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ISSN 0571-0472 The Arkansas Family Historian Arkansas Genealogical Society Volume 35, Number 3 September, 1997 Arkansas Genealogical Society Officers and Directors Editor Margaret Harrison Hub bard 14IJ Shady Grove Rd., Hot Springs, AR 71901 President Ed Sanders 10 Choctaw Dr., Searcy, AR 72143 Vice President Lynda Suffiidge 3801 Caraway Ct., North Little Rock, AR 72116 Treasurer Bobbie Jones Mclane 222 McMahan Dr., Hot Springs, AR 71913 Corresp. Sec. Eddie G. Landreth 15ID Jameson Ave., Benton, AR 72015 Record Sec. Jan Davenport I Cinnamon Rd., North Little Rock, AR 72 120 Historian Jan Eddleman 1807 Sunshine Mine Rd., Hackett, AR 72937 Herald WOO5il Marsh Clark 1211 Biscayne Dr., Little Rock, AR 72221 Mary Reid Warner 18 Fastota Ln., Hot Springs, AR 71909 David R. Malone 2848 Club Oak Dr., Fayetteville, AR 72701 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 I "ruling Rd., Conway, AR 72032 RnsseUP. Baker 6525 Magnolia, Mabelvale, AR 72103 FraDkie Y. Holt 5 Custer PI., North Little Rock, AR 72116 Dorathy Boulden 913 Arkansas, El Dorado, AR 71730 Barbara Crowell Rngers 2717 N .Fillmore, Little Rock, AR 72207 Torn Dilla.rd 12 Normandy Rd., Little Rock, AR 72207 Rhonda S.Norris 805 East 5th St, Russellville, AR 7280 I JoeGoss 1025 Watkins, Conway, AR 72032 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 infonnation 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 ASCll format, accompanied by a hard copy Margaret Harrison Hubbard of the material. Publication Information Membership The Arkansas Family Historian, the official AGS offers individual, institutional, publication of Arkansas Genealogical Society, sustaining, life and honorary membership Inc., is published four times a year: March, classes. Membership is by calendar year and June, September and December. Commercial may be entered at any time of the year (late advertising is not accepted. subscribers will receive the year's back issues of The Arkansas Family Historian. Individual ISSN 0671-0472 membership is currently $15.00 per year. Editorial Policy Queries AGS welcomes contributions of family records, public record transcriptions and other Members of AGS are invited to submit one information of interest to those interested in fifty-word, Arkansas related query each year. family history and genealogy in general, and See the Query Section for details. in Arkansas specifically. Responsibility for the accuracy of information and for opinions, Book Review. omissions and/or factual errors is that of the contributor. Authors and publishers who wish to have reviews or notices of their warle publisbed in Manuscript SubmissioDS The Arkansas Family Historian are invited to submit a copy of the worle with ordering Submitters of articles and material for information and price, if applicable. possible publication in The AFH are requested to send typewritten or mechanically CONTENTS generated manuscripts on white 8 1/2 x II inch paper, double-spaced, one-inch margins President's Page 94 on all sides, with all pages numbered. The Meet Your New Board Member 95 sources from which the material was Box 908 96 obtained, specific statements of facts, or Certificate of Arkansas Ancestry Report 98 statistical information MUST be documented; Bible Records 99 that is, the specific, detailed source Haskins Families in Arkansas 100 description must be listed either within the Muster Roll of Co. L, 2"" Kan. Cav. 107 body of the text or as notes. Previously McDaniel Cemetery, Searcy Co. 116 publication of material in any fonn must be Antebellum Chieat Co. Gnealogical brought to the attention of AGS. AGS Gems 120 Arkansas Queries 124 Book Reviews and Notices 128 encourages submissions on mM compatible Index 13l computer disks in Word for Windows or The Arkansas Family Historian 93 93 President's Page_______________ _ It is hard to know what to be most excited about as we move ioto the Fall of 1997. Our editor has stayed on schedule with an outstanding publication in spite of delayed There are many books which have been repairs in electronic eqnipment, the death of a submitted for reviewing. These Indicate to us thai sister, and he very seriOllS illness of a daughter. publication of records and family histories is moving at a brisk pace. This means more Bobbie Jones Mclane, our Treasurer, and her co ioformation out there to help all of us who editor of the Garland County Record, Wendy regularly do research for ourselves, others, or Richter, have won two awards for excellence both. Remember that each book reviewed In The from the Arkansas Historical Association for Arkansas Family Historian is then shelved.io the their work. Arkansas History Commission and State Archives, or the Little Rock Public Library, or Tom Dillard, a member of the society's Board of both. This is our effort to make them accessible Directors, has been appointed Historian to the to the largest possible number of users. Of staff of the Central Arkansas Library System, course, you will want to pun:hase some of these based io the Little Rock Public Library. That for your personal library to make them library is io the process of being moved-lock, conveniently available. stock and barrel-to its new riverside location. By wise application of overdue fees, those in I cannot recall a year when we have had as many charge of construction of the new library bnilding requests for speakers from AGS for as wide a were able to add an auditorium and more variety of topics, or in as many places. We still adequaUl parking at thai flIcility. The library have speakers scheduled for each month for the should be open at the last of September. remainder of the years. We have lost two members of the Board of After a great "dry spell," we are again seeing Directol$. Roberta Hollis, a charter member of family history columns and featore stores in our the society, has relocated to Austin, Texas. Her state and local newspapers. One such featore is position has been filled by Mary-Reid Warner of written by a board member, Desmond Allen, and the Hot Springs Village Genealogical Society. published io several regional inserts of the We have tried to convey, by means of a snitable Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. engraved plaque, our appreciation to Roberta. Also, Johnita Holmes Glover, a veteran board Queries pour io as fast as we can use them, and member, died at Pine Bluff. A selection of nearly all of them receive answers from some of genealngical resources is being placed in the Pine our members. None are discarded and we use Bluff and Jefferson Conoly Public Library as a them as early as possible. Many members read memorial to Johnita, who was always genial and the queries regularly with a view to lending a helpful everywhere she could be. helping hand. See you at the Seminar on Satorday, October 4! We have another outstanding Fall Seminar and Annual Meting scheduled and fully arranged Ed Sanders You probably have aJready heard from our Vice President President, Lynda Suffridge, who has arranged this year's seminar and scheduled another fine' one for 1998. She did this while jnggling teaching a geneaJogy course io the University of Arkansas at Little Rock summer lineup, a return trip to Ireland to deepen and broaden her already outstanding grasp ofIrish geneaJogy, working in the Arkansas History Commission and Archives, and being a wife and mother. 94 Volume 35, Number 3. September 1997 Meet Your New AGS Board Member ----------------------~ Mary-Reid Goss Warner, our new Board Mary Reid spoke at the 1994 national member, is an experienced researcher, lecturer conference of the Federation of Genealogical and writer. She holds a bachelors degree Societies in Riclnnond, Virginia, and from from Oldahoma State University and a 1992 to 1995 lectured at the Dallas masters from Southern Methodist University. Genealogical Society for their Beginners She has completed several courses at the Workshop and Fall Symposium. Dallas' Institute of Genealogy and Historical genealogical lass was our gain, when she and Research at Samfurd University in her husband, Bob, moved to Hot Spriogs Binningham, and has done research at the Village, where she teaches an Intermediate Newberry Library, Clayton Library, Dallas Family History Class. A co-founder and past Public Library, National Archives, Salt Lake Director of the Genealogical1nstitute of City Family History Library, and most Texas, she currently serves as President of the southern archives Village Genealogical Society. She has proven southern lines for Arkansas Antebellum Ancestry, First Families of Twin Territories, Gone to Texas, First Farnilies of Texas, Missouri Pioneers and Georgia Pioneers. The AOOmsas Family Historian 9S Box 908 _________________________________ Grant County Museum, RR 2 Box 511 B, date), Contact VGSIMPGS, PO Box 936, Sheridan, AR 72150, seeks contributions to Hot Springs, AR 71902 or call 501-624-0229 construct a structure at their site for housing a fur more infonnation, collection of old cars and trucks.