Goodner Cemetery, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Montgomery Co. ARGenWeb Project

An old cemtery on private property that someone is now maintaining by mowing the grass and fenced the area.

Location: On private property. From Oden, cross the bridge, turn right at first fork, Southside Road, go three miles.  Doris Laird's farmhouse on the right side of road with the goats and a barn is across the paved road with the cemetery to the right of the barn.  In 1978 this was the Austin Powell farm. The tall headstones can be seen from the road. If you pass the south fork of Shirley Creek and reach gravel you have gone to far. The area is fenced with a gate and the grass is cut. At least nine headstones are broken. Forty four obvious graves but maybe as many as seventy-five buried here. Oldest marked grave 1860. Who else is buried here? If you know please contact Olwyn. 

Bates, Cody		1914 - 1956
Bates, Joseph R.	1873 - 1952				 father
Bates, Mary M.		1874 - 1961				 Alseep in Jesus	mother
Ellison, Mary Ann	d. Mar  8 1876 age 35 ys 4 ms 24 ds	 wife of Nathaniel Goss
Goss, Martha J.		d. Aug 11 1876 age 7 ms 21 days
Goss, Sarah M.		d. Mar 11 1876 age 11 yrs 1 mon 9 days
Goss, Elijah G.		d. Jan 18 1860 age 16 days
Goss, Henry G.		d. Jun 10 1865 age 16 yrs 2 ms 22 ds
Goss, Israel J.		d. Mar 18 1868 age 8 y 11 ms 9 ds
			Children of N & M.A. Goss		All on one tall headstone.
Ellison, Sarah		d. Jan  1 1882 aged 64 yrs & 28 days	wife of Israel G. Ellison
Goss, Mary E.		d. Dec 22 1881 aged 19 yrs 10ms 11 ds	daughter of W.B. & Mary A. Goss
Goss, J.W.		Jan 20 1867 - Oct 12 1904		father
E.L.E.			footstone	no dates			(Elijah L. Ellison 1815-1883)
J.S.E.			footstone
Goss
Ellison, Eulala		1882 - 1957
Ellison, J.S.		Sept 12 1821 - Jan 31 1883	age 61 ys 9 ms 19 ds broken  flat on ground off base
Elellison		age 67 ys 7 ms 20 days	 	broken stone. Mason emblem. F. Daly & P. Smith makers of headstone					
Ellison, Elijah C.	Nov 25 1885 - Mar 17 1956
Ellison, Mamie G.	Jun 20 1887 - Feb 21 1973

Ellison, Harold Worth	6 30 1911 - 10 5 1911 		son of Mr & Mrs E.C. Ellison
Ellison, Eld. H.	Feb 20 1847 - Jan 2 1917	Blessed are the dead che__ irt the Lord from hence forth
							Yea suith the spirit that they may rest from their labours
							and their worths do follow them  
N.L.E.			Jun 5 1887 - Jul 7 1898		on same columnar headstone as Eld. Ellison 
Ellison, John W.	Apr 6 1848 - May 2 1908 	Age 60 years 26 days
Ellison, Annie		Jun 4 1861 - Jul 9 1904		Age 53 years 1 month 5 days
Hellison, Matilda	1854 - 1929			At rest
Twin babies						blank except "Twin Babies", near Matilda's headstone
Hellison, Margaret C.	Oct 21 1850 - Feb 18 1881	wife of Rev. Hellison
Forbes, Maudie		1912-1913			by Audie Smith
			 
Goodner, David		Jan 27 1875 - Dec 12 1903	broken stone

Goodner, Mack		Nov 15 1848 - Oct 30 1925
Goodner, Elizabeth	Dec 20 1845 - Jan  6 1903	Lizey		Prepare to meet me in heaven
Sherman, Warren		Born Jan 26 1903
			Departed Oct 19 1908 		Honey
Smith, Mrs H.		Jan 12 1822 - Mar 30 1905

Snider, R.L.		?1923						broken unreadable

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This is Lizey Goodner's grave. Unusual in that the cement work appears homemade, above ground with the headstone added at a later date. Under the shade of an old oak tree. David's is the broken headstone.

Transcribed June 2000 by Olwyn.

Who else is buried here?
Dr. Stephen Christopher BATES b. 4 Dec 1825 in SC.
m. 1st. Sarah Eveline Corley, b. ca 1827, buried Pleasant Grove Big Fork, AR.
m. 2nd, "Tenna" Elizabeth Georgeann Josephine "Liz" Shirley  b. April 7, 1854 in AR    
m. 3rd 14 March 1901 in Montgomery Co. AR, Mary A. Ausbern, buried Goodner Cemetery.
Stephen died 13 Dec 1913, Montgomery Co. AR, buried Goodner Cemetery.
BATES, S.C widow Mary A. Co. B. Ark Cav., Confederate Pension Applications, he applied 1909, she applied 1914, he died 12/13/1913

Elijah L. Ellison and his wife Julian Salethia Hamilton are buried in the Goodner Cemetery, Southside Rd, Oden
 along with his sons John and William, their wives and his brother Israel. 
John Worth Ellison b. April 6, 1848 d. May 2, 1908 m. Anna Shirley June 1, 1873. 
William H. Ellison d. May 29, 1870 m. Susan Shirley.
Israel G. Ellison was born 1820 in GA, and died Abt. 1838 in GA. He married Sarah Bates about 1838, daughter of Stephen Bates and Sarah Cox. She was born January 29, 1818, and died January 1, 1882 in Montgomery, AR.

Hezekiah E. Ellison b. Feb. 20, 1847 in Cherokee, GA, d. Jan. 20, 1917. m.1 Margaret Ramsey b. Oct. 21, 1850 AL, and d.  Feb. 18, 1881 in Oden m2 Matilda Smith b. July 3 1853 in Ozark, Franklin, AR d. April 1929 in Montgomery Co., AR.
Children of Eld. Hezekiah Ellison and Matilda Smith are: 
Will b. stillborn 
Lige b. stillborn 
Eulala b. July 12 1882 Oden
Margaret Mitilda b. Dec. 15 1884 m. William H. Clark Dec. 18 1906 
Newman Lee b. June 05 1887 Oden d. July 7 1888. 
Lydia Leoria b. Nov. 16 1888 Oden m. G. P. Scott Aug. 12 1908 
Rachel Rebekah b. Jan. 25 1890 Oden m. Jess McMillian 
Marion b. June 14 1892 Oden d. Nov. 18 1972 m. Cordelia Mae Smallwood Aug. 7 1921