Cemetery of Craighead Co.

Otwell Cemetery


-Submitted by Nelda Simpkins & Jan Davis, Sep. 26, 1998
-Submitted by Bill Couch, Oct. 9, 2000


DIRECTIONS.  From Southwest Drive in Jonesboro continue south on Hwy 49 approximately 10 miles to Otwell. Turn right on CR 281 at the Otwell Christian Church and Cemetery sign. Cross over the RR tracks and turn right on CR 221 and take a gravel road that goes behind the church to the cemetery that is located in a grove of trees.


Surnames of those in unmarked graves will be in blue. These names were given by Carol Lawman Brown, whose family is buried there and whose family maintains the cemetery.



ATCHISON, Donald Weldon, s/o Joe & Bessie Atchison, -no dates

BIRMINGHAM, Mrs.?, born_______, died 1914/15

BRATCHER, daus. of Frank & Cora, born & died 1919
BRATCHER, Billy, -no dates
BRATCHER, Catherine, born 1853, died 1924
BRATCHER, Emma Elizabeth, born July 11, 1875, died Dec. 29, 1918
BRATCHER, Lavina Elizabeth, born May 4, 1890, died Jan 4, 1914
BRATCHER, William Henry, born Dec. 29, 1877, died Oct. 25, 1948

BROWN, Carol E. Lawman, d/o Frank & Freda Lawman (Mrs. Marvin R.), born March 3, 1933, died Nov. 23, 2011  Roller-Farmers Union Funeral Home, Jonesboro
                  Children: Rick
                            Greg
BROWN, Gregory Lawman "Greg", s/o Marvin R. & Carol E. Lawman Brown, born Feb. 4, 1966, died July 28, 1987   -
BROWN, Marvin R. "Rock", born March 20, 1926, died Jan. 11, 1986

BULLA, Thomas Lee, born July 24, 1923, died July 11, 1924
BULLA, U.B., born Oct. 12, 1859, died Feb. 13, 1924

CARMIKLE, Johnnie H., born Aug. 7, 1891, died March 13, 1985
CARMIKLE, Melvin B., born March 2, 1908, died Nov. 15, 1976

FOSTER, Joseph B., born 1866, died 1937

FULLER, D.A., born Dec. 12, 1874, died Feb. 7, 1943
FULLER, Mary, born Jan. 19, 1871, died April 15, 1933

GRANTHAM, Thomas H., born Feb. 24, 1859, died Jan. 12, 1926

HUBBELL, Aaron D., born 1847, died 1923
HUBBELL, Margaret Ann, born 1851, died 1935

JOHNSON, Charles, born 1867, died 1940
JOHNSON, Harry, born 1899, died 1918

JONES, Alice, d/o S.L. & Lilah Jones, born_______, died July 4, 1921
JONES, Amanda E., d/o S.L. & Lilah Jones, born_______, died July2, 1923

KELLY, Janie Louise, born 1895, died 1924

KLUESNER, August F. "Gus", born Aug. 26, 1893, died March 30, 1971
                  Veteran: Arkansas Cook US Army WWII
KLUESNER, Frances (Mrs. Herman H.), born Sep. 15, 1871, died Sep. 9, 1944
KLUESNER, Herman H., born Sep. 9, 1863, died Sep. 23, 1926
KLUESNER, Hattie Steinneger (Mrs. Mark H.), born Aug. 20, 1896, died May 8, 1976
KLUESNER, Mark H., born March 6, 1897, died Dec. 24, 1972
                  Veteran: Pvt. Btry A 137 Field Arty WWI

LANDERS, Raymond F., born June 22, 1918, died Jan. 8, 1919

LAWMAN, Charles E., born March 9, 1923, died Aug. 27, 1944
                  Veteran: Arkansas Pvt. 116 Inf 29 Inf Div WWII
LAWMAN, Evelyn "Johnnie", 70y, born June 7, 1918, died April 24, 2000
LAWMAN, Forrest B., born Dec. 21, 1905, died Oct. 27, 1997
LAWMAN, Frank, born Nov. 9, 1895, died Nov. 19, 1987
                  Veteran: Pvt. U.S. Army WWII
LAWMAN, Freda Raguse (Mrs. Frank; marr. March 13, 1924), born Nov. 10, 1900, died Dec. 19, 1934
LAWMAN, Herbert K., born May 26, 1926, died Nov. 3, 1977
                  Veteran: Cpl. U.S. Army WWII
LAWMAN, Laurence, born March 1, 1898, died May 27, 1965
LAWMAN, Lauritta Pearl, born May 7, 1931, died July 1931
LAWMAN, Leonard C., born Sep. 14, 1934, died 1934
LAWMAN, Lillie M. Welty (Mrs. Laurence), born June 4, 1896, died Nov. 20, 1975
LAWMAN, Lloyed, born Sep. 14, 1934, died Sep. 14, 1934
LAWMAN, Marie, born July 7, 1920, died July 14, 1920
LAWMAN, Marjorie, dau. of Frank & Freda Lawman, born 1925, died 1926
LAWMAN, Mary Lena (Mrs. Forrest), born July 4, 1912, died Sep. 28, 1992
LAWMAN, Peggy Brown, born Feb. 6, 1928, died Dec. 15, 1991
                  Children: Terry
LAWMAN, William, born May 18, 1936, died March 16, 1998
                  Veteran: Pvt. USMC Korea

McCALLIE, Helen Odell, born 1925, died 1926

McCLOUD, [Infant girl], -no dates

McCRACKEN, Pete, born Oct. 25, 1912, died Dec. 29, 1999
McCRACKEN, Lillian Lewis, d/o Jas. & Maggie E. McGee Lewis (Mrs. Pete), born Feb. 25, 1911, died Nov. 13, 1993

MIXON, Sr., Billy Joe, 48, born 1957, died Jan. 16, 2005  -Higginbotham Funeral Service, Hardy

PERRY, Roy Hubert s/o Emma Elizabeth Bratcher, born Feb. 2, 1898, died Jan. 1, 1919

PICKLE, Leonard F., son of O.B. Pickle, born May 25, 1910, died Feb. 15, 1985
                  Veteran: Pfc. U.S. Army WWII
PICKLE, Louise (Mrs. Ossie K., w#2), -no dates
PICKLE, O.B. "Buel", son of O.B. Pickle, born 1908, died 1981
                  Veteran: Sgt. U.S. Army WWII
PICKLE, Orpha Bell Bratcher (Mrs. Ossie K., w#1), born Sep. 30, 1885, died Jan. 12, 1919
PICKLE, Ossie K., -no dates
PICKLE, Robert O., s/o Leonard F. & Valine Hogland Pickle Hopkins, 70y, born April 9, 1943, died Feb. 20, 2014  -Emerson Funeral Home, Jonesboro
PICKLE, Thayer, 5y, born March 15, 1916, died Jan. 12, 1919

POOL, Emma A., born 1876, died 1920

RAGUSE, Minnie, born 1877, died 1936
RAGUSE, Reinhold, born 1875, died 1920

REILLEY, Alberta I., born 1894, died 1920

SKILLMAN, Josiah, born Dec. 23, 1836 (Cincinnati, Ohio), died July 7, 1919
                  Veteran:  Civil War, GAR

SIMPSON, Bert, born March 11, 1875, died Aug. 19, 1926
SIMPSON, Elizabeth, -no dates

SMITH, Andrew, born June 10, 1935, died Feb. 26, 2008
SMITH, Ople Lee Cambron, d/o Wm. T. & Floy L. Angel Cambron (Mrs. Andrew "Bud"), 67y, born March 25, 1941, died June 5, 2008  -Emerson Funeral Home, Jonesboro

STEWART, Catherine Kluesner, born March 18, 1899, died Feb. 9, 1975

TAYLOR, Lloyd, born 1919, died 1920

WILKINS, Infant of Nolan & Irene Wilkins, born & died Oct. 15, 1929

WRIGHT, Infant s/o Andy & Jewel Wright -no dates
WRIGHT, Infant s/o Andy & Jewel Wright -no dates