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Evergreen Cemetery

Fayetteville’s beautiful Evergreen Cemetery contains the graves of hundreds of people who left their mark on Washington County and Arkansas history. Established in the 1840s as the Thomas-Pulliam family burying ground, Evergreen was  deeded in 1871 to the city by the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges.

Among those buried at Evergreen whose stories intertwine with the Heritage Trail:

  • Sophia Sawyer, who served as tutor to the children of Cherokee chief John Ridge and Sarah Ridge. She also established the Fayetteville Female Seminary in 1839 as a school for Cherokee girls.
  • Thomas Gunter, a colonel in the Thirteenth Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers (Confederate).
  • Former slave Adeline Blakeley (1850–1945), perhaps the only African American burial in the cemetery
  • Lafayette Gregg, a colonel in the Fourth Regiment, Arkansas Federal Cavalry Volunteers

Evergreen Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.