Hi Judy, I read your post on SOOTER and thought I would add my little bit of SOOTER info. I am working on the old Lemuel HENSLEY line - he was b.Abt 1785 NC d.1840 Wayne Co, TN. His son, Mark Howard HENSLEY b.1817 TN d 1888 Searcy Co, AR m. 1848 AR #2 Sarah Caroline MELTON b.1828 TN d.Aft 1901 Searcy Co, AR. Her parents were James MELTON b.1788 SC d. Aft.1860 Barry Co, MO and Mary/Permeley SOOTER b. 1780-1790 d. 1840-1850. (I have not verified this info myself.) It isn't much info, but since James MELTON died in Barry Co, MO, and his daughter Sarah died in Searcy Co, AR, I thought this Mary/Permeley SOOTER might connect somehow to your SOOTER family. Jan Heiskell ---------- >From: Judy Oldziewski <harness75@earthlink.net> >To: ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ARSEARCY] Stacy Adams/Eli Sooter >Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2000, 4:18 AM > >First a big THANK YOU to Ann and Mysty. Ann, clearly the researcher who >had Elvira Jane as Bonhannon just had enough info to know the lines were >connected but not just how. It all makes sense now. > >Since we are on the Adams family I will post some info I recently >received on Stacy Adams who married Eli Sooter. I am posting with >permission from Karen. She is not related but is working on this line as >a gift for a friend. She is working from a family history written in >the 1950's by the friends great uncle. Thought it might be of interest. >I have not verified it. But I find no glaring errors based on what I >know. > >Eli B Sooter b. Barry Co. Mo 1814 to Searcy County, AR 1830 m. Stacy >Adams Searcy County, Richalnd near Buffalo River, AR 1834. Returned to >Barry County 1845 where he died and was buried in 1849. Stacy returned >Searcy County after her husbands death about 1850 where she married a >second time. Stacy died Wiley's Cove 1884. > >*************** >(added by Judy)** Stacy appears in the 1850 Searcy County Census as >Stacy Suter with seven children. Based on the Goodspeed article on her >son Matthew, Stacy married James Waterson and had four more children, >two of whom were deceased by 1884 when the article was published. They >were Sarah (deceased), James (deceased), Benjamin Franklin, and Arrella. >************** > >Greenberry "Berry" Sooter b. Searcy County 1835. He married a ?? >Treadwell at Wiley's Cove before the Civil War. He served in the >Confederate Army and died at Little Rock during the war from sickness. >It is believed his wife also died during the war. > >Robert Sooter b. Searcy County 1837. Married a ?? Sanders before the >Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army and died at Corinth MS from >sickness during the Civil War. > >Matthew Sooter b Searcy County, Richland near Buffalo River 9 Dec 1839. >He served in the SECOND ARKANSAS CALVARY during the Civil War. He was >married 3 Sept 1868 to Mary Ashley b. Searcy County 6 Sept 1847. > >William Edward "Ed" Sooter b Searcy County, Richland near Buffalo River >22 Sept 1841. He served in the SECOND ARKANSAS CALVARY in the Civil War. >He married Martha Jane Boyd, dau of John S Boyd and Dicey Jane Leslie >Wiley's Cove 30 June 1868. She was born 12 Mar 1852. Ed died near Leslie >26 Nov 1881. After his death Martha married Joseph T Blair. She died >Searcy County 18 Mar 1933. > >Syntha Sooter b. Searcy County about 1843. She married Green Reeves in >Searcy County about 1870. > >Mary Ann Sooter b. Barry County, MO 1845 > >Narcissis Jane Sooter (usually shown in census as Nicey Jane) b. Barry >County MO 24 Feb 1848. Married Malley Thomas, son of Ben Thomas, 3 Feb >1868. She is buried at Wiley's Cove. Thomas was born 3 Sept 1848 and is >buried Wiley's Cove. > >Hope this is of interest to someone. > >Judy >