Arkansas Cemeteries - Gaither Cemetery, Boone County, Arkansas

Arkansas Cemeteries

GAITHER CEMETERY

(AKA GAITHER MOUNTAIN CEMETERY)

Gaither, Boone County, Arkansas

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

Original Listing April 10, 2007, by Rosa Cline

This is a partial listing of people interred at this cemetery.

NOTE: My husband and I have begun to transcribe this cemetery with headstone photos in Feb 2005. Since we live a ways away from this cemetery, and it is a medium to large cemetery, we were unable to finish it in just one trip. Therefore it maybe awhile before this is completed. However in the meantime I have noted below those that I have photos for. But this cemetery is truly a “work in progress”.

I have obits for some of them, if anyone would like a copy. I have made an alphabetical listing before the actual transcriptions below. Beside each name I have noted if I have an obit (obit ), a headstone photo (hd pic ), or an actual photo (pic ), or newspaper article (art ) for that person. if you would like me to share with you, or you share extra data please feel free to contact me. However, please have the respect to not contact me to complain when I don’t have what you request. I will be trying to update this listing as I have time for, and when I do I will put an “*” beside the newest data entered.

I live too far away from this cemetery to actually do any look ups. These listings are made from either obits or data given to me by other family or researchers or from the beginning of an actual transcription we’ve begun . I will be more than happy to share with you what information I have on the people listed below, but I cannot do physical look ups. If you would like to send me data on your family or friends buried at this cemetery, I would be more than happy to accept and add the data into my listings. Please feel free to contact me.

I hope this listing helps these people to always be remembered. To try and help folks to always be remembered when they have gone on before us is the main reason I do what I do. And helping folks find family or friends in the process is a good plus as well.

Robert Arrington hd pic

Margaret Cheatham hd pic

Charles Cook hd pic

Bird Deatherage hd pic

Elsie Deatherage hd pic

William Edgmon hd pic

Mary Gaither hd pic

Ransom Gaither hd pic

H.W. Galentine hd pic

Lavina Glisson hd pic

Infant Son Hankins hd pic

John Hankins hd pic

Nancy Hankins hd pic

Sarah Hankins hd pic

Michael Irwin pic obit

Barbara McMillin hd pic

Henry Nash pic obit

Albert Parker hd pic

E.J. Parker hd pic

Margaret Parker hd pic

W.H. Parker hd pic

Clarence Parnell hd pic

Lester Rhoades hd pic

Madisyn Simkins hd pic (look in the M listings below for her transcription)

Daisy Trotter hd pic

David Trotter hd pic

Infant Trotter hd pic

James Wasson hd pic

Perlina Wasson hd pic

Joyce Wray hd pic

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ARRINGTON

Trellis G Robert W

April 4, 1960 Nov 10, 1960

(still alive) Dec 12, 1988

Forever in our Hearts

(this is a black headstone with engraved pic of deer and mountains)

On Marie Harvey’s transcription done before 2000, she has noted:

Robert Wayne Arrington

He was born in Gilmer, TX

Son of C.J. Arrington and Wanda Honeycutt Sims Arrington

Husband of Trellis Gail Briscoe Arrington

*****

(top broken off)

BOLEN

Cheatham

age.d

NOT KNOWN

DIED

June 29, 1888

(this stone is white and what is left is easily read; however with the top broken off it’s almost impossible to know the identity of this person. However in the transcription of the cemetery done by Marie Harvey done before 2000, she has this stone as Margaret Cheatham wife of Bolen)

*****

BIRD

Deatherage

BORN

July 16, 1805

Died

1880

DEATHERAGE

(next side)

erected

by daughter

Nancy

Hankins

Gone to rest

(next side)

ELCIE

wife of

BIRD

Deatherage

BORN

June 20, 1801

DIED

(unreadable)

This is my husband’s 3rd great grandparents.

Bird Deatherage was born in TN and died in Gaither, AR

He was the son of Abner Deatherage and Rebecca Davis Deatherage

Bird was married to Elsie Mann Deatherage.

Elsie died January 26, 1873 in Boone County, AR

*****

Wm. Wilson

EDGMON

Aug 8, 1883

Oct 28, 1918

(this stone has begun to be covered with lichens)

*****

(one side)

MARY

(the next line is unreadable)

(next line is unreadable)

BEAL GAITHER

BORN

Sept 16, 1792

DIED

Oct 1, 1876

AGE 84 Yrs 16D

(one side)

RANSOM W

son of

----F. GAITHER

BORN

(next line unreadable)

DIED

(next line unreadable)

(I believe Ransom and Mary’s stone is one in the same. They could be two similar stones side by side, but I believe it to be the same stone.)

In Marie Harvey’s transcription done before 2000, she has Mary’s maiden name as Rogers and on Ransom’s parents she has “B. & A.F. And his dates as b. Mar 7, 1870 d. Sept 22, 1872”

*****

H.W.

Galentine

BORN

July 30, 1837

in WOOD CO,

OHIO

DIED

July 2, 1900

(This is a VERY TALL headstone toward the back of the cemetery)
*****

M-- Lavina

GLISSON

BORN

(broken)

(this stone is broken in about three different pieces the top piece is what I transcribed. According to a transcription done by Marie Harvey she states that when she transcribed it, before 2000, the stone had been broken but repaired the name was Mrs. Lavina Glisson and the birth day was Feb 25, 1816 and the death date was covered by the base)

*****

SON OF

J. N. HANKI

NS BORN

MAY 18

DIED

(this stone is hand carved and has begun to fade)

This baby was a stillborn baby son born to John Hankins and Nancy Deatherage Hankins. Our family research states that he was stillborn on May 18, 1868. BUT in a transcription of the cemetery done by Marie Harvey, before 2000, she has him as born May 13 and died May 18th.

*related to our Deatherage families*

*****

(one side)

(engraved pic of a Dove and “HOPE”)

JOHN

HANKINS

born in

Roon Co, Tenn

Nov 30, 1830

DIED

Nov 10,1897

Aged 66 Yrs 11

mos. 10 days

HANKINS

(one side)

NANCY

wife of

JOHN

HANKINS

Born in

Roon Co, Tenn

Jan 21, 1827

DIED

Aug 5, 1919

age 92 Yrs 6

mos 15 Days

(flat military)

JOHN HANKINS

PVT CO F

NICHOL’S ARK CAV REGT

CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY

NOV 301830 NOV 10 1897

John Hankins

He was born in Roane County, TN and

died in Boone County, AR

Nancy Deatherage Hankins

She was born in Roane County, TN and

died in Boone County, AR

Daughter of Bird Deatherage and Elsie Mann Deatherage

*related to us through our Deatherage families*

*****

SARAH

HANKINS

BORN JULY

DIED NOV

(This is a hand carved stone and the dates have faded out as they printed them smaller than the rest of the lettering.)

Sarah Hankins

b. July 29, 1858

She was born in Boone County, AR

Daughter of John Hankins and Nancy Deatherage Hankins

From our family research we didn’t have a death date for her other than “died at an early age”. In the transcription of the cemetery done by Marie Harvey-before 2000, she has her death date as November 2, 1860

*related to our Deatherage families*

*****

Michael Irwin

b. July 3, 1986 d. June 30, 2006

He died in Harrison, AR

Son of Melissa Harp

(printed out copy)

*****

Mother

Kristy Michelle

MARCKESE

Mar 13,1978 (still alive)

Daughter

“Boobers”

Madisyn Paige

SIMKINS

Nov 6, 1999

Mar 2, 2000

(on the back of Kristy’s side is MARCKESE and on the back of Madisyn’s side is SIMKINS)

*****

Barbara J Harold D

Jan 6, 1935 Dec 1, 1941

Nov 5, 2001 (empty - still alive)

McMILLIN

(this has an engraved cross between the names)

*****

(engraved pic of a hand pointing up)

In Memory

Albert

Parker

(the rest of the stone is faded to read)

From the transcription done by Marie Harvey - before 2000, she has his dates as born and died April 6, 1859.

*****

Henry L. Nash

b. May 26, 1946 d. June 17, 2006

He was born in West Ridge, AR and

died in Harrison, AR

Son of L.A. Nash and Henretta Oswalt Nash

Husband of Tammy Scott Nash

He served in the Army

(printed out copy)

*****

(engraved pic of a hand pointing up)

In Memory Of

Margaret

Elizabeth

Parker

(rest of stone unreadable)

**

From the transcription done by Marie Harvey - before 2000, she has her dates as b. Mar 19, 1867 and died Nov 6, 1870.

*****

(one side)

W. H. Parker

BORN

May 23, 1829

DIED

Nov 11,1908

(one side)

W.H. Parker

and wife

(poem unreadable)

(one side)

E.J. Parker

Born

Sept 15, 1832

Died

June 11, 1908

*****

(engraved pic of a lamb)

CLARENCE H

son of

J.H. & P. PARNELL

died

July 1885

AGED

(broken off base)

(This stone is beginning to fade and is broken at the age. In the transcription done by Marie Harvey - before 2000, she has noted that he died July 26 and was 8 months and 2 days old)

*****

“Bible of Life”

Father

LESTER D

RHOADES

Aug 25, 1905

Sept 9, 1981

In the transcription done by Marie Harvey, before 2000, she has noted, and that her data came from Harrison Daily Times:

Lester David Rhoades

He was born in Burlington, CO and

died in Little Rock, AR

Son of James Edward Rhoades and Myrtle Irvin Rhoades

Husband of Esther Van Sickle

*****

(enraved pic of a dove)

Little David

son of

R. & M.H. Trotter

BORN

May 25, 1883

DIED

July 22, 1883

Budded on earth

to bloom in heaven

---------sy

dau of

- & M.J.

TROTTER

BORN

Aug 19, 1881

DIED

July 7, 1884

(This is Daisy Mae Trotter)

(top broken off)

R & M.J.

TROTTER

BORN

Oct

(rest is unreadable)

(This is Infant of Robert and Mary Jane Trotter was stillborn on Oct 3, 1880)

Charles

Cook

BORN

Apr ------

DIED

(faded)

These stones are all on a crypt like stone. The Trotter children’s stones are all laying across the top and Charles Cook’s is on the end as though the crypt was originally his. I wonder if the children’s stones broken off where they originally was and then someone placed them across the top of this stone. or if this was the way it originally was. I have found no relation thus far of the Trotter family and Charles Cook, not to say that they aren’t related I’ve just not found a link yet.

The children are all children of Robert Trotter and Mary Jane Hankins Trotter. They are related to us through our Deatherage families)

*****

Perlina Gaither James F. Wasson

wife of Born Sept 20,1838

James F. Wasson DIED Aug 28,1924

BORN July 2, 1848 Age 85yrs 11 mo. 8 Days

DIED

Feb 1, 1937

(Poem under both sides unreadable)

*****

Joyce E

WRAY

May 25, 1919

April 8, 1975

*****

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