Saunders-Pettit-Chapman-Cook Plantation Home
Posted by: BruceS
N 33° 16.541 W 091° 14.741
15S E 663379 N 3683222
Historical marker commemorating a plantation house near Lake Village, Arkansas.
Waymark Code: WM37MN
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 02/23/2008
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Saunders-Pettit-Chapman-
Cook Plantation Home
This home was built about the year 1848 for John H. Saunders and his wife
Martha A. Pettit Saunders. During the Civil War engagement at Ditch Bayou
in 1864 the house was used as a hospital for soldiers of both armies. A
number of military dead were buried just west of the house. Antonia H.
Pettit, sister of Marth Saunders, was reputed to have been the first white child
in Chicot County. ~ text of marker