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Submitted: 7/3/13 • Approved: 12/17/15 • Last Updated: 12/20/15 • R903525-G0-S3
Located approx. 2 miles east of Highway 62 on Sugar Creek Road. Cemetery is on a hill on the right side of the road. There is a blacktop road (driveway?) with red gate and cattle guard. Turn here, go up the hill--house ahead and left of you, cemetery on your right.
There are many other graves marked only with sandstones. Most of these were children of people living in the railroad camp, when the railroad was built through Brightwater.
Joseph English
CORPORAL
Company A 15 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
1836 - September 1925
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, September 10, 1925
ENGLISH, Joseph - The funeral of Joseph English, veteran Confederate soldier, was held at the Wardlow cemetery in Avoca last week. He was the father of O.A. English of Centerton with whom he had been making his home for several years. The deceased soldier was born in Searcy county, Arkansas in 1836. After the Civil War he moved to Avoca where he made his home until moving to Centerton. Mr. English enlisted in the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war, serving the entire time until peace was signed. He took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, Wilson's Creek and the siege of Vicksburg. He is survived by a son, Mr. O.A. English, and wife, granddaughter, Evelyn, and daughter, Mrs. Lee Griggs of Joplin.
Contributed on 7/3/13 by wfields55
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