I haveWilliam CHAPMAN,Whose son, Jackson Price CHAPMAN married Rosa Magllene Riggs 23 June 1889 Swain, Newton Co. ARK. Cannot figure out whom her parents might be. Local Riggs researchers say she is Not part of the Newton Co. Riggs family there, that they know of. I do find some indication of a Rosa Riggs living with another family in Pope countyARK in an earlier census, but that was it. Do you think she might be part of yours???? Information I have from LDS and census born about 1880/Nov 1870 in Jasper, Newton Co. ARK Janey @ bushjl @ aol.com In a message dated 12/24/0 10:00:44 PM, ARNEWTON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:49:34 -0800 From: Edith Pimentel <lewmark@pacbell.net> To: ARNEWTON-D@rootsweb.com Message-id: <3A45724E.480A@pacbell.net> Subject: J.S. STEPHENS AND OTHER NAMES CIRCA 1900 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists6.rootsweb.com id eBOM02W32634 Greetings Newton Co., AR. Researchers: I am the new kid on the list. My current area of research is the family of my maternal gr. grandmother. Melvina Annette STEPHENS/DANE marr. John Henderson RIGGS, 9 Apr 1874. The family suspects (remember you can=92t be convicted just on suspicion), that Melvina was orphaned as a young child and raised by the DANE family. =20 She is the immediate reason for contacting this list. The family has two letters written by J.S. STHEVENS(STEPHENS) from Cave Creek, AR. to John H. Riggs, who was living in Steelville, Crawford Co., MO. These letters concern land which John evidently owned or had received as a land grant and now is being taken over by =93The Thompsons=94.=20 Dated 7 March, 1900, the first letter tells of the sale of the walnut timber, and =93the place is worthless for anything except the possibility of finding zinc on it.=94 The writer tells that there =93is a considerab= le mineral boon (sic) here now.=94 The Ozark Zinc Co., is mentioned. =20 The second letter, not dated, speaks of the patent being issued to John. J.S. Sthevens placed a value if $100. per acre on the land and says that the value is advancing every. day. He urges John RIGGS =93to tend to this thing soon for your good.=94 =93Engage council at once.=94 = J.S. recommends as council Walter MOORE of Jasper. Included in the letter is reference to the following who have died since John left the County. "Wesley PAYNE, Jim SALMON, Doc SALMON and wife, Jim MARTIN, Hamp DICKEY, and many others".=20 My questions are: 1. Does anyone have any information on this J.S. Sthevens (Stephens)? 2. Where was Cave Creek located, in relation to Jasper? 3. Does anyone live near Jasper and could do a quick lookup at the County Clerk=92s office to see if there are any land transactions in the period around 1900 involving John H. RIGGS? ______________________________ >>