What's New

What's New

 

This page will be a combination of articles and items of interest along with updates of what I've added to the site. The updates will make it easier to find new information without having to go through databases and information you have already seen.

9/12/03

Johnny Cash, Country Music's Bare-Bones Realist, Dies at 71

Johnny Cash, the legendary Man in Black whose gravelly bass-baritone was the vocal bedrock of American country music for more than four decades, died early this morning at a hospital in Nashville. He was 71. .

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The Depression forced Ray Cash to become a hobo laborer, picking cotton, chopping wood and doing railroad chores until he was able to take advantage of a New Deal resettlement program for impoverished farmers. When young J. R. was 3, the family moved to 20 acres of fertile land and a five-room house in Dyess Colony, in northeastern Arkansas, near the Mississippi River. There he spent the next 15 years, working in the fields and learning the plain-spoken stories of the sharecroppers in the area. He was close to his three brothers and two sisters — Roy, Jack, Tommy, Reba and Joann — and was deeply influenced by his mother's devotion to the Pentecostal Church of God.

Excerpted and reprinted from The New York Times Obituaries September 12, 2003

6/09/03

Thanks to Cynthia Parnell-Pruett for contributing to the Mississippi County Oral History Project. Her childhood reminiscences can be found on the first part of the project entitled Childhood- The Family Home.. I think of lot of people find these "portraits" of Mississippi County and her residents interesting. I know I do!- so I would like to encourage everyone to contribute. It's not hard-there are questions to guide you.
Also since it's the good ole summertime could anyone contribute some memories of past barbeques or family reunions? Any funny incidents or recipes would be especially welcome!

6/01/03

American Civil War Biographies Wanted ...
(Reprinted from AGD

The Arkansas American Civil War Association is soliciting brief
biographies, along with photographs when they are available, for Arkansas
men who were involved in the American Civil War. Arkansas was a Confederate
State. However, all of her citizens did not support the Confederacy, and a
large number of men fought for the Union. Their biographies are also
welcome, along with those of African American men of that era who may have
involved.

The biographies will be published in a limited edition volume, in
conjunction with a four-volume series to document the Civil War in
Arkansas. Walsworth Publishing Company, of Marceline, Missouri, has
accepted these volumes for publication, and Volume I, APillars of Power@ .
. . Steps Toward Secession, will be published this fall.

The Association is urging citizens who have information on their ancestors
to submit their biographies to enable us to create a fitting memorial to
those who believed in ideas and ideals that were larger than themselves.

To read more click here

7/13/03

Added transcription for Whitton Cemetery in Lepanto.

2/1/03

Added handwritten Mississippi County marriage bonds from late 1870's. Thank you Vernon Dubar for all your contributions to this website.

Completed listing names from Arkansas State Penitentiary Index 1918-1920 for Mississippi County.

1/30/03

Census Notes*

Another great contribution from Jennifer Delaney. She has transcribed an index for the 1860 Census for Mississippi County and is willing to do look-ups on any of the names listed. See the index here

Thanks to: Terry Carpenter [email protected] Referencing the humorous census entries researchers have discovered, I have one to share. In the 1900 census of Prentiss County, Mississippi, (E.D. 95, p. 250B; image no. 40), the occupation of the family's 10- year-old son, Boone CARPENTER, is listed by the enumerator as "going in the creek." :
Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 6, No. 5, 29 January 2003. * * * *

1/16/03

Please send in any class rosters, class photos etc. for the Mississippi County Class Reunion Project.!
(scroll way down to bottom of home page to view submitted material)
Added more names to "B" index of Arkansas Death Index

1/13/03

Added new Photos of the Month
Added new Quotations of the Month
New page on Sharecropping
Added more names to "B" index of Arkansas Death Index

12/12/02
Blues society forming By PAT IVEY- Blytheville Courier News

The first organizational meeting of the Blytheville Blues Society will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday
in the Kress building in downtown Blytheville, and promoters are asking anyone interested in the
musical history of the city to attend."This is for anyone who is a fan of blues or jazz, or who is
interested in preserving our musical heritage in Blytheville,"said Bret Sparks, Blues Society organizer.

Sparks said the history of the city during the early part of the 20th century included travelers on the "Blues Highway,"
the route along the Mississippi River by which Delta blues singers from Louisiana and Mississippi migrated to
the major music studios of Chicago, and later gained fame and recognition in the music world. Many of the
most renowned blues and jazz singers became known while they were performing in the Blytheville area,
trying to make their way north. For more info click here

Added names to Arkansas State Penitentiary Database

 

11/27/02
Something else to be thankful for! Jennifer Delaney had done a lot of work transcribing North Sawba Cemetary.To see her transcription click here. Thanks so much, Jennifer!

 

11/23/02
Added Names to "B" Index Arkansas Death Index
Started new page for Arkansas State Penetentiary, Mississippi County
New photo for Mississippi County Families- Lindsey Burchell Family

11/14/02

If you'd like to see the family histories of the
passengers on the Mayflower click on picture.

11/12/02
Started new page for Family Genealogies;first family Cable
New Featured Photo of the Month

11/9/02
Added names to "B" Index for Mississippi Co. Arkansas Death Index
New page for obituary abstracts from The Arkansas Democrat Gazette

6/13/02
Lost? Get a GPS
– Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS

Have you ever tried to find a cemetery using an old map and a feeling that it’s there? If you’ve trekked through the wilderness or driven down old country roads in search of the elusive grave of an ancestor, you might consider trying one of the new generation of Global Positioning System (GPS) handheld devices

To read more go to this URL: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/extra/1871.asp


4/27/02

Family History News Item from the Northeast Arkansas Town Crier,
Manila, Arkansas click here

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