There is a good bit of information on both camps at the Drew County Museum and Drew County Archives. Dr. J. P. Price was the camp doctor at the POW camp. Mrs. Price had one of the Italian prisoners paint a portriat of Dr. Price which is in the Doctors Room at the Museum. It is a very large picture of Dr. Price sitting behind his desk. Liz Chandler who is in her mid 90's and is sister of Mrs. Henri Mason who is director of the museum was the secretary to the guy who was head of the POW. Ms. Henri can give more information on the camp. The houses which were "shot gun" houses were sold and moved and a lot of them are still around. There were a number of articles in the Pine Bluff Commercial last year of a reunion of Japanese and their decendents who came back to Arkansas and went to the camp at Jerome. Mary Lasiter ----- Original Message ----- From: "C.L. Jones" <carsonjonessr@hotmail.com> To: <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:56 PM Subject: RE: [ARDREW] Prisin Camp at Monticello > Michael, I tend to agree with your version of the POW camps. My dad help > build the camp at Jerome and he said it was for Japenese prisoners. > C.L. Jones > >>From: MICHAEL GRIFFITH <michael_griffith@sbcglobal.net> >>Reply-To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >>To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [ARDREW] Prisin Camp at Monticello >>Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:27:24 -0800 (PST) >> >>I am from the community where the relocation camp in Monticello was. My >>grandparents Sykes and josephene Griffin always lived in that comunity. I >>have heard my grandmother speak of the "Killin" camp the one located at >>the fairgrounds many times she always said the prisoners were Italians and >>Germans. She spoke more of the Germans how that they would be cleaning the >>ditches on Hwy 35 east. I have been all over the camp when I was a boy >>there were a few buildings left. They had a church that was partially >>still standing and also the smokestack I believe from the kitchen. There >>were some prisoners who died their and were buried but when the war was >>over I believe they removed their bodies( I believe that is what my >>grandmother said.) She also had alot of silverware stamped U.S.A. she got >>from the camp when the war was over. The camp at Jerome was a Japanese >>camp. Mr. Ernest Ellington had a part in that camp and the land where the >>camp was his family now owns. There is a monumen! >> t erected >> their stating it was a Japanese camp and there also was one at Rowerr. >> When the war was over my grandfather Sykes Griffin helped tair down some >> of the houses at Rowher and Jerome and built a house in the Enon comunity >> across from the old school. >> >>Michael Griffith >> > > >