Lee County, Arkansas Cemeteries

James Harrison Hill Family Cemetery

Felton, Arkansas

Location: This cemetery is 3 miles north of Marianna on the east side of Hwy 1. Here is a satellite picture of the area where the cemetery was next to a “Y” shaped ravine.

Monty Hill submitted this cemetery on October 23, 2005. He only recently learned of the whereabouts of the cemetery after finding a letter to his Uncle from his Great Uncle. Unfortunately, the headstones have ended up in the ravine. Therefore, there is no way to confirm who was actually buried there other than his Great-Grandfather, James Harrison Hill, and his wife, Ida Lee Jones Hill, and presumably his first wife, Mary Caroline Smith. It is “assumed” that since Ida’s family owned the property previously, that this might also be the final resting place of her parents. Monty has found two letters which identified the grave site, but didn’t list all of the people. All the people who would know who was buried there are long deceased. The land is called “Felton” on the map, but was previously known as the Hill plantation.

James Harrison Hill was born in 1848 in Hardeman County, Tennessee, son of Robert A. Hill of Madison County, Alabama. James Harrison Hill married into the family who donated the land which later became Marianna. Mary Ann Martin Harland, from which Marianna got its name, was Ida’s grandmother. Here is a photo of Ida Lee Hill, James Harrison Hill, and Sybilla Hill (daughter of Mary Caroline Smith Hill) circa 1880.

If you know of anyone else buried here, and would like to add their name, please contact me. The information presented is as correct as possible, however you may want to verify its accurateness.

* Information taken from various cemetery books

** No Marker – information was submitted by person noted

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HILL, Ernst – 1885 (3 months)

HILL, Florence – 1875 – 1901

HILL, Ida Lee Jones – 1903 (2^nd wife; influenza)

HILL, James Harrison – 1848 – 1912 (influenza)

HILL, Mary Caroline Smith – 1887 (1^st wife; yellow fever)

HILL, Nancy – 1872 – 1905

HILL, Sibellya – 1870 – 1906 (small pox)

JONES, James K. – 10/11/1808 – 10/14/1857 age 49 yrs 3 days

JONES, Jessie Mattie – 1/15/1887 – 11/21/1887 age 10 mos (daughter of WB and Lydia A. Jones, 3rd wife)

JONES, Joseph B. – 10/10/1874 – 2/3/1875 (son of William B. and Margaret Elizabeth Jones)

JONES, Margaret Elizabeth Findley – 8/6/1846 – 8/21/1880 (2nd wife of William B.)

JONES, Susan E. Findley – 1841 – 1/26/1863 – age 21 yrs 3 mos 7 days (1st wife of W B)

Mary Ann Harland was married to Daniel Martin first and had two daughters: Mary Ann Francis who married an Avis in 1845 and Sarah C. Martin who married James K. Jones. Sarah C. had a son named William B. who had a daughter named Ida Lee Jones and she married a Hill. The deed to land sold for City of Marianna Harvey B. Harland, Mary Ann Harland, Sarah C. Jones, and Mary Ann Martin's names are listed although it appears Mary Ann Martin died between 1845 and 1849 when the land was sold.

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