Place:Maple Hill Cemetery, Helena, Phillips, Arkansas, United States

Location

Holly St

Cemetery notes and/or description

Maple Hill Cemetery is a cultural feature (cemetery) in Phillips County. It was started about 1865 as a direct result of the destruction of Helena's existing cemetery (called Graveyard Hill) by the shells and gunfire of the Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863. In the first years of the cemetery's existence and when its newly drawn lots were being purchased, the remains of many were removed from the shattered cemetery and from places of burial in private yards and reinterred in the new cemetery. The earliest death date on a headstone is 1827 (Section 2-A), and this stone was probably moved from Graveyard Hill. About 78 stones in the cemetery proper (excluding the Confederate Cemetery) have death dates prior to 1865; some are "moved" stones and some are stones set later with early dates. On part of the site of the new cemetery of approximately 35 acres, had been the home of the Davis Thompson family and even now articles turn up occasionally which are attributed to the materials of the house or outbuildings. Originally the cemetery was called Evergreen Cemetery and was enclosed by a fence of evergreens. In 1898, it was reorganized as Maple Hill Cemetery. ... (see Find A Grave for more)

Resources

• Arkansas Gravestones.org: Maple Hill Cemetery
• Find A Grave: Maple Hill Cemetery
• Rootsweb: Maple Hill Cemetery - Aug 2002 by Heather Blair