Conway Cemetery State Park, Historical cemetery in Lafayette County, Arkansas.
Conway Cemetery State Park is an 11.5-acre Arkansas state park in Lafayette County that takes in the old homesite and family cemetery of the Conway family. James Sevier Conway, Arkansas's first governor, is buried here with his wife Mary J. Conway, as is U.S. Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier. The cemetery lies within the larger parkland.
James Sevier Conway, Arkansas's first governor from 1836 to 1840, retired to his plantation near Bradley and died there in 1855; the cemetery holds his grave and that of his wife Mary J. Conway. The Conway-Johnson family dominated Arkansas politics from territorial days until the Civil War, and U.S. Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier is also buried here. The state acquired the site in 1975, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and it passed to the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism on March 27, 1984.
James Sevier Conway, Arkansas's first governor from 1836 to 1840, is buried here with his wife Mary J. Conway; the cemetery also holds U.S. Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier. The Conway-Johnson family dominated Arkansas politics from territorial days until the Civil War, and Conway retired to his plantation near Bradley, where he died in 1855.
No recreational or visitors' amenities are available at the park, so bring water and anything else you need. A paved parking lot and picnic tables were added before the site joined the park system in 1986. The grounds lie near Bradley in Lafayette County, off the route to the old Conway homesite.
Local residents began preservation efforts in 1975, leading to the site's listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. This grassroots initiative saved the location from being forgotten and turned it into a formally protected historical site.
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