Remember the old letter Gretchen Pike was talking about months ago? She sent a copy of it for me to do something with, but I have forgotten what. I do remember saying that the Barber from Wilmar may be Barker. But a Mrs. Jim Barber* lived in the Valley so that is probably her. Transcript with notes: my notes in [] "This information furnished by Mrs. J M Barber, Wilmar, AR. [Wilmar of course being the address for Valley folks] George Canadian Duboise* served throughout the Civil War. He enlisted in Warren or Monticello, Ark. He was in Company B, First Ark Cavalry. His captain - Dr. St. Hudspearth [This being Dr. Street Hudspeth]* First Lieut - Stephens* Second Lieut - J. O. Dunlap* Third Lieut - W. P. Bond* They were sworn in at Little Rock. The year isn't mentioned but must have been about '61. This George Duboise, was your great grand father's brother. He married Catherine Gairey of MIss in about 52 or 53. The party writing this letter doesn't know when he died or where he went from Drew Co Ark. Your great grand fathers name was James Jacob Duboise. .......This Mrs. Barber says the 2nd Lieut W. P. Bond was her grandfather and he mentions getting this information from her father. She mentions also that Dr. Hudspeath [sic, Hudspeth] lived and died about 5 miles west of Wilmar, Ark on Saline River. [This is no doubt referring to Hudspeth on the Saline River about 3 miles upriver from Ozment Bluff. The Hudspeth family lived there before the Civil War.] ......I think she [Minnie] said Uncle George was the only one of the brothers who was capacitated to go - Grandpa and another brother were too old, another brother was a cripple. She said that he was never wounded during the war." ....... *BARBER: [p 270-71, Old Times] Easter Rawls m 1st William McCarty. After a son, John Thomas, was born, William McCarty disappeared and was never heard from again. Easter later m Jim Barber and they had two children, Ed and Sally (m 1st Frank Newton; m 2nd Connie Harrison). Jim Barber died and Easter m John Couey. They had one child, Anna. * HUDSPETH: [p 250, Old Times] Nancy C. Davis and Harvey Scott Fee had one child, Margaret Jane (m Street Hudspeth). Nancy Davis died in 1854 and Harvey Scott Fee emigrated to Drew County where he met and m Mary G. Hudspeth. Children b to Margaret Jane Fee and Street Hudspeth were Annie E, Mary H, Lillie D, Lula Belle, Thomas Jr, Harvey Fee, and Sallie Ethel. *BOND: [Old Times, p 194] W P Bond was William Peyton Bond who was b 17 Aug 1808 at York, SC, the son of William Bond. W P Bond migrated to Drew County from GA in 1857. His son, William Amos was killed in CW. W P Bond's uncle was Dr. Lewis A Bond who left NC in a hurry after he killed a man in a duel. A young man had become enamored of Dr. Bond's wife and Bond challenged him to the duel. Dr. Bond had a two-story log cabin at Gaster Hill. When Davy Crockett passed through on his way to TX, he spent the night there. One of Dr. Bond's nephews, William Mauldin Bond, joined Crockett's regiment that night. *DUNLAP: could have been Jack, Jesse, John. No J O in cemetery book. *STEPHENS: not sure. could have been Stephenson or Stevenson. One of W P Bond's dau m William McFadden Stevenson. *DUBOISE: [Old Times, p 266] : John H. Frank DUNLAP m Susan E. Duboise. He was the son of JOHN DUNLAP, who had a son, Lige, killed in CW. [now I really should get back to work] Rebecca DeArmond rdea@seark.net www.seark.net/~rdea/ www.seark.net/~history/