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Cemetery: Hughes Cemetery
Other: aka County Cemetery, aka
Potter's Field
Sign: No
Street: off
Woodlawn
City: Benton
Township:
County:
Saline
State: AR
Nation: USA
Zip:
72015
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
343248
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
0923547
Status: Active
Size: Medium
Directions:
Directions from the Saline County Court House: Take Market Street to Woodlawn,
turn right, cross the railroad tracks and turn back to the right. The cemetery
is located on the old Hughes farm, two (2) miles Southwest of the Court
House.
Type: Road-public
Location:
Surburban
Terrain: Level
Watersource: Yes
Features:
surrounded by trees, many trees (volunteers) have grown throughout the cemetery,
including within family plot boundaries
Property:
Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate:
None
Established: cannot document as of yet, but oldest documented grave
per survey is February 9, 1872
Gravestones: minimum of
150-200+
Oldest: February 9, 1872
Newest:
2003
Removed: Yes
Relocated: No
Repairs:
No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: Yes
Association:
No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Yes
Availability: Mrs. W.
Bernard Barber, 1975 "Saline County Cemeteries" Section V -Saline Co.
Sesquicentennial Project, DAR
Landscaping: Unsure
Paths:
Yes
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing:
Yes
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: Yes
Sculpture:
Yes
Fountains: No
Roads: Yes
Buildings:
No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Unsure
Marble:
Yes
Native: Unsure
Slate: Unsure
Others:
Yes
Wood: Unsure
Materials: Yes
Architectural:
Yes
Angels: Yes
Draperies: Yes
Fraternal:
Yes
Hands: Yes
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms:
Yes
Plants: Yes
Photos: Unsure
Religious:
Yes
Scrollwork: Yes
Urns: Unsure
Carvings:
Yes
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked:
Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating:
Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Unknown
Pollution:
No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: Yes
VA1:
Gravestones-Overturned
VA2: Gravestones-Broken
VA3:
Gravestones-Stolen
VA4: Graffiti
VA5:
Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4: Gravestones-Damaging
GroundCover:
Yes
Moss:
Vines: Yes
Drainage:
Problem-Seasonal
Problem1:
Problem2:
Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Industrial
Bordering: Industrial
Change:
Unknown
Reason: Industrial
Visited:
Rarely
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted:
City and County Officials - dilemma is proving ownership. Believed to be County,
but no documentation so far. Officials have been kind, but have not been able to
determine ownership, hence, responsibility. But all evidence says Saline County
owns this property.
Surnames:
Avery Barksdale Blair Brown Burn Bursey
Candy Coleman Crippen Danner Davis Diles Bridges Edgin Ellerd Fagan Fitz Gleason
Gray Green Harper Harris Hawk Hendrix Hodge Ingram Jeffery Jentsch Jentzsch
Jimerson Johnson Joles Jones Lawrence Lindsey
McDaniel McGee Martin Merritt
Moore Murphy Ogles Onild Peffer Perry Poe Pratt Reed Reynolds Rhinehart Richards
Rinehart Rupp Russel Rye Smith Spencer Steele Sugrue Taylor Thompson Tyson
Underwood Walsh Westerman Willis Wilson Witham
Woodfork
Other_Information:
Several iron gated family plots with
ornate stones, but are not accessible because of overgrowth and damged gates;
there are several W.O.W. headstones; many African Americans buried here did not
have sufficient markers with dates - only names; some homemade markers; used as
a paupers' cemetery in the latter 1900s, so many recent graves are marked only
by flowers and metal funeral markers
Support:
Judge Lanny Fite,
Saline County Judge
j_ballard@salinecounty.org
Saline
County Courthouse
200 N. Main - Room 117
Benton, AR 72015
Phone:
501-303-5640
Fax: 501-303-5682
Submitted by:
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Name: Judy Mason
Email: j_udy_mason@sbcglobal.net
Date:
10 May 2004
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