Hola: Feliz Navidad! Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

OK Desha County folks. The time has come to shake off the overstuffed Christmas dinner lethargy and get down to some serious posting on this list. Danged if me'n Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer ain't gettin' plum lonesome out here. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

I recently acquired a copy of Desmond Walls Allen's Arkansas Land Patents: Chicot and Desha Counties (through 30 June 1908) and Martha Vaughn's 1870 census of Chicot and Desha Counties. As my New Year's gift to those on the list, I will do lookups in those books IF you post me privately between now and January 1, 2000. Wish I could offer to do it longer, but that is all the free time I'm going to have. amy b flowers, aka kessarose@aol.com

I forgot to tell you. Vote as often and as many times as you like. A hundred times will help is gain on Mr. Elvis Presley who is now Number 1. Bill Covey Chief Warrant Officer, United States Army (Retired) > Hi Folks: > > Please take the time to vote for the Person of The Century. I would > appreciate it if you would vote for the American GI who > is now in the 16th place. I don't think that is high enough. Simply > type in American GI when the page comes up after clicking on > the URL below. > > http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html > > Bill Covey > Chief Warrant Officer, United States Army (Retired) > Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer > Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz > http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html >

Hi Folks: Please take the time to vote for the Person of The Century. I would appreciate it if you would vote for the American GI who is now in the 16th place. I don't think that is high enough. Simply type in American GI when the page comes up after clicking on the URL below. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html Bill Covey Chief Warrant Officer, United States Army (Retired) Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

>Mrs. J. Bernhardt spent Saturday in Pine Bluff. > >Walter Luton is up from Empire spending a few days >with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Nunn of Hot Springs >returned home on Tuesday after several weeks visit to >C. Dante and wife. > >Mrs. Safford and little Robert Baker wre up from >McGehee Sunday visiting Mrs. Phil Smith and family. > >Chas. Benson and James P. Stahl made a pilgrimage to >the city of Halley in the County of Desha early this >week. > >Mrs. Max Hyman of Lexington, Miss., and Miss Jessie >Waterman will spend Sunday with Gus Waterman and >family. > >Keff (sic) Culpepper, Frank Pierce and Lawrence >Waterman did horrible execution among the game last >week; that is the way they tell it. > >The ladies met at Union Church last Monday evening and >appointed the committees to have charge of the annual >Xmas tree festivity. > >Frank Edington and wife of El Reno, Okla., arrived >here Sunday and will remain during the holidays with >their relatives at this place. > >Ed Willeford, returned Sunday night from Pine Bluff to >take up his duties at the Austin Company Monday on >account of the enforced absence of Mr. Banks. > >We notice with much pleasure that our old friend >Norman Moore has assumed editorial charge of the >"Desha Democrat." We wish the enterprise every >success. > >S.A. Banks received a message Saturday evening calling >him to the bedside of his mother who is seriously ill >at Carthage, Ark. Mr. Banks and family left on the >evening training for Pine Bluff. > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi Folks: I was just thinking back on my days in Watson. Does anyone out there remember Shirley Ann Patton. I sure did like her looks. She didn't like my looks much so that pretty much ended that romance. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Hi Folks: I member one time many years ago when I noticed that Elaine Patton had some kind of scar on one of her legs or the other and I got to looking at it real close. She slapped my jaws and I quit looking at it. As far as I know I haven't looked at that scar since and to be plumb truthful about it, I lost interest in all leg scars after that. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Hi Folks and Merry Christmas to You: I just thought I would mention that the last time I was in Watson I run up on Ol' Horace Porter there in the cafe on I think it is Plumb Street. Anyhow the street runs itself plumb through town so it must be Plumb Street. For those of you that don't know, before the schoolhouse burned there in Watson we had a pretty good football team. They were some kind of champions at one point in time and Ol' Horace Porter wore a ball jacket around that had all the patches on it to prove that story. Ol' Horace donated to jacket to the town of Watson many years ago and I guess it is in the custody of Leslie Gill who is the mayor. I forgot who he donated it to but wouldn't it be nice if we could come up with everyone that was on that championship team. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Hi Folks: How many of you out there can remember Poochie Sinkey? Even Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer remembers Poochie. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Ach: If you will send me your name I will be pleased to add it to the list that I have. I am not the list owner, we can't find out who that is, but I try to keep up with who is on the list. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

I am on the list. I am researching Wiysels and Whitlocks. Desha and Newton Counties Alexander Wiysel was a wagon maker and a lumber maker in the area. Ach -----Original Message----- From: Billy Covey <BILLCOVEY@worldnet.att.net> To: ARDESHA-L@rootsweb.com <ARDESHA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 20, 1999 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Whitlock or Wiysel >I don't have an "Ach" on my list. I have built the list from >responses as they appeared on Desha List postings. I think it is >about everyone but I am not certain. > >Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. > >Bill Covey >Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer >Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz >http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html > >From: Stephens-Avery Family <Bahai@netusa1.net> >To: Billy Covey <BILLCOVEY@worldnet.att.net> >Sent: 20 December, 1999 6:42 AM >Subject: Re: Whitlock or Wiysel > > >> Hi Bill, >> >> Is this person, Ach, a list subscriber or do you have an alternate >way of > > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

I don't have an "Ach" on my list. I have built the list from responses as they appeared on Desha List postings. I think it is about everyone but I am not certain. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html From: Stephens-Avery Family <Bahai@netusa1.net> To: Billy Covey <BILLCOVEY@worldnet.att.net> Sent: 20 December, 1999 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Whitlock or Wiysel > Hi Bill, > > Is this person, Ach, a list subscriber or do you have an alternate way of

Jann, Thanks for sharing that news article. I found it fascinating and greatly appreciate the time you took to share it with us. amy kessarose@aol.com ps. don't know which flood was bigger - I wasn't born anywhere near the area or time of either!

Hello, I just got off the phone with cousin Woody Conrad and he remembered a family by the name of Donahoo that he thought was kin to the Osborns and Conrads in Desha Co. He thought the son's name was Troy Lee Donahoo. Does anyone know this family? Uncle Pete Cleaver also threw out some names from memory: Billy Jean Night (Knight?) whose father was named Stormy, Gene and Joseph Stain, Standridges, Dan Hilburn, George and Jenette Cleaver (went to the Missionary Baptist Church), and the Newtons. I'd sure like to hear from anyone with memories around 43 canal; it seems to come up a lot with these two relatives of mine. :-) Jo-Ann Stephens Bahai@netusa1.net

Arkansas Gazette: The last train that came in over the Valley Route had a hard time of it, there being twenty-nine inches of water on the track between Varner and Reno on Monday night the time of its making the trip. Yesterday the road abandoned the running of trains further than Varner, twenty-three miles beyond Pine Bluff. Tickets are not being sold to any points beyond Varner. A gentleman who arrived in the city yesterday reports that he saw great numbers of snakes, on his journey between Trippe and Arkansas City, floating upon logs and other debris, some of them as large as his arm. They were driven to rafting to keep from drowning. May 19, 1892: The situation in the upper part of this county along the Missouri Pacific Railroad becomes worse hourly. News from there late this afternoon is to the effect that in Gum Swamp the water is as high as it was ever known, and is rising at the rate of an inch and a half an hour. The water is over the track of the Missouri Pacific for seven miles between Dumas and Varner. Several fine plantations in the immediate neighborhood of this place are completely under water. This afternoon the water reached two miles south of Reedville in the direction of Dumas, and was coming up on the farms around Dumas. At Walnut Lake, three miles south of Dumas the late is rising rapidly and is within three feet of the railroad bridge. From Dumas it is eleven miles to Pendleton on the Arkansas River. There is scarcely an acre of any land along those eleven miles. In addition to this, the river is still rising rapidly at Little Rock and 100 miles above and must therefore, rise for several days in Gum Swamp and in the farming country north and south of it. Just how high it will go and just how much country it will overflow it is impossible now to estimate. It is thought that considerable water will find its way into Bayou Bartholomew, several miles west, and it is feared that some farms along that stream will be flooded. The backwater here and between here and Trippe is still rising at the rate of six inches in twenty-four hours. It will take a rise of only about three feet more to put the water into Crooked Bayou and when that happens, the whole of the farming county, from McGehee south, will be flooded. The Missouri Pacific will run no trains through Gum Swamp for a week at least. It is thought that the company will make arrangements tomorrow to transfer mail, baggage, express and passengers over the water by means of skiffs. Walnut Lake May 18, 1892: To: J.T.W. Tillar: Water over the entire country, negroes in starving condition. What can be done? Signed: R.A. Pickens. Walnut Lake is some distance from the river and below Pine Bluff and has always been considered beyond all danger from overflow. (my note: Was the 1927 flood the most devastating in southeast Arkansas? jann ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

OK Desha County folks. Danged if it ain't time to get your goodselves up an at'em. You rascals get started the way you are supposed to and then die out like a fire after a fox hunt. I'll bet it ain't a half dozen folks in Desha County can remember when it wuz aligators in Jone's Lake there on Pea Ridge. I don't think I can remember the things myself although I headlighted a frog that must have had a foot between the eyes once. I didn't gig that rascal. Mama didn't raise no big fools. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Anyone have Sisson family? I seem to have found some in my Harp line. Jo-Ann Stephens Bahai@netusa1.net

I have some very interesting articles, regarding this flood, that were sent to the Gazette by a correspondent in Arkansas City. Not much genealogical info, but good reading. Ya'll want me to post to the list?? jann ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I have some very interesting articles, regarding this flood, that were sent to the Gazette by a correspondent in Arkansas City. Not much genealogical info, but good reading. Ya'll want me to post to the list?? jann ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com