Object description

Bethel Cemetery is a historic cemetery at the end of Bethel Road in rural eastern Ashley County, Arkansas. It is about 1.5 acres in size, with about 170 marked burial sites, and an unknown number of unmarked sites. The oldest marked burial is dated 1855, and it continues to receive new burials. It contains funerary markers carved by makers from an unusually wide geographic area, extending from New Orleans to St. Louis.