ISSN 0571-0472 The Arkansas Family Historian· Arkansas Genealogical Society Volume 38, Number 2 June 2000 Arkansas Genealogical Society Officers and Directors President Lynda Suffridge (2001) 3801 Caraway Ct, North Little Rock, AR 72116 Vice President Mary Reid Warner (2002) 18 Fastota Ln" Hot Springs, AR 71909 Treasurer Bobbie Jones McLane (2000) 222 McMahan Dr., Hot Springs, AR 71913 Rec. Sec. Dorathy Boulden (2000) 913 Arkansas, El Dorado, AR 71730 Historian Jan Eddleman (2002) 1807 Sunshine Mine Rd" l::Iackett, AR 72937 Herald Wensil Marsh Clark (2001) 1211 Biscayne Dr" Little Rock, AR 72221 Ed Sanders (1999) 10 Choctaw Dr., Searcy, AR 72143-5906 Debra Blackard (2003) 350 Hillside Dr" Lamar, AR 72846 Alvin Black (2001) PO Box 1103, Mount Ida, AR 71957-1103 Janet Bailey Bryant (2000) 1209 S,Long, Stuttgart, AR 72160 Russell P. Baker (2000) 6525 Magnolia, Mabelvale, AR 72103 Louise Mitchell (2002) PO Box 129. Brinkley, AR 72021-0129 Jan Davenport (2002) 1 Cinnamon Rd" North Uttle Rock, AR 72120 Tom DiIIard (2000) 12 Normandy Rd., Uttle Rock, AR 72207 Rbonda S. Norris (2002) 805 East 5th 51., Russellville, AR 72801 Glenn A. Railsback, III (2000) PO Box 7226, Pine Bluff, AR 71611-7226 Rebecca D. Huskey (2000) 1054 Ozment Bluff, Wilmar, AR 71675-9007 Susan Gardner Boyle (2001) 57 Plantation Acres Dr., Little Rock, AR 72210 Carolyn Hervey (2001) 2105 S, Martin, Lit'tle Rock, AR 72204 Arliss Ray (2001) 500 Pakis Rd, 213, Hot Springs, AR 71913 Jann Woodard (2001) 12008 Ginger Ln" Benton, AR 72015 (term ending) Editor Margaret l::Iarrisol1 Hubbard 1411 Shady Grove Rd., Hot Springs, AR 71901 The Arkansas Family Historian is the official publication of the Arkansas Genealogical Society, It is published quarterly by the society and entered in the mails under Postal Permit 509 at Hot Springs National Park, AR Individual membership rate is $20,00 per calendar year. Four issues constitute one year's membership, Membership may be entered by submission of dues and enrollment data to Arkansas Genealogical Society, PO Box 908, Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908. Neither the Arkansas Genealogical SOCiety, the Board of Directors thereot nor any individuals Or committee assume any responsibility for information or materials included herein. Contributors of material are indicated, and any correspondence should be directed to those persons, Notify the Society of any needed corrections. The Arkansas Family Historian Published Quarterly by Arkansas Genealogical Society PO Box 908, Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908 Editor Windows or ASCII format, accompanied by a hard copy of the material. Margaret Harrison Hubbard Membership Publication Information Membership is by calendar year and The Arkansas Family Historian, the may be entered at any time of the year official pUblication of Arkansas (late subscribers will receive The Genealogical Society, Inc., is published Arkansas Family Historian for that four times a year: March, June, calendar year. Individual membership is September and December. Commercial currently $20.00 per year. advertising is not accepted Queries ISSN 0571-0472 Members of AGS are invited to submit one fifty-word, Arkansas related query Editorial Policy each year. See the Query Section for AGS welcomes contributions of family details. records, public record transcriptions and other information of interest to those interested in family history and Book Reviews genealogy in general. and in Arkansas Authors and publishers who wish to specifically. Responsibility for the have reviews or notices of their work accuracy of information and for published in The Arkansas Family opinions. omissions andj or factual Historian are invited to submit a copy of errors is that of the contributor. the work with ordering information and price, if applicable. Manuscript Submiasions CONTENTS Submitters of articles and material for President's Page 66 possible publication in The Arkansas Box 908 69 Family Historian are requested to send Certificate of Arkansas Ancestry typewritten or mechanically generated Report 71 manuscripts on white 8 Yo x 11 inch Constituency Committee Report 72 paper, double-spaced, one-inch margins 1763 Pay book of the French Troops on all sides, with all pages numbered. at Arkansas Post 74 The sources from which the material was Researching Military Records 95 obtained, specific statements of facts, or Arkansas Confederate Soldiers Who statistical information MUST be Died at Alton Prison, Illinois 78 documented; that Researching Military Records 95 Buckstown to Orion: The Story of an Irish-American Family 99 is, the specific, detailed source Arkansas Death Dates from Pro­ description must be listed either within ceedings of the Grand Chapter the body of the text or as notes. Previous Order Eastern Star of Arkansas 109 publication of material in any form must Bible Eecord (Shaver) 113 be brought to the attention of AGS. AGS Arkansas Queries 114 encourages submissions on IBM Index 117 compatible computer disks in Word for The Arkansas Family Historian, Volume 38, Number 2, June 2000 65 President's Page_________________ _ Congratulations on your membership in manuscript collections, and is also a the Arkansas Genealogical Society I government documents repository. This probably means you have family who lived in or passed through Laman Library located in North Little Arkansas. Rock has a small but very rich collection in the genealogy section. Heritage Arkansas is a place people often "passed Seekers of North Little Rock and the through" on their way to or from the DAR have contributed books to this West. Though my own roots are deep in collection for years. An effort as been Arkansas, many of my relatives are made to purchase books that are not listed as "gone to Texas" in tax records. located at the Arkansas History Later family members went to Texas, Commission or at the Butler Center. California, New Mexico, and even Alaska leaving records in Arkansas for their Other collections that come to mind descendants to return to search many include those at the University of years later. There are many wonderful Arkansas at Fayetteville where the records to be found in various Special Collections Department of the repositories around the state. Mullins Library has a terrific collection of Arkansas materials. The University of In Little Rock, the Arkansas History Central Arkansas and Hendrix College Commission houses county records on both in Conway have libraries that microfilm for all 75 counties, has an contain material about Arkansas and it's extensive and ever growing collection of people. Ouachita Baptist University in microfilmed Arkansas newspapers, has Arkadelphia has an especially good microfilmed records of many early collection that is worth investigating. In Arkansas churches, has acquired an fact, colleges and local libraries around extensive collection of census records for the state all have significant and unique the entire United States, contains an materials that might aid in your search. outstanding photograph collection, has city directories on microftlm, and other There is no single repository that has records too numerous to mention. everything, but the Arkansas History Commission in Li ttle Rock is The Butler Center at the Central recommended as the best place to begin Arkansas Library has a fine collection of your Arkansas research. Then Visit those Arkansas material including books, other libraries, court houses, and census, newspapers, photographs, and historical societies to expand your work. major manuscript collections. Their catalog is online. The genealogy Why should you belong to a genealogical collection includes many books from society? First, you join for reasons to states other than Arkansas and houses benefit your own research. Second, a set of the now out-of-print DAR membership in a society is a great way Lineage Books. The Butler Center's mast to keep up v/ith what is happening in the recent acquisition is the Revolutionary genealogical community. You can learn War Pension Applications an microfilm. about new publications, about CALS is also a government documents conferences, seminars, workshops, repository . ancestral fairs, and reunions. A third reason to belong to a genealogical society The Ottenheimer Library at the is to help preserve records. How, you University of Arkansas at Little Rack has ask, does my membership in a a great collection of Native American genealogical society help preserve material, has many Arkansas related records? If you belong to the National Genealogical Society or the Arkansas 66 The Arkansas Family Historian, Volume 38, Number 2. June 2000 Genealogical Society your membership membership in AGS is helping pay to money is used for many things and have records microfilmed and made among that list is record preservation, available to the public that might never How, you ask, does a genealogical be available otherwise. This is records society help with record preservation? preservation! We encourage local, state and national organizations to preserve records by We need volunteers for the "Priors" having them microfilmed or donated to IndeXing Project, What are "Priors?" The repositories that can save them, Arkansas Genealogical Society bas an Genealogical societies are also able to indexing project underway with the mobilize their membership to contact Department of Vital Records at tbe legislative bodies when there are acts Arkansas Health Department that is before congress or the state legislatures preserving and making more accessible that allow records destruction, But we birth records that are over 100 years old. also preserve records in other ways, How can there be birth records over 100 years old when Arkansas Vital Records The Arkansas Genealogical Society were not kept by law until 1914? Well, preserves records by publishing when social security came into being a information sent in by the membership. lot of people realized tbe importance of Have you visited a family burial plot that filing delayed birth certificates. One of few others know about? Send an the earliest entered in the data base so inventory of that cemetery for far was 18571 Wow! That means in 1942 publication in The Arkansas Family someone 85 years old was filing a Historian.