Vest Cemetery
National Register of Historic Places

Vest Cemetery

Boswell, Izard County, Arkansas
Listed
January 8, 2016
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
15000284

About this property

The Vest Cemetery is a historic cemetery in rural western Izard County, Arkansas. It is located at the end of Vest Cemetery Road (County Road 197), north of the hamlet of Boswell, adjacent to the site of the former Vest family homestead. It is a rectangular parcel, with 72 known graves dating back to the early settlement period of Boswell in the 1870s. A portion of the cemetery is lined by a low rock wall, built to keep cattle from grazing on the family graves of the Cockersham family. The entire cemetery is now lined by woven wire fencing. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

Location

335 Vest Cemetery Rd.
Boswell, Izard County, Arkansas
36.04557, -92.05311

Categories

EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

Description adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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When was Vest Cemetery listed on the National Register?

Vest Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 2016.

What type of historic resource is Vest Cemetery?

Vest Cemetery is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Vest Cemetery?

The period of significance for Vest Cemetery is recorded as the civil_war era.

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