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Submitted: 11/20/21 • Approved: 11/20/21 • Last Updated: 11/23/21 • R1401997-G0-S3
*List updated January 4, 2005
Legal description: NE, SE, SE, Sect.34, T11N, R7W
Earliest listed grave: 1891
Last listed grave: Active
GPS Listing: (link)
Arkansas Archeological Survey site #3WH0610
Some call this the Hilger Cemetery. It is located just west of 14-Mile Creek on Highway 124 between Little Red River and Sunnydale. The cemetery is south of the highway on the side of a hill and not visible from the road. Napoleon Hilger gave the land for the cemetery but the oldest marked grave is a Leggett. A tornado went through the community April 7, 1903, killing members of the Leggett family, who were buried here.
This cemetery was listed in August 1962 by Cloie Presley of the White County Historical Society. She added five more graves to the list in 1982, and then she and her husband Leister Presley updated the cemetery on June 20, 1997. In 1962 there were three funeral home markers that were unreadable, and approximately 54 graves marked with a rock. Mrs. Presley’s listing, which showed the location of these rocks and was not alphabetized, is in the Historical Society archives. This material was prepared for the Internet in 1999 by Richard White of Greensboro, NC. It was updated by Historical Society member Leroy Blair, who visited the cemetery August 29, 2000, and again in 2002. Blair added several names and other information to the list. He found 56 unmarked graves and was unable to find four graves that were on the original list: R.S. Adams, Leggett, Leggett and Simeon Rice. Blair, a member of the Historical Society’s board of directors and chairman of the cemetery committee, visited this site again on December 8, 2004, and personally checked the information on each headstone in the cemetery and compared it to the list below, updating and adjusting it for accuracy.
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Contributed on 11/20/21 by hawkinsdonna48
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