Lambethville Cemetery
Turrell, Crittenden County, Arkansas, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosThe cemetery, which once rested on one of three Indian mounds, was believed to have been the final resting place for 300 to 400 whites. According to Mrs. Helen Hicks, a descendant of several families buried in the cemetery, the last person to be buried there was Peggy Sue Brizendine, who died in 1948.
This "Golightly Mound Cemetery" is not the same as referenced by the "Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge Cemetery", an African American Cemetery which can also be found on Find-A-Grave.
The following information is from excerpts of "A History of Crittenden County, Arkansas" written by Margaret Elizabeth Woolfolk:
Fields now cover what was once the village of Lambethville, a Mississippi River landing about five miles east of Turrell which could once be reached by traveling County Roads 6 and 333 across the levee.
There is nothing there to indicate that once there was a school which also served as a church, a large country store, a lumber mill, gins, a warehouse for river shipments, and a number of dwellings. Nor is there any evidence that before these existed there was an Indian settlement of the Mississippi tribe. Mounds which were once in the area have been leveled for farming.
There is no evidence either of the elevated tramway that once started near the Mississippi River levee and extended westward about two miles, providing a route over bottom land, that was frequently flooded, and Brush Lake. One can ascertain where the bed of the Mississippi River once was near the west end of this tramway for there still remains a definite rise in the land, once the west bank.
Even the Mississippi has moved away from the site of the town, leaving what is called Old River. To the east of Old River's southern end is Brandywine Island, once known as Brandywine Point.
Old River was described by the writer Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) as the most dangerous area for boaters on the lower Mississippi. Boatmen called it the Devil's Elbow. Before 1876, the river ran on the west side of Brandywine Island, but the river decided to make a cutoff to the north of Centennial Cutoff of 1876 – shortening its navigational channel by about 30 miles and moving along the east side of Brandywine. The cutoff enlarged Centennial Island north of Old River and west of Brandywine and removed Islands 37 and 38.
Lambethville was established in 1880 when James T. Lambeth bought about 400 acres of timbered land to supply a Crittenden County, Kentucky, sawmill that he and his brothers, Walter E. and Warner (J. T.'s twin), operated as Lambeth Brothers. They also had a towboat, Tidal Wave, which operated form Evansville, Indiana, to Memphis, resulting in James T. Lambeth being known as "Captain Lambeth". In addition to the timbered land, James T. Lambeth bought about 75 acres of cleared land on which he built a store, a gin, a sawmill, and his two-story home which was on stilts. The home later burned.
After the completion of the levee in the early 1900's, Lambethville moved from its river-side location west of the levee for protection from flood waters. A cemetery which served the community also was on the west side of the levee atop an Indian mound, but its stones have all been moved and the mound leveled by farmers.
Known to state archeologists as Site No. 3CT27, it was also the final resting place for other area farmers who began using what was once a wooded Indian Mound for a white man's cemetery in the 19th century. But there are no headstones to mark it any more, and no trees -- just a field of grain being cultivated on a farm owned by the heirs of Memphian Don Wiener. Weiner, who died in 1982, was an enterprising Obioan who moved to Memphis, founded the Donruss Co., a bubblegum manufacturing firm, during the Great Depression and sold it in 1969 to General Mills Corp. He had extensive cotton, soybean and grain farming interests in Crittenden County that included acreage purchased in the early 1950s from a farmer named Robert Hugh Golightly.
On the Golightly property was the remains of an Indian village measuring 101-by-82 meters, according to Dr. Dan Morse, regional archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey. Three mounds on the site included one that bore the graves of 300 to 400 whites, he said. This was referred to as Golightly Mound Cemetery.
According to a 1983 observation by a surveyor for a private contracting firm, Dr. Morse said, the site had been converted to farmland sometime since 1978. The three mounds had measured 60 to 80 feet in diameter, rising three or four feet above the floodplain in a village occupied by Indians from the First to the 14th Century. "We really don't know much about the site," he said. "It's not been investigated because of its function as a contemporary cemetery." The headstones of the white cemetery had been removed by the time the observations were made in 1983, he said. Memphis State archeologist Dr. David Dye said the white settlers' practice of burying their dead on Indian mounds is common in Eastern Arkansas.
Southern Roots ღ (Debbie Lunsford Yates) ---- Find a Grave ID 46576450
The cemetery, which once rested on one of three Indian mounds, was believed to have been the final resting place for 300 to 400 whites. According to Mrs. Helen Hicks, a descendant of several families buried in the cemetery, the last person to be buried there was Peggy Sue Brizendine, who died in 1948.
This "Golightly Mound Cemetery" is not the same as referenced by the "Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge Cemetery", an African American Cemetery which can also be found on Find-A-Grave.
The following information is from excerpts of "A History of Crittenden County, Arkansas" written by Margaret Elizabeth Woolfolk:
Fields now cover what was once the village of Lambethville, a Mississippi River landing about five miles east of Turrell which could once be reached by traveling County Roads 6 and 333 across the levee.
There is nothing there to indicate that once there was a school which also served as a church, a large country store, a lumber mill, gins, a warehouse for river shipments, and a number of dwellings. Nor is there any evidence that before these existed there was an Indian settlement of the Mississippi tribe. Mounds which were once in the area have been leveled for farming.
There is no evidence either of the elevated tramway that once started near the Mississippi River levee and extended westward about two miles, providing a route over bottom land, that was frequently flooded, and Brush Lake. One can ascertain where the bed of the Mississippi River once was near the west end of this tramway for there still remains a definite rise in the land, once the west bank.
Even the Mississippi has moved away from the site of the town, leaving what is called Old River. To the east of Old River's southern end is Brandywine Island, once known as Brandywine Point.
Old River was described by the writer Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) as the most dangerous area for boaters on the lower Mississippi. Boatmen called it the Devil's Elbow. Before 1876, the river ran on the west side of Brandywine Island, but the river decided to make a cutoff to the north of Centennial Cutoff of 1876 – shortening its navigational channel by about 30 miles and moving along the east side of Brandywine. The cutoff enlarged Centennial Island north of Old River and west of Brandywine and removed Islands 37 and 38.
Lambethville was established in 1880 when James T. Lambeth bought about 400 acres of timbered land to supply a Crittenden County, Kentucky, sawmill that he and his brothers, Walter E. and Warner (J. T.'s twin), operated as Lambeth Brothers. They also had a towboat, Tidal Wave, which operated form Evansville, Indiana, to Memphis, resulting in James T. Lambeth being known as "Captain Lambeth". In addition to the timbered land, James T. Lambeth bought about 75 acres of cleared land on which he built a store, a gin, a sawmill, and his two-story home which was on stilts. The home later burned.
After the completion of the levee in the early 1900's, Lambethville moved from its river-side location west of the levee for protection from flood waters. A cemetery which served the community also was on the west side of the levee atop an Indian mound, but its stones have all been moved and the mound leveled by farmers.
Known to state archeologists as Site No. 3CT27, it was also the final resting place for other area farmers who began using what was once a wooded Indian Mound for a white man's cemetery in the 19th century. But there are no headstones to mark it any more, and no trees -- just a field of grain being cultivated on a farm owned by the heirs of Memphian Don Wiener. Weiner, who died in 1982, was an enterprising Obioan who moved to Memphis, founded the Donruss Co., a bubblegum manufacturing firm, during the Great Depression and sold it in 1969 to General Mills Corp. He had extensive cotton, soybean and grain farming interests in Crittenden County that included acreage purchased in the early 1950s from a farmer named Robert Hugh Golightly.
On the Golightly property was the remains of an Indian village measuring 101-by-82 meters, according to Dr. Dan Morse, regional archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey. Three mounds on the site included one that bore the graves of 300 to 400 whites, he said. This was referred to as Golightly Mound Cemetery.
According to a 1983 observation by a surveyor for a private contracting firm, Dr. Morse said, the site had been converted to farmland sometime since 1978. The three mounds had measured 60 to 80 feet in diameter, rising three or four feet above the floodplain in a village occupied by Indians from the First to the 14th Century. "We really don't know much about the site," he said. "It's not been investigated because of its function as a contemporary cemetery." The headstones of the white cemetery had been removed by the time the observations were made in 1983, he said. Memphis State archeologist Dr. David Dye said the white settlers' practice of burying their dead on Indian mounds is common in Eastern Arkansas.
Southern Roots ღ (Debbie Lunsford Yates) ---- Find a Grave ID 46576450
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