USA > Arkansas > Faulkner County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Garland County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Grant County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Hot Spring County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Jefferson County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Lonoke County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Perry County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Pulaski County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
USA > Arkansas > Saline County > Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.] > Part 113
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128
In the spring of 1818 John C. Benedict and his family, consisting of himself and wife and five children, set out to find a home in the Arkansas country near where Mr. Standlee had located. They were accompanied by two Scotchmen named Ander- son and Frazier. On their overland journey, after crossing Little Red River, they found but one house until they arrived at the mouth of the Cadron, which place they reached April 18. This house, located in what is now Hardin Township, was then occupied by four bachelor brothers-the Wyleys- named, respectively, Abraham, Isaiah, William and Obadiah. How long they had been there is not known. Upon the arrival of the Benedict family at the mouth of the Cadron, they found there a block house, which had been erected by settlers preceding them, as a place of safety from the hos- tile Indians. The preceding settlers then located in and about this block house were John McEl- murray and his sons David, Robert, John and Har- vey; Benjamin Murphy, the McFarlands, Harvey Hager and the Newells then lived just below the Cadron Bluff. Going down the Arkansas to the point now known as "Red Hill," Mr. Benedict found the settlement of Adam Kuykendall, with his sons Amos, Peter and Adam, Jr. Two or three miles lower down he found the settlement of Charles
709
FAULKNER COUNTY.
Adams, Reuben Euston and Mr. Carlisle and sons; four miles farther down were the habitations of Thomas and John Burrows, and James Lemons.
Near the mouth of the Palarm he found the settlement of the Flanagins and Massengills. There were two of the Flanagins-Hugh and Bill-broth- ers, also two brothers of the Massengills. The latter brothers each had two wives, and each wife had a large number of children. The Flanagins also had large families. These inen-the Flan- agins and Massengills-had been Tories during the Revolutionary War, and at the end of that struggle, finding it unpleasant and perhaps unsafe to remain on the Atlantic coast, fled to the interior with the Indians, and finally drifted along as outlaws, be- coming accustomed to and assuming the habits of the " wild men of the forest," and located on the Arkansas, where they were found by Mr. Benedict. They occupied a position in civilization above the | Indians and below the whites. Mr. Benedict bought his first home on the Arkansas of William Flanagin, and soon thereafter, when the white set- tlers became more numerous, the Flanagins and Massengills, preferring to live beyond the reach of civilization, "picked up their traps" and moved to a newer country, where the laws of new comers would not annoy them.
In 1818, the year that the Benedicts arrived, William and John Standlee erected the first saw and grist mill in the territory now embraced in Faulkner County. It was a water-power mill, and stood on a bayou or creek about a mile from the site of the present Hamilton Mills. This mill was afterward rebuilt by the Benedicts, and operated by them for many years. In 1818 the white set- tlements, excepting those directly on the Arkansas, 1
were from twenty to fifty miles apart, and con- tained but two or three families in each. Immedi- ately thereafter, immigration became more rapid, and among the next settlers of the territory now composing Faulkner County, were John Englebright, a tanner and currier, who established the first successful tannery, boot and shoe shop west of the Mississippi in this latitude; Abner R. Eastwood, a turner and manufacturer of chairs and spinning wheels, who began to manufacture
these articles, and James Stevenson, who opened up another boot and shoe shop. About the same time John C. Benedict established and operated a hatter's shop, and the Standlee brothers erected a blacksmith and wheelwright shop. A small store was opened by two Frenchinen, Droup and Refell, and at the mouth of the Cadron, John McElinur- ray and Richard Montgomery were engaged in selling goods.
The foregoing information pertaining to early settlement has been obtained and preserved by Judge E. M. Merriman, of Conway. from that well- known and highly esteemed old settler and former citizen of Faulkner County, Mr. Russell W. Bene- dict, a son of John C. Benedict, who was a bright youth when his father settled on the Arkansas. About a year ago this distinguished citizen, Mr. Benedict, moved to Texas to live with, or near, his children. Mr. Benedict says that when his father's family arrived, in 1818, there had not, up to that time, so far as his father's observations extended, been a foot of land plowed or cultivated here ont- side of a few garden spots; that the few settlers had supported themselves entirely with the pro- ceeds derived from hunting and fishing. In this way they supplied their families with meat, and obtained their groceries and other provisions by trading peltries to those who shipped provisions up the Arkansas in keelboats.
Following are the names of later settlers in dif- ferent localities. The first settler in Cadron Cove was a hunter by the name of Berry. About the year 1846 William Durnall and his brother James, and Dudley and Thomas Sublett (all from Ken- tucky), and John Yates, settled in the same cove. Col. Arthur Hayes and Hugh Blackman, both from Tennessee, settled there in 1850, and Dr. J. J. Jones, now living near Conway, came from Ala- bama and settled in the same cove in 1851. The first settlers in that part of Greasey Valley, now included in Faulkner County, were the Linns, Martins, Bedfords, Douglases, Bennetts, and Thomas Bradley. The pioneers of the Morter Creek settlement were the Plants, Martins, Hamil- tons and Atkinsons. In 1851 the Atkinsons built a water power saw and grist-mill in this settlement,
710
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
on the East Fork of the Cadron, and the following year Dr. J. J. Jones built a similar mill on the Cadron, in Cadron Cove. About the year 1837, Jonathan Hardin settled in the Wyley settlement, in the township that now bears his name. Other early settlers of this locality were Hinkle, John Ingram and Daniel Powell, the latter of whom is still living. In Muddy Bayou Township the pioneer settlers were Granville, Tilman and Pryor Hogue, brothers, and three brothers by the name of May. berry, all from Tennessee. Among the first settlers of East Fork Township were B. V. King, William Frazier, Elijah Jones and the Sparkses. The pio- neers of Union Township were some of the Kuyken- dalls, Thomas McMullen, Jesse Mellett, John Allen, - Garman and Brinkley Tyler, the latter now living in Conway at a very advanced age. A. J. Lucas settled on the prairie about one and a half miles southwest of the present town of Conway, and the Lackeys, Thomas and his brother, about the same distance west of the town site, and the Widow Hogan and her sons about a mile west thereof, as early as and probably earlier than 1852. About the same time James Jostlin settled in this locality, and in IS54 George Miller settled three miles south of the site of Conway. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the settlements of the territory now included in Faulkner County were much scattered and the population was very small.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad en- ters the county from the south, near the mouth of the Palarm, and runs thence in a northerly direc- tion, leaving Pine Mountain between it and the Arkansas River on the west, to Conway, from whence it runs in a westerly direction, and crosses the Cadron, the western boundary of the county, at a point about a mile in a direct line from the Arkansas River. It was completed through the county in 1872, and its length within these limits is about twenty miles. The line of the proposed Fort Smith and Des Arc Railway passes east and west through the county by way of Conway. A north and south railroad is also contemplated. The shipping facilities for the county at present are the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, the
Arkansas River, and the Iron Mountain Railroad on the east and southeast.
The act creating Faulkner County, provided that all law cases of parties residing therein, which had been commenced in either of the counties of Conway or Pulaski and then pending, should be prosecuted to final action in the courts where they were commenced. It also provided that the county should be attached to and made a part of the Sev- enth judicial circuit. It has since been trans- ferred to the Sixth judicial circuit, composed of the counties of Lonoke, Cleburne, Van Buren, Faulkner and Pulaski. During the short time im- mediately following the organization of the county, when the county court was composed of a board of commissioners, the circuit court had jurisdiction over all probate business; but upon the reorgani- zation of the county court in 1874, this jurisdiction was transferred back to the county court. The first term of the probate court, separate from that of the county court, presided over, however, by the same judge, was held on the third Monday of Jan- uary, 1875. The first term of the circuit court held for Faulkner County began on the second Monday of September, 1873. The chancery court of the county of Faulkner was established in 1885. The organization of the county court has been mentioned in connection with the county organiza- tion. The terms of these several courts commence as follows: County, on the first Mondays of Jann- ary, April, July and October; probate, on the third Mondays of the same months; circuit, on the fourth Mondays of January and July; chancery, fourth Mondays of March and September.
The resident attorneys composing the legal bar of Faulkner County, are J. H. Harrod, Samuel Frauenthal, G. W. Bruce, G. W. Rice, E. M. Merriman, L. C. Lincoln, P. H. Prince, W. C. Bowen, J. W. Duncan, John Harrod and J. T. Harper.
The people of the territory now included in Faulkner County played a conspicuous part in the Civil War, even though the county was not then organized. In the summer of 1861, several com- panies were raised in Conway and adjoining coun- ties for the Tenth Arkansas Confederate Regiment.
711
FAULKNER COUNTY.
Capts. J. M. Venable and Obed Patty each raised a company for this regiment, and both of them were enlisted almost entirely from the territory now composing Faulkner County. Capt. J. W. Duncan raised a company at Springfield, then the county seat of Conway County, and about half of his men were obtained from the east side of the Cadron. Capt. S. S. Ford also organized a com- pany at Springfield, and a large number of his men went from east of the Cadron. Capt. R. S. Fears raised a company in the vicinity of Mount Vernon, largely recruited from territory now in Faulkner County. Capt. A. R. Witt raised a com- pany at Quitman, Cleburne County, and obtained a portion of his men from neighborhoods now in this county. All of these companies joined the aforesaid regiment, which was organized at Springfield, and mustered into the service under Col. T. D. Merrick, in July, 1861. The Tenth Arkansas Regiment served to the close of the war, having made long and laborious marches, and par- ticipated in many skirmishes and battles; the first great battle being that of Shiloh, fought April 6 and 7, 1862.
Near the close of the war, and after the terri- tory fell into the Union lines, some troops were raised in it for the Federal army. It is said that some of these were deserters from the Confederate army, and some returned Union refugees. They joined the Third Arkansas Federal Regiment. No engagements between the contending armies took place during the war in what is now Faulkner County. A few men were killed by guerrillas or bushwhackers, and the county was overrun to some extent by scouting parties, but it escaped the rav- ages of war much better than many other localities in the State.
The war having long been over, the friends of the contending factions now meet and mingle and transact business as though it had never occurred.
At the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861, there was not a town, village or trading point in the present territory of Faulkner County, except- ing a little store at Duncan's Gap, in what is now Cypress Township. The population was then thinly scattered, and the trading was done mostly at
Springfield, the county seat of Conway County, to which the territory then mostly belonged. The first store opened after the close of the war was that of G. B. Evans, which was kept about a mile north of the present town of Conway.
Conway, the shire town of the county, was founded in 1871, by the original proprietor of the site, Col. A. P. Robinson, who on the 1st day of August of that year laid out that part of the town, including the railroad depot, and on the same an- gle with the railroad. He afterward replatted the town and included much additional territory out -. side of the original plat. The streets of the ad- ditional platted territory run east and west and north and south, while those of the first plat bear several degrees west of north.
The site of the town is nearly level, or gently rolling, being on the margin of the large prairie previously described, and altogether it is a beauti- ful location. In 1871 or 1872 R. T. Harrison opened the first store in the place, and the next one was opened by Max Franenthal. With the completion of the railroad about the same time, the new town began to improve, and in 1873, when the county was organized and Conway was selected as the county seat, it took on an additional im- petus. It was first built up wholly with wooden buildings, and in 1877, when the court house was erected, it began to build more rapidly. The fol- lowing year, the greater part of the business por- tion thereof, being about ten buildings on the east side of the street, extending northward from near the present Frauenthal Block, was destroyed by fire. The burnt district was again covered with wooden buildings, and again destroyed by fire.
The first brick block erected was the Frauen- thal building put up in 1880. Since that time the burnt district and much more ground has all been covered with fine brick blocks. The whole or nearly all of the business portion of the town is covered with substantial, modern-styled brick blocks, which give it a very favorable aspect. There are nearly forty one and two-story brick business houses, and there are a number of beauti- ful residences scattered over the town, constructed with a view to comfort and attractiveness, and
712
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
surrounded by lovely shrubbery and well laid out lawns, showing the refined and cultivated tastes of the inhabitants. There are, besides, plenty of humble homes, comfortable and neat, showing that the town is also the home of the mechanic and working man.
The population of Conway in 1880 was 1,028, and it is now estimated at from 1,500 to 1,700. The town contains the public buildings before mentioned, five church edifices, two public school- houses (one for the white and one for the colored children). one Catholic schoolhouse, opera house. over lifty mercantile firms, a flouring and grist- mill, two cotton-gins, two planing-mills, foundry, chair factory, broom and barrel factory, steam dye work, wagon factory, three hotels (the Lincoln, Farrow and Francisco), a number of mechanics' shops, etc.
The societies are also well represented, there being Green Grove Lodge No. 107, A. F. & A. M .; also Masonic Chapter Lodge; Center Link Lodge No. 75, I. O. O. F .; Woodland Lodge No. 11, K. of P .; Faulkner Lodge No. 1,624, K. of H .; Fred Steele Post No. 3, G. A. R .; the Young Men's Christian Association, and perhaps others. The press is also well represented in Conway, there being now published the Conway Weekly Log Cabin, in its eleventh volume, by J. W. Underhill, and the Faulkner County Wheel, in its second volume, by G. B. Farmer. The first of these papers is a seven-column folio, and is Democratic in politics; the second is an eight- column folio, and, as its name indicates, it advo- cates the cause of the Wheelers. Both papers are neatly printed and well edited. The Arkansaw Traveler, now published in Chicago, originally went forth from Conway.
The town was incorporated as early as October, 1875, under the name and style of "The Incorpo- rated Town of Conway." It is still incorporated and is working upon a good financial basis, its warrants being worth 100 cents on the dollar. It is located on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Rail- road, thirty miles from the State capital. Its principal shipments are cotton, lumber, shingles, live stock and farm products.
Cadron is a station on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, near the western boundary of the county.
Cascade is a village sixteen miles east of Con- way, containing in its vicinity two general stores, a grist-mill, drug store and hotel.
Enders, situated in the northeast part of the county, contains a saw and grist-mill and cotton- gin, two stores and a church.
Enola, twenty miles northeast of Conway, con- tains a grist-mill and cotton-gin and two stores.
Greenbrier, a village and settlement twelve miles north bearing a little east of Conway, boasts of eight general stores, three grist mills, four cotton- gins, a steam saw and shingle mill, three churches, a school-house, and a population of about 350.
Holland, twelve miles northeast of Conway, con- tains a saw and grist-mill and cotton-gin, a general store, blacksmith and wood shop, and a church.
Moore is but a postoffice sixteen miles northeast of Conway.
Martinsville, in the northwest corner of the county, contains a saw-mill and grist-mill, a gen- eral store, drug store and blacksmith shop.
Mayflower, a station on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, nine miles south of Conway, con- tains a store, shingle mill, etc.
Pinnacle Springs is a noted summer and health resort and the site of the Arkansas Christian Col- lege. It contains a large and commodious hotel for the accommodation of health and pleasure seekers, a church and the college buildings. Fol- lowing is a description of the place as given in the Log Cabin, of its issue dated August 3, 1889:
Pinnacle Springs is remarkable for healthful- ness and natural beauty. It was selected as the site for the Arkansas Christian College because of its central location (being within a few miles of the geographical center of the State) and its won- derful sanitary advantages. Its altitude is such as to preclude malarial influences and prevent the de- bilitating effects resulting from heat in places less favorably situated. The Pinnacle Springs are in Faulkner County, twenty miles north of Conway. They are accessible from this point by a most excellent road. An analysis of the water shows a
1
713
FAULKNER COUNTY.
rare combination of minerals and gases, carbonate of iron and manganese being found in good pro- portions, with an abundance of glairine, an ele- ment very rare in springs of this class, and giving the waters unusual curative and invigorating properties. Thirteen springs of different waters are within one mile of each other, and on every hand stand monuments of nature's handiwork. The Cadron, a gushing mountain stream, spreads its clear, crystal waters into three beautiful lakes, i known as the "Professor's Pool," "Spring Lake," and "Grotto Bathing Pool."
The Pinnacles, from which these springs took their names, are situated one half mile below the college building. They are two abrupt projec- tions, 160 feet high, and appear to be links of a mountain that the rushing Cadron had worked its pathway between. The West Pinnacle is the most sublime of the two. Secreted back of the East Pinnacle is the "Hidden Beauty," which makes the east and west side equally attractive. Further down the creek is the "Owl's Home," then the "Bear's Cave"-in fact, the creek winds its way through the mountain steeps and crags for seven miles and comes back to the Alum Bluffs, where the freaks of nature are so varied, so grand, so peculiar, so picturesque that a volume could be written.
This section having a fine climate, good water, and being well adapted for agricultural products, and especially for the quality and variety of fruits, Pinnacle offers many attractions to those wishing to make their homes in a college community for the purpose of giving their children the best edu- cational advantages. Pinnacle Springs is free from saloons, theatres and other places so alluring and pernicious.
The first school year of the college opened Sep- tember 2, 1889, and will continue nine months. Commencement exercises will take place in the first week in June, 1890. President William Moseley is at the head of the faculty, and the boarding department is under the immediate care of himself and wife.
Palarm is a station on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, at the county's southern boundary.
Preston, a station on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, six miles south of Conway, con- tains a general store, shingle-mills, etc.
Vilona, thirteen miles east of Conway, includes in its near vicinity two churches, one school-house, three general stores, grist mill and cotton-gin, and blacksmith shop.
Wooster, eight miles north of Conway, con- tains a saw and grist-mill, and cotton-gin, a gen- eral store, shop, etc.
Mount Vernon, in the township of the same name, twenty-four miles northeast of Conway, has therein, and in its vicinity, two churches, a school- house, five general stores, grist-mills and cotton- gins, a drug store, shops, etc:, and a population of about 250.
In addition to what has been mentioned, nearly all of these villages contain a postoffice and one or more physicians, and nearly all have been founded since 1870.
The educational progress made in Faulkner County under the free school system, will appear by reference to the following statistics taken from the report of the State superintendent of public instruction for the year ending June 30, 1888:
Scholastic population: White, males, 2,728; females, 2,481; total, 5,209; colored, males, 556; females, 489; total, 1,045; grand total, 6,254.
Number of pupils taught in the public schools: White, males, 2,616; females, 1,432; total 2,048; colored, males, 342; females, 338; total, 680; ag- gregate, 4,728. School districts, 100; number reporting, seventy one. Teachers employed, males, eighty-two; females, thirteen; total, ninety-five. Average monthly salaries: First grade, males, $45; females, $37.50. Amount expended for teachers' salaries, $8,331.06; for building and repairing, $1,053.12; for purchasing apparatus, etc., $693.49; for treasurer's commissions, $310.75; total, $10, - 388.42.
According to the foregoing figures 77 per cent of the white and 65 per cent of the colored scholastic population attended and were enrolled in the public schools. It is presnmable, however, that a greater per cent attended. for the reason that a number of the schools were not reported in this respect. The report
714
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
shows that Faulkner is up with the average coun- ties of the State in maintaining the free school system, which in this State is yet in its infancy. Many improvements can be made in the system and the schools under it. The Arkansas Christian College is mentioned in connection with Pinnacle. and the Catholic school with the Catholic Church. These are the only schools in the county aside from the public free schools.
Soon after Conway was founded a Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized therein, and a small frame edifice, in which to worship, was erected in the north part of the town. In 1885 the society erected a larger frame edifice, which stands in the northwest part of the town, and recently a small dwelling house and the lot on which it is placed, situated convenient to the church, has been purchased for a parsonage. The old church building has been sold to the colored Baptists, by whom it is used for worship. The Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, at Conway, is known as the Conway Station, and has a membership of about 135, with Rev. E. A. Tabor as present pastor. The Conway Mission consists of seven preaching appointments in the vicinity of Conway, none of which is more than ten miles distant therefrom, and Rev. S. C. Maddox is the present pastor in charge. The Mount Vernon circuit lies in the north- east part of the county, has four church edifices and about six appointments. According to the last conference minutes the membership was 411. Rev. J. H. Head is the present pastor. The Cad. ron circuit has four church edifices and about seven appointments. Rev. C. H. Culpepper is pastor and the membership is reported at 256. The foregoing, it is believed, comprises all the or- ganized churches of this denomination within the county. A Sunday-school is taught at Conway Station all the year round, and about half of the country churches sustain Sunday-schools.
A Baptist Church was organized at Conway in 1871, by Rev. W. T. Box. Afterward a frame church edifice was erected, which was dedicated in March, 1876. It was destroyed by the cyclone which passed over the town April 14, 1883, and the corner stone of the present handsome brick
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.