This cemetery is in Section 3, Township 14North, Range 20West. Located on U.S.
Forest Service land along side of the old road down the top of Holt Mountain
Often called "Ricketts Cemetery on Holt Mountain"
There are several unmarked graves in this cemetery.
| NAME | BIRTH DATE | DEATH DATE | PARENTS | SPOUSE | NOTES |
| CHEATHAM, Mary Loria Alice "Laura" | 17Nov1877 | 18Sept1897 | William S. & Sarah Smith Ricketts | William Thomas "Tommy" Cheatham | m:10Jan1892(pg155)Newton County | COLLINS, Child | 23Apr1928 | 23Apr1928 | Ernie & Wilma Kelly Collins |
| COLLINS, Lester "Leck" | 9Jan1905 | 25Mar1928 | Sally Burdine | Shot & killed by a Pelham | |
| DOTSON, Ernest Dewayne | Jan1949 | Feb1949 | Pearlie Dotson Campbell | ||
| DOTSON, Sam | Dec 1888 | 1918 | Thomas E. & Mary Sexton Dotson | Dora Burdine | m: 30Dec1906 in Johnson County, Arkansas |
| HARRIS, Louisa Anna | Jan1843 | 4Feb1901 | William & Mary Harmonson Robinson | No. 2 wife William G. Harris | buried in unmarked grave. Info.Civil War Pension |
| HARRIS, Washington Hoyle | 24Aug1875 | ca 1906 | William G Harris & Louisa Anna Robinson | Amanda Gladden | Thought to be buried here in unmarked grave? |
| NICHOLS,infant son | 28Aug1895 | 28Aug1895 | John Jerome & Eliza Sexton Nichols | ||
| NICHOLS, "old John" | 1Apr1802 | 1June1885 | (possible David Nichols) | married 3 times | Margaret(mnu);Margaret(mnu);Martha Pickett Burdine |
| NICHOLS, John Jerome | 9Aug1863 | 15Aug1919 | William B & Polly Taylor Nichols | Eliza Sexton | m:27Nov1889 Newton County |
| NICHOLS, Margaret | (ca1800) | (after 1880) | (unknown maiden name) | (2nd wife? of "old John" Nichols) | buried along side road to Holt Mt.Cemetery |
| NICHOLS, Polly Taylor | (ca 1833 in TN) | (after 1910) | Taylor | William B Nichols | m:ca 1862 Newton Co.AR. |
| NICHOLS, William B."Willie" | (ca 1843 in TN) | (after 1910) | Old John & Margaret Nichols | (Polly Taylor) | (m:ca1862 Newton Co.AR.) |
| RICKETTS, Malinda | 1858 | 1858 stillborn | Stephen & Tabatha Ann Nichols Ricketts | ||
| RICKETTS,Tabitha Ann | 1823in TN | 1858 | "Old John" Nichols and unknown wife No.1 | Stephen Ricketts; m:ca1848 | my husband's gr-gr-grandparents |
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Evelyn Flood
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