Visited in April 2017. The cemetery is on private land but accessible with permission. Sadly, only the lower half of Dorcas T. Maund's headstone remains; two headstones (Dorcas and Gabriel) have been removed to private property. The other headstones were...according to local lore, destroyed by vandals sometime in the 1960s, the fragments then pushed off to the edge of the field.

In the newspaper article, "Ard's Old Mill and All Else" a column by W. L. A. and appearing in the Wednesday 19 August 1914 edition of "The Southern Star". The author describes a day out visiting Uncle Sam Maund, Nancy's brother before heading out to the Old Maund Cemetery.


“Uncle Sam Maund is now more than 85 years old, but retains his mental faculties to a most remarkable degree. He is cheerful and bids fair to live to be a hundred. He gave me some very interesting items about Ard’s old mill in the early days…

We went to the Maund grave yard in the old field on the east side of the river which is grown up in great water oaks some four feet in thickness and smaller growth. A number of people are buried here, but only four graves have slabs to them. These are on the west side of the cemetery and lie side by side. Beginning at the north where a big cedar tree stands at the head of the first grave they come in order:

“Dorcus T. wife of William Maund, Sr. born August 27, 1804, died March 7 1853”
“Wm. Maund Sr. born Oct. 14 1798, died April 5 1868”
“William Maund Jr., born June 12, 1831, died March 26, 1853”
“Gabriel N. Maund, born Nov. 21 1847, died Oct. 20 1855”

Besides these a number of others sleep there. Among them are William Maund’s second wife who was Caroline Skinner

Josiah Ard

John Ard’s oldest son, little John Ard, a boy

Viney, daughter of John Judah, who was killed by accident. A certain man was enraged at John Judah and drew back his arm as if to strike him. Viney, believing her father in danger, caught the man’s arm. He jerked back in some way, striking the girl in the stomach and killed her.

Then Nancy Maund, daughter of Sam Maund is buried there.

Jasper Barnes, son of William Barnes, whose mother was a sister of Sam Maund.

Several of Mary Dorsett’s children are buried there. She was Sam Maund’s sister.
Others, perhaps, also.

Northwest of the graves about eighty yards was the old Ard houses, and in which the Maunds afterwards lived. About the grave was the old muster ground when Ard’s mills was as of much notoriety as Ozark is now.”

The old cedar tree marking the cemetery. Only half of a marker remains readily visible.