This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0V.2ADE/2235.2.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Rodony, I regret to inform you, that you are very unlikely to locate a gravesite of anyone that was buried in the various State Hospital cemeteries. As was mentioned already, a State Hospital cemetery was located where the Arkansas Department of Health is now located. It was relocated. The next State Hospital cemetery was located where the Arkansas State Crime Lab and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission headquarters is now located. It too was relocated to a new cemetery near the town of Haskel in Saline, County. That cemetery is located adjacent to the Harmony Springs Cemetery on Arkansas Highway 229, and remains the "final" resting place. Unfortunately, the state viewed these people as paupers, and through repeated relocations and a failed record keeping system, their final resting place will never be known by their descendants. The grave sites that can be found contain markers with numbers rather than names. This was done to protect their identity since it was a mental hospital. The records that are necessary to relate the numbers to a name appear to be no longer available. Some are simply unknown. I say all of this because my grandfather died in the State Hospital in 1930 and he is one of the victims of this travesty. The State Hospital was horrible place in its earlier years. Because so many mental illnesses were not understood, or because of the lack of treatments at that time, many people were placed there that would never have been considered a mental institution candidate by today's standards. My family has searched in vain for many years and exausted all available resources, and has given up hope of ever knowing his location. This is simply an honest answer that my save you the time and grief of a futile search. Allen Smith