This
is
Union
Cemetery on Little Piney in Johnson Co. Ar. near where the little community of Mt. Levi was.
Why the two names? Probably because when the small 4th class postoffices were establshed many of them used the home of the postmaster for the office. Mt. Levi was moved from a mountain to the creek area where the cemetery and the school were already named Union. Settlers moved into the area in the 1830's. The Cox family were among the first and the oldest moument is that of a Mary Cox, born and died Feb 14, 1844. Note the concrete stones in the second picture. It shows where members of a Griffith family are buried. Orginially these graves were marked with rocks. In the 1940's a group of ladies who called themselves the Sunshine Birthday Club took on the project of making markers for the graves where the families could identify the burial plots of their loved ones. At least half of the graves are still marked with rocks and no identification and no one knows how many no longer have rocks to mark the plots.
Why the two names? Probably because when the small 4th class postoffices were establshed many of them used the home of the postmaster for the office. Mt. Levi was moved from a mountain to the creek area where the cemetery and the school were already named Union. Settlers moved into the area in the 1830's. The Cox family were among the first and the oldest moument is that of a Mary Cox, born and died Feb 14, 1844. Note the concrete stones in the second picture. It shows where members of a Griffith family are buried. Orginially these graves were marked with rocks. In the 1940's a group of ladies who called themselves the Sunshine Birthday Club took on the project of making markers for the graves where the families could identify the burial plots of their loved ones. At least half of the graves are still marked with rocks and no identification and no one knows how many no longer have rocks to mark the plots.
The third photo is the grave of James White and his second wife Lucinda Johnson Skaggs whose picture is featured in my first blog this year. In the background members of the Beasley family are buried. The first photo shows Skaggs and Warren families. These graves are only one end of the cemetery. Relation of these families donate to pay for repairs, weedeating, spraying and relation of the Hicks and Beasley family mowed this year. Repair of a few of the broken stones is next, and plans for a meeting to incoporate are being made. This is an important part of what we are and it must be preserved now. In these graves are relatives, friends and neighbors who divided in the Civil War, then renewed their relationships and went on with their lives. Today they lie in rest in this beautiful spot of God's world.
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