Crawfordsville Bethel Cemetery

Crawfordsville Bethel Cemetery Bethel Cemetery is the final resting place for many of Crawfordsville's prominent citizens dating back to the early 1800's-2021. James Albert Alexander.

Bethel Cemetery is the site of the first Methodist Episcopal Church, South
in 1850, established by Rev. His great granddaughter, Susie Hart Landrum & family are resting here, along with many other prominent citizens, Civil War, WWI, & WWII soldiers. Dr. Simon J. Knott & family, Gladstone Williams, who was once the sheriff & is the last known person laid to rest here, Smith's, Lawler's, just to na

me a few; alot of history in this small piece of land. An initiation of clean up & preservation by Andy Pouncey, Carol Alpe Smith, Terri Watson, Carolyn Springfield-Harvey, & Johnny Phillips, has begun recently. We are hoping to have this cemetery revitalized and respected from this time forward.

Arthur Dealer (A.D.) Blann and his wife Mary Winifred Spicer have a new headstone at Bethel. It was placed by their grea...
02/11/2025

Arthur Dealer (A.D.) Blann and his wife Mary Winifred Spicer have a new headstone at Bethel. It was placed by their great granddaughter, Mary Burnett Porter and her husband, Rick Porter in December.
A.D. and Winifred had 5 children, one of who was Ollie Mai Blann, married Fort George Scott and lived in Marion. They were Mary Porter's grandparents.

One of the stained-glass windows in the sanctuary of the Methodist Church is in memory of A.D. Blann.

A. D. was the son of John "J. C." Blann and Mary Rutland. J. C. moved his family to Crawfordsville in 1876 as a cotton buyer.

A.D. was featured in the Crittenden County Times on May 5, 1905:
"A.D. Blann, head of the firm of M. W. Blann, one of our wealthy men, is a son of Arkansas, having been born and reared at this place. Twice has he seen the town burned and is the oldest merchant - but not in years."

Censuses show however, that he was born in Mississippi.
He was in business as a stock dealer and storekeeper from 1886 on.

A.D.'s wife, Winifred Spicer, came to Crawfordsville from Bartlett, TN as a school teacher. They were married on March 1, 1889, in Cross County.
Winifred was a charter member of the Woman's Book Club, which was the pioneer club of Crittenden County, organized in 1894.

Snow and ice at Crawfordsville Bethel Cemetery
01/20/2024

Snow and ice at Crawfordsville Bethel Cemetery

Getting Bethel ready for the fall and winter. Mowed, whacked, and grass blown off the headstones.
10/18/2023

Getting Bethel ready for the fall and winter. Mowed, whacked, and grass blown off the headstones.

Limb and trash pickup at Crawfordsville Bethel Cemetery today. Sadly someone dumped their garbage by the cemetery, but ...
03/06/2023

Limb and trash pickup at Crawfordsville Bethel Cemetery today. Sadly someone dumped their garbage by the cemetery, but we got it picked up, along with quite a few limbs.

Johnny's original tree didn't fare very well thru the winter but one of the saplings is coming on strong.
06/04/2022

Johnny's original tree didn't fare very well thru the winter but one of the saplings is coming on strong.

It is with a sad heart that we inform you that Mrs. Betty M. Smith passed away yesterday, May 25, 2022. She lived in Se...
05/26/2022

It is with a sad heart that we inform you that Mrs. Betty M. Smith passed away yesterday, May 25, 2022. She lived in Senatobia, MS after moving there from Memphis. Her rosary will be at 10:00 a.m., June 1, at St. Michael's in West Memphis.

Ms. Betty's mother-in-law, Nettie Jane Gordan Smith, her grandparents-in-law, John William and Emma Davis Smith, and her young brother-in-law, Carl Smith are all interred at Bethel Cemetery.

Ms. Betty used to bring her family to Bethel back in the 70s, when they lived in Memphis, to maintain the Smith Family plot.

She was a contributor to the Bethel Fund, as well as a participant in the Re-Dedication of Bethel Cemetery in Oct 2017. She came from Senatobia that weekend to attend the Hometown Festival and the Re-Dedication of the cemetery.

Please keep her family in your prayers.

Spring at Bethel!We have finally cleared all the limbs from the Feb ice storm and the recent wind storms. Our next major...
04/23/2022

Spring at Bethel!

We have finally cleared all the limbs from the Feb ice storm and the recent wind storms.
Our next major project will be to add more iron fence along the east and north lines.

We have had a recent inquiry by Vincent Pittman regarding his grandparents, Willlie Henry Davis and Laura Pittman Davis, who are interred at Bethel, no headstones, but information on their death certificates show Bethel as the cemetery.
We are currently researching to find information for Mr. Pittman.

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Old Highway 64, West Of Town, South Of The RR Tracks
Crawfordsville, AR
72327

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