This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Browning Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1146.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the addresses. I'll follow those up and see what I can find

Good Morning Susan, While I cannot help you with Wilson Undertakers, I thought you might be interested in some first hand history of Wilson. I lived there as a child for a short period of time in the 1930s. It was a dot on the map and still is. Mr. Wilson owned the town and the townspeople and to my knowledge still does, just a younger generation of Wilsons. The people of the town worked in the mills, lumber and alfalfa, and were paid in chits which could be redeemed at the country store for food and/or clothes. The folks of the town really did "owe their souls to the country store." My father, his brother and their father all worked and lived in Wilson. We lived on what is today called Levee Street, just at the foot of the banks of the Mississippi River. You didn't want to be there when it flooded. During my June 1996 visit with cousins, I was remembering this as a "one room tar papered shack". One of my cousins quickly spoke up and said, "It had two rooms!" He and his family had lived in a tent on down the levee from us where he was born on the floor of that tent. After my father, mother and I moved, he and his family had moved into our previously occupied "mansion". Such humble beginnings for all of us. We had also lived for a short time, in prefab row houses near the alfalfa mill. My grandfather also met the daily train, picked up the mail, took it to the post office for sorting and then did the delivering. These were humble beginnings and we've "come a long way, baby." I say to my off springs, "Don't forget your beginnings! We are the "little people." Happy Hunting. Dolores bsisemore@chek.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1146.1 > > Message Board Post: > > There's not alot left in that area. Lee wilson and Co are still in business so to speak. They own the town of Wilson and alot of farm land in that area. Wilson was a large plantation (share croppers) area. > > There's nothing left in Bardstown at all, the court hose at Osceola (which is just a few miles down the road) has lots of records for this area. Including marriage records. > > I'll see if I can dig up an address for you to write to. Are you just looking for their graves, or more record information? > > -- dolores SAMONS harvell Genealogy - disturbing the dead, and irritating the living

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1146.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Susan, They dropped the Lee (I think back in the 60's) I have lived here in Mississippi county all my live. And I guess they moved everything to Osceola (I know they opened an office and funeral home in Osceola back about 10 years ago. Wilson Funeral Home 1323 W. Keiser Osceola, AR 72370 870-563-2877 I'm not sure how far back their records go. Some of the funeral homes keep good records, others do not. My ex's family is from down in that area and I have alot of research on that area (but with their names) Bardstown was one of the older towns and has all but died out. You might check the Osceola Times (news paper) for an obit. Osceola Times 112 N Poplar Osceola, AR 72370

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Browning Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1146.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for replying. I guess I am looking for burial records but it would be nice to find their graves as well. Anything that might list a maiden name for her, even a death date would be great. They were married somewhere in TN but nobody seems to remember where, so I am at a brick wall to figure out what her maiden name was. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Susan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1146.1 Message Board Post: There's not alot left in that area. Lee wilson and Co are still in business so to speak. They own the town of Wilson and alot of farm land in that area. Wilson was a large plantation (share croppers) area. There's nothing left in Bardstown at all, the court hose at Osceola (which is just a few miles down the road) has lots of records for this area. Including marriage records. I'll see if I can dig up an address for you to write to. Are you just looking for their graves, or more record information?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: NO DYESS PEOPLE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oV.2ADE/281.318.341.387.421.423.605.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The 2005 Dyess Reunion will be on the First Saturday after the 4th of July at RiverCrest High School located on Arkansas State Hway and Interstate Hwy I 55 in Mississippi Co Arkansas. This is a pot luck dinner affaire. Don't thank you will find any reliteves with the name DYESS, I moved to Dyess in March 1936 and althow I have lived in TN for 53 years and have attended all the reunions and visit Dyess severial times a year I have never found the name Dyess in any records as living at Dyess. This is a goverment Colony built during the Depresion. W R DYESS was the head of the Arkansas Goverment programs and this Colony of 16,000 acres farming community was founded by W R Dyess where 510 farm homes and acommunity with 38 homes in the (Center) what we called the town. There was a hospital, administration, Community Buildings: 4 schools including the High School were built. There is no connectings of Dyess reliteves at DYESS. If you would be invited to MY DYESS COLONY WEB SITE send me an E-Mail

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1148 Message Board Post: I am searching for info on Charles "Woodrow" Steakley b. 1916 d. 1980. He married Geneva Steakley in 1943. He was the son of John Hayes McDaniel Jr. and Eddy Stephenson. He was born in Forrest City and lived in Poinsett and Mississippi counties prior to WWII. I need info on his lineage. Thanks

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/oV.2ADE/1129.1 Message Board Post: There is a Metzger family in Roseville, MN. They came from the South East a generation or two ago. They had a girl named Katie and I think she was named after a grandma or great-grandma. She's married now and I'm not sure of her last name but Bill and Sue are her parents.

Wonder if any such records are available for the name of WATKINS in Ms. county, Arkansas. My oldest sister was born in Wilson, AR in December, 1930. Thanks. Laura From: <googoo1983@earthlink.net> To: <ARMISSIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:44 AM Subject: [ARMISSIS] Re: MS Co Death Index - 1943? > 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/oV.2ADE/1076.2 > > Message Board Post: > > i dont have death record.but do have a cotton picken record for Hudson Cook in the 1930s for wilson ark. > > > ==== ARMISSIS 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 kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1076.2.1 Message Board Post: Pat......Thanks so much for the reply. Yes, this is the Hudson Cook I'm looking for. Is this a document you could scan and email me or copy and snail mail? I would love to have it for my family file. Please email me direct with your response: djburke@peoplepc.com

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/oV.2ADE/1076.2 Message Board Post: i dont have death record.but do have a cotton picken record for Hudson Cook in the 1930s for wilson ark.

Is there anyone doing research on the SALES family line?? phil

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Bunch, Keiser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/728.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My Gt Gt Gt Grandmother was Mariah Jane Bunch Williams. I believe she was born in Memphis, moved to Miss Co. Ark in the 1860's with her family. Her husband was E P Williams, a blacksmith. Do not know her parents, but the 1850 Memphis census listed an elderly woman living with the family. There is an elderly Bunch woman who is one of the first buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. Mariah had a sister living in Mississippi Co., married to Pete Kendall. The census said they were from Virginia, but I believe they were a part of the Williams family that came from Nashville.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Bunch, Kieser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/297.2 Message Board Post: I have some very old books with the name William Riley Williams in them. My great great grandmother was Elizabeth Ann Williams Hannah Kieser. She was born in Memphis in 1841. Her father was E P Williams. Some how they ended up in south Mississippi County, Ark, during the 1860's. I always thought Will Riley was her brother. I do not have my records with me at the moment but am responding with what I remember. I have been to Osceola, read about the Williams family there and believe they are the same family. It is interesting that you say that W R W's father was a blacksmith. My GT GT Grandmothers father (EP Williams) was listed as a blacksmith in the 1850 Memphis census. It, also says that they came from Virginia. I still believe it is the same family. That could have been their origin before coming into Tennessee. I have my Great Grandmother's diary, and she mentions an Uncle Will. She also talks of a grandfather being called Squire Williams and being of Hopefie! ld Plantation. There is an old picture of a very old house that she made the comment that her grandfather practiced law there. After visiting Osceola, I now believe that Squire Williams and the grandfather who practiced law may have been her great grandfather, perhaps the one who came from Nashville. Just speculation. I am interested in her Grandmother Williams. She was a Bunch. An elderly Bunch is one of the first graves in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. Her grandmother had a sister who lived in Miss. Co.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oV.2ADE/1147 Message Board Post: Would appreciate if someone could do an obituary lookup for Scott Allen Forsyth Died 12/12/1921 Blytheville, Ar. W.W. "WINK" Watson died 4/26/1964 Blytheville, Ar

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/17.136.231.541.1 Message Board Post: Saw your query from 2001-- hoping by chance you still return to check! I would like to contact you about the Coleman family. I am the g-gradaughter of Ellen Coleman, older sister of Stonewall Jackson(Stoney) and James. Ellen was married to Issac Rowlett, brother of Emma. I have an old picture of the Coleman family that I would be glad to share. Wanda Townley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: sherrod and bostic Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1145 Message Board Post: i was born south of manila down past the floodway rivers past the burley ray cotton gin my grandfather alvin bostic worked for burley ray looking any of the bostic family and the sherrod family thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: cantrell,rhoades,welch,shoemake,hines,mcgowan,williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oV.2ADE/1144 Message Board Post: change of email address slufootkathy@hotmail.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1143 Message Board Post: I am searching for any information on the family of Albert H. Young b. 1869 in Mo. Albert m. Julia Johnson in Lawrence Co. Ar. they settled in Mississippi Co. Ar. before 1920. Their children were, Mary I., Theodore, Nancy, Arthur, Pearles, Henry P.and Myrtle.

My grandfather is supposed to be buried in the Osceola Mausoleum, but I have found no listing for, or any reference to, such a mausoleum even existing. Does anyone know if it does, or ever did? If so, where? I am coming to Osceola from Australia in June, and need to know! Thank you so much. Leslie McCawley Sydney Australia msleslie@acay.com.au Crecelius/Mills/Bowen/Hearn researcher