Mount Holly Cemetery - Definition and Overview

Mount Holly Cemetery is the original cemetery in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas and is the resting place for numerous Arkansans of note. It has been nicknamed "The Westminster Abbey of Arkansas".

The cemetery is the burial place for 10 former Governors of Arkansas, 6 United States Senators, 14 Arkansas Supreme Court Justices, 21 Little Rock Mayors, numerous Arkansas literary figures, Confederate Generals, and other worthies.

The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Some of the notables buried at Mount Holly are:

• Sanford Faulkner - the original 'Arkansas Traveller'
• William E. Woodruff - founder of the Arkansas Gazette
• Quatie Ross - the wife of Cherokee Chief John Ross
• John Gould Fletcher - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
• David O. Dodd - boy martyr of the Confederacy

External links

• Not Quite Westminster Abbey (http://www.fathermonty.org/mt_holly.html)
• Images of Mount Holly Cemetery (http://www.fathermonty.org/images.html)
• Walking With The Dead (about.com article on Mount Holly Cemetery) (http://www.fathermonty.org/images.html)