Linda, I hope this gets to you. I saw your note that you lived near Quitman in Cleburne Co., AR and would help someone interested in that area. I have ancestors who I believe lived near Quitman and I have been told they are buried in "Holland" Cemetery. Do you know if there is a Holland Cemetery near Quitman or in Cleburne Co., and if so is there a listing of who is buried there? The family I am interested in is: John A. Grigg(s) b. between 1813 and 1820 in VA; m. 12 Aug 1839 in Roane Co., TN Martha E. (Bacon) Grigg(s), b. ca 1822 in TN, dau. of Allen Stokes Bacon. their children included: Mary J. Grigg(s), b. ca. 1841 TN George W. Grigg(s), b. ca. 1843 TN Malinda Pocahontas Grigg(s), b. ca. Jan 1846/47 in TN (my ancestor) Sarah Grigg(s), b. ca. 1849 AR Henry C. Grigg(s), b. ca. 1852 AR Sally E. Grigg(s), b. ca. 1855 AR Malinda Pocahontas "Pokie" Grigg(s) first married George Ligon and became the mother of John W., Mary Alice, Sarah Manerva "Sally", and Martha Brad Ligon. After George Ligon's death she married my ancestor, John Toliver Killough. They had Henry Clay, Mary Catherine (my grandmother), and Joseph Alexander. Pokie and John Killough later divorced. She lived in Searcy Co. when she died in 1908 and she is buried in Marshall Cem. Nothing further is known of her siblings. It is believed that John and Martha Grigg(s) moved from Tennessee to Arkansas with the families of two of Martha's sisters, Mary S. "Polly" (Bacon) Lay, wife of William H. Lay, and Susanna (Bacon) Patty, wife of Obed Patty. In an excerpt from a biographical sketch of "Polly's" husband, William H. Lay, appearing in "A History of Van Buren County, Arkansas, 1976" the following is recorded about the family migration: "This pioneer family came on flatboats, built by the men at Loudon, Tennessee, on Sweetwater Creek (a tributary to the Tennessee River), to the Ohio, down the Mississippi, following the Arkansas River to Arkansas Post. >From Arkansas Post they went by ox-drawn wagon to the Quitman Area (in Van Buren County)." In 1850 John and Martha were living in Jefferson Twp., Carroll Co., (later Boone Co.), AR. In 1853, John and Martha Griggs sold three acres of land for "a campground" to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Crooked Creek (now Harrison) in what is now Boone Co. They were paid $7.50 for the land. There is a BLM Cash Entry Sales record of a John A. Grigg "of Van Buren County", buying 320 acres in what is now Cleburne County on September 1, 1857. William H. Lay and Obed Patty purchased land in the same area, perhaps joining. Martha Grigg is found in 1860 as the head of a household in Van Buren Co., Cadron Township (of which part became Cleburne County with its creation); that record would suggest that John may have been dead by that time (i.e., between 1857 & 1860). She was still there in 1880. Any help you, or anyone else can give me on this family would be appreciated. Delores Eveland reveland@prodigy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Whitley (by way of Jan Davenport <jan.davenport@att.net>) <lwhit@alltel.net> To: <AGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [AGS] Quitman > I live in Quitman Arkansas in Cleburne County. I must have missed the post. > Could I be of any help to someone? > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: by way of Jan Davenport <jan.davenport@att.net> <tootncmon@webtv.net> > To: <AGS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 6:39 PM > Subject: [AGS] Quitman > > > > The web site below shows a Quitman in Cleburne County. It only lists > > one Quitman, so that could be it, since this site will also show > > 'historical' populated places that don't currently exist. > > > > http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html > > > > tootncmon > > > > >