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The Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery is located at 500 North McKinney Road in
Sherrill, Arkansas Sherrill is a town in Plum Bayou List of Arkansas townships, Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Its population was 84 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 U.S. census. It is included in the Pine Blu ...
, behind the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. The earliest graves contain the remains of emancipated slaves, originally enslaved on the Good Hope Plantation in South Carolina, but moved to
Jefferson County, Arkansas Jefferson County, Arkansas is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas in the area known as the Arkansas Delta that extends west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson County consists of five cities, two towns, and 20 townships. The county ...
in 1860. Reverenced Lewis Mazique, a leader in the community, was the earliest documented burial, in 1885. The cemetery continues to be used today, although infrequently. The cemetery was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2009.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, ...


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* * * {{GNIS, 45897, Antioch Church 1885 establishments in Arkansas Cemeteries in Jefferson County, Arkansas Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Arkansas Cultural infrastructure completed in 1885 Baptist Christianity in Arkansas Cemeteries established in the 1880s