Thanks for the heads up on Google and the Smead community. It has been years since I queried Smead and Google maps didn't exist then. I didn't even think about Google when I wrote the query, I guess because it was a long deserted community. Thank you!!! My mother, Mae Esterlene Fletcher, and Pastoria Fletcher Hand were first cousins. My grandfather was Percyville Henderson Fletcher, the brother of Tandy Fletcher, Pat's father. My grandparents, Percyville and Virginia Ellla Nora Dean Fletcher, had a set of twins named Paul and Pauline. They died shortly after birth and are said to be buried at Smead. All my mother's older sisters (she was the baby of the family) always said they were buried there, but didn't know where. I have never known where to look for the community. although it was said to be inside the area that became the Shumaker Naval Depot during WWII. I am not related to any Ferguson's, although I had entered a query in the Bradley County message board becaue I was searching for someone for a friend of my husbands. I have been doing family research since 1968 when I was a senior in high school. I have taped conversations with Pat Hand that my son is trying to get digitized before the tapes are beyond the point of no return. So many of the people my mom and I visited during those early years are gone now, as is my mom who died in 1982 at age 57. I continued to do intense research until my children wouldn't stand still for spending their summers in dusty old records rooms in ancient courthouses!!! I packed it into my file cabinets for years until I got them raised and through college and well established in jobs. Then my husband and I moved to North Arkansas for 6 years where he was a superintendent and I taught English for 5 more years to top off my 28 years at Junction City. The last 6 years I was at JC I was the high school librarian, so going back into the classroom was and adjustment, especially since I had bequeathed all my teaching goodies to a young friend just starting her career. It was like starting all over again! No time for genealogy! In 2006, I retired, bought Family Tree Maker and got back to work. People think genealogy is so easy now with computers, but all may research was done when I had to read negative copies on a microfilm reader and there were no indexes! Things have come a long way. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that so much of my research has been, well, stolen since I put it into the Ancestry database. You know that when they list my mother's birthplace as the Old Stringfellow Place, Calhoun County, Arkansas. Who else but me would name the farm where she was born? It's crazy isn't it AND addictive! Wow! I have really wandered and, I'm sure, bored you to tears. I apologize! Thanks again for the info and reminding that Google is there! If I can help you in any way, don't hesitate to ask! I live in El Dorado, Arkansas now so I'm back into the area where the bulk of my research is based! > From: edianegardner@sbcglobal.net> To: arcalhou@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:01:17 -0500> Subject: Re: [ARCALHOU] (Smead comity) need DAVIS/FURGERSON/AND BRUMLEY info> > I didn't really find more than the location per MapQuest.> I do know that Pastoria Fletcher married into the Hand Family and was my> husband's great-grandmother Sallie Ann Hand York Reddn's niece.> > There were Brumleys in Bradley County (and still are). Are you related to> them?> > And Furgesons married into the McMurrys...are you related to them?> > -----Original Message-----> From: arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com]> On Behalf Of GENIA EDMONDS> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:20 PM> To: arcalhou@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ARCALHOU] (Smead comity) need DAVIS/FURGERSON/AND BRUMLEYinfo> > I really enjoy all the tidbits about the area. I was born there 50 years > ago and it helps me understand the area.> > Genia> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "edianegardner" <edianegardner@sbcglobal.net>> To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>; <arcalhou@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:16 PM> Subject: Re: [ARCALHOU] Smead community> > > > According to GOOGLE, you turn right onto CR6 off of Hwy 7 and it is before> > you get to 294.> >> > -----Original Message-----> > From: arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com]> > On Behalf Of gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:06 PM> > To: ARCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [ARCALHOU] Smead community> >> > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.> >> > Author: jamiearmour> > Surnames: Fletcher> > Classification: queries> >> > Message Board URL:> >> >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.c> > alhoun/873/mb.ashx> >> > Message Board Post:> >> > Does anyone know the actual location of the small community named Smead? > > My> > Fletcher ancestors lived there during the late 1800s/early 1900s.> >> > Important Note:> > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. 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Do you have a marriage date and place for Ben Hand and Pastoria Fletcher? Tom Reddin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Armour" <jamie_armour@hotmail.com> To: <arcalhou@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [ARCALHOU] (Smead comity) need DAVIS/FURGERSON/AND BRUMLEY info Thanks for the heads up on Google and the Smead community. It has been years since I queried Smead and Google maps didn't exist then. I didn't even think about Google when I wrote the query, I guess because it was a long deserted community. Thank you!!! My mother, Mae Esterlene Fletcher, and Pastoria Fletcher Hand were first cousins. My grandfather was Percyville Henderson Fletcher, the brother of Tandy Fletcher, Pat's father. My grandparents, Percyville and Virginia Ellla Nora Dean Fletcher, had a set of twins named Paul and Pauline. They died shortly after birth and are said to be buried at Smead. All my mother's older sisters (she was the baby of the family) always said they were buried there, but didn't know where. I have never known where to look for the community. although it was said to be inside the area that became the Shumaker Naval Depot during WWII. I am not related to any Ferguson's, although I had entered a query in the Bradley County message board becaue I was searching for someone for a friend of my husbands. I have been doing family research since 1968 when I was a senior in high school. I have taped conversations with Pat Hand that my son is trying to get digitized before the tapes are beyond the point of no return. So many of the people my mom and I visited during those early years are gone now, as is my mom who died in 1982 at age 57. I continued to do intense research until my children wouldn't stand still for spending their summers in dusty old records rooms in ancient courthouses!!! I packed it into my file cabinets for years until I got them raised and through college and well established in jobs. Then my husband and I moved to North Arkansas for 6 years where he was a superintendent and I taught English for 5 more years to top off my 28 years at Junction City. The last 6 years I was at JC I was the high school librarian, so going back into the classroom was and adjustment, especially since I had bequeathed all my teaching goodies to a young friend just starting her career. It was like starting all over again! No time for genealogy! In 2006, I retired, bought Family Tree Maker and got back to work. People think genealogy is so easy now with computers, but all may research was done when I had to read negative copies on a microfilm reader and there were no indexes! Things have come a long way. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that so much of my research has been, well, stolen since I put it into the Ancestry database. You know that when they list my mother's birthplace as the Old Stringfellow Place, Calhoun County, Arkansas. Who else but me would name the farm where she was born? It's crazy isn't it AND addictive! Wow! I have really wandered and, I'm sure, bored you to tears. I apologize! Thanks again for the info and reminding that Google is there! If I can help you in any way, don't hesitate to ask! I live in El Dorado, Arkansas now so I'm back into the area where the bulk of my research is based! > From: edianegardner@sbcglobal.net> To: arcalhou@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, > 13 Jun 2008 05:01:17 -0500> Subject: Re: [ARCALHOU] (Smead comity) need > DAVIS/FURGERSON/AND BRUMLEY info> > I didn't really find more than the > location per MapQuest.> I do know that Pastoria Fletcher married into the > Hand Family and was my> husband's great-grandmother Sallie Ann Hand York > Reddn's niece.> > There were Brumleys in Bradley County (and still are). > Are you related to> them?> > And Furgesons married into the McMurrys...are > you related to them?> > -----Original Message-----> From: > arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com]> On > Behalf Of GENIA EDMONDS> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:20 PM> To: > arcalhou@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ARCALHOU] (Smead comity) need > DAVIS/FURGERSON/AND BRUMLEYinfo> > I really enjoy all the tidbits about > the area. I was born there 50 years > ago and it helps me understand the > area.> > Genia> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "edianegardner" > <edianegardner@sbcglobal.net>> To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>; > <arcalhou@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:16 PM> Subject: > Re: [ARCALHOU] Smead community> > > > According to GOOGLE, you turn right > onto CR6 off of Hwy 7 and it is before> > you get to 294.> >> > > -----Original Message-----> > From: arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:arcalhou-bounces@rootsweb.com]> > On Behalf Of > gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:06 PM> > To: > ARCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [ARCALHOU] Smead community> >> > This > is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.> >> > > Author: jamiearmour> > Surnames: Fletcher> > Classification: queries> >> > > Message Board URL:> >> >> > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.c> > > alhoun/873/mb.ashx> >> > Message Board Post:> >> > Does anyone know the > actual location of the small community named Smead? > > My> > Fletcher > ancestors lived there during the late 1800s/early 1900s.> >> > Important > Note:> > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If > you > > would> > like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board > URL link above > > and> > respond on the board.> >> >> >> >> > > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please > send an email to> > ARCALHOU-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 > > ARCALHOU-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> ARCALHOU-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 ARCALHOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message _________________________________________________________________ Instantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_InviteFriends ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCALHOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message