At 09:54 AM 3/6/99 -0800, you wrote: >Does anyone know of a place called Silver City. It would have been a >place between Saline County to Scott County, AR. Supposedly my gr gr gr >grandfather died on the trail, when the family was moving from Saline >County to Scott County back in the 1850's. He was buried at a place >called Silver City. There was a town by the name of Silver in the early >1900's east of Mt. Ida, but was not on an 1898 map I have. Anyone with >any ideas? A really good resource for these questions is Russell P. Bakers's _From Memdag to Norsk: A Historical Directory of Arkansas Post Offices, 1832-1971_ (Hot Springs: Arkansas Genealogical Society, 1988). On page 203, it lists three Silver Cities. But the one that looks most likely, based on a route from Saline to Scott Counties, is Silver City/Silver in Montgomery County. The legal description of its location is Section 20, Township 2 South, Range 23 West. It was discontinued in 1953 and the mail then went to Mt. Ida. The book further explains that it was originally named "Love" and became a post office in 1873, but the name was changed to Silver City in 1879. These dates are a little later than what you're looking for--on the other hand, many post office names came from names already used in the community, so perhaps there was a small community called Silver City there before it became an official post office. There is also the possibility that, although it was not called Silver City at the time your GGG Grandfather died there, relatives later referred to the location by the name it had when they were talking about it. Silver City, Arkansas, is also listed in _Post Offices in the United States, 1884_ by Dopn SImmons (Melber, KY: Simmons Historical Publications, 1987), p. 9. The only information, however, is that it was in Montgomery County. There is no other Silver City listed for Arkansas although there is a Silver Hill in Sevier County. Carolyn