With all of this activity (I didn't know there were so many of you out there!), it's time I posted my Columbia County connections. I am researching the following families in Columbia County., AR: ALLEN (2 lines), BEARDEN, BENNETT, BRISTER, GARRETT, HICKS, KEESEE, LEACH (LEECH), MILLER, MORRIS, OWEN, PARHAM, REYNOLDS, SHANNON, SMART, STEVENS, STEWART, WALKER, WILSON, WOOD, YOUNG. Please contact me if any of these families married into yours - I'm just as interested in descendents as I am in ancestors. To Belva: Jane H.M. HICKS (dau of Francis HICKS & Elizabeth WOOD) married William BARNETT and lived in Columbia County, their daughter Elizabeth BARNETT married Francis Marion NORWOOD. Don't have any info on Elizabeth & Francis NORWOOD's descendants. To GARRETT researchers: I will e-mail you privately to compare more names. Sandy Bearden Gomer Bridger, Montana [email protected] ALLEN / SHANNON: Albert ALLEN (b. 1831 Henry Co., GA; d. 1863 Civil War near Little Rock, AR) m. Harriet SHANNON (b. 1834 Coosa Co., AL; d.1894 Boon Twp, Columbia Co., AR; buried Ebenezer Cemetery) ALLEN / BEARDEN: Harriet C. ALLEN (Cherokee/Creek; 1861 Dade Co., GA - 1912 Cracker Neck Community, Columbia Co., AR; buried Harmony Cemetery) m. James Allison BEARDEN (1866 Whitfield Co., GA - ?) BEARDEN / WALKER: Roland "Rollen" Lee BEARDEN (b. 1890 Walker Co., GA; d. 1961 Columbia Co., AR; buried Sharman Cemetery) m. Lena Justine WALKER (b. 1900 TX; d. 1977 Magnolia Columbia Co., AR; buried Sharman Cemetery) BENNETT: James BENNETT (b. 1787 NC; d. after 1860 Columbia Co., AR) NOTE: dau. Martha BENNETT married Eli DUDNEY in Carroll Co., TN and also relocated to Magnolia. BRISTER / MILLER: Mary "Polly" BRISTER (b. 1810 Greenville, SC; d. 1884 Columbia Co., AR; buried Miller Family Cemetery) M. "William" James William MILLER Jr (b. 1806 Ohio Co,. KY; d. 1864 Calhoun, Columbia Co., GA; buried Miller Family Cemetery) GARRETT: Noah GARRETT (b. 1822 SC; d. 1864 Civil War in Poison Springs, AR) m. Mary Elizabeth YOUNG (b. 1834 GA; d. 1916 Magnolia, Columbia Co., AR; buried Antioch East Cemetery) HICKS / WOOD Francis HICKS (b. c 1789 GA; d. 1863 Columbia Co., AR) m. Elizabeth WOOD (b. 1793; d. 1867 McNeil, Harrison Twp., Columbia Co., AR) LEACH (LEECH) / HICKS: Priscilla Evaline LEACH (LEECH) (b. 1843 AL; d. 1920 Columbia Co., AR; buried Greers Chapel Cemetery) m. Henry Francis HICKS (b. 1839 Benton, Saline Co., AR; d. 1913 Columbia Co., AR; buried Greers Chapel Cemetery) NOTE1: After Priscilla's mother Emelia Manda KEESEE died in Saline Co, AR, Priscilla's father Daniel LEACH (LEECH) lived with second wife, Mary Jane MOFFET in Columbia County during 1870 census. Daniel died 1895 in Stephens Co., TX. NOTE2: Priscilla's brothers James Burkett LEACH (LEECH) and George Keesee LEACH (LEECH) both lived in Columbia Co., AR before relocating to Texas. MILLER / OWEN / WILSON: Charlotte MILLER (b. 1833 Holmes Co, MS; d. 1913 Columbia Co., AR; buried Ebenezer Cemetery) m. 1st John Robert OWEN; after Robert died, Charlotte m.2nd Benjamin Baker WILSON (b. 1823 Autuga Co., AL; d. 1891 Columbia Co., AR; buried Ebenezer Cemetery) MORRIS: See note on SMART / HICKS PARHAM / STEPHENS: (note: same line as Linda Bamburg) John Steth PARHAM (b. 1823 GA; d. 1906 Columbia Co., AR; buried Barlow Cemetery) m. Mary Jane STEPHENS (b. 1824 GA; d. 1887 Columbia Co., AR) REYNOLDS / BENNETT: Sarah Catherine REYNOLDS (b. 1835 TN; d. 1908 Columbia Co., AR; buried Greers Chapel Cemetery) m. Thomas J. BENNETT aka James Thomas BENNETT (b. 1831 TN - d. 1862 Civil War AR) SHANNON: Benjamin Baker WILSON's first wife Sarah Elizabeth SHANNON (b. 1832 AL; d. Columbia Co., AR; buried Ebenezer Cemetery) may be a sister to siblings Harriet SHANNON (see Albert ALLEN), Martha SHANNON (1839 AL -1905 AR m. Reganiard O'Dell; buried Ebenezer Cemetery) and "W.W." William H. SHANNON (1840 AL - 1863 Civil War Drew Co., AR; m. Martha Jane MILLER [Charlotte MILLER's sister]). SMART / HICKS: Susannah SMART (b. TN?; d. Columbia Co., AR) m. John M. HICKS (b. c 1820 AL; d. Columbia Co., AR) NOTE: Susannah's sister Brazilla SMART married Priscilla LEACH's maternal uncle, Cullen MORRIS in Saline Co., AR. Brazilla & Cullen MORRIS also moved to Columbia Co., AR. STEWART / PARHAM: (note: same line as Linda Bamburg) Elizabeth M. STEWART (dau of Kenneth & Nancy P. Stewart - b. 1849; d. 1922 Columbia Co., AR) m. John Raymond PARHAM (b. 1847 NC; d. 1918 Columbia Co., AR; buried Barlow Cemetery) WALKER / PARHAM: Elbert "Boss" WALKER m. Florence PARHAM (b. 1879; buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Columbia Co., AR)