ARKANSAS HISTORY and PIONEERS At Arkansas Post in the Spring of 1820, Solomon B. Juddfrom Colchester, Connecticut, sickened and died and was thereburied. He was a young man prospecting for a home. Atthe same place on July 21, 1821, Wm. O'Hara, a rich speculatorfrom St. Louis. There also on July 11, 1821, Judge Seldonlost an infant daughter. The judge consoled himself withthe remark, "Whom the gods love die young." In September,1821, Jonathan R. Brown from New York died at Little Rock,and in the same months Mrs. Ann Greenwalt, an old settler,died on her farm five miles from Arkansas Post. In the samemonth at the residence of Wright Daniels on the Arkansasriver, Lewis Rouse passed away. In September, 1819, MosesGraham, sheriff of Pulaski County, died at his residence, havinglived in Arkansas about three years. John McLain diedin Hempstead County in 1819, and William McDonald administeredon his estate. At Davidsonville, Stephen Chamberlaindied on August 6, 1821. He was from Vermont and quite aprominent man. In Richland in Arkansas County in 1831,James Currin died at a very advanced age, having been formany years a resident of that section; like a fire he flickeredout, but sparkled long after they thought him gone. In 1821,two brothers from Kentucky, Joseph and Andrew Colville, died;the former in Miller and the later in Pulaski County.288, 289 In the same year at Arkansas Post Martha D. Long, wifeof Zachariah Long, late of Versailles, Kentucky. Michael D.Robinson from Nashville, Tennessee, died in Hempstead Countyin 1823, and Madam Imbeau, wife of Monsieur Imbeau, died atthe Post. In December, 1820, Jacob Jones died at Little Rock,being fifty years of age. On February 8, 1823, Asenath Stuart,daughter of Col. Wm. Stuart, died in Lawrence County.At Pecannerie on May 28, 1824, Eliza, wife of Thomas White,and on September 25, William, son of Colonel William Lewis.In Independence County there were several deaths in 1824:Betsy Millsaps, wife of Reuben, in November; Mrs. Stephenson,wife of William, and Mrs. Dodd, wife of Thomas D., bothdied in November, as did a Mrs. Griffith. Crystal Hill in January,1825, Mark Westland, a native of Austria, and HiramGreen, both passed away. Joseph Bentley, son of George, diedat Pecannerie in February, 1825, while William Woodwardpassed away in Hempstead County on November 2, 1824, leavinga wife and children. He migrated from Tennessee to LongPrairie, then in Missouri, in 1816, and filled offices under thegeneral government. He was one of the first common pleasjudges of Hempstead County. Samuel Faulkner, late of thesteamer Spartan, died in August, 1825, at the house of JamesH. Martin, aged thirty years. Dr. R. H. Fenner died in LittleRock in February, 1824. At Arkansas Post in her twentiethyear, on January 14, 1820, Paulina Colville. The family seemsto have been located there several years, and she was doubtlessof kin to the brothers mentioned above. In June, 1820, MajorNoah Lester, a United States army officer, died at Little Rock.Jairus Berry from Courtland County, New York, with his family,entered Arkansas in 1820, and at the mouth of the Arkansasriver his wife was taken sick and died. She was buried at thatplace. William Wilson arrived at Little Rock in 1820 from OrangeCounty, New York. In October of that year he died, leavinga wife and three children, who remained in Arkansas. In December,1820, Dr. William Orr from Missouri, a friend andrelative of Judge Andrew Scott, died at the Scott residenceand was buried in Little Rock. Abraham Beck, formerly ofNew York, died at Arkansas Post on September 5, 1821. Hehad just opened a branch of the Western Land Agency. BetsyBarkman, wife of Jacob Barkman, died at the farm five milesfrom the Post on August 2, 1821. Jacob Barkman seems tohave had a home in Arkansas County, while blazing a way forhis later and lasting home in Clark County. In HempsteadCounty in February, 1829, Joseph Paxton from Virginia, beingfifty years of age, passed away. Thomas Knox, who movedto Chicot County in 1826, died there in 1829. At ArkansasPost on August 22, 1839, Elizabeth, wife of Wigton King, diedin her fifty-eighth year. In Miller County, on November 21,1829, Claiborne Wright died in his forty-fifth year, leaving awife and children. Sylvanus Phillips died at Helena October31, 1830, aged sixty-five. He was one of the oldest Arkansaspioneers, dating far back into the previous century. On July25, 1831, at Van Buren, James Phillips, a soldier of the Revolution.These all lie very probably in unmarked graves, overwhich the plow-share of progress has run so deep and oftenas to make their identity impossible.290 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.9/72 - Release Date: 8/14/2005