This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaw, Jones, McBride Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/437.1.1 Message Board Post: Robert, sorry it took me so long to get back to you but my comp. crashed and it has taken me a few days to bring it back on line. Yes, I would like to have any information that you may have on this line. I know that the Shaws in my line are buried in a graveyard called Fairview near Salem. This graveyard has many of our Shaw , Jones, and McBride family members. It is said to be owned at one time by my family as the land that the old school house where my Dad went to school. It was built by the McBrides for the childen in the family to go to school. It is still standing but is in need of repair. I would be glad to share the little I have on my Shaw line. I do know that John Joseph Shaw was born in Ky. but after that the trail ends for me. So anything you may have would be great. On the Ball line I think its funny because on my Mothers side of the family is a Ball line also. Maybe we are looking for the same familes there also. Let me know a few names and maybe I can connect them to my line. Anyway, I'll be waiting to hear from you. You may contact me at Pizzi2648@msn.com Thanks, Georgia L. Pizzimenti (nee Jones)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/32.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Miss Carri!! I am so sorry not to have followed through with the geneology of the Adams. I am Darlene's grandaughter. She passed away this year 2/27 05. I would love to get in contact with you. My email is Sassy_Quilter@yahoo.com Thank you! I Have lots of pics from my grandma that you would be interested in, of the Adams' :)

Homer C. Smith lived in Salado Township during the early 1900's. I am interested in any information regarding his family: His mother Ruth Smith West who died in Independence Co. His Uncle William Morgan. Any help or suggestion would be helpful. Ruth Smith married a man named West. I would like to know the details of this marriage. Ruth may have been married to an Atkins before the West marriage. Thanks for any help. El Gringo Viejo the Transplanted Okie Paul R. L. Vance

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hargrove, McMillen, Shaw, Ball, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/437.1 Message Board Post: Georgia, I have a William and Rebecca Shaw in my line and additional information. Rebecca's maiden name is Ball. I am still doing research. There was a piece of land near Conway which is called the Shaw Bottoms. If you go to the Faulkner county web site and look at Pioneer Families who got land from the gove. you will find a Joseph Shaw who got land around 1820. If this helps let me know. I will share what I have with you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perdue/Pennington/Burns/Garner/Brannan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/578 Message Board Post: Seeking information on any Perdues/Penningtons / Burns or Garners in the Newark area, Big Bottom township. Enoch E. Perdue b.4 Dec 1863; d. 31 Dec 1890 around Newark(buried Dugger Cemetery) he apparently was shot and killed at his farm around Newark. wife Elizabeth C. Pennington b.1871 ?Independence Co d. 1951 Little Rock. Married 2nd to F.M. Brannan Batesville.(she is buried Oaklawn Cemetery) father of E.C. Pennington is Benjamin Victor Pennington b. 1847 Tn, d. 1875 Independence Co, Ar married Bethana Jane Garner b. 1847 Ar, d.1909 Independence Co, buried dugger Cemetery. She was maried 2nd to Henry Burns b.1839/d. 1896 buried Dugger Cemetery.Thanks for any help.Suzanne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gower,Platt,Stracner,Dodd,Ladd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/577 Message Board Post: I am looking for someone who has information on the Joel Jackson family from Independence county Ar. Part of the family is buried in Egner cemetary at Salado. I am trying to find out if their daughter Lucy Jackson Gower is buried there also. Thanks

> > ANNOUNCEMENT > Re: Powhatan Historic Records Update > Date: June 18, 2005 10:27PM > > > Thursday night's public meeting was a great success. About 35 local & > national citizens, 5 State Parks Staff, the ASU archivist, and a > reporter met and held open frank and revealing > discussions about the fate of the priceless historic records recently > evicted from the > Powhatan Courthouse after many years. Citizens voiced their concerns > and the regional > state parks official, Marcel Hanzlec from Wynne, gave the parks side. > He says the Parks > Department leaders are now willing to build a "state of the art vault > and research facility" > on the Powhatan Park grounds. They still do not want the records back > in the vaults which > have protected them these past 130 or so years though. They want to use > the former research > room in the Courthouse for a gift shop, visitor center, and offices for > the local Park > Superintendent and her crew. > The catch is it will take months, or years, to get funding and a plan > lined up and still > longer to actually build the research facility so the records will > probably have to remain > in the ASU library for the next 2 or 3 years or more. > LCHS still needs public support. We need folks to send letters to the > Governor asking why > the state spent 1.2 million dollars on the renovation and can't find > time, or space, or > money to protect the records and honor their long standing Memorandum > of Agreement held > with the LCHS. > We will have to hold their feet to the fire. That is best done with a > top down approach. > Letters and phone calls to the Governor, CC"d to the Parks Director, > State Historian and > the local Super get sent to regional legislators and they go to the > Parks Director for answers. > The GOvernor's office then sends "Letters of Concern" to his Department > Directors asking them > to make the problem go away. > Letters to Mr Mike Beebe and Lt. Gov Win Rockefeller will help. Now > that they are running for > Governor they will want to win votes in NE Ark by helping out on a > topic like preserving our > culture and records of our past. > Petetions work well. We'll need to get one started and get as many of > the regions folks to > sign it as possible. > Keep the pressure on folks. > > Some of these State Officals are wanting to be re-elected to office and > one is even wanting to > become Governer. Let them know The Genealogy Communtity doesn't liked > to be walked on like this. > > To email Attoney General Mike Beebe, go to: > > http://www.goflashgo.com/agcontactform.htm > > The city of Powhatan is in Lawrence County which is in the First > Congressional > District of Arkansas. You should contact Representative Marion Berry's > office in > Jonesboro, AR at 800-866-2701 or 870-972-4605. > > For an update on this matter, go to Bill COUCH's webpage at: > > http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/ > > > > At the heart of this controversy is not only the continued protection > of these valuable records but the shabby treatment in which the park > service has treated the Lawrence County Historical Society. This > Society has been the reason why these priceless documents have been so > well preserved over the past 130 years. Because of pressure by > genealogists all over the country, the officials have changed their > plans from 'sticking' the documents in an old unprotected church > building to saying they will BUILD a building with vaults [although it > will takes years for this to be completed] and hiring personnel. The > Historical Society already had personnel in place who had done this for > FREE for many many years. Evelyn Flippo has been a godsend to many > researchers with her knowledge and helpfulness. This researcher feels > for the Arkansas citizens. What they had for FREE with an able facility > and personnel for the records, now will cost. It will take all of us > to continue the pressure upon the government officials. I urge all > genealogists who find their ancestors in Missouri and Arkansas, to get > on board and help any way they can to support the Lawrence County > Society in their fight to keep these records in Lawrence County. > Email, call, or write the officials, DO SOMETHING. Let's make sure that > these officials will take this as seriously as we do. > > > Lanita Sconce Smith > DCGS President > > Genealogists never die, they just loose their roots >

(Ca 20 years ago,No Date) LOCAL MAN DIES IN COLLISION NEWPORT--- William Keith Cobb,23, was killed Saturday when the car in which he was riding collided with a grain truck on Highway 14 at the county road 331 southeast of Newport in Jackson County, according to Jerry Nicholson of the Arkansas State Police telecommunication system. The accident occurred at 3:40 p.m. when a 1977 Chevrolet sedan driven by Donald Ray Cargile,23, of Batesville attemped to pass a 1978 International grain truck. Both vehicles were eastbound on Highway 14. The grain truck was making a right turn into county road 331 when the sedan overtook the truck,attempting to pas on the right-hand side, said Nicholson. The sedan "struck the right front of the truck, went off the road, struck a tree" he said. Cargile and passenger Joe Walker, 24, also of batesville, were injured, said Nicholson. they were transported to Harris hospital in Newport and later transferred to the White River Medical Center. Walker was reported in satisfactory condition this morning by a WRMC spokeman. Cargile was released over the weekend. Nicholson said no seat belts were in use in the sedan. The investigating officer was State Trooper Sam Gordon of Newport. Suvivors include his wife, Debbie Tayer* Cobb of the home; his parents, David and Joan Cobb of Batesville; a brother, Michael Cobb of Texas; two sisters, Tanya Cobb and Amanda Cobb of Batesville; and his grandmothers, Mrs. Theda Mae Lewis and Mrs. Ruth Wegert, both of Batesville. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. Bobby Shepherd officiating. Buriel will be in Oaklawn Cemetery under the direction of the Batesville Davies Funeral Home. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.16/50 - Release Date: 7/15/2005

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/548.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: In 1850, there were three Blevins households in Izard County, Franklin Township. 412/412 John Blevens 32 Catharine 39 Andrew J. 18 Eleania 16 Oliver 14 Elizabeth 9 Eliza 7 Rodney D. 1 All were born in Tennessee 414/414 Dillion Blevens 29 Eliza 45 Elania 34 Frances 53 All were born in Tennessee 415/415 William Blevens 32 Rachel 25 Mary 6 Dedrick 4 Eliza 1 All were born in Tennessee Since they were all living so closely, I assumed John, Dillion/Dillard and William were brothers. In 1860, William is still in Izard County, but Dillard D. is in Independence County (White River Township) as is John, but John is in Greenbriar Township (Locust Grove area). Anyway, I haven't run across a William that married a Lucy, but I'll dig through my files and see what I have.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILLIAM BLEVINS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/548.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Cindy! Thank you so much for the information on William Blevins. No, I do not have the information on William and Mary Ann's kids. But these Blevins you have told me about sound like my Blevins. I was wondering if you have any information on the William Blevins that you said lived next door to Dillion. I am trying to find out some information on a William Blevins who married a woman with the first name of Lucy. His middle initial was C. I will look and see if I have William and Mary Ann's kids but I am not sure if I do right now. I will get back in touch with you about this. Pam Day

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/548.1.1.1 Message Board Post: William Blevins, b. May 20, 1853, d. April 12, 1885 (He's buried at Eutopia Cemetery in Sharp County--his tombstone reads Belevens) was the son of Dillard D. Blevins and Elizabeth Martin. According to Dillard's war records and Elizabeth's pension request, William had three siblings who died in infancy-Robert, Margaret Adline and Dillard. He had two sisters that did live to adulthood-Lucinda, who married William Montgomery and Elizabeth, who married John Satterwhite. This Elizabeth Blevins (William's sister) is my direct ancestor-which I didn't know until I started researching my family tree-so my husband and I are about 12th cousins or something like that! Anyway, Dillard died September 7, 1863, according to his pension records from ill health he'd gotten from fighting in the Civil War. Elizabeth Martin Blevins married her daughter Elizabeth's father-in-law, William Satterwhite in 1874. I haven't been able to trace Dillard's father-of course, his name has been listed as Daniel, Dillard, Dillon and Dillion. A Dillion Blevins is in Izard County in 1850, with three women in his household, possibly sisters and his mother, next door to a William Blevins and his family-believed to be Dillard's brother-and a Dilian D. Blevins of Izard County did receive land "the North east Quarter of the North east Quarter of Section 25, in Township 16 N, of Range 8" on June 16, 1856. I believe he is from the Johnson County, TN Blevins', but so far, haven't been able to connect with actual concrete evidence. William and Mary Ann had 5 children-do you have the info on them? Let me know what else you would like to know.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLEVINS, JOHNSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/548.1.1 Message Board Post: I just read your email message. What if any information do you have on William Blevins? I appreciate the information you gave me on Mary Jane. These Blevins are on my side of the family. I would appreciate any help you can give me on them. Thank You! Pam Day

No record of a marriage in Indep County AR from Books A, B, C, or D years 1826 - 1877

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/576.1 Message Board Post: I tried to contact you at your e-mail address but it bounced back to me. E-mail me at coolray@netdirect.net Tom Smalley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/576 Message Board Post: Can anyone help me find a record of the marriage of Adam Waller and Elizabeth Smalley. Should be in the 1850-1856 time frame. They were supposed to have been married in Independence. Appreciate any help. Thanks, Pat

Dear List, I am trying to find out information on a person who is buried in Blue Springs Cemetery. That person is J. J. JOHNSON. He was b. 16 Apr 1844 and d. 5 Apr 1902 according to his stone in the cemetery. Would anybody out there have information on J. J. JOHNSON? Might there be an obit for him? Always willing to share info. Thank you, Judy in TX

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/543.1 Message Board Post: Dee and Eliza had no children of their own. Eliza was 51 years old when they married in November 1894, so I'm assuming she was past child bearing age. In the 1880 Independence County census, John Dee and his first wife Mary Jane had Josephine, 12, Lewella, 10, Wm. A., 6, Nannie E., 5 and Jesse 10/12. In the 1900 census, Henry, 16 born Mar 1884 and Joe, 9, born October 1890. A Jesse B. Seward, born August 1, 1879, d. July 21, 1964 is buried in Macedonia Cemetery in Newark, AR. That's all the info I have-Eliza was my ancestor, not Dee, so I haven't done a lot of research on the Seward line. Their obits read: Newark Journal, May 31, 1907 J.D. Seward, one of the town's oldest and best known citizens, died at his home her yesterday (Thursday) about 1 o'clock, after a prolonged illness from lung trouble. He was a member of the Christian church and was a good citizens. Newark Journal, June 29, 1906 Mrs. J.D. Seward died at her home in this city Saturday afternoon as a result of injuries received from falling off the porch several days ago. She was 70 years old and was a most estimable Christian lady, having been a member of the Christian church for a number of years. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon at the Blue Springs Cemetery. Rev. J.H. McDoniel conducted the ceremonies and a large number of people were present to pay a last sad tribute to a departed friend.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/548.2 Message Board Post: Sorry, I hit the return button before I got a chance to finish. Mary did remarry after William Blevins died. She married James Andrews Smith on June 17, 1886. They had six children. She is buried in Eutopia Cemetery in Sharp County, AR.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/548.1 Message Board Post: I have a Mary Ann Johnson who married William Blevins on January 19, 1873 in Independence County. William is my husband's gg-grandfather. I have found a Mary that is about the right age in the 1870 census in the household of James and Mary Johnson, along with another child, Nancy, age 13. According to the census, James was born in TN. Unfortunately, both James and Johnson are very common names, so I haven't been able to run it down any farther than that.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Daley, Gentry, Lawson, Jackson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/575 Message Board Post: I am still looking for Thomas Daley & Mary Elizabeth Gentry, possible parents of James Robert Daley. He married 1884/1885 to Martha Almeta Lawson. I believe in Independence Co., Ark. Their children are: Ralph Henry, Percy Lizzie Beth, Cora, Jessie Lee, Nora, Oather, Earnest, Charles Russell "Charlie", Arthur & James C. "Jimmie" Daley. Ralph, Percy & Cora were born in i believe independece Co., Ark. Ralph & Percy died at a very young age. I believe Martha's mom's maiden name was Jackson but have no further info. on her. James R. was brother to Martha "Mattie" C., Malinda Caroline & Polly Daley. I believe they were children of Thomas Daley & Martha Elizabeth Gentry. Any help at all is greatly appreciated! thanks, kim