I am wondering what libraries to go to in Sharp county and where they are located. I am planning to visit next spring and am looking for 1880 mortality schedules, 1870-1880 information on Smiths. I have census and homestead records but I know that one ancestor Braxton Smith who was 69 in 1870 must have died by 1880. But I can't find out when or anything on him. Would like to go look for obituaries, tax records, probate perhaps, cemetaries, etc. -- Connie Smith Kettle Falls, WA (northeast WA, Stevens County) Mail to:[email protected]

Hi Connie, There is a library in Hardy, Sharp Co., AR which has a genealogy section. The Court House in Ash Flat has Record Books which you can search, but not photocopy. You can take pictures of the pages with a camera. There is also a library in Evening Shade. I have not been the this one. They are open limited hours. There is a museum in Batesville which has a genealogy section. The library in Walnut Ridge over in Lawrence County has a good genealogy library and they are willing to assist you. Cleatus ----- Original Message ----- From: Constance J. Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:26 AM Subject: [ARSHARP] library searching I am wondering what libraries to go to in Sharp county and where they are located. I am planning to visit next spring and am looking for 1880 mortality schedules, 1870-1880 information on Smiths. I have census and homestead records but I know that one ancestor Braxton Smith who was 69 in 1870 must have died by 1880. But I can't find out when or anything on him. Would like to go look for obituaries, tax records, probate perhaps, cemetaries, etc. -- Connie Smith Kettle Falls, WA (northeast WA, Stevens County) Mail to:[email protected] ==== 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 ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

Connie, This appears to be your Braxton SMITH, based upon the birth year of 1861: From " Ash Flat History" p. 592 - 593: John Price Smith Family submitted by Clifton Martin and Betty Drake "John Price and Martha Bilbrey Thompson Gibson Smith were married ca 1880 in Ash Flat area. He was nineteen and she was twenty-eight, twice widowed, and the mother of four young children........" The children of John Price and Martha Smith were: 1) Rutha Canzada born in 1881, married Adolphus A. Estes. She died in 1976. 2) Arthur J., born December 28, 1884, married Laura Estes. He died January 19, 1918. 3) Dolphus was born in June of 1885. He married (1) Myrtle Hubbard (2) Tommie Carolyn Reeves. He died in 1959. 4) Mary Susan, born October 15, 1888, married Benjamin Franklin Martin. She died July 28, 1955. 5) Harvey O. was born April 21, 1893. He married Lily Kemper. He died May 1937. 6) Randall Earl was born November 1898. He married (1)Gladys Romine (2) Bessie ? 7) Willie F. Thompson, born June 1873, Married William Melvin Stogsdale. 8) Joseph C. Gibson, born ca 1876, married Sarah Izora Insell. 9) James F. Gibson, born January 1877, married Maranda Jane Harmon. 10) John N. Gibson, born ca 1879, married Martha Edwards. He died in 1931. John was the son of Leonard and Susannah Wheeler Smith who brought their family to Sharp County, Arkansas, about 1870 from Douglas County, Missouri. Leonard and Susannah were married November 9, 1852, in Greene County, Missouri. Their children were Mary (1853), William (1856), Susan E. (1860), John Price (1861), Braxton P. (1861), James M. (1865), and Peyton (1871). Leonard was the son of Braxton P. and Elizabeth Smith who had come to Missouri from Heard County, Georgia, 1850-1845. Prior to that they had lived in Fayette County, Georgia. Their children were two sons born 1825-30, Leonard (1828), Mary A. (1831), Priscilla Jane (1834), Benjamin N. (1836), and James W. (1845). Braxton and Elizabeth and some of their children also moved to Sharp County from Missouri about 1870." (Here's where your Smiths connect to my family) "Martha Bilbrey was the daughter of John Campbell and Rutha Denton Bilbrey. Rutha was the daughter of Ozias and Susannah Walling Denton who brought their family to the Ash Flat area in 1850 from White County, Tennessee." Rutha Denton Bilbrey was the sister to my 2nd gr grandmother, Cynthia Denton, who married James "Jimmy" Alexander Wiles. Jean Mayfield Cuevas At 06:26 AM 10/27/01 -0700, you wrote: >I am wondering what libraries to go to in Sharp county and where they >are located. >I am planning to visit next spring and am looking for 1880 mortality >schedules, 1870-1880 information on Smiths. I have census and homestead >records but I know that one ancestor Braxton Smith who was 69 in 1870 >must have died by 1880. But I can't find out when or anything on him. >Would like to go look for obituaries, tax records, probate perhaps, >cemetaries, etc. > >-- >Connie Smith >Kettle Falls, WA >(northeast WA, Stevens County) >Mail to:[email protected]