In a message dated 6/16/2005 7:26:06 P.M. Central Standard Time, gingerh@shawneelink.com writes: The page notes that Isaac Belford and family are not found in Pope > County after 1870. I got lucky and found them, in Arkansas of all > places in 1880 and perhaps in 1900: > A lot of my family from Franklin Co., Illinois ended up in Arkansas and I always wondered WHY. I was told my another genealogy friend that a lot of Civil War Union soldiers were in Arkansas during the war and like what they saw and moved there when things "at home" were not working out well with the land they had - if they had any. Linda in TN