At 10:49 AM 8/4/01 EDT, you wrote: >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!) > > > >==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== >Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; >http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html >To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >Hi Kenneth my name is Geraline Brannen I live in Jonesboro Arkansas not far from Ravenden Springs my great grandfather was William Abner Prewitt Bynam Black baptized him in his later years when he passed away bro.Black preached his funeral and wrote the obtuiary it is in the Eye-Opener paper Ravenden Springs he died feb.12-1900.in the obituary bro.Black says he was layed to rest on a sunny slope in the old grave yard, we are told he is buried in the Prewitt cemetery which is now called the Perry cemetery in the hill top community. is there any of your family that would know if the old cemetery and the Prewitt cemetery is the same cemetery? Brother Black wrote a beautiful article about my ggrandfather it makes me feel like i knew him when i when i drive through the community where he lived and worked. Iwould appreciate any ifo that you might know. Thanks Geraline