Miscellaneous Items Index Includes Bible Records, as well as Images and Transcriptions of Land, Marriage, and Various Other Records. If you have such items to share, please do...

Stories And Shared Memories A photograph will often times bring up memories, you are invited to submit the picture and the memory. You might recall events and daily ways of life in a community that you knew as home, that you would like to tell about. If you have family stories that have been passed down through the generations, or a story that taught a life lesson, please share. This is where you can share memories, tales, and newspaper articles...

Fraternal Orders of Arkansas Secret Societies, Organizations, Groups, Associations...miscellaneous information on early fraternal groups of Arkansas, as well as pictures of groups, individuals, and grave markers of persons who belongs to various secret societies and orders. Grouped info containing member name, birthdate and birthplace, lodge or chapter #s, location, and postions held...

Arkansas Memorials and Markers There are memorial items all across the state, whether it be a town square or court house with monuments and memorials...historical society dedication displays...plaques that commemorate founding fathers or charter members of an organization......corner stone engravings...dedications to Veterans...markers that denote a historic trail or historical location...detailed momuments and memorials at cemeteries...the list goes on. All are interesting and welcomed here.

Obituaries and Death Notices From family members, as well as from persons interested in helping make the items available to others. A big thank you to Pat McAlister and Rosa Cline for their interest and help with Northwestern Arkansas obituaries. Roger Harvell has shared the obituary collection of persons for whom his father preached their funerals, most if not all are of Izard County persons. And a special thank you to Joan Hobbs for sharing her collection relevant to Newton County families. If you have an interest in sharing a regional or family collection, please do. All obituaries submitted from family members will appear with submitter's name as Family Contact. Items are in full obituary text or extracted form, as well as images of obituaries, funeral and memorial cards, and in some cases, death certificates.

Cemeteries of Pope County, Arkansas by CL and Lina Boyd CL and Lina have provided information on several Pope County cemeteries that they have surveyed. Their knowledge of death, marriage, and other research material, is evident in the added notes throughout their cemetery info. The combined efforts of their work and interest in sharing is much appreciated. If you have pictures taken in Pope County cemeteries that you would like to share, please do. If you would like to be noted as a Family Contact, just let me know.

Arkansas Widows and Children Homes Includes residents of Orphanages as well as Old Ladies Homes. If you have something to add, please let me know.

Arkansas Poor Farms, Pauper's Homes, Almshouses... From the Bureau of Census, a Special Report: Paupers In Almshouses, 1904...an act to provide relief for the poor. Also included are named inmates of County Homes and Farms, located in various Arkansas counties.

State School For The Blind The Arkansas Institute for the Blind was incorporated February 4, 1859, established at Arkadelphia, Clark County. Mr. Otis Patten was Superintendent. By September of 1860 there were ten pupils, five males and five females...

Maps of Original Land Owners by Roger Harvell Due to efforts of Roger Harvell, you can readily view names of individual land owners, the year of original ownership, and the location of lands owned, through twp and range detail. Roger has also provided a name index of over 1,600 original land owners in Izard County, all appear on the various maps that he has created. And if that were not enough, through a visual presentation, township, range, and section terms are displayed, making them easily understood.

Arkansas Confederate Home The Arkansas Confederate Soldiers' Home was established in 1890. In 1922 Dallas Tabor Herndon published the High Lights of Arkansas History. In that work he described the Confederate Home. I have also added the inmate population from census records.

Arkansas African American Families Researching African American ancestors might possibly be one of the more difficult areas in the genealogical spectrum. Long before the days of 'no coloreds allowed' and the designated 'white only' drinking fountains, the records of the African American population were often times limited only to a head count, identified by a term or pen name, and at best, simply a given name. You are invited to help with this project...submit your African American Family pictures and info, or help transcribe slave schedules...

Warning To Indians In September of 1830, John Pope, the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas, issued a proclamation warning all Indians, except those of the Quapaw Tribe, to leave the Miller County area...

Cecil Cove Hike After a failed attempt at finding the Jones Cemetery in Cecil Cove, Tim Loftis and Randy Sooter teamed up with Joyce Lindsey, to hike into the cove and find the cemetery. The weaker sex proved to be a good luck charm for the two gentlemen, as the cemetery was found with ease with Joyce along :o). The remains of old home places along the trail were explored, partial foundations/footings of buildings were measured and documented along with named homestead locations, and other landmarks. Randy took pictures of all graves, rocks and markers in the cemetery. They can be viewed at a Jones Cemetery link on the webpage. Other pictures taken that day are in the Cecil Cove Hike Scrapbook. I have yet to transcribed the info from the cemetery pictures, if anyone would care to lend a hand at trying to make out the names and dates from the pictures of this small, hard to get to cemetery, please do.

Cecil Cove Slacker Gang Details from 1919 Kansas City Star newspaper article, describing 'how the Hill Billies of Cecil Cove Defied Uncle Sam', and other details of the gang and events of the time. Also included are family notes from visitors to the Slacker Gang page.

Crater of Diamonds I remember when we visited the diamond field...the kids had lots of fun, but it was so hot we seemed to sweat mud :o). We didn't find any diamonds, but came home with a nice handful of other gemstones. Staff at Crater of the Diamonds State Park have provided a nice description and history of the Crater of Diamonds, as well as historical pictures, a survey map, and documents. If you have pictures taken at the crater that you would like to appear in the Crater of Diamonds Scrapbook, just let me know.

Diamond Cave I have really been enjoying working on this project. There has been good visitor interaction in the sharing of memories, comments, additonal info, and pictures. Includes known history of the cave, owners, managers, tour guides, pictures, and shared memories. If you have memories of Diamond Cave to share, please do.

David O. Dodd Hanged for being a spy...The first line in Dallas T. Herndon's work, Letters of David O. Dodd: David Owen Dodd was hanged at Little Rock as a Confederate spy, on January 8, 1864. The 'boy hero of the Confederacy', hanged at age 17, was born in Texas, to Andrew Marion Dodd and Lydia Echols Owen...

Supplement To The Arkansas Gazette, March 4, 1834 From the Auditor's Office, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, pursuant to the requisitions of an act passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas...offered for sale, at the Court-house door, in the town of Little Rock...the following described tracts or parcels of land...which have been for five years or upwards, stricken off to the Territory, for non-payment of the taxes and costs due thereon...Includes name of individual, description of land, and amount of back taxes.

War Department Record: Army and Army Air Corp WWII Dead and Missing; Searcy County, Arkansas...

Arkansas Casualties of Korean Conflict Full name index includes rank and branch of service, home town or county of record, casualty date, and type of casualty. If a family member is found in the index, you are invited to submit a picture of the individual to appear in the Those Who Served pages.   

Arkansas Casualties of Vietnam Conflict Full name index includes rank and branch of service, home town or county of record, casualty date, and type of casualty. Feel free to submit family info and a picture of any family member found in the index.   

Arkansas Casualties of WWI From Soldiers of the Great War, Volume I, 1920. Catagorized by Killed in Action, Died of Disease, Died of Wounds, and Died of Accident. Includes name of soldier, rank, and town they were from. One of my family members was a casualty, he appears in the Newton County Those Who Served pages...give me a holler if you lost family during this war, and pay tribute to them on the Those Who Served pages as well.   

Arkansas Casualties and Missing of WWII, Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Listed under name of county...full name, serial number, rank, and type of casualty. As with all other military listings, if you find a family member in these records, and if you would like them to appear on the county Those Who Served pages, let me know.   

Arkansas Casualties of WWII, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel Full name index includes rank, as well as the name, address and relationship of the next of kin. You are invited to submit info and a picture of your family that appear in this listing...those items will in turn be placed on county specific Those Who Served pages, with you listed as Family Contact.   

Revolutionary Soldiers As Shown By The Pension Rolls From Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas by Josiah Hazen Shinn, 1908. Pension roll of the revolutionary soldiers alive in Arkansas in the counties named in 1833 and 1834...includes name, Arkansas county where they were living in 1833/1834, their age, and military unit in which they served.   

Arkansas Revolutionary War Pensioners By an Act of Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of State, when the sixth U. S. Census was taken (1840), an effort was made to note all living Revolutionary War pensioners. The following year the info was published as 'A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services', printed by Blair and Rives, Washington Printing. The record includes the name, age, state and county of residence, as well as the Head of Household where the pensioner was living on June 1, 1840.

Penitentiary Records...State of Arkansas From record books found in the Saline County Court House. Deb Robinson and Cindy Gill transcribed the 1918-1920 portion of those records. Includes inmate name, serial number, and Arkansas county of residence at time of sentencing.

Cherokee National Cemetery by Dolores Raines Sutton Aka Citizen Cemetery, as well as Fort Gibson City Cemetery, located in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. Transcribed from the records at the Ft. Gibson City Clerk's Office and from Sexton Records, in June of 2003.