Folks (Dewayne, ect.)who are wanting a picture of Nicie A.Ragland. I must make my appologies! For those who thought there might have been a picture of Nicie A. Melton Ragland somewhere out there. It was NOT Nicie , but her daughter Lucy. I had been given by Linda Pyshny some years ago. At the time I had understood she was Nicie Amber Melton Ragland, but upon talking to Linda I was corrected on her name .So I made a correction of the name at that time. Today I just realized my mistake when I looked at the pictures. I had one labled only one of the photoes Lucy Ann Ragland, but failed to lable the correct name to the picture that Rick my husband was carrying around showing folks. SORRY. Smile :] Just think you who don't have that photo of Lucy now know that there is one. :] Marinda Holliman _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Apparently there's been a mix-up in the address from which the newest publication, "Gleanings of Pioneer History" by W R Jones (owner/editor of The Mountain Echo), of the Marion Co Historical Genealogical Society book can be ordered. The correct address is: HGSMCA PO Box 761 Yellville AR 72687 The cost of this publication is $5 including tax and shipping. Our sincere apologies for any confusion this may have caused. It's a great little book with lots of interesting historical and genealogical information. Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com

I guess I'm a little different Shirley. I'll have to say I enjoy the fair the most. I met so many people that were looking for the same info that I had been looking for. We shared and exchanged..etc. I really enjoyed the fair, and wished that I didn't live so far away and have to leave early on Sat to get home. Thanks James---for another North AR Ancestry Fair. P.S. To any of you who wanted pictures from me...I'm moving slow right now...but I haven't forgotten you. Will try to get that taken care of in the next couple of weeks. Have a great day!! Cathy Switzer Conn SWITZER, CHADWICK, TAYLOR, HAMILTON, BAKER, MANES, FRENCH, DOUTHARD, ROBERTSON....to name a few. (All were in Searcy Co. AR) :0)

I beg to differ with you on one point, Shirley. Not *everything* is sold thru the "Letter exchange." The Historic Genealogical Society of Marion County doesn't, to my knowledge, have any of their publications listed there. Yet, we have many books for sale that include parts of Searcy Co, Baxter Co., Boone Co., Newton Co., and MO counties. We, too, sell resource materials - books - at the Ancestor Fair. We also purchase resource materials for our Research Room in the Marion County Library - to be shared with and used by whoever drops in. We gain in both respects. We make money by selling our wares so that we have the resources with which to purchase others' wares - genealogical/historical research materials. We've attended the Ancestor Fair for 11 of its 12 years, sold our publications, carted tons of our research materials to each fair, made these resources available for research to anyone and everyone who dropped by our table, helped untold numbers of folks connect their families to Marion Co families, talked 'til our voices are gone, shared - for free - whatever we could from the store of knowledge in our brains, ended up the day with headaches the size of Texas. We've come away with more knowledge than we went with, more resource materials, many new (to us) research friends, and the joyful knowledge that we've helped lots of folks find information they'd been unable to find before. Yes, we often charge for our research. When we're expected to spend several hours in the courthouse vault, for example, we're not doing it for free. When we're expected to tramp cemeteries and knock on people's doors and make long-distance phone calls or a jillion copies, we're not doing it for free. However, when someone asks for information from a book we have here in our homes (or on our table at the Ancestor Fair), we're more than willing to "share it for free." If this is commercialism, I need to get a new dictionary. Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com ************************************************ ----- Original Message ----- From: Shirley Reedy <sreedy@aristotle.net> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:43 PM Subject: [ARSEARCY] Genealogy fair > Hello gang, I must apologize to James Johnston. Some of the mail I > received thought that I was saying that JJJ sold too much. what I meant was > that there were so many people selling books and that was all that they were > doing. It's fine to sell books, but they are sold thru the Letter exchange. > One lady handed me some papers and said "e-mail me if you see any that are > yours" I got home and looked at the last page and she told what she > charged. If anybody wants to pay, that is fine, but I give mine to anyone > who asks for it. James is doing a wonderful job and I hope he doesn't quit. > Jusr another case of foot in mouth disease. > Shirley > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

The June issue of "Searcy County Ancestor Information Exchange" is in the mail. There are articles on Richland. JJJ

Hi List members -- I have 2 requests. Looking for a marriage for Patterson groom to Phillips bride between 1912 -- 1918. Joseph Wesley Carlock married Gussie Wootin (7/15/1900) in Conway County. I would like to know what happended to her. He married 2nd Dora Adaline Grant Malone Edmonson about 1909. Where? Thanks for any help. yvonne == Anyone who thought "in a hundred years it will not matter." Wasn't a genealogist! -- Anonymous _____________________________________________ Yvonne Brents Henson -- Colorado Springs, CO Surnames: Brazil, Brents, Carlock, Edmonson, Grant, Harper, Henson, McArthur Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~yhenson _____________________________________________________________ Get Your FREE ChristianEmail.com Account -> http://www.botcw.com

Does anyone have some information about Benjamin Potter and his brother (I think William Potter) who supposedly ran a mill near Leslie and they cut all the boards used in building the businesses, etc. in Leslie Arkansas. One of his grandsons told me this recently. I read on a message that Benjamin Potter and Nelson Hatchett had a mill on the Little Red River. ???? I am researching the Potter family in Searcy County and need all the help I can get. I especially would like to get ahold of some pictures of Benjamin Potter's children. I have pictures of William F. and "Drewsy" Watts, but don't have pictures of my great grandfather Leander Andrew A. Potter or his brothers Lev and Malachi. Any help out there????? Ginny O'Neal goneal@pcis.net

> Don't forget about the Photograph's that are available at the Searcy County > Where can we get purchase this CD?

Searcy Co Library HC 80 Box 11 Marshall AR 72650 Phone 870-448-2420 Fax 870-448 5453 email library@bulldog. afsc.k12.ar.us Hours: M-W-Th-Fr 10-5 Tue 10-7 Sat 10-3 Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com ***************************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: <DdHober@aol.com> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [ARSEARCY] Re: Nicie Melton Ragland > > > Don't forget about the Photograph's that are available at the Searcy County > > > > Where can we get purchase this CD?

Don't forget about the Photograph's that are available at the Searcy County Library, with photos of many early settlers of Searcy County....all of us donated the old photos we owned so that they could scan them to the CD so that everybody could buy the CD and print out the photo's of the settlers of interest to themselves. Think their may be other things in the photos besides people...maybe old buildings, etc. Hey, maybe we should add the CURRENT folks who live in Searcy County, after all....one day somebody will want a picture of you...........smile We write all these lengthy, interesting histories of our grand parents, great grandparents, etc., and I bet 90% of the researcher's reading this message, have NEVER written a thing down about their childhood, the community they grew up in, when and where they married, children's exact birthdates......After all how many of us can quote the birth and marriage dates of even our own nephews and neices, or of our aunts and uncles..........Current.........Not me! Just the old ANCESTORS we know those by memory..................Faye ----- Original Message ----- From: Dewayne Treat <dtreat@bulldog.afsc.k12.ar.us> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 1:13 PM Subject: [ARSEARCY] Re: Nicie Melton Ragland > Hi Beth, > No, I don't even know IF one exists. I have never heard the first hint > of a picture of Nicie existing til' now. Linda, who told you there was > one...perhaps we can trace it down that way? > Dewayne > Shipmanbb@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > > Dewayne, > > > > Do you know of any picture of Nicie (or Reuben, for that matter)? I > > have an > > e-mail from someone inquiring. > > > > Beth > > > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

Announcement Mr. Don Leigh has donated his book, An Index to Kentucky Lay/Leigh Family Vital Records to the Lay Family Genealogical Association. Don spent weeks and weeks indexing the birth, marriage and death records in the Vital Records Department, Frankfort, Kentucky. He compiled them into an attractive paperback book, and then donated it to the LFGA. Anyone doing Lay/Leigh, etc. research in Kentucky will find this book invaluable. An Index to Lay/Leigh Family Kentucky Vital Records indexes the following records: Lay Death, Birth, Marriage and Cemetery Records. Leigh Death, Birth, and Marriage records. Also included are application forms for Kentucky Death Certificates, Birth Certificates, and Marriage Certificates An Index to Kentucky Lay/Leigh Family Vital Records by Don Leigh may be purchased from the Lay Family Genealogical Association. www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8896 For information about ordering the spiral bound book, send an e-mail to Gerald Lay slim@jellico.com PLEASE INCLUDE THE WORD "BOOK" IN THE SUBJECT MATTER. We thank Don and applaud his generosity and devotion to furthering Lay/Leigh research.

OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1, 2001 Campbell County Tennessee Family History Book. Anyone can participate. Our Campbell County County Tennessee Historical Society Book Committee decided to use a narrative form of writing about our families (not charts and tabular material) but facts and stories in a flowing and narrative form. A short history of approximately 500 words (it can be less), type-written, double-spaced, on 8 1/2 X 11 inches) on white bond paper. At the end of the articles we want the name and address of the submitter. Begin with the earliest ancestor that you have knowledge of, telling where they came from and how, where and when they settled in Campbell County. Were they married before coming here, if so where and when. How many children, names, dates of birth/death, where they attended school, occupation, what churches were attended, were there any Veterans in the family? if they left Campbell County where did they go and why? Any interesting stories you know about them, please relate. Where are they buried - cemetery - dates of death. 1. If you presently live in Campbell County. 2. If you are a former resident of Campbell County. 3. If you have "roots" in Campbell County. 4. If you have several direct lines from, or in, Campbell County you can submit them. We know some counties who have published such a book, after which many families did not submit, and were sorry they had not participated, and asked if they would publish another book so they could get their families included therein. Don't let that happen to you. Please think this proposition over and let us know by October 1, 2001, if you are willing to join us in this venture. If we do not get enough interest to proceed we would like to request that those of you who would, send us a record of your family lines so that we could place them in our Genealogical Library to share with other people who are researching. Below is a sample that would be helpful for you who are interested in helping us on this project. We await your response. You, our members and researchers, will be the people who determine the outcome of this project, it is for you that we would undertake such a proposition in the first place. Sincerely, Alice W. Coker, Temporary Chairman of the Book Committee. Submissions or inquiries for the Campbell County Tennessee History Book should be sent to: Book Committee Campbell County Historical Society 103 South Sixth Street LaFollette, Tennessee 37766 Telephone (423) 566-3581 Pictures may be submitted, although it has not been determined if pictures will be included in the Campbell County Historical Book. Note; This article is a sample of how the articles for the Campbell County Tennessee Family History Book should be written. Fountain and Elizabeth (Rogers) Maupin Fountain MAUPIN, a son of Thomas and Catherine (WHITE) MAUPIN, was born 11 July 1806 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and died 30 December 1868 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Fountain is a great-great-grandson of Gabriel and Marie (HERSENT) MAUPIN, who immigrated with some of their children from Europe to Virginia in 1700. Fountain MAUPIN moved from Virginia to Campbell County, Tennessee in the early 1830s, settling, it is believed, in the Fincastle area where his older brother Overton MAUPIN, and his uncle, Amos MAUPIN, had already settled. Fountain married on 19 February 1835 in Claiborne County, Tennessee to Elizabeth ROGERS by the Rev. William ROGERS. Elizabeth ROGERS, a daughter of Maj. David and Mary "Polly"(LEWIS) ROGERS, was born 3 October l8l7 in Claiborne County, Tennessee and died 30 September 1880 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was the only daughter in a family of twelve children. Her eleven brothers were said to be either lawyers or doctors. Fountain moved his family to Speedwell in Claiborne County, Tennessee in the early 1840s. It was there that they built a two story brick home. It is said that the slaves, believed to be the ROGERS' slaves, made the bricks on the MAUPIN land to build the house. It was here that the MAUPIN family lived, and Fountain and Elizabeth died. The house is still standing in Speedwell. Fountain and Elizabeth were buried in the Maupin-Dyer Cemetery on a hill overlooking their home in Speedwell, Claiborne County, Tennessee. Fountain and Elizabeth were the parents of 8 children: 1.. John Thomas MAUPIN b. 1837-d. 1915 md Hester Virginia HUTSELL 2.. Thurza Matilda MAUPIN b. 1839-md John M. MITCHELL. They moved to Texas. 3. David Canada MAUPIN- b. l84l-d. 1933 md Mary Ann ROGERS 4. William Frank MAUPIN b. 1843-md Betty BOWMAN 5. Martha Jane MAUPIN b. 1846-d. 1909 md Sterling Robert QUEENER 6. Lucinda Maria MAUPIN b. 1848-md David F. BEELER 7. Elizabeth MAUPIN md William "Uncle Billy" BOLTON 8. Fountain MAUPIN md Maggie LANE a.. Submitted by: ( Include Submitters Name and Address at the end of article, also e-mail address if applicable

Hi Janie, I saw Billy Joe Reid the other day and he told me his great grandpa was GARVIN Reid/Reed. Garvin would have been a younger brother to Arvilla's mother, Meliscent Rose REED who married Jim Woody. The parents of Garvin & Meliscent, Wyley & Elizabeth REED are listed in the 1880 census of STONE CO. with Arvilla & Jesse WOODY living in the household. As you know, Meliscent Rose had died and Jim Woody had remarried Mary Balantine by this time. Jim and Mary had many more kids which were Grandma Arvilla's half brothers & sisters. I have all their names IF you would like to have them. Later, Dewayne Janie Wagnon wrote: > Dewayne, Do you have any data on Granny Arvilla Freeman's > grandparents the Reid's or Reed's. And which is the correct > spelling. Do you have any census data on her when she and her brother > > Jesse were living with her grandparents the Reid's. She could have > been > with them in the 1880 census. Anyway just wondered how you were > spelling that name, and is this the same Reid/Reed of the "Billy Joe > Reid in Marshall". And how is the grand baby? Janie

Hi Beth, No, I don't even know IF one exists. I have never heard the first hint of a picture of Nicie existing til' now. Linda, who told you there was one...perhaps we can trace it down that way? Dewayne Shipmanbb@aol.com wrote: > > > Dewayne, > > Do you know of any picture of Nicie (or Reuben, for that matter)? I > have an > e-mail from someone inquiring. > > Beth

If it was not for Ruby's books I would not have much of anything to look at in the way of ancestors. Her books have provided me with the names of ancestors and more. Holding my glass up to Ruby. Thank you for being so thorough. DdHober

Thanks so much for sending this site. It's operated by Alex Lacy, the son of Ruby Lacy who is the woman who spent so much time creating all the Searcy Co census, marriage, cemetery, etc. books so that research would be easier for all of us. They all sure do beat staring at microfilm readers, digging thru the courthouse vaults, tramping the woods and fields trying to track our ancestors and families. She was very thorough and detailed in her work so each and every one of her books is an absolute goldmine. Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com ****************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: <DdHober@aol.com> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:28 PM Subject: [ARSEARCY] Searcy County Books > I do not post very often but I found this site while searching a newer search > engine. > www.gendoor.com > Here is the URL for the booksmany of us have used in our research. Just > thought I would post it here incase anyone is wanting to purchase them. > http://members.aol.com/oocsearch/oocsark.htm > <A HREF="http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/DoubleD/DOUBLED/index.htm#toc">BROW N family Of Arkansas</A> > > DdHober > <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/d2hober/civilwar.htm">Civil War Resources</A> > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

I do not post very often but I found this site while searching a newer search engine. www.gendoor.com Here is the URL for the booksmany of us have used in our research. Just thought I would post it here incase anyone is wanting to purchase them. http://members.aol.com/oocsearch/oocsark.htm <A HREF="http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/DoubleD/DOUBLED/index.htm#toc">BROWN family Of Arkansas</A> DdHober <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/d2hober/civilwar.htm">Civil War Resources</A>

dose anyone have a photo of Nicie (Melton) Ragland i was told that thear was one? Please let me know Thank you Linda _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

If anyone has a picture i also want a copy kenneth Larry Pyshnyjr wrote: > dose anyone have a photo of Nicie (Melton) Ragland i was told that thear > was one? Please let me know > Thank you > Linda > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Posted on: Searcy County, Ar Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Searcy/11626 Surname: Henry ------------------------- I am the daughter of a Henry born in Searcy County, Arkansas. Rufus B. Henry was born in Tennesse about 1856. He married Dulcena Melissa Clemons about 1877 in Snowball, Searcy County, AR. They had four children before he died sometime after 1885 of tuberculosis: William Roscoe Henry (b.1878), Mary Rosie Henry (b. 1880), George Mac Henry(b. 1882) and John R.Henry (b. 1885). George was my grandfather. Do you think that Rufus was the son of, nephew, relations to your Henrys? I don't have any other information on the Henrys. Please reply. Thanks