Paradise / Poison Spring Cemetery, Ouachita County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Jerry McKelvy Date: 3 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** PARADISE CEMETERY This record made December, 1996 by Jerry McKelvy. This cemetery is in Section 36 of Township 12 South, Range 19 West in the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4. It is north of Hwy. 76 about two miles from Hwy. 24. At the time this record was made, an old gate could be found on the trail off the highway. The cemetery is on top of a hill not far from the gate and within sight of the highway. A sign near the highway identifies this cemetery as Poison Spring Cemetery. According to an article in the Ouachita County Library, information about this cemetery was obtained from an old black gentleman who remembered in being called the Paradise Cemetery. A “sanctified” black church existed here. He had memories of coal being mined in a tunnel which ran underneath the present Hwy. 76. He also remembered many homemade wooden markers which marked graves at this location. This area is covered with mature timber at this time and only one grave marker was found that could be identified. Other graves are marked with rocks. There are probably many lost graves at this location. S. G. Goodlett – b. 1815 --- d. 1868