White River's Hogan Cemetery: Neck Discoid Stones, Step-stone Graves & White Bronze/ Zinc Monuments.

Explore the former Hogan Cemetery in Oakland, Arkansas, with Ozarks' History. 

We'll begin to discover the unique styles of burials & graves once located along the beautiful White River in the Ozark Plateau. The Hogan Cemetery has existed at least since 1860 with the dated interment of 1860, with Ewing Hogan, Sr. The former cemetery contained Discoid Neck Grave Markers, Step-Stone Graves & White Bronze Monuments.

We are now discovering the area of former Oakland, Arkansas, had everything, including the kitchen, sink pertaining to Ozark historical burial customs.

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  Research Recommendations:

 

Amazon Books:

1. Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950

2.  A Shape in Time and Space: The Migration of the Necked Discoid Gravemarker - the Illinois Sample

A few Silas C. Turnbo stories referencing the Hogan Family: These stories are found on the Springfield-Greene County Library database.

1.  An Interview with a Pioneer settler of Bryant's Fork

2. Among the Pioneer Hogan People

3. Spoiling His Boots

4. Old Time Events

5. Buried Near the Spot Where He Met Death

6. A Woman's Dress Saturated with the Blood of Her Dead Husband

7. The Drowning of Sam Nard & Miss Hanna Friend in the Early Days of Marion County, Arkansas

 

Journal & Papers

"Two Rare Anglesey Discoid Markers."
 By George Thomson

Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences. Volume 5 Issue 4 - 2020.

"Contextualization and Typology of Disc-headed and Trapezoidal Gravemarker forms in Scotland."

By George Thompson 

Scottish Archaeological Journal. Vol. 34-35 (2012), pp. 1-24 (24 pages) Published By: Edinburgh University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/26205993

  

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