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POOLE   CEMETERY  

Est. ca 1898

North of New London, Union County, Arkansas

From a canvass done October 28, 1991 by Violet and Ralph O. Weldon.

Cemetery is fenced & well maintained.    Copied April 21, 2004.

*Added  Josh &  J.G. Gilliam; also 4 Poole names to  un-named markers.

Info provided by Nora M. Johnson  6/16/2005-2007.   Updated June 2009.

New survey &  update Oct 30, 2012.   Janice Holzer   jcsh432@gmail.com

 

*AKA  Cemetery also known as Thomas Peter Poole Family Cemetery.

 

*ARDI   death date from Arkansas Death Index 1914-1950

*SSDI   birth or death dates from Social Security Death Index

*MM     indicates Mortuary Marker

*WOW   Woodman of the World Marker

*OB      some or all info from  Obituary

 

 

EMERY  RALPH  CALAWAY   11-22-1930  to  12-13-1994

&  MARGARET  COLLMAN   CALAWAY   5-4-1924  *One date 

 

 

REBECCA  SUE  CATES   7-22-1967  to  5-7-2009

 

 

BEATRICE  POOLE  GILLIAM    8-18-1902  to  11-29-1964

JAMES  GILLIAM   1940  to  2001  *Hanner MM   *James mortuary marker

is stuck in the ground right next to Beatrice Poole's headstone.

 

HARRY  GILLIAM    1-28-1927  to  9-2-1942  

 

J. G.  GILLIAM   8-13-1925  to  6-27-1943

 

JOSH  GILLIAM    11-21-1895  to  3-22-1982 

*US Navy  S-2  WW I 

 

 

BEATRICE  HARTIEL  HILL   9-15-1911  to  10-21-1913

"Only Sleeping"

 

VELMA  JOHNSON  HILL    2-11-1891  to  1-21-1913

"Her Memory Is Blessed"

 

 

ELLIS  H.  JOHNSON    9-8-1851   to   9-10-1922  "Father"

"Kind father of love, thou art gone thy rest. Forever to bask mid the joys of the blest" (Mason)

&   MATILDA  JOHNSON   6-3 -1861  to  1-21-1901  "Mother"

"Rest, mother rest in quiet sleep,  While friends in sorrows o'er thee weep."

 

J.R.  JOHNSON    8-15-1888  to  10-8-1915

"The Precious One From Us Is Gone"

 

 

CARLTON  POOLE    4-28-1936  to  3-20-1952 

*S/of  Johnny Raymond Poole &  Josie Lucille Hogue

"Rest Is Thine Sweet Remembrance Ours"

 

CORA  JOHNSON  POOLE   1-7-1879  to  5-29-1942

THOMAS  GREENHOW  POOLE   9-21-1878  to  2-15-1958

 

HUEY  LONG  POOLE (78) 2-24-1934  to  10-09-2012  *ob 

*S/of  Johnny Raymond Poole & Josie Lucille Hogue  *Vet-Korea

*Wf/of  53 yrs, Joette B. Poole   (2012 – Perry's  MM)

 

IRENE  POOLE    8-6-1884  to  9-10-1898  

*D/of  T. P.  &  L. P. Poole  *First person buried in this cemetery.

 

JAMES  C.  "Jim"  POOLE (90)  8-16-1917  to  2-20-2008 

"Rest In Peace"   *Young's  MM

 

J.  RAYMOND  POOLE   2-2-1910  to  5-13-1986 

*Md:3/17/1931  "A Life Like Theirs Has Left A Record Sweet For Memory To Dwell Upon"

&   LUCILLE  HOGUE  POOLE   10-28-1917  to 1-2-1998

 

MARGARET  CLAUDETTE "Sam"  POOLE  11-29-1930  to  1-9-1998

"We Love You Forever Mamaw"

 

ROSIE  LEE  BENFORD  POOLE  1893  to  1951

 

THOMAS  GREENHOW  POOLE   9-21-1878  to  2-15-1958

&   CORA  JOHNSON  POOLE  1-7-1879  to  5-29-1942 

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

 

THOMAS "TOM"  PETE  POOLE   7-5-1914  to  12-15-1991 

 *PFC  US Army  WW II        *Md:3/9/1950     "In Loving Memory"

&  CLARA  HOGUE  POOLE (82)  12-16-1914  to  2-8-1997

*She also has  Rumph-Owers MM

 

T. P.  POOLE    3-2-1838  to   4-17-1900   (Mason)

LEAH  POOLE    9-7-1845  to  1-9-1902  *Wf/of  T. P. Poole

"My Mother's Grave"  "On that bright immortal shore We shall meet to part no more."

 *Leah's headstone broken

 

WILLIAM  WALTER  POOLE   4-30-1908  to  3-10-1985

*Bailey  MM    "Gone But Not Forgotten"

 

**Four markers in middle of cemetery, with no names are:

(1) ELMO  POOLE   d:12-12-1914    *ARDI

(2)  LANKFORD  POOLE  d:10-20-1918   *ARDI

 

(3)  DEWEY  POOLE  d:1-26-1926  *ARDI

      outer edge of cemetery is wife (name unknown) of  DEWEY  POOLE.

     DEWEY  POOLE  (21) Md:  Miss CARRIE  PRICE (19)  Jun 22, 1919

     CARRIE  PRICE  POOLE  d:4-25-1921  *ARDI

 

 

JACQUELINE  NADINE  SANDERS  8-20-1987  to  2-2-2010

"Our Beloved Daughter"     *OB

&  KENNETH   H.  WEST   1-6-1958  to  7-8-2006 

"Our Loving Son"

 

 

 

Back in March 2007, Nora Poole Johnson shared 7 tombstone

photos with me.  Some of these are posted below.

Irene daughter of  T.P. & Leah Poole.▲

First person to be buried in cemetery.

Matilda & Ellis H. Johnson ▲

 

2007-Leah Poole's broken headstone.▲

 

T. P.  POOL

(Thomas Peter Poole)

 

          

           J. R. Johnson