I think that you can contact the archives tomorrow afternoon and Melba may be able to look it up for you. If she locates it she can make a copy and I will pick it up and send it on tomorrow night. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Lee Wolfe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 7:52 PM Subject: [ARDREW] Re: OBITUARY? >Can anyone help this person? > >[email protected] Marvin Shirley McDade > >Is there anyway someone can look up an obituary of >Charles G. H. Asher, died 11/6/59 he is buried in >Oaklawn Cemetery, Monticello in Drew County. I don't >know anyone to ask so if you could help I would >appreciate it.

>Can anyone help this person? > >[email protected] Marvin Shirley McDade > >Is there anyway someone can look up an obituary of >Charles G. H. Asher, died 11/6/59 he is buried in >Oaklawn Cemetery, Monticello in Drew County. I don't >know anyone to ask so if you could help I would >appreciate it.

Melissa, I thought of Probate records for William Hayle or for his Wife Aamanda, If she had to go in and get all in her name as another family relative did. I am in the Dallas area though, and do not have access to Drew County records of this sort. Does anyone out there have a list of Drew Co Probates? BJ Hayle [email protected]

I am looking for death information on WILLIAM HAYLE/HALE/HALES/HAYLES He was shown on the 1860 Drew Co cencus and in 1870 the household had hiswife Amanda and the children. I find no mention of him in the civil war records. I thought he may be the one who was killed by gunshot in 1870 but that William was in another county Can anyone help? PS...Amanda is showing to be living in Dallas, TX. in 1881 and is listed in the phone book as Widow of William BJ Hayle [email protected]

BJ, have you tried searching in the probate records of Drew County? If William died leaving minor children, there may have been some guardianship records generated. It is worth a look. It may help you narrow down the timeframe when he died. --Melissa At 10:24 AM -0800 1/23/01, BJ Hayle wrote: >I am looking for death information on WILLIAM HAYLE/HALE/HALES/HAYLES >He was shown on the 1860 Drew Co cencus and in 1870 the household had >hiswife Amanda and the children. >I find no mention of him in the civil war records. >I thought he may be the one who was killed by gunshot in 1870 but that >William was in another county >Can anyone help? >PS...Amanda is showing to be living in Dallas, TX. in 1881 and is listed in >the phone book as Widow of William >BJ Hayle >[email protected]

If anyone connects with Betty, please e-mail her at [email protected] Let's help her find some cousins! --------------------------------------------- Match: "Drew County" AND Arkansas Source: [email protected] From: "Betty L.. Capps" <[email protected]> Subject: [DAVIS ] James Davis I keep watching and watching, are there no relatives of a James Davis of Drew County, Arkansas born March, 1860? His father was born in MS and mother in TN. He married about 1889, Elizzie (Sarah Elizabeth Lawson). The 1900 census of Drew County, Collins Twp. shows them to have been married 11 yrs. She states her age as 25. Children: Pearl, Lola, Bessie and Vicy Jane. I believe James Davis died shortly after this census. The daughter, Bessie may have died about the same time. Wish I could connect with someone. Sincerely, Betty L. Capps =====================================================================

In a message dated 01/20/2001 7:03:32 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << This was sent last weekend, around the time of the Rootsweb server problems. I don't see the message in the archives, and I didn't get any replies, so I thought I would try again to find the identity of Josephine Ozment Aultman. -------------------------------------------- 1880 Arkansas Soundex (A-435) Actual record on Vol. 4A, E.D. 95, sheet 29, line 18 (did not have time to check this) Altman, William D. white male, age 41, born GA Drew County, Crook Township Altman, Josephine wife 36 TN " Nancy E. dau 7 AR " Susan J. dau 5 AR " Sarah L. dau 3 AR " William R. son 10/12 AR Ozment, Nancy m.l. 89 NC " John s.s. 10 AR I had assumed that Nancy was Josephine's mother, but the stepson (s.s.) named John Ozment is throwing me. Does anyone know if Josephine who married William Altman was an Ozment by birth or by marriage? If by birth, then who is this John Ozment? >> Melissa, All I can tell you is that Alfred Ozment and Nancy Ann Lane did have a daughter named Josephine. The age and birthplace on the 1880 census does coincide with those given in earlier censuses for the most part. 1850 Drew County, AR: Alfred OSMENT 45 NC Farmer Nancy 49 NC William 24 TN Rachel 15 TN John 10 TN Susan 8 TN Josephine 6 TN 1860 Drew County, AR: Alford OZMENT 55 NC Farmer 1600 427 Nancy 58 NC John 20 TN Susan 16 TN Josephine 14 TN 1870 Drew County, AR: F. OZMENT 66 NC Farmer 300 200 Veasey Township Was he known as Fred? Nancy 69 NC Josephine 24 TN The age for Nancy appears to be off by 10 years. She should have been 79 not 89 and she was born in NC. I'm not sure who the John, age 10 is. Maybe someone else would know that. Alfred named his daughter, Josephine Ozment in his will that he wrote on 17 Jun 1872. She married William Altman on 22 Jan 1873 so of course she would be called Josephine Ozment in his will as she was unmarried then. She also had a sister Susan Jane Ozment who she appears to have named a daughter after. I don't know anything else about these daughters above. This is the first time I have had their names and ages. Thank you for providing that information. Eleanor Colson

[Melissa's note: This message got posted to the list on Monday, but I guess no one sent an answer to Fredreica. She re-sent her post today] I need a geography lesson to track down my STANFORD and PRICE families... My ancestor, John R. STANFORD married Catherine Henrietta (or Henrietta Catherine) PRICE on 28 March 1849 in Drew, Arkansas. According to the 1860 Census for Marengo County, Alabama, John R. STANFORD was 39 years of age and born in Ark. He was a physician. Catherine Henrietta PRICE died 14 Oct. 1856 in Shiloh Township, Marengo County, Alabama. There is a John R. STANFORD living in Monroe County, AR in 1836, according to the Arkansas Territory Tax List. This is from an ancestry.com list. I don't know how to view the original or what information might be on it. On the 1850 Census for Jefferson County, AR there is a John STANFORD and a R.U. STANFORD living in Pine Bluff. On the 1850 Census for Drew County, AR there are 3 Isaac D. PRICE listed. Henrietta PRICE had a brother named Isaac PRICE and their father was named Isaac PRICE. Their mother Mary FOSTER died about 1864 in Ark. On the 1860 Census for Jefferson County, AR, there are two Issac PRICE listed. Other PRICE family members in Arkansas between 1850 and 1880 are Josiah Reese PRICE, John Foster PRICE, Milton Josephus or Joseph PRICE and Richard PRICE. I find Josiah Reese PRICE as Josiah, Reese, Reece, J. Reese, and Reese J. Either there are several men with this name or he lived in Vanburen Township, Crawford Co.; Union Township, St. Francis Co.,; Augusta Township, Woodruff C., AR. Josiah Reese PRICE recorded land through the Fayetteville Land Office, as did Richard PRICE. Richard PRICE also recorded land through the Camden Land Office, as did Isaac PRICE. John PRICE also recorded land through both offices, but I have no idea which one(s) migh be a member of my PRICE family. I can find little information on Milton J. PRICE, except that he served in the 9th Arkansas Infantry in Company I. I don't know from which county that company mustered up from. I have a box of letters (crumbling) dated from the 1860's when my ancestor was in school at Salem Academy in Winston Salem, NC (from her father, John R. Stanford to Mary Wallace Stanford) until the early 1900's. >From Wittsberg Ark Nov 3 1871 from Uncle J.F. PRICE to Wallace - Milton died, Uncle Reese is in the store, Aunt Lee and Aunt Jane. >From M.J. Price to niece Wallace - Sister Lee, poor little Juan, Aunt Lou's in Mar of 1864, Aunt Jane and the children, Sulpher Springs, Uncle John and his 2 boys and daughter Mallie. >From Uncle Dick to Wallace (letter on stationery from Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Pine Bluff, Ark) dated in the 1880's - Hall has epilepsy, Mitchell or Mitchum (?), Sallie has baby. >From Uncle Dick at Price Bluff, Ark Dec 1880 to Wallace - Mitchum has bought place in Little Rock, Uncle Jim and Neely. If anybody can help me to trace this family, especially the STANFORD line, by telling me where these places are in relation to one another, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much! Fredreica [email protected]

This was sent last weekend, around the time of the Rootsweb server problems. I don't see the message in the archives, and I didn't get any replies, so I thought I would try again to find the identity of Josephine Ozment Aultman. -------------------------------------------- 1880 Arkansas Soundex (A-435) Actual record on Vol. 4A, E.D. 95, sheet 29, line 18 (did not have time to check this) Altman, William D. white male, age 41, born GA Drew County, Crook Township Altman, Josephine wife 36 TN " Nancy E. dau 7 AR " Susan J. dau 5 AR " Sarah L. dau 3 AR " William R. son 10/12 AR Ozment, Nancy m.l. 89 NC " John s.s. 10 AR I had assumed that Nancy was Josephine's mother, but the stepson (s.s.) named John Ozment is throwing me. Does anyone know if Josephine who married William Altman was an Ozment by birth or by marriage? If by birth, then who is this John Ozment? William D. Altman married Martha Jane Loveless on 18 August 1881. What happened to Josephine? Also, I am wondering if these Altman daughters had gotten married by the 1900 census, as William and Martha J. Altman have 3 daughters (Mary, Tabitha and Ethel), with no sign of the children from his previous marriage. Would love to find out what happened to all the Altman children. So far, I have only traced Tabitha Ophelia Altman, who married Poad A. Russell and died in Cleveland County, AR in 1961. One other mystery: in 1910, living with Poad and Tabitha Russell is a 31 year old named Joe Altman who is listed as Poad's brother-in-law. Did William D. Altman and Josephine have another son, after the William R. listed in the 1880 census? --Melissa

Drew County, In Its Early Years - To 1880, by Mrs. J. D. McCloy, Sr. Published in the Advance Monticellonian February 12, 1942 Lacey evidently existed when the County was formed or immediately thereafter. A Mr. Dudley Daniel, grandfather of our Circuit Clerk, Mr. George Spencer, and Mrs. Lina Pope of this city, gave the ground for the business section, and Mrs. Pope's mother, Margaret Ann Killian, in 1856, donated ground for the Methodist Church and parsonage. Lacy Female Institute was founded January 6, 1853 and another known as Fountain Hill Academy was incorporated January 26, 1851 at Fountain Hill, just beyond Lacey. During the War, our Court, in 1863, allowed $50.00 for transportation and safe-keeping of our County records, in case the Federals invaded the town during the war, and we know they did. It is noted in the records that on July 11, 1865, Mr. Perry Lambert was allowed $10.00, and on July 16, Mr. M. H. Burks was allowed $6.00 for "hauling up the county record books." Both men lived near Lacey, and as Court met there in October 1864, all this seems to make us believe these books were stored and cared for at Lacey. We are very fortunate indeed to have all of our County Record books intact. Not all counties have been so fortunate. Selma was another village that early began to bud, but blighted when her neighbor, Tillar, in 1879 began to bud also due to the entrance of the Iron Mountain Railroad. Business houses moved from the former place to Tillar; the same ones who had given Selma a support now did likewise for Tillar. Major J. T. W. Tillar, Dr. A. C. Stanley and Mr. Chesley C. Clayton were three of these. Mr. Tillar gave land for a Methodist Church at Selma in 1868, but a snow storm caved it in; and as the Baptists had just builded, the Methodists assumed a share of the indebtedness which Major Tillar paid for them; so both denominations have worshipped together throughout the years. Dr. Stanley gave ground for a railroad station and school house at Tillar, and built the first schoolhouse. He also built the depot and was paid for same in freight allowances. Tillar Mercantile business has operated there 63 years. It occupies almost a block now, and they operate one of the largest farms in the State. Running near the two towns is the old Military Road of historical fame, once the Spanish trail from Memphis to Mexico, the road over which Gen. Jackson transported troops, and over which the emigrating Indians were carried into Indian Territory. On the Bayou somewhere near is the Indian Village so often referred to in the county records. The town of Collins dates back to early fifties. In 1852, Gen. Benjamin Collins builded a large two story tavern there which today houses Drew County's only Antique Shop. It was the only hotel Collins ever had. He operated it, a farm, gin, store and tanyard. He donated ground for the cemetery, the business section, the Baptist Church and builded same. Drew County's first railroad came to Collins in 1873, eight years before it reached Monticello, when its east terminus was changed from Chicot City to Arkansas City. Several men who became wealthy got their first business start at Collins, as J. T. W. Tillar, A. E. Harris, C. M. Boyd, Jas. Courtney and others perhaps. Going to the western and northern parts of our County, there were no towns of any consequence, due perhaps to proximity of earlier towns in Bradley County or Pine Bluff, where farmers from Drew often hauled their cotton, three and four days being required for the trip. There were splendid neighborhoods, however, and churches and schools established. In fact the first Methodist Church south of Little Rock was at Montongo (Camp Ground) in 1845, and the State Conference met there in 1846. Rev. Fountain Brown is said to have been one of its earliest ministers. Throughout the years, now nearly a century, these camp meetings have been held the last week in August. Many years those from a distance camped in tents and frame shacks built for the purpose. In the early fifties, Mr. J. H. Cavaness, a large land owner, bought and located here, erecting a general merchandise store and taking charge of the post office. He donated 20 acres by the Church for a cemetery, one of the best kept in the county, and ten acres not far away to the negroes for some purpose. Methodist Churches were erected at an early period at Barkada and at Rock Springs prior to which a community home was used for Church and Sabbath School. In 1849 when Monticello came into existence (for it is a Forty-niner), a Mr. Brandon taught a school of one hundred pupils at Camp Ground. Mr. A. J. McQuiston was teacher at the beginning of the war when many of his fine young men volunteered for service in the war. For many years Mr. McQuiston was prominent in County school work. A few miles north of the Camp Ground, in 1858, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian builded a Church at Relfs Bluff; Mt. Zion it was called. Dr. J. M. Brown was its minister for more than thirty years. In 1867 it became a Presbyterian U. S. Church. A school of much notoriety was located here also, known as Lyell Female Institute, named for Sir Charles Lyell, noted geologist, and friend of the founder, Dr. W. D. Kersh and wife, Jane Stirling Moore Kersh, highly educated and cultured people who came from South Carolina for the express purpose of establishing such a school in Arkansas. Because of the high location this place was selected by them. This was a boarding school where English branches, Science, higher Mathematics, Music on guitar and piano, as well as etiquette, were taught. So popular was it that not only did those within riding distances attend, but boarders were had from plantations up and down the Arkansas River, from Texas and other states. They were assisted by the Misses Moore, sisters of Mrs. Kersh, also from South Carolina. They continued their school until Dr. Kersh's death, more than thirty years. He was buried in the cemetery by the Mt. Zion Church, four Masonic lodges officiating. We find many early schools, both common and private, of about two and three months duration, usually taught in the Church or Meeting House as then called. In 1842 Gaster Schoolhouse on Gaster Hill where Stephen Gaster had moved his family, was the voting place for Marion Township, of Bradley County, of which Drew was then a part. As early as 1836 there was a school at Independence; very likely it was the log schoolhouse beyond and near Union Ridge (Scrouge Out) known as Rodgers Schoolhouse, which later was used by Drew County's early court for a meeting place, for it was at Independence (Rough and Ready) that our County seat was first established. It seems to have been a thriving little village, beautifully located on a high ridge. There were several stores, residences, a tanyard of note and a distillery, fed by an everflowing spring branch just across the road from one of the County's oldest cemeteries. No court house was ever built there as our county records will testify. The building that by many was thought to have been the old courthouse, a large square two-story frame building located among a lovely grove of huge oaks, facing west, and which was occupied as a residence by Judge E. K. Haynes at one time, I believe, must have been what was called the Mansion House in those early days, and if so it was builded, with the consent of court, by B. C. Hyatt in 1849 and early '50 as a tavern to accommodate those traveling to and fro on the Gaines Landing road. In April 1850 court met there. End of Article __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Drew County, In Its Early Years - To 1880 by Mrs. J. D. McCloy, Sr. Published in the Advance Monticellonian, February 19, 1942 The first court, however met on March 22nd, 1847, in the home of A. W. Rawles, presided over by W. H. Wells, County Judge, Thos. S. Newman and C. T. Reynolds, Associate Judges. Also present were Hiram Bryant, P. H. Baldy and Jefferson Thurman, Justices of the Peace. The following presented their official bonds as the county's first officers: Wm. Guice, Treasurer Thos. Hales, Coroner David D. Greer, Sheriff Y. R. Royal, Clerk of Circuit Court and Ex-officio Recorder E. G. Howard, Surveyor, presenting bond later Wm. D. Ford, Constable for Marion Township Joseph Renfro and Josiah B. Royal, Deputy Sheriffs, at the request of the Sheriff for help. Assessors for each township were appointed in 1850; Henry Crook was appointed for Marion township. Patrols for each township were also necessary to assist in keeping order, in looking after run-away slaves, those strolling at nights over the country and getting into various kinds of trouble; for Marion Township, Rodgers, E. Smith, John S. Royal, John O'Neill, Thos. Wells, William Greer, David Cotham and William Maroney were appointed. Many of us recall this little ditty that was sung by some of our ancestors, "Run, nigger run, the patterole 'll git you; Run, nigger, run, hit's almos' day." So numerous were wolves that $5.00 was offered as a reward by the Court to anyone killing a wolf in the county and exhibiting its scalp before any Justice of the Peace. Peddlers must have begun to be numerous, or probably more money was needed, for Court decided to place a tax upon all hawkers and peddlers; if on horseback, a tax of $5.00; if in a wagon, $10.00 tax; and if selling clocks in the county, $20.00. In 1855 it was remade with higher taxes. Perhaps the lightning rod agent had not made his advent that early or he surely would have been included. Some of the peddlers really proved a blessing to housewives, by bringing things right to the door. One of those was Ben Martin who peddled dry goods when there were but few stores in the town of Monticello. It must have continued a custom for several have told me of one such in the seventies, a Dock Hendon, who drove a big brindled steer named Dixie hitched to a buggy. His wife was a very aristocratic society lady of Virginian birth. A petition to sell liquor was also granted to Jesse Newton at this first Court, and it was decreed its next meeting be moved to Rawles Meeting House, possibly this was the "old Baptist Church" existing there, and it is stated that they met in the "old Baptist Church" in July 1850. Prior to the latter date however Court had met in Rodger's school house, and in April, 1850 in B. C. Hyatt's tavern. This Mr. Hyatt was a physician, minister, contractor and hotel manager. He and his wife moved to Independence in 1846 from South Carolina. Isaiah Holcomb, J. Milton Carr, and John Sanders had early been appointed Commissioners to find an appropriate county seat. There seems to have been many crimes and murders around Rough and Ready, and this may have been the reason that a change was thought the best. At any rate in June 1849, Fountain C. and Polly Austin, living three miles west of the present town and in whose yard was the first post office, in the log storehouse of a Carney O'Neill, which was called Montongo post office, after the Masonic Lodge here at the time, donated 88.02 acres to these Commissioners for the county seat. This was surveyed and platted in July and on August 1, 1849, reported to Court. The contract for building a temporary courthouse was let to Wm. D. Ford for $174.00 and in October 1850 was first used for this purpose. $460.00 was allowed by Court for building material, to be paid for by sale of town lots. The original plat of lots consisted of 35 blocks, the one left un-numbered, being the town square proper. For it 170 feet square was allowed, for all streets bordering the square 50 feet width was allowed; all others were to be 40 feet in width. Those running east and west, bordering town square were named Main (as it is today) and Academy. The one on the north was North Street, and on the south was Jefferson Street (now Gaines Avenue). Lot No. 1 on the plat was the residence lot of Mr. Robert Knox, Sr., for many years. The boundary lines of the town as laid out on the original plat run due west to John Kimbro place, due south to fifty seven feet beyond where the railroad now is, then due east to a line running just about where Ridgeway Hotel now is, thence north to and including No. 1 lot. End of article __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Posted on: Drew Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ar/Drew/117 Surname: Hale ------------------------- my email address has changed. any help will be appreciated Virginia

(From one of the GenConnect boards. Please cc your reply to [email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------ Match: "Drew County" AND Arkansas Source: GC- Wilcox County, AL Queries URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Al/Wilcox/73 From: Ivory Spiller <[email protected]> Subject: Isaac Handley Descendant Surname: Handley, Kenneday, Spiller ------------------------- I'am a descendant of John S Handley of Drew County, Arkansas. His father was Isaac Handley of Wilcox County, Alabama. Isaac Handley was orginally from Wayne County, NC.I would like to exchange information with anyone who is related or know anything about this family. My email address is [email protected]

Thanks for your reply Rebecca. Keith

Not any Monticello papers; you would have to search the Gazette but probably wouldn't find much or anything. Not much went on @ here but bushwhacking, fed troops passing through, a few skirmishes. >Are there any newspaper records for the Monticello area for the time during >the Civil War? > >Keith Wilson > >

Carlton MEASEL sent some pictures in for the Drew Co. page that are unidentified. I've placed the pictures on the webpage at http://bethg.shutdown.com/drew and really would appreciate any help list members can give in identifying the people/places shown. These pictures belonged to Ms. Annie WILSON of Monticello and I feel that they were all taken in the Monticello area. Thanks for any help you can give. And a big THANK YOU to Carlton! Karen Groce [email protected]

This person is not on ARDREW, so please reply directly to [email protected] >Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:52:14 -0800 >From: "Paul & Fredreica Speyer" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> >Subject: {not a subscriber} STANFORD and PRICE families of Drew and >Jefferson Counties - Ark > >I need a geography lesson to track down my STANFORD and PRICE >families... > >My ancestor, John R. STANFORD married Catherine Henrietta (or >Henrietta Catherine) PRICE on 28 March 1849 in Drew, Arkansas. > >According to the 1860 Census for Marengo County, Alabama, John R. >STANFORD was 39 years of age and born in Ark. He was a physician. >Catherine Henrietta PRICE died 14 Oct. 1856 in Shiloh Township, >Marengo County, Alabama. > >There is a John R. STANFORD living in Monroe County, AR in 1836, >according to the Arkansas Territory Tax List. This is from an >ancestry.com list. I don't know how to view the original or what >information might be on it. > >On the 1850 Census for Jefferson County, AR there is a John STANFORD >and a R.U. STANFORD living in Pine Bluff. > >On the 1850 Census for Drew County, AR there are 3 Isaac D. PRICE >listed. Henrietta PRICE had a brother named Isaac PRICE and their >father was named Isaac PRICE. Their mother Mary FOSTER died about 1864 >in Ark. > >On the 1860 Census for Jefferson County, AR, there are two Issac PRICE >listed. > >Other PRICE family members in Arkansas between 1850 and 1880 are >Josiah Reese PRICE, John Foster PRICE, Milton Josephus or Joseph PRICE >and Richard PRICE. > >I find Josiah Reese PRICE as Josiah, Reese, Reece, J. Reese, and Reese >J. Either there are several men with this name or he lived in Vanburen >Township, Crawford Co.; Union Township, St. Francis Co.,; Augusta >Township, Woodruff C., AR. > >Josiah Reese PRICE recorded land through the Fayetteville Land Office, >as did Richard PRICE. > >Richard PRICE also recorded land through the Camden Land Office, as >did Isaac PRICE. > >John PRICE also recorded land through both offices, but I have no idea >which one(s) migh be a member of my PRICE family. > >I can find little information on Milton J. PRICE, except that he >served in the 9th Arkansas Infantry in Company I. I don't know from >which county that company mustered up from. > >I have a box of letters (crumbling) dated from the 1860's when my >ancestor was in school at Salem Academy in Winston Salem, NC (from her >father, John R. Stanford to Mary Wallace Stanford) until the early >1900's. > > >From Wittsberg Ark Nov 3 1871 from Uncle J.F. PRICE to Wallace - >Milton died, Uncle Reese is in the store, Aunt Lee and Aunt Jane. > > >From M.J. Price to niece Wallace - Sister Lee, poor little Juan, >Aunt >Lou's in Mar of 1864, Aunt Jane and the children, Sulpher Springs, >Uncle John and his 2 boys and daughter Mallie. > > >From Uncle Dick to Wallace (letter on stationery from Circuit Court, >Jefferson County, Pine Bluff, Ark) dated in the 1880's - Hall has >epilepsy, Mitchell or Mitchum (?), Sallie has baby. > > >From Uncle Dick at Price Bluff, Ark Dec 1880 to Wallace - Mitchum has >bought place in Little Rock, Uncle Jim and Neely. > >If anybody can help me to trace this family, especially the STANFORD >line, by telling me where these places are in relation to one another, >I would greatly appreciate it. >Thanks so much! Fredreica >[email protected]

Posted on: Drew Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Drew/116 Surname: Owens, Hankins, Echols ------------------------- Ezekiel Brooke Owens and Adelia Pendleton Payne were my great great grandparents. Their son Milton Hubert Owens and his wife Martha Caroline Hankins were my great grandparents. Mary Owens, daughter of Ezekiel and Adelia and sister of Milton Hubert Owens, married William Joseph Echols. William Joseph Echols' second wife was Hattie Hankins, sister of Martha Caroline. So, siblings of both of my great grandparents married William Joseph Echols. How are you connected? I have Owens, Hankins and Echols genealogy.

I haven't seen any of the weekend's messages come across. Let's give things another couple of days, and if the mail doesn't show up by then, I'll ask people to re-send messages they sent since Saturday. In the meantime, I hope there will be no harm in posting to the list now. I have not heard from Rootsweb one way or the other since yesterday morning. --Melissa

Do any of the Knowles researchers know which Drew Co. Will Book contains William Knowles' will? I have photocopies of the pages. It is on p. 81-82 of Will Book A, B, or C (I had ordered a microfilm from the LDS Family History Center a couple of years ago). If someone knows offhand which book, I would much appreciate it. I want to transcribe the will and put it on the Drew Co. web site. Thanks, Melissa