Morton Cemetery - Woodruff County, AR ***************************************************************** Submitted by: Kathy Jones Email: Feb 27 1999 USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free Information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Files may be printed or copied for Personal use only. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ***************************************************************** Morton Cemetery Directions: East of McCrory Hwy 64 abt. 6 miles, Hwy 269 north, abt 1/8 of a mile on the left in the middle of a field, on top of a hill, lies Morton cemetery. This cemetery is not keep very well, and as far as I know is not beening used any more. This cemetery is about 2 acres in size, however a lot of the stones are gone......This is a list of the stones that I found.... John W. Pohnka Jan 18 1843-- Oct 7 1915 AT REST MAMA Erna M. Dickerson Sept. 7 1890--Feb. 5 1979 Pitt Dickerson Nov. 29 1886--Jan 15 1936 Derrel Wayne Gingles Feb 25 1937--June 17 1937 We'll meet you in Heaven Mary Smith Nov. 17 1863--Apr. 9 1917 The Lovely Flower has Faded... W.B. (Nub) Smith June 11 1897--Apr 12 1960 MOTHER Edna Warring May 7 1897--Aug 26 1976 Susie Haynes Wife of F.M. Gandy Feb. 7 1887--Oct. 26 1918 Infant son of A.J. & A.D COLE Born and Died Sept. 10 1927 Gone to be an Angel James Henery Simmons Sept 17 1866--Feb 3 1930 John O. Simmons 1918--1936 Victoria Cain Mitchell July 27 1886--June 26 1940 Audrey A. Cain Aug. 21 1910--May 29 1986 Mother of Cleo & Harlin Cain Harlin Cain Oct 11 1933--Jan 20 1952 He waits for us in Heaven Added note: (He was killed at Morton by a Train) Allen David Cain Grandfather of Cleo D. Cain 1877--1958 R.W. Humphereys Oct 19 1883--Mar 3 1936 Our Father at Rest Added note: (This stone is almost unreadable) John Holmes Died 1898 Added Note: (rest of this stone is broken off) James Buchanan Crissman sept. 5 1857--Aug 9 1930 There are a lot of broken stones that are pushed up to a tree at the back of the cemetery. There are none there that I could read. There are also allot of sunken graves everywhere, I would not try to walk over this cemetery while it is covered with weeds. I have a few relatives that are buried in this cemetery with unmarked graves....... Robert (Rob) Ridge Died July 27 1926 Son of Joe & Dovie Ridge (died at the age of 19 with a lung disease) Freeman Ridge know known dates died at the age of 4 (there is a Freeman Colston buried here as well. This Freeman is a 1/2 nephew of Freeman Ridge) Dorothy Gene Strange Feb.13 1931--Nov. 3 1931 Daughter of Fred and Callie(Ridge) Strange Dovie Rhodes Colston Ridge Jan 26 1912 age 39 Mother of Bryant Colston (She is the Mother of Freeman and Robert Ridge listed above) (She is the Grandmother of Freeman Colston listed above)