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Bland Cemetery is an intriguing little cemetery in Bentonville. I stay in a hotel not far away from this cemetery whenever I'm in town, so I decided to walk off my cheese fries after dinner one night and take a visit.
This is mostly a family cemetery with a lot of old graves of the Bland family. I found it interesting how there's quite a few modern graves as well and they are literally intertwined with the old ones. I took some pictures and will try to get them posted in the next few days.
So here's the sad part... As I walked toward the back of the cemetery, I found a row of three markers, just simple stones in the ground marked "unknown". Then, as I continued walking further back, I found another row of four, then another... and another... I stopped counting when I hit thirty markers listed "unknown". I don't know why, but I find unknown markers soooo sad.
Update: According to the book "Cemeteries of Benton County, Arkansas, this cemetery was actually relocated in the early 1960s when a flood control dam was built by the Army Corps of Engineers. A number of graves were unearthed with no markers or records and were thus given "Unknown" markers here.
GPS Coordinates
36° 20' 14" N
94° 11' 04" W

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View from gate
Katy Moss McGinnis
Sally Oxford
Broken Monument
Sarah Jones Epitath
Still more unknowns!
All these read "unknown"
More unknowns
The first three unknowns
Old and new
Broken headstone
Matching headstones
Another weathered stone
Weathered Stone
Rest Awhile...
Mama Is At Rest
Old and New
Bible and Heaven's Gates
Elmer Townsend - WW 2 Vet
A Democrat
John Bland - two markers
Tomb next to tree
Entry sign