Hello My name is David Harrison RIGGS. I live in London, England. My family roots are in Crawford County & Franklin County. Also in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. My father's name is Joseph Harrison RIGGS. He is 81 years old. born at Jethro, Franklin Co. I am researching the Riggs family tree. There are now over 1600 entries in the tree, and it is still growing. I would like to share this information with my cousins, many of which I have only met once or not at all. The last time I was back home was in 1976. I am looking for the descendants of my fathers late sister FLORA MEDLOCK nee RIGGS b. 18th May 1911 in Jethro. married Elisha Medlock and lived most of their lives in Mulberry. Flora passed away in Mulberry September 1986. Flora and Elisha's children are: Mary Medlock m. Gene Lessley of Fort Smith. Dalton Medlock m. Cathreine Living in or near Mulberry Jerry Medlock (Desceaced)- Children: Randy and Don Medlock, in the Mulberry area?

Noone has answered my request. I found him on the index. I don't think I have the page. Wanda

Wanda wrote: "Does anyone have access to the 1830 Census. I would like a lookup on Hiram Blair there in 1830." Wanda: Has anyone answered your request? I believe our local FHC here in Turlock, CA has the 1830 AR census. What county and what page? I assume that you found him in an index - or did you? If not - I'll look him up in the AIS census index on fiche the next time I go. Nan

Hi: Does anyone on this list have a copy of this book? I'd like to know if the death of Esther Eppler or Esther Hinds is in it. In fact, I'd like to buy a copy. Is it for sale anywhere in your county or at Ft. Smith? How can I contact Sue Clark, the author? Regards, Nan ============ Death and Marriage Announcements Fort Smith and Van Buren, Ar 1844-1886 by Sue Clark Copyright 1998 Ft Smith Pub Lib Ft Smith, Ar"

Does anyone have access to the 1830 Census. I would like a lookup on Hiram Blair there in 1830. Wanda

Hi: Thanks to another party I found the 2nd marriage of my Margaret (Mattix) Hinds to a Dr. John Autry in Crawford Co. AR. Note the reason why I couldn't find it before - the spelling "Otrey". I hadn't thought of THAT spelling. And, because I had him as Dr. Autry I PRESUMED wrongly that he was a medical doctor. But, by the newspaper announcement below - it seems he was a Rev. kind of doctor. Hmmmmm. Her first husband was David Hinds - married 1827 in Lawrence Co. AR Regards, Nan Wolf [email protected] ------------ "Van Buren Arkansas Intelligencer, August 22, 1846, Rev.John C. Otery married Mrs Margaret A. Hinds on August 19, 1846." Incidentally, the IGI has Margaret Mattix's maiden name as Taylor. I assume that because some Autry family researcher did not know that this was her 2nd marriage and since she and Dr. Autry named their first born son, ZACHARY TAYLOR AUTRY - well, her maiden name must be TAYLOR. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. The Autry's moved to TX from Van Buren, AR. Also in TX at the same time was Colonel Zachary Taylor - later to be President Taylor. This is the son that disappeared on a horse drive - driving horses to or from TX. Margaret (Mattix) Hinds Autry had seven children by David Hinds: (Esther, Edward, John, Elizabeth, Archibald Yell, (Nan's ancestor), Cynthia and Mary) and five more by Dr. Autry (Margaret, Sarah, Zachary Taylor, Joanna, and Eliza by 1854) Their mother Margaret Mattix died of the measles in Cooke Co. TX in 1861 and is buried near Greene Schools and Church in Cooke Co. Dr. (Rev.) Autry again re-married and had more children - his total number of children was 20!!!!!!!.

Looking for Blair in early Crawford Co... My Hiram Blair was on the Census in 1830. does anyone have access to records before then? Where their any Blair's therein the 1820? Wanda

Hi: I am forwarding this message concerning Capps. Nan ============== Capps: I am kin to a bunch of Capps. My grandmother, Pauline Walker, was a Capps. Her father was Lester W. Capps. Lester Capps married Maudie Victory. Maudie was the daughter of William and Jane that is mentioned above about the Stewarts. Lester Capps was born in 1891 in Jackson County, Arkansas. I have absolutly nothing on him except his birth and after he was married. I have looked for almost a year on who his parents were but cannot find anything. I have checked the whole state of Arkansas for 1900, and 1910 and found nothing. I know also that he had a half brother named John Bainster. He lived in Enid, Oklahoma for a long time. I really don't know if there could be a connection with my Capp's and yours or just what. I know that he was married in Alica, Lawrence Co., Arkansas in 1917. He lived their for a while and had 3 kids: Novella, Arvil, and Pauline. Pauline is my grandmother. They moved to Pocahontas in 1929, and have lived there ever since. Lester died in 1962, and Maudie died in 1987. Any help would be highly appreciated. Will Walker Pocahontas, AR [email protected]

Hi: If you go to: http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/ and click on the Maps of Indian Land, etc - you'll find a map of OK divided into its Indian tribal lands. There are also great maps of the 1700s and 1800s at: http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/expand.html Many of these maps at this U. of Georgia site are of the south. By looking at the 1816 southern map - I'd say the early arrivals in Lawrence Co. went down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers - then up the White River. The Black River is also on this map. Nan

Hi: This has been sent before but I believe it needs to be sent "down the pike" from time to time. Sherry: I believe that you can find a listing of rootsweb mail lists at: Rootsweb lists: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ ALSO did you know that you can look through old messages at all Rootsweb mail lists? I copied this info below from a message a couple years back but it keeps working for me. So, if you are new to any mail list - you should look through the old messages using this search mechanism. The only drawback - unless the person put their return address in the message body - you won't get an address of who sent the message. At least, I haven't figured out how to do it. So, we should all try to put our addresses under our signature - which I always forget to do!!!! And, think twice before changing your address!!!!! I just found a new cousin who answered a query that I posted four years ago. I still have the same address - thank heavens.. Nan Wolf [email protected] (Aha - I remembered) -------------------------- >Courtesy of hacks by Karen Isaacson, you can search the archives of >any mailing list (except those withdrawn by the listowner), now with >nicer *formats* and *updated* to within the last 24 hours, at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ================================================

Hi: Was someone asking about a Kettett famiy last week on this list?. I ran across Kettetts or Kettells in the 1840 census of Lawrence Co. AR and have the info about them if anyone is interested. Nan

>Content-Type: text/plain > >ARCRAWFO-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 59 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: WEIR [Nan & George Wolf <[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from ARCRAWFO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 03:18:13 -0400 >From: Nan & George Wolf <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: WEIR >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Carol: > Don't forget that census takers spelled surnames their own way. There >are no Weirs or Werrs in AR in the 1850 census index BUT there are: > WEER, John Lawrence Co. AR Page 110 Spring River Twp 1840 >census >I have the name of a researcher that can tell you about a Weir-Bennett >marriage in 1839 in Lawrence/Randolph Co. Let me know if you would like >her address. > >Hope this helps, > Nan > > Hi, Nan! I wrote earlier and mentioned Hallelujah Weir and her children who are enumerated with William Howard in the 1850 Marion Co., AR census. The 1850 census index would not show Weir because the head of the household was Howard. I suspect there are many other Weir (various spellings) tucked away in the 1850 AR census and not indexed! Haven't we been having odd weather today in the valley? All of that mountain smoke! Pansylea

Carol: Don't forget that census takers spelled surnames their own way. There are no Weirs or Werrs in AR in the 1850 census index BUT there are: WEER, John Lawrence Co. AR Page 110 Spring River Twp 1840 census I have the name of a researcher that can tell you about a Weir-Bennett marriage in 1839 in Lawrence/Randolph Co. Let me know if you would like her address. Hope this helps, Nan

>Content-Type: text/plain > >ARCRAWFO-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 57 > >Today's Topics: > #1 WILLIAM ADKISON/EDWARD WEIR ["Carol Morse" <[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from ARCRAWFO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:03:48 -0500 >From: "Carol Morse" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: WILLIAM ADKISON/EDWARD WEIR >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello everybody - I had so much luck a couple of months ago posting on all >the Arkansas counties about my Haneys ( thanks to Melanie and everybody else >that sends me info) , thought I would try my luck on my Adkisons and >Weirs...So, if everyone that reads this will please look in all your books >and files and send me ANYTHING you have on any Adkison or Weir, I will be >ever so grateful. >They had to be in Arkansas between 1800 and 1910 - I just don't know where. >In turn, I will look up anyone you are researching in Indian Territory >and/or Oklahoma. Deal? Thanks! >Carol in Okla >surnames: Adkison-Byrns-Butler-Ellis-Foy-Haney-Isaacs-Kincannon- > Love-Morse-Patterson-Payne-Weir > There is a Hallelujah Weir, a widow, (who is listed as a Howard, suggesting she had married William Howard, a widower), living with Howard and his family at the time of the 1850 census in Marion Co., AR. She has two or three children with her with the last of Weir, born in the 1840s. I thought I had their given names in my notes, but I don't. As you know, Marion Co. borders Missouri, and I find records on some of the residents also in Taney Co., Ozark Co., and Douglas Co., MO. Sorry this is just a bit of information--hope it helps! I also find many Marion Co. families later in Madison Co., Franklin Co., and Crawford Co., AR, and then onto the Indian Territory/Oklahoma. Pansyea

I am trying to find where my great-grandfather may have lived during his brief time in Arkansas, as I believe his mother may be buried there. He was James W. O'BRIEN, and he may have worked in Van Buren since it was a railroad town. He came from Kansas in 1885 and returned there two or three years later. If anyone has Crawford County tax lists for any years from 1885 to 1888, please check them for the name James W. O'BRIEN (or J.W. O'BRIEN, as he was known). The surname may be misppelled as O'BRIAN, O'BRION, or O'BRIN, and may appear without the apostrophe. If anyone has a book of tombstone inscriptions for Crawford County, please check it for the names Rosanna GRAHAM and William F. GRAHAM. Rosanna was b. c1825 and d. after 1885. (She was James' mother and GRAHAM was her second husband.) Thanks!! -- Kerry

Hello everybody - I had so much luck a couple of months ago posting on all the Arkansas counties about my Haneys ( thanks to Melanie and everybody else that sends me info) , thought I would try my luck on my Adkisons and Weirs...So, if everyone that reads this will please look in all your books and files and send me ANYTHING you have on any Adkison or Weir, I will be ever so grateful. They had to be in Arkansas between 1800 and 1910 - I just don't know where. In turn, I will look up anyone you are researching in Indian Territory and/or Oklahoma. Deal? Thanks! Carol in Okla surnames: Adkison-Byrns-Butler-Ellis-Foy-Haney-Isaacs-Kincannon- Love-Morse-Patterson-Payne-Weir

A search of the catalog of filmstrips available for the Probate (Will & estate) Records for Crawford Co AR at a Mormon Family History Center <http://www.familysearch.org> shows: Will records - v. A 1874-1906 on Filmstrip #1028052 Item 3 and v. B-C 1906-1929 on Filmstrip #1028053 Items 1-2 You can go to your nearest Family History Center and order these to read through ($3.75 for a couple of months). The telephone number of the Crawford Co Courthouse is 501-474-1312. You could try calling them and seeing if they have an index and can look up the records and copy for you. If they don't have an index, you'll have to get the films and find your records and tell them book and page # and then they can copy - but of course you can make a copy from the filmstrip. At 02:58 PM 8/22/99 EDT, you wrote: >Having looked several places on-line, I have come up empty on where to send >for transcriptions or copies of wills for Crawford County. Are they >available for 1900-1930? > >Rick Monroe > > >==== ARCRAWFO Mailing List ==== >Visit the USGenWeb Crawford County, AR page at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcrawfo/ > > - Kay Haden [email protected]

Rick: Phone the AR Game & Fish Commission at 501-223-6351. They'll tell you how much to send them for a large flat paperback that has all of the counties (and all of the meridians). I can't remember what they charged but it was less than $10. I think. When you find out the charge - put it on the list. Their mailing address is: Arkansas Game & Fish Commission 2 Natural Resources Drive LIttle Rock, AR 72205 Regards, Nan

Having looked several places on-line, I have come up empty on where to send for transcriptions or copies of wills for Crawford County. Are they available for 1900-1930? Rick Monroe

Does anyone know of a site that shows the location of Meridians and Base Lines? I can find a ton of sites about how to read the Land Grant locations but nothing that shows where the main lines are. Rick Monroe Long Beach, CA