GARDEN POINT CEMETERY

at Etowah, AR.

 

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ETOWAH COMMUNITY

Etowah receives grant for cemetery project


The Town of Etowah was awarded a Department of Arkansas Heritage grant of $10,569 for a proposed project at the Garden Point Cemetery.
Etowah Mayor Charles Bo McCollum said the project consists of mapping and identifying the gravesites at the Garden Point Cemetery using a computer program used on a laptop computer called Spatial Generations.
This mapping will allow the Cemetery Committee and Town of Etowah to be able to account for all grave sites more affectively and identify historical figures buried at Garden Point.
The project will allow the Cemetery Committee and Town of Etowah to better serve the local, state, federal and international communities by being able to share information about deceased family members to citizens wanting to know about their ancestors and history. This information will not only be available locally but also via the internet.
“Our resident cemetery historian, Shirley Heard Brackett Mathey, has graciously volunteered her time and talents to enter all the data and work with the software company to make sure our data is correct and available to all,” Mayor McCollum said.
The website will show the cemetery’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places and will list the historical descendants buried within the cemetery. In addition, obituaries of the people buried at the cemetery will be available for viewing.
The Department of Arkansas Heritage received 202 applications for a total of $4.2 million, but funding of $600,000 limited the committee to selection of only 33 projects.
“Congratulations to the members of your organization for their contributions in providing an outstanding project that preserves Arkansas’s heritage,” Randy Denis, program manager said.

For more information on Garden Point Cemetery log on to: home.centurytel.net/gardenpointcemetery. To contact Mathey with any information e-mail her at Shirley Mathey@centurytel.net.

updated May 8, 2008

 

   
 

 

   
 


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

  

 

GARDEN POINT CEMETERY

ALPHA BURIAL DATABASE

This is a alphabet list of persons buried in Garden Point Cemetery.  It includes plot designations, last name, first name, birth date and death date.

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HISTORIES

Various people have written about our community creating a fascinating look at Etowah's beginnings.  It includes newspaper columns, the early postmasters and other clippings.

PERSONALITIES

Our community had some quiet but illustrative people. Bob Wilmoth, Ed Wildy, Carl Heard, and Buster Brown.

VETERAN'S DATABASE

This list of community men and some women who served our country may be incomplete.

VETERAN'S OBITS

This is alphabetized list of obits of the men and women who served our country. Notice those who were killed in action.

ETOWAH

Etowah township; including the officers, the accomplishments since Etowah was incorporated in April 1996.

LITTLE RIVER CENSUS 1860-1930

Check the voting district of Little River Census families living in our area. The 1940 census records will be available in 2 years.

 

GARDEN POINT ALPHABETIZED OBITS

 

This is alphabetized list of obits of the men and women who are buried in Garden Point.  This helps recognize family members who are there and also those who are missing.

PLOT MAP

The layout of the burials organizes the cemetery into nine sections using Roman numerals:I through IV are on the south side, X markes the former church area, V through VIII on the north side. That is clear isn't it?

HISTORIAN

 

Shirley Heard Brackett Mathey has been working on this project since 1996.  Shirley is working on a family tree research of families who were early settlers. Starting with ... See more on Historian...

 

 

Last updated: 5/8/2008 by Shirley Mathey