Anyone can spell either of their names anyway they choose to which can drive researchers nuts. I have seven different spellings for one branch of my family. A name that has fascinated me in western Arkansas is the name Pleasant for a male. I have been told it is a "Quaker" name, but I am unaware of many if any Quakers in the Scott/Logan County area.

The migrations that interested me on Quakers started in PA, then to VA/NC circa 1765, then to TN,AL & GA. By the time the families got to TN there weren't any Quakers in the family but we can only guess that a popular name was handed down from that era. There are some things that your best S.W.A.G. is all you will have. It may be just as true that someone had a neighbor by that name that they admired and they used his name and how will we know if that person had Quaker heritage. Ron McCandless [email protected] wrote: > > Anyone can spell either of their names anyway they choose to which can drive > researchers nuts. I have seven different spellings for one branch of my > family. A name that has fascinated me in western Arkansas is the name > Pleasant for a male. I have been told it is a "Quaker" name, but I am > unaware of many if any Quakers in the Scott/Logan County area. > > ==== ARLOGAN Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain > letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

In reading the census and other records, I often run across a name that is very common in one Arkansas locality but is relatively rare elsewhere. One example I can think of is Acord -- the one "c" spelling... another is Cagle, which is everywhere! I don't have an Acord in my lines, but I have at least one Cagle. Are there other names that you fellow researchers have noticed to be particularly "over-represented" -- meaning far more common in the Arkansas area or county you are researching -- than in the rest of the United States? I would love to know which names. Thanks, Amy

MARRIAGE: Yarbrough, 28, Prairie View, to May Parks, 21, Prairie View, 25 Dec 1917 by WW Walker, MG, AP Moore Security J-174 (Logan Co Marriage Bk) OBITUARY: Dan Yarbrough, 92, of Route 2, Paris, died Tuesday at the Paris hospital. He was born Jan 15, 1889, the son of the late James and Mittia Bates (should have been PATE) Yarbrough of Coal Hill. He was a retired coal miner. Survivors include four daughters, Maxine Drain of Farmington, AR, Mary Knight of Prairie Grove, and Mittia Nickelson and Louise Hoffman, both of Paris; one son, James Yarbrough; 18 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM Thursday at Greer Funeral Home chapel, with Rev. Jim Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Prairie View cemetery. Mr Yarbrough was the grandfather of Judy Voorhees of Route 1, Ozark. (Johnson County Graphic-1981) According to the 1957 obituary of his brother, James Claude, Dan lived in Branch, AR. at that time. Does anyone know any of these family members? Loeta Venable

Info sent to me recently - >From LOGAN COUNTY ARKANSAS, ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE, page 217, article titled "Jim Hughes" by Ray Hughes: "Jim and Martha (Desho) Hughes...joined her father in Ellsworth where they raised a family of six sons and three daughters: Willie, Milen, Larkin who died as a child, Sam, Jimmie, Delbert, Emma, Pirle, and Lissie...Willie married Armanda Yarbrough at Prairie View on 13 August 1905...Their children were Mary, Ray, Irene, James and Alfred...Ray married Mildred Harrison in 1928...They were blessed with twelve children: Harlen, bill, James Ray, frances, Daisy, Armenda, Jane, Marron, Linda Sue and Betty; a boy and girl died at birth...Mildred died in November 1984. Ray still lives on the home place [1986]...." AND - In my files - I have this: 1-James Hughes b: Nov 1852, d: 1929 +Martha Deshazo b: 7 Jun 1862, Jackson MS, d: 11 Sep 1952 |--2-Emma D. Hughes b: 27 Aug 1883, Ellsworth, Logan County, Arkansas, d: 26 | Oct 1967, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas +James Claude Yarbrough b: 19 Jan 1880, Batesville Independence Co, Arkansas, d: 8 Aug 1957, Scranton, Logan County, Arkansas |--3-Ola D Yarbrough b: 1908 | +Unknown Ebbing |--3-Alta M Yarbrough b: 1910 | +Charley Newman |--3-Cloid Wesley Yarbrough b: 15 Sep 1911, Scranton, Logan County, | Arkansas, d: 3 Oct 1995, Pine Bluff, Arkansas | +Ruth Irene Lay b: 18 Dec 1915, Scranton, Logan Co., AR | |--4-Emma Jewel Yarbrough b: 21 Oct 1934, Wright, Jefferson Co., AR | |--4-Ruth Virginia Yarbrough b: 15 Aug 1938, Wright, Jefferson Co., AR | |--4-James Thomas Yarbrough b: 6 Apr 1942, Wright, Jefferson Co., | | Arkansas, |--3-Everette James Yarbrough b: 1914, Scranton, Logan Co., AR, d: 28 Jul | 1973, Buried In Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co, AR | +Dolvory Ann Ross b: 5 Jan 1939, d: 22 May 1981, Buried In Prairie View | Cemetery, Logan Co, AR | |--4-James Yarbrough | |--4-Herman Lee Yarbrough | |--4-J C Yarbrough | |--4-Gary Yarbrough | |--4-Jane Yarbrough | |--4-Janette Yarbrough | |--4-Lelona Angelis Yarbrough (married Jerry Goldsmith of Johnson Co., AR) | |--4-Katherine Yarbrough | +Mary |--3-Emma Yarbrough b: 1915, d: 2000 | +Al Weaver |--3-Lee Hoyle Yarbrough b: 20 Jun 1917, d: 27 Dec 1994 | +Geneva Sory | |--4-Martha Yarbrough | |--4-Loretta Yarbrough | |--4-Jim Yarbrough |--3-Lucille M Yarbrough b: Jul 1918 | +Pete Weaver |--3-Discheo Clouid 'D. C." Yarbrough b: 14 Feb 1921, Scranton, Logan Co., AR, | d: Aug 1962, Olympia, WA THE BOOK (above) states Martha's maiden name to be Desho - It was actually Deshazo. I have this on an audio tape made by Cloid Wesley Yarbrough. ALSO - DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING of D. C. Yarbrough above? I know he moved to Olympia, WA after WWII and had 6 boys and 1 girl. I do not know who he married. I ordered the Social Security information for him which states: At age 24, Discheo Clouid Yarbrough lived in Wright, AR when he applied for SS#. States he was born in Scranton, Logan County, Ark. Father, James C.(Cloid)Yarbrough and mother Emma Hughs. He was unemployed at the time, 10-19-1945. He wrote his name: D. C. Yarbrough. Even though the SS records say Discheo Clouid, I think his name was most likely, Deshazo Cloid, as Deshazo was his mother's maiden name and his father's middle name was Cloid. The 1957 obituary of his father, James Claude Yarborough states that "D. C." was living in Olympia, WA at that time. Also the SS Index showed that he died in Aug 1962, Olympia, WA. I would like to know more about his descendants. THERE ARE MANY GAPS IN MY RESEARCH OF THIS FAMILY, esp with the Weavers. I am told they lived around Scranton, Logan County, but that is all I know. Any help would be appreciated. Loeta (Yarbrough) Venable

Would there happen to be a listing in this book on a Thomas H. Davis. He is listed on the Logan county 1880 census,or a W.[willie]T. Barnett,died 9-1-54????? Sam at [email protected] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.360 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 5/7/2002

While I'm at it I might as well add another Yarbrough sibling, William Meredith. He was the son of James and Louisa Childers Yarbrough. He was born October 16, 1852 in AR, married Texanna Carolyn GILMORE August 10, 1870 in White County, AR. They moved to Logan Co around 1879. Children of William M. and Texanna Gilmore YARBROUGH: 1. Louisa Elizabeth YARBROUGH, born August 25, 1874, married around 1888 to John MASSEY. In 1898, she remarried to James W. LOWENSTEIN. 2. James Cartwright YARBROUGH, was born December 07, 1875. He died in 1882 and is buried in OK. 3. Idona YARBROUGH, born 1877, died at 6 months of age. 4. William Thomas “Tom” YARBROUGH, born March 06, 1879, married to Martha Ann “Aunt Cecil” BEST and died April 08, 1954 in Fort Worth. They had children; Margaret and Dorothy Meredith. 5. John Wyley YARBROUGH, born 1881, married August 04, 1898 to Ella VARNELL. They had a daughter named Emma. 6. Idella YARBROUGH born 1883, died in 1885 and is buried in OK. 7. Lee "Roy" YARBROUGH, born March 19, 1885 and died March 16, 1910 in Kansas City, KS from a gunshot wound he received during an argument over a meal ticket. 8. Maud Mae YARBROUGH, born March 27, 1887 in Hunt, Johnson County, AR. She married July 24, 1902 to Jeremiah "Jerry" Lamar Jones RHINEHEART. "Jerry" Rhineheart was born 16 May 1873 and died 29 Mar 1929. Maud Mae died 14 Sep 1967. They are buried in Hickory Grove Cemetery, Logan County, AR. Children of Maud Mae and Jerry Rhineheart: 1.) Thomas Leon, (m.Johnnie Lee Baker) 2.) Ola Marianna,(m.Sam Gardenshire) 3.) Voicey Lucille,(m.Manny Buck) 4.) Jerry L.(d.1909) 5.) Texana Obedience,(m.Louis Apple, 2nd-Bo Ransom) 6.) David Meridith,(m. Hazel M. Durning) 7.) John William,(d. 1930) 8.) Alton Washington,(m.Mary Russell) 9.) Hazel, (m.George Atchison). 9. Mary Meredith YARBROUGH, born October 24, 1888 in Logan County, AR, married James F. BUTLER, and died October 08, 1986 in Fort Worth, TX. Had one child; William James "Bill" Butler. On March 12, 1888, while the family lived in Indian Territory near the town of Muldrow, William "Bill" Yarbrough was shot to death and Texana was injured by three men who rode up their house on horseback. He had recently had a quarrel with two of the men, Sam and John Massey over a cattle deal. Suspect, John Massey was the husband of Bill and Texanna Yarbrough's fourteen year old daughter, Louisa Elizabeth. The Massey brothers were tried for murder in the Federal Courthouse at Fort Smith, AR. The trial was judged by a jury but presided over by Judge Roy Parker. Both men were sentenced to 6 years in the AR State Penitentiary. Seven months after her husband's death, Texanna Yarbrough gave birth to a baby girl, Mary Meredith, whom she named for her late husband. She moved her children back to AR where she was granted homestead property in Logan County, on March 2, 1896. She died August 24, 1933 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX and is buried there in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery. I did some research on the death and trial following of William Meredith Yarbrough and have recently added it to my website - it could be of importance as there are several names on the trial surname list that have ties to Logan County. http://loeta.net/yarbroughmurdertrial.htm I have quite a bit of information on this family, given to me by family members. So I am not requesting information but am including it since some of these people have connections to Logan County and it fits in with the rest of the family. The only other brother I have not listed is Levi "Lee" Yarbrough, whose family remained in Johnson County (Yarbrough Mountain) and has no direct ties to Logan County. Loeta (Yarbrough) Venable

DAVID PINKNEY YARBROUGH, born March 18, 1871, in Arkansas. He married April 02, 1889 in Johnson County, AR to Mary Ellen CLEVENGER. Children of David Pinkney and Mary Ellen Clevenger YARBROUGH: 1. Charlotte Jane YARBROUGH, born around 1890 and died about 4 years later. 2. James "Tecumseh" YARBROUGH, born November 11, 1891, married 1913 to Florence Missouri HUBBARD. They moved to Sikeston, MO. Their children are: 1.) Sarah Marie (Holmes), 2.) Granville Ted, 3.) Mason Opal,(died in WWII) 4.) Lottie Jane (Mon), 5.) and Rosella. 3. George YARBROUGH was born February 08, 1908. He married Rethie SMOKE, born 8 Oct 1914, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., AR. Rethie died 8 Feb 1967, Hot Springs, Garland County AR. George died April 19, 1990. They are buried in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery in the community of Gourdneck. They are parents of 1.) Kimuel, 2.) Howard, 3.) Donnie, 4.) Daniel, 5.) Laverne (Ordex), 6.) Gladys, and 7.) Martha. 4. David Meredith YARBROUGH, born October 27, 1911, married April 26, 1930 to Ida Marie FOX. David worked in the coal mines near Altus, Arkansas. They are parents of 1. ) Lyndell, 2.) James Don, 3.) Russel L., 4.) Shirley (Brown), 5. Nathan H., and 6.) Betty Lou. I am especially interested in finding information about Pink Yarbrough's first wife, Mary Ellen Clevenger. I know she was born around 1873, married in Johnson County, and died ? of TB. Does anyone have more information about her? Pink Yarbrough married a second time on September 22, 1923 to Lillie M. Lay FOX in Logan County, AR. Lillie passed away April 23, 1935. Pink died May 7, 1940, in Logan County. Loeta (Yarbrough) Venable

Stephen Turner GOAD married November 28, 1877 in White County, AR. to MARY JANE "'Molly" YARBROUGH  born February 5, 1863. Children of Stephen Turner and Mary Jane "Molly" Yarbrough GOAD:   (1.) CHARLES C. GOAD, born October 28, 1878.  Family story is that he went to San Francisco, CA and arrived 3 days before the earthquake of 1906. He was never heard from again. However, his name is not on the 'official' earthquake casualty list. Does anyone know if there are any surviving old newspapers that might have information about this in the Logan Co area? (2.) CORA E. GOAD, born May 14, 1880. No information.  (3.) JOHN Clarence GOAD, born June 13, 1884, married August 28, 1906 to Ethel Mabel DAVIS. John Goad died September 17, 1966 in Oakland, California.  They were parents of Lowell, Irwin, and Phyllis Mae GOAD also known by her stage name, Joan Barry. (4.) OMA GOAD, born October 04, 1886. No information. (5.) COMMA "Commie" GOAD, born May 16, 1889, married Grace TINDALL. They lived near Joplin, MO. Their children were Jack, Harold and Ruth. (6.) EFFIE GOAD, born November 09, 1891, married Horace Clyde COLBURN and had Hazel Cleo, Nema Rhea, Anna Corene, Amanda Jane, Effie, Doris Jacqueline.  They lived in Logan County, AR.  (7.) JESSIE GOAD, born February 10, 1895, died in 1911. (8.) STEPHEN MEREDITH GOAD, born November 26, 1902, married Mary Enola DAVIDSON. They had Marion Lucille, Dorothy Jean, and Pauline Lavern. They made their home in Mojave, CA. (9.) OSWALD TURNER 'Jack' GOAD, born May 29, 1905, married Myra BURGESS. They were parents of two sons, Donald and Roger.  If you know of any of these descendants, please, email me. Also I have a website at www.loeta.net. Thanks. Loeta (Yarbrough) Venable

William T. MOORE, married June 5, 1881 in Logan County, AR to LOUTILLA J. "Sis" YARBROUGH, daughter of James and Lousia Childers Yarbrough. She was born November 08, 1860, AR. Children of William T. & Loutilla J. "Sis" Yarbrough MOORE:   (1.) WILLIAM J. MOORE, born 1884. Not married. (2.) MINNIE MOORE, born January 1886, married September 22, 1904 in Logan County, AR to John W. FULMER. (3.) ONIS "One" MOORE, born July 30, 1890, married September 12, 1915 to Edna McBRIDE in Logan County, AR. They moved to Wasco, California.    (4.) AUGUSTUS "AUGUST" MOORE born August 1893, married in Logan County, AR to Golda GRIFFIN on February 10, 1918. Golda was the daughter of Horace Leo and Emma Garner Griffin. August died on October 07, 1918 while serving in WWI. Their son, Opal MOORE was born in 1919. Golda later married Everett Atchley and had a daughter named Ruth. (5.) BYRD MOORE was born August 05, 1899. He married Effie "Exie" HORN, daughter of James A. and Sarah E. Bell Horn. Byrd and Exie lived in New Blaine, Logan County, AR. Exie died in 1979 and Byrd died January 24, 1998.  They are buried in Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co., AR. Their children are Lester, Leon, and Leola (Bingham). (6. Ressie MOORE, born in 1903, married a WEBB and lived in Okemah, OK at the time of her mother's death in 1940.  No further information. (7.) OTHO MOORE, born August 08, 1904, married March 27, 1921 to Marie HUMPHREY in Logan County, AR. Otho died in August of 1986 and is buried along with his parents and bothers, August and Byrd, in the Prairie View Cemetery in Logan County, AR.  If you know of any of these descendants, please, email. Also I have a website at www.loeta.net. Thanks. Loeta (Yarbrough) Venable

JAMES THOMAS YARBROUGH, born 1848 TN, son of James and Louisa Childers Yarbrough (these parents died in Johnson Co). James Thomas married around 1871 in White Co., AR to Arminta "Mittia" PATE, born Jan 5, 1854 in AR.  She was the daughter of Fleming and Jane Pate. James Thomas and Arminta "Mittia" Pate YARBROUGH had the following six children, (all with ties to Logan Co, AR):   (1.) LILY 'Mae' YARBROUGH, born October 05, 1875, married July 11, 1895 to John A. DURNING in Logan County, AR.   They had a son named Clarence but I am not certain if this is the only child. (2.) STEPHEN MEREDITH YARBROUGH, born in 1877, married Wadie Amanda HOUSLEY in Logan County, AR.They had a son named James Yarbrough, not certain again if this was their only child. (3.) JAMES CLAUDE YARBROUGH, born January 19, 1880, married August 17, 1905 to Emma D. HUGHES in Logan County, AR. They had 8 children: Ola (married Ebbing), Alta (marr. Charley Newman),Cloid Wesley (marr. Ruth Irene Lay), Everette J.(marr. Dolvory Ann Ross), Emma (marr. Al Weaver), Lee Hoyle (marr. Geneva Sory), Lucille M.(marr. Pete Weaver) and A son names Desho C. "D. C." Yarbrough. (4.) ARMINTA M. Yarbrough married John W. "Willie" Hughes, son of Jim and Martha (Desho) Hughes. at Prairie View on 13 August 1905. Their children were Mary, Willie "Ray", Irene, James and Alfred. Willie "Ray" married Mildred Harrison in 1928 and had 12 children.   (5.) DANIEL YARBROUGH born January 15, 1889, married to Schrilda 'Mae' PARKS December 25, 1917 in Logan County, AR.  They had children: James, Maxine (Drain), Mary (Knight), Mittia (Nickelson, and Louise (Hoffman). (6.) LEONA YARBROUGH born June 1892, married September 16, 1920 to James C. LOVELADY, born 1876. Leona later married to Henry DUNN. No children. If you know of any of these descendants, please, email me. Also I have a website at www.loeta.net. Thanks. Loeta (Yarbrough) Venable

Thanks for checking. Barbara DAVIDSON Norkus "looking for that needle in a haystack ..."

There is no Davidson article in the Logan County Book. There is a Davison (no d) but there appears to be no connection. In the Arkansas Death Index for 1914-1923 there is a William (no middle initial) Davidson who died in Logan County 06/01/0916 There is also a Davidson who died in Logan 06/25/1917--no first name given.

Anyone willing to do lookups in it?? Looking for W. B. (William Bell) DAVIDSON. Barbara DAVIDSON Norkus "looking for that needle in a haystack ..."

thanks jim!!!!!! :)

The book "Logan County, Arkansas, Its History and its People" was printed in 1987 by the Logan County Historical Society. I don't know if they have done any updates or reprints. Any body on this list that lives in Logan Co can find out, right guys! It sure is a neat book especially if you had people in Logan Col Jim G

She is not listed in the death index book, maybe she died in OK. Sorry, or she could have gone by a different name. Johnnie

Jim, thank you so much for the information. I appreciate your time and knowledge. Sincerely, Teressa Pullman, WA:)

James, Where would one get a copy of this book?? Thank you. Jodie Sims Van Wyhe

The Arkansas State TB Sanitarium officially started in 1910 and closed in 1973. All of its records were transferred to the Arkansas Dept of Health and placed in a repository under the supervision of the Logan County Health Dept in Booneville. (from the book "Logan County Arkansas its History and its People"). Most not all people went to a warm/hot dry climate like Arizona when they had TB to recuperate. Jim G Fresno Calif