Posted on: Cleveland Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Cleveland/94 Surname: RANKIN, ESTES, DANIEL ------------------------- Looking for information on the Samuel RANKIN family. Smauel moved to Cleveland Co. from Mississippi c.1848. He was married to Mary ESTES who hailed from Miss. or Alabama. They had the following children: Richard B., William H., Joseph S., John A., Elisha T., James D., Mary Jane, Marion Washington (or Washington Melville), girl died in infancy, Napoleon Bonaparte, & Francis Elizabeth. Elisha Thompson RANKIN is my decendent. He married Martha Willie Daniel in Cleveland Co. 3 Feb 1883-4. They had the following children: Claude A., William Porter, Samuel Tweed, Toney or Tony Thompson, John Street, Joseph King, Mary Ola, Elisha Benjamin, Henry Homer, Horace Dewey (almost all were commonly known by their middle names). THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP!

I've found sometime if It won't copy of file, if I use Color-it does much better, even if its b/w.

Jann, Sorry to bother you again but is this related to my question or a general post? My great grandfather, was a Reed that had a fatal accident was cut on his leg at Tucker's Pat

Jann, That's great! Thanks! I'll try to get a page done for it asap. You sure the pic won't scan well? Belinda >From: jann woodard <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ARCLEVEL] Stephen W. Dorsey >Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:50:36 -0800 (PST) > >Arkansas Gazette March 22, 1916 page 5 cols 1 & 2: > >Reconstruction Senators > >Stephen W. Dorsey, who died at his home in Los >Angeles, Cal., on Monday, was the last of the United >States senators who represented Arkansas during the >reconstruction period. He came to Arkansas from >Oberlin, Ohio, in the summer of 1870, with no thought >of engaging in politics, but to promote and build a >railroad in Arkansas. This in part, he succeeded in >doing. He was a lawyer and a business man who >interested himself in the promotion of large >enterprises. > >With his manager, a man named Gregg, he organized a >company for the construction of the Arkansas Central >railroad from Helena to Little Rock. He built and >operated the road from Helena to Clarendon, where it >still is being operated as the Midland, now owned by >the Iron Mountain. When the road was completed to >Clarendon, Dorsey had assembled the material on the >banks of the White River for the construction of a >bridge across the stream. Railroad aid bonds had been >authorized to assist the promoter in the construction >of the road. Blocks of the bonds were issued and sold >at times when a certain number of miles of road were >completed and in operation. When the road was >completed to Clarendon, Dorsey needed more funds to >continue the work. A case involving the >constitutionality of the issuance of the bonds was >pending before the Supreme County, and it was just >about the time the road had been completed to >Clarendon that the Supreme Court rendered the decision >declaring the act authorizing the bond issue >unconstitutional. Further work on the construction of >the road ceased. > >Mr. Dorsey came to Little Rock with the view of making >his home here. He built on Lincoln avenue what was >then considered the most magnificent home in Little >Rock. It was the building formerly occupied by the >College of Physicians and Surgeons. It was handsomely >furnished and there Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey dispensed >hospitality with lavish hands. > >In 1873 friends of Mr. Dorsey urged him to enter the >race for United States senator to succeed B. F. Rice. >Dorsey's opponent was Thomas M. Bowen, who was >president of the Constitutional convention of 1868, >and an associate justice of the Supreme Court. >Senator Powell Clayton espoused the candidacy of >Bowen. A joint caucus of the two houses of the >legislature was called to meet in the Odd Fellows >building, then at the corner of Markham and Scott >streets. When the Bowen forces discovered that a >majority of the Republicans in the house favored >Dorsey's candidacy, they refused to attend the caucus. > The legislature in joint session balloted for senator >for five days before a result was reached. Then >Dorsey was given the votes of Democrats who had been >voting solidly for Augustus H. Garland. When the >Democrats commenced voting for Dorsey, nearly all the >Bowen men went to his support. > >For four years Dorsey controlled the federal patronage >in Arkansas. He displaced Powell Clayton's influence >both with his party at home and with the Republican >administration at Washington. > >After completing his term in the United States Senate >Dorsey purchased a tract of land in New Mexico, upon >which he established a sheep ranch. He built a >residence of logs which cost more than $100,000. In >the cellars he placed $10,000 worth of the choicest >wines and liquors, it was said. Here he entertained >his friends and had offices in New York and Denver. >Later he went to Los Angeles, where he lived up to the >time of his death. > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 >a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Yes please. The Historical Society was doing a work up on him. They would be glad to see it I'm sure. Thanks! Belinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "jann woodard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: [ARCLEVEL] Stephen W. Dorsey > Belinda, I have a biographical article on Stephen > Dorsey. If you want for the webpage, let me know. It > also has his picture, but don't think it will scan > very well. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >

No, it is just a general post. --- [email protected] wrote: > Jann, > > Sorry to bother you again but is > this related to my question or a general post? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Ark. Gazette Mar. 26, 1916, Rison, Mar. 25 - Calvin Walker got his hand caught in the cogs of the planing mill machinery here yesterday, and his arm was crushed before assistance reached him. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Arkansas Gazette March 22, 1916 page 5 cols 1 & 2: Reconstruction Senators Stephen W. Dorsey, who died at his home in Los Angeles, Cal., on Monday, was the last of the United States senators who represented Arkansas during the reconstruction period. He came to Arkansas from Oberlin, Ohio, in the summer of 1870, with no thought of engaging in politics, but to promote and build a railroad in Arkansas. This in part, he succeeded in doing. He was a lawyer and a business man who interested himself in the promotion of large enterprises. With his manager, a man named Gregg, he organized a company for the construction of the Arkansas Central railroad from Helena to Little Rock. He built and operated the road from Helena to Clarendon, where it still is being operated as the Midland, now owned by the Iron Mountain. When the road was completed to Clarendon, Dorsey had assembled the material on the banks of the White River for the construction of a bridge across the stream. Railroad aid bonds had been authorized to assist the promoter in the construction of the road. Blocks of the bonds were issued and sold at times when a certain number of miles of road were completed and in operation. When the road was completed to Clarendon, Dorsey needed more funds to continue the work. A case involving the constitutionality of the issuance of the bonds was pending before the Supreme County, and it was just about the time the road had been completed to Clarendon that the Supreme Court rendered the decision declaring the act authorizing the bond issue unconstitutional. Further work on the construction of the road ceased. Mr. Dorsey came to Little Rock with the view of making his home here. He built on Lincoln avenue what was then considered the most magnificent home in Little Rock. It was the building formerly occupied by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. It was handsomely furnished and there Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey dispensed hospitality with lavish hands. In 1873 friends of Mr. Dorsey urged him to enter the race for United States senator to succeed B. F. Rice. Dorsey's opponent was Thomas M. Bowen, who was president of the Constitutional convention of 1868, and an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Senator Powell Clayton espoused the candidacy of Bowen. A joint caucus of the two houses of the legislature was called to meet in the Odd Fellows building, then at the corner of Markham and Scott streets. When the Bowen forces discovered that a majority of the Republicans in the house favored Dorsey's candidacy, they refused to attend the caucus. The legislature in joint session balloted for senator for five days before a result was reached. Then Dorsey was given the votes of Democrats who had been voting solidly for Augustus H. Garland. When the Democrats commenced voting for Dorsey, nearly all the Bowen men went to his support. For four years Dorsey controlled the federal patronage in Arkansas. He displaced Powell Clayton's influence both with his party at home and with the Republican administration at Washington. After completing his term in the United States Senate Dorsey purchased a tract of land in New Mexico, upon which he established a sheep ranch. He built a residence of logs which cost more than $100,000. In the cellars he placed $10,000 worth of the choicest wines and liquors, it was said. Here he entertained his friends and had offices in New York and Denver. Later he went to Los Angeles, where he lived up to the time of his death. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Belinda, I have a biographical article on Stephen Dorsey. If you want for the webpage, let me know. It also has his picture, but don't think it will scan very well. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Ark. Gazette: Mar. 3, 1916 - We now understand why William Haynie has been building. He and Miss Jennie Barnes were married on the 13th of February. (Cross Roads Correspondent of the Cleveland Co. Hearld.) Mar. 8, 1916, Rison - A. K. Reid, a local merchant, died here yesterday. He is survived by his wife, three sons and three daughters. April 5, 1916, State Deaths: Jim Lum, at New Edinburg. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

In 1887 Charles Franklin Loomis lost his wife Jeanette Fisher Loomis. In his grief he left Kansas and went back to Arkansas (county unknown) and settled there. The family story goes that while there he became involved in Tabacco business run by a family by the name of Pryor. Would like to connect with anyone who either 1) knows of Charles Franklin Loomis or 2) knows of a Tabacco Business in Arkansas owned or run by a family by the name of Pryor in the 1888's. Kathleen Burnett

Posted on: Cleveland Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Cleveland/93 Surname: TATE, CASTLEBERRY ------------------------- Looking for information about the family of Delma Dean Tate and John D. Castleberry. Delma was born 1881 in the Orlando Community near the Bradley/Cleveland County line. Delma was the daughter of Samuel Luther and Ellen Hall Tate. She married John D. Castleberry on Oct 17, 1900. Both are buried in Moseley Cemetery. Their children were: 1. Johnnie Castleberry. m. Doyle Coats 2. Clyde Castleberry. m. Elsie Rodgers 3. Vera Castleberry. m. Charlie Frank Douglas 4. Lucy Castleberry. m. Willie Stiles Delma and John also had four (4) children who died as infants. They are buried in Moseley Cemetery. I would like to hear from someone that has informtion about the descendants of Delma and John. Also, I have some information about the Tate Family that I will share.

Hello List! Pat Bajaw thought some of you might be able to use this information. So, I'm forwarding it to the list. Good luck to you all, and thanks so much Pat for thinking of others. Belinda -------------------------------------------------- From: "SUE O'KELLEY" <[email protected]> To: "Pat Bajwa" <[email protected]> CC: "Pat Bajwa" <[email protected]> Save Address Subject: Burgoyne Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:21:42 -0800 Pat, Found something; James W. Majors b. 1834 d. 7 Jan. 1873 in Jefferson Co. Ar. He married Ann Hellums abt. 1858. She was born abt. 1836 Fayette Co. Al. d. in Lincoln Co. Ar. Children: 1 Jacob A. b abt. 1859 Jefferson Co. Ar. d. abt. 1870 2 Mollie A. b. 26 April 1861 Jefferson Co. Ar. d. 3 Oct. 1912 Lincoln Co. Ar. m. L. H. Burgoyne 26 May 1887 3 Alice M. b. 21 Oct. 1863 m. J. B. Matthews 24 Jan. 1884 4 James Able b. 18 Dec. 1867 Jefferson Co. Ar. d. 21 April 1933 Lincoln Co. Ar. 5 Franklin Augustus b. 20 Oct. 1868 d. 10 April 1933 m. Fannie Lathan 2 Oct. 1865 d. 10 May 1952 6 Jennie b. abt 1871 7 Jessie b. abt. 1871 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

In a message dated 2/7/01 4:55:32 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << information on Catherine Hudson >> Was Catherine Hudson related to Charles Hudson, who married Lucy McGehee, b. 1791, to Sam McGehee of Louisa County, VA, and Nancy Tate McGehee? Wilkie

Posted on: Cleveland Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Cleveland/89 Surname: Hudson, Wentz ------------------------- Would like any information on Catherine Hudson and Absolum Wentz, my ggreatparents, who were married in Cleveland County. Children were born in 1864, 1869, 1872 and 1875 but I do not know marriage date.

Posted on: Cleveland Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Cleveland/88 Surname: DANSBY, GOLD, GOOLSBY ------------------------- Does any one recognize these marriages ? GOLD, GEORGE DANSBY, SUSAN [Mrs] 05 Nov 1899 Cleveland AR GOOLSBY, JAMES DANSBY, CAROLINE 05 Nov 1891 Cleveland AR Would some one be willing to do looks ups for these two families on the 1900 Cleveland Co. Census? I have a Susan and Caroline Dansby who disappeared from Ms. and I would like to find out if these are mine.I would like to have the ages of these two women to determine if one is my gg grand mother. All help appreciated.

Posted on: Cleveland Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Cleveland/86 Surname: Woods ------------------------- WOOD, WILLIAM Private - born 1832, Enl 16 Jun 1862 Company "D" 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiment CSA at Warren, AR. Died of disease, 20 Oct 1862. Camp White Sulphur Springs, Jefferson County. Would this person Happen to be Your William Woods?

Thanks for all the work! Jackie Hutcheson surnames: Ward, Head, Wright, Culpepper, Greenwood, Oswald, Wooley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Belinda Winston" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 9:23 PM Subject: [ARCLEVEL] Website update > Hello everyone, > Just a note to let you know that the county site has been updated today. > Thanks to the nimble fingers and longsuffering of Diane White, we now have > "Cleveland County Potpourri" online. The entire book has been formatted and > is on the site. I have also added a picture and a newsbrief. I'm a little > behind on the newsbriefs, but will try to remedy that as soon as I can. I am > also still working on the marriage records. > > Because of some kind of glitch, I had to remove the visit counter. It was > great to know how many hits we had, and it was up to several thousand since > October, but it just wouldn't work for me. > > Thanks for all your support and interest. > > Belinda > > > ============================== > The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1 >

Hello everyone, Just a note to let you know that the county site has been updated today. Thanks to the nimble fingers and longsuffering of Diane White, we now have "Cleveland County Potpourri" online. The entire book has been formatted and is on the site. I have also added a picture and a newsbrief. I'm a little behind on the newsbriefs, but will try to remedy that as soon as I can. I am also still working on the marriage records. Because of some kind of glitch, I had to remove the visit counter. It was great to know how many hits we had, and it was up to several thousand since October, but it just wouldn't work for me. Thanks for all your support and interest. Belinda

Posted on: Cleveland Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Cleveland/85 Surname: Puckett, Wardlaw ------------------------- Eric, You can find the Pucketts in the 1850 census of Rankin Co., Miss. Father was Thomas. Then they came to Cleveland Co. Ar. I believe five sons were in the Civil War. My GGgrandmother was a daughter of John W and Jane Wardlaw. Hope this helps Marie