Cemeteries of Poinsett County

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Cemetery	Surveyed	*GPS Loc.	Township &/or City	Notes & Comments
Ainsworth	Yes	N35  34.486 W090  42.717	Bolivar Twp., Harrisburg	AKA Ainsworth-Spencer Cemetery
Bay Village	Yes	N35  26.651 W090  40.505	Bay Village, AR Cross County	Just across the Poinsett Co. line on Hywy 163 S
Bethel (Map)	Yes	N35  31.980 W090  42.719	Scott Twp., Harrisburg	AKA Harris Cemetery
Bolivar (Map)	Yes	N35  36.361 W090  41.395	Bolivar Twp., Harrisburg
Brookfield	No	No	Bolivar Twp.
Brooner	Yes	No	Prairie Twp., Weiner
Brushey Creek	No	No
Cherry Beam (Map)	No	N35  28.528 W090  22.306	Tyronza	Black Cemetery (Cherry Beam is a corruption of CHERUBIM)
Clampit	Yes	N35  28.212 W090  43.506	Scott Twp.	Once was known as the Bedwell Cemetery
Clark (Map)	Yes	N35  38.726 W091  01.284	Dobson Twp., Uno
Conatser (Map)	Yes	N35  35.07 W090  17.57	Lepanto
Davis Spur (Map)	Yes	N35  44.041 W090  33.110	Bay, AR Craighead County	Black Cemetery AKA Saint Pauls Cem.
Dead Timber Lake	No	No	Tyronza Twp.
Dunn (Map)	No	N35  30.85 W090  17.26	Tyronza
East (Map)	Yes	N35  28.783 W090  21.788	Tyronza
Emory Chapel	Yes	N35  31.591 W090  20.693	Tyronza	Black Cemetery - AKA Carpenter Cem.
Farm Hill (Map)	Yes	N35  30.221 W090  43.111	Scott Twp., Harrisburg
Fisher	Yes	N35  29.837 W090  58.235	Fisher
First United Methodist Church	Yes	N35  33.546 W90  42.781	Bolivar Twp., Harrisburg	AKA The Old Harrisburg City Cemetery or Hill Road Cemetery
Galilee	No	N35  26.323 W090  23.123	Tyronza	Black Cemetery
Gardem Point [1]  & Garden Point [2]	Yes	N35  41.986 W090  14.374	Etowah, AR Mississippi County	East of Lepanto on Hywy 140
Greenwood (Map)	Yes	N35  36.220 W090  19.629	Greenwood Twp., Lepanto
Harris (Map)	No	N35  32.301 W090  43.001	Bolivar Twp., Harrisburg	AKA Add Harris Cemetery
Harrisburg Memorial Park (Map)	Yes	N35  33.784 W090  42.169	Bolivar Twp., Harrisburg	AKA Harrisburg Cemetery
Hays	No	No	Scott Twp.
Hazel	No	N35  32.955 W090  23.123
Holloway	Yes	N35  42.468 W091  00.807		Craighead/Poinsett County Line runs through the middle of this cemetery
Holly Springs (Map)	Yes	N35  35.424 W090  40.792	Bolivar Twp., Harrisburg
Houston (Map)	Yes	N35  40.07 W090  41.01	Greenfield	Orginally known as the Buffalo Lick Cemetery
Judd Hill	Yes	N35  35.841 W090  31.186	Judd Hill	Black Cemetery
Lewis	Yes	N35  22.063 W090  58.565	Hickory Ridge, Cross Co.
Little River	Yes	N35  34.264 W090  23.301	bet. Marked Tree and Lepanto	Black Cemetery AKA Pilgrim Rest
Marked Tree (Map)	Yes	N35  31.356 W090  25.861	Little River Twp.
Marked Tree Civic	No	N35  31.890 W090  24.759	Little River Twp.	Black Cemetery

MISCELLANEOUS POINSETT COUNTY BURIAL SITES

Mike Hale's Farm

Cemetery	Surveyed	*GPS Loc.	Township &/or City	Notes & Comments
Mount Olive (Map)	No	N35  29.036 W090  24.738	Joyland	Black Cemetery
Mount Pisgah (Map)	Yes	N35  43.264 W090  40.603	Craighead Co.*	*
Mount Zion (Map)	No	N35  28.991 W090  19.388	Tyronza	Black Cemetery AKA Steel Bridge Cemetery
New Bethel (Map)	No	N35  26.718 W090  17.808	Tyronza (Deckerville)	Black Cemetery AKA McClelland Cemetery
Newsom (Map)	Yes	N35 32.018 W090 42.215	Scott Twp., Harrisburg
Nichols (Map)	Yes	N35  35.549 W090  22.685	Greenwood Twp.
Oak Grove	Yes	N35  37.326 W090  54.350	West Prairie Twp., Weiner	AKA Weiner Cemetery
Otwell	Yes	N35  44.040 W090  50.951	Otwell, Craighead Co.
Pine Rest (Map)	Yes	N35  36.203 W090  20.161	Greenwood Twp., Lepanto	Black cemetery
Potter Memorial (Map)	Yes	N35  36.947 W090  20.674	Greenwood Twp., Lepanto	AKA Lepanto City Cemetery
Red	Yes	N35  45.144 W090  58.519	Risher, Craighead Co.	2 miles NE of Holloway Cemetery
Riverview	Yes	N35  33.202 W090  24.188	Marked Tree	Black Cemetery
Rock of Ages (Map)	Yes	N35  31.028 W090  21.486	Tyronza	Black Cemetery
Saint Anthony	Yes	N35  37.210 W090  54.279	West Prairie Twp., Weiner
Scott	Yes	No	West Prairie Twp., Weiner	AKA Moyers Cemetery
Shiloh	Yes	N35  29.903 W090  40.830	Scott Twp.
Spear Lake (Map)	Yes	N35  33.52 W090  19.362	Greenwood Twp., Lepanto
Smith	Yes
Spencer (Map)	No	N35  33.546 W090  42.69	Harrisburg	Believed to be the same burial site as the Ainsworth Cemetery
Stancell	No	No	Scott Twp.
Stone	No	No	Bolivar Twp.
Tackett	Yes	N35  34.722 W090  18.003	Lepanto
Tulot (Map)	Yes	N35  37.211 W090  29.004	Willis Twp., Tulot	Black Cemetery AKA Rising Sun Cemetery
Tyer (Map)	Yes	N35  26.775 W090  43.894	Scott Twp.	AKA Hydrick Cemetery, Tyre Cemetery, or County Line Cemetery
Tyronza (Map)	No	N35  28.987 W090  22.814	Tyronza	AKA East Tyronza Cemetery or Webber Cemetery
Waldenburg	Yes	N35  33.776 W090  56.221	Owen Twp., Waldenburg
Walker (Map)	Yes	N35  41.284 W090  58.178
Ward	Yes	N35  31.919 W090  15.753	Whitton Twp.	Mississippi Co.
White	Yes	N35  42.712 W090  39.596	Craighead Co.	1/2 mile north of Craighead/Poinsett County Line on State Hwy 163S
Whitehall	No	No	Scott Twp.
Whitton	No	N35  30.431 W090  16.399	Whitton Twp.	Mississippi Co., AR
Willis (Map)	Yes	N35  39.662 W090  40.174	Greenfield Twp.
Wilson (Map)	Yes	N35  38.76 W090  41.59	Greenfield Twp.	AKA Bevens Cemetery or Houston Cemetery
Wilson	Yes	N35  42.813 W090  28.616	Lunsford Twp.*, Craighead Co.	*Near Trumann, Poinsett Co., AR**
Woolsey (Map)	No	N35  34.21 W090  18.14	Lepanto
Wyatts (Map)	No	N35  28.72 W090  55.12	Hickory Ridge
Zion (Map)	No	N35  33.78 W090  56.24	Weiner

*Cemetery locations were taken from a Global Positioning System receiver which displays the longitude/latitude coordinates via satellites.

**This Wilson Cemetery is not in Poinsett County, but in Craighead County. Most of the people buried there are from Trumann, Poinsett County, AR.

Trumann has never had a cemetery because of its history of floods.