Salem Cemetery
Searcy, AR
Photos by Eddy Best
This Cemetery is also known as: Salem Church Cemetery
GPS Location: 618587 - 3906490
Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: 3WH0616
Number of Marked Graves: About 150
Number of Unmarked Graves: Unknown
The last complete survey of this cemetery was: December 8, 2004 Leroy Blair
There has been Obituaries that were printed in the newspaper posted since the last survey was
made.
Current status of cemetery: Active
Point of contact for cemetery. No known contact person.
Salem Cemetery is located in the churchyard of Salem Baptist Church, north of Searcy. The first
listing for this cemetery by the White County Historical Society was prepared October 20, 1965, by
Cloie and Leister Presley, who published their report the following year
in White County Heritage
.
Additional information was obtained in 2000 by volunteers Gerald Torrence and Tommy H.
Treadway of the Historical Society. Another Society member, Leroy Blair, added 14 names to the
original list after visiting the cemetery August 24, 2000.The Presleys reported seeing 25