D/of Robert Mattox Parks & Laura Darden Parks   *Wf/of  L.T. Primm

 

JOHNNY  WAYNE  PRIMM (61)  2-9-1949  to 10-21-2010

*S/of  L.T. Primm & Floy Virginia Parks Primm  *Wife, Beverly

     

EDWARD “ED”  PURCELL, JR.

9-22-1869 ILL   to  11-10-1939

JIMMIE  D.  ROBERTSON   9-2-1908  to  1-1-1938

"Father"   "What we keep in memory is ours, unchanged forever."

     

JACK  W.  SARGENT  11-18-1939  (One date)

* Mississippi CORP  116 SUP TN DIV

LYDIA  ANN  SARGENT *Age 45 yrs  died 11-15-1938

*MM  (Pratt Funeral Home)  *Tombstone not found in 2012

     

LARRY DALE  SELMON (60) 10-9-1952  to  10-23-2012 *OB

*S/of Lewis Monroe "Red" Selmon & Faye Dell Welch Selmon

GARY  DON  SMITH  8-31-1961  to  9-1-1961

*Infant S/of Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Smith  "Sweetly Sleeping"

 

JO ANN  STOTT  SMITH  10-6-1940  to  7-14-1997

"Too Well Loved To Ever Be Forgotten"     "Mother"

      

AUDREY “Jack”  STOTT  5-9-1915  to  1-31-1995

*H/of Allie Mae Warren Stott    "For Us   It Is Just The Beginning"

& ALLIE  MAE “Pat” WARREN  STOTT (90)

10-25-1918   to  12-26-2008  

*D/of Robert Bullard Warren & Annie Ella Peace Warren  *OB

 

JACKIE  HENRY  STOTT(69)  8-17-1946  to  8-30-2015*OB

*S/of Audrey "Jack" Stott &  Allie Mae "Pat" Warren Stott    *Vietnam Veteran

 

JOHN  HENRY  STOTT   1870  to  4-9-1943  *ARDI

"Rest Is Thine Sweet Remembrance Ours"

&  MATTIE  ALICE  STOTT   1875  to  1958

 

WALTON  T.  STOTT   9-19-1907   to  10-21-1981

"Only Sleeping"

&  ANNIE  LEE  LOWE  STOTT  5-10-1902  to  1-11-1994

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

     

EVA  C.  TAYLOR   6-6-1887  to  7-6-1959

 

JOHN  VERNON  TAYLOR, SR.  

7-31-1938  to  7-10-2014 *OB

*S/of Vernon Taylor & Mabel Jewel Lawrence Taylor

 

JOHN  VERNON  TAYLOR, JR.  

11-5-1959  to  4-4-1991

*S/of  John Vernon Taylor, Sr.(1938-2014)

 

ROBERT  JOHN  TAYLOR  9-15-1879   to  10-23-1953

&  DIXIE  MARY CAMERON  TAYLOR  

9-6-1885  to  10-12-1941

"A life like hers has left a record sweet for memory to dwell upon"

JAMES  B.  TOMPKINS   5-6-1876   to  10-24-1955

*S/of Willie Dee Tompkins(1876-1936) & Dona Dumas Tompkins(1898-1955)

*Md: *1^st  Willie Dee Gaines(1876-1936) *2^nd aft Dec 1936 Madonie “Dona” Dumas (1898-1955)

*Madoni Dumas was the D/of James Madison Dumas & Ella Mooty Dumas

& WILLIE  DEE GAINES  TOMPKINS 

9-24-1876  to 12-7-1936

*D/of  Madison Monroe Gaines(1839-1914) & Charlotte Missouri Stewart Gaines(1844-1936)

*1^st wife of James B. Tompkins

 

VERLIE  H.  TOMPKINS  4-4-1913  to  9-22-1945

*D/of  James Belton Tompkins(1876-1955) & Willie Dee Gaines Tompkins(1876-1936)

*H/of  Ruby Wisener Rains(1907-1989) buried Memorial Park Cemetery, Bastrop, LA

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

EVELYN  G.  WALKER "Sister"  1911  to  3-27-1940  *ARDI

JERRY  GENE  WALKER "Baby"  1937  to  1939

 

JIM  BOB  WALKER   8-1-1933  to  7-9-1988

"Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Heal" "Loving Father"

     

CORINE BRIDGES DARDON  WATSON(86)  

3-17-1927   to  3-19-2013

*D/of  Jacob G. Bridges & Jessie Francis Coke Bridges

*Late *1st husband  Elmer D. Dardon;  late *2^nd husband, Guthrie Watson

 

Burial grounds are directly behind the church building.

 

 

Looking east at back end of church.