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This cemetery was denoted by Mr. Hughes somewhere around 1870. There was a family named Henderson's passing though around this time the same time as the flu epidemic and there was a lot of people dying. And this family like many others had no money. Mr. Henderson asked Mr. Hughes if he could bury his daughter on the corner of Mr. Hughes land. That is how this cemetery got started. The first two people buried here are: Mary Henderson Child and Mary's brother: John Henderson Child Sometime after that Mr. Hughes then donated the land where Hughes Cemetery is now. Located at 2258 SFC 311 beside and across the street from The Good Hope Church as there is 2 sections to this cemetery.
It is located on 2258 SFC 311, Forrest City, St. Francis County, Arkansas.
Note from Patricia Hughes Jones:
“My great grandfather donated land for the Hughes Cemetery in St. Francis Co, AR.
Don’t know who wrote the story on it, but it was embellished a bit.
The donation of land was not In 1870, have yet to determine the year,
but his father who owned the land had
not died in 1870, so it was later.
Also, the Henderson children, Mary and John, first two people buried in that
cemetery, died of yellow fever. Second, they didn’t ask to
bury them there, because they had no money. They were migrating West and
needed a place to bury their children.”
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