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THE ARKANSAS FAMILY HISTORIAN VOLUME 45, NUMBER 1 March 2007 Arkansas Genealogical Society P.O. Box 17653 Little Rock, AR 72222 Publications: [email protected] Membership: [email protected] AGS E-Zine: [email protected] Questions: [email protected] Website: www.agsgenealogy.org Officers and Board Members President Gloria Futrell Little Rock [email protected] 1st Vice President Rebecca Wilson Little Rock [email protected] 2nd Vice President Rita Anderson Little Rock [email protected] Recording Sec. Louise Mitchell Kingsland [email protected] Treasurer Whitney McLaughlin Little Rock [email protected] Membership Sec. Rita Benafield Henard Little Rock [email protected] Historian Nina Corbin Little Rock [email protected] Parliamentarian Wensil Clark Little Rock [email protected] Jan Hearn Davenport No. Little Rock [email protected] Russell P. Baker Mabelvale [email protected] Lynda Suffridge No. Little Rock [email protected] Carolyn Hervey Little Rock [email protected] Suzanne Jackson No. Little Rock [email protected] Tommy Carter Pine Bluff [email protected] Susan Boyle Little Rock [email protected] Carolyn Earle Billingsley Alexander [email protected] Jerrie Townsend Stuttgart [email protected] Bob Edwards Russellville [email protected] Betty Clayton Paragould [email protected] Editorial Board Susan Boyle, Editor Rebecca Wilson, Technical Editor Gloria Futrell, Contributing Editor Rita Benafield Henard, Contributing Editor Whitney McLaughlin, Contributing Editor Rita Anderson, Contributing Editor On the cover: Copy of photograph contributed by Bill Hanks. Col. James Logan (1791-1859) U.S. Agent to the Creek Indians 1838-1849, resident of that part of Scott County, Arkansas, which is now Logan County, 1840 and 1850. Logan County was named after him. The ARKANSAS FAMILY HISTORIAN ____ Volume 45 Number 1 March 2007 Contents LOGAN FAMILY CORRECTIONS Logan County, Arkansas Submitted by Joan Carruthers............................................................. 5 LIBERTY COLEMAN CEMETERY SURVEY Logan County, Arkansas Submitted by Bill Hanks....................................................................13 MATTIE HUDGINS – OLDEST ARKANSAS PRIOR BIRTH Boone County, Arkansas Submitted by Rebecca Wilson...........................................................23 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX RECORDS 1891 Calhoun County, Arkansas Submitted by Tommy Carter .............................................................30 ARKANSAS ANCESTRY CERTIFICATES Catherine Y. Moulton through William H. Lay ..........................50 Vicki Lea Keck through Frederick Bolinger ...............................51 Michael A. Barry through James T. Golden...............................52 Harold David Richardson through Wyatt Anderson .................53 ARKANSAS QUERIES........................................................................ 54 The Arkansas Family Historian, Volume 45, Number 1 – March 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Getting Started in Genealogy Online by William Dollarhide................................................................56 The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy, 2nd Edition by Christine Rose and Kay Germain Ingalls .................................57 Index of Death Notices appearing in The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette July 1 to December 31, 2005 Compiled and published by Oscar G. Russell..............................58 TREASURER’S REPORT, 2006............................................. 59 The Arkansas Family Historian, Volume 45, Number 1 – March 2007 From the Editor: This is the first issue of The Arkansas Family Historian to be perfect bound. The new format will be slightly taller and wider and allow us more flexibility in the number of pages that we print and permit us to print larger issues when we want or need to do so. In the three years that this quarterly has been produced by committee, it has undergone many changes, and we hope you will bear with us as we try to implement additional improvements. The goal of the editorial board is to send you a quarterly that meets high standards and is attractive, professional appear- ing, filled with information, easy to read, convenient to carry, and well indexed. In the first article of this issue Joan Carruthers presents corrections to erroneous information previously published in a county history. Her concern that incorrect information would be copied and passed on without investigation until it became accepted as truth is one that all genealogists should have in this age of instant internet proliferation of undocumented information. More and more articles published in journals today deal with disproving previously published and long-accepted misinformation. No one wants to research the wrong ancestors, so let’s share well-documented information when we can and make the necessary corrections when possible. Bill Hanks completed an updated survey of Liberty-Coleman cemetery in Logan County and annotated it where he could with maiden names and information to go with unmarked stones. We would be happy to print any lists you have created or transcribed of voters, cemeteries, obituaries, Bibles, and other records. Curiosity led Rebecca Wilson to research the persons who had filed the Prior Birth Certificates with the earliest birth dates. In the process, she discovered that the earliest birth date on file did not belong to the person who filed the certificate, but to his mother, whose own birth date was written on the certificate by mistake. By using census records, Rebecca discovered that the man was actually born almost forty years later than the certificate indicated. When Rebecca researched the next earliest birth date, Mattie Hudgins proved to be an interesting subject for an article and an ordinary person whose achievements deserved to be published. In the third article, Tommy Carter provides us with an index to the entire 1891 personal property tax list of Calhoun County, Arkansas, as a substitute for the destroyed 1890 census. An 1890 census substitute never was published for Calhoun County, so we are pleased to be able to bring it to you now. There being no extant 1890 tax list, the 1891 was used instead. The value of the personal property tax list over the real estate tax list is that all adult males were required to pay a poll tax, which The Arkansas Family Historian, Volume 45, Number 1 – March 2007 was listed with the personal property tax assessment even if a person owned no property to assess. Four descendancy charts that earned Arkansas Ancestry Certificates appear in this issue. Besides encouraging research in Arkansas families and documentation of sources, applying for Ancestry Certificates is a good way for you to share your ancestry with other AGS members and with people everywhere who read this journal in libraries. Such sharing often results in contacts with distant or long-lost cousins and others researching the same family. We have room now for more book reviews in each issue and will try to bring you as many as possible each quarter. If you are publishing a book, be sure to send us a copy to review. It will help you to publicize your work. You are encouraged to send queries when you join AGS or renew your membership, but you may send them at any time of the year and by e-mail to the [email protected] address if you wish. So keep this publication in mind when you are starting research on a new Arkansas line or have encountered a brick wall in an old one. We would be pleased to hear your opinions about the articles we print and what kinds of articles you would like to read. We would also be pleased to receive your submissions. I hope you will find this issue worth your time. — Susan Boyle The Arkansas Family Historian, Volume 45, Number 1 – March 2007 CORRECTIONS: THE LOGAN FAMILIES OF LOGAN COUNTY, ARKANSAS Joan Methvin Carruthers © In 1987 the Logan County Historical Society published a wonderful memorial to the families of Logan County, Arkansas. That book, Logan County, Arkansas – Its History and Its People, paid tribute to my great- great-great-grandfather, Col. James Logan, for whom the county was named.1 Unfortunately, the three articles presented in the book regarding Logan family descendants contain a number of errors.2 The book has been distributed to many families, genealogical societies, and libraries, and it is used as a reference for Arkansas Logan family lineage. For more than ten years I have researched my family with the help of AGS member Bill Hanks of Little Rock, Arkansas, who, at the time Logan County, Arkansas was printed, made the contributors of the Logan family articles aware of their lineage errors. Unfortunately, family trad- ition often trumps documented factual presentation and genealogical history is altered forever. The purpose of this article is to refute the errors in Logan County, Arkansas – Its History and Its People and publish correct information concerning Logan family lineage. Standards of genealogical scholarship and historical accuracy, as well as respect for the memory of their ancestors, demand a truthful presentation of Logan descendants for posterity. Referral to the Descendants chart at the end of this article on page 12 may help you follow the lineage. David and Nancy (Thurmond) Logan migrated from Kentucky to Missouri by 1820.3 Their son Col. James Logan, for whom Logan County was named, was an adult at that time. David and Nancy Logan moved into Arkansas in the early 1830s, and David died in Crawford