0071 - Ebenezer Cemetery
Pulaski County, Arkansas
 
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Boyd, ?orcas L.
Boyd, Unknown
Boyd, ?enor
Carmical, Sallie Boyd
Boyd, Martha McGraw
Boyd, Jesse William
E, T.W.

I don't have much info on this cemetery but the following is from Bill Bigger.  If you have more information, you can contact him or Pris and I will be glad to post it here.

 

You may wish to have this information for your cemetery genealogical work.  This cemetery is about 200 yards off the road within the property of a residence.      Bill Bigger  

 

Notes on Ebenezer Presbyterian Church Cemetery outside Jacksonville, Ark.  By Wm. Roy Bigger, Jr.  March 2001  

 

 

Marked graves: 

Jesse William Boyd     Pvt. Company B, 6th Miss. Cavalry, CSA  2 Dec 1845-7 Mar 1891

 

Joseph T. (J?) Boyd  Capt. Company E, Miss. Militia CSA  21 May 1821-1 May 1876

                          

Martha McGraw Boyd 1820 –1902 (Is wife of Capt. Boyd & mother of Pvt. Jesse)

 

Unmarked graves:  Many. 

 

I am convinced my gggrandmother Mary Smith Hill Wood, widow of James Hamilton Wood and mother of James Dempsey Wood (buried in Bayou Meto cemetery) was buried here in 1887.  Also, I am convinced my grandfather Wm. Simril Bigger 1867-1899 is buried here, probably next to Mary.  My grandfather’s casket had to be weighted with stones to get it to go in the grave and Ebenezer certainly qualifies on that geographical item 

 

According to Mr. Virgil Johnson who lives on Peters road near Ebenezer Cemetery:  Mr. Johnson was born near here 1907 and has spent his life here; he lives on Peters Road near the cemetery.  Quotations not verbatim:

 

Ebenezer Pres. Church burned; last person buried in the cemetery about 1920: “a teenage girl, I think”.  “The road used to have a different route”.  The school was uphill from the church, and the church was uphill from the cemetery; the church front door was (downhill) toward the cemetery.  Today (year 2000) there exists a concrete well housing about 4’ high and 4’ in diameter, circular, where school children dipped drinking water – the well was in the schoolyard. This structure is about 10’ off the roadway, on the (north?) uphill side directly across from the cemetery, and is easily visible from the roadway.  

 

Photographed March 3, 2002 by Randy Picard and Pris Weathers 

 

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