This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sparks, Fortner, Pace, Hughes (in AR) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1104.3 Message Board Post: May have some helpful info for you. My parents lived in and grew up in the Osceola area of AR. they are still living - they do not have a computer n line - but may be able to talk to you by telephone - or any ones else interested. they are familiar with the entire area and many of the people that lived there and still live there. i remember my dad talking about families tha tlived out on the islands about the houses out there and how they were built and what would happen when the islands would flood. My dad was born in 1930 and my mom in 1936. My dad's family moved to the Kieser area around 1940