Genealogy Society Of Craighead County, Arkansas

Genealogy Society Of Craighead County, Arkansas This month s meeting will be at 2:00 at the Jonesboro Public Library May 19, 2002 VOLUME NUMBER SIX, ISSUE NUMBER FIVE MAY 2002 MEETING HAPPENINGS: The April meeting was a trip to the Memphis Library on April 20, 2002. We had several that were able to make the trip as well as some members that were able to join us there. We had a good trip and most were able to find some good information. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: The Executive Board meeting for May was held on May 11, 2002 at the home of Betty Woodall. 1. We will be going to Leslie, Arkansas on May 31 & June 1, 2002 to attend the North Arkansas Ancestor Fair. 2. We will also be attending the Iron County, Missouri 2002 Genealogy Conference on June 15, 2002 in Arcadia Missouri. 3. There will be no Beginner s Class in June due to other Society commitments. 4. Executive Board Meeting for May is Saturday, June 8, 2002 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jonesboro Public Library. It has been requested that officers arrive approximately 15 minutes early for the regular meeting in order to help set up the round room. MAY MEETING: The May meeting will be held on May19, 2002 at 2:00 at the Jonesboro Public Library. Our speaker will be Jeanette McClure. Jeanette will help us with the Brick Walls that we all run into. We hope to see everyone there. JUNE MEETING: The June meeting will be held on Sunday, June 23, 2002 at the Jonesboro Public Library. Our speaker will be Chris Johnson. Chris topic will be Garden Castle Research. 1

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, either write something worth reading, or do things worth the writing." --- Benjamin Franklin NEWSLETTER: Many of our Society members have computers in their home and have access to e-mail and the Internet. For those members we would like to offer the following choices: (1) receiving their newsletter as an e-mail attachment, (2) viewing directly on the Internet, or (3) continuing to receive a newsletter through the regular mail. Please let me (Nancy Matthews) know your choice nlmatthews@insolwwb.net Unless you let me know different, you will continue to receive your newsletter through the regular mail. As always the newsletter is available by going to the Society s Website at http://www.insolwwb.net/~nlmatthews/newsletter.htm. BEGINNER S CLASS: Our next Beginner s Class will be held on July 22 & 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 at the Jonesboro Public Library. The cost of the class is $25.00. This included a book and additional handouts. If you need help getting started, we would be glad to have you. If you know of a group or organization that would like to have a Beginner s Class for their group, we would be glad to set one up. Contact Betty Woodall 931-4111 or Nancy Matthews 933-8153. LIST OF ELECTORS HAVING PAID POLL TAX FOR THE YEAR A.D. 1897 -- N -- NANCE, J. A. NASH, A. S. NASH, A. T. NASH, E. A. NASH, J. O. NASH, J. P. NASH, J. W. NASH, W. A. NASH, W. T. NASH, W. Y. NAZOR, F. L. NEAL, J. H. NEEDHAM, J. P. NEEDHAM, J. R. NEEDHAM, J. W. NEEDHAM, James NEEDHAM, W. T. NEELY, C. T. NEELY, J. T. NEELY, R. G. NEELY, R. H. NEELY, W. M. NEIDECORN, W. J. NEIGHBORS, W. H. NEIL, S. A. NELMS, N. E. NELMS, T. P. NELMS, W. E. NELSON, J. J. NELSON, L. W. NELSON, W. J. NESMITH, T. L. NEUSTADTER, Ferd NEUSTADTER, Gus NEUSTADTER, Morris NEWBOLES, Ed NEWBOLES, Eli NEWCOM, F. M. NEWELL, Norman NEWELL, R. A. NEWELL, W. S. NEWPORT, F. M. NEWPORT, J. A. NEWPORT, W. C. NEWSOME, Thos NEWTON, G. T. NEWTON, J. F. NEWTON, W. J. NICHOLS, Henry NICHOLS, J. A. NICHOLS, J. B. NISBETT, B. F. NISBETT, J. A. NISBITT, Frank NISBITT, J. G. R. NOBLE, I. N. NOBLES, Richard NORMAN, M. L. NORMAN, S. A. NORRINGTON, J. H. NORRIS, h. c. NORTHCUT, O. D. NORTHCUT, R. B. NORTON, J. H. NORTON, J. J. NORTON, W. S. NOVELL, J. J. NUM, A. H. NUM, J. A. NUT, R. W. NUTT, R. M. NUTT, T. W. -- O -- O BRIEN, D. R. O BRIEN, Frank O BRIEN, G. C. O BRIEN, J. P. O DONNEL, Andy O GUIN, Chas O GUIN, Dan O GUIN, E. A. O GUIN, Genaral O GUIN, John O GUIN, Wm O GUIN, Wm JR ODEM, Henry ODEN, J. H. ODEN, W. S. ODUM, B. J. ODUM, James OKE, Chas OLDHAM, H. T. OLIVER, Henry ONEAL, J. J. ONEAL, J. T. ORMOND, M. J. OSBORN, E. S. OSBORN, J. M. OSBORN, T. L. OSBORN, W. T. OSBURNE, G. W. OSBURNE, J. W. OSBURNE, P. S. OVERALL, W. A. OWENS, B. S. OWENS, Chas OWENS, J. W. OWENS, James OWENS, R. H. -- P -- PAGAN, J. D. 2

PAGE, Hiram PAGE, J. PAGE, J. A. PARDEW, R. F. PARHAM, J. W. PARHAM, S. L. PARHAM, T. M. PARISH, Eugene PARISH, N. C. PARKER, Bob PARKER, H. C. PARKER, J. A. PARKER, L. E. PARKER, W. H. PARKER, W. H. PARKS, Cato PARLIAMAN, L. PARR, Jas E. PATON, W. L. PATRICK, A. J. PATTERSON, A. J. PATTERSON, E. M. PATTERSON, G. W. PATTERSON, Thos PATTERSON, W. D. PATTERSON, W. T. PATTON, D. J. PATTON, Sam PATTON, W. L. PAUL, J. E. PAXSON, Wm PAYM, J. M. PAYNE, R. S. PAYNE, W. N. PAYNE, Wm PEARSON, Chas PEIRCY, J. E. PEMGER, Sandy PENINGTON, L. E. PENIX, E. T. PENIX, J. C. PENIX, J. M. PENIX, W. R. PEPPERS, M. F. PEPPERS, W. J. PERKINS, D. L. PERKINS, Howard PERKINS, J. W. PERKINS, J. W. PERKINS, W. PETERS, Geo C. PETERSON, E. A. PETERSON, W. D. PETTY, R. A. PEW, J. B. PEWETT, H. PEWETT, R. D. PFEIFER, Jacob PHELPS, H. M. PHILLIPS, A. D. PHILLIPS, Ed H. PHILLIPS, G. F. PHILLIPS, G. W. PHILLIPS, H. M. PHILLIPS, I. B. PHILLIPS, J. O. PHILLIPS, M. S. PHILLIPS, W. L. PICKETT, W. J. PICKLE, A. W. PIECE, D. C. PIERCE, A. PIERCE, C. C. PIERCE, Dick PIERCE, Geo PIERCE, J. H. PIERCE, J. M. PIERCE, Jas PIERCE, Joe PIERCE, Sam PIERCE, W. S. PIERCE, W. W. PIERCE, Wm PIERSON, G. W. PIERSON, W. J. PILES, J. W. PINCHBACK, H. L. PITTS, A. S. PITTS, C. I. PITTS, I. S. POE, Chas POFF, D. C. POLAND, C. B. POLAND, J. B. POLAND, J. H. POLLARD, J. E. POLLARD, T. P. POPE, J. B. PORTER, G. PORTER, H. H. PORTER, T. H. POSA, Will POST, E. C. POTTER, H. POTTER, Hiram POTTER, Ira POTTER, John POTTER, R. POTTER, S. M. POTTER, T. B. POTTER, W. W. POUNDS, W. M. POUNDS, W.T. POWELL, C. M. POWELL, Frank POWELL, J. B. POWELL, J. E. POWELL, T. H. POWELL, T. J. POWERS, J. R. PRATT, B. R. PRICE, Elihu PRICE, J. W. PRICE, Sam PRIVITT, W. D. PROCTON, W. C. PUCKETT, A. D. PUCKETT, A. W. PUCKETT, G. W. PUCKETT, J. W. PUCKETT, R. D. PULLEY, A. I. PULLIAM, Lawson PURCELL, J. W. PURSVELL, J. T. PURYEAR, G. W. PURYEAR, H. F. PURYEAR, J. D. PURYEAR, Taylor PURYEAR, Wm PYLAND, Ab PYLAND, G. L. PYLAND, W. F. PYLES, A. B. -- Q -- QUALLS, Grant NEW BOOKS AT THE JONESBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY Blessed Are The Peacemakers Civil War in the Ozarks by Joe W. Smith AR Smith The Genealogist s Question & Answer Book by Marcia Yannizze Melnyk GEN 929.14 Me 46 When the Smoke Settled Civil War Soldier Stories Iron County, Missouri MO 973 Ir1 Index to The Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia and to Slaveholders and Slaves 1758-1786 Compiled and Edited by Margaret Lail Hopkins VA 929.3 Lo78 1910 Iron County Missouri Federal Census Compiled and published by Iron County, Missouri Genealogy Society GEN MO 929.3 Ir1 3

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We are the Chosen We are the chosen. My feelings are that in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts, but instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, 'You have a wonderful family you would be proud of us'? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones." - Author unknown 6

BOOKS -- BOOKS BOOKS 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas Volume 1 308 pages indexed 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas Volume 2 360 pages indexed 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas 2 Volume Set 368 pages indexed price $50.00 includes postage (members $45.00) 1900 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- about 437 pages indexed price $35.00 includes postage (members $30.00) 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- 168 pages indexed price $18.00 includes postage (members $15.00) 1870 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- 117 pages indexed price $15.00 includes postage (members $12.00) 1860 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- 81 pages indexed price $12.00 includes postage (members $10.00) 1860, 1870 & 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three book set. price $40.00 includes postage (members $32.00) Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume I indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume II indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume III indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three Volume Set price $75.00 includes postage (members $70.00) Walking Through Your Past: A Guide to Finding Your Roots price $15.00 includes postage (members $12.00) Early Clay County Divorces: Western District, Corning 1881-1899 Price $10.00 including postage by Gina Horton for GSCCA Early Craighead County, Arkansas Divorces: Western District, Jonesboro Courthouse 1878-1897 Price $15.00 including postage by Gina Horton for GSCCA The Fighting Fifth: The Fifth Arkansas Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Floyd R. Barnhill, Sr. with Major Calvin L. Collier Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages 1881 1902 Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Marriage Records of Sharp County, Arkansas: Southern District 1880-1910 & Northern District 1893-1910 Price $36.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1870 Census of Sharp County, Arkansas Price $11.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1880 Census of Sharp County, Arkansas Price $20.80 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1860 Census of Lawrence County, Arkansas Price 18.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com Price for 3 Sharp County Books including postage $63.00 Price for 3 Sharp County Books & 1 Lawrence County Book including postage $80.00 7

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION NEW RENEWAL NAME ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER E-MAIL ADDRESS SIGNATURE RECEIVED BY DATE DUES ARE $15.00 PER YEAR DUE ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY. Officers: President Betty Woodall Vice President Gail Lies Treasurer Dorothy McCarns Publicity Lanafae Stephens Recording Secretary Donna Ishmael Corresponding Secretary Nelda Simpkins Historian Gregg Scott Publications Nancy Matthews The Genealogy Society of Craighead County, Arkansas P.O. Box 2614 Jonesboro, AR 72402-2614 8