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Submitted: 2/19/11 • Approved: 2/26/11 • Last Updated: 6/3/19 • R468691-G0-S3
OVERVIEW: Syrene Church Cemetery in Pickens, Arkansas was established in the early 1900's as a place for Spiritual enrichment and also a place for African-American children of local Sharecropper families working for the R.A. Pickens plantation could receive an education up until the fifties when segregation forced students to attend public schools in Dumas, Arkansas. A small cemetery surrounds the rural Church located on the banks of the Bayou.
Many graves unfortunately are unmarked in the midst of those that have lovingly installed memorials for those interred at Syrene Church Cemetery. +
Contributed on 2/19/11 by kd5hms63
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