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BRIGGS CEMETERY
Old Bear Road
Royal, Garland County, Arkansas
Directions: Take Highway 270 West to Old Bear Road. Cemetery is located about a mile on the left. This cemetery is on posted land and permission must be obtained from John Briggs. This is a private family cemetery.
Read February 8, 2009, by Debra Slater Garner
Bird, James unknown-unknown
Co I 57 USC Col'd Inf.
(Union Army, listed at the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C., as James Bird C-68)
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm
57th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Organized March 11, 1864, from 4th Arkansas Infantry (African Descent) Attached to District of Eastern Arkansas, 7th Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to May, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Corps, to January, 1365. Colored Brigade, 7th Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Corps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Arkansas to December, 1866.
SERVICE.-Garrison duty at Helena and Little Rock, Arkansas, till August, 1864. (A detachment on Steele's Camden Expedition March 23-May 3, 1864, as bridge train guard.) Skirmish near Little Rock April 26, 1864. Operations against Shelby north of Arkansas River May 13-31. Skirmishes near Little Rock May 24 and 28. March to Brownsville, Ark., August 23, and to Duvall's Bluff August 29. Duty there and at Little Rock till June, 1865; then at various points in the Dept. of Arkansas guarding property and on post duty till December, 1866. Companies "A" and "D" mustered out October 18-19, 1866. Regiment mustered out December 31, 1866
Bledsoe, Edward 02/13/1896-03/31/1947 Kentucky Pvt 64 Pioneer Inf WWI
Parents: James Monroe and Arkie Bledsoe
Bledsoe, Ernest 09/11/1892-07/10/1980 Pvt US Army WWI
Parents: James Monroe and Arkie Bledsoe
Briggs, Robert 1879-08/19/1966 age 87
*Robert Briggs 28 to Maybell Parker 18 on 10/17/1910
Briggs, Maybell 1877-10/1970 age 93
Briggs, Herbert 1889-09/22/1931 Arkansas Pvt 845 Co Trans Corps
*Herbert Briggs 32 to Sina Carroll 18 on 11/03/1922
Briggs, Lee 04/1888-01/1968
Spouse: Alice Bledsoe married 03/14/1909, daughter of James Monroe and Arkie Bledsoe
Briggs, Albert 1915-1935
Parents: Levi and Alice Briggs
Briggs, Minnie Mae 1918-1967
Parents: Levi and Alice Briggs
Briggs, John [no date of death shown]
Spouse: Cedell Greathouse married 06/16/1954 double marker with
Briggs, Cedell L. 07/17/1936-01/31/1995
Carter, Sadie 09/12/1913-03/07/2005 Mitchell Funeral Home of Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Parents: ___Carter and Idella Briggs; granddaughter of Frank Briggs
Harden, Alicia Michelle 03/24/1965-04/21/2005
Parents: John Briggs and Cedell Greathouse
Spouse: Paul Douglas Harden, Sr.
Hill, Sallie age 73 01/31/1967 Had funeral home marker in 1968 reading by Inez Cline; no marker found in 2009.
Reed, Sinnie ----- 09/1961 Had marker in 1968 reading by Inez Cline; no marker found in 2009
Spouse: 1st. Herbert Briggs
McCauley, Leola Anderson 12/04/1913-06/12/1942
Parker, James age 40 Had Funeral home marker in 1968; no marker found in 2009
*1880 Census of Garland Co., Arkansas, has James b. 1845 TN age 35
Tweedle, Allen C. “Dinky” 1936-1963
Wilson, Arkie 05/10/1872-02/04/1962
Spouse: 1st James Monroe Bledsoe
3 unmarked graves