Clover Family Research Compendium
Created, Edited, and Maintained By June Clover Byrne
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Arkansas Cemetery Records
I have
not so far found any Clover cemetery records in Clark County.
I was told that there are none.
However, the person who
told me this did not say what she searched. Consequently, I am
still searching. I
have been through the following. If
you have checked any other source, please tell me so that I can
put it here.
FHL 6046948, Cemetery Records of Arkansas. These are cemeteries which were read by members of the LDS Church and published in 1966. The set of 48 microfiche includes volumes 1 through 8 and volume 11. There is no overall index to the volumes. For the most part the cemeteries are alphabetical. A list of the cemeteries in each volume is at the beginning of the book except for volume 6 which has no table of contents. I paged volume 6, and checked the table of contents of the other volumes looking for Clark County. I found no cemetery in Clark County.I find no mention of volumes 9 and 10. I don’t know if they exist or not. I did not check every cemetery in every county in Arkansas.
There are two possible reasons for the lack of Clover tombstones in Clark County. From the 1818 deed, they probably started living on DeGray Bayou about then. I have been trying to find out for sure, but I think it was buried by DeGray Resevoir. DeGray was a big time early explorer of the area. They may have been buried on farms with wooden or poor quality stone markers. If any of those survived, they might not have been moved even through they should hve been moved.
Rhonda Clover tells me the following: When Degray Lake went in notices were sent out across the country via newspaper and word of mouth to move there dead loved ones due to the lake. After the cutoff time the bodies were moved by the prison system located in nearby Pulaski to a region in around that county. That is why some Arkansas cemeteries carry 2 or more names than subsection black, white, veterans , family plots, etc. It is likely the already decaying stones were not moved and each person had a number to make it easier for loved to claim their remains and take them back to the states of their forefathers. Plus, what I am going to dub as mega cemetery was never meant to be a final resting place but more a retention pond. Keep in mind cemeteries could be moved back them but the state and federal govt had no power to destroy a corpse. Who would be most likely to dig up thousands of bodies...prisoners?
Sweet Home Cemetery merged with Freeman Cemetery which was near Friendship Cemetery and included Hollywood. When Degray came the bodies moved to Pulaski County that is why this is so messed up. Their ultimate goal was to relocate all the old family cemeteries and small sections and for a time kept both cemetery names. Giving their loved one more time to move somebody but giving them the go ahead.
Starting in 1847, William Clover purchased land which was sold at his death in 1850. A few years later, William H. Clover purchased land near where the 1847 patent was. They probably moved by that time. That area is just off Interstate 30, north west of Exit no. 63, where hiway 53 crosses the interstate. There are a number of cemeteries in this area, but these cemeteries also contain many blank stones. It is quite possible that they are buried there but the tombstones were too soft to survive.
Thanks to Kenneth Arnold for pointing out the blank stones in the cemeteries.
George W. Clover, born 5 February 1846, died 21 March 1864. He was a private in the 3rd Iowa Battery, in the Civil War and was buried in the Little Rock National Cemetery, Pulaski County, Arkansas. He died at Corinth, Mississippi. His mother, Jane Clover, later applied for a pension and gave the information that he was her son and had never married. There was an affidavit in the pension application file from George M. Clover, the soldier's uncle stating that he remembered the birth of this George because he was named for him. On the pension form under important dates, the information is given that George enlisted 4 February 1864, aged 18, Hardin County, Iowa, mustered in 24 February 1864, died 20 March 1864 of disease, the declaration filed 20 April 1888 by his mother. All of the above information was found in the application for pension of his mother. The original of the Pension Record is held at the National Archives in Washington, DC. The number of the application is 371417. I have a copy of this if anyone needs it.
George W.5 Clover (Solomon4, Joshua3, Henry2, Philip1 Clover of Berkeley County, Virginia.) All of this information was originally published in my book: Clovers of Franklin County, Ohio: A Study of Henry Clover, His Ancestors and Descendants, page 56. For more information on the family, please contact me at junebyr@yahoo.com [I have wondered if his middle name could have been Widner which was his mother's maiden name.]
Also in Little Rock National Cemetery:
Rhonda Clover sent me the following sites of Arkansas Clover burials. None are in Clark County.
http://www.interesting.net/~bethg/yell/ychula.htm
Buried in Chula Cemetery, in Yell County, Arkansas
Martha Clover, wife of C. H. born 1833, died 23 May 1899
http://www.argenweb.net/scott/cempiney.htm
Buried in Piney Cemetery, Scott County, Arkansas
Clover, William G., 1849-1901
http://www.findagrave.com
Buried in Johnson Cemetery, Scott County, Arkansas
Clover, Ella J., 14 Apr 1870-9 Mar 1926, W/o John R.
Clover, John R., 1887-1951, FHM [Note: According to information from
the local genealogical society, his dates were 4 June 1893 to 10 August
1951, husband of Ella. On the www.findagrave.com site, you can tell
from the photo of the stone that it says 1887-1951.]
(http://geocities.com/nlmatthews@sbcglobal.net/crossrds.htm
Link broken. If you can find this
info elsewhere, let me know.)
Buried in Crossroads Cemetery, Lawrence County, Arkansas (AKA
Portia Cemetery)
Clover, Hattie born 1858 died 1946
(http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/jackson/cemeteries/ballews.txt
Link broken. If you can find this
info elsewhere, let me know.)
Buried in Ballew's Chapel Cemetery, Jackson County, Arkansas
Clover, John born 21 February 1868 died 17 November 1918
A
look up request for Arkansas sent this information:
Hollywood Cemetery, Garland County,
Arkansas:
Mary Ethel Spradin Clover Feb
14,1897-August 29, 1929.
She is buried next to Jordan B Spradin
no dates he was in the Army.
This burial is in Louisiana, but it is a half mile from from Union County, Arkansas, so I think she is one of the Arkansas Group. In Springhill Cemetery, Oakland, LA (within half a mile of the Union County/Arkansas line), there is a listing for Minnie Smith Clover. Dates are 1869 to 1899. This information came from a lookup request by Rhonda Clover. We do not have the source of the information.
Sumner Cemetery,
Lonoke County, Arkansas, Cemetery index indicates the
following two persons buried there.
Clarence McPartland b. Jul. 29, 1912
d. Aug. 31, 1978 and Martha Lee (Clover) McPartland b. Jun. 6, 1916 d.
Jul. 21, 1991
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