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BAKER/HANDLEY
Looking for family of Rhennie Handley Baker born 1878 to William Clark and Martha Brown Handley. Rhennie is mentioned in the Diary of Donia Handley Jeans who lived in Nashville, AR in 1922. Known children were Emma and L.Z. Baker. Rhennie attended Donia Handley Jeans when she was lightened struck near Mineral Springs while visiting in the James Cochran home. Rhennie Handlely Baker died in a nursing home in Texarkana.
McFARLAND
I am trying to find my ancestor in Independence. I hope you can help or provide a referral....I believe that the last known location we have for Benjamin McFarland, b. abt 1795 VA, is around Independence, Arkansas. He is selling land that he owned in Indiana. The timeframe is around 1860. We know he was living in Morgan Co, IN in Sept of 1854 when he and his third wife Synthia (whom he did not have in the 1850 census) sell land to Thomas Weddell. I also have the papers, power of attorney in October of 1857 that he is trying to collect about $156 for the land he sold three years before. He is living in Independence Co, AR. Howard County, Arkansas, Federal Land Records
CHANDLER
Joel Chandler and his in-laws the Clift family lived in the Rosedale Community from the mid 1870's until about 1920. Between 1893 and 1903 a number of the family died, and I have not been able to locate where they are buried. They attended Rosedale Baptist Church. Any information on cemeteries that they might have been buried will be appreciated. Our family would like to mark their graves.
BRADFORD
I am seeking information about my g-g-grandfather, Joseph Hamilton BRADFORD. Joseph was born in 1843 in GA. He came to AR in 1853 with his parents, and they settled in Prairie Co., later Lonoke Co. Joseph lived in the Howard Co. area near the end of his service as a Methodist minister, and served in Mineral Springs, Center Point, and Bingen prior to 1916. At that time he retired and purchased a home in Nashville. At this point in his life, Joseph was married to Mary Ella DICKEY, but had 9 surviving children from two earlier marriages. An obituary in a Methodist journal states that during his retirement he ran for office as chaplain of the State Senate, and lost. Joseph died in 1923 and Mary Ella in 1934. They are buried somewhere in or around Nashville; I have a photo of their double headstone, but no cemetery name. I'd like to know more about Joseph's service to the ministry, his retirement years, his run for office, and where he is buried.
BAILEY
I am trying to obtain information about the parents and other ancestors of my grandmother, LILLIE ALBERTA BAILEY. She was married to Edward Damascus Horn on 2-14-1904. She had sisters named Sallie, Maud Lee, and a brother named James Warren Bailey. James Warren married Mary Etta Horn on 11-11-1897. Any information will be greatly appreciated.
HOWARD
According to "James H. Howard" by Russell P. Baker, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Winter 1976, James H. Howard's father was Daniel Howard, "a native of South Carolina, who emigrated to Arkansas about 1853 and settled at Center Point . . . ." This information needs confirmation, though. At any rate, The information that James H. Howard's father was also named James H. is wrong. If anyone has information on James H. Howard, Rebecca J. Dossey or their families, I'd be most interested in hearing from them. My father's great-grandmother was the daughter of James H. Howard and is rumored to have been either Choctaw or Cherokee, though that has not yet been confirmed either.
WILLIAMS
I AM TRYING TO TRACE MY GREATGRANDFATHER, WILLIAM WILLIAMS. BORN DEC. 25 1852 IN ARKANSAS. DIED FEBRUARY 25. 1896. HAVE 1880 CENSUS FROM SALINE TOWNSHIP, HOWARD COUNTY ARKANSAS.
LAMB
I am looking for information on the following: C.H. Lamb, born in 1901, married Veda May Pyle, born in 1907. They had a daughter, Lorean Irene Lamb, born in Dierks, Howard County, Arkansas on 19 January 1922. Any information on the Lamb family would be appreciated.
YORK/BRINKLEY/HOOPER/FELTS
I am trying to find information about H.G. York, MG (minister of God?) who married sisters Arminda Brinkley & J.S. Hooper (1885) and Nannie Brinkley & J.A. Felts (1889) in Howard Co. Was he a Baptist minister? If so, which church was he affiliated with & where was (is) the church located?
OLIVER/WEBB
I am looking for a book on the family history on the Oliver and Webb families in Howard county Arkansas. I would appreciate your help in locating this book.
WELBORN
I am seeking information on a Bessie Lorene Welborn who died in Dierks, Ar on Feb 18, 1917...I do not have a married name for her.
BEDWELL
I am trying to get information on my great great grandfather, JESS L. BEDWELL. He is listed in the Howard Co Census with wife Alie and children. He ran a water mill in Old Union and then went to Umpire and ran a blacksmith shop. This info I got from the Unfinished History of North Howarc County. My father tells me that he came to Arkansas with the Indians on the trail of tears.
MUSSER/WALTERS
I looking for any info on Dillie Musser. She is the mother of Horace Albert Walters born 1874 in the Burg area. I have run into a brick wall. Would like to know her maiden name. and like to know who she was married to before Franz Musser. Horace has a half brother named James Fleming Musser who became a Doctor in Calvin Ok. Trying to find our roots any help would be appreciated.
WILSON
my drandfather Robert lee wilson owned the land that is now weyco mill. When he sold it to dierks coal it was in the late . He farm the land along with his slaves in the late 18000. if anyone wants to look this up they can find out more at the Nashvill tax records. He also owned the slaves that until they earned their freedom.Does any on know what year that was.
Buckrange School
Looking for any info. on Buckrange School located in Howard County, Arkansas.
COLEMAN
I am looking for any information on the John Henry Coleman Jr family. He is listed as being born in Nashville, AR on 6/21/1852. Other siblings listed as born in Nashville, AR are: Marray Kisier Coleman 1/29/1856, Evean Angeline Coleman 4/14/1857, Leroy H Coleman 4/8/1860, Napoleon Braxton Coleman 10/16/1861, Mary E Coleman 9/21/1863, Georgia Coleman 2/19/1867, Arnel Coleman 2/19/1867. Other siblings listed are Daniel Coleman 3/25/1846, Mary Elizabeth Coleman 6/15/1848, Mildred Jane Coleman 1/17/1850.
WALDEN
i am looking for info on a general sherman walden who was layed to rest in walden cemetary in arkansas .
BAGGETT/ALLEN/BREEDLOVE
My grandfather's name was William Young Baggett, born in Nashville, AR August 4, 1889 or (1890). Son of William Fletcher Baggett and Mary E. Georgia Ann Allen Baggett. Her parents were Drewry H. Allen and Mary E. Brown Sanders. William Fletcher's parents were Elisha William Baggett and Caroline Breedlove.Farming and Blacksmithing are known professions in the family line
WORLEY/CUSHENBERRY
LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON ROBERT CLAYBURN AND OPAL RUTH ( CUSHENBERRY) WORLEY, JOHN " LUMPKIN " AND SARA ISABELL ( LOCKABY ) WORLEY, WILLIAM ALFORD AND FANNIE ( MILLER ) CUSHENBERRY, MILTON LOUIS AND AMANDA ( LOCKEBY ) HOCKADAY, WILLIAM J. AND MARGARET ( WADSWORTH) LOCKEBY , TURNER ALLEN AND SARAH DRUCILLA ( BROCK ) DUCKETT .