Low Gap Cemetery
Photo submitted by Dennis Earle, October 2010.
So many lost stories are buried in this tiny remote mountain cemetery. Yet another example of all that is left of the communities that dotted the Arkansas Ozarks years ago. This is all that remains of this area of the LOW GAP Community. Fenced and in good condition, many graves are no longer marked.
Survey submitted by Juli Risener Morgan.
Located off of County Road 9, some miles past (north) of Gardner Cemetery.
There are around 43 graves in the cemetery, the rest are unmarked.
Bessie Berry (infant of Scott & Ella)
Eliza Berry
Earnest Berry (infant of Scott & Ella)
John Berry
Mary Ann Berry June 14, 1861-1951
**Pertiman Berry 1788-1903
Rosa Berry 1948 (daughter of Warren & Kata Mae)
Rosa Berry
Silvia Jane Berry 1936-1937 (daughter of Vester & Lillie)
Berry twins 1937 (twins of Alphie & Viola)
Berry twins 1900 (twins of Willie)
Jim Bryant Apr 15, 1879-1939
Marie Bryant Apr 13, 1921-Oct. 11, 1939
Cinthia Bruce (baby of Yrbie & Mrs. Bruce)
Ernie Gardner Dec. 21, 1907-Apr 24, 1917 (son of George & Alice)
Gardner baby 1900 (parents Mr. & Mrs. Mathew)
Katie Harris (wife of Pete) 1900
Hattie Hatfield 1934 (died in childbirth)
Mr. Moore 1938
Margarett Reynolds 1856-1937
Sanders baby (child of Jake)
Mrs. Riley Scarberry 1900
Scarberry twins 1900 (twins of Eck)
James Smith 1878-1905
Ona Wilson 1885-1935
Five children of Willie Berry (no markers)
** Prettyman Berry was a private who served as a private in Garmeny's Company of Beall's 1st Georgia Mounted Volunteers in the Creek War of 1836.
Prettyman Berry and his children moved to Van Buren County, Arkansas around 1871, where he married Precious Bruce and lived for the remainder of his days. He is buried in the cemetery at Low Gap, Arkansas. His headstone, made by his grandson, Richard Berry, says 1788 - 1903, making him 115 years old.
[Although his stone says 1788, the 1900 census says he was born Sep 1812 GA and is 87 years old and the 1850 census gives his age as 35. Gina]