Cabin Creek Cemetery
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Cabin Creek Cemetery

Also known as Cedar Creek Cemetery , Laffon Cemetery

Rush, Marion County, Arkansas, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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This cemetery has not been accessible by auto or 4 wheeler for many years. The walk is about an hour from the nearest road and there is only one way in and out. One of the most remote locations in Arkansas.

Less than two miles below the mouth of Rush Creek, just past the mouth of Cabin Creek, between mile 131 and 132, hidden from those floating down the Buffalo River is an old cemetery. Only 20 of its estimated 70 graves are marked by "store bought," engraved stones. Many of these stones bear the family name of Laffoon. Most of the persons known to be buried there are connected by kinship ties, regardless of their surname. The cemetery is on a high bench with deep soil, one of the few spots suitable for burial. The land occupied by the cemetery was entered at the land office by Thomas M. Laffoon in 1883. His body is buried in the graveyard. The stone with the earliest engraved date of death there honors his father, Flavius Terry Laffoon, who died in 1878 at age 45. Land to the east of the cemetery belonged to Flavius and his wife Judia. However, it was not entered until 1885.

This cemetery has not been accessible by auto or 4 wheeler for many years. The walk is about an hour from the nearest road and there is only one way in and out. One of the most remote locations in Arkansas.

Less than two miles below the mouth of Rush Creek, just past the mouth of Cabin Creek, between mile 131 and 132, hidden from those floating down the Buffalo River is an old cemetery. Only 20 of its estimated 70 graves are marked by "store bought," engraved stones. Many of these stones bear the family name of Laffoon. Most of the persons known to be buried there are connected by kinship ties, regardless of their surname. The cemetery is on a high bench with deep soil, one of the few spots suitable for burial. The land occupied by the cemetery was entered at the land office by Thomas M. Laffoon in 1883. His body is buried in the graveyard. The stone with the earliest engraved date of death there honors his father, Flavius Terry Laffoon, who died in 1878 at age 45. Land to the east of the cemetery belonged to Flavius and his wife Judia. However, it was not entered until 1885.

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  • Added: 15 Nov 2010
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2377877