Arkansas Ties ... A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That, and a Whole Lot of Arkansas

Holly Grove Cemetery & Site of Methodist Church Desha County, Arkansas   Holly Grove Cemetery and Site of Methodist Church William Fletcher Trippe donated 2 1/2 acres of land on either side of Crooked Bayou Road for a Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery about 1859. Holly trees along this early trace gave the site its name. The church was organized in 1861 in a building on the east side. James M. See was pastor and A.B. Winfield presiding elder. Some of the early members were Mary Elizabeth (McGehee) Trippe, her brother Benjamin McGehee and Mary Frances (Halley) his wife. The church was active until about 1905. The building was then used as a school until it burned in 1913. The cemetery is still used by old families.