This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BFD328.65A92640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Everyone we would like to update you we have two new pages on the Greene Co. Website we hope you will enjoy. The First one is 1937 "Flood Diary " & Busness Ledger It was donated to the Greene co. Library and to our site by Joe Schreit . The ledger had been found in the old Meriwether Hardware Building . The signature in the book is C.W. Stedman he kept hour to hour , daily record of the flood of 1937 that was being broadcasted over K.B.T.M. Radio Station . >From the diary " The foregoing note from KBTM is not 1/10 parts of the awful happenings that has happened in this high water . I could not write fast enough to record them all. I hope this record in years to come will be of some benfit to future generations in the low lands of eastern Arkansas. C.W. Stedman" Here is the link . http://www.rootsweb.com/~argreene/1937flooddiary.htm Our second page is The Diary of Judge J.E. Reddick http://www.rootsweb.com/~argreene/diaryofjer.htm enjoy ! Tina Easley surnames:Morton, Easley, Lambert,Gladish, Reddick, Marsh, Coggins, Reaves, Lenderman Greene County Arkansas http://www.rootsweb.com/~argreene/greene1.html Come Take A Trip in History!!! ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BFD328.65A92640 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="Tina Easley.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Tina Easley.vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Easley;Tina FN:Tina Easley ORG:Greene County Ar. URL: URL:http://www.rootsweb.com/~argreene/greene1.html EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:tina@grnco.net REV:20000611T030824Z END:VCARD ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BFD328.65A92640--

Someone on the Ward-mailing list asked why there were so many Ward's who moved to Arkansas. These were 2 answers; A Guide to Genealogy Research in Arkansas Emigration and Immigration Very few Europeans came to the Arkansas area during the years of French and Spanish rule, 1686 to 1803. The1810 census of the Louisiana Territory listed only 1,062 non-Indian residents in the entire District of Arkansas. Immigration began in earnest with the cotton boom of 1818. Many families of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and English descent moved overland from Virginia and the Carolinas through Tennessee and Mississippi or Missouri. They often brought slaves with them. In 1860, Black slaves comprised over one fourth of the population. Most Arkansans today are descended from Anglo-Saxon and Blackfamilies who came from older southern states before 1900. About 1867, the rich land between the Arkansas and White rivers beckoned to large groups of Southern European emigrants. Many families from Poland settled in Pulaski County. A number of Italians located in the northwestern part of the state. The last Indian tribes had been removed from Arkansas to present-day Oklahoma by 1835. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs have been transcribed in Jack D. Baker, Cherokee Emigration Rolls, 1817-1835 (Oklahoma City: Baker Pub., 1977; FHL book 970.3 C424be). Some immigrants landed at New Orleans and traveled up the Mississippi River to Arkansas. The Family History Library has passenger lists for New Orleans from 1820 to 1921 and indexes from 1820 to 1952. The National Archives has passenger lists through 1945 and indexes to 1952. The American Immigration Page" Naturalization records were generally filed in the circuit courts in each county. About 40 percent of the counties in Arkansas have pre-1907 records. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the records for some of these counties. For residents of Little Rock (Pulaski County), for example, the library has declarations of intention and some final certificates, 1870 to 1906. Some naturalization papers were filed in the U.S. District Courts located in Fort Smith, Little Rock, and Fort Worth, Texas. A statewide index to naturalization records of Arkansas was compiled by the Works Projects Administration for the years 1809-1906. Copies of this index are at the National Archives--Fort Worth Branch, the Arkansas History Commission, and at the U.S. District Court in Fort Smith. The Family History Library does not have a copy. For naturalization records after September 1906, contact the National Archives--Fort Worth Branch or the local Immigration and Naturalization Service. ------ The United States made the Louisiana Purchase, which included the land that is presently Arkansas, in 1803. Shortly thereafter, the Arkansas territory was opened to settlement, and the inducement to move there was good land at very low prices. Other settlers came to claim bounty land awarded for service in the War of 1812. Also, in the early 1800s, cotton was much in demand, and Arkansas was a good place to grow it. You are right--there WERE a lot of Wards in Arkansas. In 1850, for instance, over 1 in every 100 people in Arkansas was named Ward! This was by far the densest Ward population in the United States. An interesting web site showing surname distribution can be found at http://www.hamrick.com/names . Look at the 1850 map, then look at the 1880 map. The 1880 map at that site indicates that, by 1880, the Arkansas Ward population was less concentrated. Many of the Indian Wards migrated to Indian Territory (now OK) or to Mexico (now TX), of course, but many more Wards migrated to other nearby states. Brenda Gaines Gulick Swamp Creek Garden -Oregon http://www.pioneer.net/~brendad/ Mom's side - Smith, Payne, Ward, Horne, Nolen, Killcreece, McDaniel, Lamb, Johnson, Degraffenreid, Vass, Baker, Needham, Tscharner, Diesbach, Jenner, Muhlinen, Abbuhl, Lenheer, Ringenberg, Enswyl, Von Lindenach, Veller, VonBaum , Stone, Rust Dad's side - Gaines, Malcom, Holderby, Lewis, Harvey. Felix, Mays My Partner Patrick's family names- Gulick, Chaffey, Stevens/Stephens, Flynn