Cemeteries in Pocahontas, Arkansas

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Our database contains records of burials from 22 cemeteries.

The city was named after the Native American from Jamestown, Virginia. A statue of her is located in Overlook Park along the Black River (Pocahontas, 2019).

The bluff and the settlement that developed were known as Bettis Bluff. In 1835, the name was changed to Pocahontas, for reasons unknown. The river served as an important resource from the late 1880s until about 1910, during the period known as the Great Black River Pearl Rush.

Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with having helped the struggling English settlers in Virginia survive in the early 1600s.

Pocahontas is one of Arkansas's most historic towns. The Southwest Trail, a network of routes that became a major emigration route during the 1820s, passed through the city, as did Confederate General Sterling Price's troops during Price's Raid, the last Confederate offensive in the Trans-Mississippi Campaign.

POCAHONTAS, AR (KAIT) - Randolph County residents will no longer have to cross county or state lines to buy alcohol. Voters approved a measure making the county wet.

Pocahontas is a name of Native American origin, once borne by the darling daughter of Wahunsenaca, historically known as the leader of the Powhatan people. As history has it, Pocahontas was born originally as Amonute but later nicknamed Pocahontas, meaning “playful one,” in honor of her free and feisty personality.

Pocahontas County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 21, 1821 from parts of Bath, Pendleton and Randolph counties. It was named in honor of Pocahontas (1595-1617), the Indian princess who was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the King of the Confederated tribes of Atlantic Virginia.

In the Powhatan tribe in Werowocomoco, Tsenacommacah, Virginia, Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, fears being possibly wed to Kocoum, a warrior whom she sees as too serious for her own free-spirited personality.