Hi List: I have just subscribed and am looking forward to corresponding with some or all of you. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

We would like to invite you to attend the Eureka Springs Historical Museum Genealogy Seminar presented by Seminar Horizonz Nov. 5 - 6. The speakers will be Russell Baker & Tracey Converse. Vendors will be open to the public on Sat. Nov 6. Please make reservations early as seating is limited. For more information please visit: http://member.aol.com/genseminar/index.htm Kathy

I grew up at Chickasaw and went to McGehee Elementary School for the first five years. Miss Marebell McQuistion, Mrs. Kratzer, Mrs. Turner etc. My family was the infamous French {Picheloup's) from Arkansas County by way of Chicot county to Desha. The 27 flood sent them from Chicot to Drew for a few weeks and then they settled on Sam Wolchansky's place at Chickasaw. I have some news to share and alot of people's name that I remember. Was going through a scrap book and found some valentines from Jimmy Poe, Joline Tiner, Patsy Hargis and several more. These were from the first grade. My maiden name was Ruth Laverne Wilkerson.

Lucas Wilkerson Estell Warrington Averett William's Newton's Fraziers Would like to share information. Ruth

When I left Chickasaw community on hwy. 4 west of McGehee it was during the WW2 and what was left to farm was my MOm and her younger brother. We moved to Neal's settlement (the black whole of Calcutta) to be close to my Dad's (I did not know him) brother to help look out for Mom and I. Mason Bayou was on one side of Turner Neals plantation and the other side was bordered by 43 Canal. During the years of 43,44, &45 we eked out a mere living. Drank pump water that was less than desirable, had to take typhoid shots. My uncle William Fitzhugh Wilkerson worked for pennies a day, cotton farming (share cropping) with horses and mules. In off season he took care of hundreds of cows and hogs in the river bottoms. I wonder how anyone survived the water, insects and lack of good food. I have only been back in that area once since we left in 1945. Ruth Wilkerson Donham.

Wolf's drygoods, Greystone Hotel, Versers Drugstore, Dr Chenault, The Depot and Beanerie, McClendon's Gin, Drummonds Studio, Morgan and Lindsey, Chineese Grocery, Dyer Funeral Home and of course the ice house. I have serveal old McGehee Times from the WWII era. If anyone is interested I could post some of the article and pictures of the men in service. Ruth

Do you remember the #34 before Walter Peyton on the Chicago Bears??? I do it was KO Dottley from McGehee!! During his high school days he put MCGehee on the map and went on to play for Ole Miss, Uof A let him slip through there fingers. Where I lived at Chickasaw - I remember the Whitakers, Sawyers, Lytles, Peacocks, Rogers, Todds, Gallions, LLoyds, Drummonds, DeFirs, Slaughters and the black lady that helped the Wolchansky's and my family Mother Mae Belle. She had a son that went away to college in Detroit and became a doctor, the only name I knew was "Honey". Ruth