CEMETERIES IN FORT SMITH, SEBASTIAN COUNTY, ARKANSAS

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Historic Oak Cemetery in Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Many pioneers are buried here including some of the U.S. Marshals who worked for Judge Isaac Parker.  The cemetery is located on the south east corner of Greenwood Ave. and Dobson Ave.


Carolyn Sue (Whitsett) Wall by the grave of her great grandfather, William Isaac Whitsett.  The photo on the right has a better picture of the headstone.

WILLIAM I. WHITSETT
FATHER
1857 1927

Although the stone says William I. Whitsett was born in 1857, the censuses from 1860 through 1920 indicate that he was born in 1859. He was the son of Confederate Pvt. William Wallace Whitsett and Mary Ann Hopson of Waterloo, Lauderdale County, Alabama.


CLIFFORD C. WHITSETT
U.S. ARMY
WORLD WAR I
NOV 21, 1895    MAY 16, 1980


Next to William Isaac is son Clifford C. Whitsett of Huntington, Arkansas. We were fortunate to have spoken with Clifford on the phone several months before he died.


LILLIE M. RALEY
OCT. 11, 1895
DEC. 3, 1918

This stone is located between William I. Whitsett and Clifford C. Whitsett, indicating a family relationship. After some research we discovered that Lillie (Walpole) Raley was the daughter of Charles and Sue Walpole and sister of Joe Walpole, husband of Lula B. Whitsett.


LULA B WALPOLE
NOV. 15, 1884
OCT. 13, 1918

Lula B. (Whitsett) Walpole was the daughter of William Isaac Whitsett and wife of Joseph Walpole. This headstone has some sort of symbol on it. It is located very near to the other Whitsett headstones in Oak Cemetery

Entrance to the National Cemetery in Fort Smith

EDWARD MILLER
CPL US MARINE CORPS
JUN 3, 1921
JUL 24, 1982,
National Cemetery, Fort Smith, Arkasas

 
     
Ronald N. Wall
Revised: 02 April 2017