That sure does sound like a good deal to me.Gonna have to check it out.Thanks for telling us. Also gonna unsubscribe and subscribe from a different e-mail addie.Be back soon. Donald

We have a new newspaper in Newport called "The Jackson Countian". The front page of the paper is devoted to current news, but the rest of the paper consists of re-prints or investigations and findings by the editor of stories in the past - back as far as 1900 and before. It is a weekly publication and costs $17.00 per year. You may write to them at 308 Walnut Street, Newport, AR 72112-0045, or call them at 870-217-0549. It's worth the price! Paula Long [email protected] 9/22/00

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/204 Surname: webb ------------------------- Please disregard this message, have resolved the information and this is not my Webb family. sorry for any inconvenience to any of you. Thanks to those who replied to me. Jean Fruge

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/203 Surname: Webb ------------------------- Found recrod on IGI that gave Jackson Co., AR as the place of marriage for Elizabeth Webb, b. Franklin Co., TN @1826. Parents Chesley Webb & Martha Roberts. Does anyone have information on this family? Have tried to find verification that Martha's maiden name was Roberts. Am descendent from the Chesley Webb family. Can anyone assistance with a researcher for the Elizabeth/J.W.Fowler family? Assistance appreciated. Jean Fruge' [email protected] Thank You

Hi gang, The Ancestry Daily News has a very interesting article by George G. Morgan in today's edition: "A Visit with a Cemetery Administrator". You can find this online at: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/2326.asp (to Karen Hughes especially) I believe that Walnut Grove Cemetery has a sexton/administrator. At the Jackson County library, a business card taped to the front of one of the cemetery books has the sexton's name on it - I don't know when that card was taped in, though, and I didn't copy down the information. I read last year, somewhere on the Internet, a claim that each county in the U.S. has a person in charge of cemeteries, and all that you have to do to get information on cemeteries in your county is send a letter to the local Courthouse, attention: Cemetery Administrator. I don't know about that. I am swamped with work through December, and won't be of much use to y'all in following up on these things during the week. If someone knows about this or wants to followup on the information in the article, please feel free to chime in. Thanks, Mark Williamson ARJACKSO listkeeper [email protected]

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/201 Surname: ------------------------- Hi Debi, I believe that to be a church cemetery, and so the church may have records of its burial plots. http://www.switchboard.com has the phone number for Ballews Chapel Baptist Church in Grubbs: (870)252-3442 Let us know what you find out!

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/195 Surname: Woody ------------------------- I am trying to locate where Marion Franklin Woody Jr. was buried in Ballew Chapel Cemetery in Jackson County. He died as a small child in May of 1934. His parents were Marion Franklin Woody and Maudie Leah Williamson. I did not find him listed on the cemetery records but family remember visting the grave with their parents but not the location within the cemetery. They would like to place a marker at their brothers grave if it can be located. Thanks for your help.

Seeking information on Jess Barnett, John Thomas King and any other related family. Jess Barnett was my g-grandfather and John KIng was my grandfather. Thanks, Mary Lou

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/193 Surname: BREWER ------------------------- Jackson CO. AR I will look into my records and see what I can find in reference to Sarah...

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/192 Surname: Brewer, Murphy ------------------------- Hello Kelly, John Kelly Murphy was my great-grandmother's, Martha Murphy Davis, brother. She was widowed in 1866 and was living with John Kelly in the 1870 census in Jackson County. There is a deed recordered on Nov. 11, 1867 where J. K. sold a Louisa Brewer 200 acres on credit. On Dec. 26, 1867 he was to web Sarah Lou Brewer. I don't know if this Louisa was Sarah' mother or not. John Kelly & Sarah had two children, names unknown. They lived together until March of 1872, she filed for divorce on 9/16/1876, granted. We don't know what became of John Kelly or who his children were, however I have a copy of a picture of a John Murphy, written on the back was, "first cousin of Rufus Davis" (son of Martha)

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/191 Surname: BREWER ------------------------- Jackson Co., AR Gilbert, Do you have any information on Sarah? Like her parents or siblings. I may be able to help you if I know this info. Thanks

Dear Listmembers, I am in need of help and hope you can assist me. Does anyone know anybody in Jackson County, AR who would take a picture of my great grandfather's cemetery head stone? His name was Roy Sherry, died August 15, 1910. He is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Newport Arkansas. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me and would, of course, reimburse the cost of the photo. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Karen Hughes [email protected] Researching: CULLINS/ELMS/LOCKWOOD/PHOEBUS/SHERRY/WHEELER /WRIGHT

To list owner-Mark Williamson, I just wanted to let you know how very much I appreciate all the work you have done on the cemetery list. For people that don't live close, it has been very helpful. I have found, at last, my great grandparents! I just wanted to say THANK YOU. Linda _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/190 Surname: jackson, gann ------------------------- i am looking for a tom jackson that married a nancy gann i know they had aleast one child lucy she married a pleasant randoplh mcbride than later married a thompson

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/189 Surname: SMITHWICK, JAMES, BURNS, WALKER ------------------------- WILLIAM WILLIS SMITHWICK, B. N.C., child of Edmond Smithwick and Piety Jackson Skinner Willis, married Mary James of Georgia. Mary died in Alabama in 1863-65. They had three known children. William, Steven, Ada. He married 2nd to Mary Albright. They had several children, all died including Mary, in Italy Tx. After the loss of the younger family, he left Texas. He is said to have died in 1889. Other family members have information that says he visited the family of his first wife Mary JAMES who were living in Arkansas. Census records of 1860 show several Smithwicks living in JACKSON Co., also Jefferson,Randolph, and Phillips. I am seeking information on the possible location of his death and burial. Also any members of the JAMES family that migrated from Georgia sometime after the Civil War.

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/188 Surname: unknown ------------------------- Does anyone know of a hanging of a black man. He was hung for killing a policeman. When they first hanged him, he held his weight up with his hands...they took him down and slit his wrists, the rehung him. 1914.

Hi folks! I thought this little biography of the governor of Arkansas at the beginning of the WBTS I ran across on the CSA-History-L mailing list might be of some interest. -- Robert W. King I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver! SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959 BellNet: 501-634-2086 InterNet: [email protected] http://www.wildweasel.net -----Original Message----- From: Missouri Mule [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 04 September 2000 11:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Arkansas Governor Henry M. Rector Arkansas Governor Henry M. Rector was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. In reply to Lincoln's call of troops, Rector replied, "In answer to your requisition for troops from Arkansas, to subjugate the Southern States, I have to say that none will be furnished. The demand is only adding insult to injury." (The governors of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and North Carolina made similar defiant answers.) At the Battle of Helena, Arkansas, Rector lost his second son, Lieut. W. Rector, who fell during an assault on the enemy's guns. Governor Rector was inaugurated on November 15, 1860. In his inaugural address he counseled moderation in the action of the State government. He hoped for the display of a more conciliatory disposition on the part of the successful candidates in the late Federal election than could be discerned in the unauthorized publication of the press, and in sectional agitation going on in all parts of the common country. But, should the new officers yield to such influences and manifest the same spirit which had caused many powerful States to deliberately violate the compact of the Union, and should the general government take any step to encroach upon the constitutional rights of the Southern States, then the State of Arkansas should place herself in the column with her sister States of the South, and share their destiny. Governor Rector was a native of St. Louis, Mo., where his father, Col. Elias Rector, had been formerly surveyor-general of the Territory of Missouri, which then included Arkansas. He removed to Arkansas before he arrived at maturity, for the care of landed interests which he had inherited from his father. He was descended, in part, from the Seviers, of Tennessee, and was a relative of Senator, and one time United States Minister, A. H. Sevier, of Arkansas. He resided at Little Rock, after holding several positions, as member of the general assembly from Saline county, United States marshal of the western district of Arkansas, surveyor-general, and associate justice of the Supreme court. CMH, vol. 10 Confederate Military History, vol 1 gives this biography: Henry M. Rector, first war governor of Arkansas, was born at St. Louis, Mo., in 1816. He became a citizen of Arkansas in 1835 and soon rose to prominence as an attorney and public man. He was United States marshal from 1843 to 1845, and judge of the Supreme court from 1859 to 1860. Through the bequest of his father, Maj. Elias Rector, he was interested, and finally successful as a claimant in the famous Hot Springs litigation. In June, 1860, the Democratic State convention nominated Richard H. Johnson for governor, and Rector resigned his position as supreme justice to run as an independent candidate on a platform embodying the Union sentiment. After a heated canvass he received a majority of about 3,500, and was inaugurated November 15, 1860, in his address on that occasion deprecating hasty action. but asserting that Arkansas should unite her fortunes with the other Southern States in case of any encroachments upon their rights. When the issue was upon the State, he was emphatically a war governor, and energetic and faithful in the discharge of his delicate and important duties. By a defect in the constitution of 1861 his term was shortened from four to two years, and on account of the resulting controversy he resigned November 4, 1862. and declined renomination, maintaining that he was en. titled to hold for the four years. Governor Rector is still living at Little Rock, at the age of eighty-one years (1897). NOTE: Ex-Governor Rector continued to serve his State, as a member of the Arkansas Home Guards, after leaving political office.

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/187 Surname: ------------------------- I know a Alfred W. Bailey who lives in Little Rock, AR He was born & raised in Tuckerman, Jackson County, AR. If you want to contact me by email I will furnish you with more information that I have about him. I do not want to post anymore information that can be picked up and read by Lord knows how many persons.

Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ar/Jackson/186 Surname: Hatfield, Murphy ------------------------- I am looking for information on Tilman Hatfield, who is listed in the 1910 census as living with Wm. S. Hatfield and wife Fannie. Tilman was 54 years old at the time. I believe he was born in 1857 in MO. The 1900 census for Jackson Co. apparently shows him as a boarder in the home of Matthew Murphy.

Hello, Could anyone please tell me where to find Coleman Cemetery? My Gr.Grandparents William and Angelina Hensley death certificate list Colemen Cemetery Jackson County,Ar. Thank You,Melba