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Submitted: 12/2/21 • Approved: 12/2/21 • Last Updated: 12/5/21 • R1403966-G0-S3
*List updated December, 2014
Legal description: SW, NE, SW, Sect.10, T7N, R8W
Earliest listed grave: 1882
Last listed grave: Active
GPS Listing: (link)
Arkansas Archeological Survey site #3WH0625
This cemetery is located in Section 10, Range 7 West, Township 8 North. It was originally listed as Castleberry Cemetery October 31, 1965, by Cloie and Leister Presley of the White County Historical Society and published in White County Heritage, the Society’s annual history, in 1971.
Historical Society member Leroy Blair updated the list in 2000, finding 84 graves that were not on the Presley list. Blair noted this cemetery now has a sign "Holly Springs Cemetery" above the gate. Leister Presley told former Historical Society president Eddie Best in June 2002 that "The cemetery was called Castleberry when we listed it in 1965; we were familiar with it; Cloie has a relative buried here." There are many Castleberrys here, including a burial as early as 1905. To reach the cemetery, according to the Presley report, "Leave Highway 16 at Snowden’s Store at Albion and travel east about 2 ½ miles, turn south for about ¾ mile then east again about ½ mile."
Blair gave these directions: "To get to this cemetery from Searcy take Highway 16 north to Fairview Road. Go up Fairview about 4.5 miles to Rambo Road. Turn right and go about a quarter-mile. The cemetery is on the left. I found seven stones with no markings. There is a small grave that is enclosed with rocks about 2½ feet high, 4 feet long and 3 feet wide and filled with dirt. It has a funeral home marker but you cannot read anything on it. There appear to be several unmarked graves. This cemetery is very clean. I did not find the following graves from the old list – Anna Mae Callison, Beverly Franklin Fuller, Dallas May, Mamie Ruth May and James Leroy May."
The Presleys numbered, rather than alphabetized, their list. The grave site number from their list is shown in parenthesis below. They also reported they found about 75 unmarked graves. A nearby, older graveyard was known as Holly Springs Cemetery in 1962, according to Leister Presley. [See Old Holly Springs/Union Hill Cemetery.]
If you have corrections or additions to this list or other information on Holly Springs/Castleberry Cemetery, please contact the White County Historical Society, P.O. Box 537, Searcy, AR 72145.
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Contributed on 12/2/21 by hawkinsdonna48
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