Talburt / Casey Cemetery

Exploring old cemeteries has been a favorite past time & hobby for me.

I recently came across an old newspaper article talking about one of my favorite small cemeteries in Baxter County, Arkansas, The Old Talburt/Casey Cemetery. As it was, at one time, neglected over the years, it has been recently groomed under the leadership of Captain Jeff Lewis of the Baxter County Sheriff's Office Inmate Restoration Program. Captain Lewis has also begun a blog on the old cemeteries he is working on. It is located at: http://baxtercountycemeteries.blogspot.com/. I urge you to visit this link & share it. Maybe, you could share this link & idea with you local sheriff's office.

The Old Talburt/Casey Cemetery is located at the corner of Cone & Crosswell in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

I also took a picture of the laminated place card placed by the wonderful team headed by retired Lt. Col. Lynn D. Baker. Lynn is the area coordinator for the Arkansas Gravestones Project. They have recently finished completing the project of photographing & documenting all 21,800 gravestones in Baxter County, Arkansas.
Lynn will also be speaking at our upcoming Arkansas Genealogy Roadshow.



Click this link to see the Arkansas Gravestones Project.

In in the following article, I have also placed the old pictures from the newspaper along with current pictures. All this is a tribute to the local people are preserving our Ozarks' History.

The Baxter Bulletin - April 4, 1974

Casey Cemetery holds history.

A segment of Mountain Home’s history almost obliterated by time is the old Casey (or Talburt) Cemetery, located in the east part of town adjacent to the Indian Creek subdivision.

The one-acre cemetery was once part of a farm whose owners included Dr. J. M. Casey, son-in-law of Major Jacob Wolf at Norfork and this area’s first white settler. The farm was purchased by Isaac Morris in 1919 and acquired by his son, Robin Morris, in 1934. 

1969 Newspaper Picture of the unattended cemetery.



2011 Picture after Captain Jeff Lewis' Inmate Team 
worked on the old Casey/Talburt Cemetery.
Outstanding Work.

The burial place of many members of the Talburt family, the cemetery also contains graves of others who were among this community’s earliest citizens. Dating back to the early 1800’s, it has not been used for a number of years and Robin Morris can recall only four persons being buried there since his family acquired the farm. The cemetery is overgrown with trees and brush throughout the older sections, and some tombstones have fallen, victims of time or vandalism. Many of the markers are uncarved field stones, offering no information about the people buried beneath them.

Among the stones with still legible legends is a broken one marking the grave of William and Elizabeth Hancock. It is believed that they were the parents of Robert M. Hancock, Baxter County’s second clerk and recorder.

Among the older headstones is in memory of “Levisa, wife of Robert McCrary,” who was born March 1, 1801, and died Sept. 6, 1865.

1969 Newspaper Picture of
Levisa McCrary's Tombstone.

2011 Picture of
Levisa McCrary's Tombstone.

A stone which appears to be hand hewn and carved bears the following legend: “Here Rests Pulina H. Lyles, wife of A. T. Lyles and daughter of E. W. and Mrs. E. W. Brown, who was born and raised in Ware County, N. C. and departed this life Sept. 26, 1864.”

1969 Newspaper Article Picture
of Pulina H. Lyles' Tombstone.

2011 Picture of
Pulina H. Lyles' Tombstone.

Among the Talburts buried in the cemetery are Samuel T. Talburt, S. W. Talburt, Fanney Talburt, Mary J. and W. B. Talburt, Jennie Talburt and Edward M. Talburt. (The stones reflect the spelling followed by various members of the family.)

1969 Newspaper Picture of
Samuel T. Talburt's Tombstone.



2011 Picture of
Samuel T. Talburt's Tombstone.



A twisted oak sapling bows over the resting place of William Conditt (Feb. 10, 1839-July 31, 1908) who fought with Tarall’s Battery in the Confederate Army.

2011 Picture of
William Conditt's Tombstone.

Works Cited:

“Casey Cemetery Holds History.” The Baxter Bulletin 74.28 (4 Apr., 1974) B-1. Baxter County Microfilm Archive. Donald W. Reynolds Library, Mountain Home, AR. 15 June, 2011.