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The Arkansas Family Historian

Arkansas Genealogical Society

Volume 38, Number 4 December 2000 Arkansas Genealogical Society

Officers and Directors

President Russell P. Baker (2003) 6525 Magnolia, Mabelvale, AR 72103 Vice President Susan Gardner Boyle (2001) 57 Plantation Acres Dr., Little Rock, AR 72210 Treasurer Bobbie Jones McLane (2003) 222 McMahan Dr., Hot Springs, AR 71913 Rec. Sec. Dorathy Boulden (2003) 913 Arkansas, El Dorado, AR 71730 Historian Wensil Marsh Clark (200 I) 1211 Biscayne Dr., Little Rock, AR 72221 2ND Vice Pres. JanHearnDavenport (2002,- I Cinnamon Rd., North Little Rock, AR 7210 Ed Sanders (2002) 10 Choctaw Dr., Searcy, AR 72143-5906 Jan Eddleman (2002) 1807 Sunshine Mine Rd., Hackett, AR 72937 Lynda Suffridge (2001) 3801 Caraway Ct., North Little Rock, AR 72116 Mary Reid Warner (2002) 18 Fastota Ln., Hot Springs, AR 71909 Louise Mitchell (2002) PO Box 129, Brinkley, AR 72021-0129 Rhonda S. Norris (2002) 805 East 5th St.• Russellville, AR 72801 Glenn A. Railsback, III (2003)PO Box 7226, Pine Bluff, AR 71611-7226 . Rebecca D. Huskey (2003) 1054 Ozment Bluff, Wilmar, AR 71675-9007 Susan Gardner Boyle (2001) 57 Plantation Acres Dr., Little Rock, AR 72210 Arliss Ray (2001) 500 Paid. Rd. No. 2B, Hot Springs, AR 71913 Jann Woodard (2001) 12008 Ginger Ln., Benton, AR 72015 Alvin Black (2001) PO Box 1103, Mount Ida, AR 71957 Ann S. Cobb (2003) 11106 Rocky Valley Dr., Little Rock, AR 72212 Linda McDowell (2003) 14617 Sara Dr., Little Rock, AR 72206

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Editor Margaret Harrison Hubbard 1411 Shady Grove Rd., Hot Springs, AR 71901

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187 A Note From the New President.______

I would like to take this opportunity mind that AGS is more than just the to thank the members of the Arkansas Family Historian, although Arkansas Genealogical Society for this is where most folks make our the confidence they have showed in acquaintance. Board member me by electing me as their new Susan Boyle is the editor of our President. I know I have some very popular membership newsletter, big shoes to flit An organization aimed at getting up-to-the-minute such as ours could not have asked information out to our membership. for a more dedicated and hardworking representative than We maintain a first class website at our immediate past President, rootsweb.com/ -args that gives rapid Lynda Suffridge. In fact, since its insight to the world of AGS. Jan founding in May of 1962, AGS has Davenport maintains the popular grown and matured under the free list for Arkansas genealogical leadership of some of the giants in queries at AGS-List. To subscribe, the field of Arkansas genealogy, send an e-mail message to AGS-L­ such as Walt J. Lemke, G. R. [email protected] (for Turrentine, Lee B. Spencer, Dr. individual messages) or AGS-D­ James S. Upton, Annie Laurie request@,rootsweb.com (for a digest Spencer, Wilma H. Newton, Dr. of multiple messages), then in the Marion S. Craig, and others. Their body of your message include only names are synonymous with one word: subscribe. integrity, commencement and perseverance. Unlike so many We continue our contributions of people today, they had no problem books and other pUblications to the setting aside their own self-interest library of the Arkansas History for the interest of the group as a Commission and State Archives in whole. "Times" certainly have Little Rock. During 2001, we will be changed life. Technology advances telling you about new genealogical at a faster pace each day. Today's workshops and book fairs. Be sure Arkansas genealogical researchers to keep your membership up to often have a different agenda than date; tell other Arkansas that of their predecessors; however, researchers about our services and AGS still needs integrity, keep digging for those Arkansas commencement and perseverance as roots. bedrock qualities. This is my pledge to you as your new president. Russell P. Baker AGS President I want to b a proactive president. 6525 Magnolia Feel free to contact me about our Mabelvale, AR 72103 organization and how we can help you as a member. Without you, there would be no AGS. Also keep in

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A group in Lancaster, CA, has sent a bible found in their "Friends of the Mother's Family Tree: Mrs. Willie Library" box. It contains the Hawthorne; her father: Mr. Wiltz following family data: Tanner; her father: Mr. Geene Tanner; her mother, Mrs. Mealia First page: Tanner; her mother: Mrs. Mary D. Presented to: Willie Hawthorne, by Daniels; her father: Mr. Charlie James Hawthorne, March 18, 1948 Smith; her mother: Mrs. Lizzie Smith. The Family Record section shows: Children: Mary Ann Hawthorne, born Ronald G. Hawthorne, born 65/25/40? Ark., Warner Brown 3/20/47 at L.A., Calif. Hosp. Essie Hawthorne, born 08/28/49 at L.A., Calif. Childen: Michael DeWayne Hawthorne, born James Hawthorne, Jr., born 1/5/46 8/2/50 at San Francisco, Calif. at L.A., Calif. Marriage Record: James Hawthorne, Members of our Family: Mrs. M. D. b. Pct. 4, 1915; Wife, Willie Tanner Daniels Hart, mother, both Hawthorne, born July, 1917, 02/11/91, passed on 02/19/60. married April 21, 1935, by Rev. Thompson at EI Dorado, Ark. There were bookmarks from the California State Brotherhood Union Father's Family Tree: Mr. James and various study notes within the Hawthorne, his father; W. Author pages. Hawthorne; his father: Mr. Ezekiel Hawthorne; his mother, Mrs. Essie This was handed to the Arkansas Hawthorne; her mother: Mrs. Lou History Commission. Interested Hawthorne parties may contact them.

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By Jan Eddleman, 1807 Sunshine 719 Eat Barbour Mine Rd., Hackett, AR72937 Banning, CA 92220 For: Jimmie Moore Arkansas Genealogical Society offers Jennie Moore MacLeod Certificates of Arkansas Ancestry in Eddie Wayne Patterson four categories: Larry Moore Nolan Wayne Moore Colonial - a resident of Arkansas before 1 January 1804; (Mr. Moore ordered a certificate for Territorial - a resident of Arkansas himself and liked it so well he before 14 June 1834; ordered more for niece and nephews Ante-bellum - a resident of for Christmas.) Arkansas before 6 May 1861 Nineteenth Century - a resident of Coming Event Arkansas before 31 December 1900 ThneVilJage Genealogical Society will Send SASE with postage to cover present Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck on two ounces to AGS. po Box 908, "The Old Northwest, Bridging the Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908, for an atlantic, Finding Immigrant application form for your certificate. Ancestors, Finding Substitutes for Birth & Death Records and Territorial Biographical Sources: Ancestor: Edward McDonald Town/County, etc." at their annual County: Lawrence workshop to be held April 28, 2001, Submitter: Mary Jean Guffey 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more 8101 East 150th Rd. information contact John Dase, 5 Calvin, OK 74531 Murica Place, Hjot Springs, AR 7109, or call at 501-922-4569. Antebellum Ancestor: Adolphus T.Nutt OLD NEWS County: Clark Sbmitter: Carol Nutt Submitted by Jann Woodard, 12008 For: Grady Richard Nutt Ginger Lane, Benton, AR 72015 428 McGrew Rd. Arkansas Gazette, February 14, Glenwood, AR 71943 1863, article sent from the Chicago Times: Nineteenth Century Ancdestor: James Levi Pettigrew Arrival of Rebel Prisoners of War County: Logan Submitter: Mary Lucille Clayton The first installment of rebel 1331 Briarwood Dr. prisoners captured at Arkansas Post Alma, AR 72921-4608 will reach this city via the Chicago and Alton Railroad, at 9 o'clock this Ancestor: George Washington morning, and will leave the cars at Moore the crossing of the Archer road and County: Crawford march to Camp Douglas, where the Submitter: Jimmy Moore most complete arrangements for

191 their reception and confinement He was born in Alabama August 5, have been made under the 1852, and came to this county in immediate supervision of Gen. 1866, where he spent the remainder Ammon, who has been personally in of his life. He was married in 1873 attendance at the camp for the past to Miss Louisa Tilley, who survives day or two, notwithstanding his him. To the couple were born six recent illness, from which he has children, three of whom are still not yet fully recovered. There are living. about five thousand of these prisoners, who will be here today Mr. Heitt was a member of Masonic, and tomorrow. One thousand will be Woodmen, and the Odd Fellows confmed at Camp Douglas, and the fraternities, and of the Baptist remainder be sent be sent to the church. military camps in Wisconsin. The prisoners belong to the 10th Texas, The body will be taken to Pleasant Col. Roger Q. Mills; the 6 th Texas, Valley cemetery in East Fork Maj. A. H. Phillips, Jr.; the 14th Township, where funeral services Texas, dismounted cavalry, Maj. will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow Valerius C. Sanders; the 17th Texas, afternoon. dismounted cavalry, Col. James R Taylor; the 18th Texas. dismounted Log Cabin Democrat, Conway, cavalry. Lieut. John T. Coit; the 21st Arkansas, July 31, 1924 Rexas, no officer above a Lieutenant; the 25th Texas, Col. C. E. Gillespie; Mrs. Caroline L. Downing, aged 64, the 19th Arkansas, Lieut. Col. A. S. widow of he late J. W. Downing and Hutchinson; the 23rd Arkansas, Col. a pioneer Conway woman died last E. C. Portlock, Jr.; Crawford's night shortly after 7 o'clock at the Battalion, Arkansas, Lieut. W. H. residence of her son. J. M. Downing. Dupey; Hart's Battery, Arkansas, no on Prince street. The funeral was officers, Sappers and Miners, held at the residence this afternoon Arkansas, Lieut. J. M. Burks, Red and interment was at Pearson River Rangers, and a cavalry Cemetery. north of Wooster. Dr. C. battalion, Louisiana, no officers, the J. Green. acting pastor of the First 28th Tennessee, no officers. Methodist church. conducted the service. Obituaries From Earlier Years Mrs. Downing was a native of Submitted by Jan Hearn Davenport, Alabama and had resided in Conway 1 Cinnamon Road, North Little for many years. Her son was the Rock, AR 72120 only surviving member of the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway, inunediate family. . Arkansas, February 6, 1911 [Note: Caroline Downing was the John H. Heitt died today at his daughter of Nathan Pearson and home near Preston, five miles south Louisa Carter. She was married first of Conway of pneumonia. Mr. Heitt to Wesley King who died in 188 L formerly lived in this city, moving to jhdJ his new home only a short time ago.

192 I Alva Jaco married Rufus Boyd Griffm Nov. 9, 1930 Submitted by Polly HoIsted Rea, 2209 Silver Spring Dr., Westlake Darius Leon HoIsted and Frankie Village, CA 91361, who stated that Dell Warden married Feb. 19, 1944 the early entries were apparently by Merty Jaco and were in pencil, and Polly Kathryn Hoisted and George that someone later traced them in Harold Rea married Sept. 3, 1950 ink. Merty Jaco used these bible entries throughout much of her lie, James Boyd Griffin and Carol Taylor carrying the bible with her from one married Dec. 23, 1962 office to another. When the pages began to show signs of severe James Leon HoIsted (11-2-44) and wearing, they were encased in Joyce Elaine Phillips married Aug. waxed paper and then in Saran 24, 1964 wrap to preserve them. Jay Frank HoIsted (1-2-49) and Martha Brown married August 23, The bible belonged to Thomas 1960 James Martin and Emma (Moore) (illegible marginal entries) Martin of Calf Creek (later Snowball), Searcy County, AR. It is Births in the possession of Mary Alice Martin Smith of Florida. Thomas J. AmandaMartin-Feb. 21,1911 Martin's mother was Amanda Chester Arthur Jaco - November 2, (Mackey) Martin. Thomas and 1886 Emma had seven children, names Merty Martin Jaco - May 5, 1889 unknown. Eula Jaco HoIsted - Oct. 13, 1906 Alva Jaco Griffm - January 29, Bible record of Mertey (Martin) Jaco 1909 and Chester Arthur Jaco of Darius Leon HoIsted - April 21, Snowball, Searcy County, AR 1927 {polly Kathryn HoIsted Rea - Marriages October 29, 1929 James Boyd Griffin - October 8, Thomas J. Martin of Snowball, Ark., 1935 and Emma Moore, of Snowball, Ark. James Leon Hoisted - November 2, (date not shown) witnessed by W. P. 1944 Hodges and S. A. Moore. Jay Frank Hoisted - January 2, 1949 Chester Arthur Jaco and Mertey David Luther HoIsted - April 5, 1952 Martin were married Nov. 19, 1905, Bruce Wayne HoIsted - June 20, at Blanco, Ark., in the presence of 1956 Alvus Jaco and Lizzie Rea Mark Daniel Rea - June 7, 1952 Gregory Parker Rea - September 24, Eula Jaco and Luther Lafayette 1954 Hoisted married may 15,1926. Blake Courtney Rea - November 27, 1956 Rea Infant - May 15, 1964 (illegible marginal entries)

193 Rufus Eoyd Griffin died June 18, Marker is at the intersection of 1951 Highways 167 and 25, Eatesville, Rea (son) infant died May 17, 1964 Arkansas, at Ramsey Mountain. Merty Martin J aco died April 14, 1955 In the harsh winter of 1862-63 CoL Darius Leon HoIsted died February J. O. Shelby, a brigade commander 5, 1972 of hree Missouri cavalry regiments Luther Lafayette HoIsted died under Gen. John S. Marmaduke's December 28, 1974 Confederate cavalry command, Alma Martin Taylor July 8,. 1954 arrived in this area from a raid into Quay Martin - Oct. 1957 southern Missouri. He quartered his Ancal Martin - August 2, 1961 troops on the farm of CoL Franklin Mertey Martin Jaco - April 14, 1955 W. Desha, a few miles northwest of Tressie Martin Hom Eachelder - July this site Shelby's command stayed at 22-74 Camp J. O. Shelby until March, Stanley Martin - February 11, 1977 when he moved his soldier across the Madgy Martin Wells - July 27, 1977 White River to Eatesville where he established Camp Nannie Wilson with about 3,000 men. Leaving [ CIVIL WAR MARKER Camp Nannie Wilson, Shelby and his men accompanied General North Central Arkansas 1862-1863 Marmaduke's army on a second raid Submitted by Ed Sanders, 10 into Missouri in the late spring of ChoctawDr., Searcy, AR 72143 1863.

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Garland County - 1883-So1diers Rest on Malvern St., Hot Springs, Ark. 194 Courtesy of Garland County Historical Society BUCKSTOWN TO ORION; THE STORY OF Al'l IRISH-ARKANSAN FAMILY_

By William D. Lindsey, 519 Ridgeway About Patrick Ryan, the second child Dr., Little Rock, AR 72205 Valentine and Bridget Tobin Ryan (Continued from September 2000) brought to America, I have much more information, since he was the subject of Having found Margaret Elizabeth many stories my grandmother told me Sumrall on the census, I then as a child, and he and his wife appear discovered that she is buried in in quite a number of Jefferson and Lebanon Cemetery at Ellisville, Grant Co. documents. Mississippi. On 16 March 1997, I visited the cemetery, and was directed to a As noted above, his baptismal record in Mrs. Rabun L. (Mollie) English, who Kilbeacon Parish in Co. Kilkenny gives lives just across from the cemetery. his date of birth, and he appears with When I knocked on her door and told his parents on the 1860 census in her of my interest in the Harper and Jefferson Co., Arkansas. Sumrall families, Mrs. English invited me in and told me that she could help As also noted previously, Patrick Ryan me, since her father, John Thomas appears on the 1868 Jefferson Co. tax Harper, had married Margaret Elizabeth list as owner of lots 3, 4, and 5 of the Sumrall as his first wife. From Mrs. SW portion of sect. 6, twp. 3, range 11, English, I learned the names of 132.39 acres; of lot 4 in the NW portion Margaret Elizabeth Sumrall's nine of sect. 7, twp. 3, r. 11,40 acres; of 40 children, eight of whom were sons: acres in the SE 1/4, same coordinates, Vince, Luther, Robert Edwin (m. and of 40 acres in the NW'.4, same Mildred Estes), Frances (m. John coordinates, several tracts of which had Fowler), Frazier, George, Patrick, previously owned. His appearance on Harrison, and Columbus Harper. Of the tax list by 1868 with these parcels these, Vince, Luther, Frazier, and of land suggests to me that he was George all died as infants. Mrs. English planning to marry by this time. also told me that a relative in Laurel has a tintype picture of Margaret Ryan; By 1870, Patrick Ryan was definitely 1 have tried unsuccessfully to obtain a married, and is found on the census in copy of the picture. Campbell twp., Pulaski Co. post office Little Rock.42 He is listed as a farmer, Though the census and burial aged 21, with $200 personal property, information I have found fills important born in Ireland, with both parents of gaps in my knowledge of Margaret foreign birth. The census lists Patrick Ryan's descendants, I still have Ryan as a U.S. citizen. In the household unanswered questions. Chief among are wife Delilah, 22, born in Mississippi, these is why neither the Ryan nor the and Missouri Curtis, 7, born in Sumrall family raised Margaret's Arkansas. The census states that he daughter. If the story about Catherine was married in Dec. 1869, though I Ryan's marriage to and separation from have not found a marriage record. Robert A. Sumrall is true, then this might account for the Ryan family's Family stories indicate that Delilah disaffection from Margaret's daughter. Ryan was nee Rinehart. I have found Still, this doesn't explain why Robert A. her on the 1850 census as a daughter Sumrall and his second wife did not of Conrad and Sarah Rinehart of Fenter raise his child. If my branch of the twp. in Hot Spring CO.43 Note that family ever knew more, the story seems George R. Batchelor, who married to have been lost: divorce was a Patrick Ryan' sister Catherine, is found scandalous thing in the pre-20th­ in the same twp. on this census. The century South, not to be talked about. 1850 census indicates that Delilah Rinehart had a sister Sarah A., who is

195 evidently the Adaline Rinehart who Other records show his first initial as R. married Solomon Curtis in Hot Spring Note that On the 1870 census, Patrick Co. on 4 Feb. 1860, he being 22 and Ryan is enumerated next to the family she 21, both residents of Hot Spring Co. of Hezekiah Spann. In 1880, an African­ (Marriage Bk. 3, p. 12). I believe that the American couple, Abraham and Anna Missouri Curtis found in Patrick and Pagon, are found next to Patrick Ryan Delilah Rinehart Ryan's household in on the census. I suspect that they 1870 is Delilah's niece, and that Adaline worked on his farm. had died by 1870. I have found Patrick Ryan on the Grant The township in which Patrick Ryan Co. tax list in Simpson twp. in 1881, was living in 1870 is scutheast of Little 1884, 1885, 1887, and 1890.45 The tax Rock in southern Pulaski Co., lists suggest that family stories comprising the present communities of depicting him as a rather prosperous Woodson, Wrightsville, and Sweet farmer in the Orion community are Home. This places Patrick Ryan just accurate: on the earlier of these, as north of his father's homeplace in previously in 1877, he was ralsing large northeastern Grant Co. in 1870. numbers of sheep, in addition to horses, mules, hogs, and cattle; by the late By the late 1870s, it appears that 1880s, he was taxed as well for a gold Patrick Ryan had settled permanently in or silver watch and a bank account. Grant Co., since the index to deeds in that county shows him purchasing land The Grant Co. deed index also shows there on 20 Jan. 1877 from W.B. him buying land on 15 Feb. 1881 from Dupree (DB J, p. 432). The following Dr. Joseph M. Reynolds, whose nephew year, on i8 Aug. 1878, Patrick Ryan Lewis Reynolds was later to marry deeded the property to J. F. Pearce (DB Patrick Ryan's niece Frances Isadora J, p. 433). In 1879, Patrick Ryan Batchelor (DB K, p. 458).46 On 9 Feb. appears beside his father in the Grant 1885, Patrick Ryan and wife Delilah Co. Personal Tax Book in Simpson twp. sold property in Grant Co. to W.H. taxed for 3 horses, valued at $60, 17 Reynolds (DB K, p. 359). This would cows, $85, 95 sheep, $72, 25 hogs, $25, appear to be either Harrison Reynolds, and other property valued at $50, with father of Lewis Reynolds above, or Will a total tax value of$292. Reynolds, Lewis's brother, who was at one time the beau of Patrick Ryan's On the 1880 census, Patrick Ryan is niece Hattie Paralee Batchelor. enumerated in Simpson twp. in Grant Co., aged 35, a farmer born in Ireland, The Grant Co. deed index also shows with both parents born in Ireland.'" In Patrick Ryan buying two other tracts in the household are wife Delilah and Grant Co. not long before his death --on children Morena, 16, and Rufus, 5, both 23 Jan. 1889, from H.C. Daniels (DB P, born in Arkansas. As noted previously, p. 505), and on 17 August 1893, from Patrick's father Valentine Ryan is also J.W. Pierson and wife (DB P, p. listed in his son's household on this 505).The Grant Co. Surveyor's Bk. (p. census, aged 64. All are listed as 194) also has a 27 Feb. 1890 survey for literate. Since there is no Morena in Patrick Ryan for land in section 18, twp. Patrick Ryan's household in 1870, and 3 south, range 11 west. Since the since the age of Morena roughly survey is in metes and bounds, I am not matches that of Missouri Curtis in the sure of the amount of land heing 1870 census, I believe that Morena is surveyed. Missouri Curtis. If she bore the name Ryan by 1880, then perhaps Patrick On 16 Jan. 1893, Patrick Ryan appears Ryan had adopted her. Couid Rufus be in Grant Co. Probate Bk. B, p. 2, Allen Spann, whom Patrick Ryan praying that the estate ofT.M. Murdock, adopted, according to family stories? dec·d., be vested in D.R. Murdock, a

196 minor, of whom Patrick Ryan was dividing property of Patrick Ryan"s guardian. Since I know from family estate with George R. Batchelor and stories that Patrick Ryan adopted a boy wife Catherine, nee Ryan, and heir-at­ named Richard Murdock, D.R. Murdock law of Patrick Ryan. George R. is evidently Richard Murdock. On 18 Batchelor and wife Catherine had Feb. 1893, Patrick Ryan sold property agreed to secure release and belonging to D.R. Murdock at his relinquishment to the property of (Patrick Ryans) house (ibid., p. 5). Mter Patrick Ryan including lots 1, 2, and 4 Patrick Ryan's death, his widow Delilah in the SWv. and SV. of section 18, twp. Ryan petitioned in January, 1894, to be 3, range 11 west, and lot 4 in the NW V. appointed guardian of D. R. Murdock, of same coordinates, 178 acres, known with her brother-in-law George R. as the Patrick Ryan homestead. Note Batchelor and J.A. Baxley giving bond that this land was adjacent to that of in the amount of $400 (ibid., p. 40). Patrick Ryan's father, Valentine Ryan. Note that George R. Batchelor's daughter Alice Catherine married George R. BatChelor and wife Catherine Thomas Marion Murdock, son of Joseph also relinquished claim to a mare Clemon and Louisa Glisten Murdock. named Fannie and her colt Jim, a Joseph C. Murdock is. evidently a close buggie and harness, and all household relative of the T.M. Murdock who was and kitchen furniture, along with all father of D. Richard Murdock, but I do corn, fodder, cotton, cotton seed, not yet know the relationship. potatoes, peas, wheat, and breadstuff belonging to Patrick Ryan, and to half On 24 Jan. 1894, a sale bill for the the livestock, bank notes and accounts, property of D.R. Murdock that had been and half the beehives. In consideration filed on 15 Jan. 1894 (evidently the bill of the relinquishment, Delilah Ryan for the sale on 18 Feb. 1893) was agreed to surrender to George R. approved, along with an inventory that Batchelor and wife Catherine her dower had been filed on 15 Jan., in Grant Co. right to all other real estate, along with Probate court (ibid., p. 42). On the same a two-horse wagon, and the other half of day, W.C.C. Dorough, who had given the livestock, notes, accounts, beehives, bond with PR for the guardianship of etc. The deed was signed by Delilah D.R. Murdock, filed a settlement of his Ryan and George R. Batchelor(his guardianship, which was contin1led mark), and was recorded on the same 1lntil next comt term (ibid.). day. On 3 Apr. 1885, Catherine D. Batchelor verified that she had entered Patrick Ryan's tombstone says that he into the agreement voluntarily. The died 18 October 1893. The tombstone estate documents of Delilah Rinehart death date is corroborated by his Ryan show that, before her death on 7 obituary published the following day in June 1896, Delilah Ryan did divide the the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic.·7 The estate of Patrick Ryan with George obituary, entitled "Death of a Grant Richard, in pursuance of the agreement County Citizen," says, "Redfield, above.'"' Arkansas: One of Grant county's best citizens, Pat Ryan, died yesterday I am not sure why Catherine Ryan morning. He lived near Orion Church, inherited half her brother's estate. Was and that neighborhood has sustained a this the estate of their father Valentine great loss by his death." Ryan, which Patrick Ryan had held in trust for his sister? Or did he leave On 26 March 1895, Patrick Ryan's instructions to divide the estate in this widow Delilah Rinehart Ryan recorded a way, since he and his wife had no deed of partition of property with her surviving children? brother-in-law George Richard Batchelor (Grant Co. DB M, p. 392). The As noted previously, family stories say deed says that Delilah Ryan was that Patrick Ryan and wife Delilah

197 adopted two orphans, Richard Murdock and Allen Spann. Both orphans appear The service packet of this Patrick Ryan together in a Grant Co. record filed not says that he was on the muster roll for long after Delilah Rinehart Ryan's death this company up to August, 1861, on 7 June 1896. On that date, R.A. having been mustered at Memphis. Spann (I assume this is Allen Spann) Patrick Ryan is also on the muster roll petitioned to be made guardian of D.R. in January, 1863, where he appears as Murdock (Grant Co. Probate Bk. B., p. the hostler to Dr. Johnson of Gen. 124). If R.A. Spann is the Rufus Ryan of Cleburne's staff. In July and August, the 1880 census, then he would have 1863, he was with Dr. Johnson, who been age 21 by 1896. was then a medical attache for Dr. Harden's corps in Mississippi. Note that The Grant Co. deed index lists one deed Gen. Patrick Cleburne was an Irishman. for Patrick Ryan filed posthumously. On 21 Feb. 1902, Patrick Ryan, et al., sold According to Goodspeed's Biographical to E.H. Vance, Jr., property in Grant and Historical Memoirs of Jefferson Co. Since Patrick Ryan and his wife County, both the 2nd Regiment and the were dead by then, I assume that this is 18th Arkansas unit had Grant Co. a deed of the estate to Vance. men.49 Goodspeed notes that the 18th had men from Simpson and Washington A question I have still not been able to twps" under Capt. W.N. Parish, and resolve about the life of Patrick Ryan is these men served mainly near the east whether he served in the Civil War. Note and west banks of the Mississippi River. that he would have been of age to have Since Patrick Ryan, son of Valentine, been a soldier in the war, and Arkansas lived in Simpson twp., iUs tempting to Confederate service records show two believe that the second of the two Patrick Ryans who were CSA soldiers Patrick Ryans is the son of Valentine from the state, But I cannot prove that and Bridget Ryan. But I haven't proven either was the Patrick who was son of this. 50 Valentine Ryan. One of these seems an unlikely candidate, however: this Family stories indicate that Patrick Patrick enrolled in Capt. Quinlan's Ryan wore a black patch over one eye (if Co./Co. B, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, on he was a Civil War soldier, was he 23 May 1861, at Helena. His age is wounded?). Other family stories speak given as 32, so he would have been of his Irish habit of refusing to turn considerably older than Patrick, son of away any beggar from his door. Valentine. His service packet says that According to these stories, Patrick Ryan he was missing, and presumed drowned would always give money to beggars or deserted, after 13 July 1861. This who approached him, saying, "Faith and Patrick Ryan seems to have served as a be Jasus, keep this money and you'll nurse at Bowling Green, KY, . nivver be a poor man." My grandmother Hattie Batchelor Simpson, told me that The other Patrick Ryan enlisted on 18 after her uncle Pat and aunt Delilah's June 1861 in Co. D/18th Marmaduke's, death, she and her mother Catherine at Vicksburg under Capt. J. Crump, Ryan Batchelor and younger brothers This was a Mississippi volunteer and sisters moved temporarily into his company attached to the 2nd Regiment house, which WaS a large two-story of Arkansas Volunteers, This unit had house with green shutters. Why the other Irish soldiers, including J. Moran, family made this move, she could not who enlisted 24 June 1861 at Little explain. She thought, however, that her Rock, M. O'Connell, J. McCarty, T, uncle's free-handed way of giving alms Maloney, James Mahan, Michael Lynch, to beggars, coupled with his prosperity, Michael Higgins, and Michael Flynn, All had caused people to think he was a these soldiers enlisted at Vicksburg on wealthy man. Word got around that he the same day Patrick Ryan did, had buried money around his place,

198 and after his death, people would come years before her birth. Other children from as far away as Little Rock to dig in had been born and died before her birth the yard, hoping to Uncover the as well, children whose names she knew treasure. Perhaps her mother had as "little Lizzie" and "little Stephen.' moved into the house to help secure it, There are two unmarked graves in the and the yard, from treasure hunters. Batchelor row at Orion beside James Franklin's grave; these may be those of Of the children of Valentine and Bridget these two children, or of another child Tobin Ryan, I can speak most who is said to have died young, and confidently about the youngest of the whose name my grandmother did not children they brought to America, know, I have found no 1870 census Catherine, or Kate, who was my great­ listing for the family, grandmother. Many of the family stories my grandmother told me as a child Catherine Ryan and her husband focused on her mother, who was a George Richard Batchelor had fifteen beloved and venerated figure in the children in all, ten of whom lived to Batchelor family. As noted at the adulthood, In addition to the four beginning of this article, those stories children mentioned above, who died in begin with the family's emigration from infancy, a son William H. Thomas R. Ireland, which Catherine remembered Batchelor was born 28 December 1878 vividly, though she was just a girl of and died 26 July 1892. My four when she left Ireland with her grandmother recalled his death vividly: . mother and siblings. he had dropped dead in the fields, and his brother Pat, then twelve, had come After her baptismal record in Kilbeacon carrying his brother Tommy's body in Parish, the first firm record I can find of his arms, and had laid him on the back Catherine is her listing in her father's porch of the house. When the death household in the 1860 census. As occurred, Catherine Ryan Batchelor mentioned above, a family story says claimed to have had a vision of her son that when her sister Margaret died in lying in his colfm on the porch a few 1862, leaving at least one small child days earlier, This had happened with {the family stories indicate that there the deaths of her infant children, as may have been at least another child well, she maintained. A 1908 Woodmen who died young), Catherine married of the World insurance application filed Margaret's husband so that the children by Tommy's brother Monroe says that would not be motherless, and then left his brother died of malarial fever, and him not long after the marriage, that he had been sick for three weeks because he was cruel to her. The stories prior t6 his death, In.an old tintype also say that Catherine had a daughter album given by Catherine Ryan by Robert A, Sumrall. If so, I can find no Batchelor to her daughter Hattie on trace of her. Hattie's sixteenth birthday in 1904 are several pictures of Tommy taken not By 1870, Catherine had married George long before his death. He appears to Richard Batchelor, son of Moses and have had very fair complexion with Minerva Monk Batchelor of Fenter twp. freckles, red hair, and green or blue in Grant Co, The Grant Co. marriage eyes, Could he have died of heat stroke? records have burned, and I fmd no record of this marriage. In Orion Of the ten of George R. Batchelor and Cemetery, a son James F., born to this Catherine Ryan's children who lived to couple, is buried. His tombstone states maturity, the oldest was Delilah Jane, that he was born on 1 July 1870. My born 22 May 1873 in the Orion grandmother spoke of this sibling, who community, Delilah married Walter died on 7 July 1874, as "little Jamie" or Leonidas Glisten on 30 July 1893 in "little Franklin." She knew of him only Pulaski Co. After his death on 26 from family lore, since he died fourteen February 1896 at Orion, she remarried

199 to John W, Graves. By her first remarried to Carries Simmons (Alford). husband, Delilah Batchelor had two By Mary Murdock, Valentine Batchelor daughters, Viola and Anna L. Glisten. had the following children: Viola Delilah Jane Batchelor Graves died 15 Minerva, George, William Jefferson, June 1935 at Walnut Ridge in Jefferson Verdie Edna, Ruby Alice, Spencer Co., and is buried at Orion Cemetery. Monroe, Arvie Joe, Nettie Mae, and Horace Batchelor. By Carrie Simmons, The next child of George R. and Valentine Batchelor had children Laura Catherine Ryan Batchelor was Alice Berniece and Geraldene Batchelor died Catherine, who was born at Orion on 15 27 March 1949 at Oak Hill in July 1875. She married Thomas Marion McCurtain Co., Oklahoma, and is Murdock, son of Joseph Clemmon buried at Holly Creek Cemetery in Murdock and Louisa F. Glisten, by Glover, Oklahoma, whom she had the following children: George R. and Catherine Ryan Katie Marie, Eva Mae, Jewell Edward, Batchelor'S next child was George Hugh Roy Leo, Wilson Theo, Delilah Lucille, Parks Batchelor, who was born 13 June and Bernice Tommie Murdock, Alice 1883 at Orion. He married Vinnie Batchelor Murdock died 17 Feb. 1936 Spann, and died in 1948. George in Pine Bluff, and is buried at Orion Batchelor is buried at Orion Cemetery. Cemetery, The next child of George R. and The next child of George R. and Catherine Ryan Batchelor was Marion Catherine Ryan Batchelor was Frances Monroe Batchelor, who was born 12 Isadora, who was born 12 May 1877 at October 1885 at Orion. Marion Monroe Orion. Frances Batchelor married Lewis Batchelor never married, and died 31 Abels Reynolds, son of Dr. Harrison October 1980 at Broken Bow, Reynolds and Mildred Abels. The couple Oklahoma. He is buried at Holly Creek were parents of Lexie Marie, Lois Cemetery in Glover, Oklahoma. Katherine, and William Howard Reynolds. Frances Batchelor Reynolds Following this child, George R. and died 1 April 1940 in Little Rock and is Catherine Ryan Batchelor had a buried at Orion Cemetery. daughter Hattie Paralee, who was born at Orion on 23 September 1888. On 12 Following William H. and Thomas R. June 1912, she married William Batchelor, George R. and Catherine Zachary Simpson in Redfield, Arkansas, Ryan Batchelor had a son Patrick Eli who was the son of Mannen Clements Batchelor, who was born at Orion on 10 Simpson and Samantha Jane February 1880. On 30 August 1899, he Braselton. This couple had the following married Nellie Roseanne. The couple's children: Samantha Katherine, William children were Eura Mae, Havis Austin, Zachary, Jr., Pauline Elizabeth, [dis Paisley, Arnold Eli, Willie Erma, Margaret Frances, Hattie Clotine, and lma Velona, Patrick Angus, Arlene Gray, Billie Jean Simpson. Hattie Batchelor and Edgar Gerald Batchelor. Patrick Eli Simpson died on 23 May 1968 in Little Batchelor died 4 September 1970 at Rock, and is buried at Orion Cemetery. Pine Bluff, and is buried at Orion Cemetery. The next child of George R. and Catherine Ryan Batchelor was John The next child of George R. and Richard Batchelor, who was born 18 Catherine Ryan Batchelor was Moses May 1891 at Orion. John R. Batchelor Valentine Batchelor, who was born 4 married on 17 June 1921 in Little Rock March 1881 at Orion. On 23 September to Frances Tucker, daughter of Francis 1900, he married in Pulaski Co. Mary William Tucker and Helen M. Wilkins. Murdock, sister of Thomas Marion The couple had one child, George Murdock. After Mary Murdock's death William Tucker Batchelor. John R. on 13 July 1927, Valentine Batchelor Batchelor died 10 July 1948 in Hot

200 Springs, and is buried at Orion brother Patrick's estate to his widow in Cemetery. 1895, for certain considerations. The last legal records in which I fmd The last child of George R and Catherine Ryan Batchelor are her Catherine Batchelor was William husband's estate records. Grant Co. Edward Batchelor, who was born 5 Probate Docket A has an entry saying March 1895 at Orion. Edward that Catherine Ryan Batchelor's petition Batchelonnarried Flora Jeannette as guardian of the heirs of George R. Wallin, daughter of Elisha and Lina Batchelor, her letter of application to Wallin. This couple had the following administer the estate, and her bond had children: William Edward, Jr., George been filed 21 Oct. 1907, and letters Wallin, Lina Catherine, and James granted the same day. On the same day, Patrick Batchelor. Edward Batchelor Catherine Ryan petitioned to sell land; died 31 December 1976 at EI Dorado, this was granted, the deed was and is buried at Orion Cemetery. executed, and it was acknowledged in court. Catherine Ryan appears with her husband on various censuses, The estate record itself is in Probate beginning in 1880, where the couple is Court Records B, pp. 498-9, 21 Oct. enumerated in Simpson township in 1907. The petition to sell real estate Grant CO.Sl The 1900 census has very states that George R. Batchelor died in precise infonnation which matches May 1907. and that during his lifetime. other records: it gives Catherine Ryan's he had contracted with W. F. Campbell date of birth as August, 1849, which that, if Campbell should pay him $400, corresponds with the information in her Batchelor would sell him the S\!2 of lot 4 baptismal record and on her tombstone. of the NWV. and lots 2 and 4 of the This census also indicates that SWv. of section 18, twp. 3S, range llW Catherine Ryan had come to the U.S. in in Grant Co. George R. Batchelor died 1853, which matches family stories, intestate before selling the land, and and that she was a naturalized citizen. Campbell was anxious for the sale. The The final census on which Catherine petition was signed Catherine Batchelor Ryan Batchelor appears is the 1910 and was granted. census, when she was the head of the household, since her husband had died. I have a number of pictures of On this census, she is enumerated in Catherine Ryan Batchelor, all from her Simpson Township in Grant Co. She is adult life. Some of these are tintypes listed as a widow, mother of 15 from the photo album she gave her children, of whom 10 were living. Her daughter Hattie Batchelor on the birthplace and that of her parents is latter's sixteenth birthday. From these given as Ireland. Her year of pictures, and from stories my immigration is given as 1846, which grandmother told me, I think that conflicts with infonnation about her Catherine Ryan Batchelor had typical date of birth in 1849. On this census, Irish coloring--black hair, blue eyes, Catherine Ryan Batchelor is listed as a and fair skin--and was of medium build. general farmer on rented land, and is One of the pictures I have of Catherine literate. The census states that she is Ryan Batchelor was taken not long listed on the farm census as dwelling before her death and that of her 99.52 husband. Both are seated, and their hands lie in their laps. The hands of As noted previously, Catherine Ryan both are very work-worn. As the mother Batchelor also appears in a number of of fifteen or sixteen children, a third of legal documents with her husband whom died as infants or teens, George R Batchelor selling her portion Catherine had obviously lived a married of her father's land to William Farrell in . life of hard work and penury on a small, 1888, and deeding her share of her self-sufficient farm south of Little Rock.

201 Her life is almost unimaginable today in weather to help with the birth of the United States: her daily rounds of children. My grandmother often pleaded chores would have included drawing with her mother not to go, but her water from the well for cooking and mother would invariably assist anyone cleaning, cooking meals for a hard­ who needed her assistance. working family, tending to the chickens and milk cattle, milking and churning According to Monroe Batchelor, whom I butter, cleaning house and doing interviewed not long before his death, laundry, nursing and raising babies, Catherine Ryan Batchelor liked coffee tending to the sick, and, in her "spare" very black, so that the family always time, mending and sewing clothes by had two pots of coffee heating on the the dim light of a fireplace or lamp in stove--Kate's strong pot, and a weak the evening. I know that she also one for everyone else. My grandmother sometimes did field work, alnce this is also told me that, despite her Baptist something about which her daughter beliefs, her mother had a firm Irish faith Hattie often cried when she spoke of her in the medicinal virtues of whiskey, and mother; there was a certain stigma would become agitated when the attached to having farm women work in peddler who sold barrels of whiskey in the fields, at that time and place. the community had not been around in time for the family to replenish its My grandmother was aware of her supplies. Catherine Ryan Batchelor mother's Catholic background. But as worried, however, about the penchant of Catherine Ryan Batchelor grew up in a some her sons to drink, and thought locale in Arkansas in which Catholics that they had inherited the tendency of were scarce, she joined the church some of her Irish relatives to drink too nearest to her, which happened to be much. the Orion Baptist church. In those years, evangelical churches in the Another story about Catherine Ryan South were unabashedly revivalistic in Batchelor has come to me from her style: my grandmother Hattie Batchelor granddaughter Lois Reynolds Dorsey: Simpson spoke of occasions (intensely Cousin Lois once told me that she embarassing for her!) when her mother remembered a time when she was would become overcome with religious visiting Grandma, and was sick Kate enthusiasm during worship services, Batchelor was very concerned about her and vault over the church pews, long granddaughter, and told her, "I'm going black skirts and all. to bake you a potato, and Lexie [Lois' sister] ain't a-going to have a single According to other stories my bite." This was to let Lois know that she grandmother told me, Catherine also was receiving preferential treatment functioned as a midwife in her . because of her illness. According to Lois neighborhood, and on many nights-­ Dorsey, Catherine Ryan Batchelor some of them bitterly cold--would be would bake potatoes in the "thimble" of called on to help neighbor wives give a wagon wheel in the fireplace, the birth to their children. She always did metal piece that holds the spokes so uncomplainingly, saddling her horse together. When a wheel was worn out, and riding to whoever needed her. My she would take the piece and use it for grandmother said that, when her cooking. I know that Catherine Ryan mother came home, if the baby had Batchelor sometimes cooked in the died, she would rejoice that it had been fireplace, because my grandmother told spared the pains of "this world of woe." me that her mother kept a Dutch oven My grandmother resented these calls on of sweet potatoes baking in the her mother. particularly when families fireplace, and this was the children's who were regarded as socially beyond snack when they came home from the pale of the community would expect school. Kate also naturally loved Irish her mother to cOme out in very bad potatoes, and would take a cold baked

202 potato and a jar of cold tea to the fields when she had field work to do for a Rothe House wrote back to say that this snack while she nursed her babies in is not possible. If I send $75 U.S., they the shade. I can also recall my will search either their index to county grandmother telling me that Catherine baptismal records or the index to Ryan Batchelor loved to fish and would marriage records for one name. Since I keep almost any fish she caught, frying had enclosed some American money and eating the little fishes bones and (not the $75 fee!), however, they did a all. quick search of baptismal records for the name Valentine Ryan. Catherine Ryan Batchelor was also evidently a stem disciplinarian, at least This search turned up all the records with regard to certain sine qua nons of Rothe House had previously sent me, her children's behavior. My along with two records that must have grandmother told me that she could been indexed since their last search. recall an occasion on which she was Both are baptism records for a detennined not to go to school for the Valentine Ryan who was the son of day. She would set out for the school John Ryan and Margaret Oates of house and then tum around, hoping to Templeorum parish. The first Valentine sneak home. After she had done this was baptized 6 May 1805, with the once or twice, her mother began to parish record book noting that his follow her to the school house, crossing parents resided at Loughreagh. The several creeks along with her daughter second Valentine was baptized on 3 and whipping her with a little switch the October 1811, with James Kelly and entire way, to assure that Hattie went to Biddy Ready as sponsors (Templeorum school that day. Psh. Bk. 1, p. 167). When an Irish family of this period re-used a When I was a child, ! read several cards baptismal name, the previous bearer of and letters Catherine Ryan Batchelor the name had usually died. had written to her granddaughter Viola Glisten. These were in Kate's old The Valentine baptized in 1811 is humpbacked trunk, which was stored almost certain.ly the Valentine Ryan who in my grandmother's attic. These died at Orion, Arkansas. Templeorum is showed that Catherine Ryan Batchelor the parish immediately east of could read and write, but she Kilbeacon parish, where Valentine Ryan apparently did so laboriously. and Bridget Tobin lived after their marriage. According to John Ryan of I am not sure of what illness Catherine Piltown, my contact in Co. Kilkenny, it Ryan Batchelor died. Since the pictures would not be at all unusual for the I have of her show that she was tombstone of someone born in Ireland somewhat portly in later life, and since during this period to give a date of birth several of her children died of heart that conflicts slightly with the baptismal disease or strokes, I have always date, so that the discrepancy between thought that she may have died of a the date of birth on Valentine Ryan's heart attack. tombstone in Arkansas (23 February 1810), and his baptismal date (3 And the search goes on .... Even as I October 1811) presents no obstacles to was composing this article, news came identifying the Arkansas Valentine with to me from Ireland that appears to give the one born in Templeorum parish. me the next generation of my Ryan ancestors. I had written to Rothe House Note, too, that Valentine and Bridget again to ask if they might copy for me Tobin Ryan named their oldest their computerized index to Kilmacow daughter Margaret; in time-honored and Kilebeacon parish records--the Irish fashion, she would have been Ryan and Tobin entries. that is. named for the paternal grandmother. A

203 third son was named John. Since I have ancestors back to Ireland. A sense of found only two men named Valentine humor helps, too, and the ability to Ryan living in Co. Kilkenny in the early understand the Irish attitude towards 1800s, the man born in Templeorum time, which runs directly counter to parish is almost certainly the same man American expectations. If I can give one who married Bridget Tobin and who word of advice to anyone searching for emigrated to America. 19th-century Irish immigrant ancestors, it would be to keep searching, leaving Owen O'Kelly's Place Names of Co. no stone unturned. With patience, good Kilkenny contains information about a fortune, and, above all, diligence, it is Log riach that appears to be the often possible to find ancestors we once Loughreagh mentioned as the residence only dreamed of locating. of John and Margaret Oates Ryan in the first Valentine's baptismal record.53 It is End Notes in Iverk Barony, Fiddown civil parish, 41. William T. and Amanda Harper are on Templeorum religious parish, the the 1870 census in Jones Co" MS1 Twp, 9, townland of Belline and Rodgerstown. Ellisville post office (fam./dwel. 1,2 Aug.). Niece Elizabeth Sumrall is aged 10, born in Belline is a subdivision of this Mississippi. On the 1880 census, the family townland; O'Kelly notes that the is in beat 2, Jones Co., p. 316A, ED 126, southern portion of Belline, going line 1 (fam. 135/dweI.l36, 17 June). Here, toward the Pill River, is known as Log Elizabeth is enumerated as M. E. Sumrall, riach, the grey hollow. According to 18, born in Arkansas, a boarder in the John Ryan of Piltown, this would likely household. be within the boundaries of Piltown 42. P. 93, fam. 120/dwel. 121; 2 Aug. today--in other words, very close to 43. P. 31, fam. 78/dwel/88. where I stayed in 1998, when John and 44. ED 100, p. 232, fam./dweI.39. 45. For the latter census, see Joan G. Maury Ryan helped me find the Threet, 1890 Reconstructed Census of Grant baptismal records of my Ryan family in Co., Arkansas (15511 Charles Dr., Mullinavat. Alexander, AR 7220; 1994), p. 20. 46. On Dr. Joseph M. Reynolds, see Rothe House's letter to me about the Goodspeed's Bio9raphical and Histortcal baptismal information tells me that the Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, etc., pp. 207- computer database of the Society shows 8. See also Hartel Daniel Ross, "The in addition the following children born Reynolds Family: Redfield Update (18 Oct. to John Ryan and Margaret Oates: 1998), p. 10.Dr. Reynolds, a graduate of the Louisville, Kentucky, medical school, was Judith, Mary, and Daniel. When mayor of Redfield, president of the county Valentine Ryan and Bridget Tobin had school board, and doctor for the Missouri­ their son Valentine baptized in Pacific railroad. Kilbeacon parish in 1839, they chose as 47. Vol: I, #16, (19 Oct. 1893). p. I, col. 3. the male baptism sponsor a Daniel 48. On 7 July 1895, W. R. Chambers of Hot Ryan who resided in Buckstown. In Spring Co. petitioned for letters of 1998, I found records of this Daniel in administration. naming the heirs; all of the Kilbeacon parish register. He was whom appear to be siblings of Delilah born abt. 1817, and married Mary Rinehart Ryan, or their heirs (Grant Co. Fitzgerald about 1837 in Mullinavat, Applications for Letters of Administration, p. 91). The petition notes Delilah Rinehart and named his oldest son John. I Ryan'. date of death,. On 20 July 1896, W. believe that this Daniel Ryan is the R. Chambers gave bond in Grant Co., AR, brother of Valentine who married withJ. H. W. and G. D. Mathews, B. F. Hill, Bridget Tobin. W. C. C. Dorough, and J. L. Rinehart for the estate administration, filing an appraisai of Luck, persistence, perhaps a little the property the same day (grant Co. urging from our ancestors themselves, Probate Bk. B, p. 115). The personal since their blood still runs in our veins: property was sold on 5 Sept. (Grant Co. with a bit of all of these, it is possible Inventories and Appraisements, Bk. A, pp. 275-7). Final settlement is in for Irish-American families to track their

204 Administrators) Guardian and Executor James H. Woolum, 50 years of age, Settlements., B,. A, p. 252. at Warren, August 17 49. Biographical and Historical Memoirs, Mrs. J. T. Wagner, at Walnut Pulaski, Jefferson ... Counties, Arkansas, pp. 751·2. Springs, August 20 50. Elwin Goolsby, Our Timberland Home: Mrs. Fidelio McClamroch, 80 years An History of Grant Co., Arkansas (Little of age, at Walnut Ridge, August 16 Rock: Rose, 1984), also has information Lizzie Fuller, 24 years of age, near about the 18th regiment (pp. 54/5). He notes Van Buren, August 10 that a company in the regiment was comprised by men from Simpson and May 18, 1908: Marriages: Washington Twp. under Capt. W. N. Parish. According to Goolsby, the regiment was formed by D. W. ·Carron. John N. Daly and Thomas B. Smoot and Miss Jessie Robert H. Crockett at De Vall's Bluff and Perkins, at Mansfield, May 10 was captured, exchanged and served with D. E. Webb and Miss Emma CSA Gen. E. Kirby Smith unto the end of the Knowles, at Black Springs, May 10J war. 5!. EDIDO, sheet 14, line 33. The following marriage licenses were 52. ED 79, page 12. issued at Piggott: 53. Place Names of Co. Kilkenny, p. 126. L. J. Cagle of Rector and Miss Ophelia Graves of Boydsville J. M. Fowler and Miss Minnie Cheek of St. Francis S. A. Grant and Miss Etta Jate of Greenway R. H. Purdom and Miss Janie Smith 119Q8 Death ana: ~arriage Notices! of Rector Alva Wells and Miss Mary Sells of Submitted by Jann Woodard, 12008 Pollard Ginger Lane, Benton AR 72015 Deaths: From the Arkansas Gazette: Mrs. Carrie Goodman, at Malvern, May 14 (Listed under State Deaths and Mary Wilkerson, at Pea Ridge, May Marriages, by name only) 10 Murphy Simpson, at Allendale, May Edward E. Jones - Pine Bluff 10 Capt. B. W. Eddy - Hot Springs Mrs. Martha Smith, at Winsted, May Geo. A. Waldrop - Warren Amelia Gray - Stamps 11 Tom Jerry - Leo MaryJ. Swicegood, at Hope, May 13 James Shearer, 45 years of age, at Oscar McLain - Vick Prairie Grove, May 11 Jacob Call, 22 years of age, at Aug. 24, 1908: Deaths Fayetteville, May 14 Zill Coleman, 80 years of age, at Mary Catherine Young, at Fort Oliver Springs, May 11 Smith, August 21 Mrs. Mahalia Trantham, 75 years of age at Denver, August 17 J. L. Perry, 53 years of age, a Cabot, August 15 Sadie Davis, at Corning, August 19 Lorena Goins, at Warren, August 17

205 Death Notice: Hempstead CQunty She maintained her Christian - 1894 integrity through all the eventful years of her life. Having by wisdom Submitted by Jann Woodard, 12008 of strength lived out more than the Ginger Lane, Benton, AR 72015 allotted years of children of men, she fell calmly, peacefully on sleep. Sister Letsey May (nee Wallace) was ·She is gathered into God." May her born in East Tenn. Ari128, 1811, children and her children's children and fell on sleep Jan. 13, 1894, in fol1ow her as she followed Christ. her 84th year. Her father moved to this part of Ark. in 1816, where she By: E. L. Beard, Pastor lived until her death. She was Arkansas Methodist Newspaper united in marriage to Jas. May in ***'** 1834, who was one of the pioneers of this country. They raised a family of four sons and four daughters. Her daughters are all living and the wives respectively of Rev. Alex Avery and superannuated preacher of the Little Rock conference), Wm. Fountain, Capt. Joe E. Green and J. El1is, Esq. Her son Andrew died in his 20th year. Her remaining sons, Jas. R. May, W. A. May and J. C. May, are stiJlliving. Sister May was converted in early life and joined the M.E. Church, where she lived a true loyal member until the separation when she adhered to the M. E. Church South, in whose communion she lived a faithful member until she joined the Church triumphant. She and her husband were the first Methodists in the community where St. Paul church now stands. For several years their house was a regular preaching place for the pastor of Hempstead Ct. Dr. Andrew Hunter and wife boarded with them part of the year some fIfty years ago, when he was a circuit rider. Her husband was a prosperous man, always supporting the Church liberally, "even to rashness,' some of his neighbors said. In all his generous work his noble wife gave him her hearty co­ operation.

206 __JOURNEY FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO GERMANY

Submitted on the Internet by Coen certainly worth it. Reveling in our Spamer, Cape Town, South Africa success, we wound our way to a With permission of the compiler restaurant, then to Ernst's home for coffee.

I would like to share with you some of On 20 November Ernst picked me up the events of my recent journey from and we were off to a Spamer home in South Africa to Germany; in search of Weiterstadt, where I met the entire my Spamer ancestry. I arrived on 19 family. They and their sons built Nov 1999 at Frankfurt a.m. Main adjoining homes. Then the exciting airport, then traveled on to Darmstadt. surprise - they had nearly 10,000 Ernst Spamer, a real people-person, names all extremely well documented whom I discovered via the Internet, met and catalogued. me at the train station, then drove me to my hotel, where he presented me On 21 November Ernst came by again, with a street map of Darmstadt, which and took me to his home, then on to we carefully examined, marking my Frankenstein Castle. A clear day with hotel, his home, the home of another masses of snow and stunning views. I Spamer relative, and other landmarks. I pondered the possibility that a Spamer showed him the address of the relative had stood on this exact spot, Staatsarchiv at Karolinenplatz. "We will hair white with snow! At a point where I walk," he boomed, and from that thought there could be no further moment he led me over, under, around, revelations, we returned to his horne and through the sites of Darmstadt, where he and his wife produced stacks ending up after a great walk at the of brochures and books about the State Archive, a most beautiful village of Schotten, the hometown of the building, a photo of which is accessible Spamers. from our Bessen web site. We passed an official-looking person at the front, On 22 November I departed Darmstadt moving quickly to the back of the for Friedberg, where another Spamer building, where the genealogical society relative picked me up, in the dark of shares accommodation. My name was night amidst an envelope of snow, huge entered as a visitor, and then we were flakes coming down, forming assisted by a German-speaking mountains. I thought, "The entire world employee. It was obvious to me that is white and deep with snow." Under unless one speaks German, this could appalling circumstances, snow over ice become a frustrating experience, and pelting the windshield, she drove making me appreciate so much the well for the 45 minutes to Schotten. We presence of cousin Ernst. arrived at the Spamer horne in time for a delicious dinner and a private In no time at all our research assistant, bedroom for me, where I pored over the working without benefit of a computer family papers they shared. Were there (there are none), introduced us to an invisible Spamers in the room, gathered article about my Spamer family, along around, smiling broadly at this visitor with a family tree --84 pages of family, from South Africa? at a cost of 50 German Marks --

207 23 November: Germans love Zeiten" (Schotten and its suburbs, "Kaltetisch" (cold cuts) for breakfast. through the changes oftime), which There were eight different kinds of Ernst gave me as a gift. Then to the sausages which they had made main church where I took a photograph themselves, plus a variety of cheeses of the baptismal Font (1620) where my and rye bread, rolls, and excellent ancestors were christened. Then on to coffee, honey. I spent the morning the Rathaus (City Hall), a beautiful paging through the documents they building. Then 2 castles, then some old had so graciously gathered for me -­ houses, then the museum. I was most interesting, including a Dutch and breathless, awed by all the sights and U. S. A. connection. They telephoned a sounds and love swirling around me. number in Holland and spoke to a All of these were specially opened, just Spamer who was researching the for me. I discovered later that Ernst family, and she in turn gave us the Spamer, dear man, had phoned number of another Spamer, who may everybody to make sure that they were know the Spamer family of South properly prepared for me. The church Africa. The most active local Spamer dates from circa 800 and was founded researcher, they told me, had died just by Irish monks on a venture to spread last year. He had corresponded with the Christianity. The locals had no idea of Spamer family in Holland, but another Ireland and were more comfortable with gentleman had taken up the research, the idea of dealing with Scottish monks, and it will be made available to me. hence the village name, "Schotten" (Scots). For me the most interesting I walked the town a bit in the was the Heimat Museum. It was afternoon, had some mm developed, strange getting it specially opened and bought a dictionary, then strolled along moving through the rooms with no one a massive cemetery wall where ... you else present except my guide, who knew guessed it, many a Spamer had found a absolutely everything. What a resting place. At 8:30 p.m., I was marvelous surprise to see the walls wending my way next to the cemetery plastered with diplomas to the Spamer through the snow--snow that was deep, meat-butchers, including special and soft. The night air was crisp. I awards at the World Show in Vienna in stopped for a shot of Kummel and a Pilz the previous century. The wealth of before retiring. "What is happening to information I am learning is simply me," I mused, "Have I been here before? overwhelming. It feels like ... home." After dinner I was introduced to the 24 November: After a continental Mayor of Schotten and his 10 breakfast and six cups of lovely coffee, I magistrates. They all wished me well immerse myself in an old-fashioned and assured me that the Spamers are iron bath for one-half hour. Ahhhhh! In an honorable family, much respected the afternoon, lunch at a hotel. I find by the community. myself chatting with the owner. Guess what? The hotel is an inheritance from 25 November: Window-shopping, his wife's grandmother, who is a walking all the tiny side-streets. In the Spamer. evening I visit another family which has inherited a whole stack of old papers For 30 German Marks I had a personal about the Spamer family. They live in a guide take me on a tour of the town of very old house that is beautifully kept Schotten. She is the author of several with lots of handed- down antiques. historical articles in the book "Schotten und seine Stadtteile im Wandel der

208 26 November: A birthday party. What experience. It is the start ofWeihnacht an experience for me! The birthday boy (the season of Christmas). All the is turning 50. He weighs in at more church bells in Frankfurt are ringing. than 160 kilos (350 pounds)1 About 40 Millions of people. We guests all seated at two long tables. have coffee and wine in an expensive Every now and again someone would coffee house. Then we part. It is on to shout "Herr Spamer," and then deliver South Africa. Home. Strange tugging in a message in German to me, of which of my heart, as my eyes look forward, but course I did not understand a word. my mind is still back there, with all the One said to me, in the dialectical folk I've met, all the sights I've seen. German of the region, "Kann i nie vorstelle oi Spamer der nit Deitsch I now have thousands upon thousands swetze kann!" (I cannot imagine a of names, 40 completely drawn family member of the Spamer family who trees, data back before 1620, more cannot speak German!) There were information coming by regular mail, huge dishes of braised pork, veal Spamer family meat-butcher diplomas. schnitzels, crumbed chicken pieces and cooked bacon, masses of all kinds of potatoes, sauerkraut, and a medley of I am the first Spamer from Africa to go vegetables. Plates were piled up to sky back to Hessen since Johannes came to and the guests ate at a very brisk pace. South Africa in 1776. The extraordinary No conversation during the first 75% of thing is that through it all the Spamer each platel Then followed two fellows family of Hessen handled the whole with piano, accordion, and guitar, affair as if I had only been away for a playing ethnic music. There were short year or so. Relationships established in skits and a roasting of the birthday boy. Hessen are going to be long term. We The hall was filled with raucous are corresponding and telephoning laughter! each other continuously. My life has changed. My future glows brighter. I 27 November: Going home. I leave for have memories for a lifetime. Frankfurt at 2:30 p.m. The driving conditions are atrocious. Sight-seeing - Coen Spamer in Frankfurt before arriving at the airport. This is an incredible

209 Arkansas Queries,______

General guidelines for submitting moved to Iron Co., MO, cl859. It quenes: appears Joseph's father is Adam Queries are limited to members Trollinger and mother is Allafair only Wright. Gene Cole, 1902 So. Please submit no more than one Cleveland, Russellville, AR 72801 query per calendar year Lindley/Linley Need info on John Keep the query to approximately Peter Lindley, b. KY; son William b. fifty words 1838 Washington Co., m. Penelope Neatness counts! If possible, type, Henson; their son James W., b. double spaced. Otherwise, print cl875 Madison Co., m. Florence legibly leaving a space between Cockrell cl899 Logan Co. Need to each line. connect James W. with his son Capitalize surnames Ralph Raymond Linley, b. 1907/08/09 in Wanette, OK. Ann Remember the 4 W'sn Linley Kloster, 37695 Wheeler Who - Give complete names of Road, Dexter, OR 97431 interest Stanley, Peel Edward P. Stanley, 23, What - What do you want? Keep m. Josephine Peel, 18, on 2-6-1870 it short and to the point in Batesville, AR. Seek info on their Where - Locality in ARKANSAS parents, ancestors, etc. J. W. When - Give a time period Stanley, 2209 Lawndale Dr., Dallas, TX 7521-1835 Since we always work with a large backlog of queries, we strive to Rush Seek info on death date and print them in the order in which burial place of Lorenzo Dow Rush they were received. It may be who was in Carroll Co. by 1850; was several months, however, before prominent citizen of Harrison, Boone Co.; deeded land for the Methodist your query appears. We do use Church in Harrison; d. 1893-1900 all queries received in a calendar and left widow Minerva Nelly. year by the end of that year. We Michele Varian, 1228 Rainforest continue to receive queries with Ln., Allen, TX 75013-5405 no name and address included. If the query gets separated from the Mitchell Researching Franklin and envelope, we cannot use it. It Rhoda Ann Mitchell (parents Isaac, simplifies the work of the all­ Susannah Self, Sevier Co.) in volunteer staff of this publication Crawford Co. 1873; Alfred, Charlotte, if you send your query with your Thomas Webb; Elizabeth Bullard membership fee to Arkansas Lewis, cl885; James E., Sarah White Genealogical Society, P. O. Box Rich, from AL c1880; John Broome from GA 1887, farmed for J. J. Cook 908, Hot Springs, AR 71902- (Dean Springs, Alma), m. Etta 0908. Mitchell Reba Leadbetter, 2516 PerUter Ave., N. Las Vegas, NV Trollinger Need info on ancestors of 89030-7309 Joseph Trollinger, b. 13 Mar 1798 NC, m. Susan Plummer on 22 May Williams Seek information on the 1816 in Rutherford Co., TN. Family eight children, b. AR, (7 girls, 1 boy) 210 of Joe Williams, who was born 21 White Co., AR, 920; daughters m. Feb 1885, possibly Howard County, Eads, Campbell, Morgan; son Robert AR. Gordon E. Gathright, 2115 E. Pierce b. 1880 Reyno, Randolph Co .. , Vinson, No. Cornerstone 6112, m. Ina Brewer 1904. Jean Thomas, Harlingen, TX 78550 530 McKinley, Pocatello, ID 83201-5065 Austin, Minnie, b. 30 Jan 1872, d. 26 Nov 1892 m Charles Porter Gray Warren, Joseph L., and Missila A. in Dec1899, Faulkner County, AR; lived Wayne Co., IN, 1870 census; had one child, Flora Seletha. Need Ch: Harriet J.; Frances E.; William info on Flora Seletha's parents and L.; Marion D.; Mary Ann A.; Sara D.; siblings, and any connection to and "Eighter" (Ada?). Need additional Austin family of Conway Co. Sandy info on Joseph, date and place of Caulk, 3 Sun Valley Rd., Little birth, etc. Garry W. Warren, 832 Rock, AR 72205; Olde Mill Trace, Cottondale, AL 35453-9591 Edmonds In 1869 Rev. John Pratt Edmonds, widower, came to Boone Rogers, Landrum, Lanning Seek Co., AR with son Dr. George K. info on Rogers family from NC; Edmonds and grandchildren. He m. Calvin Landrum, b. 1 Oct 1837 NC, Elizabeth Atkinson (married name) came to Van Buren Co., AR, c1860, 17 Nov. 1870 in Boone Co. On 1880 m. 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Miles, b. 1838; Batley, b. 1843 KY, 09/02/1926; Homer, b. 09/1892, d. wife Nancy; Mary, b. 1849 IA, ?; O. Green, b. 04/1895, d.?; husband Dallas Snodgrass; John, b. Harmon E., b. 08/13/1899, 1855 AR, wife Lydia Yeager; George, Arkadelphia, d. 11/29/1936. Sharon b. 1858 AR; S.E.C., b. 1850 AR, Lee Maxwell, 20149 Chugach Park husband Frank Kelly; and Samson, Dr., Chugiak, AK 99567 b. 1863 AR. Were in Lawrence, Fulton. Sharp and Izard Counties. Davis, Eads, Brewer, Campbell, Nina Corbin, 4716 North 29th, Morgan Wm. Thomas Davis, b. Little Rock, AR 72204-5005 1858, d. 1935 Mammoth Springs, AR, m. Sarah Bates cl877 MO; lived Blythe, John, b. NC c1780-90, was Lyon Twp., Franklin Co., MO 1880, in Izard Co. before 1830; near Sarah's parents. Lived Letona, commissioned Coroner in 1832 (this

211 area later became Marion Co.). Jane Ingram c1847 in Children: Mendoza Jackson m. Ouachita/Dallas Co., AR. Daughter Clarinda Wood; Missouri m. John Margaret Polk, b. 1858, same area. Wood, children of Abraham Wood, Need info on place and date and Jr. Jackson b. c1815 and Missouri b. place of death of Margaret; who took d815, both KY. Frances Hook care of children and where did they Jernigan, 52 Colony Rd., Little go. One, Charity, was 9 or 10 c1891- Rock, AR 7227-2947 92. Darla J. Foley, PO Box 6903, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315-6903 Forinash/Fornash Need info on this family. Charles Forinash in Conway Stevenson, McDiarmid, Cox, Co. after Civil War. Charles Forinash Turrell Sarah Josephine Turrell, b. m. Mary Jane Massie 1893 Conway 09/20/1866 and Jessie Turrell, b. Co. Alan Dunsworth, 345 Pharris c1876, children of Noble C. Turrell Dr., Fayetteville, AR 72703-4035 and Josephine McDiarmid. Sarah Josephine m. Albert C. Stevenson 11 Cathey, Cottrell Researching May 1887 in Pulaski Co., AR. Thomas James Cathey who m. Arlie Josephine McDiarmid was sister to Elizabeth Cottrell, Lawrence Co., George W. McDiarmid who m. Clara AR,; he had sister, Maggie, and A. Cox. David Lynx, 320 North 31" brother, Otis. Who were his parents? Ave., Yakima, WA 98902-2336 Maggie m. V. L. Summers. Otis lived in Evening Shade, AR, cl909. Any Snow, Dees. Franklin, House Seek relatives in Cross, Sharp or Lawrence info on Alexander Dees res. counties? Jean Cathey, 18064 Last Hempstead Co. 1850-1870; Henry Frontier Rd., Quinlan, TX 75474- Snow, res. Crawford Co. 1854-1876; 6383 Nancy House, res. Nevada Co. before 1885. Sally Carter, PO Box 153, Hill Seek info on an uprising or Blairsden, CA 96103-0153 turmoil taking place in 1880s near Elaine, AR, on Mississippi River, in McLemore/Maclemore, Sullivan which blacks protected white Serena Annie McLemore1 Maclemore families-newspapers, personal b. 28 Jan 1861, Clark Co., AR; d.15 histories, mentioning Hill and Ore. Nov. 1934,Pulaski Co., AR, m. Wm. GaD O. Ravelette, 2647 Diane Dr., Carroll Sullivan? Nov. 1877. Where? Arnold, MO 63010-2915 Need info on her parents and siblings-who were they? May have Self Looking for any descendants of come from GA. Father could be two sisters, daughters of Isaac Self James? Bernice Thatcher, PO Box and Sarah E. Jeter. Sarah Ann 479, Cabot, AR 72023-0479 Louisiana Self m. David Barber and Elizabeth Self Jordan m. Dempsey Anderson Need info on parents of Mitchell in AR, cl860. Barber and John R. Anderson, b. cI859,d. Mitchell families in Scott Co., AR, d896, m. Elizabeth (Bettie) Frisby, 1880 census. Joyce Self Hammett, b. 1865, d. c1896 in Boughton, 3100 Harvard Ave., Midland, TX Nevada Co., AR. James Millard 79701-3841 Anderson b. 1884, d. 1847, m. Julia Orren, was their son. Seek any data. Polk, Ingram Want to find info on Mary J. Lambert, 7635 Cindy Dr., Benjamin G. Polk who m. Barbara

212 Benton. AR 72015-7378; Lydia Mead Hotchkiss, who died [email protected] prior to 1850 census. H. Martin Soward III, 5215 Dove Nest, San Henson Prior query said William Antonio, TX 7850-4708; Henson m. Ruth Rollinson in 1837 in [email protected] Crittenden Co.-this is an error! I fmd it was in Phillips Co. And I still know Moore Need info on "Maggie" nothing more about them. Any info (Margaret?) Moore, b. 2 Apr 1879 will help. Barry Henson, 221 Via TNM, m. Charles L. Pedigo, b. 5 Aug Los Miradores, Redondo Beach, CA 1879 TN in KY. Their daughter Nellie 90277; [email protected] Pedigo, was b.5 Feb. 1898.Any info will help. Theresa Harding, 1230 Swaim Researching descendants of Kenwood Rd., Glen Burnie, MD William Swaim, Sr., 1) daughter 21060·7047; Emily m. Joel J. Evans; 2) their [email protected] daughter Mary Ann Evans m. Reason Taden Tolbert. Believe their records Breshears, Beaver, Clopton, to be in Pulaski, Prairie, Lonoke Henderson, Henning,Rutherford, Counties 1851 to present. Billie Waits, Tatum, Burden, Pearson, Daugherty, PO Box 68, Cabot, AR Hollimon, Stone All these families 72023-0068; [email protected] lived in AR; want to share information on them. Mildred Rogers Searching for any info on Neeley Tatum, 228 S. Real Rd. No. parents, siblings of Elijah Rogers, b. 83, Bakersfield,CA 93309 11 Oct 1835 TN, d. 18 June 1893, Independence Co., AR .Joanne McAfee Searching for roots of Brubaker Covert, PO Box 722, Azariah McAfee, b. 1793, Pvt. 2nd NC Washon, WA 98070-0722 Sgt; volunteer in War of 1812. Lawrence McAfee, 12159 Williams, Bobbitt, Castleberry, Huntington Park Dr., Houston, TX Pettit, Vaught, Haskins, Wheeler, 77099·3121 Gladden, Robins Researching Richard C. and Charles Hope McKerley/McCarley ( and various Williams; sisters Elizabeth and Mary other spellings) Seek any info about Bobbitt; Wm. C. and Willis W. the S. and Thos. McKerley families Castleberry 1860-80, Grant, Saline, listed on the 1870 census for Jefferson Cos. From 1860 to presnt Randolph Co. Other known locations Montgomery Co.- Peter Pettitt, of this family: Wayne Co., TN; Benjamin Vaught, Martha Haskins, Johnson, Van Buren and Stone Cos., John and Gabriel Wheeler, Joseph AR; Pottawatamie Co., OK. Patricia and Robert Gladden, Thomas and Rowbotham, RR 1 Box 2204, Mary Robbins, Thomas and Susan Lamar, AR 72846-9706; Williams. Sammie Williams Pettitt, rrfann@river-valley,net 249 Barnard Rd., West Monroe, LA 71291-8508; [email protected] Maddux/Madox Seek info on this family, especially John W., his Hotchkiss Need death date of farther Alexander (Ridge Alex) Hezekiah Knight Hotchkiss, some Maddux and all John's children, of time after 1850 census, probably which r believe there were eleven. Independence Co., AR. Also his wife, Most often found in the Pope County

2B area of AR. LeeAnn Maddux Wm., b. 1856; Starlin b. 1859. Parkinson, 1740 W. Cascabella Dr., Margaret died and H. W. remarried Tucson, AZ 85737-3689; Frances Mariah Stroud. Siblings: [email protected] John b. 1862; Berryman b 1854; Margaret b 1965; Margaret b 1869; Swaim, Stanfill Researching the Arch b. 1873; Mary E. b. 1875. Henry and Amanda Swaim, and Marion Wood HUton 17901 Jesse and Darsey Stanfill families of SaddleHorn, Wildwood, MO 63038; Madison Co. Swaims of OH, lA, AR; [email protected] Stanfills were KY, TN, AR. Some of the StanfJ.1ls are buried in Drake's Blalock/Blaylock Need parents, Creek; Henry Swaim is buried near marriage place, for Emily Presilla St. Paul. Margaret Nixon, 8807 Blalock/Blaylock, b. 13 June 1840; Boulder Ln., Little Rock, AR m. Joseph Baxter Jones 5 Jan 1861. 72227; [email protected] Fredona Angeline Blalock, b. 25 Dec 1845 listed 1880 census Randolph Strong Looking for James William Co., AR, with sister Emily. Other Strong, b. 20 April 1863, Chester, siblings David, b. 9 Mar 1855 and Crawford Co., AR; he died of Margaret b. Sept. 1861. Regina hydrophobia 23 Jan 886. Brother French, PO Box 13773, MaumeUe, Thomas Benjamin Strong. Uncertain AR 72113-0073 of father or mother. He m. 1) Bell Heathen, 2) Georgia Ann Atwell. Smith, Payne, Goshin/Coshin Seek Sisters could be Sarah and Molly; info on these lines that were in other brother possibly George Arkansas, most likely Monroe or Lee Strong. Mrs. Sandy F. Smith, 2624 County, during the 1860s through Aspen Way, Billings, MT t59106- 1900s. Edith D. Smith, 13275 East 1575 131·' St.,Broken Arrow, OK 74011; [email protected] Hill Looking for parents and siblings of William Henry Hill, b. March 1840, Ridlesbarger, Taylor Seek info on d. 04-04-1905 Izard Co., AR, m. John Henry and Mahalia Gooch Aletha Jane Fowler, b. 1850, d. 1943 Riddlesperger-Boone County; George Stone Co., AR. Family legend says Washington and Laura Elizabeth Wm. Hill could have been a Rice Riddlesperger Taylor-Cleburne raised by the Hill family. Had son County; William Thomas and Martha John Presley Hill. Connie Pearl, Louisa Branson Todd; Thomas Lane 3309 E./ Mt. Vernon, Wichita, KS and Sophronia Catherine Widener 67218-3955; [email protected] DeBusk; Henry Belton and Victoria White Beasley-Critenden County; Davis, Stroud Hezekiah and James Hiram and Elizabeth Margaret Stroud Davis, both b. TN, Showalter Naylor-Crittenden lived in Smith Co., TN, Jackson Co., County.Janet Naylor, 6401 Pawnee IL, Fulton and Independence Cos., Dr., North Little Rock, AR 72116; AR. Siblings of this union: Eli B. and wsnaylonfi!aol.com Levi (twins), b. Jackson Co., IL 1841; Sarah, b. TN 1844; Ezekiel b. 1848 Gibson, Sisemore/Sizemore Need TN; Benjamin, b. 1849 AR; James, b. info on Nancy Gibson, b. 212 Dec 1849 AR; James b. 1852, AR; 1837 KY, d. 18 March 1922, AR, m. Winchester, b.1852 AR; Hezekiah George W. Sisemore/Sizemore, b. 27

214 Jan, 1836,Perry Co., KY, d. 19 June Ortega Forest Dr., Jacksonville, FL 1915, AR. Who were parents? 32210; URL: Siblings? Betty Williams Baker, http://personal.jax.bellsouth.net/jax 15469 Brannon Mountain Rd., Im/e/meatte/index.htm Fayetteville, AR 972701 Carroll, Swartz, Camp Seek info on Brantley Seek info on Michael Joel Ann Elizabeth Carroll, b. 1836 SC, Brantley, b. Mar. 1865, LA, son of m. Swartz; one son James Henry Farm Brantley, b. 1828 AL, and wife Swartz, b. Nov. 1868 AR. She m. Patience, b. 1833 MS; living in June 1871 William W. Camp in Lewisville, AR, 1900. Died in Webster Parish, LA. On 1880 census, accident 1924, buried Shilo Ouachita Co., AR, with Swartz son, Cemetery, Stamps, AR. Need info on Camp and daughter, Ida, and him 1900-1924? Mike Brantley, Camp's children by fIrst wife. 504 Crestview, Seagoville, TX Carolyn J. Cunningham, 17128 75159 Randalls Ferry Rd., Norwood, NC 28128 Garner Researching family of John F., Garner, Jr., who was married to Bennett, Meacham, Payne, Potter, Mary Ann "Polly « Richardson. He Robinson, Smith Researching these served during Civil War in the 19th lines in Arkansas. GaU B. Meacham, Ark. Inf. Regt. (Dockery's) and later 1525 Brandon Dr. SW, Marietta, transferred to 12th Battalion of GA 30008-3738 Arkansas Sharpshooters {Rapley's Sharpshooters). Some moved to Hot Bolen/Boling, Walnut, Fallsville Springs, Garland County, in early crick/Loafers' Glory Researching 1800s. Other lines are Rate, George and Agnes Richardson Hilton,Wallace, Warford and Terry. Bolden/Boling tamily who raised Charles E. Gamer, 1908 Crown seven boys in that area. He was Colony Dr., Prosper, TX 75078 reportedly postmaster and they ran a store. Known names of boys: Adams, Hartje, Stephens/Stevens, Thomas, John, William, Kane, and Willmott Researching these lines in one girl named Deboyier who m. Arkansas. Mrs. Gertrude J. William Albert Martin whose dau. Stephens, 2 Lee Circle, Spanish Mary Susan born Fallsville or Fort, AL 36527-3106 Fayetteville, 3 April 190Q. Joyce .T. Duncan, 58 Ledord Lane, NW, Lilly, Scrivener, Reid, Furlow Seek Cartesrsville, GA 30121-4916 info on these lines, particularly James Thomas Furlow who lived in Magnolia, Columbia Co. AR. Joanne Lilly, 3230 Bungalow Dr., E1 Segundo, CA 90245

Meatte, Myette, Branham, Polite Researching these lines in AR. Have website that focuses on the 7th MO Cavalry, a unit that fought in the Trans-Mississippi (Missouri and Arkansas). Mark C. Meatte, 4571

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Bobbie Jones McLane, Russell P. researcher in mind. One of its main Baker, Jan Eddleman, Susan features is a listing of Arkansas Gardner Boyle genealogical and historical books, microillms and other publications Cemeteries of Southern Sharp that are currently available for County, Arkansas, compiled by purchase from the Society and Sarah F, Weston with Ann Weston vendors. It contains helpful source and others, published by the information for each Arkansas Arkansas Genealogical Society, Inc., County, with addresses of PO Box 908, Hot Springs, AR courthouses, historical and 71902-0908,337 pages, soft cover, genealogical societies, etc, This cemetery location map, full name edition also has a section listing index, priced at $25.000, postpaid. Arkansas-related family Sarah Weston and other members of newsletters/books. The modest her family spent many long hours price for this paperback makes it a compiling a detailed cemetery must for every Arkansas census of marked graves in some 29 researcher-armchair or not. [RPB) cemeteries located in the southern part of Sharp County, Arkansas. Aaron's Ancestry Claunch, She graciously presented this list to Lltttleton and ConnectIng Lines, the Arkansas Genealogical Society by Brian J, L. Berry, 2404 Forest for publication, The resulting work Court, McKinney, TX 750-70-4018, presents these records in cemetery, soft cover, charts, maps, then "row" order, with full birth and illustrations, photographs, 196 death information, when available, pages, no index. The work contains plus notations about military detailed information on some 70 service, fraternal affiliation, etc. ancestral lines of Mr, Berry's family. These ladies also added many It traces them from Germany to notations concerning family Virginia, to Kentucky, to South relationships. This handsome soft Carolina, to Yell County, Arkansas, cover work also contains a map and then on to Oklahoma and showing the location of each of the Texas. It is well presented with a cemeteries surveyed. It is a major mixture of historical and contribution to Sharp County's very genealogical information, family limited published material. (Sharp stories, notes, maps and County was created from part of photographs. It is an excellent Lawrence County,) [RPB] example of how the story of one man's family fits into the larger Arkansas Genealogical Society's story of America itself. Contact the Original Resource Directory 2000, author for price information. [RPB] 5 th Edition, updated and revised for 2000, 107 pages, soft cover, $12.50 Index to Death Notices: The postpaid, This is the fifth in a series Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of very useful Arkansas Genealogical January 1 to June 30, 2000, by Society publications by this name Oscar G. Russell, 506 Loop Road, created with the needs of the North Little Rock, AR 72120-2216, armchair Arkansas genealogical $21.00 soft cover, $34.00 hard

216 cover. Arkansas researchers are no primary source material and in fluid stranger to Mr. Russell's volumes of prose, he demonstrates that the newspaper notices. This work of 295 Quapaws and Frenchmen created a pages comes up to his usual high highly symbiotic society in which standards. Deaths are listed in the two disparate people become alphabetical order by the person's connected in complex and subtle last name, with other information, ways-through intermarriage, trade, including town, state, age, and religious practice, and newspaper reference. rt should be political/military alliances. A noted that his list includes not only detailed interpretation of "manteau Arkansas deaths, but all out of state aux trios villages," an early deaths reported in this newspaper. eighteenth-century Quapaw buffalo Write Mr. Russell for a complete list roe housed in the Muse'e de Homme of his publications. [RPB] in Paris, enriches the narrative.

NOTICES: Arkansas Post emerges as an early American model of coexistence in The Rumble of a Distant Drum, which dissimilar residents The Quapaw And Old World interacted in a manner that was Newcomers, 1673-1804, by Morris equally beneficial to both and S. Arnold, Fayetteville: The characterized by mutual respect. University of Arkansas Press, 335 pages, 30 illustrations; March 2000; Morris S. Arnold is United States, $35.00 cloth. Arkansas Post was Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit founded in 1686 by the French and author of numerous articles explorer Henri de Tonty, predating and books on the Colonial era. St. Louis and New Orleans by decades, and was thus the fIrst Sentinels of History, Reflections on European settlement in what would Arkansas Properties on the National become Jefferson's Louisiana. Register of Historic PlaCes, edited by Enduring until 1934 in one form or Mark K. Christ and Cathryn H. another, the settlement's small Slater; Fayetteville: The University of population and precarious Arkansas Press; 360 pages, 190 geographical setting on the banks of illustrations; March 2000; $25.00 the lower Arkansas River prevented paper, $49.00 cloth. its development into a major city. Yet, it was important as an outpost Sentinels ofHistory was conceived where frontier Europeans, as a way to mark the turn of he particularly the French and millennium by the Arkansas Spanish, formed discernible Historic Preservation Program. This cooperative relationships with native generously illustrated book contains American peoples, especially the thirty-nine essays, each of which Quapaws. showcases an important Arkansas site and is written by a noted Morris S. Arnold draws on his authority. Also included is a location twenty years of archival research map for these sites and a full and writing on colonial Arkansas to appendix providing location produce this elegant account of information, county by county, for those cultural intersections. With an the more than two thousand exceptionally thorough review of surviving properties in Arkansas (as

217 of June 1999) that appear on the serves as a lavish inventory of National Register. The essays are as properties in Arkansas at the end of wide-ranging as Roger Kennedy's the twentieth century. placement of the Toltec Mounds at the time of Charlemagne, Donald Mark K. Christ is Community Harrington's sensitive look at the Outreach Director at the Arkansas "bigeminal" architecture of the Wolf Historic Preservation Program and dog-trot cabin, and Neil Compton's has edited Rugged and Sublime: The egalitarian tribute to he Boxley Civil War in Arkansas. Valley Historic District on the Buffalo National River. Cathryn H. Slater is the former deputy director of the Department of At least one current color photo of Arkansas Heritage and chairman of the site and one historic image are the Advisory Council on Historic included with each essay. In Preservation. addition, illustrations of the locations or structures listed in the Order the above two volumes from appendix are scattered throughout the University of Arkansas Press, sections. In all, Sentinels of History 201 Ozark, Fayetteville, AR 72701

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Alice Catherine, 197, Moses Valentine, 200 il A 200 Nellie Roseanne, 200 II Arlene Gray, 200 Nettie Mae, 200 Abels Arnold Eli, 200 Patrick Angus, 200 Mildred, 200 Arvie Joe, 200 Patrick Eli, 200 Anderson Berniece, 200 Ruby Alice, 200 James Willard, 212 Carrie Simmons, 200 Spencer Monroe, 200 John R., 212 Catherine, 197,201 Valen tine, 200 Arkansas Catherine Ryan, 197, Verelie Edna, 200 Batesville, 194 198,199,200,201, Viola Minerva, 200 Redfield, 200 202,203 William Edward, 201 Searcy County, 193 Delilah, 200 William Edward, Jr., Arnold Delilah Jane, 199 201 Morris S., 217 Edward,201 William H. Thomas Atkinson Eura Mae, 200 R., 199 Elizabeth, 211 Frances Isadora, 196, Willie Erma, 200 Atwell 200 Bates Georgia Ann, 214 George, 200 Sarah, 211 Austin George R., 195, 197, Baxley Minnie, 211 200,201 J. A., 197 Avery George Richard, 197, Beard Rev. Alex, 206 E. L., 206 199 Beasley George Wallin, 201 B II George William Henry Belton, 214 Tucker, 200 Victoria White, 214 Bache1der- Geraldene, 200 Berry Tressie Martin Horn, Brian J. L., 216 Hattie, 199,201 194 Bittle Hattie Paralee, 196, Bachelor Henry, 211 200 William Jefferson, Monroe, 211 Havis Austin, 200 200 Blalock Horace, 200 Baker David,214 Hugh Parks, 200 Batley, 211 Fredona Angeline, lelis Paisley, 200 Betty Williams, 215 214 lma Velona, 200 George, 211 Margaret, 214 John,211 James F., 199 Blalockl Blaylock Miles, 211 James Franklin, 199 Emily Presilla, 214 Nancy, 211 James Patrick, 201 Blythe Russell P., 188,216 John Richard, 200 John, 211 S. E. C.,211 Kate, 202 Mendoza Jackson, Samson, 211 Lina Catherine, 201 212 Barber Marion Monroe, 200 Missouri, 212 David,212 Minerva Monk, 199 Bobbit Batchelor Monroe, 199,202 Elizabeth, 213 Moses, 199 Bobbitt

219 Missouri, 212 Camp Nannie Wilson, Dr. Marion S., 188 Bobbit 194 Crockett Elizabeth, 213 Campbell Robert H., 205 Bobbitt W. F., 201 Crump Mary, 213 Carroll Capt. J., 198 Bockstruck Ann Elizabeth, 215 Cunningham LloyDeWitt,191 D. W., 205 Carolyn J., 215 Bolden/Boling Carter Curtis George, 215 Louisa, 193 Misouri, 195 Bo1en/Bo1ing Sally, 212 Missouri, 196 Deboyier, 215 Castleberry So loman, 196 John, 215 Willis W., 213 Kane, 215 Wm. C., 213 D II Thomas, 215 Cathey Daly William, 215 Jean, 212 Maggie, 212 John N., 205 Boxley Valley, 218 Daniels Boyle Otis, 212 Thomas James, 212 H. C., 196 Susan Gardner, 216 Mrs. Mary D., 190 _ Brantley Caulk Dase Farm, 215 Sandy, 211 Chambers John,191 Michael Joel, 215 W. R., 204 Daugherty Mike, 215 Cheek Billie, 213 Patience, 215 Miss Minnie, 205 Davis, 214 Braselton Christ Samantha Jane, 200 Arch, 214 Mark K., 217,218 Brewer Benjamin,214 Clayton Ina, 211 Eli B., 214 Mary Lucille, 191 Ezekiel,214 Broome Cleburne John, 210 Hesekiah Wm., 214 Gen., 198 Brown James, 214 Gen. Patrick, 198 Martha, 193 John,214 Cockrell Brubaker Levi,214 Florence, 210 Joanne, 213 Margaret, 214 Coit Buehler Margaret Stroud, Lieut. John T., 192 Violet S., 211 214 . Cole Burks Mary E., 214 Gene, 210 Lieut. J . M., 192 Perryman, 214 Coleman Robert Pierce, 211 Zill,205 c II Cook Sadie, 205 J. J., 210 Sarah, 214 Cagle Corbin Starlin, 214 L. J., 205 Nina, 211 Thomas, 211 Camp Cottrell Winchester, 214 William W., 215 Arlie Elizabeth, 212 DeBusk Camp Douglas, 192 Cox Sophronia Camp J. O. Shelby, Clara A., 212 Catherine 194 Craig Widener, 214 Thomas Lane, 214

220 Dees Lorena, 205 II F , Alexander, 212 Goodman Desha Farrell Mrs. Carrie, 205 Col. Franklin W., 194 William, 201 Grant deTonty Fitzgerald S. A., 205 Henri,217 Mary, 204 Graves Dorough Flynn Delilah Jane C. C., 204 Michael, 198 Batchelor, 200 w. C. C., 197 Foley Elmina,211 Dorsey Darla J., 212 John W., 200 Lois Reynolds, 202 Forinash Ophelia, 205 Downing Charles, 212 Gray Caroline, 192 Fountain Amelia, 205 J. M., 192 Wm., 206 Charles Porter, 21 I J. W., 192 Fowler Flora Seletha, 211 Duncan Aletha Jane, 214 Green Joyce T., 215 1. M.,205 Capt. Joe E., 206 Dunsworth John, 195 Dr. C. J., 193 Alan, 212 French Griifm Dupey Regina, 214 James Boyd, 193, 194 Lieut. W. H., 192 Frisby Rufus Boyd, 193, 194 Dupree Elizabeth (Bettie), Guffey W. 8., 196 212 Mary Jean, 191 Fuller E , Lizzie, 205 H II Furlow Eddleman James Thomas, 215 Hammett Jan, 191,216 Joyce Self, 212 Eddy II G II Harden Capt. B. W., 205 Dr., 198 Edmonds Garner Harding Dr. George K., 211 Charles E., 215 Theresa, 213 Elizabeth, 211 John F., Jr., 215 Harper Fanny, 211 Gathright Amanda, 204 Flitcher, 211 Gordon E., 211 John Thomas, 195 John Pratt, 211 Gibson Willia T., 204 Lucy, 211 Nancy, 214 Harrington Mary C., 211 Gillespie Donald, 218 Ellis Col. C. E., 192 Hart 1., Esq., 206 Gladden Mrs. Mary Daniels, English Joseph,213 190 Mrs. Rabun L. Robert, 213 Haskins (Mollie), 195 . Glisten Martha, 213 Estes Anna L, 200 Hawthorne Mildred, 195 Louisa F., 200 Essie, 190 Evans Viola, 203 Ezekiel, 190 Joel J.,213 Walter Leonidas, 199 James, 190 Mary Ann, 213 Goins James, Jr., 190

221 Mary Ann, 190 L Michael DeWayne, II II II 190 Ingram Lambert Mrs. Essie, 190 Barbara Jane, 212 MaryJ., 212 Mrs. Lou, 190 Lanning Ronald G., 190 J Sarah,211 W. Author, 190 ~ Leadbetter Willie, 190 Jaco Reba, 210 Willie Tanner, 190 Alva, 193 Lemke Heathen Alvus, 193 WaltJ., 188 Bell,214 Arthur, 194 Lewis Henson Chester Arthur, 193 Elizabeth Bullard, Barry, 213 Eula, 193 210 Penelope, 210 Mertey (Martin), 193 Lilly William, 213 Mertey Martin, 194 Joanne, 215 Higgins Merty,193 Lindley Michael, 198 Merty Martin, 193 James W., 210 Hill Jate John Peter, 210 B. F., 204 Miss Etta, 205 Peter, 210 WilliamHenry,214 Jernigan William, 210 Hilton Frances Hook, 212 Undsey Marion Wood, 214 Jerry William D., 195 Hodges Tom, 205 Linley W. P., 193 Jeter Ralph Raymond, Hoisted Sarah E., 212 210 Bruce Wayne, 194 John, 192 Lynch Darius Leon, 193, 194 Johnson Michael, 198 David Luther, 194 Dr., 198 EulaJaco,193 Jones M II James Leon, 193, 194 Edward E., 205 Jay Frank, 193, 194 Joseph Baxter, 214 MacLeod Luther Lafayette, 193, Jordan Jennie Moore, 191 194 Elizabeth Self, 212 Maddux Polly, 193 Alexander (Ridge Alex),213 Hotchkiss K Hezekiah Knight, II Maddux/Maddox 213 Kelly Jphn W., 213 Lydia Mead, 213 Frank,211 Mahan House James, 203 James, 198 Nancy, 212 King Maloney Hubbard Wesley, 193 T.,198 Margaret Harrison, Kloster Marmaduke Gen. John S., 194 187 Ann Linley, 210 Hunter Knowles Martin Dr. Andrew, 206 Miss Emma, 205 Amanda, 193 Hutchinson Amanda (Mackey), Col. A. S., 192 193 Ancal,194

222 Emma (Moore), 193 Serena Annie, 212 II N II Mary Susan, 215 Meacham Quay, 194 Gail 8., 215 Naylor Stanley, 194 Meatte Elizabeth Thomas James, 193 Mark C., 215 Showalter, 214 William Albert, 215 Mills James Hiram, 214 Massie Col. Roger Q., 192 Janet, 214 Mary Jane, 212 Mississippi Newton Mathews Ellisville, 195 Wilma H., 188 G. D., 204 Mitchell Nixon Maxwell Dempsey, 212 Margaret, 214 Sharon Lee, 211 Etta, 210 Nutt May, 198, 199,200,201, Franklin, 210 Adolphus T., 191 203,210,212 Rhoda Ann, 210 Carol, 191 1. C., 206 Moore Grady Richard, 191 Jas.,206 "Maggie", 213 Jas. R., 206 George Wshington, 0 Sister Leisey 191 II (Wallace), 206 Jimmie, 191 Oates W.A.,206 Jimmy, 191 Margaret, 203 McAfee Larry, 191 O'Connell Azariah, 213 Nolan Wayne, 191 M.,198 Lawrence, 213 Robert A., 211 Oklahoma McCarroll S. A., 193 Broken Bow, 200 Frank A., 211 Moran Glover, 200 Harmon E., 211 J., 198 McCurtain Co., 200 Homer, 211 Murdock Orren O. Green, 211 Alice Batchelor, 200 Julia, 212 Walter L., 211 Bernice Tomie, 200 William M., 211 D. R., 196, 198 II P II McCarty Delilah lucille, 200 J., 198 Eva Mae, 200 Pagon McClamroch Jewell Edward, 200 Abraham, 196 Mrs. Fidelio, 205 Joseph C., 197 Anna, 196 McDiarmid Joseph Clemmon, Parish George W., 212 200 Capt. W. N., 198,205 Josephine, 212 Katie Marie, 200 Parkinson LeeAnn Maddox, McDonald Louisa Glisten, 197 214 Edward,191 Mary, 200 Patterson McKerley Richard, 197, 198 S.,213 Eddie Wayne, 191 Roy Leo, 200 Pearce Thos.,213 T. M., 196,197 J. F., 196 Mclain Thomas Marion, 197, Pearl Oscar, 205 200 Connie, 214 Mclane Wilson Theo, 200 Pearson Bobbie Jones, 216 Nathan,193 McLemore / Maclemor Pedigo e

223 Charles L., 213 Mark Daniel, 194 Richard, 211 Nellie, 213 Polly Hoisted, 193 Rollinson Peel Polly Kathryn Ruth, 213 Josephine, 210 Hoisted, 193 Ross Perkins Ready Hartel Daniel, 204 Miss Jessie, 205 Biddy, 203 Rowbotham Perry Reynolds Patricia, 213 J. 1., 205 Dr. Harrison, 200 Rush Petott Dr. Joseph M., 204 Lorenzo Dow, 210 Sammie Williams, Frances Batchelor, Minerva Nelly, 210 213 200 Russell Pettigrew Harrison, 196 Oscar G., 216 James Levi, 191 Joseph M., 196 Ryan Pettitt Lewis, 196 Bridget, 198 Peter, 213 Lewis Abels, 200 Bridget Tobin, 195, Phillips Lexie Marie, 200 199,203 Joyce Elaine, 193 Lois Katherine, 200 c, 198,204 Maj. A. H., 192 W. H., 196 Catherine, 195, 197, Pierson Will, 196 199,201 J. W., 196 William Howard, 200 Catherine/Kate, 199 Plummer Rich Daniel, 204 Susan, 210 James E., 210 Delilah, 195, 197 Polk Sarah White, 210 Delilah Rinehart, 197, Charity, 212 Richardson 198,204 Margaret, 212 Agnes, 215 John, 203 Portlock Mary Ann (Polly), Margaret, 195 Col. E. C., 192 215 Margaret Oates, 204 pplk Riddlesperger Maury, 204 Benjamin G., 212 John Henry, 214 Morena, 196 Purdom Mahalia Gooch, 214 Patrick, 195, 196, R. H., 205 Rinehar 197,198 J. L., 204 Patrick, 195 Q , Rinehart Rufus, 196, 198 Adaline, 196 Valentine, 195, 196, Quinlan Delilah, 195 197,198,203,204 Capt., 198 Sarah A., 195 Ryan:, 200 Robbins Mary, 213 R II S Thomas, 213 II Ramsey Mountain, Rogers Sanders 194 Calvin Landrum, Ed, 194 Ravelette 211 Maj. Valerius, 192 Gail 0., 212 Daisy,21I Self Rea Elijah, 213 Isaac, 212 Blake Courtney, 194 Esther Carline, 211 Sarah Ann George Harold, 193 Mary Landrum, 211 Louisiana, 212 Gregory Parker, 194 Nancy, 211 Susannah, 210 Lizzie, 193

224 SElf Spamer Robert Edwin, 195 Isaac, 210 Coen,207,209 Vince, 195 Sells Ernst, 207 Swaim Miss Mary, 205 Spann Amanda, 214 Shearer Allen, 196, 198 Emily, 213 James, 205 Hezekiah, 196 Henry, 214 Shelby R. A., 198 William. Sr., 213 Col.J. 0.,194 Vinnie, 200 Swartz Simmons, 200 Spencer James Henry, 215 Cames (Alford), 200 Annie Laurie, 188 Swicegood Simpson Lee B., 188 Mary J., 205 Billie Jean, 200 Stanfill Hattie Batchelor, 198, Darsey, 214 T 200,202 Jesse, 214 II Hattie Clotine, 200 Stanley Tanner Mannen Clements, Edward P., 210 Greene, 190 200 J. W., 210 Mrs. Mealia, 190 Murphy,20S Stephen Willie, 190 Pauline Elizabeth, Mrs. Gertrude J., Wiltz, 190 200 215 Tatum Samantha Katherine, Stevenson Mildred Neeley, 213 200 Albert C., 212 Taylor William Zachary, 200 Strong Alma Martin, 194 William Zachary, Jr., George, 214 Carol, 193 200 James WIlliam, 214 Col. James R., 192 Sisemore / Sizemore Thomas Benjamin, George Washington, George W., 214 214 214 Slater Stroud Laura Elizabeth Cathryn H., 217, 218 Hezekiah, 214 Riddlesperger, Smith Mariah,214 214 Charlie, 190 Suffridge Thatcher Edith D" 214 Lynda., 188 Bernice, 212 Gen, E. Kirby, 205 Sullivan Thomas Mary Alice Martin, William Carroll, 212 Jean, 211 193 Summers Thompson Miss Janie, 205 v, L" 212 Martha, 211 Mrs. Lizzie, 190 Sumrall Rev., 190 Mrs, Martha, 205 Columbus Harper, Threet Mrs, Sandy F., 214 195 Joan G" 204 Smoot Frances, 195 Tilley Thomas B" 205 Frazier, 195 Miss Louisa, 192 Snodgrass George, 195 Tobin Dallas, 211 Harrison, 195 Bridget, 203, 204 Snow Margaret Elizabeth, Todd Henry, 212 195 'Martha Louisa Soward Patrick, 195 Branson, 214 H. Martin, III, 213 Robert A" 195, 199 William Thomas, 214

225 Tolbert Vaught Sarah,216 Reason Taden, 213 Benjamin, 213 Wheeler Toltec Mounds, 218 Gabriel, 213 Trantham W John, 213 Mrs. Mahalia, 205 II Wilkerson Trollinger Waldrop Mary, 205 Adam, 210 Geo.A., 20S Wilkins Joseph, 210 Wallin Helen M., 200 Tucker Elisha, 201 Williams Frances, 200 Flora Jeannette, 201 Charles Hope, 213 William, 200 Lina,201 Joe, 211 Turney Warden Richard C., 213 William H., 211 Frankie Dell, 193 Susan, 213 Turrell Warren Thomas, 213 Jessie, 212 "Eighter" (S?), 211 Williams:, 211 Noble C., 212 Frances E., 211 Wood Sarah Josephine, Garry W., 211 Abraham, Jr., 212 212 Harriet J., 211 Clarinda, 212 Tuuentine Joseph L., 211 John, 212 G.R.,188 Marion D., 211 Woodard Mary Ann A., 211 Jann,192,205,206 il U Massila A., 211 Woolum II Sara D., 211 James H., 205 umrall William 1., 211 Wright Elizabeth, 204 Webb Allafair,210 Upton Alfred, 210 Dr. James S., 188 Charlotte, 210 il y II D. E., 205 V II Thomas, 210 Yeager Wells Lydia, 211 Vance Alva, 205 Young E. H. Jr., 198 Madgy Martin, 194 Mary Catherine, 205 Varian Weston Michele, 210 Ann, 216

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