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Submitted: 12/28/21 • Approved: 12/28/21 • Last Updated: 12/31/21 • R1408734-G0-S3
*McKnight Cemetery
Bradford, Arkansas
List updated June 20, 2004
Legal description: NW, NW, NW, Sect. 12, T9N, R5W
Earliest listed grave: 1874
Last listed grave: 1926
Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: 3WH0666
This cemetery was visited in November 2000 by Gerald Torrence for the White County Historical Society. He reported it "is in bad shape and has been visited by vandals." As his photo above conveys, several stones have been pushed off their base. He provided the following directions: "To reach the cemetery, take Highway 87 North from Bradford. At the first fork in the road, go left. Heard Cemetery will be located on the right. Then go to the second road to the left after passing Heard. This is Turner Road – turn left there. Smith Cemetery is about 200 feet down Turner Road, on the left." McKnight Cemetery is located in Section 12, Township 9 North, Range 5 West. It was first listed in May 1968 by the Bradford Homemaker’s Extension Club, then published by the White County Historical Society in its 1969 edition of White County Heritage.
When Torrence visited the cemetery, he said he needed an axe to cut away brush to read the stones. He was able to read only eight stones. The cemetery was visited January 3, 2001, by Leroy Blair of the Historical Society, who found a grave – that of M.I. McKnight – which had not been listed previously. Other than the eight stones that Torrence found, plus the stone of M.I. McKnight that Blair found, the names below are from the original 1968 list.
Blair was unable to find the following graves from the ’68 list: Alonzo Gambill, Birdie Gambill, Willie May Gambill, McKnight next to Violet, Ellen McKnight, Hugh S. McKnight, R. McKnight, Violet next to McKnight, Ann Ball McKnight Wilson, William B. Wilson and Margaret Susie Gwyn. Blair reported, "This cemetery needs a good cleaning and stones remounted on their bases."
If you have corrections or additional information on McKnight Cemetery at Bradford, please contact the White County Historical Society, P.O. Box 537, Searcy, AR 72145.
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Contributed on 12/28/21 by hawkinsdonna48
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