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These are my mothers parents, who lived in Arkansas. They were married in 1917 so I would assume this is before he went off to WWI. But it's possible that this is after the war.
Family history says that his family came to Arkansas from Tenn. He was born in 1890, and his parents died when he was 13 and he raised 3 younger sisters working in the logging camps around Newport, AR. My efforts at genealogy haven't turned up much else.
He was well known in the area for his hunting and fishing exploits, and was known to be an excellent rifle shot. He apparently credited his skill with a rifle for keeping him alive through WWI, but not for the reason you might think. When his unit shipped to France, he was held back in England to be a rifle instructor. He eventually went to France, but I'm told that nearly all of his original unit died in the trenches.
Cool photo. What was his last name? My relatives came to AR from TN as well, must have been a popular wagon trail.
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vancelw wrote:Let me guess, they came through Searcy, Arkansas? It seems like everybody did. Must have been a ferry there.
Nice Photo. I don't have any that crisp of my old folks.
They settled near Searcy, my mom still lives in that area.
I think My great-grandma Anderson was born in Searcy in either 1896 or 1898 (she couldn't remember which) She ended up and orphan and was married at 13 (in Blue, Indian Territory) to a man nearly 40 years older than her. I'm sure she was a burden on the family that took her in and my Great grandpa was probably a widower. I always thought she was a Yankee, coming from the northen state of Arkansas and all
I am always amazed at people I talk to about their family history. It seems like, if they came from Tennessee, they came through Searcy. I wish I knew more of the history about that trail/route. Most of my folks came the more southerly route from Alabama and Georgia back when Texas was the wild frontier.
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vancelw wrote:Let me guess, they came through Searcy, Arkansas? It seems like everybody did. Must have been a ferry there.
Nice Photo. I don't have any that crisp of my old folks.
They settled near Searcy, my mom still lives in that area.
I think My great-grandma Anderson was born in Searcy in either 1896 or 1898 (she couldn't remember which) She ended up and orphan and was married at 13 (in Blue, Indian Territory) to a man nearly 40 years older than her. I'm sure she was a burden on the family that took her in and my Great grandpa was probably a widower. I always thought she was a Yankee, coming from the northen state of Arkansas and all
I am always amazed at people I talk to about their family history. It seems like, if they came from Tennessee, they came through Searcy. I wish I knew more of the history about that trail/route. Most of my folks came the more southerly route from Alabama and Georgia back when Texas was the wild frontier.
My folks bought the land with the old house place where my mom was born and grew up. They built a new house of course, but I can remember when I was a kid and we would go to the old farmhouse. My grandparents only got electricity in the late '50s and running water a couple years after that. The only running water in the house was at the kitchen sink, and they used an outhouse their entire lives.
There was a sunken road that went behind the house, the story was that the road was a major route north out of Searcy during the civil war. When I was a teenager my cousin and I found a CSA buckle, in very poor condition, while disking up some ground on the edge of this "road". Years later my brother worked with a civil war buff who came out with a metal detector and found a few things that we possibly from CSA soldiers.
I got interested in all this because I was sure that my mother's side had confederate soldiers, but the genealogy records on that side are a dead end (so far). But I was able to go back on my dad's side and found that I have many ancestors who fought under the stars and bars.
I live in Batesville on the White river, Newport is about 20 miles down river. My daughter lives in Searcy about 40 miles south of here. Newport is in Jackson county and Searcy is in Whity county.Independence county where I live was broken up to make several counties. The Indepndence County Regonal Historical Museum has many records from this area and can help you with a search, 1-870-793-2121.
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JerryB wrote:I live in Batesville on the White river, Newport is about 20 miles down river. My daughter lives in Searcy about 40 miles south of here. Newport is in Jackson county and Searcy is in Whity county.Independence county where I live was broken up to make several counties. The Indepndence County Regonal Historical Museum has many records from this area and can help you with a search, 1-870-793-2121.
I think we've talked before. My mom's address is Judsonia, but she actually lives at Providence, which is too small for a post office.
Sometime when I'm there I just need to make time to get to the library and do some research.
