Ach: The names do not look familiar to me but I will send this along to list and perhaps someone can be of help. If you want me to add you to our Desha County roster just give me your first or nickname and last name and I will do so. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html ----- Original Message ----- From: avie To: billcovey@worldnet.att.net Sent: 14 December, 1999 10:22 AM Subject: Whitlock or Wiysel I have been reading the Desha list. Are there any Whitlocks or Wiysels in that area? Ach

BROWN Bill BURNETT Mary Nell C Bill CLINTON John COVEY Billy Charles DONHAM Ruth FLOWERS Amy Bishop GILBERT R HOLBROOK Char JONES C. L. LEIGH Helen C REITZAMMER Louis RIAL Sam SLAIGHT Brenda STEPHENS Jo-Ann STEPHENS Wanda SUMMERS Laura WOODWARD Jann Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Jo-Ann: I don't have any information for you but I went to school with a Roy Ebb Scoggins in Watson. He was a year behind me in school and since I graduated in three years, he would have graduated, or been due for graduation, in 1954. I graduated in 1952. I don't even know if the family is still around there. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Does anyone research Scoggins, Merritt or Harp in southeast AR or nearby states? My gr-gr-grandparents were Eli Merritt and Adeline Harp; I descend from their daughter, Martha Clinton Merritt, who married Daniel Granderson Lee in Desha Co. Another name that comes up in research is Gilbreath. Jo-Ann Stephens Bahai@netusa1.net

My father-in-law was S.L. Woodard from Bradley County. He taught school and coached for 45 years. His son, Elroy "Crazy-legs" Woodard played basketball at Monticello A&M, I think in the early 60's. Other's who played on his team were Levin Johnson, Kenneth Jones and Robert Jennings. Elroy coached basketball at Dumas for several years, prior to coaching at UALR in Little Rock. We played against several small schools in southeast AR, ie., Tillar, Watson, Ft. Hill, Portland, Wilmar, and Wilmot. That was back when the old gyms would be full to overflowing for all the games. I can remember some of the older men sitting on the sidelines betting on who would make goals!!! When the opportunity came for those little schools to play against the larger ones.......heck, we'd eat their cornflakes before they knew what hit them!! Jann >From: JONESCLJSR@aol.com >To: stoneface45@hotmail.com >Subject: Desha Central >Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:48:56 EST > >Jann, Desha Central is located East of McGehee toward Watson. Who was your >father-in-law who coached at Banks. Was he Norman Wayne Johnson? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Looking for Bowman family - Albert Curtis, James or Frank in the Desha & Drew Co area 1910-1920. Thank you Char Holbrook charbrook@aol.com

My husband and I engaged in a"heated argument" tonight on the way home from a Christmas contata.....about Desha Central, of all things!! Could someone please tell me where it was/is located?? He thinks it was close to Tillar. I really can't remember!! We attended Banks school, in Bradley county, where my husband's father was coach.......we used to play basketball against a team at Desha Central. I've tried to find it on a map and have had no luck. The years were in the early 60's. From an old score book I find the following surnames for Desha Central: Stinson, Capps, Slaughter, Cook, Tilly, Gilbert, Holloway, Morgan, Mankin, Henson, Mitchell, Howell, and Isreal. And we beat them, 40 to 31!!!! Jann Woodard ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hello to all, Have already sent in my list of ancestral and lateral surnames so won't subject ya'll to that again. Was wondering tho if anyone on the list lives or lived in McGehee and knows people still living there. My cousins, John Clower, Cynthia (Chandler) Dean (wife of Gerald Dean) and uncle, John Chandler (recently widowed by my aunt Martha (Bishop) Chandler are all residents of McGehee. And I have an aunt who writes a monthly column for the (weekly) McGehee/Dermott TIMES NEWS. I also subscribe to that paper, so if anyone has requests (obits, what's happening, etc) from April through the present, I'll be happy to oblige as best as I can. Amy Bishop Flowers kessarose@aol.com

http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/qindex.html This URL is from another list and it looks like a good place to add Desha Co. queries. After all, some people don't subscribe to lists but do go looking for information online. Good luck, Jo-Ann Stephens Bahai@netusa1.net

Jan: We had an Ingram family in Watson in the late forties and early fifties for sure. L. J. Ingram was about three years ahead of me in school Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Does anyone on this list have access to Desha Co. marriages and cemetery records? I sure do need some help. Does anyone know anything about the Burge and Pellum families?? Could someone tell me if my cousin James White is still the editor or manager of the McGehee newspaper?? Here is a list of my Desha co. surnames: Tucker/Huddleston/Moore/Whitaker/Williams/Peacock/Breedlove/ Ingram/Hayes/Lynch. Jann ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I'm looking for information on the above family in Desha Co., probably McGehee. I found a relative living in the Bressellieu household (can't remember what census), and it appeared to be either a hotel or perhaps boarding house. Was there such a place? Jann Woodard ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

The following list is an index to Desha Co. wills, for 1856-1897. I do not have the actual wills. Thought I would post so you would know they are available. A.J. Abney Isaac Adair H.O. Allen Joseph C. Alston Elizabeth Anderson Henry Beasley Isaac L. Bolton Wade H. Bolton Wm. A. Bowles Mary Bradberry Samuel A. Bradberry Benny Brock H.A. Brooks Cornelius Brown Harvey Brown Walter Buck Phineas (Phillip F.) Burford Vanderbilt L. Buxton Samuel Campbell Clotworthy J. Carroll Chas. H. Cooper W.W. Corcorair (sic) Archibald D. Cowsar Samuel F. Cowsar Wm. S. Cumby Thompson Dean Dora Pollard Lapsley Embree David Flourney Thompson B. Flourney A.H. Foster Celia Ann Freeman Joseph Fuller Jasker M. Gender Christian Hack Israel Harman Martha E. Harper M.E. Harper Martha Henry S.P. Henry William Herrin Robert R. Holmes Solomon Hopkins Isaac Hume John S. Hunt John Huntington John Hutchins James John Benj. S. Johnson Jilson P. Johnson John W. Leacross Wm. Lee Edward M. LeGrand Wm. Ludlow Geo. Henry McCalip Daniel McIntosh Laura McPheeters William Malone Josiah Maples Geo. W. Martin Pitsen (?) Miller Jesse B. Mitchell Elizabeth Moffatt Thos. Moore John Montgomery James Murphey William Mygrant Horatio D. Newcomb James O'Neal James A. Parken J.W. Parken Ann Patrick Buck Patterson Wash Phenix Chas. W. Plummer L.P. Proffett Edward G. Rawlings James Reilly Mary A. Rice Henry Roberts Thos. Scott Thomas Sexton Cecilia D. Smith Henry Smith John Spencer Chas. A. Stewart Benj. Strickland Wm. F. Trippe B.I. Tucker Ida Umphrey John VanAllen Fred K. VanSeckendorff Jas. C. Walworth Sarah Walworth Maria E. Warfield Geo. B. Watson Charles N. Wells T.H. White J.K. Wilkenson ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi Folks: I'm looking for GRADY folks now. My aunt, Inez Covey, married Robert Grady. That much I know all about the rest of the family I have only bits and pieces. Unknown Father & Mother: Robert "Bob" Grady & Inez Covey James Evert Grady Noah Grady Velda Grady Maureen Grady Bobbie Jean Grady Betty Sue Grady Genieva Grady Cyrus Grady R.B. Grady J. D. Grady Dennis Grady Several More Jude Grady At least two daughters (I have forgotten their names) Unknown Female (Married a Knight) John Knight (I think) Unknown Female (Married a Sewell) Clara Bell Wanda (Married Jim Bill Patterson) If anyone can add anything to this I would appreciate it very much. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

BURNETT Mary Nell C Bill CLINTON John COVEY Billy Charles DONHAM Ruth FLOWERS Amy Bishop GILBERT R JONES C. L. LEIGH Helen C REITZAMMER Louis RIAL Sam SLAIGHT Brenda STEPHENS Jo-Ann STEPHENS Wanda SUMMERS Laura WOODWARD Jann Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

John: Thanks for responding. You are on my list for whatever that is worth. Does anyone remember Mrs. Felix W. Ryals? She was the wife of Felix W. Ryals and the mother of about a hundred and three children as I recall. Boy, they had a bunch of kids although I confess that the one hundred and three may be hyperbole. She was also the school libriarian there in Watson, The library covered one wall of the auditorium. It wasn't a single room. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Do you folks remember these two. Mrs Shepard taught 5th grade at Watson and Mrs Ussery taught 6th grade. Mrs. Shepard was the wife of Mr. Clifton W. Shepard who either taught agriculture or possibly one of the veterans classes so popular after World War II. Mrs. Ussery was the mother of Mack Ussery, a classmate of mine, and the wife of Mr. B.S. Ussery who was on the school board. All of this would have been in the year 1948. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

John: Welcome to the list. Maybe someone on the list knows more about this than I do. 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: <JClin1047@aol.com> To: <BILLCOVEY@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Updated Desha County List > hi my name is john clinton i was born in dumas ar in 1936 but left in 1940 so > i dont know to much about it but i like to hear about it my mother told me > she had a midwife when i was born her name was eva maria rivers she charged > five dollars but my father only had three so i guess i still owe her two if i > could find out where she is buried i would send some flowers john >

It looks like fourteen now. We have another Bill but I don't yet know his last name. I'll add that rascal to the list just as soon as I hear back from him. BURNETT Mary Nell CLINTON John COVEY Billy Charles FLOWERS Amy Bishop GILBERT R JONES C. L. LEIGH Helen C REITZAMMER Louis RIAL Sam SLAIGHT Brenda STEPHENS Jo-Ann STEPHENS Wanda SUMMERS Laura WOODWARD Jann Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Bill in Dallas: Bill, I see that you are on the Desha County List. Please give me your last name and I will add you to our list. One of these days the List Administrator will come forward and we won't have to keep up with it this way. I will add your name to the list and then distribute the list when you forward it to me. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html