Date: June
19,2001
Cemetery: Emerson Cemetery
Established: 1888
Street: Near County Road # 421
Type: Road-public
City: Near Clinton, AR, near Scotland Community (near the old
Peggy Koone place)
Township: Wheeler
County: VanBuren
State: Arkansas
Nation:
Zip:
Nearby: County Road #421
Location: Rural-mixed
Land: Hillside
Watersource: Yes
Features: Unknown
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: Wall
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Gravestones: 35
Oldest: 1888
Newest: 1944
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Buried: Unsure
Removed: Unknown
Weather problems: Unknown
Pollution problems: Unknown
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Records location: VanBuren County Historical Society has
inventoried and listed this cemetery in their 1993 book "Cemeteries
of VanBuren County, Arkansas"
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Vandalized:
Overgrowth: Problem-Access
Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Vegetation: Vines
Drainage: Seasonal problem
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Restoration: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Woods
Change: Unknown
Reason:
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Contacted: I have talked to some local members of the Emerson
family and to staff at the Historical Society Museum in Clinton.
Other Information
This cemetery is the burial site of Henry
Columbus Emerson who was a well known and respected citizen of Van Buren
County. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1890 and served in
the session of 1891. His son Dick Emerson erected a memorial to Henry
and his drowned family in the 1950's. It is my understanding that the
Little Red River has eroded the roads that take you to this cemetery and
that it is very difficult to reach at this time. The cemetery borders on
the property of Cephus Waddle and is also known to the Koone family and
various members of the Emerson family, including Grady Emerson of
Clinton, and Carlos Emerson of Hector, AR.
Support
Submitted by:
name: Darlene Emerson Castle
Email: Mutleybron@aol.com
