Hamburg Cemetery is the main cemetery of
Hamburg
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Ashley County, Arkansas. It is located on the east side of the city, south of
Arkansas Highway 8
Highway 8 (AR 8, Ark. 8, Hwy. 8) is an east–west state highway in Lower Arkansas. The route of runs from Oklahoma State Highway 63 (SH-63) at the Oklahoma state line east across the state to US Route 65 (US 65) south of E ...
(East Parker Street). Hamburg was established in 1848, and the first burial was recorded in the cemetery in 1859. It has since become the burial site for many of Hamburg's leading citizens.
The oldest section of the cemetery, which was used predominantly from its inception to 1950, 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 ...
(as "Hamburg Cemetery, Historic Section") in 2011.
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Notable burials
* Charles Portis
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(1933–2020), author of ''True Grit
True Grit may refer to:
Fiction
* ''True Grit'' (novel), a 1968 novel by Charles Portis
** ''True Grit'' (1969 film), a film adaptation by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne
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See also
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References
External links
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{{National Register of Historic Places
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Ashley County, Arkansas
1859 establishments in Arkansas
Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
Cemeteries established in the 1850s