Judy do you know the parents of Stacy? Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Oldziewski <harness75@earthlink.net> To: <ARSEARCY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:18 AM Subject: [ARSEARCY] Stacy Adams/Eli Sooter > 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 > >