I see a Dan Asbille in Decatur Co., TN, age 33 in 1910. That Him? David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Stivers" <BLS@g5i.net> To: "David Cagle" <dcagle1@charter.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:41 PM Subject: Asbille's > Hi Cuz, My Grandfather was Daniel Lafayette Asbille. Please, if you ever > hear anything about the Asbille's would you let me know. > > I hope this finds you and yours well. > > Betty Stivers > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: > 269.19.5/1228 - Release Date: 1/16/2008 9:01 AM > >

Will do. David ----- Original Message ----- From: <Angeldrd@aol.com> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin County Historical Society Meeting > Hi David, > I wish I could be there, but unfortunately, I'm not able to travel. Would > you mind mentioning to everyone there that I'm interested in anyone > related to > the William Spencer family? > thanks! > Denise > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.5/1228 - Release Date: 1/16/2008 > 9:01 AM > >

The Hardin County Historical Society will meet at 7:00 pm in the Hardin County Library on Thursday the 17th of January. We will have a short business meeting and a program describing the beginning, growth and decline of the Mercantile business at Cerro Gordo Landing on the Tennessee River. We have several pictures including one of the store built by Elisha Harbour in 1885. Everyone is welcome. David Cagle, President HCHS

Does anyone have information on an Elijah Mitchell family in Hardin Co.? I have been told he was from Hardin Co., but do not have documentation to prove that. He married Mary Jane Dickerson, daughter of Thomas and Martha Dickerson, also from TN. The younger couple later moved to Franklin Co., AR, and were parents of James, Mary Francis, William, and John. Sorry for the sparseness of the information, but the Mitchells are very difficult to trace. I would love to know who Elijah's parents were. Oh, forgot, he supposedly was in the Civil War, but I do not know which side he fought on. Thanks for any help. Barbra </HTML>

my gggrandfather john nd hale and lavicy was in hardin co. in 1840 and1850, in mcnairy co. in 1860, and in 1880 they are in conway co. ar.. they had a least 6 childern and son david dinsmore hale had 10 childern yet i have not found anyone researching this family. my skills on knowing how and where to search for information are limited. any help would be great. sonja --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

My theory on Arkansas being named the promise land. Back not so many years ago, when there was no work and people were hungry, many of them went to Arkansas to farm or to pick cotton. These poor souls could never get enough money to get back home, so their family and friends assumed they never returned home because they were doing good in the promise land. Been there done that. Beryl ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Ellis To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas David and list, I am sure it would be hard to write home and admit you might have made a mistake in 'moving to the promise land' and finding yourself in Arkansas. Before you Arkansans start in on me, I can say that because I have lived in Arkansas for thirty plus years and I say it with tongue in cheek! Although Yell County is beautiful country, it can hardly be compared to Hardin County, TN...... We have some friends who recently moved to Nixa, MO and her emails are filled with wonderful things about Nixa, as if she is trying to convince herself of the fact. I guess that proves times never change. On another thought, we were in Lawrence Co., AR yesterday and briefly searched for the Whitlow Cemetery only to be disappointed. Oddly enough, my husbands family's neighbor outside of Minturn was born and reared in the Arbor Grove community. It turns out her grandfather worked for his neighbor, John Whitlow. She showed us the old John Whitlow home and other points of interest, but we missed the cemetery somehow. Not one person seemed to be home in the area to ask about the cemetery. Don't know when I will be going back, but hope for better luck next time. I'll have directions with me then. Jane A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly! > From: dcagle1@charter.net > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:33:13 -0600 > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > Jane, > I couldn't resist. Uncle Henry Cagle left his wife and went to AR in 1879 > with Martha Lindsey Smith, the widow of his first cousin, Zachary T. Smith. > Henry's wife, Frances Isabella Davis Cagle got a divorce and uncle Henry's > land in 1882. > > I notice the same theme in this letter from uncle Henry to my g/grandfather > in 1894. Uncle Henry wouldn't trade his land in AR for land in Hardin > County at a 2 for 1 ratio. However, uncle Henry did come back to Hardin > County where he died in 1899. > > David > ______________________________________ > > “February the 2nd 1894 > > Aly, Yell County, Ark. > > Dear Brother: (Charles Cagle my great grandfather) > > I seat my self to drop you a few lines to let you know that we are all well, > and when these few lines arrive to hand, they will find you all the same. I > received your letter the 5th day of January. We was very glad to hear that > you all was well. We have no news much. I would like to see you all and talk > with you all. I am in very good health. My weight is 160 pounds. I had > better health since I have been in Arkansas than I ever had in my life. > > I have got a very good house. I have got 160 acres of land. I don’t owe any > thing for it. I have got 21 acres in cultivation. I have got a good house > with a good stone chimney. I have got lumber here to go to putting up a > house in about 10 days from now. I have got 240 fruit trees out and some of > them are bearing. > > We have not had but one little snow this winter. I hunted one day in the > snow and seen 10 deer that day. Wolfs here is nearly as thick as hogs. Some > nights we can hear as high as 15 or 20 a howling at one time. > > We have a rocky mountainous country here. I want you all to come to see me, > but I would not advise any of you all to come live here unless you would > come and see the country. I would not give my half mile square of land for > any mile square in that country that I know of for my use. > > Caroline ( Easter Caroline Alexander Cagle, wife of Charley Cagle), I would > like to see you and the children ( Robert Henry, Catherine, Ann and Lloyd > Hasson, my grandfather) and talk with you. I am seeing a terrible lonesome > time, for Hester and Mattie (Henry’s daughters by Martha Lindsey Smith) is > going to school and has been ever since the 1st of October. The school will > be out in the last of March. > > This letter is not just to one, but it is to all the whole family. The ones > that you wrote to me says this. Was they both? And, I want you to write to > me where all the Smith family is got to (George W. Smith family). Write to > me what has become of Debbie Cagle and her children (Henry’s step mother and > her children, William H. Tidwell, Bettie and John Lewis Cagle). I wrote > Johnnie (Henry’s son John H. Cagle by first wife, Mary Jane Polk) a letter > and you can see that and maybe you can find out something in that that ain’t > in this. I am going to send Johnnie, mine and the children’s picture and you > can see them. The children wants to see you all. They was wanting to come > out there to that country this fall. They are afraid they will never get > back home. > > I will close for this time. Write soon and often. > >>From H. O. Cagle: C. C. Cagle and family good by.” > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jane Ellis" > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:42 AM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > > > Robertson F. Winchester, the author of this letter, was married to Judieth > Russell, daughter of Robert Russell, believed to be a brother to my Great, > Great, Great Grandparents, Alexander and Elizabeth (Wallace?) Russell. The > reference in the letter to Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy is thought to confirm > this connection. The letter was written to my Great, Great Grandparents > James L. & Peggy Watson who remained on Hardin Creek in Hardin Co., > Tennessee. > > Jan the 29th ./60 > > State of Arkansas James > Fork PO > > Well friend James I received your letter not long since. I was not a little > surprised and was not a little gratified to hear from you. Your letter > found us all well very well. Some of my old Tennessee friends that has > lately came in sayes that I am about the size of John Davy and Judy is not > much less. > > First you will ask me the question ar you all well pleased with the country. > Well Judy says she is better pleased here than she ever was any place. The > girls is also very well pleased. I hardly no what to right to you from the > fact that I know your circumstance as well almost as well as you do > yourself. Tharfore I no you want moove to risk a living in a strange land – > though you requested me to gave you a fair description of my country & if > (you don’t) think that I am taxing your patience I will in my plane maner > proceed to gave you a fair impartial History. First this portion of the > country lyes between the Boston on the North, the Sugar loaf and Cavino > Mountains on the south. Your map tells you that the Arkansas River winds > her course between those mountains and empties herself into the farthers of > waters 600 miles from here. Also you se that the City of Fort Smith is on > the Arkansas River at the Mouth of Poto River and also that river is the > line between the cherikes and this state and also the Choctaw Nation comes > up to the Fort. Well the land on the river is rich of course and produces > well out from the river. It is rather broken in places with Perayrees > (prairies) between and valies. To come to the point thar is what is called > ridges that is from 15 to 500 feet high. Those ridges runs east and west > for miles strate as a line. Between those ridges is valies from a quarter > to a half for some 1 ½ miles in width. Here we live by the thousands. The > land is a molatto mixed with sand suited to the growth of corn, wheat, oats, > rye, the potato turnip vegetable grows well. Stock grows well and perfectly > healthy for stock. I live 1 ½ miles from the Choctaw line in that distance > 1 mile wide thar is nuf of grazing in that bounds to fatten 5000 head of > cattle in the summer. > > As to land under the graduation act of 54 we enter our land at 75 cts. per > acre. After the first of July nex we can enter at 50 cts. The swamp land > belongs to the state that is in Market now at 50 cts and the preemptors can > ditch thar land and pay for ther land in that wey if they schose. My land > belonged to Uncle Sam. I had to pay 75 cts per acre. > > We have good market here as New Orleans is I mene as far as country produce > is conserned the City of Fort Smith is a large place & a great many people > in it. The all must eat consequently the demand is great: Eggs 25 cts > Butter 25 cts Chickens 25 cts Potatoes $ 1.00 Turnips $ 1.00. And then it > matters not what you want or how much from a steam engine down to a sowing > moshiene thar it is if a man comes in and wants a lot he can get it by > covering the ground with Silver. > > Thar is of every hugh and color, every tongue & language under the sun, thar > is French, Spanish, Germans, high and low, Indians of every kind, Greeks & > Romans, Jews & Gentiles all in Fort Smith, no diference what tongue he may > be that comes here he will find his language used here. The Uankees you no > has the sway. Of course they hold the reins of government of Fort Smith in > their hands. > > I will say that thar is a vast of welth in Sebastian & not so much > aristocracy here as you spoke of in old Hardin. Thar is the smartest (men) > here that is living, in our government. I don’t number myself in that class > but they are here. Uncle Sam you no must & will have smart men to do her > work. HeadQuarters if kept at Fort Smith. The Quarter Master & evry other > kind of master is thar. The Indian Agent is stationed thar, the great Major > Rector who made the Treaty with Billy Boughlegs in Florida & brought the > principle portion out here. Billy is dead now, the remaining portion is > verry much dissatisfied. Rector tells them if they don’t be quite he want > pay them thar annuity a nuf that. > > Now James I am penning the preamble mearly to gave you a better ide of this > country not that I have the least ide of you ever seeing this country let > alone moving for I know you won’t ever leave that old place. > > Well perhaps you might want to no something about our overland mail through > from Fort Smith to California. Well sir they make the trip through in 19 & > 22 days. The company binds themselves for the sum of $ 100 to take you from > the Fort to San Francisco in 22 days & set you down right side up. > > Thar was a man who did live in too miles of me. He and his wife had some > difficulty & he left & went to California. When he left he left a large > family some children verry small & while in California he made a fortune. > So day before yesterday he came back & his old lady & one girle was all that > was at home. All had grown up several had died one was killed by lightining > he geing absent 10 years. The old lady had all this time lived at same old > place. When he came up to the gate the girl who was the baby when he left > saw him & thought he was some loafer for he had disguised himself & she run > behind the house. The old man came in of course when the too old one saw > each other they was not deceived & flew to embrace each other. The girl > meanwhile heard the fuss & supposed the loafer was killing her mother & > sprung in & at the pitch of her voice her told him to let her Mother alone. > The mother as soon as she could says Nancy this is your farther. Then she > sprange to embrace her farther. Well he came through in 19 days with 40 > pounds baggage. > > I am well pleased so much that if I had or was donated 1000 acres of land at > my choise in Hardin or any of the joining countys I would not live thar. > > Now James & Peggy I have no ide that any person or persons will take any > interest in this letter but your family & when you read this letter over > till you ar satisfied burn it. Let Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy see it. > > R. Winchester > > > A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my > family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ > > Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, > love truly and forgive quickly! > > > >> From: jkbain@comcast.net >> To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com >> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:12:16 -0600 >> Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas >> >> Miss Laura Hit had a letter to Hardin County folk living in Ark. >> >> A letter dated 4/8/1854 from Marion County (Yellville) Ark. from Joseph >> and >> Adoline >> McCracken to their nephews John, Daniel & George Bain sons of William Bain >> and Mary McCracken Bain. The letter describes the good hunting in that >> area >> of (Ark). >> >> Joe Bain >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM >> Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas >> >> >>> I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin >>> Co. >>> to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. >>> >>> My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR >>> in >>> 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell >>> families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, >>> McDougal, Ross >>> and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a >>> triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved >>> within >>> this tri-county area. >>> >>> Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry >>> lines. >>> These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, >>> Clay >>> Co. AR. >>> >>> I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone >>> may >>> note their ancestors: >>> >>> 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross >>> 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown >>> 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart >>> 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor >>> 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife >>> 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart >>> 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown >>> 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason >>> 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor >>> 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the >>> following: >>> Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds >>> 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk >>> 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright >>> 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland >>> 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart >>> 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. >>> 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy >>> 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk >>> 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden >>> 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans >>> >>> Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died >>> January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. >>> He must >>> have been in the Civil War. >>> >>> Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. >>> Also >>> found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. >>> >>> William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 >>> Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 >>> Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 >>> Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 >>> Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 >>> >>> This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin >>> Johnson's >>> children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went >>> to >>> Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. >>> >>> Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to >>> Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier >>> Lawrence >>> Co. records. >>> >>> Carolyn Anderson >>> >>> >>> >>> **************Start the year off right. 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David and list, I am sure it would be hard to write home and admit you might have made a mistake in 'moving to the promise land' and finding yourself in Arkansas. Before you Arkansans start in on me, I can say that because I have lived in Arkansas for thirty plus years and I say it with tongue in cheek! Although Yell County is beautiful country, it can hardly be compared to Hardin County, TN...... We have some friends who recently moved to Nixa, MO and her emails are filled with wonderful things about Nixa, as if she is trying to convince herself of the fact. I guess that proves times never change. On another thought, we were in Lawrence Co., AR yesterday and briefly searched for the Whitlow Cemetery only to be disappointed. Oddly enough, my husbands family's neighbor outside of Minturn was born and reared in the Arbor Grove community. It turns out her grandfather worked for his neighbor, John Whitlow. She showed us the old John Whitlow home and other points of interest, but we missed the cemetery somehow. Not one person seemed to be home in the area to ask about the cemetery. Don't know when I will be going back, but hope for better luck next time. I'll have directions with me then. Jane A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly! > From: dcagle1@charter.net > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:33:13 -0600 > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > Jane, > I couldn't resist. Uncle Henry Cagle left his wife and went to AR in 1879 > with Martha Lindsey Smith, the widow of his first cousin, Zachary T. Smith. > Henry's wife, Frances Isabella Davis Cagle got a divorce and uncle Henry's > land in 1882. > > I notice the same theme in this letter from uncle Henry to my g/grandfather > in 1894. Uncle Henry wouldn't trade his land in AR for land in Hardin > County at a 2 for 1 ratio. However, uncle Henry did come back to Hardin > County where he died in 1899. > > David > ______________________________________ > > “February the 2nd 1894 > > Aly, Yell County, Ark. > > Dear Brother: (Charles Cagle my great grandfather) > > I seat my self to drop you a few lines to let you know that we are all well, > and when these few lines arrive to hand, they will find you all the same. I > received your letter the 5th day of January. We was very glad to hear that > you all was well. We have no news much. I would like to see you all and talk > with you all. I am in very good health. My weight is 160 pounds. I had > better health since I have been in Arkansas than I ever had in my life. > > I have got a very good house. I have got 160 acres of land. I don’t owe any > thing for it. I have got 21 acres in cultivation. I have got a good house > with a good stone chimney. I have got lumber here to go to putting up a > house in about 10 days from now. I have got 240 fruit trees out and some of > them are bearing. > > We have not had but one little snow this winter. I hunted one day in the > snow and seen 10 deer that day. Wolfs here is nearly as thick as hogs. Some > nights we can hear as high as 15 or 20 a howling at one time. > > We have a rocky mountainous country here. I want you all to come to see me, > but I would not advise any of you all to come live here unless you would > come and see the country. I would not give my half mile square of land for > any mile square in that country that I know of for my use. > > Caroline ( Easter Caroline Alexander Cagle, wife of Charley Cagle), I would > like to see you and the children ( Robert Henry, Catherine, Ann and Lloyd > Hasson, my grandfather) and talk with you. I am seeing a terrible lonesome > time, for Hester and Mattie (Henry’s daughters by Martha Lindsey Smith) is > going to school and has been ever since the 1st of October. The school will > be out in the last of March. > > This letter is not just to one, but it is to all the whole family. The ones > that you wrote to me says this. Was they both? And, I want you to write to > me where all the Smith family is got to (George W. Smith family). Write to > me what has become of Debbie Cagle and her children (Henry’s step mother and > her children, William H. Tidwell, Bettie and John Lewis Cagle). I wrote > Johnnie (Henry’s son John H. Cagle by first wife, Mary Jane Polk) a letter > and you can see that and maybe you can find out something in that that ain’t > in this. I am going to send Johnnie, mine and the children’s picture and you > can see them. The children wants to see you all. They was wanting to come > out there to that country this fall. They are afraid they will never get > back home. > > I will close for this time. Write soon and often. > >>From H. O. Cagle: C. C. Cagle and family good by.” > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jane Ellis" > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:42 AM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > > > Robertson F. Winchester, the author of this letter, was married to Judieth > Russell, daughter of Robert Russell, believed to be a brother to my Great, > Great, Great Grandparents, Alexander and Elizabeth (Wallace?) Russell. The > reference in the letter to Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy is thought to confirm > this connection. The letter was written to my Great, Great Grandparents > James L. & Peggy Watson who remained on Hardin Creek in Hardin Co., > Tennessee. > > Jan the 29th ./60 > > State of Arkansas James > Fork PO > > Well friend James I received your letter not long since. I was not a little > surprised and was not a little gratified to hear from you. Your letter > found us all well very well. Some of my old Tennessee friends that has > lately came in sayes that I am about the size of John Davy and Judy is not > much less. > > First you will ask me the question ar you all well pleased with the country. > Well Judy says she is better pleased here than she ever was any place. The > girls is also very well pleased. I hardly no what to right to you from the > fact that I know your circumstance as well almost as well as you do > yourself. Tharfore I no you want moove to risk a living in a strange land – > though you requested me to gave you a fair description of my country & if > (you don’t) think that I am taxing your patience I will in my plane maner > proceed to gave you a fair impartial History. First this portion of the > country lyes between the Boston on the North, the Sugar loaf and Cavino > Mountains on the south. Your map tells you that the Arkansas River winds > her course between those mountains and empties herself into the farthers of > waters 600 miles from here. Also you se that the City of Fort Smith is on > the Arkansas River at the Mouth of Poto River and also that river is the > line between the cherikes and this state and also the Choctaw Nation comes > up to the Fort. Well the land on the river is rich of course and produces > well out from the river. It is rather broken in places with Perayrees > (prairies) between and valies. To come to the point thar is what is called > ridges that is from 15 to 500 feet high. Those ridges runs east and west > for miles strate as a line. Between those ridges is valies from a quarter > to a half for some 1 ½ miles in width. Here we live by the thousands. The > land is a molatto mixed with sand suited to the growth of corn, wheat, oats, > rye, the potato turnip vegetable grows well. Stock grows well and perfectly > healthy for stock. I live 1 ½ miles from the Choctaw line in that distance > 1 mile wide thar is nuf of grazing in that bounds to fatten 5000 head of > cattle in the summer. > > As to land under the graduation act of 54 we enter our land at 75 cts. per > acre. After the first of July nex we can enter at 50 cts. The swamp land > belongs to the state that is in Market now at 50 cts and the preemptors can > ditch thar land and pay for ther land in that wey if they schose. My land > belonged to Uncle Sam. I had to pay 75 cts per acre. > > We have good market here as New Orleans is I mene as far as country produce > is conserned the City of Fort Smith is a large place & a great many people > in it. The all must eat consequently the demand is great: Eggs 25 cts > Butter 25 cts Chickens 25 cts Potatoes $ 1.00 Turnips $ 1.00. And then it > matters not what you want or how much from a steam engine down to a sowing > moshiene thar it is if a man comes in and wants a lot he can get it by > covering the ground with Silver. > > Thar is of every hugh and color, every tongue & language under the sun, thar > is French, Spanish, Germans, high and low, Indians of every kind, Greeks & > Romans, Jews & Gentiles all in Fort Smith, no diference what tongue he may > be that comes here he will find his language used here. The Uankees you no > has the sway. Of course they hold the reins of government of Fort Smith in > their hands. > > I will say that thar is a vast of welth in Sebastian & not so much > aristocracy here as you spoke of in old Hardin. Thar is the smartest (men) > here that is living, in our government. I don’t number myself in that class > but they are here. Uncle Sam you no must & will have smart men to do her > work. HeadQuarters if kept at Fort Smith. The Quarter Master & evry other > kind of master is thar. The Indian Agent is stationed thar, the great Major > Rector who made the Treaty with Billy Boughlegs in Florida & brought the > principle portion out here. Billy is dead now, the remaining portion is > verry much dissatisfied. Rector tells them if they don’t be quite he want > pay them thar annuity a nuf that. > > Now James I am penning the preamble mearly to gave you a better ide of this > country not that I have the least ide of you ever seeing this country let > alone moving for I know you won’t ever leave that old place. > > Well perhaps you might want to no something about our overland mail through > from Fort Smith to California. Well sir they make the trip through in 19 & > 22 days. The company binds themselves for the sum of $ 100 to take you from > the Fort to San Francisco in 22 days & set you down right side up. > > Thar was a man who did live in too miles of me. He and his wife had some > difficulty & he left & went to California. When he left he left a large > family some children verry small & while in California he made a fortune. > So day before yesterday he came back & his old lady & one girle was all that > was at home. All had grown up several had died one was killed by lightining > he geing absent 10 years. The old lady had all this time lived at same old > place. When he came up to the gate the girl who was the baby when he left > saw him & thought he was some loafer for he had disguised himself & she run > behind the house. The old man came in of course when the too old one saw > each other they was not deceived & flew to embrace each other. The girl > meanwhile heard the fuss & supposed the loafer was killing her mother & > sprung in & at the pitch of her voice her told him to let her Mother alone. > The mother as soon as she could says Nancy this is your farther. Then she > sprange to embrace her farther. Well he came through in 19 days with 40 > pounds baggage. > > I am well pleased so much that if I had or was donated 1000 acres of land at > my choise in Hardin or any of the joining countys I would not live thar. > > Now James & Peggy I have no ide that any person or persons will take any > interest in this letter but your family & when you read this letter over > till you ar satisfied burn it. Let Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy see it. > > R. Winchester > > > A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my > family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ > > Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, > love truly and forgive quickly! > > > >> From: jkbain@comcast.net >> To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com >> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:12:16 -0600 >> Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas >> >> Miss Laura Hit had a letter to Hardin County folk living in Ark. >> >> A letter dated 4/8/1854 from Marion County (Yellville) Ark. from Joseph >> and >> Adoline >> McCracken to their nephews John, Daniel & George Bain sons of William Bain >> and Mary McCracken Bain. The letter describes the good hunting in that >> area >> of (Ark). >> >> Joe Bain >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM >> Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas >> >> >>> I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin >>> Co. >>> to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. >>> >>> My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR >>> in >>> 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell >>> families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, >>> McDougal, Ross >>> and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a >>> triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved >>> within >>> this tri-county area. >>> >>> Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry >>> lines. >>> These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, >>> Clay >>> Co. AR. >>> >>> I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone >>> may >>> note their ancestors: >>> >>> 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross >>> 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown >>> 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart >>> 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor >>> 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife >>> 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart >>> 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown >>> 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason >>> 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor >>> 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the >>> following: >>> Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds >>> 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk >>> 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright >>> 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland >>> 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart >>> 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. >>> 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy >>> 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk >>> 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden >>> 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans >>> >>> Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died >>> January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. >>> He must >>> have been in the Civil War. >>> >>> Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. >>> Also >>> found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. >>> >>> William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 >>> Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 >>> Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 >>> Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 >>> Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 >>> >>> This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin >>> Johnson's >>> children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went >>> to >>> Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. >>> >>> Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to >>> Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier >>> Lawrence >>> Co. records. >>> >>> Carolyn Anderson >>> >>> >>> >>> **************Start the year off right. 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Jane, I couldn't resist. Uncle Henry Cagle left his wife and went to AR in 1879 with Martha Lindsey Smith, the widow of his first cousin, Zachary T. Smith. Henry's wife, Frances Isabella Davis Cagle got a divorce and uncle Henry's land in 1882. I notice the same theme in this letter from uncle Henry to my g/grandfather in 1894. Uncle Henry wouldn't trade his land in AR for land in Hardin County at a 2 for 1 ratio. However, uncle Henry did come back to Hardin County where he died in 1899. David ______________________________________ “February the 2nd 1894 Aly, Yell County, Ark. Dear Brother: (Charles Cagle my great grandfather) I seat my self to drop you a few lines to let you know that we are all well, and when these few lines arrive to hand, they will find you all the same. I received your letter the 5th day of January. We was very glad to hear that you all was well. We have no news much. I would like to see you all and talk with you all. I am in very good health. My weight is 160 pounds. I had better health since I have been in Arkansas than I ever had in my life. I have got a very good house. I have got 160 acres of land. I don’t owe any thing for it. I have got 21 acres in cultivation. I have got a good house with a good stone chimney. I have got lumber here to go to putting up a house in about 10 days from now. I have got 240 fruit trees out and some of them are bearing. We have not had but one little snow this winter. I hunted one day in the snow and seen 10 deer that day. Wolfs here is nearly as thick as hogs. Some nights we can hear as high as 15 or 20 a howling at one time. We have a rocky mountainous country here. I want you all to come to see me, but I would not advise any of you all to come live here unless you would come and see the country. I would not give my half mile square of land for any mile square in that country that I know of for my use. Caroline ( Easter Caroline Alexander Cagle, wife of Charley Cagle), I would like to see you and the children ( Robert Henry, Catherine, Ann and Lloyd Hasson, my grandfather) and talk with you. I am seeing a terrible lonesome time, for Hester and Mattie (Henry’s daughters by Martha Lindsey Smith) is going to school and has been ever since the 1st of October. The school will be out in the last of March. This letter is not just to one, but it is to all the whole family. The ones that you wrote to me says this. Was they both? And, I want you to write to me where all the Smith family is got to (George W. Smith family). Write to me what has become of Debbie Cagle and her children (Henry’s step mother and her children, William H. Tidwell, Bettie and John Lewis Cagle). I wrote Johnnie (Henry’s son John H. Cagle by first wife, Mary Jane Polk) a letter and you can see that and maybe you can find out something in that that ain’t in this. I am going to send Johnnie, mine and the children’s picture and you can see them. The children wants to see you all. They was wanting to come out there to that country this fall. They are afraid they will never get back home. I will close for this time. Write soon and often. >From H. O. Cagle: C. C. Cagle and family good by.” ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Ellis" <jane_helv@hotmail.com> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas Robertson F. Winchester, the author of this letter, was married to Judieth Russell, daughter of Robert Russell, believed to be a brother to my Great, Great, Great Grandparents, Alexander and Elizabeth (Wallace?) Russell. The reference in the letter to Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy is thought to confirm this connection. The letter was written to my Great, Great Grandparents James L. & Peggy Watson who remained on Hardin Creek in Hardin Co., Tennessee. Jan the 29th ./60 State of Arkansas James Fork PO Well friend James I received your letter not long since. I was not a little surprised and was not a little gratified to hear from you. Your letter found us all well very well. Some of my old Tennessee friends that has lately came in sayes that I am about the size of John Davy and Judy is not much less. First you will ask me the question ar you all well pleased with the country. Well Judy says she is better pleased here than she ever was any place. The girls is also very well pleased. I hardly no what to right to you from the fact that I know your circumstance as well almost as well as you do yourself. Tharfore I no you want moove to risk a living in a strange land – though you requested me to gave you a fair description of my country & if (you don’t) think that I am taxing your patience I will in my plane maner proceed to gave you a fair impartial History. First this portion of the country lyes between the Boston on the North, the Sugar loaf and Cavino Mountains on the south. Your map tells you that the Arkansas River winds her course between those mountains and empties herself into the farthers of waters 600 miles from here. Also you se that the City of Fort Smith is on the Arkansas River at the Mouth of Poto River and also that river is the line between the cherikes and this state and also the Choctaw Nation comes up to the Fort. Well the land on the river is rich of course and produces well out from the river. It is rather broken in places with Perayrees (prairies) between and valies. To come to the point thar is what is called ridges that is from 15 to 500 feet high. Those ridges runs east and west for miles strate as a line. Between those ridges is valies from a quarter to a half for some 1 ½ miles in width. Here we live by the thousands. The land is a molatto mixed with sand suited to the growth of corn, wheat, oats, rye, the potato turnip vegetable grows well. Stock grows well and perfectly healthy for stock. I live 1 ½ miles from the Choctaw line in that distance 1 mile wide thar is nuf of grazing in that bounds to fatten 5000 head of cattle in the summer. As to land under the graduation act of 54 we enter our land at 75 cts. per acre. After the first of July nex we can enter at 50 cts. The swamp land belongs to the state that is in Market now at 50 cts and the preemptors can ditch thar land and pay for ther land in that wey if they schose. My land belonged to Uncle Sam. I had to pay 75 cts per acre. We have good market here as New Orleans is I mene as far as country produce is conserned the City of Fort Smith is a large place & a great many people in it. The all must eat consequently the demand is great: Eggs 25 cts Butter 25 cts Chickens 25 cts Potatoes $ 1.00 Turnips $ 1.00. And then it matters not what you want or how much from a steam engine down to a sowing moshiene thar it is if a man comes in and wants a lot he can get it by covering the ground with Silver. Thar is of every hugh and color, every tongue & language under the sun, thar is French, Spanish, Germans, high and low, Indians of every kind, Greeks & Romans, Jews & Gentiles all in Fort Smith, no diference what tongue he may be that comes here he will find his language used here. The Uankees you no has the sway. Of course they hold the reins of government of Fort Smith in their hands. I will say that thar is a vast of welth in Sebastian & not so much aristocracy here as you spoke of in old Hardin. Thar is the smartest (men) here that is living, in our government. I don’t number myself in that class but they are here. Uncle Sam you no must & will have smart men to do her work. HeadQuarters if kept at Fort Smith. The Quarter Master & evry other kind of master is thar. The Indian Agent is stationed thar, the great Major Rector who made the Treaty with Billy Boughlegs in Florida & brought the principle portion out here. Billy is dead now, the remaining portion is verry much dissatisfied. Rector tells them if they don’t be quite he want pay them thar annuity a nuf that. Now James I am penning the preamble mearly to gave you a better ide of this country not that I have the least ide of you ever seeing this country let alone moving for I know you won’t ever leave that old place. Well perhaps you might want to no something about our overland mail through from Fort Smith to California. Well sir they make the trip through in 19 & 22 days. The company binds themselves for the sum of $ 100 to take you from the Fort to San Francisco in 22 days & set you down right side up. Thar was a man who did live in too miles of me. He and his wife had some difficulty & he left & went to California. When he left he left a large family some children verry small & while in California he made a fortune. So day before yesterday he came back & his old lady & one girle was all that was at home. All had grown up several had died one was killed by lightining he geing absent 10 years. The old lady had all this time lived at same old place. When he came up to the gate the girl who was the baby when he left saw him & thought he was some loafer for he had disguised himself & she run behind the house. The old man came in of course when the too old one saw each other they was not deceived & flew to embrace each other. The girl meanwhile heard the fuss & supposed the loafer was killing her mother & sprung in & at the pitch of her voice her told him to let her Mother alone. The mother as soon as she could says Nancy this is your farther. Then she sprange to embrace her farther. Well he came through in 19 days with 40 pounds baggage. I am well pleased so much that if I had or was donated 1000 acres of land at my choise in Hardin or any of the joining countys I would not live thar. Now James & Peggy I have no ide that any person or persons will take any interest in this letter but your family & when you read this letter over till you ar satisfied burn it. Let Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy see it. R. Winchester A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly! > From: jkbain@comcast.net > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:12:16 -0600 > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > Miss Laura Hit had a letter to Hardin County folk living in Ark. > > A letter dated 4/8/1854 from Marion County (Yellville) Ark. from Joseph > and > Adoline > McCracken to their nephews John, Daniel & George Bain sons of William Bain > and Mary McCracken Bain. The letter describes the good hunting in that > area > of (Ark). > > Joe Bain > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > >> I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin >> Co. >> to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. >> >> My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR >> in >> 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell >> families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, >> McDougal, Ross >> and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a >> triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved >> within >> this tri-county area. >> >> Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry >> lines. >> These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, >> Clay >> Co. AR. >> >> I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone >> may >> note their ancestors: >> >> 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross >> 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown >> 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart >> 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor >> 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife >> 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart >> 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown >> 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason >> 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor >> 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the >> following: >> Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds >> 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk >> 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright >> 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland >> 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart >> 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. >> 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy >> 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk >> 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden >> 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans >> >> Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died >> January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. >> He must >> have been in the Civil War. >> >> Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. >> Also >> found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. >> >> William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 >> Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 >> Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 >> Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 >> Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 >> >> This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin >> Johnson's >> children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went >> to >> Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. >> >> Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to >> Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier >> Lawrence >> Co. records. >> >> Carolyn Anderson >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. 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Do you know where in Illinois the family went? I have been trying to find the Illinois location of my Bowens who went there during the war. Two of James Young and Caroline Bowen's children were born there and I am hoping to locate their birth records. I will try the Pulaski County mentioned in the Hanson post but wondered if you had another location. Annette Stricklin Williams awilliams1@mindspring.com > [Original Message] > From: Jennifer Mclaughlin <jennifer-mclaughlin@am.com> > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > Date: 1/11/2008 11:09:12 AM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin County to Arkansas, Missouri & Texas > > Well, I know my g-g-g grandfather, John Lindsey of Hardin County, fought for the Union during the War, and he did indeed send his family North, and I also have a statement from a neighbor, who also went to Illinois where is was "safe". > > It appears both sides suffered in the South postwar...and why so many of our kin were Gone To Texas! > > jennifer > > Jennifer Lindsey McLaughlin > Vice President > Branded News, Inc > 320 South Boston > Suite 100 > Tulsa, OK 74103 > office: 918-582-6200 > cell: 918-257-2097 > jennifer-mclaughlin@brandednews.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Henry & Nancy Hanson > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:06 PM > To: Hardin County Tennessee > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin County to Arkansas, Missouri & Texas > > Both my grandparents were born in Hardin County after the War of Northern Aggression. > > My great grandfather Jobe Stanfil Clayton was born in Lawrence County in 1832, married in Lawrence County in 1852, then moved to Wayne County where he had the first three of his eight children were born. His fourth child was born in Hardin County in 1860. The fifth was born in Pulaski County, Illinois in 1864. The sixth through the eighth were born in Hardin County in 1867, 1869 and 1871. > > Uncle Ulysses Samuel Clayton born in 1869 moved to Wardell, Pemiscot County, Missouri after his four children were born in Hardin County, shortly after 1900. > > My grandfather, Jasper Henry born in 1871, moved to Texas in 1919. Jasper Henry moved to Brazoria County Texas, an area settled by residents of Williamson County, Tennessee before Texas won it's independence from Mexico. > > I have no idea why Jobe Stanfill Clayton moved to Illinois during the war. I can only guess he was sympathetic towards the Northern ideas. > > On my grandmother's Reddin side is another story. My great uncle William E. Reddin was married to Mahala Bingham. Along with her sister Sarah who married to George McCann and two of her brothers, Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham, this group and maybe others left Hardin County shortly before the War of Northern Aggression and settled in Calhoun County, Arkansas. > > Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham were both killed in route of shortly after arriving. Wiley Morgan's widow, Lucy Anderson had her father come moved her and her sons back to Hardin County, where sons, Alex and John Wiley married Nancy Jane and Amanda Elizabeth Clayton, daughters of Jobe Stanfill Clayton, back in Hardin County, Tennessee. > > Calvin Perry Bingham's widow remarried and she and her sons and new husband left for South Texas. > > Several in my Reddin family and the Bingham family have tried to learn more about the causes of death in Arkansas and why these families moved to Arkansas. But we have not reached any one conclusion. > > I do know that some of the McCann's later left Calhoun County, Arkansas and moved to Brazoria County, Texas, but several of the Reddin, Bingham and McCann families still have relatives in Calhoun and surrounding Counties in Arkansas . > > My grandparents Jasper Henry Clayton and Melissa Almerrean Reddin both lost a spouse and had six children each before they married. One side of the family will say that Jasper got the idea from his brother in law John Presley. The other side of the family says that my grandmother Melissa Almerrean wanted to move because her younger brother Grover Cleveland Reddin lived in Brazoria County, Texas. I do not know what the reason was for leaving. I do know a bumper crop of cotton enable them to buy train tickets and the boarded the train in Lexington, Tennessee on Christmas Day 1919. > > Sweeny, Brazoria County, Texas had other families such as the Lindsey's and Meador's from Henderson County, Plunks from McNairy County, Orr's, Sheffield's Presley's from Hardin County, living there before my grandparents arrived. This only added to the John Sweeny's, Baugh's, George Armstrong's, John Arrington's, William Chenault's and Calvin Hammond's from Sumner & Williamson County, Tennessee. > > Of course after oil and gas was discovered in this area in the 1930's everyone looked like they knew what they were doing. I lived in Sweeny for 32 years and still have contact with members in each of these families, but I have yet to hear anyone give one reason why all these families left Hardin County, Tennessee. > > One thing I can say for certain, it is a long drive back to Hardin County, Tennessee for a family reunion. > > Henry Hanson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Well, I know my g-g-g grandfather, John Lindsey of Hardin County, fought for the Union during the War, and he did indeed send his family North, and I also have a statement from a neighbor, who also went to Illinois where is was "safe". It appears both sides suffered in the South postwar...and why so many of our kin were Gone To Texas! jennifer Jennifer Lindsey McLaughlin Vice President Branded News, Inc 320 South Boston Suite 100 Tulsa, OK 74103 office: 918-582-6200 cell: 918-257-2097 jennifer-mclaughlin@brandednews.com -----Original Message----- From: tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Henry & Nancy Hanson Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:06 PM To: Hardin County Tennessee Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin County to Arkansas, Missouri & Texas Both my grandparents were born in Hardin County after the War of Northern Aggression. My great grandfather Jobe Stanfil Clayton was born in Lawrence County in 1832, married in Lawrence County in 1852, then moved to Wayne County where he had the first three of his eight children were born. His fourth child was born in Hardin County in 1860. The fifth was born in Pulaski County, Illinois in 1864. The sixth through the eighth were born in Hardin County in 1867, 1869 and 1871. Uncle Ulysses Samuel Clayton born in 1869 moved to Wardell, Pemiscot County, Missouri after his four children were born in Hardin County, shortly after 1900. My grandfather, Jasper Henry born in 1871, moved to Texas in 1919. Jasper Henry moved to Brazoria County Texas, an area settled by residents of Williamson County, Tennessee before Texas won it's independence from Mexico. I have no idea why Jobe Stanfill Clayton moved to Illinois during the war. I can only guess he was sympathetic towards the Northern ideas. On my grandmother's Reddin side is another story. My great uncle William E. Reddin was married to Mahala Bingham. Along with her sister Sarah who married to George McCann and two of her brothers, Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham, this group and maybe others left Hardin County shortly before the War of Northern Aggression and settled in Calhoun County, Arkansas. Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham were both killed in route of shortly after arriving. Wiley Morgan's widow, Lucy Anderson had her father come moved her and her sons back to Hardin County, where sons, Alex and John Wiley married Nancy Jane and Amanda Elizabeth Clayton, daughters of Jobe Stanfill Clayton, back in Hardin County, Tennessee. Calvin Perry Bingham's widow remarried and she and her sons and new husband left for South Texas. Several in my Reddin family and the Bingham family have tried to learn more about the causes of death in Arkansas and why these families moved to Arkansas. But we have not reached any one conclusion. I do know that some of the McCann's later left Calhoun County, Arkansas and moved to Brazoria County, Texas, but several of the Reddin, Bingham and McCann families still have relatives in Calhoun and surrounding Counties in Arkansas . My grandparents Jasper Henry Clayton and Melissa Almerrean Reddin both lost a spouse and had six children each before they married. One side of the family will say that Jasper got the idea from his brother in law John Presley. The other side of the family says that my grandmother Melissa Almerrean wanted to move because her younger brother Grover Cleveland Reddin lived in Brazoria County, Texas. I do not know what the reason was for leaving. I do know a bumper crop of cotton enable them to buy train tickets and the boarded the train in Lexington, Tennessee on Christmas Day 1919. Sweeny, Brazoria County, Texas had other families such as the Lindsey's and Meador's from Henderson County, Plunks from McNairy County, Orr's, Sheffield's Presley's from Hardin County, living there before my grandparents arrived. This only added to the John Sweeny's, Baugh's, George Armstrong's, John Arrington's, William Chenault's and Calvin Hammond's from Sumner & Williamson County, Tennessee. Of course after oil and gas was discovered in this area in the 1930's everyone looked like they knew what they were doing. I lived in Sweeny for 32 years and still have contact with members in each of these families, but I have yet to hear anyone give one reason why all these families left Hardin County, Tennessee. One thing I can say for certain, it is a long drive back to Hardin County, Tennessee for a family reunion. Henry Hanson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My family, including some of the Pickens, also moved to Oklahoma in the early 1900s...which is why my brand of Lindseys are still Okies to this day! jennifer -----Original Message----- From: tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of DameBev@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:34 PM To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin County to Arkansas, Missouri & Texas How about moving to OK? Parts of my Moore family moved to OK in the early 1900's. I believe some of the Pickens may have moved with them. Before that some of the family moved to TX, being descendants of Dougal Gillis. Does anyone else have family that moved to the Clinton, OK area with the Moore families? Would love to compare notes with you. Beverly Sullivan ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Joe, I have a lot of Hit(t) relatives who moved from Mississippi to Kaufman County Texas, but have not found any in Hardin County. Would like to know more about your Laura! Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnhardin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of jkbain Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:12 AM To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas Miss Laura Hit had a letter to Hardin County folk living in Ark. A letter dated 4/8/1854 from Marion County (Yellville) Ark. from Joseph and Adoline McCracken to their nephews John, Daniel & George Bain sons of William Bain and Mary McCracken Bain. The letter describes the good hunting in that area of (Ark). Joe Bain ----- Original Message ----- From: <CCA44@aol.com> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin > Co. > to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. > > My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR > in > 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell > families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, > McDougal, Ross > and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a > triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved > within > this tri-county area. > > Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry > lines. > These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, > Clay > Co. AR. > > I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone > may > note their ancestors: > > 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross > 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown > 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart > 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor > 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife > 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart > 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown > 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason > 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor > 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the > following: > Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds > 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk > 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright > 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland > 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart > 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. > 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy > 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk > 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden > 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans > > Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died > January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. > He must > have been in the Civil War. > > Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. > Also > found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. > > William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 > Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 > Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 > Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 > Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 > > This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin > Johnson's > children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went > to > Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. > > Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to > Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier > Lawrence > Co. records. > > Carolyn Anderson > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Robertson F. Winchester, the author of this letter, was married to Judieth Russell, daughter of Robert Russell, believed to be a brother to my Great, Great, Great Grandparents, Alexander and Elizabeth (Wallace?) Russell. The reference in the letter to Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy is thought to confirm this connection. The letter was written to my Great, Great Grandparents James L. & Peggy Watson who remained on Hardin Creek in Hardin Co., Tennessee. Jan the 29th ./60 State of Arkansas James Fork PO Well friend James I received your letter not long since. I was not a little surprised and was not a little gratified to hear from you. Your letter found us all well very well. Some of my old Tennessee friends that has lately came in sayes that I am about the size of John Davy and Judy is not much less. First you will ask me the question ar you all well pleased with the country. Well Judy says she is better pleased here than she ever was any place. The girls is also very well pleased. I hardly no what to right to you from the fact that I know your circumstance as well almost as well as you do yourself. Tharfore I no you want moove to risk a living in a strange land – though you requested me to gave you a fair description of my country & if (you don’t) think that I am taxing your patience I will in my plane maner proceed to gave you a fair impartial History. First this portion of the country lyes between the Boston on the North, the Sugar loaf and Cavino Mountains on the south. Your map tells you that the Arkansas River winds her course between those mountains and empties herself into the farthers of waters 600 miles from here. Also you se that the City of Fort Smith is on the Arkansas River at the Mouth of Poto River and also that river is the line between the cherik! es and this state and also the Choctaw Nation comes up to the Fort. Well the land on the river is rich of course and produces well out from the river. It is rather broken in places with Perayrees (prairies) between and valies. To come to the point thar is what is called ridges that is from 15 to 500 feet high. Those ridges runs east and west for miles strate as a line. Between those ridges is valies from a quarter to a half for some 1 ½ miles in width. Here we live by the thousands. The land is a molatto mixed with sand suited to the growth of corn, wheat, oats, rye, the potato turnip vegetable grows well. Stock grows well and perfectly healthy for stock. I live 1 ½ miles from the Choctaw line in that distance 1 mile wide thar is nuf of grazing in that bounds to fatten 5000 head of cattle in the summer. As to land under the graduation act of 54 we enter our land at 75 cts. per acre. After the first of July nex we can enter at 50 cts. The swamp land belongs to the state that is in Market now at 50 cts and the preemptors can ditch thar land and pay for ther land in that wey if they schose. My land belonged to Uncle Sam. I had to pay 75 cts per acre. We have good market here as New Orleans is I mene as far as country produce is conserned the City of Fort Smith is a large place & a great many people in it. The all must eat consequently the demand is great: Eggs 25 cts Butter 25 cts Chickens 25 cts Potatoes $ 1.00 Turnips $ 1.00. And then it matters not what you want or how much from a steam engine down to a sowing moshiene thar it is if a man comes in and wants a lot he can get it by covering the ground with Silver. Thar is of every hugh and color, every tongue & language under the sun, thar is French, Spanish, Germans, high and low, Indians of every kind, Greeks & Romans, Jews & Gentiles all in Fort Smith, no diference what tongue he may be that comes here he will find his language used here. The Uankees you no has the sway. Of course they hold the reins of government of Fort Smith in their hands. I will say that thar is a vast of welth in Sebastian & not so much aristocracy here as you spoke of in old Hardin. Thar is the smartest (men) here that is living, in our government. I don’t number myself in that class but they are here. Uncle Sam you no must & will have smart men to do her work. HeadQuarters if kept at Fort Smith. The Quarter Master & evry other kind of master is thar. The Indian Agent is stationed thar, the great Major Rector who made the Treaty with Billy Boughlegs in Florida & brought the principle portion out here. Billy is dead now, the remaining portion is verry much dissatisfied. Rector tells them if they don’t be quite he want pay them thar annuity a nuf that. Now James I am penning the preamble mearly to gave you a better ide of this country not that I have the least ide of you ever seeing this country let alone moving for I know you won’t ever leave that old place. Well perhaps you might want to no something about our overland mail through from Fort Smith to California. Well sir they make the trip through in 19 & 22 days. The company binds themselves for the sum of $ 100 to take you from the Fort to San Francisco in 22 days & set you down right side up. Thar was a man who did live in too miles of me. He and his wife had some difficulty & he left & went to California. When he left he left a large family some children verry small & while in California he made a fortune. So day before yesterday he came back & his old lady & one girle was all that was at home. All had grown up several had died one was killed by lightining he geing absent 10 years. The old lady had all this time lived at same old place. When he came up to the gate the girl who was the baby when he left saw him & thought he was some loafer for he had disguised himself & she run behind the house. The old man came in of course when the too old one saw each other they was not deceived & flew to embrace each other. The girl meanwhile heard the fuss & supposed the loafer was killing her mother & sprung in & at the pitch of her voice her told him to let her Mother alone. The mother as soon as she could says Nancy this is your farther. Then she sprange to embra! ce her farther. Well he came through in 19 days with 40 pounds baggage. I am well pleased so much that if I had or was donated 1000 acres of land at my choise in Hardin or any of the joining countys I would not live thar. Now James & Peggy I have no ide that any person or persons will take any interest in this letter but your family & when you read this letter over till you ar satisfied burn it. Let Uncle Elek and Aunt Betsy see it. R. Winchester A self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly! > From: jkbain@comcast.net > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:12:16 -0600 > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > Miss Laura Hit had a letter to Hardin County folk living in Ark. > > A letter dated 4/8/1854 from Marion County (Yellville) Ark. from Joseph and > Adoline > McCracken to their nephews John, Daniel & George Bain sons of William Bain > and Mary McCracken Bain. The letter describes the good hunting in that area > of (Ark). > > Joe Bain > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > > >> I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin >> Co. >> to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. >> >> My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR >> in >> 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell >> families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, >> McDougal, Ross >> and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a >> triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved >> within >> this tri-county area. >> >> Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry >> lines. >> These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, >> Clay >> Co. AR. >> >> I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone >> may >> note their ancestors: >> >> 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross >> 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown >> 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart >> 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor >> 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife >> 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart >> 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown >> 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason >> 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor >> 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the >> following: >> Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds >> 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk >> 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright >> 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland >> 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart >> 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. >> 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy >> 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk >> 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden >> 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans >> >> Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died >> January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. >> He must >> have been in the Civil War. >> >> Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. >> Also >> found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. >> >> William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 >> Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 >> Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 >> Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 >> Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 >> >> This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin >> Johnson's >> children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went >> to >> Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. >> >> Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to >> Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier >> Lawrence >> Co. records. >> >> Carolyn Anderson >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. >> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Miss Laura Hit had a letter to Hardin County folk living in Ark. A letter dated 4/8/1854 from Marion County (Yellville) Ark. from Joseph and Adoline McCracken to their nephews John, Daniel & George Bain sons of William Bain and Mary McCracken Bain. The letter describes the good hunting in that area of (Ark). Joe Bain ----- Original Message ----- From: <CCA44@aol.com> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin > Co. > to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. > > My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR > in > 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell > families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, > McDougal, Ross > and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a > triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved > within > this tri-county area. > > Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry > lines. > These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, > Clay > Co. AR. > > I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone > may > note their ancestors: > > 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross > 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown > 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart > 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor > 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife > 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart > 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown > 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason > 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor > 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the > following: > Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds > 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk > 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright > 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland > 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart > 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. > 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy > 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk > 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden > 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans > > Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died > January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. > He must > have been in the Civil War. > > Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. > Also > found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. > > William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 > Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 > Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 > Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 > Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 > > This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin > Johnson's > children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went > to > Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. > > Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to > Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier > Lawrence > Co. records. > > Carolyn Anderson > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Several of the Byrd clan and related families of Hardin County moved to the Grant County Arkansas area. ----- Original Message ----- From: <CCA44@aol.com> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:49 AM Subject: [TNHARDIN] Hardin Co. TN to Arkansas > I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin Co. > to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. > > My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR in > 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell > families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, McDougal, Ross > and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a > triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved within > this tri-county area. > > Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry lines. > These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, Clay > Co. AR. > > I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone may > note their ancestors: > > 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross > 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown > 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart > 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor > 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife > 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart > 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown > 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason > 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor > 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the > following: > Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds > 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk > 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright > 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland > 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart > 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. > 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy > 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk > 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden > 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans > > Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died > January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. He must > have been in the Civil War. > > Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. Also > found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. > > William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 > Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 > Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 > Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 > Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 > > This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin Johnson's > children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went to > Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. > > Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to > Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier Lawrence > Co. records. > > Carolyn Anderson > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've been reading the postings regarding families who moved from Hardin Co. to Arkansas and thought I'd add some other surnames. My direct Henry and Russell ancestors moved from Hardin to Jackson Co. AR in 1853. Either traveling with them or soon thereafter, came more Russell families along with these surnames: Wood, Johnson, Chalk, Jackson, McDougal, Ross and Hess families to name a few. This area of Jackson Co. forms almost a triangle with White and Independence Counties, thus many families moved within this tri-county area. Also, heading from Hardin Co. to Clay Co. AR were my Smith and Berry lines. These families moved first to Dyer Station TN and then on to Boydsville, Clay Co. AR. I'll post a partial index to deeds in Jackson Co. AR below where someone may note their ancestors: 6-11-1855 Boyd Wellington & wife to Thomas M. Ross 3-24-1866 Josephine Blagg to Wm. D. Brown 10-28-1859 Blip & Cox to John Stewart 1-3-1858 John Beard & wife to John Taylor 3-27-1867 R. D. Byers & wife to William Henry and wife 3-27-1863 Joseph A. Bennett & wife to John Stewart 1-21-1848 John A. Cornett to James M. Brown 11-2-1849 Caroline Cornelius to William Mason 12-10-1856 Joseph M. Green to W. H. Taylor 1859 or 1860 (date not certain but I have book and page number is the following: Governor of Arkansas to William A. Henry....4 Deeds 6-30-1860 Mary Ann Gibbs to James A. Chalk 3-2-1852 Green Hill to Battin Bright 6-12-1856 Wm. N. Holland & wife to Mary A. Holland 2-21-1859 James Hall to James Stewart 6-8-1859 Shows V. R. Mason & wife to Thomas H. Murphy a deed of trust. 4-12-1860 Lewis Hananes & wife to M. B. McCoy 6-30-1860 William Henry to James A. Chalk 7-27-1866 William Henry to Joseph A. McLayden 1-22-1867 William Henry to E. D. & T. E. Bryeans Early probate for Jackson Co., AR.....David Johnson of Jackson Co. died January 29, 1862 Kentucky. Aff. J.V. Richardson 7-18-1865 bond 7-18-1865. He must have been in the Civil War. Marriages Jackson Co.: Albert Johnson 20 & Sarah Ann Readwine 3-1-1866. Also found at Oakland Cem: Albert Johnson died 7-1868 22 yrs old. William Johnson 26 & Jane Pierce 17 11-10-1859 Lewisa Johnson 33 & Thomas Richardson 29 9-5-1866 Isabel Johnson 17 & James Williams 21 11-15-1874 Lucinda Johnson & Thomas Deaton 9-3-1868 Robert Johnson & Marinda Holand 11-22-1866 This is a mix of what could have been Felix Johnson and Benjamin Johnson's children from Hardin Co. It appears to me that some of the Johnson's went to Arkansas and then some went back to Hardin. Keeping in mind that Lawrence Co. AR was founded several years prior to Jackson Co., there were several Hardin Co. families listed in earlier Lawrence Co. records. Carolyn Anderson **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

How about moving to OK? Parts of my Moore family moved to OK in the early 1900's. I believe some of the Pickens may have moved with them. Before that some of the family moved to TX, being descendants of Dougal Gillis. Does anyone else have family that moved to the Clinton, OK area with the Moore families? Would love to compare notes with you. Beverly Sullivan ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Both my grandparents were born in Hardin County after the War of Northern Aggression. My great grandfather Jobe Stanfil Clayton was born in Lawrence County in 1832, married in Lawrence County in 1852, then moved to Wayne County where he had the first three of his eight children were born. His fourth child was born in Hardin County in 1860. The fifth was born in Pulaski County, Illinois in 1864. The sixth through the eighth were born in Hardin County in 1867, 1869 and 1871. Uncle Ulysses Samuel Clayton born in 1869 moved to Wardell, Pemiscot County, Missouri after his four children were born in Hardin County, shortly after 1900. My grandfather, Jasper Henry born in 1871, moved to Texas in 1919. Jasper Henry moved to Brazoria County Texas, an area settled by residents of Williamson County, Tennessee before Texas won it's independence from Mexico. I have no idea why Jobe Stanfill Clayton moved to Illinois during the war. I can only guess he was sympathetic towards the Northern ideas. On my grandmother's Reddin side is another story. My great uncle William E. Reddin was married to Mahala Bingham. Along with her sister Sarah who married to George McCann and two of her brothers, Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham, this group and maybe others left Hardin County shortly before the War of Northern Aggression and settled in Calhoun County, Arkansas. Wiley Morgan Bingham and Calvin Perry Bingham were both killed in route of shortly after arriving. Wiley Morgan's widow, Lucy Anderson had her father come moved her and her sons back to Hardin County, where sons, Alex and John Wiley married Nancy Jane and Amanda Elizabeth Clayton, daughters of Jobe Stanfill Clayton, back in Hardin County, Tennessee. Calvin Perry Bingham's widow remarried and she and her sons and new husband left for South Texas. Several in my Reddin family and the Bingham family have tried to learn more about the causes of death in Arkansas and why these families moved to Arkansas. But we have not reached any one conclusion. I do know that some of the McCann's later left Calhoun County, Arkansas and moved to Brazoria County, Texas, but several of the Reddin, Bingham and McCann families still have relatives in Calhoun and surrounding Counties in Arkansas . My grandparents Jasper Henry Clayton and Melissa Almerrean Reddin both lost a spouse and had six children each before they married. One side of the family will say that Jasper got the idea from his brother in law John Presley. The other side of the family says that my grandmother Melissa Almerrean wanted to move because her younger brother Grover Cleveland Reddin lived in Brazoria County, Texas. I do not know what the reason was for leaving. I do know a bumper crop of cotton enable them to buy train tickets and the boarded the train in Lexington, Tennessee on Christmas Day 1919. Sweeny, Brazoria County, Texas had other families such as the Lindsey's and Meador's from Henderson County, Plunks from McNairy County, Orr's, Sheffield's Presley's from Hardin County, living there before my grandparents arrived. This only added to the John Sweeny's, Baugh's, George Armstrong's, John Arrington's, William Chenault's and Calvin Hammond's from Sumner & Williamson County, Tennessee. Of course after oil and gas was discovered in this area in the 1930's everyone looked like they knew what they were doing. I lived in Sweeny for 32 years and still have contact with members in each of these families, but I have yet to hear anyone give one reason why all these families left Hardin County, Tennessee. One thing I can say for certain, it is a long drive back to Hardin County, Tennessee for a family reunion. Henry Hanson

I have been trying to find information about this man (Washington B. Turner) for years...he seems like a ghost. I believe it is him on the 1836 & 1837 Hardin County tax list ("W.B. Turner") and he shows up on about 6 deeds in the years 1836-1838. He does not show up on the 1830 or 1840 Hardin census. There are a few other Turners (John and James) living in Hardin but I cannot establish whether they are family members or not. Does anybody here have any possible information on this gentleman, where he went or came from, or who he was related to? Thanks, Robyn