The Political Graveyard: Hempstead County, Ark.

PoliticalGraveyard.com

Hempstead County
Arkansas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Hempstead County

Index to Locations

Private or family graveyards

Hope Memory Gardens Cemetery

Hope Rosehill Gardens

Washington Old Washington Cemetery

Washington Presbyterian Cemetery

Private or family graveyard
Hempstead County, Arkansas

Politicians buried here:

Edward Cross (1798-1887) — of Washington, Hempstead County, Ark. Born in Hawkins City (unknown county), Tenn., November 11, 1798. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1839-45. Slaveowner. Died near Washington, Hempstead County, Ark., April 6, 1887 (age 88 years, 146 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.

		Cross County, Ark. is named for him.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Memory Gardens Cemetery
Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas
Founded 1956

Politicians buried here:

Robert James Huber (1922-2001) — also known as Robert J. Huber — of Troy, Oakland County, Mich. Born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., August 29, 1922. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; president, Michigan Chrome and Chemical Inc.; mayor of Troy, Mich., 1959-64; member of Michigan state senate 16th District, 1965-70; defeated in primary, 1962; candidate for U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988; U.S. Representative from Michigan 18th District, 1973-75; defeated, 1974. Catholic. Member, Rotary; Elks; American Legion; Catholic War Veterans. Died, of cancer, in Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Mich., April 23, 2001 (age 78 years, 237 days). Interment at Memory Gardens Cemetery.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Rosehill Gardens
Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas

Politicians buried here:

George Lloyd Spencer (1893-1981) — of Hope, Hempstead County, Ark. Born in Sarcoxie, Jasper County, Mo., March 27, 1893. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1941-43; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Died in Hope, Hempstead County, Ark., January 14, 1981 (age 87 years, 293 days). Interment at Rosehill Gardens.

Old Washington Cemetery
Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas
Founded 1859

Politicians buried here:

Rufus King Garland (1830-1886) — of Arkansas. Born in Tipton County, Tenn., May 22, 1830. Member of Arkansas state legislature, 1858-61; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 2nd District, 1864-65; delegate to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1874; Greenback candidate for U.S. Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1880; candidate for Governor of Arkansas, 1882. Died in Prescott, Nevada County, Ark., December 12, 1886 (age 56 years, 204 days). Interment at Old Washington Cemetery.

		Presumably named for: Rufus King
		Relatives: Son of Rufus K. Garland and Barbara (Hill) Garland; brother of Augustus Hill Garland.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Presbyterian Cemetery
Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas

Politicians buried here:

Charles Burton Mitchel (1815-1864) — also known as Charles B. Mitchel — of Arkansas. Born in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tenn., September 19, 1815. Democrat. Member of Arkansas state legislature, 1848; candidate for U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1860; U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1861; Senator from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; died in office 1864. When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern senators expelled in absentia on July 11, 1861. Slaveowner. Died in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., September 20, 1864 (age 49 years, 1 days). Interment at Presbyterian Cemetery.

Grandison Delaney Royston (1809-1889) — also known as Grandison D. Royston — of Arkansas. Born in Carter County, Tenn., December 9, 1809. Delegate to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1836, 1877; U.S. Attorney for Arkansas, 1836, 1843-44; member of Arkansas state legislature, 1837; member of Arkansas state senate, 1858; Representative from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 2nd District, 1862-64; defeated, 1863. Died in Washington, Hempstead County, Ark., August 14, 1889 (age 79 years, 248 days). Interment at Presbyterian Cemetery.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.

	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/HE-buried.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.