This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClure, Brown, Beamer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/3928 Message Board Post: I would like to find family of James Robert McClure who was born June 22, 1822 in Virginia and died February 28, 1895 in Arkansaw or Missouri. He married Elizabeth Beamer on April 26, 1824 in Monroe County, Virgina and then moved to Braxton County, West Virginia by 1860 and in 1870 he was living with many of his eight children in Osage Township Benton County, Arkansas. He may have died in Jasper County, Missouri. Samuel P. McClure was his only known son. He was born September 7, 1859 in Braxton County, Virginia and died November 20 1932 in Benton county, Arkansas. Samuel married Lizzy or Mary Elizabeth Brown in 1888 in Benton County, Arkansas. Mary’s family is of special interest. Her father was John Jacob Harvey Brown and her mother was Martha A. Turner.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barnes Ledbetter Jones Boyd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/1296.1665.1693.1 Message Board Post: Lynda, I ran across an old message from you in re to Barnes family...My husband is a GGrandson of Abner Perry Barnes, son of Carter Barnes.....maybe we could share some information...Thank you....

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/3905.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Which Chambers of Benton Co are you related to? Chuck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chambers Darwin Morrison Clement Reynolds Winn Payne Scott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2850.2 Message Board Post: Hi Billy, I'm related to a Robert O Chambers of Bentn Co. I think he was married to a Samantha at one time. I don't have alot on his side of the family yet. He was my GGGF's brother. His brothers were EA, and William. I have a little more if you would like it. Chuck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Beasley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/1596.1603.1 Message Board Post: interested in Ambrose Gore Williams, possibly son of Clarrisa Gore and Samuel Williams....Did he have a second wife named Eveline Nicks Beasley that he married in Johnson Co. Ar...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reece Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5U.2ADI/3917.1.2 Message Board Post: Twila, I am very interested in "talking" with you. I descend from William Hughes Reece, nephew of James Marion Reece. I have a picture of the grave of Mary"Polly" Southern if you are interested, as well as information on Polly after she came back to Georgia. Please contact me direct at<[email protected]>.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2984.5.1.1 Message Board Post: Mike, Sorry. I must have misinterpreted your original message. One of the people buried at Falling Springs Cem. is Abraham Hood Onstott, Jr. His story (written by him) is as follows: I was born in Pike County, Missouri, on Spencer's Creek, fourteen miles from Bowling Green, July 20, 1828. When 5 years old in 1833 (the year the stars fell), my parents moved to southwestern Missouri to what is now Jasper County and settle on Casper Creek, five miles south of the present town of Carthage. We found plenty of game and fish there. The Osage Indians were there in large numbers, and very few white settlers. Our bread was corn mashed in a mortar. It was forty miles to the nearest mill. I received a common education in a log schoolhouse. When 17 I joined the Freewill Baptists. In those days we had fine camp meetings. In the spring of 1846 I came to Texas in a company of emigrants in an ox wagon crossing the Arkansas river at Fort Smith, went through the Choctaw Nation and crossed Red River at old Warren on June 1. It was a wild country at that time and abounded in wild game, buffalo, etc. There were a great many Indians too, and we had to be continually on the alert. When I reached Dallas I found two log cabins, in one of which lived a Mr. Smith and a Mr. Patterson. They had a small stock of goods in the other cabin, which was a trading post. They had dealings with the Delaware Indians and the few white settlers living there at that time. I crossed the river and went over the Lonely Prairie encountering wolves all along until I reached the Brazos river below the falls at Moseley's ferry; thence to the Colorado river and on to Victoria on the Guadalupe river, and on by Ward and Fannin's battleground to the place where the massacre occurred. Thence I went across to the San Antonio river from the present town of Goliad; from there to San Antonio and joined Capt. William G. Crumps Company, P. H. Bell's Regiment, Texas Volunteer Cavalry to go to Mexico. That was my first experience among the Mexicans. I was in the storming of the Black Fort at Monterey, under Gen. Zachery Taylor. It was a trying time. We lost some good men there. One of the officers, Capt. Walker, was killed by a Mexican from an adobe house as we charged the town after taking the fort. I could see white flags funning up all over the city. Part of our regiment was detailed to escort Capt. Walker's remains back to the Alamo for burial. We were stati! oned on the boarder of Medina river, southwest of San Antonio. We had a battle with the Indians near the Rio Grande, which lasted nine hours. We lost five brave men, whom we buried on the lonely prairie. We had several fights with the Mexican guerrillas and lancers; these experiences were trying on our boy's nerves. I was in another fight where we were ordered to charge, and as I charged an old buck threw his tomahawk and just missed my head and grabbed me by the leg, trying to pull me from my horse. It took some hard kicks to knock him loose; that is what I call a close call. We killed several of the Indians and three of our men were wounded. We captured a band of horses; and talk about brave men--the Kiowa and Commanche Indians were among the bravest. We had several other conflicts with the Indians and the border Mexicans and lost some good men. When peace was made we were mustered out and discharged at San Antonio, and separated. I came back to Dallas and went into partnership with one Charles Turner of Dallas, later of Fort Worth, to import mares and mules from Old Mexico to Texas. It was a risky thing to go into Mexico at that time on account of Mexican guerrillias, but we made three trips and came out alright. We gave $6 for picked mares and $22 for picked mules. We crossed the Rio Grande at Matamoros with stock. On our last trip we had trouble with the Mexicans on the plains but came out all right. In 1853 while peddling horses through the state, I met a beautiful young lady by the name of Amelia Farber, and married her the same year near Greenville, Hunt Country, Tex. We settled on a farm near the present town of Alvarado which town I named. In 1854 Johnson County was organized. I was selected sheriff. The first court was convened under a clump of trees on Buffalo Creek near the present town of Cleburn. David Mitchell was the county Judge and Parson Easterwood was County Clerk, Drew Kinnard was one of the County Commissioners. We located the country seat on Nolan River and named it Wardsville. It was afterward moved to Buchanan, six miles northwest of Cleburne. When the trouble came up between the States and Texas seceded I joined the Southern cause and enlisted in the Confederate Army for three years, or during the war. I was in Capt. H. G. Bruce's Company H. Col. T. C. Bass's Regiment, Twentieth Texas Cavalry. Then we marched off leaving our loved ones, not knowing whether we would ever see the again in this life. Some of our company never lived to return. No one knows the horrors of a war except those who go through a four year war such as the Civil War between the States, where it was brother against brother and father against son. We marched to Missouri in time to be in several hard fought battles--Carthage, Newtonia, Pea Rige and other fights. I had several close calls; was in places where I believe if my head had been over on either shoulder it would have been shot off, for the heat of the bullets would burn my ears. We were dismounted four miles below Van Buren on the Arkansas River, just before the Prairie Grove battle, and went into camp on the Missard prairie, living on half rations. On the 4th of December, 1862, we started on the march north as webfoots, and on the 6th we waded Cove Creek thirty odd times during the day and night on a forced march, and on the 7th, early in the morning, went into the battle of Prairie Grove. There the men fell thick and fast, leaving their brave wives at home to care for the little ones alone. Women wove and spun cloth and kept us clothed for four years with heavy jeans suits for winter. The detailed men who were sent home after these clothes reported that the Southern women were faithful to the Southern cause. They saw some hard times as well as the men in the battle. My dea! r wife clothed me through the entire war. After the battle of Prairie Grove we retreated to Fort Smith. I was in several other fights. In one battle at Elk Creek, in the Creek Nation, which is called the "Honey Spring fight," we faught ten to one, and my Captain and first Lieutenant and most of the company were taken prisoners, but I got out by sheer running under heavy fire for about a hundred and fifty yards. This is the only time I ever was scratched by a bullet in all my close calls. That was on July 17, 1863. At last when the was all over I was glad to go home to meet my dear wife and little ones at my cabin door all in good health. It was a happy day, but what a sad thought to remember so many homes where no man came back to embrace his loved ones. Arriving home at dawn at Bedrock with a wife and five children, but thanks to God for having that much. We had eleven children born to us; tow died in infancy and the rest have families of their own. The married ones are four sons and five daughters; the two oldest live in Arkansas, three live in Oklahoma, two in Washington, one in Oregon, and one in Colorado, while wife and I live alone on a little forty-acre farm in the hills of Spavinaw in Benton Country, Arkansas, and if we live until Sept. 9 we will have been living together sixty years. I am 85 and she is 76. ABRAHAM H. ONSTOTT, Jr. Route 2 Decatur, Ark.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2984.5.1 Message Board Post: I appreciate your response on the very old query. I actually know where Falling Springs Cem. is....I live about 2 miles from it. I am more interested in the histories and genealogies of people buried there. Pictures are great too! Thanks, Mike

Mike I go by a cemetery every Monday. I would be willing to stop and take a picture for you. The only thing, is I don't know the name of the Cemetery that I pass Patsy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 9:48 AM Subject: [ARBENTON] Re: Cemetery information requested.... > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: ONSTOTT, MYERS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2984.5 > > Message Board Post: > > Mike, > Falling Springs Cemetery is located west of Decatur, AR. I was there in Feb. 2001, but I don't have any photos. Go to www.topozone.com and search for Falling Springs. You can get direction that way. The cemetery is adjacent to a church and is well maintained. My wife's Gr-Gr-Grandfather, Abraham Hood onstott, Jr. is buried there. > Happy Hunting. > > > > ==== ARBENTON Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.21/96 - Release Date: 9/10/2005 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ONSTOTT, MYERS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2984.5 Message Board Post: Mike, Falling Springs Cemetery is located west of Decatur, AR. I was there in Feb. 2001, but I don't have any photos. Go to www.topozone.com and search for Falling Springs. You can get direction that way. The cemetery is adjacent to a church and is well maintained. My wife's Gr-Gr-Grandfather, Abraham Hood onstott, Jr. is buried there. Happy Hunting.

Paul, Try http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/benton/benton.htm. If you scan down to Lee cemetery, there are two partial listings that you can link to. If you click on "Lee Cemetery" you will get the USGS data on the location. David silverquad wrote: ______________________________Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:22:01 -0400 From: "silverquad" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Lee Cemetery Hello List, Would anyone have information about the LEE Cemetery in Sulphur Springs? 1919 ? Thank you, Paul --------------------------------- Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/3927 Message Board Post: does anyone have access to marriages in the 1900's? I'm looking for this marriage, give or take a year, either in Benton or Washington Co. thank you for your help

Hello List, Would anyone have information about the LEE Cemetery in Sulphur Springs? 1919 ? Thank you, Paul

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/3926.1 Message Board Post: P.S. Also seen as Susan Malinda McDERMOTT

Thank you, James has answered my plea! Wilma

I cannot find the following through Ancestry.com. Their link is messed up. Could someone please find the information for me through Heritage Quest or another Census access? 1910 Big Spring Twp.,Benton Co. AR, pg. 41 B Melvin Fields, b. bet 1879-1881, AR Wife, Birdie, b. abt 1886, AR Some of the children should be Lulu Evelyn, Amanda Girlena, and Sylvia Lee. There may be others. Thank you! Wilma

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TRIPP, McDERMITT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/3926 Message Board Post: Anyone have this line? I seen the marriage like this............. * Arkansas Marriages, 1851-1900 Name Spouse Marriage Date County State JAMES EZRA TRIPP MALINDA McDERMITT 21 Nov 1869 Benton AR Thanks, Theresa

Hi to all........ I have searched and searched for my HOWARD family for years and years to no avail........ Just last night I may have finally gotten a clue to my HOWARD family....... My granddaddy was Edward Paul HOWARD b 1872 maybe Davidson Co, Tn. to John HOWARD and Mary ?CURLEE? of which both are suppose to have died in Memphis, Shelby Co, Tn. during the Yellow Fever Epic 1878/79 leaving their only child Edward Paul........at that point he was suppose to have gone to live with his grandfather in "Middle Tn"......he never gave us a name........not a given name........his granddaddy was suppose to have died when he was 12/13 years old then he struck out on his own......... Here is the story I have from my Daddy, Paul Revere HOWARD b 1906 John HOWARD was suppose to have a brother named William "Will or Lum" HOWARD, a brother named Franklin and a sister named Maggie or Margaret.........I am sure there were others, this is all he ever talked about........ Now the only concrete connection I have ever made was with the grandchildren of Will or Lum HOWARD in the Tipton Co/Shelby Co, Tn. area........I have a picture of him and his wife.........also their son John B. and wife Savannah MEARS HOWARD........Will HOWARD and my daddy looked just alike!!!!!! The entry for Anderson HOWARD b 1820 in Kentucky that lived in Morgan Co, Tn in 1850 and seemed to be in Benton Co, Ar. by 1860........this is the closest to any family that would fit......so my story is one that is swaying from end results to beginning needing to meet in the middle.......after 40 years and 2 professional other than myself........I am here with open arms asking for any help I can get......... Known Children of Anderson HOWARD John William Wilson Matilda Know children of Lum Howard and probably Sarah Dickson (this is from a death certificate of their oldest child) Nancy Elizabeth "Bet or Bettie" Howard Sherman Yarbrough b abt 1863 John B. Howard b abt 1867 married Savannah Mears Mary Howard b abt 1867 married William Dunbar There was a girl they called "Aunt Pee" that might have married a Gibson Maybe a Charles....... I want my family...........my daddy died in 1992 wanting to know his family also.........thank you in advance for any help you might give me.........

Hi Wilma, I received the packet today, very informative. Thank you. Did you get the stamps I sent you? Hope your friends and relatives in Slidell and Gulf Port made it through the storm ok. Also that your daughter-in-law is doing ok now with her leg. Thelma in Denver, CO

Does anyone have a Lillie [Lillian?] REASOR in their records? She was born around 1888, probably on the western side of Missouri. She's the daughter of Henry F. / Frank Henry Reasor and Martha A. HUMPHRIES. In 1900 Lillie was living with her parents in Pineville, McDonald Co, Missouri. This is the only information I have of her. Her parents stayed in Pineville until in the 1920s. They show up in the 1930 census of Baty Township, Benton Co, Arkansas. Did Lillie move over to Benton Co, and that's why her parents moved there? Any information of Lillie [Lillian?] Reasor will be greatly appreciated. Thelma in Colorado