Meeks Cemetery
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Meeks Cemetery

Also known as Antioch Cemetery

Saltillo, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA

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    Coordinates: 35.02173, -92.34533
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This is an abandoned African American Cemetery on top of a ridge east of Lake Conway near the Palarm Creek Landing area. From Conway you will take Hwy 286 to the Saltillo Community. Turn right onto Palarm Creek Road and go approximately 1.5 miles, turn left (south) onto Clark Road and go .9 of a mile to the top of the ridge. Walk east on a trail about 250 yards. The graveyard is on the south side of the trail.


There are as many as 35 to 40 graves marked with fieldstones. Accordng to Pence Funeral Home Records and interviews with Marvin (Bud) Kelley and Charlie Goss the cemetery was called Antioch, Antioch School House, Meeks and Meeks Family.


This is an abandoned African American Cemetery on top of a ridge east of Lake Conway near the Palarm Creek Landing area. From Conway you will take Hwy 286 to the Saltillo Community. Turn right onto Palarm Creek Road and go approximately 1.5 miles, turn left (south) onto Clark Road and go .9 of a mile to the top of the ridge. Walk east on a trail about 250 yards. The graveyard is on the south side of the trail.


There are as many as 35 to 40 graves marked with fieldstones. Accordng to Pence Funeral Home Records and interviews with Marvin (Bud) Kelley and Charlie Goss the cemetery was called Antioch, Antioch School House, Meeks and Meeks Family.


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  • Added: 29 Apr 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2494589