This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Callaghan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0V.2ADE/2346 Message Board Post: Is there a comprehesive index for Pulaski County cemeteries in which someone could check for the location of any O'Callaghan burials? The family members were located in Big Rock in the early 1900s. They may possibly be in the Oakland Cemetery. I don't think there will be a large number, but I will provide names if needed. Thank you. Cheryl Parsons

My husband's family lived near and were friends with the O'Callaghans. I posted a photo on AncientFaces.com of my husband's father, Fay Erion Bodishbaugh and his best friend, Carroll O'Callaghan. I need to post an old family story, from the 1910-1920 era of these two boys. My mother-in-law is still in LR. Everyone on that block and/or neighborhood is buried at Oakland, I believe. One of the church members was a plot salesman. I believe you can call Oakland and/or the Arkansas History Commission. I was told I could purchase a CD of pix of the entire cemetery markers from the AHC (or Oakland), for a very minimal fee, like $4. I checked my database. We have no link blood-wise but at some point I felt the O'Callaghans were close enough to be included and, as many other neighbors, I might find they were related. Here's what I've listed: 14th US Census (1920), Big Rock Twp, 8th Ward, Little Rock, 142/145, lines 91-94: Carroll O'Callaghan, 18, a/s/a Callaghan, b.AR, Clerk in soda fountain, enumerated w/parents: William G. O'Callaghan, 52-b.MS-father b.SC-mother b.TN-engineer with the steam railroad in Little Rock Ada B. O'Callaghan, 43-b.Ar-father b.TN, mother b.KY-"at home'" Olympia O'Callaghan, 20-Single-W-F-Clerk. Carroll O'Callaghan was the best friend of Fay Erion Bodishbaugh (b.1903), who lived on the next block over. Both their fathers worked for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad "MoPac," at the RepTrac [Repair Track], in Little Rock. Carroll's father was an engineer and Fay's father, Charles F. Bodishbaugh, was supervisor of the Repair Shop. Carroll and Fay were about age nine one hot Arkansas summer when they snuck into a refrigerated boxcar loaded with lettuce. The lettuce was packed with huge ice blocks and the boys liked to chip the ice and eat it, as we do popsicles. While in the lettuce car, the trainman walked the line, the tops of the cars, and noted an open hatch. This was a safety violation, so he closed and latched it. And off went the train to it's destination. For three days, two Arkansas families, law enforcement personnel, friends and neighbors frantically searched the city and county, believing their sons had been kidnapped or murdered. Fay's uncle was Little Rock Mayor Ben Brickhouse, and he pulled every string he could for assistance. Three days later, somewhere in Texas, train personnel unloading a produce shipment found two very frightened, very cool young boys stowed away amongst their lettuce. They made the calls and arrangements for the boys to return to Little Rock and placed them, with supervision, on a homeward bound train. In those days, every family member of a railroad worker had a pass that entitled them to ride free anywhere within the country. They didn't have their passes with them, but railroad men were a strong community of brotherhood. The boys were okay. They were just very cold, tired, hungry, and more than frightened at what punishment might await them. They'd been repeatedly told not to play on the railyard. Fay's father Charles had vivid memories of losing his 6-year old cousin Darryl Bodishbaugh, who was run over by a train, his body cut into thirds. Every train family had its horror stories. The greeting of the boys was never recounted in this family tale but I seem to recall Uncle Don (Fay's brother) saying both parents were so elated to find the boys alive, there was no punishment. Sue Webb Bodishbaugh At 09:49 PM 2/21/06 -0700, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: O'Callaghan >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0V.2ADE/2346 > >Message Board Post: > >Is there a comprehesive index for Pulaski County cemeteries in which >someone could check for the location of any O'Callaghan burials? The >family members were located in Big Rock in the early 1900s. They may >possibly be in the Oakland Cemetery. I don't think there will be a large >number, but I will provide names if needed. > >Thank you. >Cheryl Parsons > > > >==== ARPULASK Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to the >utility address ARPULASK-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM If you are trying to >unsubscribe from the Digest list, use the same utility address but change >the -L- to a -D- > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Here is the site for Oakland Cemetery's listings for Callahan, that includes some O'Callaghans I know of. Go to their Home listing for the O'Callahan/O'Callaghans. They describe how to order photos, etc. This family lived in Big Rock Twp. Sue Bodishbaugh http://www.arkansasties.com/Pulaski/Pulaski2/Oakland3.htm At 09:49 PM 2/21/06 -0700, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: O'Callaghan >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0V.2ADE/2346 > >Message Board Post: > >Is there a comprehesive index for Pulaski County cemeteries in which >someone could check for the location of any O'Callaghan burials? The >family members were located in Big Rock in the early 1900s. They may >possibly be in the Oakland Cemetery. I don't think there will be a large >number, but I will provide names if needed. > >Thank you. >Cheryl Parsons > > > >==== ARPULASK Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to the >utility address ARPULASK-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM If you are trying to >unsubscribe from the Digest list, use the same utility address but change >the -L- to a -D- > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx