From a cousin, Virginia M. Acklen of Bossier City, Louisiana in the 1980s. "All I have to go on or believe is what I was told growing up, that my grandpa Dave was a horse trader. He swapped, bought, sold. By the time he was eighteen he had land, livestock and a home. He said the land where the church and cemetery is was his land that his daddy was the first one buried there. It is said he was sick with the flu. Mr. Easley was going to Arkadelphia, that Papa gave him papers to have recorded for them a cemetery. Mr. Easley came back and said they told them some one would have to sign it and he did. He was upset, but Papa told him that was fine, they had them a cemetery and we will now know who all are buried there. I know about two miles on down the road off a side road is a family cemetery, some of us kids found back in 1933 ... did not any one know about it that lived there, which was five families ... my grandparents, Mobleys, some Keys, Browns, Stevens and Cooks. My Grandpa and daddy and uncle went over to see. They came back and said it was old in the 1860's or so. They had never heard of them. Some stones were all broken and fallen off. Daddy said they found the name Steed or Still ... don't know if anything could be found there now. It was over behind the old Stevens home, but like I say, no way of knowing who is in Easley Cemetery ... no markers in there. I would come nearer thinking Grandpa Charles S. died in 1889 as Dave's first (child) died about 1890 or 1891 and as we know where it is buried, I would think Charles is close by, I know Papa said he was close to the cedar trees."

The Steed stones were moved to the Easley Cemetery many years after the cemetery was established. I placed a marker for Charles S. Hammonds in the 1980s at the site where my uncle, Jesse Hammonds who knew the cemetery well, indicated, next to the stone of his daughter, Georgia.

Ralph Terry, FindAGrave # 47372532