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/hV.2ADE/2321.1 Message Board Post: Lamar Cemetery - Lamar, Arkansas Allam, Angie Rose 1926-1928 Allam, Buford Forrest 1873-1957 Allam, Harrie 6/18/1876-10/02/1898 (son of W. & M.) It is noted that there are several hundred unmarked graves in that cemetery. From Johnson County Cemeteries book (up to 1986) - I checked variations as well. ============== Johnson Co. Hist. Soc. Journals - There is a note that Mary is mentioned on p. 52 of April 1985 - pity that I only have a couple of pages of that one, but since p. 53 starts CSA pensions with surnames "B", sounds promising. This was just a list of people receiving payments, no details. Also another page I don't have - April 1995 - Patricia E. Perry, of Ojai, CA, entered a query that included " William ALLUM b. 1832, m. 1867, d. 1903 Lamar; Mary Ann SAWYER b. 1844, m. 1867, d. 1928 Lamar" Also in the year's obituaries (Jan. 1995), p.43 - 01-06-95 ALLAM, William R. Sr. 75 KS, formerly Lamar, bur. KS; s/Bedford F. and Rose Lena SAWYER ALLAM; Mason; h/Barbara Fern HAYDON ALLAM; son W.R. ALLAM Jr.; dau. Barbara KINCAID; bro. Carl ALLAM. I looked through some other notes, but don't find the names elsewhere. In other postings I have listed some of the general dates of newspapers that existed, but with a death date of 1903, it is difficult unless someone has an obituary that was saved by family. Copies of papers before 1912 are pretty spotty. Since it appears his wife received a CSA widows pension in the 1920's while living in Arkansas, regardless of his service state, he would be in the index book (I don't have a copy at hand). A nearby genealogy section may have this (Little Rock, Dallas, Nashville, LDS). The pension papers would be on microfilm at the Arkansas History Commission.