Stories and Shared Memories...
An Assortment Of Items:

Newspaper Clippings, Letters, Assorted Ephemera, Transcribed Items And Other Tidbits, Along With Pictures From Nature's Landscape, Modern Day Landmarks And Roadside Novelties, As Well As Pictures Of Quaint Locals And Communities Of Arkansas, From Churches And Courthouses To Post Offices And Outhouses, You Might See It Pictured Here.

A picture often times brings 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, a story that taught a life lesson, or a picture or story of a life event, please share.

After viewing the below items, You might also enjoy the following:
Arkansas Memorials and Markers
School Bell

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None Specific County
A Tribute To The American Serviceman
...story w/picture
Loan Your Binoculars to the Navy
...WPA Poster collection

Northwestern Arkansas
Pioneer Days In Northwest Arkansas
...an account of how things were

Several Counties Mentioned
Flayed Alive By Indians

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

All Blacks Expelled From Cotter
...newspaper article
Dodging Bullets

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

J. D. Hurley, Indicted for Murder
...circuit court record
Murder of Center L. Presley
...newspaper article
Nim Shepherd Arrested
...newspaper article

70th Wedding Anneversary Celebrated
with pictures
The Alph Cook Cave

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Bad Treatment Followed By Revenge

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
A Brave Woman Saves The Life Of Her Husband

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
A Cold Swim Across White River

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Killed On His Porch

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Shot Down On The Porch

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Torture And Death

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Woman Is Allowed To Kill The Murderer Of Her Husband

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

Finding The Skeleton Of A Man In a Wild Wilderness

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Like Father, Like Daughter

...raising cattle and taking care of the land
Quite a Fortune Laid Up
...newspaper article, 1907
Remarkable Leap Of A Panther

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Street Car Leaves Track
...newspaper article

Order of Hoo Hoo
...newspaper article

Rev. W. H. Kuykendall Pastorate at Magnolia
...newspaper article, 1919

Letter From Elizabeth Flowers
...to sons and daughters, 1886
Glass letter
...Cherokee Phoenix article, 1828

Daily Soliphone Index
...twenty two transcribed news items, early 1900s
Marmaduke Cackler
...news tidbits and advertisments, 1911
Recollections, by Lucian G. Crowley
...two letters
Saloon Keeper Kills 3 Policemen
...newspaper article, 1888

Cat roosted with Rev. H. F. Vremillion's chickens
...newspaper article
First time in sixty-two years
...newspaper article
The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
...newspaper article
Hillfolk burying their dead
...1929 tornado article
A Horrifying War Time Incident in Horseshoe Bend of White River

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Killed with an ax
...newspaper article
Rand's dog Old Bruce
...newspaper article
Runt pig gets all the cow's milk
...newspaper article
Sad and Serious Recollections of Wardays

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Tornado at Guion
...Remembered in a poem by Owen Harvell...w/pictures
Wounding An Inoffensive Man

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

Brutal Warden Brought Back For Trial
...newspaper article, 1889
George Williams Shot
...newspaper article
Heartless Miners Cruelly Shoot And Kill An Innocent Man
...newspaper article, 1893
John Harris Murdered
...newspaper article, 1886
Shot While Plowing Corn
...over .50 Razor, 1887 newspaper article
Sid Wallace Hanged at Clarksville
...newspaper article, 1874
Tale of Major Gillian
...buried at foot of Wood's Mountain

Old Aurora
...historical details, w/picture
He Endured The Torture And Did Not Yeild Up His Money

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Faithful And True

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Last Hours Of John Fritts

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Polly Delk Celebrates 94th Birthday
at her home in Huntsville
Reading The Bible By The Reflection Of Light From A Burning Town

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Shocking And Cruel

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
How A Stolen Coverlet Was Recovered

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
War And It's Victims

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Winter Quarters Of Colonel Mitchell's Regiment Of Confederate...

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

Sad Account Of The Civil War

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
How He Asked For His Bride

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Killing Of Wilse Brown

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Stories Of Turtles

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Voracious Eaters

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

1891 Letter
...A. F. Casey to F. M. Edgmon
1891 Tax Receipt, F. M. Edgmon
...w/signature of J. A. Lee
3 Killed in Head-on Crash
...newspaper article
Along The Wagon Road
...story
Noah M. Armer, advanced to Storekeeper 3rd Class
...news
Battle With National Park Service
...story w/picture
Big Ruby Played Jokes
...story w/picture
M. T. Brisco to Stella Brisco
...letter, 1917
Built His Own Coffin
...William Elmore, story w/pictures
Peter Campbell Joins Wagon Train Going West
...story
Casey Log Cabins
...story
Arvil Casey, Store at Boxley
...memories, w/picture
Fire Towers
...story
Five Shiny Pennies
...story w/picture
Foot Washing
...story w/pictures
Getting Water From The Spring
...story w/picture
GI Headquarters Flyer
...'Vote for Newton County Ex-Servicemen'
Grandma Eunice
...memories w/picture
Grandma Gilmore Fooled Him
...story w/picture
Grandma Rebeth Cagle Waldron
...poem w/picture
Grandma Sally
...story w/picture
Grandpa Armer
...memories, w/picture
Grandpa Ernest Daniel
...memories, w/picture
Grandpa Jeff Raney
...story w/picture
New Light On Lincoln's Boyhood
...Atlantic Monthly article, 1920
Our Grand Old Opry Stage
...story w/picture
Bert Hamilton
...letter about his death in WWI, w/picture
Headed Their Wagons Toward Oregon
...story w/records
Doyne Hefley Remembered
...memories
Hello From Stewart Nance
...family memories, w/picture
Helped Build Ponca Post Office
...story w/picture
Hero In My Life
...story w/picture
History of Lurton, Arkansas
...story
Our House Slid Down The Hill
...story w/pictures
This Was Frank James/Joe Vaughn
...book review, w/pictures
Delcie Jones, Traveled in Covered Wagon
...story w/picture
Hilary Jones
...President Clinton remembers, w/pictures
I Loved Squirrel Brains
...story w/picture
I Remember Little Grandma
...story w/picture
I Was A Welder Too, WWII
...story w/picture
I Was Born In Mt. Judea
...story w/picture
I Was Born At Ponca
...story, w/picture
Joan's Little Chair
...memories, w/picture
Low Gap Post Office
...story w/picture
Lurton Picture Quilt
...comments, w/pictures
Lurton Post Office Boxes
...story
Martha And The Car
...story w/picture
Memories, by Inez Wishon VanCuren
...story
Memories of Compton, Arkansas
...story w/pictures
Memories of Cowell, Arkansas
...memories and cemetery info
Memories of Newton County Homes
...story w/picture
In Memory of My Mother, Gladys Armer
...memories, w/picture
Bert McCarty's Store
...memories, w/pictures
Bailey and Etta Sexton McCutcheon 50th Anniversary
...news
McElroy Family of McElroy's Gap
...story w/picture
Wynonia Rosamond Mohr Remembered
...memories, w/picture
Miller Jim Villines, at Water Mill
...story w/picture
Mt. Sherman School Document
...district No. 48
My Heros
...memories, w/pictures
The Old Treadle Sewing Machine
...story w/picture
Ponca Post Office
...story w/drawing
Sunday School, Ponca Church
...card, 1946
Body of James Victor Primrose taken to Ponca
...news article
Rosamond and Overturf Murders
...story
Vernon Ephraim Rosamond
...story w/picture
Scream In The Night
...story
J. E. Shroll Personal Property Sale Bill
...by Sam H. Clark
Sketch of Calvin Houston Snow Homeplace
...by daughter, Grace
Dick and Rener Sparks Remembered
...story w/picture
Eliza O. Sparks Letter
...To family after death of James Sparks
Claude A. Spencer, CCC Discharge Papers
...CCC Company 3786
Yates Standridge, An Escape Artist
...story w/picture and news
Tales of Flatwoods
...newspaper clipping, w/picture
David C. Tinsley to James Clopton
...letter
Joe and Inez Wishon VanCuren 50th Anniversary
...news
The Milas Wishon Home
...story w/picture and drawing
Water Witcher, 'Bessie' Rice Kilgore Doshier
...story w/picture
We Carried Water
...story w/picture
Wilderness Library
...story w/picture

Kate Harkey, A Pioneer
...memories, newspaper article

David O. Dodd
...letter to sister, January 16, 1863
David O. Dodd
...letter to mother, November 23, 1863
David O. Dodd
...letter to family, day of his hanging

A Horrifying Crime
...June, 1900
Courthouse at Marshall
...sharing a picture
John C. Nichols Murdered
...J. Branch In Penitentiary, 1883
Ferocious Panther Slays Two Years Old Colt

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Picked Up Her Husband's Brains

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Ben Taylor, slain deputy
...1897 articles
Claude Watts
...1923 letter

First Judge Parker Death Sentence
...January, 1875
Killing A Prisoner
...Greenwood, 1874
Killing of William Thompson
...story, 1859
Lost Hunting Dog
...reward offered, 1911
Murder of Tyler, Lynching of Dumas and Walls
...story, 1872
Oldest Man In Arkansas
...newspaper article, 1906
Pike And Roane Duel
...August, 1848
Pistol Duel
...between two newspaper editors, 1844
Prospect of the Farmers: Bush-Whacking
...newspaper article, 1863
Scaffold Claims Four More Victims
...January, 1847
Six Suffered Death Sentence
...September, 1875
The First Executions
...Under sentence of the Federal Court, 1873

A Man Escapes Death By Leaping Up And Running

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907
Death By The Roadside

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907

Boyd to Egger
...letter, June 3, 1897
From Belle Boyd
...letter, February 16, 1898
From C. J. Burt
...letter, March 28, 1901
From Mrs. Lizzie Burt
...letter, March 27, 1901
To Mr. J.H. Egger
...letter, March 13, 1892
McDaniel Family Story
...Cullen McDaniel killed by bushwhackers
Picnic For Four
...he devised a plan
From S. J. And N. A. Stanley
...letter, July 13, 1896

Blamed For Stealing A Horse
...taken prisioner by Feds
Brutal Murder By A Desperado
...story, 1846
Criminal Intimacy
...murder and hanging, 1860
Deadly Feud
...story, 1868
Dr. James Boone Murdered
...story, 1856
First Legal Executions In The County
...1845
Found Not Guilty For Killing Cherokee Orr
...Circuit Court, 1839
Imprisoned One Hour For Murder
...Second Circuit Court, 1835
Slave Girl Hung For Murder
...account of the story, 1844
There Lived Three Brothers
...story, 1879
To Receive Five Lashes
...Second Circuit Court, 1833

Killing A Mare With An Ax

by Silas C. Turnbo, 1907




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