Perkins Graveyard (Destroyed)
Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
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Add PhotosA FLOATING GRAVEYARD. | Five Hundred Dead Bodies Washed Into The Arkansas River. | From Cornelius Brown, member of the house from this county, we have the following particulars concerning the destruction by water of the Perkins graveyard The cemetery was opened in 1844, at which time it was owned by Constantine Perkins, who died during the war, an is sixteen miles below Little Rock on the Arkansas river, The river was very high on Friday of last week, at which time the yard commenced caving gradually into the river, exposing to view moldy coffins, and in some instances their con-tents. The water kept rising until the cemetery was swept completely. away, and about five hundred coffins were washed into the river. It is thought they will all he recovered, as the graveyard is situated in what is known as the "Horse Shoe," between the river and a lake, where the water forms an eddy. When the graveyard was opened it was situated about nine hundred yards from the river, but each succeeding rise has washed more and more of the bank away, until the last flood came, which destroyed every vestige of the hallowed spot wherein were the loved remains of many citizens. The last body was washed into the river Sunday, at which time the citizens of the neighborhood were summoned out by a justice of the peace to rescue the bodies from the river, and at which time about thirty-five were recovered. It is thought that all the bodies will be rescued, except those who have laid in the ground until they have decayed. Among the bodies recovered and recognized were those of Seeley Pillow, a woman who died six weeks ago, and Shade Shaley, a man who had been dead about a year. The wildest excitement prevails in the vicinity of the destroyed cemetery, as the men and women are searching the muddy. waters of the Arkansas for the remains of their dear friends. | The Daily Arkansas Gazette, 16 Apr 1873
A number of coffin from the Perkins graveyard, which was destroyed a short time since by high water, are stranded along the river banks below where the cemetery was formerly situated. | The Daily Arkansas Gazette, 26 Apr 1873
A FLOATING GRAVEYARD. | Five Hundred Dead Bodies Washed Into The Arkansas River. | From Cornelius Brown, member of the house from this county, we have the following particulars concerning the destruction by water of the Perkins graveyard The cemetery was opened in 1844, at which time it was owned by Constantine Perkins, who died during the war, an is sixteen miles below Little Rock on the Arkansas river, The river was very high on Friday of last week, at which time the yard commenced caving gradually into the river, exposing to view moldy coffins, and in some instances their con-tents. The water kept rising until the cemetery was swept completely. away, and about five hundred coffins were washed into the river. It is thought they will all he recovered, as the graveyard is situated in what is known as the "Horse Shoe," between the river and a lake, where the water forms an eddy. When the graveyard was opened it was situated about nine hundred yards from the river, but each succeeding rise has washed more and more of the bank away, until the last flood came, which destroyed every vestige of the hallowed spot wherein were the loved remains of many citizens. The last body was washed into the river Sunday, at which time the citizens of the neighborhood were summoned out by a justice of the peace to rescue the bodies from the river, and at which time about thirty-five were recovered. It is thought that all the bodies will be rescued, except those who have laid in the ground until they have decayed. Among the bodies recovered and recognized were those of Seeley Pillow, a woman who died six weeks ago, and Shade Shaley, a man who had been dead about a year. The wildest excitement prevails in the vicinity of the destroyed cemetery, as the men and women are searching the muddy. waters of the Arkansas for the remains of their dear friends. | The Daily Arkansas Gazette, 16 Apr 1873
A number of coffin from the Perkins graveyard, which was destroyed a short time since by high water, are stranded along the river banks below where the cemetery was formerly situated. | The Daily Arkansas Gazette, 26 Apr 1873
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