Who remembers Mrs. Clara Barefield? She was the 4th grade teacher there in Watson in the late forties. She was also the mother of Mary Evelyn Barefield one of the prettiest girls in school. Folks, I don't mind tellin'ye that I kept up with the purty girls. I was told that Mary Evelyn died some years back. I don't know the cause of death but it was untimely to say the least. She was a very nice young lady when I knew her. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Edward CARTER, born possibly in Abbeville Co in 1797, married Nancy ________, born 1809? Children: William O., Susan, Eliza, James B., Thomas J, Henry Harrison, Mary F, Nancy, Melvina, Samuel Edward. Edward CARTER"s apparent older brother, Benjamin, born in SC about 1793. This family moved on to GA, ALA, MS, then settled in Drew (later Lincoln) Co, Ark. Edward died in Lincoln Co, Ark in early 1870's. Many thanks. Bill in Dallas

Hi Folks: How many folks out there remember Mrs. Mildred Buford? She was a grade school teacher there in Watson in the late 1940's. 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 Everyone, Please add my name to the list.I'm Mary Burnett in Houston,Texas and I'm researching the families of Nelson TUCKER and George B.BURNETT. Nelson had a son named Ira "Jake" who married a girl by the name of Ida QUIGLEY,also a daughter Emaline"Milly" who married a Jacob BOYD and twin daughters Flora and Florence.Flora married a man by the name of George BURNETT.These families also lived across the river in Mississippi in Boliver county. Nelson was born in Phillips county in Moony Township in 1834,his death is some time between 1887 and 1900.Nelson's had half brothers by the name of KNOWLTON.I would love to hear from any one working on these names. Mary Burnett

Hi Ya'll: If any of you know Ol' Son Cox there in Watson, ask him about dropping a case of eggs in the Arkansas River when he ran upon a train about half way across the trestle there at Yancopin. He didn't want to talk about it all that much back in about 1950. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

It looks like of dozen now. I'm sure there are more. All we have to do is build on the dozen and we will then start to learn something about our ancestors in Desha County. 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

Hi Ya'll: Did I see a message about someone by the name of BEVERAGE on this list? If so I ran across one Cleveland (Pete) Beverage who married one Mildred Kathryn (Kathryn) Covey and have some informaiton on some of these folks. Let me know if it was this list. I don't swear by the accuracy of my information but I have something that may be useful. 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: It looks like eleven of us now. COVEY Billy Charles FLOWERS Amy Bishop 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

Jann, When I was growing up in McGehee in the 50's and 60's, Robert Moore, Arkansas City, was the Desha County Sheriff. Married to Dorothy Moore and one son, Robert Moore Jr. -----Original Message----- From: Jann Woodard <stoneface45@hotmail.com> To: ARDESHA-L@rootsweb.com <ARDESHA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 7:12 PM Subject: Moore family > >Anyone know anything about Robert Moore who was sheriff/marshal/deputy, >"law enforcement" (don't know which), at Arkansas City?? He was a son of >Sen. I.E. Moore from Dumas. I.E. Moore was the son of Dr. Miles Smith and >Parthenia Faucett Moore who lived in Bradley, Drew and Desha Cos., at >different times. > >Jann > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Hello Desha people, I want to identify myself as being on the Desha list. Bill, I've written you before. I am Sam Rial. Born and raised in McGehee. (Bill sorry I must correct you publicly." Dumas- north of McGehee" is more correct than "McGehee- South of Dumas"). I have lived in Tulsa for the last 30 years. I also "lurk" on Bradley and the Drew lists. (Good lists). My grandparents (JOHNSON and RIAL) lived in McGehee, as I grew up, but were from Bradley and Drew counties respectfully, as were their ancestors). I am afraid I will not be able to offer much related to Desha. I have been gone so long. I do still subscribe to the "McGehee-Dermott Times" and will be on the watch for anything of interest. I also have several good old quadrangle maps of the area on which I would be more than happy to look things up for you guys. Just yesterday, I got them down to look up the 43rd Canal y'all were talking about. These are 1930 maps and show some things that no longer exists. So you got one more Desha person on the list! Sam -----Original Message----- From: Billy Covey <BILLCOVEY@worldnet.att.net> To: ARDESHA-L@rootsweb.com <ARDESHA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Desha County List Update >Jo-Ann: > >Thanks Jo-Ann. I now have nine on my list excluding the one you just >gave me. Maybe she will send the information soon. > >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: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:04 AM >Subject: Re: Desha County List Update > > >> Hi Bill, >> >> I've noticed that there is a Laura from Indiana also on the list but >I'm >> unsure of her last name (Foley perhaps?). > > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Jo-Ann: Thanks Jo-Ann. I now have nine on my list excluding the one you just gave me. Maybe she will send the information soon. 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: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:04 AM Subject: Re: Desha County List Update > Hi Bill, > > I've noticed that there is a Laura from Indiana also on the list but I'm > unsure of her last name (Foley perhaps?).

Brenda: I am forwarding this to the Desha List. Perhaps someone can help. If you are subscribed to the Desha list please give me your name as you would want it to appear on the list I am maintaining. I am building this list in the absence of our List Administrator. 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: <BDSL8@aol.com> To: <BILLCOVEY@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Desha County List Update > Hi, > I'm looking for ALEX REEVES, listed on the 1870 Desha County Census index. > Brenda S. >

Wanda: I went to school with a Vernon CHANCE so the, or a, Chance family was still around Watson, Desha County, Arkansas until the mid 1950's. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Here is the latest. If more of you are out there, just let me know. COVEY Billy Charles FLOWERS Amy Bishop JONES C. L. LEIGH Helen C OLDHAM Jenny REITZAMMER Louis STEPHENS Jo-Ann 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

Buenos dias mis amigos! It looks like we have we have a total of seven people at least. Bill Covey Jann Woodward Amy Bishop Flowers Jo-Ann Stephens C. L. Jones Louis Reitzammer Helen C Leigh I'm sure we have more sleepers out there. Wakey-wakey list members. Let us be heard. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Summary of search for Daniel CHANCE origins. Any suggestions welcome. Wanda Daniel Chance was b. 17 Mar 1821, according to his grave marker. We have found gravestones notoriously wrong about dates, but we believe Daniel's dates are correct or near because they track well with census records. Most censuses show him born in LA, although one shows MS after he is an old man, living with a son. We figured he was born in LA, then moved to MS as a child, and came to AR from there, but we can find absolutely no proof of our idea. A 1895 Ark. Gazette note said he came to Desha Co in 1842. He paid poll tax and personal tax on a horse in 1843 in Desha Co. We cannot find any clue as to where he was between 1821 and 1843. We have looked twice in Arkansas City at old Desha Co records, and twice at the State History Commission and Archives in Little Rock at the Desha Co records. The area where the Chances lived became Drew Co in 1846, and Daniel's taxes are recorded there in 1847. Taxes are the only record we can find. Daniel married Nancy, probably about 1848. She died between 1853 anad 1861; and he married Mary Ann about 1861. We have gone through marriage records for Desha and Drew Counties, and books of AR marriages, and can't find either marriage. We have looked in other states' records for his marriages--MS,LA, TX, AL, GA, NC, TN, KY, maybe others--nothing by his name and near his age. Also went through the hand-written court records of Desha Co to see if he sued or was sued by anyone--nothing. Went through land records. He evidently did not own land until 1857 when he paid taxes on three 40-A parcels. He then had 3 horses and 14 cattle. He soon bought land from the US govt. for $1.25/acre--two parcels in 1859 and one in 1860. This was 16 years or more after he came to AR. The land patent just says he was "of Drew County, Arkansas." If a person buys land, the record will often say where they came from, but he had already been in Ark. too long. We got a copy of one patent, and it does not list a wife. Don't know if this was after Nancy died and before he married Mary Ann, or if they just didn't record the wife on the patent. What do you know or think? Daniel died 11 Jul 1900, before Ark. kept death records. The Star City newspapers for the time of his death are destroyed. We looked in 2 Pine Bluff newspapers, but did not find his death notice. Funeral home records have been destroyed. So we have not found a source that might list his parents. Daniel and his son William were charter members in 1873 of the Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church, along with Daniel's 2nd wife, Mary Ann. This was 40 yr. after he came to AR, but there is no indication of where they had been church members before that. Would you have any idea? Since we couldn't find his parents, we started for looking for Chance families in LA who had a son Daniel. We made trips to state archives, state library, county courthouses, etc, in LA, and spent days searching books, files, microfilm, etc. We are piecing together several Chance families, but can't find a Daniel, except one 11 years too young with a different wife and family . I even called the Catholic records office for LA and they checked two sets of records, but do not have him. We also spent days on 3 or 4 trips researching in MS, looking at all kinds of records, but can't find him. We can't find that he served in any war. There was a Daniel Chance in the Civil War, but not the right one. I have corresponded with other people who are researching Chance families who were in LA & MS at the right time , but they can't find him either. We know quite a bit about the Chance families who were in the LA census of 1820, but cannot find that they had a son or grandson named Daniel. Wanda

Are you related to Tom Ivy and Moose Ivy who worked for the railroad in McGehee? C.L. Jones Pineville, La

Hi, Jann: I'm on this list, too. Had a few possible connections there - Alexander, Ivy and maybe someothers, I don't know. I would be interested in seeing the obit from 1924 on John Q. Henry. Thanks. Helen Jann Woodard wrote: > > The following Desha Co. obits can be found in the Arkansas Gazette: > > > 1924 > John Q. Henry

My name is Laura and I'm doing research during the years 1870's into the 1880's. Surnames: Foley, Jno, Jane, James and John Reynolds, Jane Doyle, John and Jane Thanks, Laura from Indiana

In a message dated 12/6/99 Jo-Ann Stephens wrote: << Hello All, Jann, there is at least one more of us Desha Listers out here in cyberspace: Amy Fowler Bishop (or Amy Bishop Fowler?) is also around. Is anyone else reading this? :-) If so, please jump in and holler a bit. (Bill, you're ruining my years of "proper" training...before long, I'll have to go warsh somethin'...) :-) Jo-Ann Stephens >> Jo-Ann, Jann and Bill - the above list member is me but the spelling is off a bit. I am Amy BISHOP Flowers. My father was born in Chicot Co, my mother in Drew Co, my grandparents in Bradley, Lincoln and Jefferson counties, some cousins in Desha Co, an uncle in Dallas Co, great grandparents in Ashley Co.....but as for me.....I was the lone family member born in Louisiana....ancestral and lateral surnames include: BASSETT {Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Chicot} BATES - lateral {Chicot} BORDEAUX - {Drew, Chicot, Pulaski} BISHOP - {Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Chicot, Desha} CHANDLER - lateral {Dallas, Desha} CLOWER - {Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Desha} FARRAR -{Ashley} JOYCE - lateral {county?? - town Arkansas City} LAMB - {Drew, Lincoln} LYLE - {Drew, Lincoln, Chicot} McDOUGALD {Bradley, Drew} McKEE - lateral {Ashley} NEEL / NEAL {Ashley, Chicot} RAWLS - lateral {Ashley} TARRANT - {Ashley} ************** amy b flowers, aka, kessarose@aol.com