I'm researching Capt. Joe McCracken (1841-1909) and Aaron Alexander Frazier (1852-aft. 1905) and their descendants around Corning, Success and Palatka, and in Brown, Carpenter and Kilgore Townships. Capt. Joe set up a sawmill in Success 1890 or so and eventually brought three of his sons with him (Colin George, Willis Ransom (WR) and Joseph Wilbert (JW)). His spouse and daughters remained in Leamington, Mersea, Ontario Canada. Capt. Joe made frequent trips back to Canada and died in 1909 in St. Louis while returning from Canada. He is buried in Hitt Cemetery. He also rafted logs to New Orleans and sometimes traveled to Liverpool England with his cargo to complete the sale. He remarried about 1895 to a Carla Lamb in Arkansas and had one son Eugene Ray. WR and JW had a number of varied business enterprises in and around Success and were very involved in civic affairs (Mayor, alderman, school board, good roads commission, election judges, property reassessment committees, etc.). Both WR and JW ended up using the title of Colonel - which may be a follow on to Capt. Joe's assumed title from his days shipping wood out of Ontario Canada. Aaron Alexander Frazier was born in AR in 1852, and married at least three times (Harriet A. Grayum (or Farrington), Sarah T. Mathews (1890), Pearlee Ponds (widow not maiden name 1905)). He had 5 sons and one daughter (America E., John William, Andrew, James Washington, Ernest Andrew and Arthur A.) He was a farmer. Here are my burning questions. Any help in extinguishing these would be very much appreciated: 1. I have very little information on the Frazier line (where they came from, who they married and where they went). Some spouse surnames are Kenley, Hyde and Choisser or Chronister. Any information would be appreciated. 2. I have nothing on Carla Lamb and would like to find an obit for Joseph Wilbert McCracken (1880-1933 and buried in Corning Cemetery). 3. A big part of the Frazier's and McCracken's moved out of Success AR and into Mississippi County MO sometime between 1928 and 1935. I would like to discover why they relocated and exactly when. 4. Does anyone have a reference to learn more about the logging, sawmill and log rafting industries in Clay County in the late 1800s till the woods played out? 5. Does anyone know about the Clay County Cotton Company, when it went out of business, and when cotton growing faded out of business in western Clay County? 6. Does anyone have information about the Great Flood of 1927 and Clay County? I have a Mississippi River Commission map/report that shows that Piggott, Rector, Knobel and Paragould should have escaped, but that Corning and Success were flooded. I recently made a trip to western Clay County to get a proper landscape perspective for what these pioneers may have faced as they made their way. I have about 200 photographs posted on line from Success, Corning (Hitt, Corning, Richwoods, Hite and Brown Cemeteries) and the surrounding lands. If you would like to see if these would help you understand where your folks are from, send me your email and I will send the links. Thanks, Mark Frazier