--photo by Leroy Blair, 2000
New Hope Cemetery
Searcy, Arkansas
- List updated June 20, 2004
- Legal description: NE, SW, NW, Sect.30, T8N, R7W
- Earliest listed grave: 1902
- Last listed grave: Active
- GPS Listing: (link)
- Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: 3WH0735
New Hope is located north of Searcy. The original listing was prepared by Cloie Presley and Nell Henry of the White County Historical Society in October 1962. It was updated 38 years later by Society member Leroy Blair, who added some 40 names and other information and provided these comments: "To get to this cemetery from Searcy, take Highway 16 north to Four Mile Hill. Turn left on Oak Forrest Road. Go about 1 ˝ miles to Coles lane, which is not marked. There is a sign that reads ‘Lighthouse Church of Deliverance.’ Turn right at that sign and go about one-third mile. The cemetery is just past the mailbox at 143 Coles Lane, about 100 yards off the road. It is fenced and fairly clean. I visited this cemetery October 12, 2000. I found 51 graves that are marked by rocks or old funeral home markers that cannot be read. There are about 30 depressions or mounds with no markings at all."
If you have corrections or additions to this list or other information on New Hope Cemetery in Searcy, contact the White County Historical Society, P.O. Box 537, Searcy, AR 72145.
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
| Baker, Berry E. | September 13, 1936 | September 19, 1936 | |
| Baker, Carl Newton | February 7, 1934 | October 27, 2001 | |
| Baker, Flora H. | January 17, 1899 | November 23, 1973 | |
| Baker, Joyce | December 14, 1937 | June 6, 1980 | |
| Baker, Roy E. | December 22, 1895 | July 31, 1967 | WWI |
| Baugh, Betty Elizabeth | January 26, 1905 | April 23, 1905 | |
| Baugh, James Q. | February 20, 1905 | August 6, 1953 | |
| Baugh, Joseph A. | January 23, 1905 | April 21, 1905 | |
| Baugh, Luther P. | March 9, 1880 | April 11, 1921 | |
| Baugh, Sidney E. | July 20, 1893 | November 20, 1944 | Ark. Pvt. 1 cl. QM Corps |
| Beck, Hursell | July 21, 1914 | June 14, 1940 | |
| Brown, Roy Edward | February 21, 1922? | September 30, 1942 | |
| Carver, John C. | April 2, 1950 | 90 years, 11 mos., 3 days | |
| Coles, Ella | July 6, 1882 | February 10, 1936 | |
| Coles, Ellen | September 15, 1853 | March 11, 1927 | stone broken |
| Coles, Frankey | stone broken | no dates | |
| Coles, Irma | stone broken | cannot read dates | |
| Coles, John Samuel Sr. | December 4, 1876 | September 8, 1952 | stone is broken |
| Coles, Leta | stone broken | no dates | |
| Coles, P.S.R. | April 2, 1847 | October 20, 1926 | |
| Coursey, Joseph D. | April 20, 1871 | September 9, 1949 | on double stone with Minnie A. Coursey |
| Coursey, Mertie Iowa | December 25, 1903 | September 17, 1998 | on double stone with Theadore Coursey |
| Coursey, Minnie A. | April 13, 1872 | August 31, 1948 | on double stone with Joseph D. Coursey |
| Coursey, Theadore | September 11, 1905 | June 6, 1974 | on double stone with Mertie Iowa Coursey |
| Cox, Larry Del "Chief" | December 11, 1955 | September 4, 1974 | |
| Gentry | on concrete slab | no first name or other information | |
| Gentry | on concrete slab | no first name or other information | |
| Gentry, Ethel Hicks | April 15, 1900 | August 4, 1932 | |
| Gibcomb, Alice Cook | November 14, 1874 | November 1, 1925 | |
| Gilbeath, Doris E. | August 22, 1927 | blank | on double stone with James C. Gilbeath |
| Gilbeath, James C. | November 26, 1924 | October 8, 1979 | U.S. Navy WWII on double stone with Doris Gilbeath |
| Gilbeath, Violet L. | January 13, 1900 | September 18, 1972 | on double stone with William Gilbeath |
| Gilbeath, William | February 4, 1902 | blank | on double stone with Violet Gilbeath |
| Graham, Minnie M. | March 25, 1887 | January 2, 1927 | |
| Hall, Elizabeth J. | February 18, 1905 | January 10, 1945 | 69 years, 2 mos., 20 days on double stone with John Hall |
| Hall, John | February 1878 | August 31, 1940 | on double stone with Elizabeth Hall |
| Jackson, Sarah Ann | February 9, 1905 | March 27, 1905 | |
| James, Willie J. | March 13, 1905 | March 16, 1905 | |
| Jameson, Ella M. | January 5, 1878 | March 15, 1923 | on double stone with George Jameson |
| Jameson, George C. | August 2, 1866 | July 26, 1952 | on double stone with Ell Jameson |
| Kendall, Garlen | December 22, 1910 | December 23, 1911 | son of W.W.S. and Lula Kendall |
| Kendall, Winnie & Minnie | January 2, 1909 | February 22, 1909 | twin daughters of W.S. & Lula Kendall |
| McNeese, - | November 30, 1868 | June 14, 1960 | no first name |
| McNeese, Isaac I. | November 30, 1868 | June 17, 1960 | |
| McNeese, Isaac Luther | February 19, 1902 | May 14, 1992 | |
| McNeese, Willella | December 13, 1907 | October 28, 1962 | |
| Miller, - | August 3, 1954 | Age 81 | |
| Mitchell, Dora M. | May 28,1915 | March 31, 1974 | |
| Mitchell, Frank R. | August 22, 1901 | May 4, 1995 | on double stone with Dora Mitchell |
| Nations, David D. | April 13, 1849 | October 12, 1913 | |
| Osborne, Alma | February 14, 1894 | November 21, 1931 | |
| Osborne, T.H. | May 10, 1868 | April 1, 1938 | |
| Slaten, Emma Lea Blackwood | August 28, 1921 | no other date | |
| Slaten, Estell | November 10, 1914 | September 20, 1915 | |
| Slaten, Fred | September 19, 1874 | February 11, 1943 | |
| Slaten, Mrs. S.M. | August 27, 1950 | ||
| Slaten, Pearl Olive | January 9, 1895 | March 8, 1968 | on double stone with William Westley Slaten |
| Slaten, S.M. | June 17, 1875 | July 26, 1949 | |
| Slaten, William "Cigar Bil" | September 9, 1928 | October 20, 2013 | |
| Slaten, William Westley | June 19, 1888 | June 5, 1968 | on double stone with Pearl Olive Slaten |
| Taylor, Jerry Lynn | May 15, 1961 | December 8, 2000 |