send it to me at [email protected] and I'll put it up on the drew co website. brian -----Original Message----- From: Terri Lee Wolfe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ARDREW] Hugh Black At 07:35 AM 10/19/00 -0500, you wrote: >I have the Black surname in my family but dont remember >a Hugh Black. Ill look to make sure >Brian Thanks. She has the photo and is willing to share. She says it was a late 1800 Drew Co. one and has the name Hugh Black on the back. BETH

Thanks. I'll add it to my family history. My relatives....wolfes and thurmans....were really jewels.....truth of the matter.....some of us are really nice folks. *grin* >Mr. Marion Thurman was shot and killed >by Mr. Vinson Hollis, at Fountain Hill [Ashley

If anyone out there is working on the Drew County Henley's, please contact me. James M. Henley was my grandfather and would love to find his parents names. Appreciate any help. Carolyn Bays

At 07:35 AM 10/19/00 -0500, you wrote: >I have the Black surname in my family but dont remember >a Hugh Black. Ill look to make sure >Brian Thanks. She has the photo and is willing to share. She says it was a late 1800 Drew Co. one and has the name Hugh Black on the back. BETH

Found in the Mary Weiss Scrapbook in the Ashley County Museum: Newspaper clipping, Nov 7, 1918: Mr. Marion Thurman was shot and killed by Mr. Vinson Hollis, at Fountain Hill [Ashley County], last Thursday morning. Both men were armed and several shots were fired, but we did not learn the cause of the trouble, or any particulars after the shooting. Mr. Thurman is survived by his wife and one child. Mr. Hollis also has a family. He was placed under bond of $2000 to appear before the next grand jury.

I found a David Stewart listed in land records in Drew Co., Ark 80 acres 5/15/1876 only Stewart listed in county at the time. Can anyone tell me anything about him? Jenny Oldham jloldham[email protected]

I have the Black surname in my family but dont remember a Hugh Black. Ill look to make sure Brian -----Original Message----- From: Terri Lee Wolfe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ARDREW] Hugh Black A cousin of mine has a photo of someone named Hugh Black that she thinks is from Drew County. This photo would be from the late l800's. Do any of you know anything about a Hugh Black? Looking to hear, BETH THURMAN

A cousin of mine has a photo of someone named Hugh Black that she thinks is from Drew County. This photo would be from the late l800's. Do any of you know anything about a Hugh Black? Looking to hear, BETH THURMAN

Hello Listers: I am seeking information on the WHEAT surname in the Hamburg, Crossett and other areas. Julia Wheat married Lawrence Williams. Julia's father was Wm. B. Wheat....his son was William S. Wheat. Is anyone searching this line?....If so, I need help in finding William Beldon Wheat's parents, etc. Would appreciate any help you can give in this search....Julia is buried with her husband in Mt. Olive Cemetery. Would like to know the cemetery where other Wheats are buried. Thank you. Wilma Williams in Calif.

Posted on: Drew Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Drew/86 Surname: WEST, DANIEL, WOLFE ------------------------- ---------3.1 JAMES LOUIS WEST Son of Robert J. West and Emily (Emaline) Frances (Fanny) Daniel Born: 14 March 1855 per LDS AFN:1LG5-WG Died: 14 December 1914 in Lincoln County, Arkansas per LDS Buried: Married: ADA RILEY on 9 December 1895, Drew County, AR per LDS Daughter of Robert Harvey Riley and Frances Randolph Born: 11 August 1873, Drew County, AR per LDS AFN:1LG5-W02 Died: 26 August 1950, Jeffererson County, AR per LDS Buried: LDS shows Robert Harvey Riley as being born 1836, SC, died 1870, Ashley County, AR; Frances Randolph being born about 1851, AL AFN:1LG5-269. There is a S. C. Riley website but I don't have it handy.

>From: Jackie Rhodes <[email protected]> >http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sg0001/ I thought some of you might be interested in this site.

New lists for census lookups in Arkansas. I haven't been on these lists, but sounds like a great idea. Subscribe to list mode by sending mail to [email protected] Subscribe to digest mode by sending mail to [email protected] Once you're subscribed, you can post to the list by sending mail to [email protected] You might 'lurk' for a little while to see how the list works. Do replies to requests go to the entire list, or to the original poster directly, for example. Enjoy! --Melissa Betsy Mills wrote: > > >Reply-To: "Kelly Courtney-Blizzard" <[email protected]> > >From: "Kelly Courtney-Blizzard" <[email protected]> > >Subject: AR-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L > >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:51:49 -0400 > > > >Hi Betsy & Holly, Could you please send this to your State list and let the > >CC's > >know they can send it to their mailing list if they wish to? > > > >Thank you, > >Kelly > > > >[email protected] > > [email protected]

Dear Drew County Friends: The Museum will be having a estate sale of the Wilma & Fred Hankins estate, Sat at l0:00 AM, Oct. 14 many items, glassware and books also there are several painting's by Mr. Fred Hankins of Historic scenes of Drew County. We also have several new items in the Archives from the Hankins, Ross and related families . Please come by.

Brian Nichols has placed two old photos on his webpage under the category of Old Drew County Photo's and then "Erwin Family Photos". http://segenealogy.com/usgenweb/ I am most interested in finding out more about the school house and the other students on that photo. If anyone can identify the location of the school house and can name the students, please contact me. Thanks Jan ERWIN Dunham

Will the person who asked me about George W Nichols please contact me again. Brian

>From: "Margie Daniels" <[email protected]> >Old-To: "Confederate Mail list" <[email protected]>, "Crawford County Georgia" <[email protected]> >Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:51:20 -0500 I know this is not from Drew Co., but I thought some of you might enjoy as it told of the lives of some of the women left behind during the Civil WAR. Also, we have Flemings in the county, and I thought someone might just accidentally in a long shot connect. beth >HOME INDUSTRIES, SPINNING AND WEAVING > > Within a few months after the war our supply of clothes began to >give out. We lived far from the cities and large towns, and the country >stores never kept large stocks on hand. All cloth that was suitable for the >use of the soldiers was used up at once and more could not be purchased >except by sending quite a long distance and by paying very high prices. So >very soon our people had to return to the old way of making cloth at home on >home-made hand looms. This was slow work, and it was the most tedious of all >of our home duties, and it kept nearly all of the women and girls busy, for >all of them had to do something connected with cloth and clothes making. >None of our relatives were wealthy enough to have all of this work done for >them. The Crittenden and Ardis girls did not have to spin or weave, but they >did much of the family sewing. There were no white servants. Occasionally a >poor orphan girl was given a home in a family that had no slaves, but she >always lived as one of the family, received no regular wages, and would have >felt insulted if considered a servant. > At first few knew how to spin and weave. But my aunt, Mrs. >Bennett, and some of the older women in the Byrd, Martin, and Johnson >families had learned to spin and weave long years before, and they now gladly >taught relatives and all others who wished to learn. Women from all over >that section of the country went to them to learn how to manage the spinning >wheels and the looms. Most of these wheels and looms were made at Westville >by a wood workman named Merrit, and an old man who had moved there about the >time the war began. he made spinning wheels, looms, reels, and other wooden >ware. He made very nice small tubs and buckets of cedar. The small tubs >were often used in place of wash bowls, and the little buckets to milk in. >He also made our wooden churns. > Wool from our sheep was sent to Eufaula, forty miles away to be >corded into rolls, but the spinning was done at home. We later sent some of >our wool to be carded to Munn's Mill (or Frazer's Mill, as it was afterwards >called), located twelve miles away on Pea River and now owned by my husband. >This mill was not fitted up for carding at the beginning of the war. Thus >enough cloth was made for all to have good clothes, and much was sent to the >husbands and sons in the army. Mother sent all of my father's clothes to >him, for ours was one of the few farms in that section that kept enough sheep >to supply the family at home with woolen clothes for the winter wear, and to >send woolen things to our soldiers. > My older sister and I spun thread to make cloth, and we soon >learned to knit stockings and gloves for our own use. My two older brothers, >Willie and Archie, although only twelve and eleven years old at the close of >the war, had to do light work on the farm along with the negroes. Before the >close of the war my little sister, Emmie, was large enough to spin her daily >task, and so all of the children on the farm worked except Ambrose, the >youngest, and the smallest negro child. There were none in our community too >rich to work; all worked who were not too small, or too old, or too sick. > During vacation my older sister and I had certain tasks of carding >rolls and spinning every day. These allotments were enough to keep us busy >nearly all day, if we worked well. But I did not enjoy this regular work >every day. The same system was used with the negro women and girls. They, >too, had tasks assigned to them that would keep them busy the greater part of >the time from day-light until dark, and if these tasks were not completed by >day-light they were finished by candle-light after supper. But most of the >negroes were cheerful and industrious, and just as respectful and obedient as >they had been before the war began. One negro woman, Mary, and her >daughters, with the help of my sister and myself, did practically all the >carding and spinning of the cotton, while Mother spun the wool, wove much of >the cotton and woolen cloth for herself and the children, and for Father away >in the army. There were six of us children and herself and Father and the >six negroes to be clothed and Mother, with the help of the negro woman, Mary, >and occasionally of my aunts, made all the clothes wore by all the family. >Mother not only spun the wool, and did much of the plain weaving, but did >most of the dyeing and much of the sewing besides the knitting, except what >knitting, was done by Sarah and myself. I have often wondered since I grew >older how she could do so much, for she was not a strong woman, and her >health was not good. She paid her widowed sister, Aunt Polly, to weave jeans >cloth, counterpaines, and other heavier cloths. Aunt Polly had been left a >widow with six children- - three boys and three girls- - before the war >began. Her two older sons went into the army, but she had a younger son and >two daughters at home. These girls were very industrious and were the most >expert spinners and weavers in the country. They could spin and weave more >cloth in a day than any of their neighbors. They very often did such work >for other families and relatives, and earned enough to live comfortably >except for the long, hard work. Soon after the close of the war the Bennet >family moved to Texas, except Mary, who married and went to Georgia. > The wealthiest families had some of the negro women and girls do >the carding and spinning, and others do the plain sewing. Some of these >negroes could weave well, but few if any of them could do the double weaving >such as was needed in making jeans cloth, dotted goods, and homespun muslins. > Many white women spun pretty muslins. They wove the cloth thin in warp and >filling, striped it or checked it, or put dots in it made of bits of bright >colored cloth. They spun dobled and twisted their sewing and knitting >thread. Our reels, wheels, and looms, besides those made by Mr. Merritt at >Westville, were made in the country and usually by white men who were exempt >from army service. When many negroes belonged to a family there would be >negro seamstresses who did sewing for the negroes and plain sewing for the >whites. So all wore good clothes and had plenty of quilts, which were >usually made from the strong parts of old clothes, except those quilts that >had been made before the war began. > Usually a room was set apart in which the spinning, weaving, >reeling, and spooling was done. The warping was done out of doors on >"warping bars." The spinner ran the thread on broaches, then it was reeled >into hanks on the reel, then dyed (when color was wanted), then the hanks >were put on the winding blades and run onto spools made of the branches. >When these large reeds could not be procured, long corn cobs were used >instead. The spools were then placed in the "warping bars" so that the >thread ran off easily. Enough of them were put in to make the warp of the >cloth. This was done by taking a thread from each spool and carrying them >together through the hand, placing them on the pegs of the bars and making >the threads the length desired for the finished piece of cloth. This was >continued in this way until there was sufficient number of threads to make >the width. This was then carried to the loom, wound on the thread beam, then >each thread was put separately through the harness by hand, then on through >the sleigh in the same way, then tied to a rod which was fastened to the >cloth beam. All was now ready to begin weaving. The warping was, I think, >the hardest to learn of all the preparations, and for me, at the time, was >very difficult. I learned to weave plain cloth about the time that the war >closed, and I helped to weave one piece. > The working hours for most of the white families and their negroes >was from about four or five o'clock in the morning until dark in the evening, >with short intervals for rest. In winter nearly all of the families had >finished breakfast and the housework, and were ready to begin other work soon >after daylight. Then some went to the fields, some to the other chores, some >to the spinning wheels and looms, and others to their sewing and knitting. > To make jeans cloth for Father's suits, Mother would dye half of >the wool black and leave the other half white, then she sent instructions to >have the wool mixed in the carding. After the cloth was woven she would have >it made into a uniform for Father-overcoat and all. My Aunts, Adeline and >Jane Mizell, were expert makers of dresses, coats, and hats, and of almost >everything else that required skill with the needle. They often made suits >for Father and for other soldiers. Mother dyed wool bright colors and made >pretty dresses for herself and for her daughters, and nice looking suits for >her boys. She sent to Eufaula and to Columbus, Georgia, and bought the warp >for all her cloth except made for us at home by a negro. My brothers, Archie >and Willie, looked like little men in their homespun, home-made suits. > My oldest sister, Sarah and I were about the same size, and we had >the same tasks to spin every day. We usually rested a little at noon and >finished before dark. But sometimes I would get tired of being so confined >to work and would be idle; then I had to finish my task after supper, which >I thought was very hard. I thought then that I was lazy and idle, but I >wonder now that we girls worked as much as we did when I see how little work >girls of our age do now. But we lived in the country with little to distract >our interest from our work. I remember how tired I used to get sitting so >still and knitting so long with the gnats flying around my face and eyes, but >I could not stop until Mother gave me permission. Most of the grown women, >when they did not sew or spin, would knit at night until bedtime. We girls >did not have to work at night, and the negroes worked only at night when they >failed to finish their work during the day. > Some families in our community continued to weave for two or three >years after the war, and some poor people much longer. Mother kept her >wheels for years though she did not use them, but along with the looms they >were finally destroyed, burned, I suppose. When my husband's mother died her >wheel was brought to our home and we kept it and sometimes used it until a >few years ago. But when we moved from our home in the country, it was left >on the farm. I intended to send for it, but did not do so and it was lost. >Written by Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming

Posted on: Drew Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Drew/85 Surname: Adcock, McDaniel ------------------------- I did respond to you directly by e-mail. Thank you for your posting! Jamie

I'm trying to find out some information on someone listed as "M. E. Daugherty" buried in the Beulah Cemetery. This listing is located in the Drew County cemetery book. Dates are 6/7/1877 - 1/5/1932. Anyone out there in Drew County have any ideas exactly who this person could be? Thanks in advance, W. David Daugherty 6414 FM 3042 Leesburg, TX 75451 ====================== (903) 856-0973 Home (903) 856-0975 Fax/Modem (214) 850-2780 PCS Cell ======================= [email protected] The names I am researching are: CHAPMAN, CLOYD, CURRY, DAUGHERTY, GLOSSUP, HAGLER, LAUHON, LOVETTE, MURRAY, PHELPS, TRANTHAM, WALLACE, WRIGHT.

Posted on: Drew Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Drew/83 Surname: Adcock, McDaniel ------------------------- I knew the Frank Adcock b.1925 In recent posting of Drew County. Can furnish name of spouse and number of children. I knew Ben Q Mcdaniel who is buried in Buelah Cemetery in Drew County can furnish information on his descendents.He also had some brothers and a least one sister. One brother's name was Madinson and I believe he had a sister who married Emitt Halley.

Posted on: Drew Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Drew/82 Surname: SPENCE ------------------------- FRANCIS MARION SPENCE, b 3 Sept. 1875, White Co. IL, lived in Drew County, AR. Wife (1) Emma Vickers, b. 14 Oct., 1879 d. 27 Jan. 1918. Francis remarried ca 1920 to Gladys Hawkins (??). Ch. BLANCHE EVELIN, 21 Jul. 1921; ROBERT 23 Apr. 1923; FRANCIS 1925?. FRANCIS MARION killed in logging accident ca. 1924 in Drew Co. Seeking any information on any living descendants of FRANCIS MARION SPENCE.