Parker

Dear ER, I certainly will check this out. I didn’t know the Parker line for Judge Parker was from Hempstead County. I will have to do some checking on this information. The Parker genealogist will jump on this I am sure.

Aunt Ludie

Person Query

Dear BN, There is a Person line in Lafayette and Miller county Arkansas. I found an obituary from the Methodist archives dated 1951. I also personally know one of the direct ancestors and will contact them with your information to see if there is a connection with your Benjamin and Tabitha. I found this obituary that mentions the lineage and state that the Person line here came from. Much research can be obtained from church records. The archives for Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist etc are sometimes the only records still intact. Many courthouses were burned during the civil war and also many burned on their own.

Person—obit

After this query and my research I found a wealth of information on Garland City. I felt I should share The Garland City Pride Web site. A most interesting creation it has pictures of old structures, a lay out of the town. A local native living in Pine Bluff maintains a list of business, prominent people biographies, at this site. I have spoken with Kenneth Hensley for permission to reprint Garland City Pride articles. We will have more next week.

Aunt Ludie

Roton Query

Dear PW, The carvings on the markers are very symbolic. Arches mean victory in death. Arrows are symbolic of mortality. Bouquets/Flowers condolence, grief and sorrow. Buds and rosebuds are morning of life or life renewal. Portals are passages to eternal journey. Bugles are resurrections and the military. Crossed swords are high ranking in military. Corn means ripe old age. I will send you a complete copy of a list I have. It is too lengthy for publication at this time.

Yes there was a Roton Family that lived in Lafayette County. The first into southwest Arkansas was Josiah Freeman Roton. His birthrate October 10, 1825. Place of birth is show to be South Carolina, however this is not proved. He married Olivia Jane Otwell. The date of birth for Olivia May 03,1835 her place of birth shows to be Georgia. Olivia’s date of death is January 3, 1913 in Stamps, Lafayette County. Josiah Freeman Roton date of death February 256, 1901. Josiah was a farmer and military service co. G, 26 Arkansas Volunteers.

John W. Roton was Josiah’s father. He was married to Nancy? Olivia Jane Otwell was the daughter of Benjamin D. Otwell birth c. 1805 and Louisa House. Benjamin D.s father was Benjamin and his mother was Sophia. Benjamin D. Otwell and Louisa House were married in Troup county Georgia. I also show them living in Randolph County Alabama. *note. Olivia Jane married Josiah Freeman Roton, before 1854.

The difference of spellings of this name is tremendous so the tracking will be difficult. I would suggest whenever possible to use soundex on all trials of search. Wrotten, Wroughton, Roden, Rhoden, Ratton, Roton, Rodden, Roughton. So how a kname sounds is not always how it is written. Regardless of the spelling, Roton is the spelling here, however I found others in this same line chose Roten. The oldest ancestor shows to be Ezekiah Roten around 1620 came to America and settled in Delaware and Maryland. Other researchers seem to think the Rotons in this line were Torries. Ashe County North Carolina has an abundance of Rotens in that area and many land transactions and wills are recorded there. The names Josiah, Jacob, and Freeman also show in the census of that area. I hope I have opened a couple of places to search.

Aunt Ludie

Rucker Query

Dear ER, First of all one of my favorite search engines for genealogy is Alta Vista. You can access this engine by typing Alta vista, and then clicking the button. This brings you to the blank to be filled in to go get your information. I sometimes use just the full name such as George Rucker family. This goes into many genealogy files and extracts (George Rucker). I could also access with the plus sign. +Rucker +Rainwater, Georgia. This will pull out Rucker and Rainwater to be in the file and it would also get Georgia in with the Rucker and Rainwater query. I also look in a file called genforum. Again type genforum, click on and enter. Go to a screen and type in surname you want, or go to the regional state and or county and look in their queries. I have sent you two links for Rainwater and Rucker so you can browse these areas for distant cousins.

What I did find on these data excursions was many Ruckers did marry Rainwater members. I found George M. Rucker c 1740 Culpepper Virgina and his death in Franklin County Georgia, November 6, 1815. I also found Rosa Katie Rainwater bn August 16,1864. Also look in Elbert County Georgia. A cousin of yours is also searching this file and his email is richrain@juno.com.

Happy Hunting Aunt Ludie

School Marm

After dinner a few weeks ago in Uncle Buck’s family home we were sorting through a box of old papers and letter was found that I thought was genuinely unique. It really brings home and to heart the plight of our families and their struggle for their children to learn to read and write. We have dated this letter around 1880 around the Lamertine area and know the schoolteachers were living with Grandpa and Grandma Sewell.

Dear Miss Georgia: I beg to say in reply to your note that I am zealously in favor of building the toilets you asked for: but as you well know the “school law” provides a stipulated amount for incidental expenses, and we have already gone our limit. Now if you with the others concerned can get this work done in a legitimate way, I bid you God’s speed, or I am perfectly willing that Mr. Sewell and Mr. Rodgers do as they see fit.

Very Respectfully, J. E. Young

Readers the loose papers and notes are the flavors of our past and to me this is a priceless piece of paper. I do imagine Isaac Sewell and Mr. Rodgers did see fit to legitimately build the toilet.

Aunt Ludie

Shackelford Query

I don’t know if this is appropriate, however, I just discovered my gr. gr. grandfather, James Monroe Shackelford was a member of the 6th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Company F. They were known as the “Lafayette Guards” and I assume most were from Lafayette County. Any information would be appreciated. Ed Shackelford lford@redshift.com

Dear Ed, I ran some searches on the net and discovered you have probably looked in all the nooks and crannies that I have access to. I was left with a number of very old genealogy books that were written in the 50’s and of course the ones from our local genealogy association. I have found a James Shackelford with two children in this area. The names are Clarence Clifford Shackelford dob 1895 and Larry Monroe Shackelford 1898.

Tax receipts Columbia County 1890 show C. H. Shackelford for 1 poll.

Today I find several Shackelford families still living in this area , perhaps the posting of this query, some may follow with more information. Also the University of Arkansas in their Manuscript Resources for Civil War would have more information on James Monroe. I did not find him in my research. I also perused the Falcon Guards Rolls.

Aunt Ludie

Sinclair

Dear JJ, I have found many Sinclairs into this area listed in Hempstead and Union and Ouachita Counties. Lafayette County was carved from Hempstead and that is where the most of the Sinclairs show on census. I checked and they show in the 1840- on census. I believe a Johnson Sinclair the earliest on census in the area of Springhill, Bois d’Arc and Fulton communities (these communities are between Hope, Arkansas and Lewisville. I can put you in contact with some relatives of the Sinclair’s that still live in this area. I did not find through United Genealogical Web Site for Arkansas and Lafayette County Census 1840-1880 any Sinclair’s that appears on census here. The courthouse in Lewisville would be your best bet and the County Offices of Dianne Fletcher, and of Mary Jo Rogers. The McGee you asked about I did find McGee, McGees, Magees here. I would first check through the names I will include under separate cover checking with Sinclair’s in Lafayette County.

(1900 census- up are not on line, and I don’t do anything except electronic file search for records that are on line. However, sometimes through earlier records and the fact that relatives may remain in the area, query these also.

Happy Hunting Aunt Ludie

Genealogy Workshop

Ludie’s Genealogy Class December 18, 19. Two sessions each day beginning at 4:00-5:30 P.M. and 6:30-8:00. Easy armchair friendly to newbies looking for EZ way to World Wide Web and the Vast amount of information. Bring canned goods or a donation for county to put in food baskets for elderly and others less fortunate. This is optional as you know and the class is free. I was very encouraged at the last class with the participation we had.

I received a query last week from the Stamps family, Elisha S. Stamps born July 7, 1798. He married Elibra ? and is seeking maiden name of above. Elisa died September 15, 1861 Prentis, Ms. Elisha was the son of William Stamps b. 1772, VA who settled in Southern Mississippi in 1816.

A friend of genealogy and I were visiting the other day discussing pictures of the old McKamie school. I happened to look at an old Look Back published by our Historical Society and there it was. The edition isVol. X111 Spring 1996, also included on same page a wonderful picture of the Ida Carlton store building east of the L&A Railroad. As a child I remember waiting to meet the train and it was called the Late and Anger. Another tid-bit the Carlton Devanie Post American Legion #49 is named after L. M. Carlton’s grand son Kennth Fort Carlson who died during World War 1 in Europe. (See what you’re missing by not joining our Historical Society!) On page 20 of this issue are three of our beautiful churches, two located on Church street and the other on Main Street. Presbyterian photographed beautifully, as did the Methodist and the First Baptist.

Happy Hunting Aunt Ludie

Stegall Query

Dear G.L, I did find on the 1910 census for Gregg county which is next to Harrison county, Cora Stegall age 47, birth place Missouri, James B. Stegall age 47, Birthplace Georgia, and Mary L. Stegall age 17 birthplace Tennessee. This is all I uncovered in this area. If you have anymore information please let me know.

Aunt Ludie

Sypert

Dear LG, I wasn’t sure if anything would show with so little to work with. I was really surprised when I found a volume of information on the people you are searching for.

“This indenture…in consideration of the natural love and good will and affection that I Isham Davis hath for my son-in-law Robert B. Sypert…do grant unto him…a parcel of land…on Barton’s creek near Cumberland River…”Wilson County Tennessee-26 March 1827. Frances Sypert of Lancaster Pennsylvania son was Thomas Sypert born in Chatham county North Carolina and served in the Revolutionary War. Robert Bell Sypert was born in Tennessee to Thomas and Sarah Laseter/Lassater Sypert. They had migrated to Tennessee from NC, about 1795-1797.

Robert first married Priscilla Davis and they had five children, she died from childbirth complications of son Stephen. Second he married Juliet Hunt Jackson who birthed ten children. About 1854 Robert and family migrated to Harrison County. Texas. The earliest record of land purchase was 200 Acres 13 November 1856 from J. E. Whitehorn.

Excerpts from Hallsville Cemetery book: “Robert brought the first Tennessee Walking horse into the area. In coming back from to Ash Springs, Robert’s entourage of wagons loaded with family members, household goods, farm equipment, slaves, and a big drove of Tennessee Walkers, attracted much attention to towns-people as they tried to pass through. In nearly town they had to stop until men came and viewed the rare site.”

Robert built a large log house in Hallsville which was located about 2 miles NE of Hallsville today and it is still in the Sypert-Weeks family. Here he and Juliet lived the rest of their lives and reared their ten children. He died there in 1878 and Juliet died ten years later in late 1888 or 1889.

I found copies of marriage license, old deeds, and wills with all complete notation of where they were found. Also there was a Sypert newsletter that was published and a distant cousin of yours has all the copies. You are so fortunate to have most of your family fleshed out with all accompanying records. Your distant relatives spent much time and money finding out all of the lineages for all children of these families. I will send you under separate cover picture, of your family and other members to contact for more valuable information.

Happy Hunting, Aunt Ludie

Teague Query

Dear MT, I have Amos Teague in Clay Township as the head of the family in 1880. He is 37 years old and occupation farmer. Mary E. is the wife and her age is 35. Amos birthplace is Mississippi and his father and mother’s birthplace shows to be Tennessee. Thomas P. is the eldest son, Josephine, Sally, Molly, and Charley.

Hadley Township David T. Teague 26 farmer birth in Arkansas parents both from Tennessee. Wife is Rebecca age 21 born in Arkansas and her parents are from Georgia. Daughter Mary E. age 2 ½.

Also, in Hadley Township Abraham F. Teague 32 farmer birthplace Mississippi, parents father North Carolina, mother from Tennessee. Elivira S. 35 born in Mississippi, father North Carolina and mother from North Carolina. William S. 12 born in Arkansas, James A. 10, John A. 6, Sally D. 4.

---Marriages-----David L. Teague 25 to Dora Caldwell 19 on 3 of January1878. Marriage book D-342. Josephine Teague14 ban to John Cleveland 18. Ban 10 August1883---incomplete. B.B. Boltin/Ballin 23 to Sallie Teague 14 on 28 March 1886.

Thomas Brown/Rueben Boulware

Thomas Addis Brown

One of the first timber fathers of Stamps that helped build and erect a Timber Empire riveled by no other area was Thomas Addis Brown. Mr. Brown was president of the large lumber company in Stamps and as executive in other lines of enterprises brought him eminence throughout the State and adjoining territory where he also had large interests. He was born in Hillsboro, North Carolina in 1861, and the son of Allen and Letitia Brown. His father was the owner of a large iron foundry of that town. The son was given an excellent education in grammar and high schools, at Hughes Academy and at Horton and Graves Military College. After his studies he went to Texarkana, Arkansas where he found employment in a sawmill and remained seven and a half years, mastering the fundamentals of the wood business.

Some what later in his career, he and other members of the family, with others, bought a small mill at Stamps and all actively worked in the at its operation. Their knowledge and experience and steady effort brought huge success, with their investment and a huge growth opportunity. As larger and larger tracts of timber and doubling growth at a very swift pace another mill was added in Stamps. Then five mills were added in Northern Louisiana to supplement their huge growth. Mr. Brown, who started as a saw filer and certainly climbed a corporate ladder that, was headed to the heavens. His thirty-five years as a progressive, and constructive citizen and leadership of the industry marked him as one of the outstanding and widely known men of the United States.

Brown was a supporter of the Democratic Party (but much like today he was actually a closet Republican “writers opinion”. Mr. Brown followed the tickets of the Republican Party in national affairs. He belonged to the Free and Accepted Masons, holding the thirty-second degree, and to the Little Rock Temple of the Ancient and Mystic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the National Lumbermen’s Association. He was by faith a member of the Stamps Presbyterian Church.

Thomas Addis Brown and June Hoes were married, April 20, 1904, in Hillsboro, Illinois. June Hoes daughter of George F. and Mary Hoes. Her father had success as a goldminer in California and owned important stamping mills and mines there. Mr. Hoes spent much of his times at his mines in California but owned many Acres and a lovely home in Hillsboro, Illinois where June was raised and educated, however Mary Hoes was born in California. She was president of the Presbyterian Auxiliary Society and Mr. Brown served as a Deacon. She was a member of the Stamps Parent Teachers Association, the Women’s Study Club and also is a director of the Chamber of Commerce. The Browns were the parents of three children who attended Stamps Public School. Helon and Hazel twins attended Stamps Schools and then Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia; Addys also attended Stamps School, but I show no reference of where she attended College, --excerpts and snip-its Arkansas and it’s People 1930.

Mr. Brown shown in his brotherhood to the Stamps Lodge 121 is remarkable of “charge off” and in kind services he did for his brothers and fraternal organization he loved. I was granted permission to look at an old ledger of minutes and several entry mentions of Mr. Brown and Bodcaw Lumber Company and of their generosity to their Lodge and brothers.

ANOTHER MAYOR—Rueben Thomas Boulware

Rueben Thomas Boulware; as a young man Mr. Boulware came to Arkansas from Louisiana just out of high school. Mr. Rueben Boulware taught school for several years and at the same time read law. He was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1913, and he established himself in the practice of law the following year in Stamps. Mr. Boulware was a most respected barrister and citizen of Lafayette County. He was liked so well he by his fellow citizens they elected him mayor of their fine city and with so much respect and confidence from his fellow residents filled that capacity for several terms.

Rueben Thomas Boulware was born in Texas, 1889 one of five children of R. P. and H. Peevy Boulware. As an infant Ruebens parents moved to Louisiana and it was in that state he received his education in Springhill, Louisiana. Not only was he admitted to the Arkansas Bar he also was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in 1922. Mr. Boulware actively took part in many civic activities. He was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a member of the board of stewards. He was a democrat, a family man, and was loved and respected by all whom he came in contact with.

Mr. Rueben Boulware married December 22, 1915, Vida Sanders, of Magnolia, Arkansas. They had two children the late Robert A. Boulware, and Dr. Ralph Boulware who we are very grateful that he and wife Lela Boulware chose to come home after retirement at Louisiana State University. “Thanks Brother Ralph and Sister Lela”. The Boulware’s daughter Robbie Roller chose to come to Stamps also and I think Aunt Ludie will end on a very positive note for this week. .------------------- snip-its from Arkansas and its People 1930--------

Valliant

The Valliant land roughly ran north and south about eight miles west of Falcon in Nevada county, other lands farmed by the Valliants show to be around Springhill. For that time period they owned extensive lands. The Civil War changed and finally ended the affluent way of life which the family had known.

The confederates had used their home in Falcon as a drop stop for confederate large sums of payroll. When the union troops came through they were targeted and their home burned. A worker in the home took the boys and salvaged what furniture she could and cared for the brothers until the Doctor came home the following winter. Your great great grandfather William Robert died leaving his widow and small children to raise around the Camden area, --she wrote

Nevada County Arkansas October 10, 1882

Mr. L. P. Valliant

Dear Brother I-- myself to write you a lines in my life. This leaves us all well at present. I say well but I am never well but I am able to work yet. I have worked so hard since William died to help raise my children. I have had a cough for a long time. I am afraid it will run into consumption. Lula is grown she and Maggie is as large as I am they are the prettiest girls around here. They favor there father so much. I wish that you could see them. I went to Pike last week to see my kin people.

I have not seen the Doctor in a longtime. I have never seen him but twice since he came back from Texas. I sean Mollie once before she died. I have seen his last wife one time. He never comes to see me nor gives the children anything nor even writes to me. I feel like the Valliants had forsaken me. Tom use to write to me but I have not got a letter from him in about? I do not know? Write to me. I am going to write to him this evening. Well if I knowed that you would ever get this I would write more but I will not write any more this time. If you will write to me I will write you a long letter.

From Margaret Valliant (Rogers)

(Readers, this was really hard to share. However there is more in the manuscript I was sent. There are many dates I feel I must share, and also a few gaps I feel I can close for the generous cousins that forwarded me this wonderful information. For me to receive copies of letters over a hundred years old is both happy and sad.

Valliant/Rodgers

We have copies of the Bible of Robert Spencer Valliant, however we have not been able to prove his parentage. I have traveled to Maryland and met three other cousins and researchers. Here we found the home of our ancestor beautifully restored. It over looks Chesapeake Bay and is still a showplace in the area.

Sincerely Marti Valliant San Antonio, TX

Dear Marti, Martha Valliant how wonderful to hear from you: This may or may not shock you, but there are at least two other cemeteries with Valliant, Valients, and Rodgers and Rogers. I am really pleased to meet you by letter because we will connect on Rodgers-Rogers and Valliant side. There is a Rogers cemetery in southeast Nevada county that has Aunt Sallie Dorcas, Carrie Garner, Charity Rogers, Harmon Rogers, Henry Rogers, Johnny Price Rogers, Joseph Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Nancy Parilee Rogers, infant son of Harmon and Charity Rogers. Lonnie Valliant, and William Valient.(one unmarked grave and two others),

The name of the other cemetery is Troy Cemetery between Stevens and I believe Mount Holly. It has been awhile since my mother researched that one. I will try and go to it in a few days and send you a digital picture.

Whenever you are ready to have a graveside service to set a marker, I will contact our Historical Society and also call in the Distant Valliant cousins and Rogers cousins that I know. I know how old markers can look and how our past must be preserved.

I will also look locally for new land records in Miller, Nevada and Ouachita County. Part of my family were living in Lafayette township in Ouachita County. Also in a quick look I found my John Valliant receiving land patent #accession number AR2940 dated 1820. It shows he was in the Hickman’s riflemen as a musician. I did find another William Valliant that received land from Margaret Perry. David T. Valliant of Hempstead county certificate 13340 received eighty acres. This instrument was dated 1906.

Sincerely Cousin Ludie

P.S. A very good friend of mine has a family book on Rogers. I will see if I can borrow it and see if they are connected to our Valliants.

Walker

Dear WL, Tandy Walker was a great grand son of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland who married in Scotland, 7 January 1702. He married Katherine Rutherford daughter of Reverend John Rutherford living on the Tweed. This John Walker sailed from Strangford Lough, Ireland, in May 1726, landed in Maryland August the second in 1726. and settled in Chester Co. PA., where he died 1734. His wife Katherine followed in death 1738. The majority of his eleven children settled in Rockbridge Co. Virginia and adjoining counties. Walker’s Creek in

John Walker, the immigration ancestor of the family, had a son named John and the third generation John of the American family married Nancy Tandy. Some genealogies show this son as Alexander Walker probably because “Tandy” was mistaken for Sandy, which was a nickname of Alexander. The Virginia census of 1782 and 1790 lists Tandy Walker is the head of a household with a family of nine whites and seven others in Mecklenburg Co. On or about 1771 Tandy Walker’s brother the Indians of the Greenbriar District of Virginia stole William Walker.

Tandy Walker’s third child was Tandy 2ND was in St. Stephens, Alabama in 1803. His wife Mary Mayes of Virginia was a Methodist of the Tombigbee circuit and their daughter Sarah Newstep was born at St. Stephens and baptized there in 1815. (Cf. West’s History of Methodism in Alabama). Tandy was an Indian trader and scout and served under General Claiborne. In 1814 Tandy was ordered to scout ahead of the Mississippi Volunteers in the Creek Indian country, he was ambushed and wounded and on this account he was awarded a pension in 1838. He died in 1843 and was buried on the edge of what is known as Walkers Prairie, near Newbern, Alabama.

Please also note there is another Colonel Tandy Walker of the C.S.A. who led a regiment of Choctaw out of Scullyville in the Civil War so far there is no link to the Walkers in Virginia.----

=================next more on Walkers in Alabama============ Dr. Tandy Walker, Walkers into Columbia and Lafayette counties-Walkerville, Walkers Creek.

Emerson Cemetery

Waller information—

Woodrow Wilson Waller b.10/17/1918—08/17/1919 s/oG.L&Mary Mary Lee Whaley b 04/11/1878-12/10/1948 w/oG.L George Lafayette Waller 05/11/1878—01/18/1947 Hester Waller b1878—1945 w/o J.D. WALLER Mattie A. Waller 10/02/1878—03/18/1857 w/o E.L Waller Ebbie L. Waller 03/13/1874-10/18/1961

Waller/Foster

Dear PF, I will let you assimilate the information I have and if it fits and you find a new clue hoo-ray; but I know we will be on and off the right track.

James Monroe Waller b 07/28/1808 Hancock GA.married 10/03/1833 in Alabama---died 09/18/1882 he married Susan McCoy b 03/22/1818 Morgan County Georgia, d01/27/1892-Columbia County Arkansas---My source conflicts and has issue with the marriage date of James and Susan. One of their children Columbus Arastus Waller b Feburary 14, 1842 Alabama.

Union County Name of Testator Year1860 Will Book E pg214.

PF, last week I received a copy of a genealogy report by Mary Waller Sheperd Soper 1907, that was sent by another relative that relates much of the family history of the Waller family. You may all ready have this copy, but bit by bit I will share with my readers as it is most interesting. This copy is registered with the Library of Congress. There is much content so I will try and hit high points of the booklet.

XIV. Robert Waller m Elizabeth Fryer of Beaconsfield X111.WILLIAM WALLER m. Joanne Bowland (died 02/03/1568) X11. Thomas Waller m Dorothy Garrard X1. Edmund Waller m. Mary Smith X. Thomas Waller m Ann Keate V111 William Waller 11 m Elizabeth Allen (ca1670---1703 ca 1697(married) (bc1697 V11 George Waller 1 m. Elizabeth Allen c1709 (1703-1768ca m…c1732 V1 George Waller 11 m Ann Winston Carr Ca. 1733-1838 m.1806 1787-1869 V. George Waller 111 m Mary Staples 1773-1838 m. 1806 1787-1869 1V. James Edward Waller 1819- 1871 m. 1841 (Mary ?Possible 111John Fontaine Waller m Martha Florence Malone 1842-1909 1875 1857-19836 11David Alexander Shepherd m Mary Alice Waller 1879-1959 m. 1903 1877-1954

If you need more on this the Fontaine go back into the 1500’s and are related the Ropers, Waller’s etc here. Enough of this now..

Wallers in the Emerson cemetery Woodrow Wilson Waller b 10/17/1918—08/17/1919 Son of G.L. and Mary Waller Mary Lee Whaley b 11/10/1882—12/10/1948 Wife of G. L . Waller George Lafayette Waller 05/11/1878—01/18/1947 Arlene Waller 03/08/1914—12/25/1963 D/o G.L. and M.L. W. Waller Hester Waller b,1878-1945

Springbranch cemetery Julia Keoun Riddle Waller died 08/1904 wife andinfant child of J.D. Waller

As time will permit I will run this through my book and magazine sources, right now our county is having a Timber Celebration of our Heritage of the largest Sawmill in the world and the next few weeks will be strictly dedicated to the founding fathers of this industry.

A special, special, thank you for all whom contributed to our historical booth at the Lafayette County Fair. I understand from the regular members it was up from entries over the past few years.

Thank you again and I hope some of you joined the historical society at the show booth of ages past. I am sorry I couldn’t come by and sit and visit, but it was a week of previous engagements. However Timber Days I will be on site all day, to help, point you in the right direction and perhaps show you a few short cuts of family genealogy. I hope to have other genealogist and historians there also with books and ways so come and join us under the pavilion, and be sure and bring a notebook to jot a few things done.

The Lafayette History Society is desperately trying to sort through archives in the basement of the courthouse to put the materials we have in a better environment and one that can be enjoyed by many.

Aunt Ludie

Weise

Dear JS, There are volumes of books transcribed on ships and passenger lists. I ran a search on the surname Weise and in 1840-1910 my charts shows the concentration of Weise families in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Unfortunately when I searched on passenger and ship lists that line was unavailable. June when I ran a true search of Oswald Weise I hit pay dirt. I found the date 1875-1888 location u.s. cd356 Passengers and immigration lists Germans to America1875-1888. Could this be your Weise? Another search proved many Oswald Weise web sites in Germany and in German. Unfortunately I cannot help you there. I will send you under separate cover the print outs of the research under separate cover.

The Garrett library in Magnolia has a genealogy room upstairs and there is a LDS library also in Magnolia that is online with LDS in Salt Lake City.

Happy searching, Aunt Ludie

13th Texas Calvary

Company K left Camp McCulloch on the second of July.  As they passed through Tyler, ladies fluttered handkerchiefs and men waved and cheered them on.  Their route took them through Gilmer in Upshur County.  They spent the fourth of July in camp four miles north of Coffeeville. By the eighth, they had passed Hickory Hill and Linden in Cass County on the way to the Texas state line.  The weather was hot, but not excessively so.  The sky remained clear in the mornings and filled with cumulus clouds, as the day grew warmer.  In the afternoon, breaks would be called every hour or so, taking advantage of roadside shade.  Captain William Blewett of Newton wrote, "We are traveling from fifteen to twenty miles a day which will reduce our horses but very little.  So far we have found plenty of corn but the probability is that in some places between this and Little Rock we will be scarce.  Our stock are generally in fine order at this time and the only difficulty now is to get them shod, a great many of them being tender footed and the roads are rocky and very rough."  Campsites were selected near creeks or streams or on higher ground with shade and a breeze. Arkansas on the next Tuesday at Bright Star, riding another ten miles before they camped at Spring Bank.  They camped for several days on the banks of the Red River at the fork of the Sulphur River.  Saturday was spent bathing and washing clothes.  After worship services Sunday morning, they were slowly ferried across the Red River and camped in Lafayette County.  Many may have noticed that, as a result of the Federal naval blockade, every pier and landing on the river was lined with last year’s cotton bales awaiting shipment.  The new site was known as Camp Blair.  Lieutenant John Stark later wrote, "There is no telling how long we will stay here as we have the measles and may have to remain here till they get better.  Our leaders are very notionate and changeable."  This epidemic was aggravated by contaminated water that caused typhoid fever.  After crossing the Red River, the weather turned intensely hot and still.  Temperatures hovered near one hundred degrees by shortly after noon.  Evening did not bring much reduction of the heat, but brought out swarms of mosquitoes.  Water was plentiful, but far from clear.  Canteens always seemed to have considerable mud in the bottom.  Many soldiers became feverish, and diarrhea and measles were common.  Private Mathew T. Perryman of Woodville died on the twentieth of July, probably from typhoid fever.

Captain Edward Curry, the regimental surgeon, apparently believed the eruptions of measles might be related to smallpox.  He encouraged the healthy soldiers to be inoculated.  One soldier wrote, "The balance of our sick are improving fast.  I have been a little sick myself for a day or two arising from being vaccinated.  I was vaccinated first when a little boy, but for fear of accidents I tried it again.  It took finely and is a very fine sore most of our men are trying it as fast as they get well enough."  Many other factors delayed the Thirteenth’s departure from Camp Blair.  The soldiers were not authorized to keep their horses after the twenty-fourth.  Lieutenant John Stark wrote, "I shall perhaps send my horse by Mr. G. W. Layton the bearer of this [letter].  I cannot tell you what to do with him.  I am too down hearted to look ahead or to be able to see what is best and cannot sell him here for anything like a fair price.  Tell my boys to take good care of Turk for my sake.  He as borne me thus far faithfully and has taken a great liking for me.  I shall feel sad at parting from him but cannot keep him here.  We are all studying our infantry tactics hard and trying to qualify ourselves for our new position."  The physical condition of the men remained poor.  Company K lost three men to fevers or measles on July twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth.  Privates Jackson Rawls, James Smith, and Charles Wright were buried near the camp.  Many of the soldiers ordered to return horses to their home counties had just departed; another group of soldiers had been detailed to drive a herd of cattle from east Texas.  They were slow in arriving.  On August ninth the regiment moved twelve miles east to a "healthy location" near Walnut Hill, Arkansas. The nearby plantation of Walnut Hill was the burial place of James S. Conway, Arkansas' first governor, who died in 1855. This site, fifteen miles northwest of Springhill, Louisiana, was known as Camp English.  Private John Green, another Tyler County boy, died of disease on August eleventh.  The regiment remained nearly six weeks in Lafayette County.

From Aunt Ludie ...This is the treasure we all seek to understand the thoughts and sentiments of our soldiers.

Dear Aunt Ludie; Thanks for your interest in my project.  I am attaching the text from my recent book which tells of the 13th Texas Cavalry's experiences in Lafayette County.  Please quote, extract, or use it however you would like.  I feel like this is as much your history as mine, and discovering this sort of thing can help people with tracing their family history as well as the local history.  These men mentioned are only from one company of the regiment (about 10%).  I am researching the rest of the regimental history now, but do not have a roster of the other soldiers who died there at this time - maybe later this spring.  Based on some of your own county history, "Soldiers' Ridge" may have as many as 90 graves from this unit.      Please contact me if I can fill in any more details.

Thomas Reid (Woodville, Texas, home of Co K, 13th Tex

Note: This material is under copyright by the author.

Tuition for Children

Sometime before 1930 John Henry’s brother Jake Snider of Buckner, Arkansas visited the John Henry Snider’s in Oklahoma.  His remarks to the family were amusing to them.  “He kept looking at the plains and the distances, he could not believe his eyes.” Uncle Jake was legendary to us, described Esther Stewe.  We were amused however it was difficult for us to imagine the trees and forests with deer running wild in Buckner.

    On May 5, 1931, after a dinner at home with family members, John Henry Snider retired to his bedroom with his son Robert and son-in-law Ralph Burroughs, the spring evening pleasantly cool John succumbed to a massive heart attack.

Neacie Lenora lived thirty-three years after John Henry’s death.  She was fifty-three years old when he died. Neacie lived to see many transitions of the state of Oklahoma; she saw the Wars claim children and grandchildren.  In September 1964 after a loosing fight with cancer Neacie died with many of her family members by her side.  Many of our county residents will remember Aunt Neacie, as she was the daughter of our first mayor of Stamps.  John Walker Parker and Eliza Cooper Parker.

Ester Snider Stuewe daughter of John Henry Snider and Neacie Lenora Parker in 1976 set up a Trust Fund to Oklahoma City that will mature in 2076.  “I have always wanted to do something as a memorial for my mother and father.  Maybe this is a good way.”

Obviously this will be a good way because at maturity it should provide 3.2 million dollars for Oklahoma City’s Tricentennial celebration.  Siblings of Ms. Stuewe were in agreement the Tricentennial gift might repay some of the generosity they had enjoyed.  Their father had asked for free tuition for his large family and the city fathers had allowed it.  “They figured we were better with some education that without it, “Mrs. Steuwe said.  Six of the Snider men served with World War 1and 11.  The family was said in 1924 to be the largest in Oklahoma.  The only condition for the monies will be ten percent to be used for the Senior Citizens and $3,000 to be reinvested in Blue Chip Securities for another 100 years.  Director of the Oklahoma City Bicentennial, admitted it is difficult to say how the money will be spent but it sure is a lot more than we had in 1976.  Pendleton Woods; co-ordinator has coded the plan “Tricentennial Program No. 1.

Happy Hunting Aunt Ludie

Midwife Reminisces

In Columbia County Miss Lula assisted the late Dr. W. H. Horn.  Remembering her initial impression of Horn, she said, “he had come from Mississippi carrying a black doctor bag, and was small and scrawny.  He was hungry, so my father gave him some food.”

Miss Lula also mentioned working in Lafayette County and several Physcians.

Another interesting quote, “we did not loose many babies because of sickness.  Serious diseases such as typhoid fever or small pox were not real problems.”  “Most of our babies were born in private homes, “not in hospitals staffed by licensed doctors as they are today,” she said.

At the age of 105 Mrs. Gibson still possessed great stamina and was never hindered by ill-health until two years ago at age 103 she had both legs removed, however up until she was one hundred years old she read without prescription glasses.  At the time of the interview, which was in February 1975, her granddaughter Cleo Johnson of Springhill said she remains bright and alert.  “She is a wise woman and is familiar with every landmark in Lafayette County.” Mrs. Lula resided in Bussey at the Paul Roberson estate.  Paul Roberson’s ancestors bought Mrs. Gibsons parents as slaves many, many years ago, said Cleo Johnson.  She was the daughter of the late Reverend Antony Roberson, mother of three sons and two daughters.  Five generation of her descendants were living in our area in 1975.  (excerpts from Daily Banner News 02/19/1975

Byline T. Bradshaw)

*A note from Aunt Ludie.  If you have other knowledge of date of death, place of burial, and other relatives in our county related to Mrs. Gibson, please contact me through the paper. I would like to see this included in a book of Lafayette County.

Sniders with Familial Connections to Dantzler-Bull-Walthall

Harry Dantzler emigrated from Germany to South Carolina about 1732-1739 and settled in Orangeburg.  With him were his sons, Jacob, Daniel, and Henry.  Jacob Dantzler married Barbara Carn.

Jacob and Barbara were married 10/03/1771.  They were the parents of 10 children.  Jacob Dantzler died in 1789-90.  His widow, Barbara remarried to William Murchey and they were the parents of five daughters, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sarah, Charlotte, and Harriet. *Note Harry Dantzler is buried in front of Peter Tilley house one-half mile past Fleabite Bridge and spot is marked by a Chinaberry Tree.  There have been many settlers from the Fleabite area showing on records that have moved into Southwest Arkansas.

Children of Jacob and Barbara Dantzler includes Jacob L. 09/03/1772 m.? Ulmer, Frederick and Daniel twins 04/15/1774, Fred married Mary Catherine Moorer and Daniel married ? Pou, Elizabeth 09/14/1776 m. Lewis Shuler, David 06/15/1778 m Elizabeth Miller, Peter 05/10/1780 died age 16.

MARGARET DANTZLER 07/06/1782—d.08/1850 married JOHN BULL, Mary 09/17/1784-m Henry Moorer, Ann 10/06/1786 m? Bookhardt, John Lewis 08/15/1788 d. 1847-52 m.? Horger and settled in Mississippi.

BURNABY BULL came to South Carolina in 1699-70 with Stephen Bull perhaps a brother, died c1706. His children were William, b. 1683 d.1755 married and had children.  Burnaby married and had children.  John Bull b. 1693 d. 1767 married and had children.  Catherine Bull b.1699 d. 1734 married and had children. EPITAPH:  BURNABY BULL buried in churchyard, Indian Land /near Waterboro St. Helen’s Parish S.C. d. 11/07/1754. (Vol. 23 pg. 18 S.C. Magazine from Emily Culler Record of Old Cemeteries.

Margaret Dantzler m, John Bull daughter Margaret Elizabeth b. 1824 d.1892 (COLUMBIA COUNTY ARKANSAS and is buried Beechcreek Baptist Cemetery near Waldo.  Margaret Elizabeth is buried beside her husband Lehre Snider b. 1824 d. 1865.  Lehre and Margaret were married in South Carolina Orangeburg District.

The children of this union Flavely b.1849, Jacob Wilhelm b.08/07/1855—d. 01/21/1936, John Henry b. 10/11/1858-05/05/1931.  *All of these children born in South Carolina.

Lehre Snider and Margaret Bull

Margaret Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Margaret of St. Matthews Parrish  Orangeburg County, S.C.  Around 1858 they left with their children and traveled West to Columbia County and located in Buckner, Arkansas now Lafayette County.  Lehre was a Surveyor for the state for two terms 1862*1864.  Over a period of years he and Margaret acquired over a thousand acres of surveyed land.

Susie Anna Walthall and John Henry Snider

Susie was born 03/08/1859 and she and John Henry Snider were the parents of seven children.  Susie Anna moved with her parents from Claiborne Parish, Louisiana some time after the date of her birth.  She was the daughter of Edward Milton Walthall and Nancy Freeman Walthall.  Edward Milton was the son of John Harvey and Susannah Morgan Walthall.  The marriage date for Susie and John Henry is 12/20/1883.  This couple was married for seventeen years before Susie’s death.  Her death occurred in Garrett, Texas 01/10/1900 and is buried in Myrtle Cemetery in Ennis, Texas.  Walthall’s also buried in the Myrtle Cemetery also include Benjamin Franklin Walthall, Edward Milton Walthall, Nancy E, Walthall Reeves-Warren B. Reeves.

John Henry Snider and Neacie Lenora Parker

The second wife of John Snider was Neacie Parker and they were married 04/21/1901.  Neacie took on a huge responsibility at only 22 years of age to manage seven children and still manage to have a dozen children with her husband.

Next week from Buckner to Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Contributors of information to this genealogy includes Mary Ann Hastey Oglesby, David Dantzler, John and Neacie Snider (notes and recollections), Hugo Ackerman, Historian, Orangeburg Gen. Society, Bertha Dantzler, Lena Ballard Hill, Mary Frances Parker Patton, Roxie Snider McClure, Shirley Evans Warren, Haskell Snider, Ray and Ruby Walker, United States Census Records and other County Records in the States of South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. A very large effort for THE SEARCH FOR THESE ALLIED FAMILIES, edited and put together by Esther Snider Stewe and Juanita Snider King.

On to Oklahoma

Caddo Mills area of Texas.)  Massey, Mack, Hastey, Hill, were some of the other related families that had lived in Southwest Arkansas and then on to these areas in Texas. When they left the Farmersville area their family numbers again had grown with at least five more children of Neacie and John Snider.  As they settled on to West Texas, the area of Electra.  John uprooted again and moved to Angleton (which is outside of Galveston) and hauled logs until the rains made it necessary to seek a dryer climate.  The family moved by wagon trail to Oklahoma City.  Here they dug in their roots and remained for the rest of their lives.  The family was large however they worked together and played together having enough children for two teams to play.  They swam, caught perch and channel catfish in their streams in Oklahoma.  Their produce helped to feed the growing Oklahoma City.  They had food and clothing in a most desperate time for the country and in an area that was just emerging from a wild territory.  The senior Snider and his wife Neacie were blessed with 18 children who contributed much flavor to the State of Oklahoma.

-next week petitioning school for clarification on tuition and a yard full of children and OKLAHOMA’S TRICENTENNIAL PARTY-3.2 million dollars for a huge Birthday Bash  2076-contributed by the Daughter of John Snider and Neacie Lenora Parkers daughter Easter Steuwe---

Aunt Ludie