John Smith McDearman
Family Cemetery

This family cemetery was originally situated in the northeast corner of the McDearman Strawberry Farm, near the family home in Judsonia, White County, Arkansas. The farm was sold in 1917-18 after the death of Sarah Jane McDearman. The deed stated that the family and descendents were to have "egress to the family cemetery forever". With time, high grasses and weeds took over and the cemetery was lost for many years. It was rediscovered about 1985 when the State of Arkansas was widening the road. 

This picture shows the cemetery in front of the Judsonia water tower.  If you look closely, you can see the small fenced area in front of the water tower where the cemetery is.

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Edna Lorena Hanson Karnes visiting the cemetery.  She had often spoken of the little cemetery in her Grandma Mac's front yard. (Grandma Mac is Sarah Jane Travis McDearman).  

Some of the headstones in the cemetery:

John Smith McDearman       Sarah Jane Travis McDearman

 

Mary Angeline McDearman Hanson    Mattie McDearman

 


          

                     Layout of the cemetery.

Those who are buried here. This listing shows what is on the tombstone and in parenthesis I have added full names.

Hanson, Alice Edna - December 5, 1895 - August 9, 1896, age 7 months, 8 days.

Hanson, Horace, son of W.T. and V.S. Hanson - July 10, 1882 - October 9, 1888 (William Thomas Hanson & Virginia Smith McDearman Hanson)

Hanson, John W., son of B.F. & M.A. Hanson - December 18, 1878 - June 13, 1879 (son of Benjamin Franklin Hanson & Mary Angeline McDearman Hanson)

Hanson, Lillie, daughter of W.T. and V.S. Hanson - August 17, 1886 - August 25, 1890 (William Thomas Hanson & Virginia Smith McDearman Hanson)

Hanson, Mary A., wife of B.F. Hanson - September 27, 1859 - January 3, 1882 (Mary Angeline McDearman, wife of Benjamin Franklin Hanson)

Hanson, V.S. - September 5, 1857 - [no death date; may be buried at Evergreen; however, her site is concreted over; she had later married a White; V.S. was Virginia] (Virginia Smith McDearman Hanson)

Hanson, W.T. - September 10, 1857 - June 27, 1915 (William Thomas Hanson)

McDearman, baby daughter of J.A. & Ida McDearman - June 24, 1893 - July 29, 1893 (James Albert McDeaman-son of John Smith McDearman)

McDearman, Harriet, daughter of J.S. and S.J. McDearman - August 19, 1871 - April 30, 1930 [marker on ground] (John Smith and Sarah Jane McDearman)

McDearman, Mattie, daughter of J.S. and S.J. McDearman - July 18, 1862 - March 11, 1882 - stone is broken (John Smith and Sarah Jane McDearman)

McDearman, J.S., born Spotsylvania County, VA, December 28, 1832 - died Judsonia, March 15, 1913 (John Smith McDearman)

McDearman, Minnie Ellen - January 30, 1873 - February 22, 1938 (daughter of John Smith and Sarah Jane McDearman)

McDearman, Rena Bell, daughter of J.A. & Idea McDearman - January 31, 1886 - July 17, 1887 (James Albert McDearman-son of John Smith McDearman)

McDearman, Sarah J., wife of J.S. McDearman, born in Henry County, TN, June 10, 1836 - died Judsonia, February 16, 1917 (Sarah Jane Travis McDearman, wife of John Smith McDearman)

Perkins, Gertrude - June 15, 1915 - September 25, 1915 (assumed to be a granddaughter?)


Directions to the cemetery:

This cemetery is located in Section 33, Township 8 North, Range 6 West. It is due north of the Judsonia water tower, on State Highway 371 approximately 100 yards east of the U.S. Highway 67 overpass.