Sawyer Cemetery, Blytheville, Mississippi County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Bert Fowler Date: September 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Transcribed by Cheryl Cummings on: May 10, 1999 Located in the Southeast part of Blytheville, AR on Ruddle Road, this cemetery had been abandoned had overgrown with bushes and briars. In the 1940's a group of people cleaned it up and hauled away all of the broken stones leaving several concrete bases that are still scattered throughout the cemetery. The following is a partial list of some of the inscriptions from the stones that still remain in the cemetery. Several stones are laying face down and in bad condition. Mr. & Mrs. H.J. Wade and their daughter-in-law Ophelia Richardson Wade copied this cemetery on October 1, 1968. ?.W. Alley, 1918-1919 Gladys M. Anderson, Mar 27, 1923-May 21, 1917 Carrie, dau of J.T. & M.F. Austin, born and died July 6, 1908 C.W., son of B.W. & C.B. Beacham, July 21, 1892-Feb 19, 1912 ?na, dau of B.W. & C.B. Beacham, May 21, 1909-Sept 13, 1910 Inf son of J.B. & T.A. Betts, Feb 14, 1917-Mar 13, 1917 ?ary, dau of C.L. & M.J. Bohaning, Sept 23, 1915 ?ra, Jr., son of I.H. & L.J. Bohaning, Feb 24, 1922-Mar 17, 1922 ?rank Burnine, April 9, 1848-Nov 10, 1917 ?mos, son of F.M. & M.L. Burnine, June 28, 1900-Feb 20, 1912 ?izzie Burton 1859-1933 Elmer D. son of C.L. & E.J. Capps, May 15, 1910-April 5, 1912 (this inscription on the same tombstone of Ruby Lee Webster) ?ella T. Carter, Nov 29, 1875 - Aug 20, 1928 ?osmer C. Carter, Apr 30, 1905 - Jan 11, 1929 ?annie, wife of J.C. Chipman, July 12, 1872-May 18, 1911 ?attie Ethel, dau of G.W. & L.M. Cobb, May 13, 1906-Sept 4, 1908 Stella Deason, Feb 25, 1892-Dec 17, 1909 Alvin Willie, son of S.L. & M.A. Gaines, Mar 4, 1911-June 27, 1911 Pearl, son of S.L. & M.A. Gaines, Mar 4, 1911-June 27, 1911 ?., son of H.C. & E. Gaines, Jan 11, 1917-Sept 7, 1918 ?assie Hargett, ARKANSAS PVT AM TN 38 DIV, Jan 8, 1924 Cecil Hayes, Aug 22, 1902-Oct 30, 1913