For those of you who are unaware of the 1911 Confederate Census Record the following names from Cleveland Co. are in my data base: Erby Boyd Thomas Merideth Boyd John Farrar Crawford William Ira Carter Frank Crone (?Crain) John Robert Wilson George Willis Reed John Thomas Reed Nathan Smith William Porter Dickson Calvin Cooper Graves Hudson Jackson Glover John B. Frazier John Erwin Ellis Reuben Nathaniel Massey David Crockett Trammell Jann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

I have wondered if the John Word mentioned in the previous article was connected to this guy who lived in Bradley County. This information comes from the book I compiled on "Civil War Soldiers of Bradley County": Thomas J. Word was born June 25, 1836 in Coweta County, Georgia, the son of John and Elizabeth Summons Word. He enlisted in Company "C" 5th Arkansas. Rank: Private. He married Margaret A. Bennett Hagan in 1868. He died August 19, 1899 and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Bradley County, Arkansas. Children: Marshall Lela Mary Eula Cassie Ella Ruth If anyone knows of a connection, please let me know! Jann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

In the Nov. 30, 1939 issue of the Eagle Dem at Warren there is a section entitled "Warren Salutes New Edinburg." Following is a list of contents: Picture of the tree in the middle of the road. E. T. Attwood photo Pictures of all three churches Picture of Marks Cemetery Picture of W. C. Haskins - blacksmith New Edinburg school. Judge Dave Cash Farmers Cooperative Gin Picture of the old Marks house If this is not in the Cleveland Co. library, it can be located in the library at Warren on microfilm. Jann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Eagle Dem., Warren, Ark. Nov. 30, 1939: (there is a picture with this article) "In the picture, reading from left to right, there are: John Martin, son of the late J. E. Martin of Warren, and a cousin of Mr. Word, Tom Word, a brother, Mrs. Word and Mrs. Emma G. Word Smith, cousin, then, John Word. Here is a picture connecting the immediate present with the distant past. It is the home of John Word, well known Redland Township citizen in Lebanon community. Within the room, whose log-exterior is shown, John Word was born some sixty nine years ago. He still eats three meals a day in that room, which had been located at one time in Bradley County, once in Dorsey County, and now in Cleveland County. Yet the historic log structure was built more than a hundred years ago as the Livingston residence. The Livingstons are buried about three hundred yards northwest of the house. John Word, the present occupant, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Word. His wife, before her marriage to him, was Mary Cran...(cannot determine surname, sorry), also a native of the Lebanon community. The Lebanon community is 2 miles west of New Edinburg. The grandfather of John Word was one of the early settlers in Redland Township." Jann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Eagle Democrat, Warren, Arkansas November 30, 1939: Since State Highway No. 8 between Warren and Fordyce has been constructed those who motor that way are usually impress with two things at New Edinburg - the old tree which stands in the middle of the road in front of Attwood's Store, and the number of comfortable homes which are covered with corrugated tin roofing. We have a tendency to "cuss" the presence of the tree when the traffic is heavy, but when we think of those tin roofs topping those comfortable homes, there arises that boyish feeling, "Gee, wouldn't it be great to go to sleep on an old fashioned feather bed while hearing the musical rain drops on that roof." For our purpose here, the tree and the tin-tops explain the character and sturdiness of the present New Edinburg. While modern highways have led other rural villages to fold up and pass away, this unusually progressive community has kept pace with the present, and continually moves forward. The tree represents a sentimental connection with a great ancestry, the tin-roofs, the permanency with which the place was built. Space forbids an extended reference to those citizens of the past who founded and built this community, bequeathed it to the children and grandchildren of the present, and fired them with the desire to remain and carry on. After all, the greener pastures for the most of us remain near the old home. The old saying, the "rolling stone gathers no moss" still obtains. The three active churches, the well-equipped consolidated school, the numerous mercantile enterprises, the two gins, the busy blacksmith shop, the well-kept post office, and the sound and stable bank of today's New Edinburg recall the noble history of James McDaniel, John H. Cherry, Dr. E. H. Moses, William W. Carmical, Thomas J. Clements, Milton Hargis, Joseph J. T. Kendrick, J. N. Marks, William F. Matlock, John T. Haskins, Alex L. Ross, W. D. Attwood, Dr. W. A. Ward, Dr. O. H. Tatum, Dr. J. O. Vance, T. G. Moseley and many others who laid the foundations for a social community where the worship of God, the education of the youth, the enforcement of the law, and fair dealing in business should obtain. The busy community of today has its share of commercial enterprise. The Attwood Store, Parham Bros., a partnership composed of W. K. and T. T. Parham, J. W. Parrott, W. F. Tipton, C. V. Frey, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Lash Mercantile, B. W. Hamaker, Ed Frey, Met Daniels, each do a good business. W. C. Haskins is operating the blacksmith shop established by his father fifty-seven years ago. Finch McCullough, the present postmaster is the son of Robert McCullough, one of the community's pioneers. Roy E. Trawick is Superintendent of the Consolidated School which is attended by children from all over the western part of the county. The Rev. W. D. Golden is pastor of the Methodist church, the Rev. Lee Moseley of the Baptist, and the Rev. J. V. McFerrin of the Presbyterian. There are the Farmers' Cooperative Gin and another owned and operated by L. O. Landers. One of the few Farm-to-Market roads built in this section of the state in recent years by the Federal Government extends three miles and a half East from New Edinburg. Jann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Hi Wilkie Do you know if the Jones folks you mention are a part of MY Jones folks who were in LaFayette County, AR, and Dallas County, AR? Willis M. Jones, born 1829, who died in the Civil War, was a son of James and Juliet Thompson Jones, both born 1808, GA. Willis M. Jones married Sarah Elizabeth Wilkinson, daughter of Hammond J. J. Wilkinson and Charlotte Norris.. I would love to make contact with someone who knows the parents of James and Juliet. Thanks Much! Shirley (Who continues to try to find someone, somewhere, who will claim kin to me!) [email protected] wrote: > Howdy, Smitty Clay Dedman. I found a man in Camden, originally from Ramsey, > who thinks he might be related to you. He is Rex Dedman Jones, s.o. Art > Jones and Sally Dedman. He used to live next door to me in Fordyce. b. 1925 > at Ramsey. > He is youngest of four, James Jones, Woodrow Jones, etc. > > Do you clain kin to him? > > Wilkie, > aka Oscar M. Wilkinson > friend of Bruce Ivey Dedman, Jr. > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB -- Áine Áine's Celtic Connections http://www.geocities.com/gaelicaine/index.htm

In a message dated 6/8/01 1:15:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > THANK YOU BELINDA----- > Thanks to you, there is no web page any better than the CLEVELAND COUNTY > PAGE. > > Again THANKS!!!!!!! > > Smitty > > Howdy, Smitty Clay Dedman. I found a man in Camden, originally from Ramsey, who thinks he might be related to you. He is Rex Dedman Jones, s.o. Art Jones and Sally Dedman. He used to live next door to me in Fordyce. b. 1925 at Ramsey. He is youngest of four, James Jones, Woodrow Jones, etc. Do you clain kin to him? Wilkie, aka Oscar M. Wilkinson friend of Bruce Ivey Dedman, Jr.

Hi Shirley-- Rex Jones is s/o of Henry Arthur Jones. Henry Authur Jones married Sarah Elizabeth Dedman on 7/22/1908. He b. 10/29/1889 in Dallas Co. and is s/o James Henry Jones. Don't know if we are kin but maybe this helps. Smitty Aine wrote: > > Hi Wilkie > > Do you know if the Jones folks you mention are a part of MY Jones folks who were > in LaFayette County, AR, and Dallas County, AR? > > Willis M. Jones, born 1829, who died in the Civil War, was a son of James and > Juliet Thompson Jones, both born 1808, GA. Willis M. Jones married Sarah > Elizabeth Wilkinson, daughter of Hammond J. J. Wilkinson and Charlotte Norris.. > > I would love to make contact with someone who knows the parents of James and > Juliet. > > Thanks Much! > Shirley (Who continues to try to find someone, somewhere, who will claim kin to > me!) > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Howdy, Smitty Clay Dedman. I found a man in Camden, originally from Ramsey, > > who thinks he might be related to you. He is Rex Dedman Jones, s.o. Art > > Jones and Sally Dedman. He used to live next door to me in Fordyce. b. 1925 > > at Ramsey. > > He is youngest of four, James Jones, Woodrow Jones, etc. > > > > Do you clain kin to him? > > > > Wilkie, > > aka Oscar M. Wilkinson > > friend of Bruce Ivey Dedman, Jr. > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > -- > Áine > > Áine's Celtic Connections > http://www.geocities.com/gaelicaine/index.htm > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

Hi Wilkie-- Rex Jones b. 7/28/1925, s/o Sarah Dedman and Henry Arthur Jones is the grandson of Richard Decabb Dedman Jr. who is the s/o Richard D. Sr. who is the brother of Capt Robert H Dedman, my ggrandfather. Maybe you remember R D Dedman store at Ramsey? Smitty [email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 6/8/01 1:15:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] > writes: > > > THANK YOU BELINDA----- > > Thanks to you, there is no web page any better than the CLEVELAND COUNTY > > PAGE. > > > > Again THANKS!!!!!!! > > > > Smitty > > > > > Howdy, Smitty Clay Dedman. I found a man in Camden, originally from Ramsey, > who thinks he might be related to you. He is Rex Dedman Jones, s.o. Art > Jones and Sally Dedman. He used to live next door to me in Fordyce. b. 1925 > at Ramsey. > He is youngest of four, James Jones, Woodrow Jones, etc. > > Do you clain kin to him? > > Wilkie, > aka Oscar M. Wilkinson > friend of Bruce Ivey Dedman, Jr. > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Thank you all for your kind words. I really appreciate it. Belinda _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

THANK YOU BELINDA----- Thanks to you, there is no web page any better than the CLEVELAND COUNTY PAGE. Again THANKS!!!!!!! Smitty [email protected] wrote: > > Belinda, > It's been a pleasure to have met you at the library and to visit your web > page, you've done a great job with Cleveland County. We will miss you. > Everybody out there, Let's give a big" THANK YOU" to Belinda > > With regards, > > Renita Eubanks McDaniel > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

Heartstopper? I need to talk to you. Can't find your complete address, will you contact me please? Belinda _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

In a message dated 6/7/01 8:57:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > Does anyone know the relationship of Merriwether > McGehee to Madison Tate McGehee? > > Jann > > __________________________________________________ > Yes. Several of us know of the relationship of Cousin Merriwether and Madison Tate McGehee. Would you like to know what that relationship was? Samuel McGehee, born 1766 in Louisa County, Virginia, died in 1833 in Meriwether County, Georgia. He married Nancy Tate, b. 1769 in Louisa County, Virginia. She died 1824 in Elbert County, Georgia. Sam & Nancy had fourteen (14), yes, fourteen children. Count'em. Child number 10 was Madison Tate McGehee, b. 1808, d. 1897. He married Lucy Cosby Meriwether on 14 May 1835 in Oglethorpe, Georgia. Their son, Valentine Meriwether McGehee married Amelia M. Marks (Marks Battlefield family). Mary McGehee, d.o. Valentine Meriwether McGehee m. James Johnson White. B. Jann, these people are part of The John Toole-Ruth Ann Rankin family. They were Scots-Irish folks, Kings Mountain people, who opened up the East Tennessee area after the Revolutionary War. They were friends and neighbors of Sam Houston, and that group who formed "The Lost State of Franklin." My great great grandfather was Dr. John Toole Craig, s.o. Elinor Toole (m. Robt. Craig). Is that enough? I have more. Wilkie

In a message dated 6/7/01 4:46:39 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Researchers Rock! (as my children would say) > > Top of the morning to you, Belinda, and what's left of the morning to the rest of the world. Good luck. You have my admiration and love. Wilkie aka Oscar M. Wilkinson, Jr.

We will miss you. Thanks a lot for all your work Peggy Corder ----- Original Message ----- From: Belinda Winston <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: [ARCLEVEL] changing of the guard > Hello List! > I wanted to let you all know that I have turned the Cleveland County page > over to Judy Ware Brown. There are lots of things going on for me, and I > felt it was time to turn it over to someone else. Judy will do an excellent > job, have no fear. She is enthusiastic and excited. I will remain the > archives coordinator, so I'm not saying good-bye, just changing things > around. Judy has made it clear that she still wants my input, and I'm glad > to help, but there will be a new look to it soon, as she will make her own > "mark" on it. Please give her all the WONDERFUL support that you have all > given me. I have enjoyed hosting the page and meeting so many wonderful > people. My family and I are relocating, and eventually I will seek > employment elsewhere. I'll still be at the library for a while, so if you > need something from there, I'll still try to help as much as I can. > > I will continue to be on the ARCLEVEL list, and will read them all with a > smile. I have learned from all of you that...... > > Researchers Rock! (as my children would say) > > Belinda > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

Belinda you will be missed, I think you've done an outstanding job. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Belinda Winston" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: [ARCLEVEL] changing of the guard > Hello List! > I wanted to let you all know that I have turned the Cleveland County page > over to Judy Ware Brown. There are lots of things going on for me, and I > felt it was time to turn it over to someone else. Judy will do an excellent > job, have no fear. She is enthusiastic and excited. I will remain the > archives coordinator, so I'm not saying good-bye, just changing things > around. Judy has made it clear that she still wants my input, and I'm glad > to help, but there will be a new look to it soon, as she will make her own > "mark" on it. Please give her all the WONDERFUL support that you have all > given me. I have enjoyed hosting the page and meeting so many wonderful > people. My family and I are relocating, and eventually I will seek > employment elsewhere. I'll still be at the library for a while, so if you > need something from there, I'll still try to help as much as I can. > > I will continue to be on the ARCLEVEL list, and will read them all with a > smile. I have learned from all of you that...... > > Researchers Rock! (as my children would say) > > Belinda > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

Belinda, It's been a pleasure to have met you at the library and to visit your web page, you've done a great job with Cleveland County. We will miss you. Everybody out there, Let's give a big" THANK YOU" to Belinda With regards, Renita Eubanks McDaniel

Does anyone know the relationship of Merriwether McGehee to Madison Tate McGehee? Jann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Belinda, just a word of thanks for all the great work you did on the Cleveland County page and especially for your kind assistance to me on several occasions. I am sure I am just one of many that wish you and your family the best. Hope to hear from you on the list every now and then. Robert McClain

Hello List! I wanted to let you all know that I have turned the Cleveland County page over to Judy Ware Brown. There are lots of things going on for me, and I felt it was time to turn it over to someone else. Judy will do an excellent job, have no fear. She is enthusiastic and excited. I will remain the archives coordinator, so I'm not saying good-bye, just changing things around. Judy has made it clear that she still wants my input, and I'm glad to help, but there will be a new look to it soon, as she will make her own "mark" on it. Please give her all the WONDERFUL support that you have all given me. I have enjoyed hosting the page and meeting so many wonderful people. My family and I are relocating, and eventually I will seek employment elsewhere. I'll still be at the library for a while, so if you need something from there, I'll still try to help as much as I can. I will continue to be on the ARCLEVEL list, and will read them all with a smile. I have learned from all of you that...... Researchers Rock! (as my children would say) Belinda _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com