Wools Cemetery
Judsonia, Arkansas
Photo by Paul Miller
This Cemetery is also known as: None known
GPS Location: 622455-3911973
Arkansas Archeological Survey site #: WH0751
Number of Marked Graves: 1
Number of Unmarked Graves: Unown
The last complete survey of this cemetery was: Paul Miller
Current status of cemetery: This cemetery is no longer in use
Point of contact for cemetery. No known contact person.
This "cemetery" is actually a lone grave of little Katie Wools who died at age 6 after a brief illness and was buried at the James
Wools home place at the foot of a pine tree she had planted.
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Kate was the daughter of James and Angeline Wools (see HISTORY) and was survived by three brothers -- Elihue and twins Barton
and Martin – and sisters Clara (Wools Morgan) and Florence. Two other Wools daughters, Alma and Ruella (Wools Miller), were later
born at this place and grew to adulthood. Both became teachers. Ruella lived in the Plainview community until the early 1960s.
Florence never married and died after Ruella.
According to family legend, when the Wools family moved to this area in 1878 there were no pine trees in the area. While the
family was visiting, Emma Kate saw pine trees and loved them so much she was allowed to pull a small seedling and bring it home
in a fruit jar. Only 4 years old, she planted the small pine tree by the boundary fence about 300 feet from the house, where with
tender care the little seedling began to flourish. When Kate died shortly after her sixth birthday the lone pine tree became a
marker for her grave. More than a hundred years later, Kate’s tree is gone but the farm now has numerous large pine trees.
Flowers planted near the grave by the family bloom yearly. Generation after generation of the Wools family has cared for the grave.
Following is a list of known burials in this cemetery.
Wools, Emma Kate – April 9, 1877 – August 23, 1883
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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.
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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.