Union Cemetery

Also known as Greenlee Cemetery and/or Felix G. Smith Cemetery. Union Cemetery is located in Southwest area of Pine Bluff near the junction of Old Warren Road & Brinkley Road on Brinkley Road in area referred to as the Union Community.


Name                                    Birth                            Death

Phineas SMITH                   1819                            1874

        Father of F. G. Smith  (Family records b. 1809  d. 1878)

Sarah Jane PRICE                        1823                            1868

        Mother of F.G. Smith  (Family records b. 1815  d. 1878)

Nancy FLYNN                     1847                            1872

        1st wife of F.G. Smith

Tonia SMITH                     1870                            1877

        Dau. of F.G. Smith & Nancy Smith

Annie Mae SMITH                 1885                            1885 (2 months old)

        Dau. of F.G. Smith & Ann A. Dunnington Smith


Cemetery read and donated by Jane Mullikin, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Submitted by Linda P. Smith

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Union Cemetery 

This information was provided for us from Kelli Barton. I want to thank her for the hard work she did on this project.  

 

NAME            BIRTH                          DEATH Markings on Headstone

REED

Jennings July 2, 1916 - October 18, 1992

Valeria June 29, 1917 - January 11, 1996

Our Father which art in Heaven

Floyd Thomas Gurley

PFC US Army

WW II

August 13, 1920 - April 21, 1987

Orville E. Berg

July 17, 1923



Woodyard

H. Marshall, Jr.. Flora Belle

Aug. 3, 1915 Oct. 20, 1918

Oct. 27, 1996

Together Married

Forever April 19, 1936



Milton N. Williams

TEC 4 US Army

World War II

October 10, 1914 - November 24, 1995

(at foot of grave on a concrete bench:)

Donated by
 Ret. D. P. W. Friend of
Milton & Eloise Williams



(Head of grave on a life size Angel)

Kline

Strong

(foot of grave)

Kevin Joseph Kline

March 16, 1978

February 21, 1997

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.



Aud

Aubrey Lee Linda Darlene

Feb. 13, 1949 Nov. 5, 1952
March 2, 1992

Wed Dec. 23, 1970

Forever with the Lord



Hamilton

Bennie S. Margaret L.

Jan. 15, 1914 Aug. 4, 1920

July 5, 1995



Lloyd T. Arnett

Feb. 18, 1941
Aug. 1, 1989



Tina Leshea Ellison

August 15, 1997

(Ralph Robinson & Son Funeral Home temp. marker)



McRae

Joe M. Shirley M.

April 4 ,1933 July 18, 1935

Oct. 31, 1996

Married March 9, 1952

(at foot of Joe's grave, on a military marker)

Joe M. McRae

US Air Force
 Vietnam

April 4, 1933 - Oct. 31, 1996



Jacks

Norman (Sam) Francis L.

June 20, 1914 May 23, 1911

Sept. 29,
1995

Patricia Willet

Smith

March 9, 1945
June 24, 1989

With love With love
 Your Family the Bonners

Velda Shankle Willet

Dec. 5, 1920

Feb. 10, 1994

Thy Will Be Done

Puckett

Fred James Francis Jean

March 11, 1925 Parham

April 18,
1929
Sept. 6, 1996
E.O.D. Miss me

No Margin for Error But let me go

Phillip E. Dickerson

Sept. 4, 1959

Oct. 31, 1991

Welcome to Heaven my child

Dickerson

James H. Rachel K.
J
une 10, 1933 Feb. 16, 1934

Feb. 22, 1991

Married April 9, 1952

Gone Home

(at the foot of the grave on a military marker)

James H. Dickerson

A1C US Air Force 
Korea

June 10, 1933 - Feb. 22, 1991

Gatlin

Harvey E. Lillie M.

May 18, 1928 Sept. 15, 1930

Nov. 23, 1987

Married 
Sept. 12, 1947

Larry Richard Gatlin

Sept. 19, 1953

July 27, 1993

An inspiration to all who knew him

(on reverse of headstone) 
Gatlin 
Children, Bobby, Chris, Eric

Gatlin

Harry E. Joyce M.

March 25, 1949 May 22, 1950

Feb. 7, 1995

Our Father which art in Heaven

Married Dec. 6, 1968

(on reverse of headstone) 
Children: Michelle, Jessica, Chad

Alfred J. Price

Aug. 11, 1904

Sept. 13, 1927

Harvey P. Price

May 4, 1898

April 13, 1946



Jewell S. Price

Nov. 20, 1906

Jan. 5, 1947

Sherwood


Rev. J.R. Mary E.

1836 - 1900 1840 - 1921

(A monument that says:)

Willliams Plot

Okie V.

Jan. 1875

Aug. 1956

Warren E.

July 1861

Sept. 1942



John J.

June 1835

May 1899



Louisa J.

Aug. 1898

George W. Winegard

Mar. 11, 1889

July 6, 1967

Willie May Taylor

Winegard
March 28, 1901

Dec. 31, 1995

Ethel Taylor Bass

April 23, 1899

Feb. 5, 1983

Doris E. Bass From

July 18, 1926

June 13, 1984

Infant son of 
W.H. & M.E. 
Ellington

Born 
Jan 18, 1893
Died 
Jan. 18, 1893

Gatlin

Robert M. Sr. Carrie Walters

Jan. 24, 1889 Dec 24, 1890

Jan, 30, 1980 April, 16, 1932



Thompson

Mary Gatlin Charles T.

Aug. 25, 1926 Sept. 19, 1922
July 15,
1979

Married Jan. 20, 1945


Father
Arthur L. Melton

Aug. 10, 1930

Oct. 19, 1961




Mother

Telma Melton Ussery

April 4, 1923

Nov. 18, 1985

Joshua r. Price

July 30, 1863

Jan. 5, 1938

Matilda Aden Price

1863 - 1941



W. Edgar Williams

July 15, 1906

July 19, 1977

Mabel F. Seamans

Oct. 12, 1901

May 30, 1985

Ida V. West
1875 - 1953



(broken monument)

Horton



James W. Bass

Arkansas
 TEC HQ Co. 405 Infantry

World War II BSM

Nov. 4, 1922 - Sept. 8, 1965



In Memory of 
"Red"
 Henry M. Gatlin

Sept. 10, 1917

Jan. 7, 1943

Son of
R.M. (Kay) and Carrie Gatlin

Buried in Corozal American Cemetery
 Panama City, Republic of Panama

Our Sister

Clovis Gatlin

2 years, 6 months

In God's Care



Charles Vernon Gatlin

April 1, 1930

Feb. 8, 1990

Son of 
R.M. (Kay) and Carrie Gatlin



John P. Smith

Nov. 19, 1853

Sept. 14, 1929

(at foot of grave on a small stone) 
J. P. S.



Ferguson

Sarah J. Robert H.

Jan. 20, 1877 Sept. 10, 1856

Feb. 28, 1931 June 24, 1932

Lindsey Hancock

1910 - 1933

Mother

Florence Ridgway 
Hancock

1874 - 1947

(Pete) 
Milton Hancock

1914 - 1952

James R. Bussey

Arkansas 
PFC - Co - M - 6 - BN - REPL - TNG - CEN

World War I

July 23, 1893 - September 7, 1956

Idell Williams Bussey

Jan. 16, 1904

Nov. 2, 1984

Mary E. Gage B.E. Ridgway

Wife of Born

B.E. Gage May 11, 1848

Born Died

Dec. 13, 1857 August 17, 1908

Died

June 11, 1901

Arther Henry Nichols

Dec. 3, 1904

June 21, 1966

S.B. Ferguson
Born: 
Dec. 16, 1884

Died: 
Aug. 2, 1918

May he rest in peace

Sybil

Daughter of 
S.B. & L.E. Ferguson

Born Oct. 8, 1909

Died June 25, 1910

Gone but not forgotten

Robert H. Jacks

Dec. 1910 - Feb. 1932

Thomas Hugh Jacks
October 31, 1880 - April 25, 1963

Estelle F. Jacks

December 19, 1881 - April 13, 1968

Lillie Shipley

March 18, 1881

February 18, 1960

Arnett

Delbert Clara

Jan. 23, 1897 July 24, 1915

April 15, 1969 Jan. 26, 1990

Mamie Allen

Oct. 1, 1900 - Sept. 6, 1950

Our beloved brother

John R. Spears

Sept. 7, 1941

Nov. 29, 1949

Gertrude Hancock 
Weeks

1916 - 1942

Floy Hancock

1906 - 1908

Bussey

Paula Jean Margie J.R.

Born & Died April 1, 1921 April 18, 1920

Dec. 17, 1964 Dec. 20, 1983

Gone but not forgotten

(at foot of grave) 
Paula Jean Bussey 
Dec. 17, 1964


Lucy Cummins

Wife of 
M.W. McLendon

Jan. 30, 1856 - Feb. 23, 1937


H. Phil Seamans

Sept. 10, 1901

Oct. 11, 1971

Woodmen of the world Memorial

Dum Tacet Clamat

Hogue M. Trantham

Born January 25, 1861

Died February 12, 1912
Aged 51 years, 17 days

Gone but not forgotten

Husband of Sarah M. Trantham

Grady Hughey Bobo

PVT US Army 
WW II

March 19, 1899 - September 13, 1975

Hoy T. Bobo

March 9, 1897
November 4, 1920

Roy Bobo

March 10, 1899

November 19, 1919

Ludd C. Bobo

October 2, 1868

February 17, 1940

Farwell

Minnie L. 
Wife of 
L.C. Bobo

Born near Jonesboro Miss.

October 13, 1872

Died near Pine Bluff, AR

February 19, 1904

Lizzie Phelps

Wife o f
William E. Taylor

April 24, 1880

March 4, 1939


William E. Taylor

March 18,1872

December 22,1958

Father

Roy E. Fergusson

1878 - 1933



Mother

Minnie Fergusson

1881 - 1958

Gatlin

Runyan O. Susie N.

Nov. 24, 1918 June 3, 1922

Nov. 12, 1984

(at foot of grave on a military marker)

Runyan Otto Gatlin

SGT US Army 
WW II

Nov. 24, 1918 - Nov. 12, 1984

Emmett Haze Weeks

Aug. 10, 1906

June 3, 1934

Helen P. Weeks

March 13, 1917

Aug. 16, 1974

Martha M. Weeks

May 2, 1849

Feb. 14, 1942

(flat stone no name)

Born
: Sept. 27, 1844

Died: 
Oct. 24, 1923

Clarice Lea Taylor
 Wingard

March 15, 1902

January 27, 1965

Jerry Sanders 
Wingard
Jan. 27, 1892

Dec. 17, 1978

Mother

Vera H. Weeks

Nov. 7, 1888
June 5, 1982


Lucy E. Barnett

Born:
Sept. 16, 1866

Died:
June 15, 1913
Thy God has claimed thee
 for his own


S.R. Matthews

1847 - 1926

Mother

Lucy F. Forrester

1854 - 1927



Baby Segars

October 18, 1911

T.J. Poteet

Born: 
Feb. 26, 1840

Died:
April 19, 1915

Mrs. S.E. Poteet

Born
: Oct. 31, 1849

Died
: Nov. 14, 1915


Beloved Mother

Dorothy M. Stewart

Sept. 17, 1923

Jan. 28, 1986

(at foot of grave) 
A loving mother

Dorothy Stewart

Sept. 17, 1923

Jan. 28, 1986

Parsons

Ethel Mae Albert L.

May 4, 1900 Sept. 4, 1887

Feb. 7, 1969 Oct. 20, 1972

(at foot) (at foot)

Mother Father

Weeks

Thomas W. Jessie R.

Oct. 29, 1879 Dec. 2, 1885

May 11, 1965 Oct. 1, 1927

(directly behind big headstone, in same plot)

Muriel Weeks Atkinson

July 17, 1913

Aug. 19, 1998

(on a temporary funeral home marker)

Mary Muriel Atkinson

1913 - 1998


Jossie McCants

Aug. 18, 1877

Aug. 31, 1962

Hulse

Nancy Louis

Feb. 29, 1880 June 6, 1881

July 31, 1967 May 10, 1955

(at foot of grave)

Lewis Hulse

June 6, 1880

May 10, 1955



Paralee Hulse

Born Feb. 19,
1907

Died Dec. 11
1918

Mother

Martha Jane Segars

Dec. 19, 1862

Feb. 19, 1921

Ada Segars

July 20, 1895

April 23, 1924

Hogan
Loyd Josephine Abner

1910 - 1917 1878 - 1941 1871 - 1957


At Rest

Harold

Son of
E.W. & Ella Hankins

July 26, 1918

Jan. 7, 1919

Darling we miss thee

Victor Hankins

June 21, 1903

May 23, 1940


Hankins

Ella B. Edgar W.

May 17, 1886 April 1, 1885

March 24, 1967 April 23, 1978

Married Sept. 8, 1901

Mrs. V.M. Shipman

Born Dec. 14, 1846

Died July 12, 1928


H.V. Brinkley

Dec. 16, 1892

June 9, 1919

Verlin Hulse

Aug. 8, 1910

Sept. 7, 1967

Lee Roy Hulse

May 12, 1918

Feb. 19, 1972

Thelma Merle Sann

April 23, 1919

Nov. 20, 193

0

Martha Francis Sann

Jan. 9, 1918

July 4, 1918

"Nanny"
 Pearl Ferguson

1912 - 1987

Gone but never forgotten

Walter L. Ferguson

1889 - 1970



Mary E. Ferguson

1882 - 1962

Allison

Allie John T.

1879 - 1953 1868 - 1936

Sarah Elizabeth Braswell

Age 70

Grandmother


Jo Anna (Josie)
 Christian

Age 68

Mother


Clinton A. Christian

Age 84

Father

J.S. Woodruff

Born 1853

Died Nov. 23, 1924

Asleep in Jesus

W.T. Garrison

Feb. 28, 1847

Nov. 29, 1921

Ruthy Garrison

Wife of W.T.

Dec. 29, 1847

Died 1933


Divoky
Mother Daughter Father

Albina Albina D. Josef

Feb. 24, 1884 Nov. 23, 1911 Aug. 25, 1880
March 23, 1923 Jan. 12, 1947 Jan. 12, 1970
(at foot of grave)

Albina Divoky Miller

Nov. 23, 1911

Jan. 12, 1947

Joseph Divoky Jr.

Sept. 8, 1909

Dec. 30, 1970

Gone but not forgotten

Carry Mae Faver William Reece

Fuller Faver

1889 - 1946 1873 - 1941

Charles F. Herr
1864 - 1943



Infant son of Jewell A. Christian

Jewel A. (Slim) 
Christian

Jan. 15, 1903 
(can't read the death date)

Last of the old Christian Clan

Beloved Father

Tommy Lain

Sept. 15, 1915

March 25, 1981


Peggy Farmer 
Lancaster

Jan. 27, 1939

June 6, 1991
Forever in our hearts


Price

James R. Sybil

May 14, 1908 Oct. 18,1915

Feb. 17, 1984 Jan. 4, 1990

Schrantz

Kay P. Roger B.

Jan. 18, 1942 April 14, 1940

Baltzell

Charlie Nathan Margie Mann

June 19, 1909 Oct. 9, 1924

July 23, 1974 May 17, 1984

Our Father which art in Heaven

(at foot of grave on a
 funeral
 home marker)

Margie Leah Baltzell

b. 1924 d. 1984

age 59

(Ralph Robinson & Son
 Funeral Home)


Father

Frank O. Melton

Jan. 3, 1900

July 1, 1968

Mother

Tilda B. Melton

Feb. 22, 1906

Jan. 11, 1972

Our Precious Mother

Annie Ruth Shipley

Jan. 31, 1924

Jan. 26, 1979

Frank Samuel Shipley

US Army

Dec. 29, 1922 - June 30, 1981

(Funeral Home Marker)

Carl Frederick Bennet
died around 1931 at 
about 1 month of age

Hazel Marie Bennet
Died at birth around 1933
Buried in adjacent grave

Melton

Mabel Frank

Jan. 10, 1914 July 18, 1922

Dec. 17, 1993 July 7, 1995
(at foot of grave on a
 military marker)

Frank O. Melton

PVT US Army 
WW II

July 18, 1922 - July 7, 
1995

Ralph Paul Parsons

US Army 
WW II

Feb. 19, 1918 - Dec. 19, 1986

John B. Haralson

March 25, 1900

March 25, 1967


Chamblee

Hattie B. Sherman T.
Feb. 7, 1898 Dec. 9, 1903

Sept. 20, 1968 May 12, 1978

Married September 8, 1929

Annie Mae Catlett

June 11, 1897

Feb. 24, 1988


Kenneth M. Mosley

Sept. 21, 1920

Nov. 22, 1969

Clarice Ann Mosley

May 14, 194
3
Oct. 15, 1954


(this marker is a flat piece of metal shaped and painted like a n
ice cream cone)

(funeral home marker)

Aug. 24, ??
?- 23, 1978

(Hale-South Funeral Home)




Other surnames in this cemetery (that we know of) that are in unmarked
graves.


  • Gray
  • Smith
  • Mamie Dorsett
  • Allison

  • George McClintock

  • Condrad or Condred

  • R. Davis

  • Dell

  • Rodgers

  • Socia

  • Sherwood

  • Bennet

  • Horton
  • Porter

  • Elington
  • Bono

  • Wilson
  • Wordlaw or Wardlaw
  • Brown
  • Arledge
  • Burks
  • Parker

  • Gilreath

  • Martin
  • Harper
  • Singleton

  • Mayhugh

  • Wadsworth
  • Mead

  • Herr
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