Old Slave Cemetery

Little Red, Arkansas

Photo by Leroy Blair

This Cemetery is also known as: None known.

Legal description:

SW

GPS Location: Pending

Arkansas Archeological Survey site #:

3WH0369

Number of Marked Graves: None

Number of Unmarked Graves: Unknown

The last complete survey of this cemetery was: April 24, 2002 By Leroy Blair.

Current status of cemetery: No longer in use.

Point of contact for cemetery. None known

This cemetery was recorded for the first time by Leroy Blair of the White County Historical Society in April 2002. He said he had

first learned of its existence about a year earlier from Mrs. Jim White of Center Hill. According to Blair, "She said a relative told her

about it when they were at the Leggett Cemetery at Sunnyvale, where some of her relatives are buried. I have looked for it for a

year but could never locate it. At the April meeting of the Historical Society, former president Eddie Best gave me a letter from



Howard Hensley of Springfield, Missouri, who stated that his uncle Arthur Hensley of Providence knew the location of the slave

cemetery. I called Arthur Hensley and he took me to the location on April 24, 2002. To get to the cemetery, go to the Leggett

Cemetery. There is a fence that goes down the hill behind the Leggett Cemetery. If you follow this fence for nearly three-fourths of

a mile you will find the Slave Cemetery in the woods on the left of the fence. We found three rock-covered graves and three sunken

areas that are probably graves. Arthur Hensley said that he had visited the site about 15 years earlier and found 18 graves marked

with field rocks. But since that time there has been some logging work in the woods. He thinks that the rocks got moved during

the logging operation. There is no way to find the names or dates of who is buried there."

If you have additional information on this cemetery, contact the White County Historical Society, P.O. Box 537, Searcy, AR 72145.

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

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 on

the square in Searcy. WCHS P. O. Box 537 Searcy, Ark. 72145.

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

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

back to 1953. After reviewing 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 prepared the listing. Some cemeteries are very hard to get an

accurate listing due to how some graves are scattered



The following Abbreviations are used in the listings

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FM-Funeral home marker DS-Double tombstone TS-Triple tombstone

(Obit)-means that the Historical Society has, or has access to the Obituary for this person.