Wools Cemetery

Judsonia, Arkansas

Photo by Paul Miller

This Cemetery is also known as: None known

GPS Location: 622455-3911973

Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: WH0751

Number of Marked Graves: 1

Number of Unmarked Graves: Unown

The last complete survey of this cemetery was: Paul Miller

Current status of cemetery: This cemetery is no longer in use

Point of contact for cemetery. No known contact person.

This "cemetery" is actually a lone grave of little Katie Wools who died at age 6 after a brief illness and was buried at the James

Wools home place at the foot of a pine tree she had planted.



Kate was the daughter of James and Angeline Wools (see HISTORY) and was survived by three brothers -- Elihue and twins Barton

and Martin – and sisters Clara (Wools Morgan) and Florence. Two other Wools daughters, Alma and Ruella (Wools Miller), were later

born at this place and grew to adulthood. Both became teachers. Ruella lived in the Plainview community until the early 1960s.

Florence never married and died after Ruella.

According to family legend, when the Wools family moved to this area in 1878 there were no pine trees in the area. While the

family was visiting, Emma Kate saw pine trees and loved them so much she was allowed to pull a small seedling and bring it home

in a fruit jar. Only 4 years old, she planted the small pine tree by the boundary fence about 300 feet from the house, where with

tender care the little seedling began to flourish. When Kate died shortly after her sixth birthday the lone pine tree became a

marker for her grave. More than a hundred years later, Kate’s tree is gone but the farm now has numerous large pine trees.

Flowers planted near the grave by the family bloom yearly. Generation after generation of the Wools family has cared for the grave.

Following is a list of known burials in this cemetery.

Wools, Emma Kate – April 9, 1877 – August 23, 1883

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Legend: Copyright-Aug.23, 2016-Paul V. Isbell-Webmaster:

Most of the cemetery information listed was collected by Leroy “Lee” Blair Former member of the White

County Historical Society Board of Directors. Now working at the White County Historical Society office on

the square in Searcy. WCHS P. O. Box 537 Searcy, Ark. 72145.

If you have any additions or corrections to the burial listing please contact the Historical Society. Phone 501-

278-5010 or Email me at

lblblair74@gmail.com

or wchs1962@gmail.com

I will be posting more burials later. The Searcy Daily Citizen donated all their Micro Film and Ledgers dating

back to 1953. After reviewing them, if I find a death of a person that we do not have I will to add to the

cemetery listings.



There are some graves listed as unmarked that may have had a tombstone set since the listing was made.

I may have missed some graves when I prepared the listing. Some cemeteries are very hard to get an

accurate listing due to how some graves are scattered

The following Abbreviations are used in the listings

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FM-Funeral home marker DS-Double tombstone TS-Triple tombstone

(Obit)-means that the Historical Society has, or has access to the Obituary for this person.