Steele Cemetery, Ouachita County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Jerry McKelvy <jmckelvy@cei.net> Date: 3 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** STEELE CEMETERY This old cemetery is located near White Oak Lake. From the junction of Hwy. 57 and Hwy. 387, go west toward White Oak Lake and take first road to the right (Rd. 300). Follow Rd. 300 to the camphouses on the lake and turn right and go down hill to last house. Follow a graded dirt road (a state forest road) for 9/10ths of a mile. Turn right on a dim trail and go 1/2 mile. Cemetery will be on your right near the trail. Do not try road in wet weather. When I visited it in April, 2000, the timber has been cut around it and logging equipment has driven through the cemetery, possibly trying to clean off the underbrush. Im afraid they may have destroyed some old native stone grave markers in the process. This record made in April, 2000 by Jerry McKelvy. Lyerly, Isaac b. 3-6-1826--- d. 11-26-1856 Parker, Henery S. b. cant read --- d. A??., 1843; hard to read dates Smithborn, Parthana C. b. 6-21-1862 --- d. 9-21-1865 dau. of T. J. and N. J. Smithborn Steele, John G. b. 8-31-1836 --- d. 5-13-1861 aged 24 years, 8 mths., 12 days; a large star on grave marker Steele, James L. b. 12-11-1841 --- d. 2-19-1861 aged 19 yrs., 2 mths., 8 days Steele, Thomas H. b. 7-21-1834 --- d. 2-26-1856 aged 22 yrs, 2 days; (I may have left out the months in the age remarks) (Unknown) probably a Steele; only found a foot marker with initials J. P. S.