You might try to contact some of the people that are at the Bradley Co. cemetery web-site. ----- Original Message ----- From: "remona" <remonalee@sbcglobal.net> To: <ARBRADLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:05 PM Subject: [ARBRADLE] Old Elliot Hill > Does anyone know where "Old Elliot Hill" is located. The note that I have > says that it was just outside of Hermitage, but I am not very familiar > with the area. It is supposed to be the location of a cemetery. > > Remona > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The publication date is April 5, 1962. Lee, I am SURE of the __allace Wear - and that is what's throwing me off. Jann Lee Savage <LeeS@rsh.com> wrote: Jann, What's the date of the obit? The brothers and sisters are children of Newton and Julia Singer Wear. Lee --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

Sorry The last email went before I was finished! (SMILE) This is for Tipton Paul Wear - obit: T. P. Wear Succumbed Monday (April 2, 1962) Tipton Paul Wear, 72, died Monday at the Bradley County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Wear resided south west of Warren. He was a Baptist.... T. P. Wear (Continued from Page Two) [son] .. .. James Wallace Wear of Warren; three stepdaughters, Mary Ella Glosson of Hermitage, Hazel Kline and Rose Horton of Warren; a sister Mrs. Melia Nixon of Warren; five brothers, J. W. and Carl Wear of Houston, Texas, Hale (Hoyle) Wear of San Antonio, Texas, William B. Wear of Little Rock, and Arthur Wear of Warren. Funeral was at Hickory Springs Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Dean E. Newberry, Jr. Interment will be by Frazer Funeral Home. Also serving as honorary pallbearers were C. T . Jolley, Hugh Hankins, Charles E, Owens, K. B. Montgomery, and Fred Holt. Information from Cindy Munson - wear.ftw file At 01:36 PM 1/21/2008, you wrote: Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:07:05 -0800 (PST) From: bjw <jann_woodard@yahoo.com> Subject: [ARBRADLE] Wear To: ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <988594.2361.qm@web43141.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have an obit here for a Wear and I cannot make out the given name. I've looked at all the Wear obits on the county webpage and still not sure. Hope somone can help: __allace Wear of Warren.___daughters, Mary Ella ___ of Hermitage, Hazel Kline of ___, ___Horton of Warren; a ?sister, Melia Nixon of Warren; brothers, J. W. and Carl Wear Houston, Texas, Hale___of San Antonio, Texas, Wil__Wear of Warren. Funeral __-Hickory Springs Presbyterian church. ~ ~ ~Barbara & Don Logan~ ~ ~ Fairbanks, Alaska dlogan@alaska.net http://www.alaska.net/~dlogan/

This is Tipton Paul Wear - T. P. Wear Succumbed Monday (April 2, 1962) T ipton Paul Wear, 72, died Monday at the Bradley County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Wear resided south west of Warren. He was a Baptist.... T. P. Wear (Continued from Page Two) [son] James Wallace Wear of Warren; three stepdaughters, Mary Ella Glosson of Hermitage, Hazel Kline and Rose Horton of Warren; a sister Mrs. Melia Nixon of Warren; five brother s, J. W. and Carl Wear of Houston, Texas, Hale (Hoyle) Wea r of San Antonio, Texas, William B. Wear of Little Rock, an d Arthur Wear of Warren. Funeral was at Hickory Springs Ass ociate Reformed Presbyterian Church Wednesday afternoon b y Rev. Dean E. Newberry, Jr. Interrment will be by Frazer F uneral Home. Also serving as honorary pallbearers were C. T . Jolley, Hugh Hankins, Charles E, Owens, K. B. Montgomery , and Fred Holt. At 01:36 PM 1/21/2008, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:07:05 -0800 (PST) >From: bjw <jann_woodard@yahoo.com> >Subject: [ARBRADLE] Wear >To: ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <988594.2361.qm@web43141.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >I have an obit here for a Wear and I cannot make out the given >name. I've looked at all the Wear obits on the county webpage and >still not sure. Hope somone can help: > > __allace Wear of Warren.___daughters, Mary Ella ___ of Hermitage, > Hazel Kline of ___, ___Horton of Warren; a ?sister, Melia Nixon of > Warren; brothers, J. W. and Carl Wear Houston, Texas, Hale___of San > Antonio, Texas, Wil__Wear of Warren. Funeral __-Hickory Springs > Presbyterian church. ~ ~ ~Barbara & Don Logan~ ~ ~ Fairbanks, Alaska dlogan@alaska.net http://www.alaska.net/~dlogan/

Pine Bluff Com Sep 1971: Warren - Burford Bradford, 65, of Banks, died Sunday at Bradley County Hospital. He was a bus driver for the Banks schools. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Pearl Boyett Bradford; a son, J. R. Bradford of El Dorado; two daughters, Mrs. Imogene Nichols of Crossett and Mrs. Alice Goza of Magnolia; four brothers, Robert Bradford of Eudora, Leonard Bradford of Louisiana, Bryant Bradford and Raymond Bradford, both of Banks; five sisters, Mrs. Eunice Bell of Mississippi, Mrs. Annie Mae Freeman and Mrs. Lena McClellan, both of Louisiana, Mrs. Virginia Hodge and Mrs. Bertha McClure, both of Eudora; and five grandchildren. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. today at McFarland Cemetery at Banks by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce. [ we always called him "Buff"] --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Pine Bluff Com Sep 9, 1972: Honey Grove, Texas - Cyrus Wesley Hudson, 68, of Honey Grove, Texas, a former resident of Warren, Arkansas, died Wednesday at his home. He was a retired heavy equipment operator. He was a member of Marsden Baptist Church in Bradley County, Arkansas. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mildred Johnson Hudson; a son, Cyrus R. Hudson of Honey Grove; a stepson, Terrell V. Johnson of Pittsburgh, California; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Ellis Bryant of Honey Grove; two brothers, Woodrow Hudson and Bruff Hudson, both of Warren; a sister, Mrs. Rose Rash of Tulsa; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today at Frazer Funeral Home at Warren. Burial will be in Marsden Cemetery. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

The old Camden military road ran through Blue Springs near the Jack Davis home. Can someone pinpoint this area? If I drew a circle with north south east and west and placed Blue Spgs in the middle - in which direction would I find Center Ridge, Wagnon and Morgan? --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

I have an obit here for a Wear and I cannot make out the given name. I've looked at all the Wear obits on the county webpage and still not sure. Hope somone can help: __allace Wear of Warren.___daughters, Mary Ella ___ of Hermitage, Hazel Kline of ___, ___Horton of Warren; a ?sister, Melia Nixon of Warren; brothers, J. W. and Carl Wear Houston, Texas, Hale___of San Antonio, Texas, Wil__Wear of Warren. Funeral __-Hickory Springs Presbyterian church. That's about it. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Gerry! What a awesome story! I sure hope something like that comes up for me. We never know what direction our sources will pop up from, EVERY LITTLE BIT helps! Congratulations! Dena **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Does anyone know where "Old Elliot Hill" is located. The note that I have says that it was just outside of Hermitage, but I am not very familiar with the area. It is supposed to be the location of a cemetery. Remona

Gerry, Some on this mailing list probably know about my search for my mother's father, King Earl Forrester. He and my grandmother divorced before my mother was five years old. She never knew what became of him. Both of my parents lost their parents as teenagers. I never had a grandparent after my birth. That is what began my search into family history. Years ago, probably ten years, I did another random search on Rootsweb for a King Earl Forrester, and up popped a death record with his birth date and all! I found that he had drowned in the Feather River in Sutter County, CA. and a "genie" did some research for me there and found the obituary. I got a death certificate, and I felt as if I had found the holy grail! Just this past September, my mother's older sister made a sort of pilgrimage to the cemetery where he was buried. There is no headstone, but I think it gave her some closure. She is 84 and in poor health. When my grandfather applied for his SS# he said he lived on Eye St. in a prominent city in California.(the name escapes me!) Anyway, I called the town office and asked what was located at that address back in the year my grandfather signed up. Funny thing, that is exactly where the current town hall is located! She said there was no EYE street, but an "I" street, and it was a building much like a YMCA where homeless folk stayed. It was really providential that she realized the Eye was really I. Those are some of the scant clues I have to his life after his disappearance. I have a letter from his brother to another relative and he mentions my grandfather helping build the atomic research place in New Mexico. Personally, I think he was a vagrant and an alcoholic from tales of his life before the divorce. He also worked for the Arkansas Railroad at the time of the divorce, so he may have even been the kind of guy who traveled the rails as a vagrant. His body was found in July but he had on a winter coat and clothing. There was a barber's license in his pocket and a hospital receipt. All these sketchy details have helped me learn as much as I possibly can about the lives of my ancestors. I look at it as a detective job where I have to put the clues together. That is what is so terribly addictive about genealogy! Anne In a message dated 1/20/2008 4:38:12 P.M. Central Standard Time, gahickman@comcast.net writes: Good story, Anne! Back in the 1920s a first cousin of my mother, a man with the unusual name of Holyar Johnson, disappeared. A photo of him at about age 20 stood in our home while I was growing up. Holyar was a handsome young man, born about 1904. His last communication with any of the family was a postcard mailed from Los Angeles in 1926. His parents had left Arkansas several years earlier, moving to Texas, then Oklahoma, back to another part of Arkansas, and finally Mobile, Alabama. How Holyar came to be in California wasn't known. In the mid-thirties, Holyar's parents told my mother that they had heard from someone who claimed to have seen Holyar, as he was called, in California. That person reported that was Holyar married to a French woman, or at least a woman with a French name. He supposedly had two kids, John Holyar Jr., and a girl, name unknown. No one knew if this was true or not, but that was the very last that any of our extended Johnson family heard of Holyar Johnson. Last year I sent a photo to Barbara Logan that she kindly posted on the Bradley County web page. It came from the estate of my first cousin, Addie Jane Stanley Russell, and was forwarded to me by her son Ricky Russell, a Little Rock architect. Shown in the photo was John F. Johnson, his second wife Sarah Larkin Callaway, and all his descendants. Among them was a toddler named Holyar Johnson, as well as the sisters who were mothers of Addie Jane and me. A few weeks ago, an elderly gentleman in the Las Vegas, Nevada area typed the name of his father into the Google window on his computer and directed the famous research aid to look for him. The man at the computer had looked many places before, but to no avail, and had little hope that his Google search would work, either. Still, his father had such an unusal name, maybe something might show up. The man at the computer knew almost nothing about his father --at least, nothing from the time before his now elderly son was born. His father's parents, his immediate family, and his past were topics that his father would not discuss, although he once mentioned that he grew up in Oklahoma. Not only was the father silent about himself, there were no papers or documents offering so much as a single clue. While the elderly gentleman at the computer had never heard the names of his father's parents, little more did he know about his mother's family. His maternal grandparents disowned his mother when she and the man's father married. He knew that their name was Boyer, and that they lived in New York, but there was never contact with them. The Boyers were French immigrants of the Jewish faith. When their daughter left the faith to marry a gentile, they cut her off completely. After their deaths, the grandson, now the elderly gentleman at the computer, was astonished to receive a small inheritance from the grandfather, who apparently outlived the grandmother. Literally, the man at the computer had lived a long life without an extended family. No grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins touched his life. Suddenly now, his computer screen identified a link to someone with his father's unusual name. Following the link, he opened a photograph on the Bradley County webpage. It was a picture of a family --that of John Fletcher Johnson, his second wife, Sarah Larkin Callaway, and all his descendants. In the photograph, a small boy bearing his father's unusual name was shown with his mother, father, and sisters. His heart beat rising with excitement, the man at the computer quickly calculated that the age of the little boy fit perfectly with that of his father. So the name and the age corresponded, but there was more. The man had a younger sister named Della. Now, he saw that the name of the mother of the little boy in the photograph was the same as that of his sister. Astonished, he realized that he was looking through a window of time --a window through which he saw not only his father but his grandparents, and even his great-grandfather. That he had roots in Arkansas was surprising, too, and a bit sad, because his sister had lived in Arkansas for several years. He saw too who had submitted the picture, and even his email address. A bit nervously, he began typing, "My name is John Holyar Johnson, Jr..." Jay, as he is called, had seen the picture that Barbara Logan placed for me, and I soon received Jay's email. I too was convinced of his ties to my Johnson family --the coincidences were too great to ignore, even if irrefutable documentation wasn't at hand. I replied to Jay, sending some information about the Johnsons, and my phone number. He called me within a couple days, and told me much about his life and that of his father, Holyar. Another example, like yours, of the small world we live in. Gerry nothing of his father's past and very little about his mother's ancestry, directed Google to search the web for anyone by his father's name. and to his surprise that picture on the Bradley County webpage was identified. Most surprising to him was the baby named Holyar Johnson. The name is so unusual, he thought, it must be who I'm looking for, but he had no inkling ----- Original Message ----- From: <DAJSB@aol.com> To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Hairston Reunion > Oops! Arthur Lee Hairston married Nora Dean Temple, not Rebecca. That was > his mother's name! > Anne > > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 9:59:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, > DAJSB@aol.com writes: > > Dear List, > Just thought I would share an interesting situation with you all. I live > near Chicago and work as a portrait artist in Chicago area malls. This > weekend > I was in Chicago Ridge Mall when a lady came up to me and we began to > talk. > And we talked... and talked! We really hit it off... She happened to be > African American and I happen to be Caucasian, but that was neither here > nor > there. We talked about everything, and when we had been at it for quite > some > time, > she mentioned that her mother had moved back to Arkansas... I asked where > she lived, and she said Cotton Plant, near Pine Bluff! I don't know > about > Cotton Plant, but I did recognize Pine Bluff, and told her that my family > was > from Warren, not far from Pine Bluff... Then, I asked her if she knew > what > her > family names were down there.... The first name out of her mouth was > Hairston, > (pronounced just like a true Arkie- "Harston"! I let her know that my > grandmother was a Hairston, and that I have many relatives descended from > that > family. We laughed it up because we realized that either my ancestors > owned > some of hers or we might even be related! She said her mother's family > have > always considered themselves white, but her father was Creole, so she > looks > African American. Her grandfather was Darcy Simon- a Jewish man in > Cotton > Plant. His wife, her grandmother, was born a Hairston- just like my own > grandmother. What a small, small world we live in when I can be in a > huge > city like > Chicago, so far from Arkansas, and run into another Hairston descendent > from > that same area! Thought I would share this. > Anne Jones > daughter of Earline Forrester White > daughter of Versie Mae Hairston Forrester > daughter of Arthur Lee and Rebecca Temple Hairston > > > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 4:30:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, > jann_woodard@yahoo.com writes: > > The sixth annual Hairston family reunion was held in Oakland Park in > Pine > Bluff, Sunday, July 29 [1962]. Among the forty-seven members of the > family > > attending were Mrs. Euna Watt and Lawrence Wallace of Pine Bluff; Mrs. > Ina > Grider and R. J. Grider of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard Grider of Monroe, > Louisiana; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Creel of Magnolia; Mr. and Mrs. Aubert Dean > Hairston and > Rita, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hairston and Lathan, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene > Hairston, Rober and John, Mrs. Hazel McRae, Lana and Glenn, Miss Betty > Thompson, > Mrs. Susie Hairston, Mrs. E. L. McGehee and Wilbur of Warren; Mr. and > Mrs. > Dewell Blakley, Connie and Marcus of Bryant; Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hairston > and > Jeri Sue of Lonoke; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wallace, Anne, David, Susan and > Allan of > Gould; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hathcoat, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Hancock, Richie > Hairston, Leo Scheebee and P. H. Green of Benton; Thomas McFalls of San > Antonio, > Texas; Mrs. Laura Hairston of Palmyra and Benny Leval of Star City > > --------------------------------- > Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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Here are two stories that attest to the good things you accomplish with your love and dedication for this website and the history of Bradley County. I too have benefited from photos and other information that has been posted at this site, as well as your guidance and suggestions. And, I believe that many more others could send in similar stories. Thanks for the best site I have found since I started researching my families. Diane -----Original Message----- From: arbradle-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:arbradle-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gerald Hickman Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 4:37 PM To: arbradle@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Hairston Reunion Good story, Anne! Back in the 1920s a first cousin of my mother, a man with the unusual name of Holyar Johnson, disappeared. A photo of him at about age 20 stood in our home while I was growing up. Holyar was a handsome young man, born about 1904. His last communication with any of the family was a postcard mailed from Los Angeles in 1926. His parents had left Arkansas several years earlier, moving to Texas, then Oklahoma, back to another part of Arkansas, and finally Mobile, Alabama. How Holyar came to be in California wasn't known. In the mid-thirties, Holyar's parents told my mother that they had heard from someone who claimed to have seen Holyar, as he was called, in California. That person reported that was Holyar married to a French woman, or at least a woman with a French name. He supposedly had two kids, John Holyar Jr., and a girl, name unknown. No one knew if this was true or not, but that was the very last that any of our extended Johnson family heard of Holyar Johnson. Last year I sent a photo to Barbara Logan that she kindly posted on the Bradley County web page. It came from the estate of my first cousin, Addie Jane Stanley Russell, and was forwarded to me by her son Ricky Russell, a Little Rock architect. Shown in the photo was John F. Johnson, his second wife Sarah Larkin Callaway, and all his descendants. Among them was a toddler named Holyar Johnson, as well as the sisters who were mothers of Addie Jane and me. A few weeks ago, an elderly gentleman in the Las Vegas, Nevada area typed the name of his father into the Google window on his computer and directed the famous research aid to look for him. The man at the computer had looked many places before, but to no avail, and had little hope that his Google search would work, either. Still, his father had such an unusal name, maybe something might show up. The man at the computer knew almost nothing about his father --at least, nothing from the time before his now elderly son was born. His father's parents, his immediate family, and his past were topics that his father would not discuss, although he once mentioned that he grew up in Oklahoma. Not only was the father silent about himself, there were no papers or documents offering so much as a single clue. While the elderly gentleman at the computer had never heard the names of his father's parents, little more did he know about his mother's family. His maternal grandparents disowned his mother when she and the man's father married. He knew that their name was Boyer, and that they lived in New York, but there was never contact with them. The Boyers were French immigrants of the Jewish faith. When their daughter left the faith to marry a gentile, they cut her off completely. After their deaths, the grandson, now the elderly gentleman at the computer, was astonished to receive a small inheritance from the grandfather, who apparently outlived the grandmother. Literally, the man at the computer had lived a long life without an extended family. No grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins touched his life. Suddenly now, his computer screen identified a link to someone with his father's unusual name. Following the link, he opened a photograph on the Bradley County webpage. It was a picture of a family --that of John Fletcher Johnson, his second wife, Sarah Larkin Callaway, and all his descendants. In the photograph, a small boy bearing his father's unusual name was shown with his mother, father, and sisters. His heart beat rising with excitement, the man at the computer quickly calculated that the age of the little boy fit perfectly with that of his father. So the name and the age corresponded, but there was more. The man had a younger sister named Della. Now, he saw that the name of the mother of the little boy in the photograph was the same as that of his sister. Astonished, he realized that he was looking through a window of time --a window through which he saw not only his father but his grandparents, and even his great-grandfather. That he had roots in Arkansas was surprising, too, and a bit sad, because his sister had lived in Arkansas for several years. He saw too who had submitted the picture, and even his email address. A bit nervously, he began typing, "My name is John Holyar Johnson, Jr..." Jay, as he is called, had seen the picture that Barbara Logan placed for me, and I soon received Jay's email. I too was convinced of his ties to my Johnson family --the coincidences were too great to ignore, even if irrefutable documentation wasn't at hand. I replied to Jay, sending some information about the Johnsons, and my phone number. He called me within a couple days, and told me much about his life and that of his father, Holyar. Another example, like yours, of the small world we live in. Gerry nothing of his father's past and very little about his mother's ancestry, directed Google to search the web for anyone by his father's name. and to his surprise that picture on the Bradley County webpage was identified. Most surprising to him was the baby named Holyar Johnson. The name is so unusual, he thought, it must be who I'm looking for, but he had no inkling ----- Original Message ----- From: <DAJSB@aol.com> To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Hairston Reunion > Oops! Arthur Lee Hairston married Nora Dean Temple, not Rebecca. That was > his mother's name! > Anne > > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 9:59:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, > DAJSB@aol.com writes: > > Dear List, > Just thought I would share an interesting situation with you all. I live > near Chicago and work as a portrait artist in Chicago area malls. This > weekend > I was in Chicago Ridge Mall when a lady came up to me and we began to > talk. > And we talked... and talked! We really hit it off... She happened to be > African American and I happen to be Caucasian, but that was neither here > nor > there. We talked about everything, and when we had been at it for quite > some > time, > she mentioned that her mother had moved back to Arkansas... I asked where > she lived, and she said Cotton Plant, near Pine Bluff! I don't know > about > Cotton Plant, but I did recognize Pine Bluff, and told her that my family > was > from Warren, not far from Pine Bluff... Then, I asked her if she knew > what > her > family names were down there.... The first name out of her mouth was > Hairston, > (pronounced just like a true Arkie- "Harston"! I let her know that my > grandmother was a Hairston, and that I have many relatives descended from > that > family. We laughed it up because we realized that either my ancestors > owned > some of hers or we might even be related! She said her mother's family > have > always considered themselves white, but her father was Creole, so she > looks > African American. Her grandfather was Darcy Simon- a Jewish man in > Cotton > Plant. His wife, her grandmother, was born a Hairston- just like my own > grandmother. What a small, small world we live in when I can be in a > huge > city like > Chicago, so far from Arkansas, and run into another Hairston descendent > from > that same area! Thought I would share this. > Anne Jones > daughter of Earline Forrester White > daughter of Versie Mae Hairston Forrester > daughter of Arthur Lee and Rebecca Temple Hairston > > > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 4:30:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, > jann_woodard@yahoo.com writes: > > The sixth annual Hairston family reunion was held in Oakland Park in > Pine > Bluff, Sunday, July 29 [1962]. Among the forty-seven members of the > family > > attending were Mrs. Euna Watt and Lawrence Wallace of Pine Bluff; Mrs. > Ina > Grider and R. J. Grider of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard Grider of Monroe, > Louisiana; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Creel of Magnolia; Mr. and Mrs. Aubert Dean > Hairston and > Rita, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hairston and Lathan, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene > Hairston, Rober and John, Mrs. Hazel McRae, Lana and Glenn, Miss Betty > Thompson, > Mrs. Susie Hairston, Mrs. E. L. McGehee and Wilbur of Warren; Mr. and > Mrs. > Dewell Blakley, Connie and Marcus of Bryant; Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hairston > and > Jeri Sue of Lonoke; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wallace, Anne, David, Susan and > Allan of > Gould; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hathcoat, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Hancock, Richie > Hairston, Leo Scheebee and P. H. Green of Benton; Thomas McFalls of San > Antonio, > Texas; Mrs. Laura Hairston of Palmyra and Benny Leval of Star City > > --------------------------------- > Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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I am honored by your email Diane. Thank you for your kind words. I love this site and this county and these people who I myself have learned so very much about while working on the site. But I have to give the credit to those it rightly belongs to.... YOU ALL! (SMILE) Everyone that has participated and donated things to post to the site is responsible for the success of this site. I get really excited with every submission - I get the first look at the new info! (SMILE) I have visited other sites and wished they had as much info as we have - it would sure help me in my other lines of research! But for now I just keep connecting the families and finding new links to mine in Bradley County - mostly through marriages - but I REALLY feel like you are ALL my cousins! You are definitely some of the nicest people I have ever met in my lifetime! (SMILE) My Mom came from the greatest place - Bradley County, Arkansas, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Thank YOU all for making our web site the best research site I have seen! Barbara Logan Coordinator - Bradley County, Arkansas USGenWeb site http://www.rootsweb.com/~arbradle/ At 07:20 PM 1/20/2008, you wrote: >Here are two stories that attest to the good things you accomplish with your >love and dedication for this website and the history of Bradley County. I >too have benefited from photos and other information that has been posted at >this site, as well as your guidance and suggestions. And, I believe that >many more others could send in similar stories. > >Thanks for the best site I have found since I started researching my >families. > >Diane

Good story, Anne! Back in the 1920s a first cousin of my mother, a man with the unusual name of Holyar Johnson, disappeared. A photo of him at about age 20 stood in our home while I was growing up. Holyar was a handsome young man, born about 1904. His last communication with any of the family was a postcard mailed from Los Angeles in 1926. His parents had left Arkansas several years earlier, moving to Texas, then Oklahoma, back to another part of Arkansas, and finally Mobile, Alabama. How Holyar came to be in California wasn't known. In the mid-thirties, Holyar's parents told my mother that they had heard from someone who claimed to have seen Holyar, as he was called, in California. That person reported that was Holyar married to a French woman, or at least a woman with a French name. He supposedly had two kids, John Holyar Jr., and a girl, name unknown. No one knew if this was true or not, but that was the very last that any of our extended Johnson family heard of Holyar Johnson. Last year I sent a photo to Barbara Logan that she kindly posted on the Bradley County web page. It came from the estate of my first cousin, Addie Jane Stanley Russell, and was forwarded to me by her son Ricky Russell, a Little Rock architect. Shown in the photo was John F. Johnson, his second wife Sarah Larkin Callaway, and all his descendants. Among them was a toddler named Holyar Johnson, as well as the sisters who were mothers of Addie Jane and me. A few weeks ago, an elderly gentleman in the Las Vegas, Nevada area typed the name of his father into the Google window on his computer and directed the famous research aid to look for him. The man at the computer had looked many places before, but to no avail, and had little hope that his Google search would work, either. Still, his father had such an unusal name, maybe something might show up. The man at the computer knew almost nothing about his father --at least, nothing from the time before his now elderly son was born. His father's parents, his immediate family, and his past were topics that his father would not discuss, although he once mentioned that he grew up in Oklahoma. Not only was the father silent about himself, there were no papers or documents offering so much as a single clue. While the elderly gentleman at the computer had never heard the names of his father's parents, little more did he know about his mother's family. His maternal grandparents disowned his mother when she and the man's father married. He knew that their name was Boyer, and that they lived in New York, but there was never contact with them. The Boyers were French immigrants of the Jewish faith. When their daughter left the faith to marry a gentile, they cut her off completely. After their deaths, the grandson, now the elderly gentleman at the computer, was astonished to receive a small inheritance from the grandfather, who apparently outlived the grandmother. Literally, the man at the computer had lived a long life without an extended family. No grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins touched his life. Suddenly now, his computer screen identified a link to someone with his father's unusual name. Following the link, he opened a photograph on the Bradley County webpage. It was a picture of a family --that of John Fletcher Johnson, his second wife, Sarah Larkin Callaway, and all his descendants. In the photograph, a small boy bearing his father's unusual name was shown with his mother, father, and sisters. His heart beat rising with excitement, the man at the computer quickly calculated that the age of the little boy fit perfectly with that of his father. So the name and the age corresponded, but there was more. The man had a younger sister named Della. Now, he saw that the name of the mother of the little boy in the photograph was the same as that of his sister. Astonished, he realized that he was looking through a window of time --a window through which he saw not only his father but his grandparents, and even his great-grandfather. That he had roots in Arkansas was surprising, too, and a bit sad, because his sister had lived in Arkansas for several years. He saw too who had submitted the picture, and even his email address. A bit nervously, he began typing, "My name is John Holyar Johnson, Jr..." Jay, as he is called, had seen the picture that Barbara Logan placed for me, and I soon received Jay's email. I too was convinced of his ties to my Johnson family --the coincidences were too great to ignore, even if irrefutable documentation wasn't at hand. I replied to Jay, sending some information about the Johnsons, and my phone number. He called me within a couple days, and told me much about his life and that of his father, Holyar. Another example, like yours, of the small world we live in. Gerry nothing of his father's past and very little about his mother's ancestry, directed Google to search the web for anyone by his father's name. and to his surprise that picture on the Bradley County webpage was identified. Most surprising to him was the baby named Holyar Johnson. The name is so unusual, he thought, it must be who I'm looking for, but he had no inkling ----- Original Message ----- From: <DAJSB@aol.com> To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Hairston Reunion > Oops! Arthur Lee Hairston married Nora Dean Temple, not Rebecca. That was > his mother's name! > Anne > > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 9:59:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, > DAJSB@aol.com writes: > > Dear List, > Just thought I would share an interesting situation with you all. I live > near Chicago and work as a portrait artist in Chicago area malls. This > weekend > I was in Chicago Ridge Mall when a lady came up to me and we began to > talk. > And we talked... and talked! We really hit it off... She happened to be > African American and I happen to be Caucasian, but that was neither here > nor > there. We talked about everything, and when we had been at it for quite > some > time, > she mentioned that her mother had moved back to Arkansas... I asked where > she lived, and she said Cotton Plant, near Pine Bluff! I don't know > about > Cotton Plant, but I did recognize Pine Bluff, and told her that my family > was > from Warren, not far from Pine Bluff... Then, I asked her if she knew > what > her > family names were down there.... The first name out of her mouth was > Hairston, > (pronounced just like a true Arkie- "Harston"! I let her know that my > grandmother was a Hairston, and that I have many relatives descended from > that > family. We laughed it up because we realized that either my ancestors > owned > some of hers or we might even be related! She said her mother's family > have > always considered themselves white, but her father was Creole, so she > looks > African American. Her grandfather was Darcy Simon- a Jewish man in > Cotton > Plant. His wife, her grandmother, was born a Hairston- just like my own > grandmother. What a small, small world we live in when I can be in a > huge > city like > Chicago, so far from Arkansas, and run into another Hairston descendent > from > that same area! Thought I would share this. > Anne Jones > daughter of Earline Forrester White > daughter of Versie Mae Hairston Forrester > daughter of Arthur Lee and Rebecca Temple Hairston > > > > In a message dated 1/19/2008 4:30:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, > jann_woodard@yahoo.com writes: > > The sixth annual Hairston family reunion was held in Oakland Park in > Pine > Bluff, Sunday, July 29 [1962]. Among the forty-seven members of the > family > > attending were Mrs. Euna Watt and Lawrence Wallace of Pine Bluff; Mrs. > Ina > Grider and R. J. Grider of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard Grider of Monroe, > Louisiana; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Creel of Magnolia; Mr. and Mrs. Aubert Dean > Hairston and > Rita, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hairston and Lathan, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene > Hairston, Rober and John, Mrs. Hazel McRae, Lana and Glenn, Miss Betty > Thompson, > Mrs. Susie Hairston, Mrs. E. L. McGehee and Wilbur of Warren; Mr. and > Mrs. > Dewell Blakley, Connie and Marcus of Bryant; Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hairston > and > Jeri Sue of Lonoke; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wallace, Anne, David, Susan and > Allan of > Gould; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hathcoat, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Hancock, Richie > Hairston, Leo Scheebee and P. H. Green of Benton; Thomas McFalls of San > Antonio, > Texas; Mrs. Laura Hairston of Palmyra and Benny Leval of Star City > > --------------------------------- > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! > Search. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. 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Oops! Arthur Lee Hairston married Nora Dean Temple, not Rebecca. That was his mother's name! Anne In a message dated 1/19/2008 9:59:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, DAJSB@aol.com writes: Dear List, Just thought I would share an interesting situation with you all. I live near Chicago and work as a portrait artist in Chicago area malls. This weekend I was in Chicago Ridge Mall when a lady came up to me and we began to talk. And we talked... and talked! We really hit it off... She happened to be African American and I happen to be Caucasian, but that was neither here nor there. We talked about everything, and when we had been at it for quite some time, she mentioned that her mother had moved back to Arkansas... I asked where she lived, and she said Cotton Plant, near Pine Bluff! I don't know about Cotton Plant, but I did recognize Pine Bluff, and told her that my family was from Warren, not far from Pine Bluff... Then, I asked her if she knew what her family names were down there.... The first name out of her mouth was Hairston, (pronounced just like a true Arkie- "Harston"! I let her know that my grandmother was a Hairston, and that I have many relatives descended from that family. We laughed it up because we realized that either my ancestors owned some of hers or we might even be related! She said her mother's family have always considered themselves white, but her father was Creole, so she looks African American. Her grandfather was Darcy Simon- a Jewish man in Cotton Plant. His wife, her grandmother, was born a Hairston- just like my own grandmother. What a small, small world we live in when I can be in a huge city like Chicago, so far from Arkansas, and run into another Hairston descendent from that same area! Thought I would share this. Anne Jones daughter of Earline Forrester White daughter of Versie Mae Hairston Forrester daughter of Arthur Lee and Rebecca Temple Hairston In a message dated 1/19/2008 4:30:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, jann_woodard@yahoo.com writes: The sixth annual Hairston family reunion was held in Oakland Park in Pine Bluff, Sunday, July 29 [1962]. Among the forty-seven members of the family attending were Mrs. Euna Watt and Lawrence Wallace of Pine Bluff; Mrs. Ina Grider and R. J. Grider of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard Grider of Monroe, Louisiana; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Creel of Magnolia; Mr. and Mrs. Aubert Dean Hairston and Rita, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hairston and Lathan, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene Hairston, Rober and John, Mrs. Hazel McRae, Lana and Glenn, Miss Betty Thompson, Mrs. Susie Hairston, Mrs. E. L. McGehee and Wilbur of Warren; Mr. and Mrs. Dewell Blakley, Connie and Marcus of Bryant; Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hairston and Jeri Sue of Lonoke; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wallace, Anne, David, Susan and Allan of Gould; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hathcoat, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Hancock, Richie Hairston, Leo Scheebee and P. H. Green of Benton; Thomas McFalls of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Laura Hairston of Palmyra and Benny Leval of Star City --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Dear List, Just thought I would share an interesting situation with you all. I live near Chicago and work as a portrait artist in Chicago area malls. This weekend I was in Chicago Ridge Mall when a lady came up to me and we began to talk. And we talked... and talked! We really hit it off... She happened to be African American and I happen to be Caucasian, but that was neither here nor there. We talked about everything, and when we had been at it for quite some time, she mentioned that her mother had moved back to Arkansas... I asked where she lived, and she said Cotton Plant, near Pine Bluff! I don't know about Cotton Plant, but I did recognize Pine Bluff, and told her that my family was from Warren, not far from Pine Bluff... Then, I asked her if she knew what her family names were down there.... The first name out of her mouth was Hairston, (pronounced just like a true Arkie- "Harston"! I let her know that my grandmother was a Hairston, and that I have many relatives descended from that family. We laughed it up because we realized that either my ancestors owned some of hers or we might even be related! She said her mother's family have always considered themselves white, but her father was Creole, so she looks African American. Her grandfather was Darcy Simon- a Jewish man in Cotton Plant. His wife, her grandmother, was born a Hairston- just like my own grandmother. What a small, small world we live in when I can be in a huge city like Chicago, so far from Arkansas, and run into another Hairston descendent from that same area! Thought I would share this. Anne Jones daughter of Earline Forrester White daughter of Versie Mae Hairston Forrester daughter of Arthur Lee and Rebecca Temple Hairston In a message dated 1/19/2008 4:30:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, jann_woodard@yahoo.com writes: The sixth annual Hairston family reunion was held in Oakland Park in Pine Bluff, Sunday, July 29 [1962]. Among the forty-seven members of the family attending were Mrs. Euna Watt and Lawrence Wallace of Pine Bluff; Mrs. Ina Grider and R. J. Grider of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard Grider of Monroe, Louisiana; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Creel of Magnolia; Mr. and Mrs. Aubert Dean Hairston and Rita, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hairston and Lathan, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gene Hairston, Rober and John, Mrs. Hazel McRae, Lana and Glenn, Miss Betty Thompson, Mrs. Susie Hairston, Mrs. E. L. McGehee and Wilbur of Warren; Mr. and Mrs. Dewell Blakley, Connie and Marcus of Bryant; Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hairston and Jeri Sue of Lonoke; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wallace, Anne, David, Susan and Allan of Gould; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hathcoat, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Hancock, Richie Hairston, Leo Scheebee and P. H. Green of Benton; Thomas McFalls of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Laura Hairston of Palmyra and Benny Leval of Star City --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Thank you so much. One of my cousins. Genia ----- Original Message ----- From: "bjw" <jann_woodard@yahoo.com> To: <ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:07 PM Subject: [ARBRADLE] Lee B. Brumley > Lee B. Brumley, age 82, of the Blue Springs Community (Bradley County), > died in an El Dorado hospital Friday. He is survived by five sons, L. H. > Brumley and H. C. Brumley, both of Norphlet, Jack Brumley of Smackover, > and J. L. and J. P. Brumley, both of El Dorado; three daughters, Mrs. > Fixie Strange of Banks, Mrs. P.P. White of Norphlet, and Mrs. Doris Morgan > of Norphlet; four sisters, Mrs. Nettie Strickland of Hampton, Mrs. Azine > Strickland of Smackover, Mrs. Carrie Morrison and Clara Brumley, both of > Hampton; 36 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Funeral was Sunday > afternoon at the Banks Baptist Church by Rev. Wylie Wagnon. Interment was > in the Banks Cemetery by Frazer Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Cecil, > Irvine, Oslan and Amos Strickland, Vester Morrison and James Simpson. > Honorary pallbearers were Gibb Abernathy, Bryant and Buford Bradford, Tom > Bell, Doyle Sherman, Archie Wyman, Harvey L. Rowland, Burl Aycock and > Auburn and Curtis McFarland. 1962 > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am Dorothy Outlaw and live in Crossett. I do not know this lady. I was a Baker before I married an Outlaw. ----- Original Message ----- From: "bjw" <jann_woodard@yahoo.com> To: <ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 5:00 PM Subject: [ARBRADLE] Lillie Grider > Mrs. Lillie Gertrude Grider, 67, died December 30, in the Bradley County > Memorial Hospital. She is survived by her husband, J. A. Grider of > Warren; a son, L. M. Grider of Warren; four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Outlaw > of Crossett, Mrs. Bernice Jones and Mrs. Katherine Mann of Warren, Mrs. > Ruby Hickman of LaPorte, Texas; two brothers, Odis Trussell and Silas > Smith of Warren; four sisters, Mrs. Bessie Knowles and Mrs. Buster > Tollison, Mrs. Richard Stuard, and Mrs. Guy Jones; ten grandchildren and > four great grandchildren. Funeral was Monday at Martin's Chapel by Rev. > Milton Brown and Rev. Elbert O'Steen. Interment was in the Outlaw > Cemetery by Frazer Funeral Home. 1962 > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Mrs. Maude Mae Frazer, 72, of Warren died in a local hospital Friday. She was a Baptist. She is survived by three sons, Archie Frazer of Long Beach, California, Cloyce Frazer of Sacramento, California, and Chester Frazer of Irvington, California; Six daughters, Mrs. Nettie Temple and Mrs. Erma Harding, both of Warren; Mrs. Lorena Johnson of Torrence, California, Mrs. Charstie Pennington of Hermitage, Mrs. Charistine Barry of Willington, California, and Mrs. Betty Stuard of Panama City, Fla.; a brother, Cyrus Jones of Bastrop, La., 27 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Funeral will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Hickory Springs Church by Rev. Roy Chapman. Burial will be in the Hickory Springs Cemetery by Frazer Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Everett Williams, Roy Sheridan, Jewell Temple, Delton Hargis, Herman Jones and Cullen Johnson. 1962 --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

A Thornton family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stedman, on the old Monticello Highway Sunday June 24. The day was spent visiting and picture taking. A telephone call was received from a brother, Wilburn Thornton and a telegram greeting from another brother, Bluford Thornton, both living in California, who were unable to attend. Lunch was served picnic style on the back lawn to the following: Mr. and Mrs. Claude Thornton, Los Gatos, California; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thornton, Haughton, Louisiana; Mrs. Beulah Hurst, Chicago, Illinois; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Thornton and Rachel, Hermitage; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ferguson, Ann, Sandra and David, also of Hermitage; Mr. and Mrs. Leon Thornton, Judy and Gary; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Camp, Robert and Harold, Jimmie Dale, Linda and Patricia Gayle; Miss Wilma McClellan, Misses Betty Sue and Judy Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Hollingsworth and Cindy; Mr. and Mrs. Clois McKinney, Joy, June, Klay and Kim; and Mr. and Mrs. Stedman. Mrs. Leroy Taylor visited in the afternoon. 1962 --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.