Washington County, AR-Gollahar-Peerson Cemetery
Submitted by Kenneth Dunlap-k.e.dunlap@att.net
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Gollahar-Peerson Cemetery

The Gollahar-Peerson Cemetery has been copied from the "Flashback" Bol. VIII,
No. 5, September 1958 with the permission of the Washington County Historical
Society.  This small cemetery is located in the SW quarter of Sec. 29, Twp. 16,
Range 30, about 3 miles southwest of Fayetteville, and about 1/2 miles east of
the Old Wire Road, on a farm now owned by E.E. Anglin.  The identifiable graves
are as follows:

CARTER, James G.  October 3, 1869-June 10 1883 or 1893
GOLLAHAR, Henry**  October 5, 1814-September 24, 1878
GOLLAHAR, Lafayette  January 24, 1856-April 5, 1888
GOLLAHAR, Wesley   Nobember 8, 1861-October 17, 1897
PEERSON, Andrew Jackson  March 28, 1852-August 12, 1853
PEERSON, Easter  October 10, 1818-June 21, 1896
PEERSON, Anna  April 18, 1861-December 12, 1897
PEERSON, John A.*  December 10, 1845-October 22, 1882

A small number of other graves are marked by only plain flag-stones.  Other
graves are unmarked.

*John A. PEERSON once owned a large farm near Greenland.  He married Miss
Lucinda Tennessee Gilliland, member of the well known Gilliland family. 
Their children were Paris, Powell, George, Robert and Laura Peerson.  After 
the death of her husband in 1882, Mrs. Peerson married Alexander Parker in 
1885.  Their children were Clara and Clarence Parker (twins) and Homer and
Virgil Parker (also twins).

**Henry GOLLAHAR was the great-grandfather of County Judge Bruce Crider,
and Lafayetter was Mr. Crider's grandfather.

One member of the Peerson family, E.P. Peerson, owned a store at Greenland at
the time the village was called Staunton for a short time.
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