Check out these two Searcy Co web pages. One or both may have information on this as well as other Searcy Co books. http://www.rootsweb.com/~arsearcy and http://bsd.pastracks.com/states/arkansas/searcy. If that doesn't work, you might contact the author, James Johnston at johnston@ipa.net. Oh, it's all one book, by the way, and very interesting. Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Bev Graham <anniebee@netzero.net> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: [ARSEARCY] Re: ARSEARCY-D Digest V01 #2 How can I get the book(s) mentioned below in the message from Faye in Texas? Is it one book (Searcy County Newspaper Abstracts), or is "Shootins, Obituaries, Politics, Emigratin, Socializin;, Commercializin and the Press" a second book? Just for the record, I'm desperate to find anything on the birth and/or parents of my grandfather, Jesse Monroe Whaley, b. 1877 in Searcy County, Ark. His father (supposedly Will or Tom Whaley) was out of the picture by the time Jesse was 2 years old. Jesse is on the 1880 census in Van Buren County, Ark., with his mother Mary Renfro. Later in 1880 (October), Mary Renfro married W. Henry Gordon in Van Buren County. I'm hoping the above book(s) might be of help, since there are no birth records. I do find record of the Renfro/Gordon marriage but no record of Mary ever having married a Whaley. Thanks for your help!! ******************************************************** > >I used your book of Searcy County Newspaper Abstracts, where you had done > >several Obits of the Baker brothers of his Joel Baker I believe, as well as > >the death of his Joel Baker. Born c 1832. That "Shootins, Obituaries, > >Politics, Emigratin, Socializin;, Commercializin and the Press" or News > >Items from and about Searcy County, Arkansas 1866-1901 is just about the > >BEST book I ever bought......for research purposes......compare the news > >items with marriage books and cemetery books and presto you have a miracle > >in research!! Thanks again for the massive amount of work that went into abstracting all that > >news! > >Faye in Tx.