I have some Frost and Denney family that lived in Rogers in the late 1800s through at least the first half of the 1900s. Anyone familiar with either name? Lori in California > > From: "Phil Smiley" <hsmiley@mc2k.com> > Date: 2007/06/14 Thu PM 08:09:09 PDT > To: "Ark. Benton County List" <arbenton@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [ARBENTON] Brightwater Methodist Church > > What the list is calling the original Brightwater Methodist church which > sat on the east side of Hiway 62 was built in 1950 as a 7th or 8th grader I > helped build the church. I am not certain when it burned as I had already > left the area. No do I know the date when the new church was built on the > west side of the hiway. > As for Route 4, don't bet the family farm on it, but I believe that it > extended from Rogers of hiway 94 & turned east on Sugar Creek Road and ran > east past Brightwater a little ways. Then it became Route 2 from Garfield > post office. > Who were the people on Rt. 4, Rogers? Most of us would remember names > better than post office routes. > At one time Brightwater had it's own post office and Clint Clawson was > the post master for years. The post office was located in his grocery and > general store. I remember, as a child, that I thought his two daughters, my > cousins, were real rich as they could get a stick of candy when they wanted > it. In recent years I've learned that was not the case as they had to work > to earn that stick of candy. Wanda Bennett at Brightwater could give you a > history of that Methodist church as the one on the east side sat on her > property. > Phil > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBENTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have a Marry Denney born 1849 ca Ark, parents Burnett & Persilla Denney b 1808 ca Tenn. Mary married James Polk Hayes (Civil War vet) in Madison or Benton Co Ark. Tanis in Calif. lowilli@iwvisp.com wrote: I have some Frost and Denney family that lived in Rogers in the late 1800s through at least the first half of the 1900s. Anyone familiar with either name? Lori in California > > From: "Phil Smiley" > Date: 2007/06/14 Thu PM 08:09:09 PDT > To: "Ark. Benton County List" > Subject: [ARBENTON] Brightwater Methodist Church > > What the list is calling the original Brightwater Methodist church which > sat on the east side of Hiway 62 was built in 1950 as a 7th or 8th grader I > helped build the church. I am not certain when it burned as I had already > left the area. No do I know the date when the new church was built on the > west side of the hiway. > As for Route 4, don't bet the family farm on it, but I believe that it > extended from Rogers of hiway 94 & turned east on Sugar Creek Road and ran > east past Brightwater a little ways. Then it became Route 2 from Garfield > post office. > Who were the people on Rt. 4, Rogers? Most of us would remember names > better than post office routes. > At one time Brightwater had it's own post office and Clint Clawson was > the post master for years. The post office was located in his grocery and > general store. I remember, as a child, that I thought his two daughters, my > cousins, were real rich as they could get a stick of candy when they wanted > it. In recent years I've learned that was not the case as they had to work > to earn that stick of candy. Wanda Bennett at Brightwater could give you a > history of that Methodist church as the one on the east side sat on her > property. > Phil > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBENTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBENTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message