10. Presbyterian Cemetery

According to church history, “three blocks south of the Court House is a little cemetery sacred to the history of El Dorado.”  Title to the cemetery now rests in the name of “The Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church of El Dorado, and their successors forever.”  Some of El Dorado’s first settlers are buried on this site, including first homesteader Matthew Rainey and his son first postmaster Christopher Columbus Rainey, as well as other such pioneer families as the Armstrongs, Prothros, Faulkners, Shulers, Ragsdales, Newtons, Murphys, Kinards, Busseys, Hammonds and many more.  One grave is surrounded by a cast iron fence and ornate gate, fashioned by Wood & Perot of Philadelphia that is of a weeping willow tree with doves resting in its branches and lambs lying beneath its shade.  Three unknown confederate soldier graves are marked with tombstones stating, “Our Beloved Confederates.”