AKIN CEMETERY 

 

Vanndale, Cross County, Arkansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Submitted from information compiled by Brenda White Huntley and daughter, Cheri Huntley Stokes, October 2001. Digital photos are available for most of these tombstones.  If you would like to have a copy, please send your request to Brenda or Cheri. Include the name of the cemetery and the number of the photograph in your email message.

 

 

     Brenda White Huntley

 

     Cheri Huntley Stokes

 

  

 


Akin Cemetery is located in the Pleasant Hill Community, off Highway 364, east of Vanndale, between Highways 1 and 163. Just across from the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, turn south on County Road 354.  Follow the road to the cemetery, which will be on the right side of the road.

 

Special recognition is given to the Cross County Historical Society for their assistance in compiling this information.

 

 

Cross County Historical Society, Inc.

c/o Mrs. Jimmie S. James

Box 943

Wynne, AR  72396

 

Original surveys were made in 1981 by Lena Riley and Jennifer Walker.  The grave of William Akin

(Apr 3, 1810 -  Apr 19, 1859) is the first burial and the cemetery's namesake.

 

Additional information has been added from obituaries and other records.

 

 

The following was taken from “Cross County Cemetery Records, Volume One”

 

“William Akin was born June 3, 1810 and was married to Sarah C. Kembel, May 28, 1835.  They were the parents of twelve children; Mary, John, William, Samuel, Irvin, Rachel, Louis, Sarah, Letty, Ida, Elizabeth and BellLetty was in bad health and told her father she wanted to be buried by a tree in a plot that they had picked out for a burial place.  However, her father passed away before she did so the family buried him there.  He was the first to be buried there and that is why it is named for him. 

 

He departed this life on April 19, 1859 at the age of 48 years, 10 months, and nine days.”

 

------ Mrs. Lena G. Riley, Cherry Valley, Arkansas

 

 

  

 

 

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