Stroud Property Cemetery

Floyd, Arkansas

Photo by Leroy Blair

This Cemetery is also known as: Floyd Colored Cemetery

GPS Location: 613707 - 596201-3893851

Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: 3WH0755

Number of Marked Graves: About 1

Number of Unmarked Graves: Unknown

The last complete survey of this cemetery was: By Leroy Blair

Current status of cemetery: Abanded

Point of contact for cemetery. No known contact person.

When the Floyd Homemakers Extension Club listed Pleasant Grove Cemetery in 1968, it mentioned at the bottom of the list that "a

Negro cemetery is located on the N.J. Stroud property which is west of Pleasant Grove Cemetery." The same club listed its one

marked grave:



Pleasant Grove Cemetery, also known as Old Robinson Cemetery, is located between Harmony and Floyd in Section 26, Township

7 North, Range 9 West. It is about a half-mile off the paved highway.

Leroy Blair of the White County Historical Society visited the Stroud Property Black Cemetery with his wife Ellen March 12, 2001.

Following is his report:

"To get to the cemetery from Floyd take Highway 31 South about one mile to Donald Choate Road then turn left and go about 1¼

miles to Friendship Lane. Turn right and go about a half-mile and the road with turn to the left. Don’t turn – but go straight to a

double gate. Go through that gate. Just inside the pasture is another gate on the right. Go through it and go about 200 yards to a

farm pond. The cemetery is in a clump of trees about 50 yards below the pond. The cemetery is fairly clean due to the cattle

grazing.

"I found the base for one stone and a piece of a stone with the date 1901 on I – nothing else. This was probably the stone for Mary

Jane Kindle (wife of Mack Kindle) on the old list. Mr. Phil Stroud, who owns the property, said he had also found parts of the stone.

I counted 37 graves marked with rocks. I did not see any unmarked graves but there could be some because there are a lot of

leaves on the ground. It is hard to see how they could have dug a grave there. The rock seems to be only a few inches under the

ground.

"While I was listing the Pleasant Grove Cemetery I met an older man at the cemetery who was visiting from Alabama. His name

was Ted Bennett, and he said he had grown up in the Floyd area. Back in the early 1900s, he said, the cemetery was called Floyd

Colored Cemetery. He did not know how old it is but could not remember anyone being buried there since he was born."

Following is a list of known burials in this cemetery.

Mary Jane Kindle (wife of Mack Kindle) – August 4, 1869 – July 1, 1901

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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

.

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.