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Submitted: 4/9/19 • Approved: 4/23/19 • Last Updated: 4/26/19 • R1263861-G0-S3
An active cemetery east of Woolly Hollow State Park in the north central].
section of Faulkner County. From the junction of US 65 and State Highway
285 north of Greenbrier, take 285 East and travel about 5-1/2 miles (past
the entrance to the state park) until you reach a "Y"; take the dirt road
(McNew Cemetery Road). The fenced-in cemetery is on the left side of the road.
Contributed by Sondra Johnson, May 2001
[sondraj@cyberback.com
Total records = 447.
The land for the McNew Cemetery was donated by William McNew (b. 15 Feb,
d. 16 Nov 1893) In 1855, William moved his wife and six children to
Arkansas and settled on 160 acres of land near the cemetery. He later
acquired considerably more land in the general vicinity and became a
substantial farmer in the area.
In 1893, six months before he died, William McNew built what was to become
the McNew Chapel and donated three acres of land to the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He rode a horse to Russellville to present the gift to the Methodist
Assembly. When he returned, he was so please, he told his family -- "Well,
I've done what I wanted done for a long time. Now we can have a church."
The chapel was destroyed by a tornado in the 1920's. Old funeral home records
often refer to this cemetery as "McNew Chapel."
As of Nov 1, 2001, there are 556 burial plots, 108 of which have been
designated as "unknown." Census was taken in 1979 by Hattie Ann Kelso,
James Kilduff and Lisa Henry.
"Faulkner County Arkansas, Census of Cemeteries As of Dec 31, 1987",
Published by the Faulkner County Historical Society, P.O. Box 731,
Conway, Arkansas 72032, Hattie Ann Kelso, Chairman of Cemetery Census
Committee; Robert W. Meriwether, Chairman of Cemetery Census Publication
Committee. Information also obtained from Glenna Shumate (shu@cyberback.com),
who has extensive records on this cemetery from its inception to the current
date.
Contributed on 4/9/19 by hawkinsdonna48
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