Wolf Hollow Cemetery

Russell, Arkansas

Photo by Leroy Blair

I was told that this cemetery has been cleaned and fenced since the above picture was taken.

This Cemetery is also known as: Hicks Family Cemetery

GPS Location: 634555-3917632

Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: 3WH0700

Number of Marked Graves: None

Number of Unmarked Graves: Unknown

The last complete survey of this cemetery was: April 9, 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 Russell Mountain north of Bald Knob. It was unrecorded until a resident of the area contacted Leroy

Blair of the White County Historical Society after reading a Searcy newspaper article about Blair’s search for cemeteries.

Following is Blair’s report: "I visited this old cemetery on April 9, 2001. On the previous day, The Daily Citizen had published an

article that I wrote about searching for forgotten cemeteries. A gentleman named Jerry Cummins contacted me and said there was

an old Civil War graveyard on Russell Mountain north of Bald Knob. He said he was told about it by his brother. He said there were

rocks for markers with names scratched on them.

"Here are the directions he gave me to get to the cemetery: From Bald Knob take Highway 167 north to Russell Mountain Road.

Turn right and go to Strawberry Lane. Turn left and go to the first road and turn right. After that I would have to ask people in the

area. I stopped at a house and asked a man who was working in the yard. He told me to go see a Mr. Tom Wadley who had lived

around there many years – that if there was a cemetery there, he would know about it. I called him on the phone and talked to his

wife. She told me there was an old graveyard on their property and for me to come up to their house and she would tell me where it

was. I drove to the house and just as I was getting ut of the van, Mr. Wadley drove up. He said he would take me to the graveyard.

We got in his truck and drove about a quarter-mile back in the fields.

"I found an area covered with some kind of small bushes with white flowers. They were so thick you could hardly see through

them. I did manage to find four sets of grave markers – just rock with nothing on them. Mr. Wadley said that one of the graves was

that of a man by the name of Captain Lee, who was the first person to homestead in that part of White County. And another was

that of the baby of Ray and Mary Martin, who died around the turn of the century. He did not know who the others were but thought

that they might be relatives of Captain Lee. He also said that there were some Indians buried in the cemetery. He said he moved

up north for a few years and when he returned he found that someone had tried to dig up one of the Indian graves. He also told me

that a man came out there about eight or nine years ago and did some probing in the ground and said he had found 15 graves.

Since I did not find any names scratched on the rock markers at this old cemetery, this may not be the one Mr. Cummins told me

about."

Following is a list of known burials in this cemetery.

None of the names of persons buried here are known

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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.