Washburn Cemetery

The Cephas Washburn home stood a few hundred feet northeast of this cemetery. Washburn purchased this land in 1857 and spent the last years of his life residing here in Pope County. In this house, Edward Payson Washburn, Cephas Washburn's son, painted the now famous “Arkansas Traveler.” In 1860 Cephas Washburn journeyed to Little Rock, where he became ill with pneumonia and died, ending forty years of preaching and teaching on the American frontier. A few days later Edward Payson also died of pneumonia. Both Edward and Reverend Washburn are buried in Mount Holly Cemetery at Little Rock. Mrs. Washburn continued to live here until her death on April 19, 1879. She is buried here in the family cemetery along with other members of the Washburn family.

Russellville, Arkansas · United States