Cecil Cemetery, Kingston, Madison County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Robert and Rosa Cline Date: 31 May 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** transcribed April 2001 updated Oct 2003 This cemetery is a small older family cemetery. All the headstones are old and fading and some you can't read, and some just are rocks. There are two out there that are newer graves and they are relatives of the people living by the cemetery. To get to this cemetery. From Kingsotn Square turn on Highway 21, the cemetery is located in a field almost right behind the fire dept/library building. To get to it you turn on the first road (which is dirt) after the fire department. There are five rocks out there or slabs without writting. UPDATED INFORMATION: The information below I received by e-mail from John and Mary Cecil's great great granddaughter. Take the added information only as a guide line in your research as I have no way of verifying correct informatoin... Only sharing what I know..... NOTE: I mistakenly left out one headstone when I originally transcribed this cemetery. This should now be a complete cemetery listing of everyone that has a stone. -though I've been told that there possibly are many without stones. There are several stories behind this cemetery one being said that it never has been very big.. the other saying it onced had over 50 people there. Either way... the below is a completed transcription of all the headstones.... Ewell Henry Beard Jefferson Davis Carroll J.C. Cecil John Edmond Cecil Joseph James Pinkley Springs Cecil John Cecil M.C. Cecil Mary Cecil * William Cecil Jeremy Weaver ************************ ---erson Davis Carroll son of John Carroll born -------- 1861 died June 1881 at Kingston (This is Jefferson Davis Carroll, he was the son of John Carroll Jefferson was born Sept 25, 1861 and murdered on June 24, 1881 in Kingston, AR.) ******************* J.C. son of O.T. & M.A. Cecil died Aug. 2, 1879 age 1 yr 4 mths 24 dys. ******************** J.J.P. Cecil died Oct. 15, 1873 aged 15 yrs. 5 mths. 6 days blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for they shall see God. (This is Joseph James Pinkley Springs Cecil son of John Cecil and Mary Davis Cecil) ********************* J.E. son of S.O. & W. D. Cecil died Sept. 28, 1878 aged 5 yrs 8 mths 3 days (This is John Edmond Cecil he was the second son of Sarah Olive Hedgepeth Cecil and William Hiram Cecil) ********************* M.C. dau of S.O. and W. D. Cecil died Nov. 5, 1878 age 1 mth 1 day ******************** father John Cecil died June 1, 1884 age 62 yrs 1 mth 24 days mother Mary A. Cecil died Feb.28, 1884 age 59 yrs. 20 days. (this had some more writting but was unreadable) ( The writting says "A loving father and mother dear, Two faithful friends lie buried here." John was the oldest son of Joseph Cecil and Margaret Cecil. He served in the Confederate Army, Brooks Batallion...later leading a band of guerilla forces in Arkansas) **************************** William S. son of W.H. & S.O. Cecil BORN June 3, 1887 DIED Sep 16, 1888 Gone to the (rest unreadable) (NOTE: I mistakenly left his stone out in my original transcription... ) ************************* Ewell Henry Beard born June 26, 1920 died Nov. 20, 2000 age 80 Brashears Funeral Home Huntsville, Arkansas (he doesn't have a headstone yet only the funeral home marker) (I have his obit. He is the son of Aubrey and Ada Wharton Beard) *************************** Walking the hills of Glory Jeremy Weaver b. Sept. 16, 1977 d. Feb. 12, 1993 (the headstone has his picture and engraved picture of forest with deer and quail) (he is the son of Frank and Beth Weaver. He died from some sort of cancer.) (Ewell Henry Beard and Jeremy Weaver are grandpa and grandson.) ******************************