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rSSN 0571·0472 The Arkansas "Family Historian Arkansas Genealogical Society Volume 35, Number 1 March,1997 Arkansas Genealogical Society Officers and Directors Editor Margaret Harrison Hubbbard 1411 Shady Grove Rd., Hot Springs, AR 71901 President Ed Sanders 10 Choctaw Dr., Searcy, AR 72143 Vice President Lynda Childers Suffridge 3801 Caraway Ct., North Little Rock, AR 72116 Treasurer Bobbie Jones Mclane 222 McMahan Dr., Hot Springs, AR 71913 Corresp. Sec. Eddie G. Landreth 1510 Jameson Ave., Benton, AR 72015 Record Sec. Jan Davenport I Cinnamon Rd, North Little Rock, AR 72120 Historian Ian Eddleman 1807 Sunshine Mine Rd., Hackett, AR 72937 Parliamentarian Herald Mrs. Wensil (Larry P.) Clark 1211 Biscayne Dr., Little Rock, AR 72227 Roberta Hollis 628 Banner, Camden, AR 7170 I David Malone PO Box 1048, Fayetteville, AR 72702 Johnita Glover 4008 Holly, Pine BluftT, AR 71603 Teresa Harris 943 Ouachita 47, Camden, AR 71701 Margaret Ross 9 Nob Hill Cove, Little Rock, AR 72205 Edwin Moss PO Box 176, Star City, AR 71667 Desmond Walls Allen 99 Lawrence Landing Rd., Conway, AR 72032 Russell P. Baker 6525 Magnolia, Mabelvale, AR 72103 Frankie Y. Holt 5 Custer PI., North Little Rock, AR 72120 JocR. Goss 1025 Watkins, Conway, AR 72032 Dorathy Boulden 913 Arkansas, EI Dorado, AR 71730 Barbara Crowell Rogers 2717 N .Fillmore, Little Rock, AR 72207 Tom Dillard 12 Nonnandy Rd., Little Rock, AR 72207 Rhonda S. Norris 805 East 5th St., Russellville, AR 72801 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 Membership rate is $15.00 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 Genealogical Society, Inc. PO Box 908, Hot Springs, Arkansas 71902-0908 Editor Margaret Harrison Hubbard within the body of the text or as notes. Prcvious publication of the material in any fom1 must bc Publication Information brought to tbe attention of AGS. AGS encourages submissions on IBM compatible The Arkansas Family Historian, the official computer disks in WORD or ASCII fomlat publication of Arkansas Genealogical Society, accompanied by a hard copy of the materiaL Inc., is published four times a year - March, Membership June, September and December. Commercial advertising is not accepted. AGS offers individual, institutional sustaining, life and honorary membership classes. SSN 0571·0472 Membership is by calendar year and may be entered at any timc of the ycar (late subscribers Editorial Policy will receive the year's back issues of The AGS welcomes contributions of fumily records, Arkansas Panlll)' His/orian. Individual public record inscriptions, and other membership is $ 15.00 pcr ycar. information of interest to those intcrested in family history and genealogy in general, and in Queries Arkansas specifically. Responsibility for the Members of AGS are invited to submit one accuracy of infonnation and for opinions, fifty-word, Arkansas related, query each year. omissions, or factual errors is that of the See the Query section for details. contributor. Book Reviews Manuscript Submissions Authors and publishers who wish to have reviews Or notices of their works published in Submitters of articles and material for possible The Arkansas Family Historian are invited to publication in The AFH are requested to scnd submit a copy of the work witb ordering typewritten or mechanically generated information and price, if applicable. manuscripts on white, 1-112 x II inch paper, double-spaced, one inch margins on all sides, with all pages numbered. The sources from CONTENTS which thc material was obtained, specific President's Page I statements of fucts, or statistieal information Treasurer's Report 2 MUST be documented; tbat is, the specific Box 908 3 detailed source description must be listed either (Continued page 2) Arkansas Family Historian President's Page First, let me say "Thanks," to Joe Goss, who completed and published for YOUR county, or preceded me in this office. Joe is a busy man another. If you are willing but believe you just who has the good of family history and this don't know how, please contact Wensil Clark, group at heart. My thanks to each of you who 12I I Biscayne Drive, Little Rock, AR 72227- voted for me to serve you again. It is a privilege 5973 (501-225-2452). Wensil wrote the book to serve with such an association. for White County, Arkansas, and can give you expert guidance. If you have completed the information, but don't know how best to go When I sat down to write this page, I looked about publishing it, contact the Editor, back to the first one I ever wrote, when I was Arkansas Genealogical Society. P. O. Box 908, elected President in 1987. If! repeat myself, it Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908 (501-262-4513). is altogether intentional. She will advise you. The Board of Directors may offer to publish the work with your name Serving as President of this organization is a as compiler. This is part of your responsibility series of thrills because there are such splendid -to make original records available. If you need helpers available. Like most service a list of which counties have not been organizations, we could use more volunteers. published, write me and request it. There are numerous projects which could be undertaken, and which would benefit us all, if Your suggestions are most welcome at any someone would give time to them. If you can time. Make them to the President when give some time, let it be known. appropriate, or to the Editor if she is more directly concerned. Our addresses and During 1886, the Sesquicentennial Year of fax/phone numbers are inside the front cover. Arkansas, we encouraged someone in every county to make a substitute for the eternally lost 1890 U. S. Census in their county. This is Sincerely, best done in Arkansas from the Personal Property Tax Receipts of the county, because Ed Sanders, President every head of household had to pay a property tax, wi thout regard to whether he owned real Contents (Continued) estate. There were those who were neither Certificate of AR Ancestry Report 6 heads of families nor required to assesses taxes, Slave Owners in Randolph County 7 but who still paid a Poll Tax in order to be James S. Watson's Ledger Book 13 allowed to vote. Some names were added Martha Childress Moore 16 by this law. The Poll Tax is recorded in the Adams Notes & Bro.vs.Bro. 17 same book in almost every county. Pike County Sheriffs 18 Palmer's Chapel Cemetery 18 The response was very good, though not AR Queries 20 perfect. Is it ever perfect? Now, II years later, Book Reviews & Notices 28 we would like to complete this project. Will Index 31 YOU please consider being responsible for seeing that such a substitute census is 2 Volume 35, Number I, March, 1997 Treasurer's Report Arkansas Genealogical Society - CY 1996 BALANCE (CHECKING ACCOUNT) 12-31-95 $24,607.37 INCOME 20,815.60 Interest Earned 517.77 EXPENSES Advertising 225.00 AFH Quarterly (printing) 4,568.00 AGS Conference 2,787.02 Dues/Subscriptions 105.00 Equipment Repair 84.00 Insufficient Checks Returned 18.00 Mailing Services (pre-Sort & Postage)l 1,203.00 Microfilm/fiche Service (AF'H, Vital Records, etc.) 4,094.82 Miscellaneous 1233.42 Postage 1383.35 Printing Miscellanoous 458.02 Professional Fees 100.00 Refunds 35.00 Rental· Editor 2000.00 Rent POBox 104.00 Royalties 435.00 Supplies 418.04 Telephone & FAX 23733 Total Expenses 19,489.00 BALANCE IN CHECKING ACCOUNT AS OF 12-31-96 $26,451.74 (Net Income for Year) $1,844.37 BALANCE (Certificate of Deposit) 12-31-95 $8,280.00 BALANCE (Certificate of Deposit 5.20 % compounded interest Current) $8,797.77 Total Amount in Treasury, 12-31-96 $35,249.51 Submitted by Bobbie Jones McLane, Treasurer Arkansas Family Historian 3 Box 908 Dobbins family, They are on postcards, Mrs, Geneva Taylor, 313 Heritage Dr., FI. probably made in Arkansas as she was a Gibson, OK 71434 ordered the Civil War girlhood chum of Lillie Mae (Smith) Mitchell pension record of one David Taylor. The one [grandmother of Ms, Harbin whose dau, Lois she received was not the one she sought, and Mitchell Morris was named for Lois Dobbins). she has sent it to AGS to perhaps find an AGS member who is researching this line, This There is a June 1912 picture of Lois, Johnnie, David Taylor was a Private in Company "I", Bernice and baby; later one of Johnnie and 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry who was unnamed girl who was the baby in 1912; one of enrolled on the 21st of November, 1863, at Bertha Dobbins mailed Sept. 1915 from AR to Pope Co, for 3 years, He was mustered out her at Chickasha, OK. Ms, Harbin will be with the company on June 30, 1865, This happy to send these to any member of this record will be in the office of AGS if a member family, wishes to claim il. Reunions Joan Vickers, 110 Pine Meadows Loop, Hot Springs, AR 7190 I, is searching the Elliott line The Second Annual USA Phillips Families in Alabama, and received the following notes Genealogy Swap Meet will beheld August 14- from a researcher in that state: 17,1997, at the Best Western Inn, 2101 South 4th SI., Chickasha, OK 73018.