THE BACKTRACKERã

 

VOLUME I                                              January 1972                                         NUMBER I

Contents..................................................................................................................................1

Officers, Committees, and Members.......................................................................................2

Policies, Membership Information, News.................................................................................3

President’s Notes.....................................................................................................................4

Helps on Researching in Northwest Arkansas.....................................................................5-6

This covers names of county seats, records available, and information about

the publications of the different historical  and genealogical societies.

 

“As I Remember It”.............................................................................................................7-8

Family history of Marion W. Barnes, who was 100 years old when interviewed

on his birthday, 22 October, 1971.  Other names:  Stipp, McBryan, Gaston,

Vaughn.

 

Tax Assessor List of Franklin County, 1839............................................................................9

Alphabetical, Surnames A-F; to be continued in next issue, on page 9.

 

Cardin Cemetery, Benton County, Arkansas.........................................................................10

Located in Benton County, AR, it is northeast of the town of Pea Ridge.

Names:  Cardin, Mitchell, Buttram, Williams, Callis, Patterson, Dean.

Further listing of this cemetery will be found in Vol. I, #3, page 9.

 

1858 Washington County Marriages................................................................................11-12

They are listed according to date of marriage.  Begins 8 July, ends 31

December, 1858. At the end are some miscellaneous March 1858

marriages.

 

Nancy Maxwell Will, Dated 1839..........................................................................................13

Title of this article is “In the Name of God, Amen”.  To be found in Will Book I,

Benton County, AR, dated 14 July 1839.

 

Ordination of Martin Gentry...................................................................................................13

Setting apart Martin Gentry for the ministry 27 August 1848, (From Benton

County Deed Book A, page 473).

 

Index to 1840 Census of Carroll & Madison Co.’s...............................................................14

Two separate columns side by side for Carroll County and for Madison

County, listing for each A through B.  To be continued in the next issue on

page 14.

 

Letter from Henry D. Reed...................................................................................................15

Letter is dated 19 December, 1862, to his wife, Nancy E. Reed, Cedar Grove,

Kaufman County, Texas.  He was a private in M.A. Lockhart’s Company, W.

P. Lane’s Regiment, C.S.A.  Fifteen family history items added by Maudine

Rand.

 

Index to Sebastian County Biographies..........................................................................16-18

These are taken from Goodspeed’s History of NW AR, 1883.  They are listed

in alphabetical order.

 

Bits and Pieces about Sebastian County..............................................................................18

These are early facts about the county formation, first court, and first officers.

 

“In Memory of Rube Fowler” by Rita Duren......................................................................19-20

Family History of the Fowlers.  Rube’s dates were 1878-1970.  Other names:

Richard, Stroub, Gasser.

 

Query Section...................................................................................................................21-22

Index................................................................................................................................23-24

This Surname Index is the original index from the Backtracker.

 

 

 

 

                           INDEX

 

NAME	PAGE
ANDERSON	12
ARMSTRONG	12
BANKS	11
BARNES	7,8
BARRON	12
BASSORE	12
BATES	12,18
BAXTER	11
BEACH	11
BELL	11,12
BILLINGSLEY	12
BLACKBURN	11,13
BLANKENSHIP	12
BLEVENS	11
BLOYED	12
BOMAN	11
BOONE	11
BORDEN	18
BORLAND	18
BOTTON	11
BOYD	11
BRADSHAW	12
BROOK	12
BROOKS	12
BROWN	12
BUCHANAN	11,12
BURCAT	12
BURCHFIELD	11
BURGIT	12
BUTTRAM	10
CALLIS	10
CARDIN	10
CARLETON	11
CARLILE	12
CARNAHAN	12
CARNELL	18
CARTER	11
CATE	11
CHANDLER	12
CLARK	18
CLARY	11
COLCLAZURE	12
COLE	12
COMBS	11,12
CONNER	12
COOPER	11,12
COSBY	12
COTT	12
COULTER	11
COX	11
CRAIG	11,12
CRAWFORD	12
CULLENDER	11
CULVER	12
CURTIS	12
DAVIS	12
DEAN	10
DENTON	12
DESTINGS	11
DODD	11
DOWNUM	12
DUTTON	11,12
EDMISTON	11
EDMUSSON	12
ELMS	11
ENYART	11,12
EWING	11,12
FANNIN	11
FERRETE	12
FIELDS	12
FINE	11
FLETCHER	12
FORD	12
FOSTER	12
FOWLER	19,20
FRAZOR	11,12
FREEMAN	12
FRESHOUR	12
GAGE	12
GARDNER	11
GARNER	11
GASSER	19
GASTON	7
GEORGE	12
GENTRY	13
GIBSON	11
GILBREATH	12
GOAD	12
GODARD	11
GOODARD	11
GRAHAM	12
GRAYHAM	12
GREEN	11
GREER	11,12
HALL	11
HAMPTON	11
HAND?	11
HANKS	12
HARMON	11
HARRETSON	12
HARRIS	11,12
HARSTON	11
HART	12
HARVELL	11
HENDRIX	12
HENRY	11
HERRALD	12
HEW	11
HINSON	12
HOGG	11
HOLCOMBE	11,12
HOLLAND	12
HORN	15
HOWARD	11
HOWELL	11
HUCKABY	12
HUFFMAN	12
HUGHES	11,12
HUGHS	11
HULSE	11,12
HUNTON	11,12
HUTCHINS	12
JACKSON	12
JACOWAY	12
JAMES	12
JEANES?	11
JOB	12
JOHNSON	11,12
JONES	11,12
KARNES	11
KELLER	11
KELLEY	12
KELLUM	12
KELLY	11
KENNAN	12
LAFAY	12
LAIRD	11
LAMKIN	12
LANE	15
LANGLEY	12
LAWRENCE	11
LAWSON	11
LEACH	11
LEAN	11
LEWIS	11,12
LIVELY	12
LOCKHART	15
LONDON	11
LOYD	11
LUCAS	12
LUPER	11
LUTTRELL	12
McALLISTER	18
McBRYAN	7
McCALL	11
McCOY	11,12
McNIGHT	12
MAGUIRE	12
MALEAR	11
MALOY	12
MANKINS	12
MARRS	11
MARSHALL	11
MATTHEWS	11
MAXWELL	13
MEEK	12
MEGS	12
MILLER	11
MILLS	12
MITCHELL	10,12
MOODY	15
MOORE	11,12,18
MORROW	12
NAILOR	12
NEAL	11,12
NEEL	12
NICHOLSON	11
NOLEN	12
NORMAN	12
NORTHRUM	12
NORTON	18
ODLE	11
OWEN	11
OXFORD	11
PARKS	12
PATTERSON	10
PERKINS	12
PHELAN	11
PHILLIPS	11,12
PHIPPS	11
PEIRSON	11,12
PITTMAN	11
PREASTLEY	11
PRIVET	12
PYLANT	11
RAINS	12
RAND	15
REED	11,12,15
RENE	12
RICHARD	19,20
RIEFF	12
ROSE	11
RUCKER	12
RYAN	11
SEAY	11
SHANNON	11
SHARP	11
SHERROD	11
SHIELDS	12
SHULTS	11
SINCLAIR	12
SKELTON	12
SKINNER	12
SLATER	11
SMARTT	8
SMITH	7,11,12
SON	11
SPURLOCK	12
STANDFORD	12
STANFORD	12
STELL	11
STEPHENS	18
STIPP	7
STRAUB	19
STROUB	19
STROBE	19
STROUD	11
TANKERSLY	11,12
TATUM	18
TAYLOR	11,12
TELLOWS?	12
THORNBERRY	11
THORNSBERRY	12
THURMAN	11
TODD	11
TOLLETT	11
TROUT	12
VANCE	11
VAN HORNE	11
VAN WRIGHT	12
VAUGHAN	12
VAUGHN	8
WALKER	11,12,18
WALTHER	12
WARNOCK	12
WASSON	11,12
WATKINS	11
WEBB	12
WEEVER	15
WELLS	12
WEST	11,12
WHITE	11
WHITEHEAD	13
WHITELY	13
WILKERSON	11
WILLETT	11
WILLHITE	11
WILLIAMS	10,11,12,18
WILSON	12
WISENOR	11
WISNOR	11
WITT	12
WOOD	11
WOODS	13
YOES	12
YOUNG	12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“AS I REMEMBER IT”

 

MARION W. BARNES

 

By Donna Cooper

 

Mr. Marion W. Barnes, who is now in the Neil Nursing Home, Rogers, Arkansas, was 100 years old on October 22, 1971.  Miss Thelma Teeter and I visited him recently and were most surprised to find such a remarkable person.  He said that he had trouble remembering dates, but that he could remember many things quite well.  He told us that he enjoys reading and having visitors.  After he told us about himself and his family, he sang a song for us.  Sitting there in his bed, more like a man of 70 or 80 years old, he sang “Root Hog or Die”.  He said that this was an old fiddle tune he had enjoyed playing and singing in years gone by.  We enjoyed every minute we spent with him, and we found that he can tell stories which have been memories to him for many years.

 

            Marion W. Barnes was born in Newton County, Missouri, on the land his father had homesteaded before he was born.  This is near Rocky Comfort, Missouri, about eight miles east of Neosho, Missouri.  They homesteaded 160 acres near the big spring on Indian Creek.  His father was Richard Anderson Barnes, and his mother was Sarah Sylvina Stipp.  Sarah was born in Topeka, Kansas, and the Stipp family had come to Missouri from Illinois.  Richard Anderson Barnes was the son of Tom or probably Thomas Barnes and Nancy McBryan.  The Barnes family had come to Henry County, Missouri, and homesteaded land there also.  They came to Newton County, Missouri, before Marion W. Barnes was born.  Mr. Barnes referred to his grandparents as Ma and Pa Barnes.

 

            The following information is given as Mr. Barnes related it to us:  “Pa Barnes come from East Tennessee and come down the Tennessee River from near the Blue Ridge Mountains, and then he went on west.  Nancy McBryan Barnes, or Ma Barnes, lived to be around 112 years old.  I guess she lived to be older than any of us Barnes.  We lived in the same house with Ma and Pa in Newton County, Missouri.  If Pa was out working somewhere, and one of us kids needed a spanking, Ma gave it to us.  She used to smoke a cob pipe with a long cane stem, and I remember getting her pipe.  She was as good as gold, and we had a lot of fun.  Ma and Pa Barnes are buried at Hart Cemetery, and my parents are buried at Mt. Heber.  I was superintendent there at the Union Church for 14 years.  It was called Union then; I guess it is called Methodist now.  Hart cemetery is 5 miles east of here and that is where my wife is buried too.

 

            “My wife was Sarah Jane Gaston, the daughter of Old Doc Gaston.  We married after I come to Benton County, Arkansas.  I homesteaded land in Benton County, there on Osage Creek.  My wife and me had two daughters, and they are Ida Mae and Pearl.  We all had a good time, the four of us.  Old Doc Gaston ran a boat down the Tennessee River, and it was a big boat, a sailboat.  He used to ship goods down the river.  I think Sarah was born in Tennessee, too.  There was a brigade of them back then that come from Tennessee and went west.  Ida Mae and Pearl used to sing and Ida played the fiddle and Pearl accompanied on the piano.  Ida Mae married Morris Smith, and he died suddenly.  Pearl lives in Kansas City.  My wife and me had an agreement--it was hard to choke down at times, but we always did.  We agreed not to go into debt for nothing, unless it was absolutely necessary.  We had a home of our and had the two girls.  When I moved, I had bought 20 acres and Daddy had three forty-acre tracts down by the road.  I own 40 acres.  Then, when Daddy died, they all wanted us to take Mother, and take the land.  I said we would take Mother but we didn’t want the land; but, they all wanted us to take it, so we did.

 

            “I used to lead the singing at Oakley Chapel for ten years.  That’s on the highway between Bentonville and Rogers.  It used to be a Union Church, but I think it is Methodist now.  My neighbor played the fiddle, and we played and serenaded around over the county.  All of us kids were good singers, and we enjoyed music.

 

            “Uncle Anderson Barnes lived in east Texas.  He worked in the pinery and made coffins and fine furniture.  I believe he lived to be 108 years old.  He was Grandfather Barnes’ brother.

 

            “There were five brothers and six sisters in my family.  The boys were me, Albert, Henry, Edgar, and Oscar.  Becky was the third sister, and I have a sister in California named Minnie.  Minnie married Bill Vaughn, and they married here in Benton County.  All my brothers and sisters have made a trip to California but me.  It is a hot and windy country, and I’d just as soon stay here in the hills.  Oscar lived in Beaumont, Texas.  I’ve made three trips to Texas.  Oscar was the youngest of the brothers.  He was a fine musician; he used to play the piano and the fiddle.  He worked for Gay Singer Music Company there, and he made them a lot of money.  He was working there in Texas stringing a piano, and it was real hot.  He had just said how hot it was, and then just died.  All us kids were good musicians; Oscar loved music, too.  All of us played a string instrument of some kind and sang.  Mother and Father loved music and enjoyed it, too.

 

            “Mother had a cousin that lived in Oklahoma over near Tulsie, and he came one time and said he wanted to take Becky home with him.  That was when Oklahoma was young and there weren’t many schools there then.  Mother’s cousin taught school, and he taught Becky music.  Becky was a natural-born musician; she could play the fiddle or anything.  Becky learned to talk the Indian language while she was over there.  Becky later taught music.

 

            “We come to Benton County, Arkansas, in 1881; we had started to Texas and got as far as Bentonville, and my youngest brother had taken sick.  So, we pulled into the campgrounds there, and called old Dr. Smartt.  He was our doctor then until he died.  We never made it to Texas and just stayed in Benton County, Arkansas.

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