Byrd Cemetery, Pope County, AR

***********************************************************
Submitted by: Lina Boyd <lina jane boyd @ hotmail . com>
        Date: 26 Oct 2008
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
***********************************************************

  This old abandoned cemetery is supposed to be located across the Illinois Bayou,
northwest of the old Cobb Cemetery on Pine Hill. This is a family cemetery of
one of old Reverend Mahlon Bewley’s son-in-law. Most of it has been washed away
by the waters of the Illinois Bayou, with only six graves left.
  All have native sandstone markers, with no names or dates. In 1970, it was
listed as all grown up and almost impossible to get to. I did not find this one.
I assume that it is located across the Illinois Bayou at the lower end of the
Bewley Hole. The creek has changed it’s course somewhat at the lowere shoal in
the past few years. I did not attempt to cross the creek, so your guess is as
good as mine as to the cemetery still being in existance.

The only marriage listing I found in Pope County Marriage Records was:
William BYRD age 18 to Rebecca BEWLEY age 19 on 07 Feb 1875 Book D page 372 Pope
Co. This would be the daughter of Rev. Mahlan Bewley.