JAMES
FAMILY BURIAL GROUND
(Extinct)
Taken from “A History of Crittenden
County, Arkansas”
by Margaret Woolfolk,
Jericho chapter
Stephen Stonewall James died in 1894 and in his will asked that he
be buried in his garden at Jericho. The James home and garden also were east of
the railroad. If a marker was erected
there, it has long ago disappeared. His
wife and twins also were buried in the garden.
Another James burial plot, now in the middle of a soybean field,
is northeast of Gilmore where the family also owned property.
Stephen Stonewall James’s children included a daughter, America
Cassandra (Cassie) and two sons, Joseph Newman (James) and Stephen (James)
II. The latter married Lilly Clement in
1888. She was one of the eight children of Anthony Marion Clement, a North
Carolinian, and his wife Mary Catherine Patrick, who had settled east of
Jericho in 1869. (See Clement Cemetery)
Stephen S. James II, and three daughters, Lucy A., Mary E., and
Martha J., all of whom died as children, were buried at Greenock Cemetery.
Joseph Newman James was the first husband of the late Essie
(Mrs. Tom) Williford of Marion, and chartered a train
to take his bride to Memphis for their honeymoon. He reportedly was quite a gambler and lost
his father’s family fortune, requiring him to take bankruptcy.
Daughter America Cassandra (Cassie) James was one of the four wives
of Captain J. G. Sands. Captain Sands is buried at Fennel
Cemetery along with two wives; Martha J. (Mattie Wallace Osborn) and Mary
C. (Mary C. West); two daughters, Mollie M. and Hadie
S., who died as infants, and two sons, John B. and William B., who also died as
infants, and John J. Stephens, the husband of Gertrude Lyon Sands, another
daughter.
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