![]() This deed is recorded in Deed Record Book B, page 409. Cole’s widow Nancy Cole sold the land to Green B. Sold the land where the cemetery now sits to a David D. In the district of lands subject to sale at Little Rock, Arkansas, containing forty acres.” This is the site whereĪccording to the County Assessor’s office, there was a deed, dated October 13, 1837, that was recorded on page 263 of Deed Record Book A, in which Lockert On August 2, 1838, Lockert purchased “the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section fifteen, in township two south of range fifteen west, There, he and his family formed the village of Saline Crossing on the shores of the Saline River. Lockert, sometimes spelled “Lockhart,” followed the Southwest Trail to what is now the end of The first white man to settle in Saline County, William S. Who lobbied for Arkansas statehood during the administration of then President Andrew Jackson. Benton was named for Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri senator Selling additional lots to trustees who would eventually form the first city government. ![]() Hughes and future Benton mayor Rezin Davis a day after statehood on June 16, 1836. Benton was initially formed after William Woodruff of the Arkansas Gazette. Hughes Cemetery lies within the City of Benton, Arkansas, the county seat of Saline County. Preclude its listing on the National Register, Hughes Cemetery is eligible for listing on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. Graves of city founders but of several antebellum families who may not have any living descendants today.Although changes to the cemetery’s integrity Hughes, his family, and other city founding fathers as well.TheĬemetery may also be the first County Cemetery for Saline County which adds to the site’s significance.The Hughes Cemetery not only is home to the ![]() The Hughes Cemetery is significant as the last resting place of Green B. ![]() Its associations with the exploration, founding, and settlement of Benton and its surrounding areas, and also under Criteria Consideration D as a cemetery. Hughes Cemetery is being nominated to the Arkansas Register of Historic Places with local significance under Criterion A for ![]()
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