I am looking for any info on Tom Ellison and family from Newton Cty, Ark. late 1800's to early 1900's. 1st wife was Minerva Peterson, 2nd wife A.J.Owens, 3rd wife Rutha Tripp. Any info would be helpful. Tom and Minerva was my g-grandparents. Thanks Margaret

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Kathy, I am so sorry about John Kent. He did a great job on the Newton Co homepage. He will be missed. May God be with his family. Georgia Aeverman ===== Georgia Aeverman main email: GeorgiaArt@msn.com alternate email: GeorgiaArt_Ann@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

This is not the kind of messages I like to bring to you. But I received an email this morning from Newton Co. webmaster's family. John Kent died of a heart attack this past Friday afternoon. Of any of you live close, this is the details I was given: "The funeral is planned for 10:00 Monday at First Baptist in Jasper. The is a visitation from 2:00 to 4:00 on Sunday afternoon at Holt Memorial Chapel in Harrison." I will take Newton Co back over..I appreciated John helping me when he took it. He did some fine work with the website. My condolences to the family Kathy Stokes Hudson

Sorry that is an error at Genealogy Shoppe.. it should be $37.00 It will get corrected in the next couple of days.

In a message dated 10/6/2001 6:59:57 AM Central Daylight Time, ARNEWTON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Volunteer Soldiers in the Cherokee War 1836-1839 > Mountain Press > 1995 > Let us know if you'll do lookups for us. Phillip

Volunteer Soldiers in the Cherokee War 1836-1839 Mountain Press 1995 the genealogy shoppe offers the book for $57.00. mountain press has the same book for $35.00. www.mountainpress.com/books/military/ cheryl

Evelyn it is in stock at Genealogy Shoppe Thank you & good luck in your search! Kathy Stokes Hudson         ~~~ Genealogy Shoppe http://www.genealogyshoppe.com Census View http://www.censusview.org

Does anyone know where a person could purchase the book listed below? Evelyn RKinfolks@aol.com Volunteer Soldiers in the Cherokee War 1836-1839 Mountain Press 1995 Soft cover, copyright 1995, 8.5" x 11", Index, 206 pages. A listing of over 11,000 volunteers from Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama who signed on for the Removal program of the Cherokee Indians to their western homes. This listing includes women for the first time. This alphabetical listing shows names, rank, state and unit in which they served. According to the publisher: "The enclosed material is an alphabetical listing of the volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee disturbances or removal which has come to be known as the Cherokee Wars - 1836 - 1839. We have reproduced and made into one single listing four different rolls of film listing those soldiers from North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. "These are listings found in the Adjutant General's Office files of Compiled Service Records of the soldiers listed in Group 94 of the records. The original records were filed under the muster rolls of each unit and these have been carefully checked and made into individual flies and listed alphabetically in the National Archives. For those soldiers who were in the regular Army, their records will be listed In the Registers of Enlistments found in files M-233. "For many of these men, there are additional files in the National Archives as pensions and Bounty Land Warrants were issued to many of these men as per their or their widow's request. Those records maybe obtained in the normal manner as other military service records. "In our listing, we have included the information as found on the jacket envelope listed for each man. This gives only his name, rank, unit and they are microfilmed under the state headings for their units. We have added this latter information implied from the reel heading and not found on each envelope. "One very interesting item in these records are the listings of three women all found in Lindsay's Georgia Mounted Militia. They are given the rank of "matron". These are Rebecca Greer, Mary Smith and Polly Wright. If these were given pension credit, we cannot say." Partial List of Surnames: Adams, Adkins, Alexander, Allen, Alley, Allison, Anderson, Anthony, Armstrong, Arnold, Atchley, Austin, Autry, Ayres, Bacon, Bagwell, Bailey, Baird, Baker, Bales, Baley, Ballard, Banks, Barber, Barnard, Barnes, Barnett, Bartlett, Barton, Bates, Bayless, Beall, Bean, Beard, Bell, Bennett, Bently, Benton, Berry, Bibb, Bible, Biggs, Billingsley, Bishop, Bivins, Black, Blackstock, Blackwell, Blair, Blake, Blakely, Blanton, Blevins, Boling, Bolinger, Bond, Bonner, Boon, Borden, Bostwick, Bowen, Bowling, Bowman, Boyd, Bradford, Bradley, Bradshaw, Brady, Brakebill, Bramlett, Brandon, Branham, Brannon, Brannum, Bray, Breedlove, Brewer, Brewster, Bright, Brittain, Broadway, Brock, Brooks, Brown, Bruce, Brumley, Bryan, Bryant, Buchanan, Bullock, Burgin, Burk, Burnett, Burns, Burris, Burrows, Bush, Buster, Butler, Butram, Byrd, Cagle, Cain, Caldwell, Calloway, Cameron, Camp, Campbell, Cannon, Cantrell, Cape, Carden, Cardin, Carlton, Carr, Carroll, Carson, Carter, Casey, Cash, Casteel, Casy, Cates, Chadwell, Chafin, Chambers, Champion, Chandler, Chapman, Cherry, Childers, Chiles, Chitwood, Christian, Clark, Clayton, Cleveland, Clifton, Cloud, Cobb, Cochran, Cofer, Coffey, Coker, Cole, Coleman, Collier, Collins, Compton, Conner, Cook, Cooper, Copeland, Corbett, Cornett, Couch, Cowan, Coward, Cox, Craig, Crawford, Crichfield, Crisp, Cross, Crow, Crudgington, Cunningham, Daniel, Daniels, Davidson, Davis, Dawson, Dearmon, Deathrage, Denton, Derrick, Dickerson, Dickson, Dobbs, Dodd, Dodson, Duckett, Duncan, Dunlap, Dunn, Dyer, Easter, Edmondson, Edwards, Elliott, Ellis, England, Erwin, Evans, Farmer, Farris, Ferguson, Fields, Finley, Fleming, Fletcher, Ford, Forester, Forrester, Foster, Fowler, Fox, Franklin, Frazier, Freeman, Fry, Fryer, Fuller, Furgeson, Galbraith, Galloway, Gamble, Garner, Garrison, Gentry, Gibbs, Gibson, Gillespie, Gilliam, Gilliland, Gipson, Glass, Glasscock, Goodman, Goodwin, Gordon, Goss, Graham, Grant, Graves. Gray, Grayson, Green, Greene, Greer, Gregory, Griffith, Grisham, Gross, Guthrie, Hail, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Haney, Hannah, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Harvey, Hatfield, Hawkins, Hayes, Haynes, Hays, Heard, Helton, Hembree, Henderson, Henry, Hensley, Hickman, Hicks, Higgins, Hill, Hixson, Hodges, Holcomb, Holden, Holland, Holmes, Holt, Hood, Hooper, Hope, Horton, Howard, Howell, Hudson, Hughes, Humphreys, Hunt, Hunter, Ingram, Isaacs, Isham, Israel, Jackson, James, Jenkins, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Justice, Kelley, Kelly, Kennedy, Kidd, Kilpatrick, King, Kirkpatrick, Knight, Ladd, Lain, Lamb, Lambert, Lane, Larrimore, Lassater, Lawson, Lay, Ledbetter, Lee, Lewis, Long, Looney, Love, Lowery, Loyd, Malone, Manes, Marshall, Martin, Mathis, Maxwell, Mayfield, McBee, McCormack, McCoy, McDaniel, McGinnis, McKay, McKinney, McNabb, Middleton, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Montgomery, Moody, Moor, Moore, More, Morgan, Morris, Morrow, Mount, Murry, Nail, Neal, Nelson, Nichols, Nicholson, Norman, Norwood, Orr, Osborn, Owen, Owens, Palmer, Parker, Parks, Parsons, Patterson, Patton, Payne, Peak, Pearce, Perkins, Peters, Phillips, Pierce, Poe, Porter, Powell, Price, Queener, Quinn, Ramsey, Ray, Reed, Reeves, Renfrow, Reynolds, Rice, Richardson, Roberson, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rodgers, Rogers, Rose, Ross, Rudd, Runnels, Russell, Rutherford, Ryan, Sanders, Scarbrough, Scott, Scruggs, Sharp, Shaw, Shepherd, Singleton, Smallwood, Smith, Snodgrass, Snow, Stafford, Stephens, Stewart, Stone, Strickland, Stroud, Tate, Tatum, Taylor, Terry, Thomas, Thompson, Tipton, Tolbert, Townsend, Trammel, Tucker, Turner, Underwood, Upton, Ursery, Vaughan, Vaughn, Vickory, Wadkins, Walker, Wallace, Walls, Ward, Warren, Waters, Watson, Wear, Weaver, Webb, Wells, West, Wheeler, White, Wiley, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Woods, Wright, Yandle, Yarberry, Yates, Young, Zachrey.

The Southern Claims Commission Files show that Green L Cagle of Franklin Co.AR, filed a claim with them for property, food supplies and animals the Union Army took from him during the Civil War. One could file a claim with the Southern Claims Commission for these goods taken which might uncover interesting facts. I have purchased several of these claims files for people in Newton County,AR and they are filled with unusual things. Like damages done, size of the farms, the amount of property seized. Even sometimes the description of the area during the Civil War. One notation indicated the Confederate Soldiers did not bother one man who had a leg missing. This accounts for the man's son living with his father and mother way up into his 30's. Claims were filed with the Southern Commission Claims for the following Newton County,Arkansas men: CASEY,Anthony DAVIS, Isham J DIAL,Samuel HOUSTON,William JONES, Simon REYNOLDS, A W THOMPSON, James S Have purchased Simon Jones and Oliver Grangeene's Southern Commission Claims and they are very interesting. Will type them up and place them on the Newton County, Arkansas Web Site later. I belonged to the Professional Genealogists of Arkansas,Inc. and received their bulletins and one issue has the entire list of claims from Arkansas Counties. Desmond Walls Allen used to publish this Newsletter, but not any more. The Newsletters are full of good sources of Arkansas information. Just found my July 1991 issue that I had searched all over my house for. Just happened to run across it filed someplace where it was not supposed to be. Since I have this issue that lists all the names from different Arkansas Counties who applied for claims with the Southern Claims Commission, I can look up any names you want me to. Once you have established the name of the claimant ,and the Arkansas county,you write to: General Reference Branch National Archives, Washington DC 20408 and request a copy of the claim file, specifying Southern Claims Commission; claimants name and the county and state listed in the index. The case number IS NOT required to order the file. Send NO MONEY with the request. The National Archives has a standard reply form letter for requests for Southern Claims Commission claim files. The National Archives will return an order for reproduction services, enclosing the listing of the files and the number of pages and cost for each. This form may be returned to the NA Trust Fund Board in Atlanta with payment. The requester may indicate payment for only some of the files listed on the form if copies of all are not desired. In 1980 Dr. Gary B Mills of Tuscaloosa,Alabama published "Civil War Claims in the South, An Index of Civil War Damage Claims Filed Before the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880", a thorough index of the claims. Check at your public library. The Public Libary here where I live happens to have a copy. The book is out of print. Check with your local LDS Family History Center Library also. Some genealogical societies may have undertaken a book of their own county, listing these claims. Johnson County,Arkansas may be just such a county. Write me and I will look up names that are listed for Arkansas Counties. Once you have the name and the county, you can write for the claim. Anyone need a lookup? Evelyn Flood Rkinfolks@aol.com

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that we have a couple of new mailing lists, in case anyone is interested! :-) One has actually been going a few weeks, it is AR-RAILROADS, to subscribe to list mode, send a message to AR-RAILROADS-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe and nothing else. Digest mode would be, AR-RAILROADS-D-request@rootsweb.com The other is AR-CIVIL-WAR. (it's brand new!) To subscribe to list mode, send a message to AR-CIVIL-WAR-L-request@rootsweb.com that, again, contains the word subscribe and nothing else.Digest mode will be, AR-CIVIL-WAR-D-request@rootsweb.com Hope this helps someone, Diana ==== ARKANSAS Mailing List ==== ListAdministrator of Arkansas-L Diana Boothe philsbarbie@cei.net ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Janey, Make sure you are not putting spaces in the email address. There are no spaces in email address. That might work. Hope this helps. Anne >Does anyone on the list know who Rocky @elitement.com ???? I copied the >message below and responded below, but received it all back. If you know >anything about ROCKY @ elitement.com ( or my information) I'd like to >hear from you >Janey @ bushjl @aol.com >In a message >

Does anyone on the list know who Rocky @elitement.com ???? I copied the message below and responded below, but received it all back. If you know anything about ROCKY @ elitement.com ( or my information) I'd like to hear from you Janey @ bushjl @aol.com In a message <<Rocky WROTE: Ihave andrew Jackson Chapman who married Jane McGehee, in 7/3/1837 his father was Joseph Chapman / josephs wife was chrischana chaney I was told a story about one of the chapmans, by my dad, that charlie chapman one of the kids was so small when he was born they could put a teacup over his head and had to put him in the breadwarner to keep him alive. rocky @elitement.com >> I wrote in answer: I do not recall if we have been communicate before. I am decended from the andrew Jackson Chapman and his father's name is Samuel Chapman of White co. ILL who died in the late 1840's. His wife is Christenia( chrischaney) Chaney . I am not sure which Charlie Chapman you are writing about. My mother is the daughter of William franklin Chapman who is son of Thomas E. Chapman who is son of andrew Jackson Chapman. She has a 1/2 brother Charlie, and then Thomas' son charlies was born in 1880 in Johnson Co. Arkansas just before his mother Loretta(bible of Chalie, thomas' brother)/Lousetta9(census)Mainer( per Thomas E. chapman's pension record wife #1) she died the same year. Who are you decended from????? Parents, ext. Would like to share information. My mom is one of 15(?) children of William franklin Chapman. Wife #1 Sarah jane McEntire wife # 2 Lydia Rebecca Lee Baldwin( aka Betty Lee). My mom know some of the information about the families of Sarah jane But have lost touch with most. My uncle Bill had much information but it is lost as he has Alsheimer's. Would love to know more about ALL family members. have information on many of the lines attached.... Janey @ BUSHJL @ aol.com

>From an LDS Family History Library bulletin: NATIONAL RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT OCTOBER AS FAMILY HISTORY MONTH Senator Orrin G. Hatch's office in Washington, DC is sponsoring a "Resolution to support Family History Month" as October and needs your letters to get it presented in the US Senate. The websites for both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives to obtain the names and addresses of your senators and representatives are: <http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm> <http://www.house.gov/writerep/> Senator Hatch needs many of his colleagues to support this resolution, and that can happen IF you write to your US Senator. You may include the following information: "Mr. Chris Campbell in Senator Hatch's office would like to provide more information on this resolution, and add your name as a cosponsor. (202) 224-4412."

I know this has went thru a couple of lists... >>>>From:               Bridgett Schneider To:                 BOARD-L@rootsweb.com Subject:            the Domain USGenWeb.com Date sent:          Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:35:13 -0500 This is the only way I know how to get this message to the entire board. Since Doc is no longer interested in retaining the usgenweb.com domain he is going to sell it.  We had the domain appraised and it is worth $3,073 to $3,755. We don't want the domain to go out on the auction block for some porn company to pick it up, so we are offering it to the Project for $2,500 (negotiable). If you would like to see the appraisal you can go to: http://www.greatdomains.com/Services/Wav/WavReport.asp?sVal=069996E9F9 57950E56B6CA269A Bridgett and Doc Schneider >>>> So as to not keep you in the dark..I will make you aware of the events that has been taking place this past week concerning the domain name www.usgenweb.com that is owned by Dale Schneider. Now this does not effect www.usgenweb.net who is currently owned by Tim Stowell, the past National Coordinator for USGenWeb Project. Nor www.usgenweb.org which is also listed under Tim Stowell's name. If yiu are interested in knowing more about these domain names...go to www.networksolutions.com Click the link in the upper right corner that reads..WHOIS lookup. The next page you will type in the domain name (url) you are wanting more information about. Dale (Doc) is to be giving the new usgenweb board time to take their newly elected positions and vote as to whether the domain name will be purchased from those making donations from the board and the county coordinators. I hope I have answered some of your questions and helped put your mind as ease that there are those of us wanting to keep the USGenWeb Project a free service. If you have comment or further questions please email me privately. Good luck in your search! Kathy Stokes Hudson

I am looking for information on Joseph Berry "Joberry" LOOPER/LUPER. In 1908 he filed his Civil War pension application and was living in Newton Co, AR, at that time. He is not in the 1900 or 1910 Newton Co, AR, census records so I feel he might died between 1908 and 1910. He would have been about 95 years old in 1908. Any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks, Vonnie Looper Munnerlyn

Hi, I have relatives buried in Sandhill Cemetery too. Isham Wheeler was a neighbor and had some business dealings with my great-great-grandfather, Charles Homer Bethany. On one of my trips to Sandhill I took pictures of the headstones of Isham Wheeler & Statiah E. Wheeler along with many others. I would be glad to e-mail them to anyone who is interested. Have a good day, Jean

INFORMATION FROM 1930 CENSUS MAY BE DIFFICULT TO SEARCH Sunday, August 12, 2001 FEATURES - ACCENT & ARTS 03I By Joy Wade Moulton For The Dispatch Prepare to have difficulty searching the 1930 federal census, which is scheduled to be released April 1. Why? There is no index to most Americans enumerated that year. What's being released is the personal data compiled by the 1930 census, listing the names of people living in households and their relationships. By law, personal information cannot be released until 72 years after the Census to protect participants' privacy. The Soundex index -- a compilation of names that can be accessed phonetically -- is complete for 10 Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Kentucky and West Virginia have partial indexes. The National Archives will not be indexing the remaining states, but some companies have indicated a willingness to do so, said Constance Potter, a reference archivist for the National Archives. For all other states, you will need to identify the specific location where a family or individual resided in April 1930. And the 1930 census was complicated by the stock-market crash in October 1929. As a result, many people moved in search of work. This is reflected in some of the questions asked on that return. Under employment, each individual was asked whether he or she "was actually at work yesterday (or the last regular working day).'' Published city directories can be helpful in locating those who lived in urban areas in 1930. An alphabetical listing of names includes street address and occupation. Some may include a separate street directory and description of ward boundaries. The last printed city directory for Chicago (1929) may be useful, as might those for New York boroughs of Bronx and Manhattan in 1931. When only the street address is known, you will need to use the geographic description of the census enumeration districts -- an area that a census-taker covered -- to locate the individual or family on the census. A block-by-block listing of streets is included for larger cities. Microfilm copies of these descriptions (file No. T1224) are now available at the National Archives and the 13 National Archives and Records Administration centers. Soon to be available at these same sites will be colored maps of the enumeration districts (M1930) and an index to streets in selected cities (M1931). The maps of some cities will show streets within each enumeration district. Check the Web site www.nara.gov/genealogy/1930cen.html for updated information on the 1930 census and its search aids. A list of those included is available in The Source: a Guide for American Genealogy (1997), edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, pp. 338-392. Some may be available at the State Library of Ohio or the Ohio Historical Society Library. Others can be ordered locally on interlibrary loan from the Family History Centers at Dublin, Grove City, Reynoldsburg or Westerville for a small fee. The National Archives and its 13 centers also have 1930 city directories available on microfilm at those sites. For families living in small towns and rural areas, most counties have published business directories which include all residents. Names are arranged in alphabetical order, with occupation and either street address or rural location. These are usually available in the reference department of a public library in the town or county seat. The address and phone number can be obtained from the American Library Association Directory. (Any local library has a copy). Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Joy Wade Moulton is a certified genealogist and a fellow of the Society of Genealogists London, England. Find Your Ancestors appears the second and fourth Sundays of each month. The second column each month addresses questions from readers. Send inquiries to Find Your Ancestors, P.O. Box 218422, Columbus, Ohio 43221.

Edith M Newberry was the wife of Francis Ausbin Allred. Both are buried in Plumlee Cemetery, Newton Co.AR. Francis Ausbin Allred was son of Aaron A Allred and Sarah Emma Burk. Evelyn RKinfolks@aol.com

Can anyone identify the parents of Edith M. ALLRED in Plumlee Cemetery? She was born 27 Mar 1908 and died 4 Aug 1979. Could her parents possibly have been Clarissa LUPER/LOOPER and Albert F. NEWBERRY? Thanks for any help! Vonnie Looper Munnerlyn