Can anyone tell me what years Nina Stevens taught at the Rocky Comfort school? Also, do you know when she married a Mr. Kelly/Kelley? Both may have taken place in the 1920's. Thanks, Carl in Ohio

Wilma, Thank you for all you have done. You have helped me in my family search. Take care, God bless, and we'll chat later. Carl Adcock

I just heard on our local news, that the pipeline that services Fort Smith in the Arkansas River Valley, and Rogers in Benton Co. is having a problem, and that there is no un-leaded gas in those areas at most stations. I hope I did not mis-understand, but this would definitely curtail any un-necessary trips.

I have had to make a very hard decision, that for the time being, I will not be making trips to Fayetteville, Springdale, or Rogers to do any research. Because of the devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and the soaring gas prices, as well as other costs that will undoubtedly rise, I just cannot bring myself to make any trips that are not absolutely essential. Making sure that my husband will have gas to commute his 40 mile round trip to work and my 20 mile roundtrip twice a week to Church are first and foremost. I hope you all will understand this decision, and know that once I know what my economic situation will be, that I will resume the trips. God Bless all of you! Wilma

Wilma~ You found two of my people which I thank you so much. I still have a search left. It is Virinda HAZEL/HAZLE died about 1891 in Benton County, AR. I would like to pay you for your time, but I have no address to send it to. So, I will just tell you "Thank You!" Arleen in OKC [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilma J.Fields" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: [ARBENTON] Obituary Look-up Progress > I have sent 7 obits for 4 people today. The Fayetteville Library will be > closed unti the 6th of Sept. so any that I still have to get there, will > have to wait.The obits I am working on, are those with only a month and > year > > If you have not heard from me, it is probably because I have'nt found any > yet, or because I have no time frame in which to look. There are several > that I have asked over and over to please give me at the very least, a > year, > or some time frame for me to investigate. I have several that have just > asked for names with nothing more. I need more information! > > Wilma > > >

I have sent 7 obits for 4 people today. The Fayetteville Library will be closed unti the 6th of Sept. so any that I still have to get there, will have to wait.The obits I am working on, are those with only a month and year If you have not heard from me, it is probably because I have'nt found any yet, or because I have no time frame in which to look. There are several that I have asked over and over to please give me at the very least, a year, or some time frame for me to investigate. I have several that have just asked for names with nothing more. I need more information! Wilma

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/3923 Message Board Post: For some reason, my postings to the Mailing Lists did not work, so I am posting the information here. It was reported in the Morning News today, that the Fayetteville Public Library will close from noon Thursday, Sept.1 until Sept 6, for replacement of improperly installed flooring. Thought some may be planning research trips to the area, and need to know this.

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/3863.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much for this information. I certainly will check this out. Unforturnately I have no idea who were the parents of Ella Freeman (my greatgrandmother) .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EDWARDS,MCCLANAHAN,WOODFIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2684.2.1.1 Message Board Post: All I have comes from an old family history done in the 1970's but not really documented. It was handed down to me and I have been trying to find documentation to go with it. I haven't been able to get past my George Newton Edwards to his dad Andrew Stripling Edwards and mom Mary Woodfin. My history also lists Andrew as Lemuel and Lemiel. So I have been looking for the other kids and their kids. I would love to know more about Charles Newton Edwards and his family if you are willing to share, but I don't really have much info to offer in return. I really wish I did. I do know the family came to Tennessee from North Carolina. Andrew Stripling Edwards is listed as the son of Thomas Edwards III and Mary Ann McClanahan. I believe this to be true since George (Andrew's son) named one of his own son's, George McClanahan Edwards (he died in 1958). Do your records show him as the son of Thomas III? Supposedly Thomas III was a war hero in South Carolina.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5U.2ADI/2684.2.1 Message Board Post: Yes I do. What information do you have on the rest of the Edwards from Andrew and Woodfin and all the others on up? Thanks Judy

Do you have a Pauline or maybe a Paula Fergusson in your family? This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LEE, FERGUSSON, HANNON, HANSARD, RAILEY, STEELE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5U.2ADI/996.1.2 Message Board Post: I have five books on burials in Benton Co. and Washington Co. MO dating thru 1976 and would be glad to look up Gaylor burials there for you at no charge. I have relative buried there: FERGUSSON, LEE, HANNON, HANSARD, RAILEY, STEELE. - Julie MacGowan [email protected] ==== 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

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EDWARDS,DODSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5U.2ADI/2684.2 Message Board Post: I just ran across a cemetery listing for Malida Isabel Dodson Edwards...July 6, 1857 to Nov 6, 1925...Pea Ridge Cemetery, Pea Ridge, Benton County, Arkansas. Also listed is Charles Newton Edwards Mar 11, 1852 to Nov 15, 1933 (which I believe to be the relative I have been looking for). Was he the Charles that was married to the Malinda/Melinda Dodson Edwards you mentioned in your posting? He should be the nephew of my great-great-great-grandfather George Newton Edwards of Bedford and Rutherford counties in Tennessee. Do you have more info on this couple?

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/1561.1 Message Board Post: My great grandfather was clyde scantlin. And with what information I have James jospeh scantlin was his dad. My greatgrandfather Clyde was born in 10-16-1886 he died in Calif in 7-30-1960. His daughter Effie Fay Scantlin was my grandmother I think she went by Fay Scantlin. And information would be help ful. I have a picture of my grand father and great grandmother. Thanks reuel

My grandfather's sister Mary Christina Floyd married Joseph Robe Freeman, younger brother to Ella. My gr grandmother's younger sister, Samantha Martin married Jay Tolliver Freeman,oldest brother of Ella's. I don't have anything on Ella L. Freeman, other than the fact she was a dau. of Jesse and Mary Freeman and she was born abt 1859 in Georgia.--and her siblings. There were 3 sons, including Joseph Roby Freeman who were born after 1870 in Arkansas. mary faith ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: [ARBENTON] Re: FREEMAN, ELLA M > 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/3863.1 > > Message Board Post: > > There's one Ella Freeman in Benton Co., AR on the 1870 census: > Ella Freeman > Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861 > Age in 1870: 9 > Birthplace: Georgia > Home in 1870: Flint, Benton, Arkansas > Family and neighbors: View Results > Race: White > Gender: Female > Post Office: Hico > Roll: M593_47 > Page: 240 > Image: 472 > Her parents were Jesse Freeman 40 b. NC and Mary 31 b. NC. All of their > children were born in Georgia. > > > > ==== ARBENTON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to the > utility address [email protected] If you are trying to > unsubscribe from the Digest list, use the same utility address but change > the -L- to a -D- > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lee, Ferguson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5U.2ADI/996.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Cousin Janice: Thank you so much for replying to my inquiry. You have supplied me with some priceless information. I am descended from Antha Lee (Ferguson) - John Lee Ferguson - Marjorie Ferguson - Marjorie Hannon - ME! If you would like, I can send you the tree - just let me know. My mother (Marjorie Ferguson Thompson) and I have recently been working on beefing up the information she got about 20 years. One thing we have been trying to do is the same thing you were trying to do - find out if there is a relationship between our family and Robert E. Lee's. But, you said that there isn't, so I guess we'll have to concentrate our efforts in another area. Thanks again! Julie Macgowan 405-924-0046 Norman, OK

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/3921.1.1 Message Board Post: There is a biography for a Captain T. T. Hays, son of John and Lydia Sims Hayes, in Goodspeed's 1889 History of Benton County. No other siblings are mentioned Pg. 530, Benton County History Book published in 1993, gives the history of Rebecca L. Vaughn Hays, which also mentions Albert (Ab) Hays born in 1884. She married William G.Hays, the son of Fanny and John M. Hays. There is no early history for the Hays family in this book. Nancy

I just realized I do have information on Effraim Lee's family. Seems possible they're related to the John Wesley Lee family: 1 William Lee b: 1788 in NC d: 1884 in Benton Co, AR Bur: Pea Ridge Cem, Benton Co, AR . +Leah Long b: Abt. 1798 in NC d: Aft. 1823 in AR m: Aug 31, 1816 in Caswell Co, NC .. 2 John B. Lee b: 1819 in NC d: 1910 in Benton Co, AR Bur: Pea Ridge Cem, Benton Co, AR .. +Mary Mayrant Smith b: 1824 in TN d: 1890 in Benton Co, AR Bur: Pea Ridge Cem, Benton Co, AR m: Abt. 1840 in TN ... 3 Effraim J. Lee b: 1848 in TN d: 1887 in Benton Co, AR Bur: Patterson Cem, Benton Co, AR ... +Sophia G. Patterson b: 1853 in Benton Co, AR d: 1904 in Benton Co, AR Bur: Patterson Cem, Benton Co, AR m: Aug 18, 1872 in Benton Co, AR

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/3863.1 Message Board Post: There's one Ella Freeman in Benton Co., AR on the 1870 census: Ella Freeman Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861 Age in 1870: 9 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Flint, Benton, Arkansas Family and neighbors: View Results Race: White Gender: Female Post Office: Hico Roll: M593_47 Page: 240 Image: 472 Her parents were Jesse Freeman 40 b. NC and Mary 31 b. NC. All of their children were born in Georgia.

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/3921.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sherry, This family you are inquiring about has been so elusive. I really am not sure he was a son to John Hays and Lydia Sims, but it seems possible. They married in Dandridge, Jefferson, TN June 07, 1813. Ab Hays was on the 1860 Census of Wallace, Benton County, AR. From looking at that census: he is listed as A. B. Hays 47 farmer, b. TN, p. 270, h. 282-282. His age was 47 so he was born c1813. The census taker listed his birth state as TN. His wife was Neoma and he named one of his daughters Lydia. Lydia (possibly his mother) also lived in Benton Co., AR in 1860. If he were their child, then he would be the "first born". I've found nothing on the family other than this 1860 census. What can you add that might help identify them? Thanks for posting, Janice http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/hays_sims_notes.htm

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/996.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello Cousin Julie, How wonderful to hear from you! I did not have the dates you provided here and I am always looking for more LEE family information. I will send you my genealogy report later today, but wanted to address some of the things you've written here - just in case more cousins see this and wish to correspond with us also. To correct something you wrote here - Martha (Shelton) was not the mother of John W. Lee's children. She had no children of her own, but her sister, Nancy (Shelton) was the mother of all the children. John W. Lee m. March 12, 1831 in Butler Co., KY to Nancy Shelton, b. c1808 KY died around the time of Antha's birth in 1844. John Wesley Lee married Martha Shelton July 02, 1845 in Benton Co., MO. They were on the 1850 Greene Co., MO census. I have not found any cememtery information on Nancy Shelton Lee. These girls were daughters of Abednigo & Nancy Gough Shelton. See my webpages for more on them all: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/shelton.htm - notes on Abednigo & Nancy Gough Shelton http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/leenotes.htm - notes on John Wesley Lee http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/generate.htm - notes on John W. Lee's two families http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/index.htm - the first page I made for John W. Lee http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/sylnotes.htm - notes on George Sylvester "Sil" (my ancestor) As far as I can tell - there appears to be NO first cousin connection to John Wesley Lee and Gen. Robert E. Lee. I have looked and looked and can find nothing to connect them. But there are lots of things I want to know about this family - most importantly - who were the parents of John Wesley Lee. I would like to know where he is buried also. I think it was Grayson Co., TX, but so far, no luck finding it. I do look forward to corresponding with you. Regards, Janice [email protected]