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ISSN 0571·0472 The Arkansas Family Historian Arkansas Genealogical Society Volume 38, Number 3 September 2000 Arkansas Genealogical Society Officers and Directors President Lynda Suffridge (2001) 3801 Caraway Ct., North Little Rock, AR 72116 Vice President Mary Reid Warner (2002) 18 Fastota Ln., Hot Springs, AR 71909 Treasurer Bobbie Jones McLane (2000) 222 McMahan Dr., Hot Springs, AR 71913 Rec. Sec. Dorathy Boulden (2000) 913 Arkansas, El Dorado, AR 71730 Historian Jan Eddleman (2002) 1807 Sunshine Mine Rd., Hackett, AR 72937 Herald Wensil Marsh Clark (2001) 1211 Biscayne Dr., Little Rock, AR 72221 Ed Sanders (2002) 10 Choctaw Dr., Searcy, AR 72143-5906 Janet Bailey Bryant (2000) 1209 S. Long, Stuttgart, AR 72160 Russell P. Baker (2000) 6525 Magnolia, Mabelvale, AR 72103 Louise Mitchell (2002). PO Box 129, Brinkley, AR 72021-0129 Jan Hearn Davenport (2002) 1 Cinnamon Rd., North Little Rock, AR 72120 Tom Dillard (2000) 12 Normandy Rd., Little Rock, AR 72207 Rhonda S. Norris (2002) . 805 East 5th St., Russellville, AR 72801 Glenn A. Railsback, 1II (2000)PO Box 7226, Pine Bluff, AR 71611-7226 Rebecca D. Huskey (2000) 1054 Ozment Bluff, Wilmar, AR 71675-9007 Susan Gardner Boyle (2001) 57 Plantation Acres Dr., Little Rock, AR 72210 Arliss Ray (2001) 500 Pakis Rd. No. 2B, Hot Springs, AR 71913 Jann Woodard (2001) 12008 Ginger Ln., Benton, AR 72015 Alvin Black PO Box 1103, Mount Ida, AR 71957 (term ending) Editor Margaret Harrison Hubbard 1411 Shady Grove Rd., Hot Springs, AR 71901 The Arkansas Family Historian is the official pUblication of the Arkansas Genealogical Society. It is published quarterly by the society and entered in the mails under Postal Permit 418 at Conway, AR. Individual membership rate is $20.00 per calendar year. Four issues constitute one year's membership. Membership may be entered by submission of dues and enrollment data to Arkansas Genealogical Society, PO Box 908, Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908. Neither the Arkansas Genealogical Society, the Board of Directors thereof, nor any individuals or committee assume any responsibility for information or materials included herein. Contributors of material are indicated, and any correspondence should be directed to those persons. Notify the Society of any needed corrections. The Arkansas Family Historian Published Quarterly by Arkansas Genealogical Society PO Box 908, Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908 Editor Membership Margaret Harrison Hubbard Membership is by calendar year and may Publication Information be entered at any time of the year. (Late subscribers will receive the year's back The Arkansas Family Historian, the official issues of the Arkansas Family Historian.) publication of Arkansas Genealogical Individual membership is currently $20.00 Society, Inc., is published four times a year: per year). March, June, September and December. Commercial advertising is not accepted Queries ISSN 0571-0472 Members of AGS are invited to submit one fifty-word Arkansas related query each year. See the Query Section for details. Editorial Policy AGS welcomes contributions of family records, public record transcriptions and Book Reviews other information of interest to those Authors and publishers who wish to have interested in family history and genealogy reviews or notices of their work published in genera and in Arkansas specifically. in the Arkansas Family Historian are invited Responsibility for the accuracy of to submit a copy of the work with ordering information and for opinions, omissions information and price, if applicable. and/or factual errors is that of the CONTENTS contributor. President's Page 130 Box 908 133 Manuscript Submissions Fort Smith Rifles 135 Submitters of articles and material for History of Walters Chapel 136 possible publication in the AFH are Obituanes-1859, 1861 144 requested to send typewritten or Stranger than Fiction - 145 mechanically generated manuscripts on Year Old Mystery white 8 Y, x 11 inch paper, double-spaced, Solved 145 one-inch margins on all sides, with all Miller County Early Marriages 147 pages numbered. The sources from which Buckstown to Orion - The the material was obtained, specific Story of an Irish-Arkansas statements of facts, or statistical Family (continued) 148 information MUST be documented; that is, Arkansas Barbers, 1884-1885 156 the specific, detailed source description Olive Hill Cemetery, Saline Co. 158 must be listed either within the body of the Arkansas Queries 164 text or as notes. Previous publication of Book Reviews & Notices 168 material in any form must be brought to Index 170 the attention of AGS. AGS encourages AGS Book Store 182 submissions on IBM compatible computer disks in Word for Windows or ASCII format, accompanied by a hard copy of the material. Arkansas Family Historian. Volume 38, No.3, September, 2000 129 President's Page_____________ -- ____ In a recent ·Sally Forth" cartoon from the [email protected] about your research Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sally and Ted questions and also about events sponsored were discussing a family tree his dad had by your societies. sent. Ted commented that it linked him fmnly to the past but Sally observed that it The chair of the Certificates of Arkansas also linked them fmnly to the future. Ancestry Committee, Jan Eddleman, reports that applications continue to come As our family history has a past and a in which she indexes and then sends to be future, so does a genealogical society. It has microfilmed by the Arkansas History been my honor to serve for the past two Commission where they are preserved and years as president of the Arkansas available for research. Do you have YOUR Genealogical Society. Thank you for electing Certificate of Arkansas Ancestry? me to this position. Having been a life member for 21 years and on the Board of All the officers, board members and Directors for nearly 20 years, I have had the committee chairs have done outstanding opportunity to get to know many fme people jobs this year. Many thanks to our who have served on the Board through the Treasurer, Bobbie Jones McLane, for the years. These 22 board member are the ones outstanding job she has done. Dorathy who do the work that keeps your society Boulden, our dedicated secretary who one of the finest in the nation. They comes from El Dorado to the Board represent cities, towns and counties from meetings, deserves a big thanks for all over the state. When you see them at the recording the business of our meetings. Fall Seminar on October 20 & 21, 2000, Thanks also to Mary Reid Warner, Vice thank them for their work. President, who has worked hard this year and last to bring us outstanding Seminars. Our quarterly editor, Marge HUbbard, has done an outstanding job this year in Susan Boyle who chairs the Priors Indexing producing some of the best Arkansas Project, has not only coordinated the Family Historians ever. When thanked for volunteers but also has done data entry, doing such a fine jo b, she said that the proofing and dealt with a major computer membership and the board had sent her a disaster. Thanks, Susan for your dedication lot of great material to use in the quarterly and hard work. She is also looking for more this year. It all comes back to YOU, the volunteers to do data entry. member. If you participate by sending material for publication, your family history The Board of Directors is working to serve will be preserved and shared. you, but you have to let us know you are there. Are YOU interested in serving on the Our newsletter editor, Susan Boyle, is eager Board of Directors? The future of any to publish information about ALL the organization depends on its members, and genealogical societies around the state of you need to continue to support the society Arkansas. It is up to YOU to send by becoming a member, encouraging others information to her about your local society with Arkansas roots to join AGS, sharing and about special genealogical or historical information you have learned about events in your area. Arkansas ancestors and attending the Fall Seminar and bring a friend with you! Our Technology Committee Chair, Jan Davenport encourages you to visit our Resources continue to be produced that website at http://www.rootsweb.com/-args make our searches easier and easier. and to subscribe to the AGS Mailing List at Behind each of these wonderful, easy to Use AGS-l::©rootsweb.com and to post products, there are usually a lot of people information to the Arkansas Genealogical working quietly and diligently. When Society Internet Mailing List at describing the land records project (see Notice) to scan the Plat Maps and Field 130 ArkaIlSas Family Historian, Volume 38,Number 3, September, 2000 Survey Notes, one speaker said, "How do In your eagerness to fill out all the blanks you eat an elephant? One bite at a time'" in your family charts, keep in mind that This is what ADS is doing with the Priors you want correct and documented , Indexing Project. We currently have about information. The citation and analysls twelve dedicated people working carefully at guide for all genealogical research is indexing a mountain of old birth certificates Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family that will be of great benefit to the Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Every genealogical community, Recently a letter genealogist should hav~ this book :rnd learn was referred to me where SOmeOne had to use it. Just as the title says, this book written the Health Department requesting helps you learn how to cite sources and an early birth record. They were referred to how to analyze those sources. ADS. Unfortunately, we are not far enough Information found on the Internet, in a along with the project to even check the book, or passed down in a family story index.