Abercrombie/Carpenter Cemetery

ABERCROMBIE/CARPENTER CEMETERY
China Grove Road & Alexander Road
Alexander AR - Saline Co.

THIS IS A "NEAR GONE AND FORGOTTEN" CEMETERY
If you have family members in this cemetery that are in unmarked graves and not listed, please let us know who they are.
There isn't a sign by the road stating the cemetery is there and it is now on Saline Co. owned property.

Transcribed by Peggy Gateley - Photos by Charlotte Ramsey


Abercrombie/Carpenter Cemetery is grown up and unattended	It is on a hill with a beautiful view

DIRECTIONS: (From East End Community - Go to Sardis Rd. West, stay on Sardis Rd. west until you come to Alexander Rd. (It will be on your right). Turn on Alexander, go straight about 3 blocks, and see the Saline Co. Sheriffs Training Facility. In the curve, you will see a big yellow gate. If you notice on the right of the gate is a street marker that says, China Gr & Alexander. The "pig trail" behind the gate is China Grove Rd. The gate is locked and it is posted really well. Maybe if you talked to the Sheriff's Dept they may open the gate and let you drive through. I walked it and it's along way down that road. (About a mile) Or maybe they can tell you another access to the cemetery. I didn't see another entrance. The cemetery is not kept and is surrounded by a old chain link fence, without a gate, just an opening. Here are the graves with stones. There is alot of them that do not have markers, There were a lot of rocks, that I suspect are markers as it is plain to see they are graves.

1880 SALINE CO. AR CENSUS - HURRICANE TOWNSHIP
[ABERCROMBIE]
146-146 ABBICRUMBY Hugh W M 32 F AL GA TN
Nancy E W F 22 W K AR SC SC
James S W M 1 S AR AL AR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SALINE CO., ARK. FEDERAL LAND RECORDS Name MI Sec# Twp R Acres Date ABERCROMBIE HUGH L 1 2S 14W 78.72 1888/07/23 BOHN KOSMAS 1 2S 14W 80 1889/09/17 (must be kin to these Bohn's) OPITZ JOHN C 33 1S 13W 80 1890/04/16 (must be kin to this Opitz) KERR JAMES L 14 1S 14W 40 1837/04/15 (must be one of these Kerr's) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saline County, Arkansas Marriage Book "D" Abercrombie, Angeline age 20 and E. J. Elrod age 28 married on 24 Feb 1876 D- 48 Abercrombie, H. L. age 28 and Margaret E. Hunter age 26 married on 21 Sep 1876 D- 80 Abercrombie, H. L. age 30 and Nancy Buzbee age 20 married on 30 Jun 1878 D-264 [The above info was found at the Saline Co. AR page: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~arsaline/index.htm


KATHERINE BOHN 1870 - 1948	PETER BOHN 1876 - 1959	WILLIAM BOHN MAY 23 1900 - JAN 18 1955 ARK PVT 1853 SVO COMD UNIT WWII


JEWELL KERR DEC 07 1921 INFANT SON OF W.E. KERR	J.H. KERR 1846 - 1927	JULIA D. KERR MAR 25, 1882 - OCT 12, 1945


PEARL M. KERR DEC 06 1903 - MAY 22 1922 W/O C.H. KERR	OLA MAY OPITZ DEC 18 1911 - OCT 21 1912 D/O PAUL & MAY OPITZ	J.T. WALKER JUL 17 1883 - FEB 18 1910 WOODMEN OF THE WORLD PETTUS CAMP NO.402

THE NEWEST GRAVE WAS Houston E. Carpenter in 1970. There are many graves with Funeral Home markers that are now unreadable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the unmarked graves may be: Abercrombie S. M. 30 Dec 1821 - 21 Nov 1889 Barron Aaron Otto - 07 Oct 1945 age 53 (Funeral marker) Carpenter Lydia 05 Nov 1963 - Gatser Jake - Jul 1940 age 43 (Funeral marker) Kerr Infant son 18 Feb 1922 - 18 Feb 1922 s/o Mr. & Mrs. W.E. Kerr Kerr Vernia Marie - no dates (Funeral marker) Kerr Edward [19 Oct 1914]- 13 Jan 1973 age 58y 2m 25d Walker Amanda Mrs. 1848 - 18 May 1943 age 95 These are not now legible or marker is gone. The above unmarked graves were found in Mrs. W. Bernard Barber's extraction in 1975. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

~~~~~~ NOTE: Peggy is searching for her great-grandfather Richard A Rhoads, whose wife was Ella. On Richard's Death Certificate it stated that he was buried at "Holly Grove, Bryant". The cemetery board, said that Sardis was once considered a part of Bryant so she
checked out China Grove. Peggy didn't find their stones, unless they have unmarked graves.
Someone also told Peggy there is a "Holly Grove" Cem in Saline Co. If you know where
Holly Grove Cemetery might be, please contact either Peggy or Charlotte. It will be most appreciated.

Transcribed and Submitted 10 Jul 2000 by Peggy Gateley
Page formatted by Charlotte Curlee Ramsey Photos from the Charlotte Ramsey Collection - taken Jul 26, 2000


H.L. ABERCROMBIE OCT 02 1847 - JAN 06 1930	NANCY E ABERCROMBIE APR 24 1858 - MAR 15 1902


J.C. ABERCROMBIE DEC 16 1822 - FEB 28 1905	TOM ABERCROMBIE FEB 16 1894 - SEP 26 1894


HOUSTON E. CARPENTER JAN 25 1905 - NOV 05 1970	ANNIE MAY GILBERT MINER CARPENTER 1906 - 1933


DOROTHY C. CARPENTER SMITH SEP 22 1866 - OCT 28 1943	JULIE M(?) CARPENTER DEC 27 1852 - JUN 18 1898 MARRIED TO S.H. CARPENTER NOV 23, 1872


CATHERINE DEATON KERR FEB 15 1898 - JUN 09 1927 W/O BERT KERR	E.L. KERR FEB 25 1854 -JUL 18 1940


JANIE KERR & GARRETT LEE KERR 1890 - 1952 1882 - 1951	PVT. JAMES H KERR JAN 31 1919 - DEC 21 1944



These are unmarked graves with metal markers and someone put plants on the bottom one


From the two piles of rocks and others scattered over the cemetery, it suggests there were many more interred whose grave plots are now lost forever.