Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association Records
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Scope and Content Note
The records of the Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association include five ledgers containing financial information, names of lot owners, and minutes of meetings. The records also include correspondence and other papers kept by association secretary Vera Hall, deeds to cemetery property, lot owner deeds, and maps.
Dates
- 1885-1988
Creator
- Evergreen Cemetery Association (Fayetteville, Ark.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
In the 1840s, the area now occupied by Evergreen Cemetery was part of the John Thomas family farm. It was used as a private burial ground by the Thomas family until 1870, when Washington Lodge Number 1 of the Free and Accepted Masons and Lodge Number 15 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows bought the property for a place of interment for lodge members and for the Fayetteville community in general. The Masons and Odd Fellows owned and managed Evergreen Cemetery until 1915, when they deeded the cemetery to the Evergreen Cemetery Association. Organized in the Spring of 1915 by Mrs. H. L. Pearson, Mrs. J. P Benson, Mrs. Robert Wilson, and other concerned citizens, the Evergreen Cemetery Association became incorporated as the Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association in 1925. Since 1915, the association has been responsible for the perpetual care of one of the oldest and most cherished cemeteries in Fayetteville.
Extent
2.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes and 1 framed item)
Arrangement of the Papers
Materials arranged chronologically and alphabetically.
Acquisition Information
Al Eason, President of the Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association, and Mrs. Vera Hall, Secretary of the Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association, donated these records to the Special Collections Department on March 17, 1989.
Processing Information
Processed by Anthony J. Wappel, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in March 1989.
Creator
- Evergreen Cemetery Association (Fayetteville, Ark.) (Organization)
- Title
- Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anthony J. Wappel
- Date
- 1989
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu