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Zella Holden of Searcy, noticing that the White County Historical Society in 1999 was placing cemetery records on the Internet, contacted Society president Eddie Best with the first report of a "Dawn Cemetery." She stated that she and her husband bought a 130-acre farm from the Tom Killough family in the 1960s and discovered there was an old cemetery on the land. Mrs. Holden said she had never heard of any name for the cemetery, so her family began calling it Dawn Cemetery in memory of her granddaughter, Dawn Bales, who died of cancer at age 2. A monument in her name was placed in this old cemetery. Shelly Dawn Bales was born May 27, 1975, the daughter of Rebecca and Mark Bales. Despite surgery and treatment she lived only four months after her cancer was diagnosed; she died April 5, 1977.
Info from:
White County Historical Society
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Zella Holden of Searcy, noticing that the White County Historical Society in 1999 was placing cemetery records on the Internet, contacted Society president Eddie Best with the first report of a "Dawn Cemetery." She stated that she and her husband bought a 130-acre farm from the Tom Killough family in the 1960s and discovered there was an old cemetery on the land. Mrs. Holden said she had never heard of any name for the cemetery, so her family began calling it Dawn Cemetery in memory of her granddaughter, Dawn Bales, who died of cancer at age 2. A monument in her name was placed in this old cemetery. Shelly Dawn Bales was born May 27, 1975, the daughter of Rebecca and Mark Bales. Despite surgery and treatment she lived only four months after her cancer was diagnosed; she died April 5, 1977.
Info from:
White County Historical Society
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Zella Holden of Searcy, noticing that the White County Historical Society in 1999 was placing cemetery records on the Internet, contacted Society president Eddie Best with the first report of a "Dawn Cemetery." She stated that she and her husband bought a 130-acre farm from the Tom Killough family in the 1960s and discovered there was an old cemetery on the land. Mrs. Holden said she had never heard of any name for the cemetery, so her family began calling it Dawn Cemetery in memory of her granddaughter, Dawn Bales, who died of cancer at age 2. A monument in her name was placed in this old cemetery. Shelly Dawn Bales was born May 27, 1975, the daughter of Rebecca and Mark Bales. Despite surgery and treatment she lived only four months after her cancer was diagnosed; she died April 5, 1977.
Info from:
White County Historical Society
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Zella Holden of Searcy, noticing that the White County Historical Society in 1999 was placing cemetery records on the Internet, contacted Society president Eddie Best with the first report of a "Dawn Cemetery." She stated that she and her husband bought a 130-acre farm from the Tom Killough family in the 1960s and discovered there was an old cemetery on the land. Mrs. Holden said she had never heard of any name for the cemetery, so her family began calling it Dawn Cemetery in memory of her granddaughter, Dawn Bales, who died of cancer at age 2. A monument in her name was placed in this old cemetery. Shelly Dawn Bales was born May 27, 1975, the daughter of Rebecca and Mark Bales. Despite surgery and treatment she lived only four months after her cancer was diagnosed; she died April 5, 1977.
Info from:
White County Historical Society
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