(Actual
Name Unknown)
Earle,
African American
cemetery, located off US Highway 64 at Earle, just behind the Church of
Christ. A dirt road runs beside the east
side of the church into a rice field. The cemetery is located on a mound, in a
wooded area on the right side of this road.
The wooded area can be seen from the highway.
This cemetery is
heavily overgrown. There is evidence of
numerous unmarked and sunken graves. The
following six graves were the only readable stones found, although at least 10
other stones were visible. Other stones
may exist beneath the overgrowth.
Surveyed by Danny
Lunsford and Deborah Lunsford Yates
~~ Added
Information ~~
Based on census transcriptions, these families lived
near each other in Tyronza Township.
Also in this area were the families of Sam and James Shannon, as well as
the family of H. A. Atkins. Members of these families are buried at Gibson
Bayou.
Also listed in this general area was Henry Hensley,
another black resident who was buried at St. Peters Church Cemetery near Three
Forks.
On the 1900 census of Crittenden County, Arkansas -
Tyronza Township, Julie Rozell was listed as head of household, age 70, a widow
born March 1830 in Kentucky. She was a
farm laborer who had given birth to 11 children, with 4 living as of June 18,
1900. Both her parents were born in
Kentucky. Also in the household was
Thomas White, her 40 year old son-in-law, who was a preacher, born in Georgia,
February 1860. His father was born in Virginia,
his mother in North Carolina. Julie
Rozell's daughter, Sarah, wife of Thomas White, was age 50, born in Tennessee,
her father also born in Tennessee. Sarah
had given birth to one child who was still living.
Living nearby was a 29 year old Jordan Rozell, who was
living as a boarder with Jessie and Jennie Brandon. He was born in Arkansas, March 1871, with
both his parents having been born in Kentucky.
He may have been a son of Julie Rozell.
Rilla Hare was listed on the 1900 census as being age
24, born 1876 in Mississippi. She was
living in the household with her husband, James Hare, age 35, a farm laborer
born in Arkansas. James and Rilla Hare
had been married 5 years with no children.
Also listed in the household were two children of James Hare; Sarah, a
daughter age 13, and a son, Malcolm, age 11.
Both had been born in Arkansas.
The father of James Hare had been born in Arkansas, his mother born in
Tennessee. Both of Rilla Hare's parents
were born in Mississippi.
Millie Hare was listed on the 1900 census of Tyronza
Township, living in the household of her daughter and son-in-law, Jason and
Paralee Munn. Millie Hare was 60 years
old, born 1840 in Tennessee. She was
listed as a widow who had given birth to 8 children with 4 living.
A 31 year old Emitt Hare was living nearby along with
his wife, Mary. Emitt Hare was born June
1868 in Arkansas, with both his parents having been born in North
Carolina. He was a farm laborer with two
stepdaughters and a niece living in the household.
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