Joyce, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. God comfort you through these times ahead. Blessings, Jean Cuevas At 07:03 AM 6/22/01 -0500, you wrote: >I am still on the list for those needing copies of marriage records. I >have been downloading my email, but haven't had time to respond to >queries. I lost my Mother on May 27th, and have been lost in details of >making arrangements and other legal matters. I had cared for her for 9 >years while she suffered from emphysema, asthma, congestive heart failure >and diabetes. Please bear with me I will get back to you and your requests >as soon as possible.

I have to admit...I'm not sure about the trouble that you've been having. I've searched the boards at Rootsweb.com and had no problem being able to read the messages or posting to them. And, no, I don't have a subscription to Ancestry.com! I was not asked for any "user name" or passwords or anything of the like. Perhaps the day you were trying they were working on them, and now maybe they're fixed? Regina Regina Creekmore Weaver [email protected] President, Batesville Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwhite/BITBARK.html At 10:26 AM 6/24/01 -0500, you wrote: >Gena and rest of list, > >You just brought up something I hadn' thought of... since the boards >have changed, the mailing lists are bound to be the next thing they will >want to 'improve'!! <snip>

Gena and rest of list, You just brought up something I hadn' thought of... since the boards have changed, the mailing lists are bound to be the next thing they will want to 'improve'!! I sure would hate to lose contact with each of you who are on the list.. you are like family!! Do you suppose we had better prepare for those times when we will not be able to contact each other via mailing list? Administrator, what do you think? I'd like to make sure I have all in my address book and who they are researching just in case when problems arise with the lists.. I know I haven't added everybody on the list to my address book and where they are from, would like to do that before all you know what breaks loose! I keep thinking of MURPHYS LAW!! Your thoughts? Lanita

Do you know which census county I sould look in for 1880, 1900 and 1910? I have a marriage where the groom was from Poughkeepsie and the bride from Sharp?? Thanks again ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy Treadway To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [ARSHARP] Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie was (and is) close to Smithville and Strawberry in Lawrence County, just over the Sharp/Lawrence County line. -----Original Message----- From: Marjie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 24, 2001 1:35 PM Subject: [ARSHARP] Poughkeepsie >Can anyone tell me where in Arkansas is Poughkeepsie around 1893-1900? Thanks > > >==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== >NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political >announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, >etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. >Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] >To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

REGARDING: "I think I should put my surnames on the list before it changes.........." Dear List Members, Nothing is going to change with the Mailing Lists, if it were, or if I ever even get a hint of a change, I would let you know. I suggest that everyone just take a deep breath and lets ride out this GenConnect Board Change. I also have many GenConnect Boards and I too am a little concerned but I am not going to jump or panic until I know for sure what it is all about. Please send your concerns to me personally, [email protected] - not to the entire list. We do not need to start a panic with our newer members who have not been with Rootsweb as long as most of us have. I appreciate your desire to stay in contact with one another, just remember, I have a list of every member's e-mail address and if need be, I could contact all of you, list or no list. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

Can anyone tell me where in Arkansas is Poughkeepsie around 1893-1900? Thanks

Thank you for that short story, It was great reading it. I think I will try out that town that you mentioned! Aloha, Marjie ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [ARSHARP] Movements from Sharp Co to Oklahoma Marjie and the list Although I am kin to the Ritchies that moved from Sharp County to Texas in the late 1800's my line did not take that route. We moved from Sharp County to Oklahoma and here is the story as told by my greataunt who was a little girl at the time. The Ritchie Family Trek from Arkansas to Oklahoma The last week of Sep in 1911, Daddy bought a new covered wagon and had an over-jet built onto it. (An over-jet was a handmade wagon bed that was four foot wider than the regular wagon bed? All that week Mommy had made bread, had sorted clothes and dishes and bedding. She'd told us that we wouldn't take any furniture and we'd have to leave some other things, too. Mommy cried. The night before we left for Oklahoma, Grandma Ritchie (Daddy's Mama [Ellen Florence Phillips Ritchie]) and Aunt Maud (Daddy's sister) came to the house and helped Mommy finish packing. Since we were going to spend the last night with Grandma and Grandpa Hackney, we said goodbye to the Grandma Ritchie and she caught hold of the wagon and followed us for a long way, just crying and going on. We never saw her again. We spent the night with Grandma Hackney--their farm was three miles north of Ash Flat--and the next morning, October 1, 1911, we started for Oklahoma. Uncle Sterling Hackney (Mommy's brother) was going with us. Truman rode and slept in Uncle Sterling's wagon. But they ate with us. In the smaller wagon bed, Daddy had put Mommy's trunk, the groceries, our clothes, and a feather mattress. Mamie, me and Virgie slept on that feather mattress. There was a feather mattress in the over-jet and the rest of the family (Daddy, Mommy, Ethyl, and Lester [he was 8 mo old]) slept on this. (Us kids rode on the mattress in the over-jet during the day. Mommy and Daddy rode on the spring-seat of the wagon. When we got to Myatt (this is four miles no of the Hackney farm), Mommy's sister (Eva Lena) and her husband (Sam Bryant) were waiting for us with their wagon packed. Since Grandma Hackney had "pitched a fit" about her baby going off, Aunt Evy (Eva Lena Bryant) hadn't told Grandma they were going to Oklahoma. We drove about 20 to 25 miles a day. Us kids would walk or ride, which ever we wanted. Mommy would have me and Mamie watch Lester and Ethyl (2 years old). When we first woke up in the morning, Mommy would make her "dutch-oven" (a big kettle with a tight-fitting lid) full of biscuits. Poppy would build a fire--then take the coals and cover the dutch-oven to cook the bread. It took about 20 minutes for them to cook. We had oatmeal, butter, bread and jelly for breakfast. (We bought milk, eggs, and butter and sweet potatoes from farmers across the land) For supper, Mommy would make biscuits, gravy, fried ham or salt bacon. We had hominy, canned beans and dried fruit. When we would set up camp at evening, the people who lived nearby, would come and drink coffee with the grownups and talk til the early hours of the morning. One time, the people wanted to take me and Mamie. They had a big two-story house and we thought this was a grand thing, but Poppy said "No". Near the Oklahoma line, another family joined our wagons. It was a Daddy and 4 kids--3 girls and a boy. Their mommy had just died and they were on their way to Porum, OK. We had come across the north part of Arkansas, coming across the line at Stilwell. We were on our way to Talahina. We got to Talahina on the 20th of October and we drove to the creek south of town. On that day the Federal Revenue Agents had come to town, arrested 91 men from the Talahina area for making "moon shine whiskey". Earlier in the fall, a young man had come into the area and picked cotton for many of the farmers. As he worked, he watched and was able to locate the "stills" in the area. The 91 men were taken by train to Ft. Smith for sentencing. The area was "up in arms" looking for the "tipster" and all night long they would look through our tent. By the next morning Poppy was so mad. This made him decide to go to Porum instead. We got to Porum on the 24th of October and I wanted to go back home. ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Sharp Co., AR list, use [email protected] or [email protected] if you are on the Digest list. To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

Marjie and the list Although I am kin to the Ritchies that moved from Sharp County to Texas in the late 1800's my line did not take that route. We moved from Sharp County to Oklahoma and here is the story as told by my greataunt who was a little girl at the time. The Ritchie Family Trek from Arkansas to Oklahoma The last week of Sep in 1911, Daddy bought a new covered wagon and had an over-jet built onto it. (An over-jet was a handmade wagon bed that was four foot wider than the regular wagon bed? All that week Mommy had made bread, had sorted clothes and dishes and bedding. She'd told us that we wouldn't take any furniture and we'd have to leave some other things, too. Mommy cried. The night before we left for Oklahoma, Grandma Ritchie (Daddy's Mama [Ellen Florence Phillips Ritchie]) and Aunt Maud (Daddy's sister) came to the house and helped Mommy finish packing. Since we were going to spend the last night with Grandma and Grandpa Hackney, we said goodbye to the Grandma Ritchie and she caught hold of the wagon and followed us for a long way, just crying and going on. We never saw her again. We spent the night with Grandma Hackney--their farm was three miles north of Ash Flat--and the next morning, October 1, 1911, we started for Oklahoma. Uncle Sterling Hackney (Mommy's brother) was going with us. Truman rode and slept in Uncle Sterling's wagon. But they ate with us. In the smaller wagon bed, Daddy had put Mommy's trunk, the groceries, our clothes, and a feather mattress. Mamie, me and Virgie slept on that feather mattress. There was a feather mattress in the over-jet and the rest of the family (Daddy, Mommy, Ethyl, and Lester [he was 8 mo old]) slept on this. (Us kids rode on the mattress in the over-jet during the day. Mommy and Daddy rode on the spring-seat of the wagon. When we got to Myatt (this is four miles no of the Hackney farm), Mommy's sister (Eva Lena) and her husband (Sam Bryant) were waiting for us with their wagon packed. Since Grandma Hackney had "pitched a fit" about her baby going off, Aunt Evy (Eva Lena Bryant) hadn't told Grandma they were going to Oklahoma. We drove about 20 to 25 miles a day. Us kids would walk or ride, which ever we wanted. Mommy would have me and Mamie watch Lester and Ethyl (2 years old). When we first woke up in the morning, Mommy would make her "dutch-oven" (a big kettle with a tight-fitting lid) full of biscuits. Poppy would build a fire--then take the coals and cover the dutch-oven to cook the bread. It took about 20 minutes for them to cook. We had oatmeal, butter, bread and jelly for breakfast. (We bought milk, eggs, and butter and sweet potatoes from farmers across the land) For supper, Mommy would make biscuits, gravy, fried ham or salt bacon. We had hominy, canned beans and dried fruit. When we would set up camp at evening, the people who lived nearby, would come and drink coffee with the grownups and talk til the early hours of the morning. One time, the people wanted to take me and Mamie. They had a big two-story house and we thought this was a grand thing, but Poppy said "No". Near the Oklahoma line, another family joined our wagons. It was a Daddy and 4 kids--3 girls and a boy. Their mommy had just died and they were on their way to Porum, OK. We had come across the north part of Arkansas, coming across the line at Stilwell. We were on our way to Talahina. We got to Talahina on the 20th of October and we drove to the creek south of town. On that day the Federal Revenue Agents had come to town, arrested 91 men from the Talahina area for making "moon shine whiskey". Earlier in the fall, a young man had come into the area and picked cotton for many of the farmers. As he worked, he watched and was able to locate the "stills" in the area. The 91 men were taken by train to Ft. Smith for sentencing. The area was "up in arms" looking for the "tipster" and all night long they would look through our tent. By the next morning Poppy was so mad. This made him decide to go to Porum instead. We got to Porum on the 24th of October and I wanted to go back home.

Hi Gang--It looks like you do have to have a membership to access ancestry.com boards--at least that is what I think. Did not know if any one knew or not but you can access the genforum.com messages through the search engine at: www.gencircles.com I found it last week before the other search engine came up. You all should try gencircles.com anyway for more information. I say this as a researcher--I do not have any association with it other than a user. Just happened on to it when I was doing a search for ARNN and found some new data. judith arnn-knight

I don't admin a board, but I do host a county in Wisconsin and you should see the hot and heavy hate mail about the new boards on that list. Robin -----Original Message----- From: Millers [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ARSHARP] new boards Looks like, all of our queries will have to be on the mailing lists, because I just tried to post a response to someone on the query site for Oregon Co., and the board wouldn't let me! Kept saying 'no data in message box' when my message was right there!! I don't know about everybody else, but I HATE these new boards.. they are so confusing, and you had better have a membership with ancestry.com, or you won't get in... Course, just cause you get in, doesn't mean that you can actually POST any query or responses... Such a shame too since the others boards were working quite well, and easy access and simple. Looks like they are doing everything they can to force people to buy ancestry.com, or stop doing research by internet all together!! Anybody else having problems, too? Lanita ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Well....leave it to Lanita! I could not figure out why I could not get in....OK...I like ancestry.com but my subscption has expired. I must say that if I am forced to renew with ancestry to get access to boards...than the heck with it! I will not be coerced into subbing to ancestry to acess rootsweb....sad but true, they may have gone too far this time. Gena gates Lally ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Hoff Kaspar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 12:11 PM Subject: RE: [ARSHARP] new boards > I don't admin a board, but I do host a county in Wisconsin and you should > see the hot and heavy hate mail about the new boards on that list. > > Robin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Millers [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 12:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ARSHARP] new boards > > > Looks like, all of our queries will have to be on the mailing lists, > because I just tried to post a response to someone on the query site for > Oregon Co., and the board wouldn't let me! Kept saying 'no data in > message box' when my message was right there!! > > I don't know about everybody else, but I HATE these new boards.. they > are so confusing, and you had better have a membership with > ancestry.com, or you won't get in... Course, just cause you get in, > doesn't mean that you can actually POST any query or responses... > > Such a shame too since the others boards were working quite well, and > easy access and simple. > > Looks like they are doing everything they can to force people to buy > ancestry.com, or stop doing research by internet all together!! > > Anybody else having problems, too? > Lanita > > > ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >

I just got this clarification instructions from a cousin. I haven't tried it yet, but am keeping my fingers crossed that it works when I do: To post, you must register 'log in' (Free) - user name and password which you choose yourself. This is located just under the blue RootsWeb bar in right corner or will pop up if you click on post reply. Don't forget at the top of each message board, there is a place to search All boards, just the board you're on or advanced search which gives you several ways to search. Say you're looking for the JONES obituary board, put Jones in surname and for message type - click on drop down menu to obituary. This will give you ALL obituaries posted on ANY of the old Gen Connect Boards which had Jobe listed in them. At the bottom of each of these boards in the green section are links to Message Board Rules, Message Board FAQ, and Message Baord Help which, HOPEFULLY, will answer your questions.

I have the legal land description of my James S. Smith's property in Sharp Co from 1859. What do I have to do to find out how long he owned it? Seems to me I called the Assessor's Office in Ash Flat a few years ago and got nowhere. Robin Hoff Kaspar Volunteer host, Grant County, Wisconsin WIGenweb http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant

Looks like, all of our queries will have to be on the mailing lists, because I just tried to post a response to someone on the query site for Oregon Co., and the board wouldn't let me! Kept saying 'no data in message box' when my message was right there!! I don't know about everybody else, but I HATE these new boards.. they are so confusing, and you had better have a membership with ancestry.com, or you won't get in... Course, just cause you get in, doesn't mean that you can actually POST any query or responses... Such a shame too since the others boards were working quite well, and easy access and simple. Looks like they are doing everything they can to force people to buy ancestry.com, or stop doing research by internet all together!! Anybody else having problems, too? Lanita

Hi, I read there were movements in the late 1800 to Texas from Sharp. Can anyone tell me a usual pattern from Sharp Co to Oklahoma, I cant seem to find any family in the census. I have individually checked each township in Sharp Co 1900-1910 as well as Marion Co 1910. I know my grandfather was born in Eldon, Oklahoma, 1920 (of course after the census). These are the WADE, NEELEY AND BUTLER families. Thanks, any clues appreciated. (The WADES and NEELEYS were in the 1880 Sharp Census, NEELEYS were in the 1910 Sharp Census.

Meg You mentioned Effie Lee. Is she kin to John Henry TURNER who married my ggg aunt Martha Jane Ritchie (dau of Isaac Hill Ritchie)? I have a handful of Effies in my family. I even have one Effie Lee who would probably have been in the area you're talking about that is on my dad's side of the family (my mom was the Ritchie). Marcia

In a message dated 6/21/2001 3:43:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Marcia, > > My gr grandmother, Ruthie Caroline WILES had a brother (Wm Lafayette WILES) > who married an M. Caroline ENDSLEY, probably living in the same area. > > Sadly, I haven't Sharp County resources to be able to check out the census > records for you, on this. > > Jean Cuevas > > > Jean Give me some dates on these folks and I'll see what I can find for you on a couple of census I have. Marcia

Meg I totally enjoyed your overview of the migration folks. I learned alot from your story! I descend from Isaac Hill RITCHIE and Elvira ARMSTRONG through their son Calvin Dewitt R. who married Ellen Florence PHILLIPS, dau of Trenton Charles PHILLIPS and Sarah F. HARRIS. My direct line did NOT come to North Texas. We came to Oklahoma about 1911 instead. It wasn't until about 1940 that my family came to Texas, even though I am a Texas native. In fact, I moved to California from Waxahachie, so reading about all this family of mine right there in North Texas has been quite interesting. You seem to be very knowledgeable about the family so I have another migration question. What caused the migration to Sharp County, Arkansas? I know it was Lawrence County in 1860 when most of my family arrived. But I have the ARMSTRONGS who came from Alabama, and the RITCHIES who came from Marshall County, TN, and the PHILLIPS who came from somewhere in TN, and the HACKNEYS and AHARTS who came from Trigg County KY, and the HOLDERFIELDS who came from Haywood Co, TN. Why would all these families from different areas arrive at about the same time in such a small town as Ash Flat? I would be happy to exchange information with anyone in these families. I have a database on Rootweb Worldconnect at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET& db=hartresearcher&id=I243 Corrections are welcome. Marcia in California

I stopped doing research for several years for health reasons, and have picked it back up but am in the middle of converting records on paper into my FTM program. Hence, the information below that you requested about the families that migrated from Sharp Co. to North Texas is NOT all that I have, and it's an overview, anyhow, for the purposes of this list. I'd be happy to exchange full details with anyone who wants to do that off-list. David Mastin Armstrong was born 1848 in AL to Richard Dickson Armstrong, who moved his family to what was then Lawrence Co., AR in the early 1850's from Franklin Co., AL. The Armstrongs had lived in Marion Co., AL before it split off into Franklin Co., then Monroe Co. MS before that; Richard and his brother William moved as young settlers from North Carolina (probably Anson Co.) into the newly opened Mississippi and Alabama territories after the land was taken from the Choctaws and other native tribes for westward expansion. Richard Dickson Armstrong was the first white owner of the land he obtained in Northern Alabama. He and William were the sons of Richard Armstrong and Martha/Patsy Huntley of North Carolina. Richard's parents are Isaac Armstrong and Elizabeth Ussery. Martha's parents were Thomas Huntley Jr. and Jane Alsobrook Cook, also of North Carolina. Several sources on the web indicate that Martha was Cherokee (some say full-blood) and that her real name was Oh Ko Wi Ki. I have not found verification of this statement, and am a little skeptical of it because her family history is fairly well fleshed out and does not appear to be Cherokee. In her background are Dicksons and Hindmans, these surnames appearing (along with the above-mentioned Huntley and Mastin) as middle names for her Armstrong grandsons. Richard and Martha Armstrong migrated to Hot Spring County, Arkansas and are buried there. Another of their sons, Thomas, married Malena Lockridge and produced a daughter Elvira who married Isaac Hill Ritchie (see Ritchies below, another Sharp Co. family). Richard Dickson Armstrong was a successful, though not well-to-do, farmer and also made income from stud horses. He passed on knowledge about horsebreeding to his son David, who kept a journal of his efforts. (I've read it.) Richard Dickson married Susannah Fuller, probably in Franklin Co., AL, but possibly in Monroe Co., MS. Susannah was born 1826 in Monroe Co., MS to David C. Fuller and Ann Randolph; Ann Randolph's father Hugh was a Revolutionary War veteran and received a pension. Richard Dickson and Susannah's children include Isaac Huntley A., David A., Sarah Jane A. (who appears to have died young), and James Richard A. Not long after moving to Lawrence Co., before the split into Sharp Co., Susannah died and Richard Dickson remarried to Margrett Mathis. They had two more children, William Leroy A. and Thomas Hindman A. When the Civil War started, Richard Dickson and his two eldest sons enlisted in the Confederate States Army. David was only 14 at the time. His children by Margrett were still toddlers. Later in the war, Richard's third son James Richard also enlisted in the CSA. Margrett was left behind to manage the farm. Richard and David served as privates in Company B, Morgan's Cavalry, from Arkansas. On 12 October 1864 Richard was captured at Ironton, Missouri and sent to the infamous Union Military Prison at Alton, Illinois. This prison had used as a regular prison several decades before the war, but for a long time had been condemned as not fit for use even for prisoners. However, it was deemed good enough for Confederates. Most of the windows had no covering of any kind; there were no floors, so pools of water and mud stood everywhere; and the prison sat on an island in the middle of the river, subject to freezing cold in the winter and mosquito-laden humidity in the summer. I have seen photographs of prisoners taken during this time; they look like concentration camp survivors. The death rate was astronmical. David knew of his father's capture. He was quite literate and would have written home to let the rest of the family now, but writing supplies were desperately scarce for Confederates and he could not find enough to manage even a note. His father was 40 years old at the time of capture. Deeply worried about his survival, David made the enormously difficult decision to give himself up to the Union Army and beg to be sent to the same prison as his father so that he might look after him. His gamble worked. But by the time he got to Richard, his father was already ill. On 24 May 1865, seven months after capture, Richard was admitted to the so-called hospital of the prison. He died on 7 June 1865 of "chronic diarrhoea" and is buried at the prison graveyard. The remainder of the prisoners were released, including David. It took him some time to get back home because he had no horse, no food, and had himself become ill with tuberculosis from the prison conditions. Margrett and the other children spent a year and a half wondering what had happened to Richard before David returned with the sad news. At war's end, David was still only 17. His heart had been broken, and the finances of everyone he knew in Sharp County were destroyed by the war. He heard of a wagon train heading for Texas from Sharp Co. On that train folks he knew from the Evening Shade area, including Tommy and Joanah Ritchie and their three youngest children. In 1874 he left his brothers to look after his stepmother and rode off alone toward Texas. On that long ride, he became away of the sparking blue eyes and sweet strength of Tommy and Joanah's daughter Margaret Semmerine (her middle name comes from a river somewhere in the family's past). By the time they reached Texas, they were in love and obtained her parent's permission to marry. Margaret, born 1858 in Ash Flat, Sharp Co., was only 16 at the time of her marriage. David and Margaret settled on land near Grapevine in Tarrant County, TX. (DFW Airport now covers their farm.) The elder Ritchies either didn't stop with them or didn't stop long. They moved on up 70 miles north to Montague Co. on the Oklahoma border. David and Margaret had their daughter, Sarah Lee (named for Robert E. Lee) in 1875 and then followed to Montague Co. David obtained "Limestone County" school land just east of Stoneburg, Texas and built a soddie on the crosstimber prairie there. Nearby were the farms of the Ritchies, the Turners, several of Cerilda Turner's grown siblings, and other intermarried kin who originated in Sharp Co. David bought a stud horse, and when the growing community had their first death, he donated one of his hilltops for a cemetery, now known as Oak Hill Cemetery. Eventually David built a one room cabin, then added a second room with a dog run. But by this time, the TB he'd gotten at the Union Army prison had begun to wear him down. He and Margaret had a pair of twins who died at birth and are buried at Oak Hill. Not long after, while his daughter Sarah was still a teenager, David died and was himself buried at Oak Hill. By this time, David's brothers and stepmother had followed him from Sharp Co. and also had farms in the Stoneburg area. Margrett Armstrong and many other Armstrongs are buried at Oak Hill. William Thomas "Tommy" Ritchie was born 1827 in Pittsylvania Co., VA to Robert Thomas Ritchie and Jane Murphey. While he was a child his family migrated to Marshall Co., TN. Also newly arrived in that county (from Maury Co., TN) was the family of Littleberry Carter and Agnes "Nancy" Moore. Littleberry Carter was the son of Charles T. Carter, a Revolutionary War veteran. Littleberry and Nancy had two daughters, Elizabeth Zilpha and Joanah G. Carter. Around 1840 Elizabeth married Alexander Wiles. Some of their children later migrated to Sharp Co. Joanah, born 1828 in Maury Co., TN, married Tommy Ritchie in 1848. They began their family in Marshall Co., TN but bought land in Sharp Co. in 1857 and moved there, along with some of Tommy's siblings, living near Ash Flat. Their oldest daughter, Everlina Alice Ritchie, married Robert Paden in Sharp Co. in 1864. But by the early 1880's, the Padens were living in Denton Co., TX (one county down and over from Montague Co.) and at the turn of the century they moved out to Sanger, in Fresno Co., CA. Tommy and Joanah's second child, Benjamin Franklin, remained in Sharp Co. and raised his family there. Their second daughter, Sarah "Sally" Minerva, married Porter Chilton in Montague Co. Their youngest child, James Berry, married Roxie/Rokey/Rocky Ann West in Montague Co. and settled in what was then Belcherville, TX where they had a huge family and where Ritchies can still be found. Tommy Ritchie also served in the CSA from Sharp Co. but did not live long enough to receive a pension. Joanah Carter Ritchie died in Stoneburg in 1904 and is buried in Oak Hill. Tommy went west to live with his daughter's family in Sanger, CA. He died there in 1905 and is buried in the Bethel Cemetery in Fresno Co. Family story maintains he was heartbroken at the loss of Joanah and never roused himself to much after she died. I have a quilt made by Joanah sometime in the 1860s. It is faded and threadbare, in the pattern called Little Dutch Girl. I also have a photograph of Tommy, Joanah and their three daughters taken around 1895 in Texas. Thomas Joseph "Tom" Turner was born in 1843 to Joseph Turner, Jr. and Matilda C. Smith in Fayette Co., TN. Some records indicate that Joseph Turner or perhaps his father was born in England. Matilda Smith was the daughter of Jabez Smith. Joseph and Matilda married in 1849 and had two children before Joseph died. Left penniless, Matilda married again in 1855 to an older man named Clement Nance. Shortly afterward Clement and Matilda Nance moved with Matilda's two young sons to Sharp Co. It appears that Tom did not have an especially close relationship with his mother or stepfather. Tom served in the CSA from Sharp Co., joining 1n 1861 Captain Perry Clay's Company, a thirty-day muster for the Arkansas C.S.A. After this muster was completed, he re-enlisted 2 May 1862 in Lawrence Co., Arkansas, serving as a private in Co. F, 2nd Missouri Brigade, 10 Missouri Infantry Regiment. He was in this unit until the end of the war, when the army of General Price surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, and Tom was paroled. He was awarded a Confederate pension from Texas in 1913 for his Confederate service. Tom's mother Matilda was widowed again by 1880 and married a third time to David Spurlock Sr. She and David are buried together near Ash Flat. Further information about Tom's younger brother is not known at this time. Thomas married Cerilda Ann SANDEFER 1867 in Lawrence Co., Arkansas. Cerilda's brother, Samuel Butner SANDEFER, served with Tom Turner in Captain Perry Clayton's Company from Lawrence Co. Cerilda was the daughter of John William Sandefer and Eleanor Butner, born 1845 in Bartholomew Co., IN. The Sandefers moved from Indiana to Sharp Co. around 1860, and John William Sandefer is buried in Sharp Co. Several of Cerilda's siblings also moved from Sharp Co. to the Stoneburg, TX area including Mary Agnes S. (married William Bailey Leverton); Frank R.S. (married Emma Wright); as well as Samuel Burrell S. and Indiana S. who migrated on to other counties in Texas. Tom and Cerilda Turner moved to Montague County, Texas from Arkansas in 1888, living first in Stoneburg. Cerilda died shortly after the turn of the century and Tom moved to live with a daughter in Bowie, where he died in 1914. Both of them are buried at Oak Hill. David and Margaret Armstrong's only child, Sarah, married Tom and Cerilda Turner's son Samuel Mordecai "Sam" Turner in 1984. Sam was born 1872 in Evening Shade, Sharp Co. Sam and Sarah had three children, Roy V., Hettie Alberta, and Effie Lee. They were unaware that Sarah had been infected by the tuberculosis brought back by David from the Union Army prison until 1902, when first little Roy and then mother Sarah died. Sam died of TB in July 1903. Margaret Armstrong took in her two surviving granddaughters, then two and four, and raised them. When Hettie grew up, married and began having children, she began having a familiar haggard look to her face. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis while pregnant with my mother, Mary Jo. She died before Mama was a year old. A few years later Mama's father died, also of lung disease. Mama and her siblings were parceled out individually to aunts and uncles; this was the heart of the Depression. Some of them fared well (like Mama); others wound up in wretched homes. By this time Margaret Ritchie was too elderly to raise a third generation. For financial security she had married an even more elderly but comfortably pensioned gentleman named William Hardin Dowdy. They called each other "Mr." and "Mrs." Dowdy. Margaret made it plain before marriage that she would cook and clean for him, and care for him in his old age, but "nothing else". He was agreeable to this. They are both buried in Oak Hill. Margaret is something of a family legend. I am named for her. The surviving Turner child, Effie Lee, tested positive in adulthood for tuberculosis but lived a long and vigorous life, surviving to almost 100 and preserved most of the family history written above. She taught English and history for decades, and made many trips back to Sharp Co. to keep those connections alive. She married a historian, and was a much beloved figure in our family. I'd love to hear from ANY kin out there. Meg Barnett

My family name is Pollock. My g-grandfather was Isaac Jackson Pollock. He married Ida May Nelson in Sharp Co., she was the daughter of Andrew Jackson & Lavinia Nelson. Andrew is my brick wall, I only have 1 census record & 1 land record on him. Put I have tons of stuff on the Pollocks. Any sound familiar? Vicky ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [ARSHARP] Migration from Sharp Co. to North Texas > Vicky > > What were the surnames of the family that moved from Sharp County to Texas? > > Marcia In California > > > ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Sharp Co., AR list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html > >