Mount Olive Cemetery

Joyland, Poinsett County, Arkansas

 

 

 

Located 4 miles south of Marked Tree, Arkansas at the junction

of Highways 149 and 322. 

 

Only eight visible graves were found on this day although there was evidence of several unmarked graves.  Additional entries have been added from an earlier survey for graves that are no longer marked.

 

Mount Olive Church is no longer standing.

 

Surveyed May 2001 by Wayne & Debbie Yates

 

 

 BLACKBURN, Benjamin J., born 1848, died 1923, "Honored By All"
Walter, Marianna, & Katherine
 
 BRONE, Ossel-Well, born 1893, died 1965
 
 CALDWELL, Beulah, born Oct. 25, 1900, died Aug. 9, 1973
 
 CALDWELL, T.C., born 1860, died 1936 - This stone not visible May 2001
 
 CALDWELL, Viola, born 1886, died May 28, 1950
 
 DOBBINS, Charlie, born Jan. 30, 1926, died Sep. 23, 1946
Arkansas Tec 5 Constr BNC World War II
 
 DOBBINS, Sam Ellis, born Sep. 25, 1923, died Dec. 30, 1952
Arkansas Pvt. 4050 Area SVC Unit Korea
 
 DOBBINS, Thomas, Sr., born 1917, died 2001
Woodard Funeral Home, Marked Tree
 
 LOWELL, (?), born 1860, died Aug. 22, 1936 - This stone not visible May 2001
 
 MURRY, Alice, born 1867, died 1973
 
* RICHARDSON, Retha Oxley, died Dec. 4, 1930, Phillips County, AR
(Unmarked, born 1902 in Greenville, NC – wife of Marshall Richardson))
Information from Carmen Hammons
 

 

 

© Deborah Lunsford Yates, 2000 – 2006

Last Updated Saturday, June 17, 2006