This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/634.1 Message Board Post: i have a wesley densel born 1845 in pa. married nettie shook. father was peter densel of convoy ohio

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cariker, Dehart, Gibson, Simmons, England, Winderlin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADE/200.1 Message Board Post: I don't know if this is going to help, but there is a Fakes Cemetery outside of McCrory, AR (Woodruff County). Maybe you can find who you are looking for there. There is a list online, but I will tell you, it is not complete like they say it is. I have to go out there all the time to get dates. But I'm pretty sure the Fakes Family is complete.

I would appreciate anyone who has access looking up a cemetery listing for Gus Witcher. All I have is a notation saying he died at Gray's, AR and is buried at Breaden. I'm not even sure whether this refers to towns or cemeteries or what. His wife was Minnie S. and she may be buried with him. I'm guessing by census reports that he died between 1903 and 1910. Any information on the Witcher family of Augusta would be appreciated. I do have the cemetery listings for Witcher's in Augusta Cemetery and Pumpkin Bend Cemetery thanks to the generosity of a lady named Gloria. Thank you for any help you can give me. Peggy

I have done some preliminary research on the Jones Family of Woodruff County, AR. My husband's great-grandmother was Ruth Jones, daughter of Seymore and Nancy (Lambert) Jones. I've wondered if Johnnie Jones who died in 1885 and buried at Beard's Cemetery was the father of Seymore. Can anyone shed any light on this? Debra Walker

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/855 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on Richard Jones born 1869 and Riley Jones born 1872 Jackson Co AR and later in Woodruff Co AR. They were the sons of John E and Martha Jones. Would like to correspond with any Jones researchers in this the Woodruff Co area..

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/849.1.1 Message Board Post: well now at least I have and idea of where to dig

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/849.1 Message Board Post: Hello Charles, Today I talked to one of the oldtimers in Patterson, Woodruff Co., AR about Dark Corner and he told me it was a community about 4 miles south of Cotton Plant on highway 17. He said his father ran cattle in this area and he knew it well. He said it was named Dark Corner because of all the colored people that lived there. Best regards, Gary Telford Family Roots

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/854.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Gary! You are such a help. I appreciate it!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/854.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Andrea... The following information you requested on the Lee Cemetery in Woodruff County Arkansas. At the bottom you will find the 1910 Census record for John Thompson and Spicy E. Hope this helps you very much. Best regards, Gary Telford Family Roots Woodruff County Monitor Lee Cemetery This cemetery is located 2 1/4 miles east of Gregory. Around 1862, Samuel Watson bought this particular land from E. Thomas Easley. In 1867, he sold the land back to the Easley children. Evidently, Mrs. Callie Tidwell, Evelyn K. Land and Frances Land bought the land sometime and sold it to John W. Lee. It is located in the southeast quarter of Section 9, Township 6 North, Range 3 West. The cemetery may have been known as Tidwell Cemetery or even Land Cemetery (Abram Land, the father-in-law of William Alexander Reed, whose mother and children are buried here), although research fails to record it as such. At the time Mrs. Callie Tidwell owned the land, she advised a group of Negroes to buy a plot of land for a cemetery, as the next generation would not sell; they did not take her advice. Another record indicates that Mrs. Tidwell and Susan gave a mortgage to the land to Minor Gregory, April 8, 1893. Rae Coleman notes that an instrument dated January 31, 1907, mentions the right of the renters to bury their dead in a the graveyard on the land. John W. Lee's first wife and several children are buried in the cemetery, and he was the last to be buried here when he died in 1928. An inventory of the cemetery was made in 1974 by Elo Peters, who married Opal Lee, daughter of John W. Lee. The Peters family lives near the cemetery, and part of the area is owned by a brother, Charlie Lee. It was the custom of the more affluent citizens who lived before and during the Civil War to line their graves with bricks, extending a foot or so above the ground. Mr. Peters noted that the grave of a small child had been lined with bricks. Ed Holler spoke of a Mr. King being buried in this cemetery. King was shot by an unknown person through a window. He was employed to operate a store (Hall and Reed) by Mrs. Reed following the deaths of Mr. Hall and Mr. Reed. Brewster, Annie E., b. July 25, 1836, D. February 14, 1883 John W., d. April 13, 189?, aged 70 years King, William H., b. February 24, 1874, d. October 20, 1898 Land, Eugenia V., d. 1878 Lee, John Wilson, B. 1846, d. 1928, aged 82 years. Mrs. _______ (and several children of John Wilson Lee) Reed, Annie E., daughter of W.A. and M.E., born and died July 30, 1885 Douglass H., son of W.A. and M.E., b. November 6, 1881, d. November 5, 1882 Thompson, John Franklin. d. 1925 Spicey Ellen, b. 1868 Tidwell, J. Elbert, son of J.C. and C., b. January 22, 1885, d. October 31, 1897 Susie, daughter of J.C. and C., b. January 15, 1890, d. December 1891 1910 Census Thompson, John S., 49, born in NC, laborer (sawmill); Spicy E., wife, 50, born in NC, mother of 4 children. 2 living; married 10 years, Minnie L., daughter, 17 born in AR.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADE/853 Message Board Post: looking for info. on these familys. need to find out what my grand mothers real moms name is. my grandmother was ola ballard b-sept 21 1915 blackrock ar. her father was arthur ballard b-sept 17 1886 in ada oklahoma. can't find a census on them. her mother died when she was a baby. nobody in my family knows and grandmother has passed on. so i don't know where to go from here. please somebody help me! other names christopher columbus dewitt (lum) ada horton dewitt (lum's wife)died giving birth alton dewitt (lum's son) died of TB in the 40's dewey dewitt(lum's son) died at 3 mths this is the child that ada died giving birth to george dewitt(lum's son) my grandfather bernard dewitt(lum's son) lottie horton(ada's mom) john haggard(lottie horton married him) if anyone has info on this please help! thank you laura

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/852.1 Message Board Post: Hello Joan, There is a lot of information available in the Loose Probate Records of Woodruff County Arkansas regarding the Jones you mentioned and is to much to type in an e-mail. Send me your e-mail address and I will discuss sending this to you by snail mail. Best regards, Gary Telford Family Roots Woodruff County Monitor

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/851.1 Message Board Post: Hello Johanna, Death Certificates in Arkansas are availabe from February 1914, and some originals for Little Rock and Fort Smith from 1881. In the Lee Cemetery, located 2 1/2 miles east of Gregory, Woodruff Co., AR, it list John (Wilson) Lee, born 1846 and died 1928, aged 82 years. Buried with him is his first, (per Woodruff County Cemetery Records), Mrs. (unknown) and several children, no names or dates. After the death of Mrs. Lee in the early 1900's, Miss Minnie Thompson, along with her family, settled near Gregory. Both of the families came from North Carolina. The two families had much in common and became good friends. In 1912, Minnie Thompson and John Willis Lee were married, and in November of 1913 their first child was born--a daughter , Valena Carine Lee. She was followed by Opal D. Lee and Maynard D. Lee. John Willis Lee died in 1928 and was buried in the cemetery on the family farm, near the grave of his first wife. When John Willis Lee died he was the owner of nearly 1000 acres of land.he had worked on. The farm was left to the four children. After the death of John W. Lee, Minnie Lee married Henry McCarty and both of them are now deceased. Opal D. Lee married Elo Peters. Hopes this helps. Best regards, Gary Telford Family Roots Woodruff County Monitor

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/777.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi again. You said John and his wife are buried in Lee Cem. and that it is overgrown? Do you know if a marker exists for them--guess it wouldn't matter too much if it is overgrown. Do you know what year your John was born? I'd love to be able to conclusively determine it is the same man. I'd say with Minnie's having been born in 1897 (John was born abt 1865) and John's middle name being Franklin that it is but confirmation is always good.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/777.1.1 Message Board Post: Oh my gosh, THANK YOU for writing to me! I'll bet he is the John Thompson who is Jim's younger brother. Minnie's age would be perfect to be this John's daughter. PLUS, the fact that his middle name is Franklin and gr-gr grandpa's dad was Benjamin Franklin seems a lot to be just cooincidence. My great aunt Geneva says she used to hide under her parents' bed when Uncle John would visit because he was kinda cranky sounding or something LOL. He was really old when he would come here to visit in the 1930's but no one could really remember where he came from to get here. Thanks for posting! I'm SO excited to find someone probably descended from the previously missing Uncle John Thompson!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lee, Thompson, Godwin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/777.1 Message Board Post: John Franklin and Spicy Ellen Thompson are buried in Lee cemetery (over grown) outside Gregory, AR. Their daughter Minnie Lee Thompson married my gr grandfather John Willis Lee. She was born in 1897 in Arkansas. Does this help? Johanna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/850.1 Message Board Post: Hello Jimmy, I have in my files a Clara Carlisle who was born November 30, 1919 and died February 5, 1999 in Augusta, Woodruff Co., AR. If you think this is who you are looking for, you can contact Rhodes and Son Funeral Home at 701 North 9th Street, Augusta, AR 72006 or call them at (870) 347-2576 for additional information. Best regards, Gary Telford Family Roots Woodruff County Monitor

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/850 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on my grandmother, Clara Roberts Collins-Carlisle. She was married to Terry Collins who was killed on Dec 18, 1947 when a tree struck him in Augusta. Any info would be appreciated. Email me at hotelkeeper1@yahoo.com

Yes, I have. It is south of Cotton Plant. ----- Original Message ----- From: <charlesm138@mchsi.com> To: <ARWOODRU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:16 PM Subject: looking for the location of Dark Corner > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/849 > > Message Board Post: > > has anyone heard of this place in or around Woodruff County > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

This was delivered to me requesting to post to the list for those interested in South African Genealogy. This is probably difficult research to do, so wanted to pass it on to the list. It appears to be a membershp only thing, but looks like only $5 for those in North America, so very reasonable. FYI - Gloria >Good afternoon > >Would it be possible for you to post the following announcement on your >list - I do not know if some of your members might be interested in South >African Genealogy: > >Thanks >Colin Pretorius >*********** > >It is with great pleasure that we announce the dawning of a new era in South >African genealogy. After lengthy discussions involving people >interested in promoting South African genealogy, ideas and plans came >together to make it possible for the Genealogical Society of South Africa >(GSSA) to open a virtual branch. > >This branch is known as eGSSA. > >For many years there have been people who, for various reasons, could not >join a regular GSSA branch. Some of these reasons include living too far >from a branch or living outside South Africa. These people still have a >need to belong to a branch and to enjoy the benefits of GSSA membership, >such as receiving GSSA's flagship quarterly journal, Familia. GSSA has been >established to meet these needs. > >We plan for members of eGSSA to be able to hold virtual meetings in the >future, either via streaming technology or in a chat room a-la-MSN. . > >It is also planned that eGSSA will make some of the GSSA products available >electronically, and that some databases could be placed on the Internet for >search purposes. This all depends on the availability of storage capacity. > >eGSSA's website is currently hosted at ><http://www.ggsa.info/eggsa>http://www.ggsa.info/eggsa > >The management eGSSA team is as follows: > >Branch Chairperson: Colin Pretorius (based in Australia) >Secretary: Anne Lehmkuhl (based in Canada) >Technical services: Richard Ball (based in the UK) >Ex Officio: Martin Zöllner (based in South >Africa) > >Regional representatives: > >Australia/NZ/Oceania/Asia: André van Rensburg (based in Australia) >North & South America: Anne Lehmkuhl (based in Canada) >Europe & the UK: Richard Ball (based in the UK) >Africa & the Middle East: Daan Hamman (based in South Africa) > >The membership fees given below include an electronic copy of >Familia, the Society's quarterly journal, as well as the virtual branch's >own quarterly newsletter/journal, called genesis. Other >benefits include discounts on some CD products. > > >South Africa R115 ( R90 per annum GSSA fee >& R25 eGSSA fee) . >Rest of Africa and Middle East : US $ 22 >North and South America US $22 >United Kingdom GBP 11 >Europe Euro 18 >Aus/NZ/Oceania/Asia Aus $ 25 > > >Payments for residents IN South Africa can be done via Absa, while >payment for residents OUTSIDE South Africa will be done via Paypal >(Australian and NZ prospective subscribers can contact Colin Pretorius for >additional options) > >For those people who are not currently GSSA members, or cannot join a >current branch, this is an ideal opportunity to become part of GSSA and to >step into this exciting era. > >The contact email address is <mailto:eggsa@fmxau.com>eggsa@fmxau.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADE/475.1 Message Board Post: My wife is grand-daughter of Bertha Masters and Luther Dunn. Bertha's parents were Avery Masters and Addie Downsell. I have some dates and a little more information if you are interested. Chuck logedog@aol.com