Yes, we have been to the cemetery. In fact we were part of the effort to place Col McMurtrey's headstone in that cemetery.

At the time some of the family were going to keep up the cemetery because of the Rison Pioneer Crafts festival. Col McMurtrey's home is one of the building that is preserved there. Anyway I guess it was just to much trouble.

More recently the area has been logged and you can almost see where the cemetery was from the highway. But they seem to have destroyed the little road that when to it. They also have built a couple of new business' along the highway (79).

I don't know if the cemetery even exist, if the headstones are even still standing, now since they went in there and logged the area. When I am usually down that way I am usually blazing throught going to some other function or other and don't have the extra time to stop and check.

I am sure that the Cleveland County Historical Society which meets the last Thursday of the month is aware of the cemetery. Or at least they should be. But they, like us, are like so many other simular groups, too few interested members who are capable of doing such projects, and too many projects that need to be preserved.