Anthony Smith Cemetery

Clay, Arkansas

Photo by Leroy Blair

This Cemetery is also known as: None known

GPS Location: 611052 - 3918629

Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: 3WH0679

Number of Marked Graves: 1

Number of Unmarked Graves: None known

The cemetery list was up dated I July 2016 by Leroy Blair

Current status of cemetery: This cemetery is on longer being used.

Point of contact for cemetery. No known contact person.

Cloie Presley of the White County Historical Society, whose husband Leister was raised at Clay, reported in a 1963 publication that

"Anthony Smith is buried in an unmarked grave on Sharp Hill (between Dewey and Clay). This is the only grave there and is just out

of the road ditch."



Thirty-seven years later, another Society member from Clay, Leroy Blair, visited the gravesite and prepared this report: "This

cemetery is located at the top of the hill between Clay and Dewey. Going from Clay it is located on the right side of the road at the

top of the hill. The report done by Cloie states that it is unmarked, It now has a homemade metal marker with the name Anthony

Smith – 1856 – Sept. 7, 1931. It also has a rock ring around it. It is hard to believe it would be possible to dig a grave at this spot as

the rocks are barely under the top of the ground. I visited this grave on July 13, 2000. It is the only grave there." Blair, a member of

the Historical Society Board of Directors and chairman of the WCHS Committee, returned to the site on December 28, 2004, for a

second survey and found no new information to report.

If you have corrections or additions to this list or other information on this Cemetery, Contact the White County Historical Society,

P.O. Box 537, Searcy, AR 72145. Or phone 501- 278- 5010

Following is a list of known burials in this cemetery.

Smith, Anthony – 1856 – Sept. 7, 1931 – Anthony Smith Cemetery Clay AR. (Obit)

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Legend: Copyright-Aug.23,2016-Paul V. Isbell-Webmaster:

Following is a list of all known Cemeteries in White County Arkansas, Also included are Cemeteries in other

counties that are near the White County Line that may have people from White County buried there.

Most of the cemetery information listed was collected by Leroy “Lee” Blair Former member of the White

County Historical Society Board of Directors. Now working at the White County Historical Society office

If you have any additions or corrections to the burial listing please contact the Historical Society Phone 501-

278-5010 or Email me at

lblblair74@gmail.com

or wchs1962@gmail.com

At the end of the cemetery list s a list of people from White County that have died that do not have cemetery

listed or they are buried in a cemetery that we do not keep records on.



I will be posting more burials later. The Searcy Daily Citizen donated all their Micro Film and Ledgers dating

back to 1953 as I look at them if I find a death of a person that we do not have I will to add to the cemetery

listings.

There are some graves listed as unmarked that may have had a tombstone set since the listing was made.

I may have missed some graves when I done the listing, Some cemeteries are very hard to get good listing

due to how some graves are scattered

The following Abbreviations are used in the listings

.

FM – Funeral home marker

DS – Double tombstone

TS – Triple tombstone

The word (Obit) means that the Historical Society has or has access to the Obituary for this

person.