CEMETERIES IN ARKANSAS - ALLEN, BREWER, CORBETT, MILLER, WHITSETT.

Hall Cemtery

Sue at the grave of her father Wayne Whitsett, with her stepmother Iva (Corbitt-Whitsett) Rozell, Hall Cemetery, Crawford County, Arkansas.

Wayne died on June 20, 1989 of bone marrow cancer. Iva is to be buried next to him.

Morrison Cemetery

Morrison Cemetery North of Rudy, Crawford Co., Arkansas

Morrison Cemetery in relation to Rudy.

Jerry Don and wife Mary (Dodson) Allen, Morrison Cemetery. Jerry was born on April 12, 1941 and died from cancer on May 12, 1994. Mary was born on April 19, 1943. She died in 2016. This picture was taken in 2003.

Jerry Don was the son of James Robert Allen and Reba Jean Van Landingham. This photo was taken in 1976.

Gill Cemetery

Gill Cemetery east of Van Buren and I-540, Crawford County, Arkansas on Kibler Rd. This is a sizeable cemetery and many Van Buren and Crawford Co. residents are buried here.

Gill Cemetery

Gill Cemetery, Aunt Corrine Allen and Sue at the grave of Bryant Brewer, father of Sue's grandmother Florence Brewer Allen Farmer.

Bryant Brewer, born in Iowa and died in Rudy, Crawford County, Arkansas

Sarah Elizabeth Walker Brewer, born in Illinois and died in Crawford County.

Florence E. Brewer, daughter of Bryant Brewr and Margaret Adams, Bryant's forth wife, born in Alma, Crawford County, Arkansas, died in Van Buren, Arkansas.

Graves of James Thomas Brewer, son of Bryant Brewer and first wife Sarah Elizabeth Walker, was born in Arkansas died in Crawford County, and his second wife Minnie M. Rumminer (married in 1931).

Isaac Nelson Brewer, brother of Bryant Brewer, sons of William Irvin Brewer (1827-1910) of Indiana, was born in Iowa and died in Crawford County.

Sara Elizabeth Brewer Redding was born on June 30, 1909 in Van Buren and died on April 26, 1995 in Colorado Springs,Colorado

She was married twice, first in 1927 to Hugh Carl Boatright (1907-1976), and second to George Redding.

Charles Allen Brewer, son of Bryant and Sarah Walker Brewer, was born March 14, 1876 in Cairo, Illinois and died January 5, 1946 in Fort Smith. He married Nancy Arzada "Zada" McCormick in Van Buren on Jan. 4, 1903. She was born September 14, 1872, in Van Buren and died January 14, 1959 in Fort Smith.

William and Ruth (Whitsett) Blount grave. William Blount was born April 27, 1910 and died January 20, 1965 in Crawford County. Ruth was the daughter of James Guy Whitsett and Hessie Malinda Barrett, born December 9, 1911 and died November 8, 1969 in Van Buren.

Clarence Dee Howard married Helen Francis (Corbett) Stroll, daughter of Arthur Corbett and Clara Mae Fridinger and sister of my grandfather Arthur E. Corbett. She was born in Summit County, Ohio and died in Van Buren.

Mount McCurry Cemetery, Rudy, Crawford County, Arkansas

William Austin Brewer, son of Mary and William Irving Brewer, was born in Nebraska and died in Crawford County, Arkansas. He had children with two wives, first Mary Ellen Chastain, married on April 25, 1883, one daughter Mary Ann.

William married Mary Ellen Locke in Crawford County on April 25, 1883. She was born in Arkansas and died in Crawford County. They had three children, daughter Sariah, sons Hugh H. and Earl.

Earl Brewer, son of William Austin Brewer and Mary Locke, was born in Crawford County and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to his obituary in the Van Buren Press Argus newspaper Earl was a veteran of both WWII and Korea. He had lived in Tulsa since 1941.

I have no information on Richard D. Brewer, born June 14, 1942 and died May 13, 1974. Since he is buried in Mount McCurry Cemetery I assume he was a relative of the William Austin Brewer family.

Ora Lee Allen was the daughter of John Ancil Allen and Florence Elnora Brewer (daughter of Bryant Brewer). She was born March 12, 1917 probably in Oklahoma when her father was working in the oil fields, and died March 19, 1936 at the age of nineteen. She never married.

Ronald N. Wall

Revised: 02 April 2017