Confederate Memorial Day Observance

Members and guests of the General T. J. Churchill Chapter #1373 United Daughters of the Confederacy organized a Confederate Memorial Day observance at Little Rock's historic Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery in Little Rock on Saturday, April 24th, 2010.

A recently published booklet on the cemetery provides a wonderful insight into the history of the some 7 cemeteries that make up Oakland-Fraternal. In May 1862 the city of Little Rock purchased 160 acres of land from Mary Starbuck and William E. Woodruff for the sum of $5,000 to establish a cemetery to bury the Confederate dead that were dying daily in Little Rock's Confederate hospitals. Some 900 Confederate soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the site of the observance. The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a monument at the site in 1913 to honor these soldiers.

As Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery celebrates their own Sesquicentennial observance during the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial, donations are being solicited to erect an iron archway to define the entrance to the Confederate section of the cemetery. Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in April 2010.

For more information on Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery please consult their website at www.oaklandfraternal.org

Churchill Chapter Creates a Database for Ancestors

A database has been created from original and supplemental member applications of Confederate ancestors representing the General T. J. Churchill Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. We wish to thank Mavis for her dedication and hard work in creating this data base. This data will provide valuable information to relatives searching for their Confederate soldier. Keep checking back for updated information. For more information on any of the soldiers listed please e-mail kay.tatum@yahoo.com with a detailed request.

Note: Duplicate entries represent more than one current Chapter member.

Ashworth, Benjamin H.
Bearden, Andrew A.
Blackwell, William Henry
Bradford, Henry Taylor
Bradford, John Hamilton
Bradford, James David
Bradford, Henry Taylor
Brakefield, George William
Bullington, Robert M.
Burks, John P.
Canon, Samuel B.
Carl, Barton Arnold
Cathy, Archibald Pinkney
Clements, Isham
Clements, Thomas Jeptha
Cook, James Samuel
Cosby, Jacob Anderson
Crow, Abel Marion
Culpepper, John Abb
Davidson, Robert Calvin
Deal, Alexander
Eagle, Joseph L.
Eagle, John David
Eagle, James M.
Eaton, Joel
Fitch, W. P.
Ford, Thomas Cellars
Ford, David Dailey
Ford, Jesse Stanley
Ford, John Gallman
Ford, William Follett
Gallaway, M. C.
Garner, George W.
Garner, John F.
Hassell, Miles H.
Hawk, James M.
Hawk, James M.
Haynie, John Chapel
Holmes, Richard Maddin
Holyfield, James N.
Holyfield, William Newton
Hughes, Moses Sanders
Kemp, Leonidas H.
Linzy, James Stephen
Luten, Joseph Reed
McKeithen, William Daniel
Midget, Nathaniel
Midgett, Nathaniel
Moses, Robert Alexander
Neighbors, William
O'Neal, Joseph
O'Neal, Isaac
O'Neal, Joseph
O'Neal, Isaac
Parks, William Alexander
Pearre, Humphrey O.
Pearre, Humphrey O.
Pennington, Isaac Jefferson
Plunk, Sidney
Plunk, J. W.
Pumphrey, James Marion
Quattlebaum, John
Quattlebaum, Philip
Randle, Clinton Linebaugh
Ryan, Henry Washington
Searcy, James Bryant
Searcy, James Bryant
Simmons, Henry
Simmons, Henry
Sisson, William R.
Stobaugh, Andrew Jackson
Thomas, Nathaniel
Thomas, Joseph Presley
Thomas, John C.
Thomas, David N.
Thomason, George A.
Thomason, George A.
Todd, John Edward
Todd, William J.
Todd, John Edward
Todd ,William J.
Wilkinson, Tilden Joshua
Wilkinson, Winston
Wilson, Uriah
Wright, Squire Burgess
Wright, Valentine Wolf
York, William Daniel
Young, Samuel Reason

Chapter hosts fundraising tour at Little Rock's Historic Mount Holly Cemetery

The ladies of the General T. J. Churchill Chapter #1373, United Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a fundraising tour at Little Rock's most famous cemetery on Sunday afternoon, May 16th at 2:00. Mount Holly, circa 1843 is the final resting place of 11 Arkansas Governors, 14 Supreme Court Justices, 4 Confederate Generals, 22 Little Rock Mayors, numerous newspaper editors, military heroes, David O. Dodd, 17 year old hero of the Confederacy and even a "red light" district Madam.

The 90 minute tour featured such notables as William E. Woodruff, founder of the Arkansas Gazette Newspaper, Col. Sanford Faulkner, the author of the "Arkansas Traveler", Quatie Ross, the Cherokee wife of Chief John Ross, who died on the Trail of Tears near Little Rock and Dr. Matthew Cunningham who brought his family to Pioneer Little Rock in 1820. His wife, Eliza Wilson Bertrand Cunningham would be the first "white" female permanent resident of Little Rock, as the area was still widely populated with Quapaw Indians.

All proceeds from the tour benefited the scholarship program of the Chapter.