--photos by Leroy Blair
Plant Cemetery is located northwest of Russell. Take Highway 367 North from Russell to Plant Road. Turn left and immediately on the left is a small dirt road. Take this road for one-quarter mile to a red brick home which is owned by Vernon Moore. Turn right up what appears to be an old logging road and go up the hill about one-quarter mile. You might have to walk. The cemetery, which is overgrown, is on the left. It was fenced with barbed wire and no gate when it was visited December 7, 2000, by Leroy Blair of the White County Historical Society.
Blair updated cemetery records prepared a few years earlier by Allene and Bill Plant. He found several headstones broken. A monument approximately six feet tall in the center of the cemetery contains the following names: P.E. Plant, J.W. Plant, T.E. Plant, S.E. Westmoreland, S.W. Meacham, Bettie Plant, G.C. Plant, W.M. Plant, H. Plant, J.T. Plant, T.F. Plant, L.F. Wood, J.M. Plant, N.E. Jackson, William Plant and ?? Plant.
If you have corrections to this listing or additional information on Plant Cemetery, contact the White County Historical Society, P.O. Box 537, Searcy, AR 72145.
Jackson, Nancy E. – June 5, 1856 – November 25, 1877
Meacham, Sophia W. – October 8, 1848 – April 8, 1879
Plant, ? – born September 24, 1884 – no other information
Plant, ? – October 28, 1826 – January 5, 1885 – stone broken
Plant, Raymon – January 11, 18?? – May 22, 1898 – son of C.W. and B.Z. Plant
Plant, Bettie – March 8, 1858 – January 31, 1888 – wife of D.W. Plant
Plant, Grover C. – September 24, 1884 – July 13, 1885 – stone broken
Plant, Howard – June 6, 1875 – July 20, 1875 – son of D.W. and Bettie Plant
Plant, James T. – July 23, 1881 – July 24, 1881
Plant, James W. – June 2, 1844 - ? 22, 1866
Plant, John M. – December 24, 1850 – December 26, 1870 – stone is broken and lying on the ground
Plant, Permelia – June 16, 1863 – September 9, 1870
Plant, Tennessee A. – November 17, 1865 – October 8, 1878
Plant, Thomas F. – June 1, 1860 - November 13, 1876 – stone is broken
Plant, W.M. – February 28, 1879 – August 5, 1881 – son of D.W. and Bettie Plant
Plant, William – June 1820 – January 8, 1885 – stone is broken
Westmoreland, Sarah E. – May 29, 1846 – March 4, 1862
Wood, Lucinda – April 17, 1858 – November 18, 1876 – stone is broken