Tilley Farm Cemetery

Floyd, Arkansas

Photo by Leroy Blair

This Cemetery is also known as: None known

GPS Location: 602150-3895911

Arkansas Archeological : 3WH0754

Number of Marked Graves: 1

Number of Unmarked Graves: Unknown

The last complete survey of this cemetery was: April 4, 2001 By Leroy Blair

Current status of cemetery: This cemetery is no longer in use

Point of contact for cemetery. No known contact person.



This cemetery is located on the old Tilley Farm off Peanut Ridge Road about a half-mile east of the intersection of Peanut Ridge

Road and Mt. Olive Road. Leroy Blair of the White County Historical Society was told about this almost-forgotten cemetery by

residents of the area while he was researching the Mt. Olive Cemetery. Here’s his report on the visit to the old Tilley Farm, April 4,

2001: "As you go east on Peanut Ridge past Mt. Olive Road, there is an old house, partially fallen down, on the right of the road.

You have to crawl under a barbed wire fence and go back past the house into the woods. Probably 150 yards from the house, you

will see an abandoned 1953 Buick car that has been there many years. To the left of the old car about 100 feet is an old trash

dump. The graves are about 40 feet to the right of the trash dump. It is very hard to see, as the only marked stone is small and

about the color of the leaves on the ground. I went over the area three times before I found the grave. There is one marker with a

name on it. It has the following printed on it: In Memory of Sarah Pannell, March 1884 – December 1884, Sister of Winnie Pannell

Langley. I talked to Mrs. Winnie Pannell Langley’s daughter, Mrs. Blanche McEuen, who is 92 years old. She said that Sarah Pannell

was her aunt and her mother bought the stone for the grave many years ago. There appears to be seven more graves. They are all

marked with rocks. It looks like they were all babies. As it is only three to four feet between the rocks. Mrs. McEuen said she was

told some of the other graves were named Fullerton."

After reading the above information on the Internet in July 2001, Evelyn Jumper Crowe of Brooklet, Georgia, notified the Historical

Society that Sarah Pannell was her great grandfather’s sister and that the Fullerton children buried here are probably the children

of her sister Malinda Pannell. Her records showed that Malinda Pannell was born about 1830 in South Carolina and married George

Fullerton in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, October 28, 1849. Sarah E. Pannell was born June 23, 1830 and married William

Patterson Langley November 15, 1848. The Pannells were descendents of Zachariah Pannell who was born about 1797 in Fairfield

County, South Carolina, and died in 1885 in Union or Pontotoc County, Mississippi.

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

Following is a list of known burials in this cemetery.

Sarah Pannell, March 1884 – December 1884

– Tilley Farm Cemetery

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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.