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Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 926

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

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.

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

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444