Black Cemetery Sharp County Last week I made a Pilgrimage back to my Arkansas roots. The Black Cemetery is in Sharp County (near Martin Creek)where my great grandfather and grandmother Alexander and Harriet J. Marriott Rogers Black are buried. My 2nd cousin Jack English helped my sister Beverly and I find the old cemetery on Alexander's original homestead in the 1850s and 1860s. Alexander was born in Dublin Ireland in 1820 and came to the USA in 1840s potato famine. He settled in Columbia, MO and married Hannah La Force in 1845. They moved to Arkansas in the 1850s where Hanna died. He remarried a widow with 2 children-Harriet Marriott Rogers and settled in Ravenden Springs area where he had 4 children including my grandfather Bynum Black, a church of Christ preacher all his life. My Dad, Upton Sinclair Black (named after the writer/muckracker Upton Sinclair)was born and raised in Ravenden Springs, AK. The Black cemetery was difficult to find and was in terrible condition. The gate was open and apparently the headstones were broken by grazing cattle. There were few standing tombstones. Kenneth Black Olympia, WA "Lord please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am." KISMIF (Keep it simple, make it fun!)