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Submitted: 12/28/21 • Approved: 12/29/21 • Last Updated: 1/1/22 • R1408895-G0-S3
*Hughes Family Cemetery
Pickens Chapel, Arkansas
List updated February 12, 2007 By Leroy "Lee" Blair
Legal description: SE, NW, SE, Sect. 5, T8N, R8W
G.P.S. Location: 602120-3911972
Earliest listed grave: 1857
Last listed grave: 2006
Number of marked graves: About 20
Unmarked graves: Approximately 10
Arkansas Archeological Survey form #3WH0629
Contact: Travis Price 501-728-3685(may be able to assist)
This cemetery is located about three miles west of Letona on Highway 310. It is about 1/4 mile west of the Pickens Chapel Cemetery on the road to Sidon. It was originally listed by Mr. and Mrs. Leister E. Presley of the White County Historical Society, April 12, 1969, they reported seeing 10 unmarked graves. The cemetery was updated July 19, 2000,by Dave Hartman a Hughes descendant who reported the site was “overgrown and in need of attention.” He also noted there are no markers for Hughes patriarch Harden Hughes, a veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife Sarah, who are both buried here.
Leroy Blair of the Historical Society reported the cemetery was “clean for the most part” when he first visited it on March 8, 2001. He made some adjustments in spellings and dates based on what he saw on the tombstones. He found two illegible funeral home markers and five graves marked only with rocks. He was intrigued by a “Jane Doe” tombstone marking the grave of an unidentified person who died April 3, 1979. After checking with several law enforcement officials, he learned that this was a murder victim from Texas later identified as Mary Ann Gibson. Her body had been found at the bottom of a bluff beside Highway 31 near Floyd in early 1979. The case was never solved. “I thought she deserved a better headstone,” Blair said, “so I contacted Matt Bible at Bible Monument Company in Searcy. Matt donated and set a nice tombstone for her, free of charge.”
Blair returned to the cemetery on February 12, 2007, and made a new list by comparing the entire old list with information that he read on tombstones while walking through the cemetery. He added row numbers, to make it easier to locate specific graves. Row #1 is on the side nearest the farm pond. He noted there are several unmarked graves, some with unreadable funeral home markers.
If you have corrections or additions to this list or other information on this cemetery, 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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