| Item #1151 |
 Jackson and Calvin Eoff:
Post card photo. Jackson was half-brother to my Grandma Anna Eoff Wishon and Calvin was a full brother. They hauled the ore away from the mines, so actually they were part of the mining indrustry as well as the miners.
Mom always wrote on the front of the pictures instead of the back.
Submitted by Joan Hobbs. Thanks Joan!
 
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| Item #1152 |
Clyde and Edith Laughter:
Clyde Anderson Laughter was born May 16, 1915 to William Washington 'Wash' Laughter and his second wife, Mary Sams Young. Clyde died July 17, 1984 in Newton County, Arkansas. His wife, Edith Priscilla Scott Laughter was daughter of Martin Scott and Martha Pate.
Submitted by Jean Byes. Thanks Jean!
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| Item #1153 |
William and Mary Spears:
William Siegel Spears was born February 19, 1828, died May 14, 1916. His wife Mary Green Dickens Spears was born January 6, 1830, died July 12, 1902.
Submitted by Frankie Ponder. Thanks Frankie!
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| Item #1154 |
Buddie Jeffries and Shirley Owens:
Buddie Gene Jeffries and Shirley Ann Owens, his neice...
a few days after this picture was taken, she fell
into a tub of boiling water and died.
Submitted by Lori Reddell. Thanks Lori!
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| Item #1155 |
Alexandria Young Family:
Picture taken 1886, Left to Right: Alexandria Young, Lester Grant Young (4 yrs. old), Mark Young (1 year old), and Cynthia Villines Young.
Submitted by Dale Ramsey. Thanks Dale!
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| Item #1156 |
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Johnson:
This picture was with my Grandmother's pictures. I have several that Grandmother has just put their names on the back, that might mean something to someone in Newton County or have Newton County ties. On Back: Mr. Earnest Johnson and wife of Texas, used to live in Newton County.
Submitted by Karen Fetters. Thanks Karen!
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| Item #1157 |
Ona McCracken and Unknown:
Ona McCracken penciled on back of this picture, no name for the other person...don't know which one is Ona.
Submitted by Gloria Vaughn. Thanks Gloria!
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| Item #1158 |
Pat, Anna, and Inez Wishon:
This is Agnes Lee 'Pat' Wishon, Anna Eoff Wishon, and Inez Wishon. Anna, wife of Rheubin Henry, Pat and Inez the two youngest children of 'Big Ruby' and Anna. Inez was my mother. Pat is the only living child left of that large family. This photo was taken about 1922, when the family lived in Elgin, Illinois.
Submitted by Joan Hobbs. Thanks Joan!
 Inez Wishon VanCuren...Shares Her Memories
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| Item #1159 |
Calvin Snow Family:
Calvin H. Snow, Jane Owen Snow, Grace Snow, and Conard Snow. My Grandmother Grace and Conard were the youngest of Calvin's kids. Calvin homesteaded 160 acres in 1901 Cowell, Newton County. When Grandmother was 8 years old Calvin remodeled their two room log cabin and it became a three bedroom home and the Cowell postoffice. Calvin was postmaster at Cowell for 21 years.
Submitted by Karen Fetters. Thanks Karen!
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| Item #1160 |
Joseph Manuel 'Joe' VanCuren and Delia Young:
Submitted by Joan Hobbs. Thanks Joan!
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| Item #1161 |
William and Della Shelton:
William was son of Eliphas 'Pate' Shelton and Patricia Cordelia 'Patty' Pate. Della was the daughter of Samuel L. Hudson and Susan Elizabeth Taylor. They were married September 26, 1915 at Parthenon, ran a store there for 66 years. This picture was taken on their wedding day.
Submitted by Ford Carlton. Thanks Ford!
 William Riley Shelton Family Info
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| Item #1162 |
Men at Diamond Cave Entrance:
Left to right: Otis McKinley Davis, Boyd Pruitt, James 'Jeems' Thomas Spencer, William Alonzo 'Lonzo' Spencer. Lonzo was a tour guide and off-season manager of Diamond Cave for about 8 years.
Submitted by Jeanne Spencer Salyers. Thanks Jeanne!
See Diamond Cave page
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| Item #1163 |
John and Anna Barker:
This is John Carroll Barker and my Grandmother Lulu Anna Eoff Wishon Barker. It was his third marriage and her second. He was such a fine old gentleman and I loved him dearly. He is buried between his first two wives at Eoff Cemetery in Boone County, AR. He was sheriff in Newton County in the last of the 1800s and the first part of 1900s. He knew my grandmother's family when she was just a small girl.
Submitted by Joan Hobbs. Thanks Joan!
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| Item #1164 |
Two young men:
On the back it has Mother Snow's friends children, and I think Clarence and Sterling? It does not have a date on it, but it is while they lived in Newton County.
Submitted by Karen Fetters. Thanks Karen!
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| Item #1165 |
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Davis:
Cowell, Arkansas
Submitted by Karen Fetters. Thanks Karen!
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| Item #1166 |
James and Elizabeth Villines:
James Larkin Villines September 7, 1862 - October 9, 1955.
Elizabeth Arlene Bradley December 22, 1866 - August 6, 1936.
Married July 5, 1885. This was taken July 5, 1935 on their 50th wedding anniversary. Buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Submitted by Ruth Barnes. Thanks Ruth!
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| Item #1167 |
Joe and Inez VanCuren:
Joseph Manuel 'Joe' VanCuren and Inez Wishon VanCuren.
Submitted by Joan Hobbs. Thanks Joan!
Marriage License and 50th Wedding Anniversary
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| Item #1168 |
Nancy Elizabeth 'Bessie' Rice Kilgore Doshier:
Daughter of John S. Rice and Amanda Wishon David Rice.
Submitted by Joan Hobbs. Thanks Joan!
Known as Newton County Water Witcher |
| Item #1169 |
Daniel and Clarisa Phillips and Sons:
Sherman, John, Russell, and Henry in front.
Submitted by John P. Sartin. Thanks John!
Daniel Russell Phillips Biography
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| Item #1170 |
Men playing cards:
On the back of this picture are these names: Ray Lee, Bill Harberson, Drew Huckabee and Guss Boyd.
Submitted by Karen Fetters. Thanks Karen!
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| Item #1171 |
Mollie Roberts:
My Grandmother. She was the second child and the first daughter of Thomas Jefferson Braudrick and Sadie Jane Spencer.
Submitted by John P. Sartin. Thanks John!
 Mary Elizabeth 'Mollie' Braudrick Biography
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| Item #1172 |
Oliver B. Casey:
1880-1969, son of Levi Newton Casey and Elizabeth Villines Davis, taken about 1901.
Submitted by Jerry Young. Thanks Jerry!
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| Item #1173 |
General and Tennessee Standridge:
General J. Standridge was son of Martin Standridge Jr. and Elizabeth Standridge. He married Tennessee Hudson, daughter of Andrew Jackson Hudson and Mary Ann Standridge.
Submitted by CL and Lina Boyd. Thanks CL and Lina!
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| Item #1174 |
Charles and Gertrude Spencer:
Charles Lineville Spencer, oldest child of James Riley Spencer and Mary Ellen Tindell. Gertrude Luetta Young was his first wife. Charles and his second wife, Essie Poyner, share a double grave marker in Mt. Sherman Cemetery.
Submitted by Jeanne Spencer Salyers. Thanks Jeanne!
Mt. Sherman Cemetery
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| Item #1175 |
C harles Lineville Spencer:
March 30, 1876 - July 23, 1947.
Submitted by Jeanne Spencer Salyers. Thanks Jeanne!
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