Date: 05/16/2001
Cemetery: Davies Cemetery
Established: 1836
Street: Lakehall Road, nearest Hwy 144, SSW of Stewart's Island
and Whiskey Chute, east of Lake Chicot
Type: Road-public
City: Lake Village
Township: "Old River Lake"
County: Chicot
State: Arkansas
Nation: United States
Zip: 71653
Nearby: DeYampert Road (not marked), or Hwy 144, Lake Chicot
State Park
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Flat
Water: Yes
Features:
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: 14
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: No
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: Unknown
Oldest grave: 1837
Newest grave: 1929
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Arkansas Register of Historic Places
nomination, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, 1998
Condition: Cemetery vandalized
Vandalized: Yes
Police report: No
VA: Gravestones-Overturned
VA: Gravestones-Broken
VA: Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Vegetation: Vines
Drainage: Constant problem
Problem: Restricted access
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: Work underway - No noticeable improvements as of yet
Owner: Private
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: Unknown
Contacted: AR Historic Preservation Program; Owner: John B.
Currie Sr.; Museum of Chicot County
Other Information
Listed on Arkansas Register of Historic Places.
Iron fence imported from New Orleans bef. 1850. Above ground
graves/tombs disintegrating, covered with concrete slabs c. 1900.
Cemetery is currently ineligible for National Register listing because
of overgrowth and the condition of architectural features.
Support
Museum of Chicot County Arkansas, Dorothy
Douglas (dwd@ipa.net)
Submitted by:
name: Frances Carner
Email: fcarner@bellsouth.net
