Melissa, it was probably George Dawson Steadman. cf p 250 , Old Times. Rebecca ---------- > From: Melissa Jones <tsaritsa@ix.netcom.com> > To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] Part 11 Will Index list > Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 2:24 PM > > At 12:14 PM -0700 10/30/98, Jann Woodard wrote: > > >Alfred Ozment > >James Ozment > > > >G.D. Stedman > > > >L.B. White > > Jann, thank you for posting all these names listed in the Drew Co. will > index! I can see that I have some more work to do getting these records > from the Drew Co. courthouse. > > L.B. White must be Levi Barkley...but anyone know who G.D. Stedman was? My > mind is blank. (No comments, please!!) > > The Latter Day Saints have also microfilmed these early Drew County will > books, so if you have a local Family History Center, you can order these > films and browse to your hearts' content. > > > >Hugh Wilson > > Just wanted to point this one out to my dad and speculate aloud whether > this is "H.M. Wilson" whom we read so much about in Drew County land > records?? > > --Melissa > > > >

I have Alfred and James' wills if anyone wants them. Rebecca

Melissa, I may have this film at the Family History Center, I'll check and see, do you have the Number? Mike Mmarcum329@aol.com

Is anyone on this list looking into the Burks or Henley family?? My ggg-grandmother, Mariah Burks Huddleston was born 1817 and died 1887. In the Drew Co. Cem. book, it states Mariah was a sister of Mary B. Henley. Mary B. Henley was born 1819 and died 1895. Also a notation with her listing "sister of Mariah B. Huddleston." If anyone has any knowledge of these two ladies, please let me hear from you. Jann Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

Melissa, I got the bear hug! Glad that this was of interest to you. Carolyn

At 2:48 PM -0600 10/30/98, Carolyn Haisty wrote: >This is for Melissa! From the Industrial and Souvenir Edition of the >Advance, Monticello, Arkansas, Tuesday December 17, 1907....... > > > H. M. Wilson >This Wilson family along with the McQuistons are tied in many ways to >the family of my mother and the mother of Wayne Groce. Andrew >McQuiston moved his family to Corsicana, Texas. These families are >tied to the Owens, Miller, McKinstry, Fee, Huey, McCain and other >early families of Drew County. Carolyn, don't think this is weird---but I could just give you a big bear hug right about now!! Dad & I have been wondering about H.M. Wilson ever since we saw his name all over some Drew Co. land transactions with my great-grandparents, Charley and Edna (Brown) Jones, and also involving Ezekial and Zella Clanton. Wish I had the dates right in front of me...but I think the transactions were in the early 1920s. I will check this tonight and get back to you. Mr. Wilson definitely seemed to have a lot of land...and if 'your' H.M. Wilson and the one doing land dealings with our family was one and the same, yes, he was a shrewd businessman! This is the most I've had to go on re: H.M. Wilson since June!! Thank you!! --Melissa

This is for Melissa! From the Industrial and Souvenir Edition of the Advance, Monticello, Arkansas, Tuesday December 17, 1907....... H. M. Wilson One of the eminently successful business men of Monticello is H. M. Wilson. Mr. Wilson was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, January 25, 1851, being a son of Hugh and Jane (McQuiston) Wilson. His parents moved with him to this county when he was about two years old. Mr. Wilson's early life was spent on a farm a few miles north of Monticello and the only educational advantages he ever had were the three months schools of the day. When he was about 25 years old he came to Monticello and opened a small grocery store, allying himself with J. N. Harper. The young men had just $550 capital each. They continued in business together for over 23 years or until Mr. Harper's death, which occurred in 1901. After 12 or 15 years in the grocery business exclusively, the firm embarked in the general mercantile business. The dry goods department at first was really a separate business. There were several partners and it went under the name of Wood, McCain & Co. After a few years, however, and a number of changes, Mr. Harper and Mr. Wilson bought out the other interests and consolidated the entire business under the firm name of Harper & Wilson, which arrangement lasted until Mr. Harper's death, Mr. Wilson having charge of the grocery house and Mr. Harper of the dry goods. After Mr. Harper's death the business was conducted without change for about two years when a dissolution was effected and Mr. Wilson became sole propietor, thus establishing the firm of H. M. Wilson & Co., as it stands today. Being unable to give his personal attention to both departments of the business, Mr. Wilson about three years ago, employed Mr. J. N. Ross of Russellville to take charge of the dry goods store. Mr. Ross is an experienced and practical dry goods man. He at once gave that department, which had been suffered to deteriorate somewhat, a thorough shake up, installed a large line of the most up-to-date merchandise that could be obtained, and now has one of the leading dry goods trades of the town. They are exclusive agents for Statesman and Thoroughbred hats, Criterion and Xtragood clothing and the Stacy-Adams line of fine shoes. They also handle the Star Brand Shoes. In the gorocery and furnishing department, some of Mr. Wilson's leading brands are his Gold Leaf Flour and James & Graham and Tennessee wagons. Mr. Wilson is a man of untiring industry and energy. He has always made it a rule of his life to attendd strictly to business and by this policy coupled with a high grade of business ability and scrupulous honesty, he has built up one of the largest business interests of the town. His yearly business now will average $100,000 or more. He is a heavy stockholder and director in both banks and in the Drew Oil Mill. He is also a stockholder in the Monticello Cotton Mill and is interested in a large wholesale gorcery business at Corsicana, Texas, of which his brother has charge. He is a leading member of the Associate Reform Presbyterian church. He was married January 25, 1893 to Miss Fanny Bussey of Monticello. ************************************ This Wilson family along with the McQuistons are tied in many ways to the family of my mother and the mother of Wayne Groce. Andrew McQuiston moved his family to Corsicana, Texas. These families are tied to the Owens, Miller, McKinstry, Fee, Huey, McCain and other early families of Drew County. Carolyn

Jann, <there is an index to early wills in Drew Co...>. Are there any wills listed for the surnames NASH, CASON or HILL between 1850 and 1900? Colette

Miss Mary Belle McQuiston left Thursday morning for Jonesboro where she will teach school the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wooten of Hamburg were the guests of the former's uncle, Mr. Ed Wooten, Sunday. Mrs. Marion Shewmake, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. R.B. Hudspeth for about two weeks was quite sick for several days last week but is now improving. Dr. M.E. Shewmake spent last Sunday with her. Mrs. Hugh Scott returned yesterday afternoon from a several months visit to relatives in Florida. Mr. Scott also returned from Parkdale where he has been working on a school building. Rev. H.K. Coleman, Episcopal minister, moved yesterday from Lake Village and will occupy apartments at the Miss Annie Burks home. Rev. Coleman will preach his first sermon in Monticello next Sunday. Mrs. J.H. Carson and daughter, Miss Eva, have returned from a visit to Little Rock and Hope and were accompanied home by Miss Bertie Golden who will visit here for sometime. William Craig, who was called to this city by the death of Mrs. Craig's father, Mr. O.F. Pierce, left last week for his home in Port Arthur. Mrs. T.O. Owen left this morning for Hot Springs where she will attend the Elementary Conference of the M.E. Church, South, the first to be held in the state. Messrs. Grover Curry, R.E. Cherry and M.M. Dickson left this morning for Parkdale where they will do the sheet metal work on the new school building being erected in that city and which work was secured by the L.D. McQuistion Co. of this city. Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Norman and children and Mrs. Sallie Koonce of Crossett, and Mrs. W.H. Norman of Hamburg visited relatives in this city last Sunday. Mrs. Norman remained over and will visit with her daughter, Mrs. F.W. Whiteside. Jann Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

At 12:14 PM -0700 10/30/98, Jann Woodard wrote: >Alfred Ozment >James Ozment > >G.D. Stedman > >L.B. White Jann, thank you for posting all these names listed in the Drew Co. will index! I can see that I have some more work to do getting these records from the Drew Co. courthouse. L.B. White must be Levi Barkley...but anyone know who G.D. Stedman was? My mind is blank. (No comments, please!!) The Latter Day Saints have also microfilmed these early Drew County will books, so if you have a local Family History Center, you can order these films and browse to your hearts' content. >Hugh Wilson Just wanted to point this one out to my dad and speculate aloud whether this is "H.M. Wilson" whom we read so much about in Drew County land records?? --Melissa

Sorry, but those surnames are not in the index. Jann Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

The following excerpts from "The Children of Levi Peacock" published in September 1979 by John J. Pierce, Peacock Family Historian are respectfully submitted by this list member (with permission to copy) in reference to what was going on in Drew County in the 1850s. If there is any interest in other excerpts from this chapter, I will post more of this interesting history of many families of Drew County. *************************** It was on May 5, 1857, that Rev. Jesse Peacock sold his plantation in Wilkinson County, Ga., to James C. Bower, for $1,800. Bower was a prominent attorney, afterwards elected as ordinary (probate) judge of the county. A native of Wilkinson County, Bower (born in 1815) had gone with his father, Isaac Bower (1783-1840s), to Arkansas during the 1820s. Isaac Bower settled at Big Creek, Phillips County. James C. Bower returned to Gerogia in 1847, after his father's death, and his accounts of Arkansas could have aroused Jesse Peacock's interest in opportunities there. The deed of sale to Bower was recorded May 23 by George W. Tarpley, clerk of the Superior Court, and has a detailed description of the boundaries of the 300-acre (more or less) tract, which was bounded by the properties of Jesse's son, Pearson Peacock; his son-in-law, James Hoover; and E. J. Gilbert, old free Charles (evidently a manumitted slave), Edward J. Tarpley (who rebuilt Poplar Springs Church in 1859), Nathaniel C. Hughs and William s. Chambers. Although, as noted above, James C. Bower may have provided some inspiration, the migration by Jesse Peacock and his kin to Arkansas appears to have been -- at least in part --a church-related enterprise. Leader of the expedition was the Rev. John Harden Breedlove (1802 - Jan. 6, 1870), whose daughter Eliza Ann had married Dr. Jesse Arnold Peacock in 1850. Breedlove was wagonmaster of what must have been a substantial wagon train -- it included not only the families of the Peacocks and their in-laws, the James Hoover, JohnTilghman Hoover and James H. Bush families, but at least one other Hoover family not related by marriage to the Peacocks, at least one other Breedlove family, and an undetermined number of Hayes, Naugher, Ballard and perhaps other Georgia families. The wagon train made its journey in 1858, according to surviving accounts --probably during the Spring, in order for the settlers to be able to bring in crops that year. One of Jesse Peacock's grandsons, Erastus McRaeny Peacock, was born in Georgia -- on April 12, 1858, according to family records. If the date is correct (the 1900 census shows 1857), the Peacocks were still in Wilkinson County, or had just started on their journey to Arkanss, at that time. But by June 5, when Jesse Peacock registered as an elder of the Methodist Church in Arkansas, the family had arrived -- thus, the journey most likely took place in May. By Sept. 16, Jesse's son Pearson was able to sign an affidavit for purchase of federal land at a reduced price as an "acutal settler or cultivator" farming adjacent land evidently purchased on the private market. The most direct route from Irwinton, Ga., to Florence, Ark., passes near Grenada, Miss., and it is not unlikely that Jesse Peacock and his family visited Lovic Pierce Peacock and his clan along the way -- the two branches of the Peacocks were acquainted with each other. And the Breedlove wagon train may have been just one part of a larger migration to Arkansa about the same time that involved other Peacocks. John Lewis and George Washington Peacock both moved to Ashley County, Ark., in 1857 or 1858. They too were Methodists, sons of Wasington Hamilton Peacok, who was himself the son of John Peacock, Levi's brother. Washington Hamilton Peacock had moved to Henry County, Ala., about 1821 from Washington County, Ga. Ashley County, Ark., is next to Drew County -- where Jesse Peacock's clan established itself; -- it seems more than coincidence that two Peacock families moved to adjacent counties at the same time. In 1858, when the Peacocks and other members of the Breedlove expedition arrived at Florence, Ark., the area was still part of Desha county, which took in Township 11S in Ranges four through six west, and Townships 9S and 10S all the way to what is now the Cleveland County line. A military road, formerly an Indian trail, led from Gaines Landing on the Mississippi river through Florence to Pine Bluff, and this was probably the route followed by the Breedlove wagon train on the final leg of its journey. ************************ By the way, Jann is a descendant of these Hayes and Sammy Mullis and my husband are descendants of Jesse Peacock. Lots of you in the Valley are probably related to these Hayes also. Carolyn

Hi Bettye, Glad to see you made it to the list!!! William D. Ford Date of Will: 1887 Will Book: B Page: 22 William A. Craig Date of Will: 1871 Will Book A Page: 178 I'm not sure on the address of the courthouse in Monticello, but surely someone on the list will know. Jann Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

Jack Lee William H. Lucas Hubbard McCarver William McGee Andrew McQuiston William H. McQuiston M.D. Matthews A.C. Milan Dallas Miles R.M. Miles Eliza Miller Lewis Millsaps W.J. Montgomery James C. Morris W.G. Myhand Samuel Nettles William Nichols Sarah Elizabeth O'Neal John M. O'Neill E.B. Owens Alfred Ozment James Ozment Ann Jennett Patrick Wm. L. & Mary A. Phillips John Priest Collins Reid Henry Reynolds Francis M. Ridgell John W. Ridgell Elizabeth Rives Sarah E. Rives James P. Rodgers Young R. Royal Adderson Ruff Thomas Rutherford Thomas Sargent Mary A. Shorter Elizabeth Simpson Everett Skipper James Skipper Alfred Stafford G.D. Stedman Allen Stokes John P. Taggart Robert S. Taylor W.R. Taylor Martha Ann Tiffin Elijah R. Tilghman T.R. Trotter Horatio Wallace Amanda R. Watson John L. Watson Mark G. Welch D.S. Wells S.E. Wells Thomas S. Wells L.B. White Miles White Hugh Wilson John Wilson Marvin Wilson Mary Wyatt Evans Young Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

I'm just gonna post the names and if you find one of interest, email me and I will give you the year and Will book number and page, in case you want to order a copy from the Courthouse in Monticello. The earliest one is in 1848 and goes to 1900. Eliza Arnett Austin Arnold Chester Ashley Abner Aycock Sarah Baker J.C. Bassett R.H. Bayley Mary A. Belser F.F. Benson Stephen Berry J.H. Blakely W.J. Bolling Lewis Bond William P. Bond James Boyd Mary Brewster Henry Bullock Philip G. Burford Annah M. Burks Mary B. Cameron Holeman Y. Childers Henry Clary M.O. Cole Anthony Collins Benjamin Collins Henry C. Collins John Collins Moses A. Collins Joshua M. Cooper E.R. Cotham William A. Craig Wiley Crook Currell, Isaac H. Margaret M. Davis Mattie H. Dingler John Donaldson W.A. Douglas Mary B. Duncan Thomas L. Dunlap Tom Early Mary Ann Ellis Lasley Embree James L. Erwin Pricilla L. Erwin William C. Finney Mark M. Fleming William D. Ford Matthew Gardner Stephen Gaster William Gazter Zachariah Gibson Thomas Giles J.G. Gillham S.H. Gillham Daniel Gober Edward Graham Timothy Griggs John Hadley James W. Hair J.R. Hall Milberry Halley John Holligan Ida H. Hamm C.L. Hankins Harvey Hardison William A. Hardy Thomas Charles Harrell Arthur Everett Harris James Harris Wilson Hemingway Elijah Henley Bennett Hogue Nathan B. Hooker Mary Hunter John Isaac Matilda Jones H.N. King William Knowles Sarah Lambert Hannah Lee part two in a minute!! Jann Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 10/30 6:58 AM Received: 10/30 9:32 AM From: RetTEACHER@aol.com To: ARBRADLE-L@rootsweb.com ARDREW-L-request@rootsweb.com I found an obituary in the 5 Sept 1935 Eagle Democrat for Carrie Hogue Marcum; died in a Mack Wilson hospital (now Drew County) in Monticello. Any information on this hospital and how I can find records from that date (1935). I am Bettye Hogue Bond Carlisle, PA. Researching: BOND(NC,GA,LA, TX), HOGUE (DREW & BRADLEY CO.), GIBSON (DREW CO.) GIBSON (CLEVELAND & BRADLEY CO.), GLADNEY (Drew, Jefferson & Lincoln) & BREATHWAIT ( Richard & Mary Harvon from Co Antrim Ireland). Marcum,( John A. Bradley Co.) Bettye ----------------- End Forwarded Message -----------------

For those of you who might not have this information, there is an index to early wills in Drew Co. I have a copy of the index and don't mind looking for your surnames. Jann Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

They were coming for the good soil. they had worn it out in the east by poor farming methods, ie , not rotating crops and raising tobacco. plus some were getting land grants. Rebecca ---------- > From: KESSAROSE@aol.com > To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] Tishomingo Co, Miss & Drew Co., Ark > Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 11:24 PM > > Jeannie Mitchell wrote: > >Can anyone tell me if there was some sort of migration trail or connection > >between Tishomingo Co, Miss & Drew Co., Ark >> > > I am also very interested in what drew people to Drew Co between 1849-1860; > mine didn't come from MS, but some came from NC and others from TN, and all of > them came during that span of time. > amy

Beth...this is a repeat from me. Perhaps you missed it. Old Smokey was the early name for Enon. cf p. 17 Old Times. I am Assumming that this Smokey in the articles is one in the same, but it may not be. Enon stretches almost to Cominto. Rebecca ---------- > From: Terri Lee Wolfe <terrilee@ipa.net> > To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] Smokey News > Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 10:37 PM > > >Everybody at Smokey is very busy gathering their crops. Several have > picked over their cotton once. There was not much cotton made in this part > of the country this year. > > Thanks , Jann. > > Now, here is another interesting community. It must be close to the > Collins-Cominto area as these Bowdens lived around that area, but just > exactly where? Does anyone know? Also, that area is close to the SEVEN > DEVILS. There must be an awful lot of communities in those 30 square miles > of Georgia-Pacific woods behind my house that have disappeared.BETH

In a message dated 10/30/98 4:35:40 PM, you wrote: <<address of the courthouse in Monticello>> Thanks so much, I have the address. Its great to be able to accomplish so much from so far. Thanks to you all. Bettye