This is a forward from Arkansas Roots List < Reply to > Ecrard@AOL.COM (Evelyn Rard) Subj: [ARK] Jordan/Serr/Sears/Scott/Strickland in AR Date: 11/1/1999 5:42:36 PM Pacific Standard Time From: Ecrard@AOL.COM (Evelyn Rard) Sender: ARKANSAS-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU (Genealogy for Arkansas.) Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:Ecrard@AOL.COM">Ecrard@AOL.COM</A> To: ARKANSAS-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Edward Serr/Sears (the name changed sometime) supposed to be Seneca or Cherokee, depends on which relative you ask. m. Mary Elizabeth ________ don't know their birth or death dates or place or marraige date or place. Their daughter was: Celestia Sears b. 9-19-1842 in IL according to her death cert. d.4-04-1926 in Heavener OK Celestia m. Calvin Scott. Can't find a marraige record for them. Can't find anything on him except he applied for a homestead in Lafayette Co AR in 1864 and was dead by 1875 because Celestia finished the homestead as his widow. At that time she may have been married to Algy Strickland. Celestia and Calvin were the parents of: Mary Willis Scott b. 9-23-1867 in Miller Co AR d. 2-28-1951 in Heavener OK m. Thomas A Jordan on 5-01-1884 in Texarkana AR. Celestia had to give consent because Mary was 16 and she signed consent as Celestia Strickland. Thomas was b. 5-17-1853 d. ?????? There are so many Thomas Jordans I have collected 3 death certificates and not one of them is him. They were in Polk Co AR in 1905 when his daughter Cora Bell married. His father's name was supposed to be Edward. Have not documented this yet. Can anyone shed some light on any of these people? Thank you Evelyn