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back in South Carolina, was Robert David Montgomery Dunlap, who was the son of James Dunlap, the son of John D. Dunlap, who emigrated from Dublin, Ireland, sometime before the Revolutionary war, for John was an American soldier under General Washington.
Mrs. R. J. Dunlap (Margaret Montgomery), whose home is in Clarksville, is the daughter of Robert Montgomery, who was the son of Nemon Montgomery, who immigrated to South Carolina from Ireland.
The White family were pre-war settlers but the information at hand begins with C. White, who with his family of several daughters and one son, Fred, resided during the latter part of the past century on the old homestead of Arthur Davis, which Mr. White had purchased. Fred White married Jennie Montgomery, daughter of Dr. Montgomery of Spadra.
J. M. Copeland, whose native land was South Carolina, but who went from there to Rome, Ga., thence to Madison County, Arkansas, died in the latter place in 1872. Mrs. Copeland, nee Amanda Manning, with her family of three boys and one daughter moved to Clarksville in 1874. J. W. Copeland is the only one living at this time. He married Ludy Scott of Yell County. They have three living children. Luther, a son of J. M. died a number of years ago. Luther Copeland is his son. He also left two daughters.
W. T. Evans, a native of South Wales set sail for America in 1869, and after spending eight years in Ohio, moved to Clarksville. Mrs. Evans had died previously in South Wales and Mr. Evans' family consisted of two sons and four daughters. The two sons and one daughter were the members who came to Clarksville with him, D. J. Evans, an eminent musician, moved to Lttle Rock and taught in the schools there; Gwennie (Mrs. Ed Kraus), and Joseph, whose wife was Susie Griffiths of Ohio, was also a native of Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Evans' children are Mrs. Mary Harris, Mrs. Lizzie Cunningham, Mrs. Martha Moore, Mrs. Maude Marlar. Joseph Evans traveled every summer. He spent several months one year touring England, Wales, Scotland, France and the Isle of Man. Mr. Evans died in 1918.
John Patrick Molloy made his bow into Arkansas early in the seventes, having been at the delta of the Mississippi when the yellow fever epidemic began to rage, he made flight up that river
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and thence up the Arkansas to Dardanelle and Russellville. John Patrick was the son of Steven and Annie Boland Molloy of Kils- brush, Ireland. The father, Steven, who took passage for America back in the fifties, was washed overboard and drowned. Annie Boland grew up in Ireland before it was the fashion to send girls to school, therefore a tutor was provided for Anne and her sister Margarette. Margarette later became Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and her husband was Secretary to the Police Commission in London, England for forty years. Anne, after the death of her husband taught school and for several years before the end of her life, drew a pension from the English Government for the long service of forty-one years in the school room. She married a second time and became Mrs. Dan Galvin, but Mr. Galvin died at the end of two years. The last twenty-five years of her life were spent at the Moyasta Place with relatives, Col. and Lady Grace Vandelour. Anne Boland Molloy Galvin was the mother of J. P. of Arkansas U. S. A., Charley of Ireland, Annie (Mrs. Rege Brennen of London, England), Minnie (Mrs. Godwin Tilton, of Ireland), Margarette (Mrs. Regenald Meeks, of Waga Waga, New South Wales, Australia), and Mrs. Elizabeth Burke of Detroit, Michigan, whose daughter, Mrs. Mary Burke Peas, is the chief editor of the Canadian magazine, The Echo; also Dan Galvin, a graduate of Trinity College, whose home is in Sidney, Australia.
John Patrick Molloy was educated in a monestary in Kils- brush, Ireland. He served in the English navy four years and then went on a trading vessel as second, and later first mate, and eventually, captain. He circumnavigated the globe three times, was on the Great Lakes for a year and cruised in the West Indies, during the Civil war. When he came to Clarksville in 1872, he met the only girl, Elizabeth Rhea. He was a jeweler in
FOOT NOTE-It will doubtless be interesting to those who bear the name of Molloy, to know that it is said by historians to be a name of real antiquity, tracing back to a chieftain who descended from "Niall of the Nine Hostages, the High King of Ireland", in the fourth century. The histories of the "High Kings" who held sway over the various clans are recorded in an unbroken line, from the joint reign of two brothers, Heber and Herman, in 1700 B. C., down to the death of Roderick O'Conner, the last and one hundred eighty-third of the "High Kings", at which time in the latter part of the 12th century A. D., the Irish national steucture began to crumble under the onslaught of the Anglo-Normans. The clan seat was in ancient "Ferceall", in Meath, now in Kings County, Ireland. The name was first the Celtic word, Maoluah and O'Malumaiah. It is now O'Malloy, Mulloy or Molloy.
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Clarksville for twenty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Molloy's living children are Ella (Mrs. Cooper Langford), Steve, of Missouri, Rhea, of Chicago, Terrence D., of Clarksville, and Dr. John Patrick Molloy, an optician, of Missouri.
Q. B. Poynor landed in Johnson from Madison County, alone and empty handed, early in the seventies. He had started out in the world to seek his fortune. Mr. Poynor found it, not by acci- dent awaiting him somewhere, but by earnest endeavor and well earned achievements. He married in 1885 to Fannie Ogilvie, a daughter of W. S. Ogilvie. Mr. Poynor farmed until 1884 when he was elected Circuit Clerk of Johnson County. This place he held for two terms. After that time expired he went into the mercantile business. He was a successful merchant. After the death of Mr. Poynor, his daughter Erla, became the busi- ness manager. The Poynor children are Erla (Mrs. H. W. Collier), Howell, Burns (deceased), Francis, who is Vice-Presi- dent of the Farmers National Bank, Clarksville, Virgie, who is Dean of Music of the College of the Ozarks, Mamie, Amy and Will.
The parents of Q. B. Poynor were George and Martha Davis Poynor, who immigrated to Madison County, from Georgia. Their other children were Dr. I .M., Dr. G. V. and Dr. J. W.
John Robinson Miller was born in Ashville, S. C. in 1838, and when a young man moved to Watervally, Miss. While there he married Miss Harriett Zinn and in 1876, they moved to Johnson County, Arkansas. Mr. Miller was a soldier, having served throughout the term of the war. His father whose place of resi- dence was Ashville was also J. R. Miller. A son of the subject of this ketch is J. R. Miller. He is a merchant who owns and manages a number of stores, with headquarters in Ft. Smith, Ark. James Miller, another son, is a professional baritone singer in con- cert work, with headquarters in New York City. Elizabeth, Hattie, Nelle, May (Mrs. W. F. Rebsman), Jennie (Mrs. Cook, de- ceased), Eula (Mrs. C. W. Paylor), Molly (Mrs. John Porter), are other children. Mr. Miller located at Cabin Creek, when he first came to this country, but being a staunch Presbyterian, when Arkansas Cumberland College was located at Clarksville, he moved there and became an active and faithful worker for that institution.
John Thomas Davis and his wife, Emma McKissisk, came to Johnson County, Ark., from Union, S. C., in 1871. They located
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near Cabin Creek on a farm where Mr. Davis passed away in 1881. Mrs. Davis remained on the farm for a number of years, before moving to Clarksville, her present home. Her children are Hattie (Mrs. G. W. Hinchie), Sallie, Martha (Mrs. Orville Daniel, deceased), and John M. Davis of Little Rock. Dr. G. W. Hinchie was the postmaster of Clarksville under President Harrison. John M. Davis is a former cashier of the Bank of Clarksville. He was the first State Bank Examiner of Arkansas and held that position for two terms. He was then elected President of the Exchange National Bank of Little Rock, one of the strongest banks in the state, which place he now holds. Mr. Davis has a pleasing personality and many friends. His rapid progress up- ward attests his efficiency. Mrs. Davis was formerly Norma McKennon. Their children are Emma, Neita and John Jr.
The parents of John Thomas Davis were John M. and Harriett Johnson Davis. Harriett Johnson was the daughter of John Johnson who was a brother of David Johnson, the first governor of South Carolina. Gov. Johnson was made the Chief Executive of that state in 1846.
Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Langford immigrated to Arkan- sas in 1880. They originally came from Georgia, through the channel of a brief sojourn in Alabama and Mississippi before coming to Arkansas. Mr. Langford was formerly a farmer and school teacher. Later he went into the mercantile business at Dublin, Logan Co., Arkansas. He now lives in Clarksville and is a magistrate. Mr. Langford's father was John Langford, who was the son of William Langford, who was the son of Richard Langford of Maryland, and who was a stone mason and was em- ployed in the construction of the capitol building at Washington City. W. H. Langford, the subject of this sketch, is a veteran of the Civil War from Georgia. Mrs. Langford was formerly Moffitt Alabama Livingston, the daughter of Wm. Aaron Livingston and Mary Ann Cooper Livingston. William Aaron Livingston was the son of Thomas Livingston. Mrs. Aaron Livinston was the daughter of Wm. Cooper, whose mother was also a Cooper, before she married. Mrs. Langford is a cousin to Congressman Liv- ingston of Alabama. £ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Langford's children are Cooper H. Langford, Johnnie (Mrs. James Harrison), and Eva May (Mrs. A. T. Grayson). Harry and Langford Keith of Roswell, New Mexico, are their grandchildren. Cooper H. Lang-
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ford and Ella Molloy Langford are the parents of three boys, Cooper Harold, who will this year receive a degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard, and who has recently been elected dean of Educational Psychology for the 1922 Summer School of Harvard University. The younger boys are Albert H. and Jack Livingston. Harry Keith is one of the 451 graduates of the Naval Academy at Anapolis, June, 1922.
On September 30, 1879, G. W. and Mary Ann Kraus from Pennsylvania, landed in Johnson County, Arkansas, to find a new home. Their family consisted of six boys and one daughter, Charley, Sam, Frank, Wilse, Ed, El and Sarah. The Kraus boys were farmers, carpenters and constructors. Many buildings stand today as monuments of the ingenuity ofthese men, especial- ly Ed and El, who made their homes in Clarksville. Mrs. Ed Kraus, nee Gwinnie Evans, was a woman who administered many acts of charity. Far and wide about the town she visited the sick and needy-never empty handed. Their children are Allie and Gomer, who today, with their families live in Clarksville. El Kraus married Cora Flemming, an orphan girl who resided in the home of her uncle, C. White. Their children were seven big, husky boys, football and baseball players. They are all residing in Clarksville. Mr. Kraus died a year ago.
Felix Bone was the husband of Mrs. Augusta Howell Bone who outlived him many years. They were the parents of Hugh, Howell, Lucy (Mrs. Hugh Miller), Lulu (Mrs. A. N. Ragon de- ceased), and Linnie (Mrs. Carl Arrington) . Mrs. Bone was a niece of the late Aribelle Turner of Lamar, who was a daughter of Josiah Perry, and who lived to be almost a century old.
Alman M. Sharyer was the senior member of a family who came to Knoxville, Johnson County, in 1880. He was a son of William and Johanna Langston Sharyer. Mrs. A. M. Sharyer was Lucy Ann Martin, a daughter of Joseph and Jane Thurman Martin, who resided at Atlanta, Georgia. The children of this family are W. Joseph, Samuel C., Anna (Mrs. James Lewis) and Lucy, all of Clarksville, and T, W. and Alice (Mrs. J. A. Foster) of Paris. The father was born in Raburn County, Ga. and from that marble and granite district of the old cracker state they came on to Arkansas. In Paris and Clarksville they have chiseled from that admant stone many beautiful monuments A. M. Sharyer was a Confederate soldier. He entered at the be-
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ginning of the war and was in active service all the way through. He was in the battle of Bull Run and other fierce engagements. Mr. Sharyer was a man of easy manners and had many friends. Joe Sharyer has been a Justice of the Peace in Clarksville for many years. The children of S. C. and Flora Wilson Sharyer are Wilson and Lucy Lorene.
In 1874, H. W. Love, who was born in Lee County, Va., in 1841, and Mrs. Love, who was Elizabeth Miller of Tazwell, Tenn., came from Tennessee to Johnson County and purchased property west of Clarksville. Their children numbered ten, five boys and five girls. Ewell Love was Sheriff of Johnson County during the two terms from 1910 to 1914. Guy and Claude Love of Clarksville and Dr. J. G. Love of Hartman, successful men of affairs.
Mrs. Catherine Sommers Stoudt and her family of three boys and two girls, came to Johnson County in 1873. The father of this family, Fredrick Stoudt, having died previously in Ft. Smith. Fredrick was born in Bavaria, Germany and came across to New Orleans in the year 1845, when he was twenty-seven years old. On the ship he met Catherine Sommers, also of Bavaria. They were married two years later, and resided for ten years in New Orleans, before moving to Ft. Smith. Their children were Fred- erick, John, Theodore, Christina and Catherine. Christina became Mrs. Andrew Clark, and Catherine, Mrs. Wight Armstrong. Frederick Stoudt has been a most efficient and dependable con- tractor and builder in Johnson county for a long number of years.
SOME PERSONS WHO CAME BEFORE 1900.
To trespass beyond the stipified year, a few persons, who have been so much a part of the life of the county, must be men- tioned, else this story will fall short because of incompleteness.
A Tennessee gentleman, M. A. Moore, was for thirty-five years a much respected citizen. Hon. J. W. Coffman, a reputable and conscientious lawyer; Dr. J. S. Kolb, who is a prac- titioner of wide repute; D. Ransom and sons, John, Alonzo Simon and Isaac; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Allison and their family; the Williamsons and Perdues, who were near Shady Grove; the Farris families, too numerous to mention, are all prominent in their chosen vocations; Dr. and Mrs. T. D. Nichols, the parents of Albert, John, Arthur, Minnie (Mrs. Sam Laser), and Sue (Mrs.
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Sharum) ; the McWilliams brothers, M. M. and Frank, are of the happy Tipperary type. Mrs. M. M. McWilliams was a daughter of Albert Kemp of early days of Spadra. Mrs. Joe Banasky, is a grand daughter of Albert Kemp; J. J. Foster, with his interesting family, of which Newell (Mrs. J. W. Sallis) is a member; the Nicholas family, of which Prof. Hugh Nicholas was a member; O. C. Ludwig was a poet and writer, also a former Clerk of the United States Congress; W. M. Kavanaugh, late of Little Rock, resided in Clarksville in the eighties; the Pitts brothers, whose family was perhaps here in earlier days, are noteworthy citizens; the Griffin brothers, Lawrence and Frank, were west of Clarks- ville in the eighties. Lawrence was the father of Ethel, Henry, Pearl, Era, Jewell, Inez and Erma; the Haigwoods, of which family there are several branches, are all good citizens and prom- inent in church circles; the Ingram family, of which "Uncle" Billy was the senior member; Rev. J. A. Connelly, who was for long years a Presbyterian minister; the Lewis family of the northern part of the county; Fremont Stokes, an expert coal op- erator from Pennsylvania, and an influential citizen; J. A. Dowdy, a trustworthy gentleman and a brother of Andrew Dowdy, a leading member of the state Senate a few years back; the Bartlett family of which the present sheriff is a prominent de- scendant; the Boen brothers, who are perhaps successors of the pioneer family. George Boen has bulit a number of appartment houses in Clarksville; the late J. T. Arrington, an Ex-Confederate soldier, and principal of the former popular durg store of Arring- ton & Sons; George Daniel, a good citizen and a veteran of the Civil War, and his family; Beaufort Riddell, who has done much to improve Clarksville, by erecting store buildings, residences, et cetera; the Malone family of Coal Hill, who came back in the early eighties; the Morrow home is on Minnow Creek. J. W. Morrow is the senior member and is a prosperous farmer; the Matthews families of Minnow Creek, who have always been prominent; Isaac McCracken of Ozone, who was once back in the eighties, Chairman of the National Wheeler Party; the McCoy family of which Wm. and Jim of Clarksville are sons; S. G. Harris of Colony Mountain; A. M. McLane, building contractor, who is represented today by several sons and one daughter; the late Z. A. Woods, the founder and former manager of the Woods Manu- facturing Co., Ft. Smith, was for twenty years a resident of
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Clarksville; the Hamilton brothers, J. N. and W. V. The latter was for long years in the Hardware business; the Moyers came from Indiana; the Lemley family, the Harmon family, and John and Henry Bunch, came during this period; Earl Johnson, a coa! operator and Harris Johnson a planter, each of different families; Elbert Gilbert, the Champion Cotton Grower of the South, is a junior member of the W. S. Gilbert family. In 1919 he grew 4005 pounds of cotton on two acres of Johnson County land. Frank Pennington, a son of B. D. Pennington, was the father of Ben, of Coal Hill, and Corinne, of Toledo, Oregon; W. H. Robin- son, a son of Littleberry Robinson, and Claude C. May, a son of Capt. J. W. May, were merchants of the eighties; Dr. L. A. Cook, a practitioner and Christian gentleman; the Gammill family, of whom Flaude and Lee, who won honors for the College of the Ozarks in the 1921 Inter-Collegiate Debates, are members. A conspicuous, ragged hermit, a lawyer from New York City. and whose name was J. R. McIntosh, lived and died in the country between Lamar and Clarksville during the last years of the past century. He was a man of erudition, and contributed valu- able compositions regularly to the New York Herald and other leading papers and magazines. His articles concerning Arkan- sas were straightforward facts, such as any Arkansian would appreciate. He rebuffed those who would have been friendly toward him, and intimately associated with no one. He was truly a recluse. Many more prominent families of the County not heretofore mentioned are headed by the names of Chandler, Holmes, Rafter, Coyle, Rowe, Wetherton, Roquemore, Reese. Werschky, Davis, Shuh, Carter, Boren, Neal, Burt, Becker. Kelley, Werner, Myers, Best, Dixon, Pyron, Eoff, Moore, Riley, Eubanks, Wright, Simmons, Ellis, Young, Ross, Herring, Temple, Vaught, Ellington, Jumper, Lingo, Hannah, Horner, Crampton, Greene, Harrison, McCord, Shirley, Quick, James, Morris, Bean, Warren, Westmoreland, Hervey, Sneed, Jacobs, Harden, Frost. Frazier, Ferguson, Elliott, Dobbs, Clinton, Calahan, Campbell. Brock, Bridges, Overbey, Smith, Cagle, Caruthers, Gould, Free- man, Lollis, Smith, Douglas, Soard, Seideman, Cline, Bush,-and. so many more that this volume must close with a mental pano- rama of faces and names clamoring through ties of justice and as- sociation for record here, but neither time nor space will permit, for the end must be reached.
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"The Vine-clad Cottage Down on Cherry Street"
(Dedicated to Mrs. T. J. Kendrick)
Around the corner of Cravens, from the Main Street way, Many a youth and maiden have gone on many a day Through the short way of Cravens, past the church near-by; Many a friend and friendless-there's a reason why, Have crossed over the street, to the welcome retreat Of a vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
That weather-worn cottage, of gray-brown hue, Covered with Ivy and Clematis too,
That has stood well the test that vicessitude wears, And full six decades have passed, with the years Since that cottage first smiled, as a friend to greet- That vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
'Tis on the same spot where a hut once stood, A first settler's hut in the bramble and wood, Where wild turkeys flew, and wolves lonely howled, Where black bears romed, and Indians prowled- On that same spot, with soft tread of feet,
As that vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
The years passed on, and that hut has gone, And the first settler too, has reached his bourn; And a cottage now stands, up ten steps high, Broad steps to the south and west, near-by, Where the twining tendrils are thached and replete- At that vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
Where a timid Mimosa is waving all the while O'er the blue Forget-me-nots, and the Lilies of the Nile, O'er the sweet Lanthanas, and Nasturtiums too, Blending with sunshine from their homeland, of Peru, And at night, a blooming Jasmine breathes out perfume sweet 'Round that vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
There are Pansies for thought, Ferns for fascination, Goldenrods for caution, Geraniums for consolation, Heliotropes for devotion and the Myrtles for love, With a giant Caladium waving his ears above, To hear the voice of the flowers, as they fragrance mete 'Round that vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
There are roses many, and a twining Columbine, There are Cannas, the Nokomis, and the flaming Brandywine, And giant Catalpas too, most a century old, But the greatest of all, in that garden to enfold. Is the spirit of a woman, 'mongst her flowers sweet- At that vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
Just the soul of a woman, much like you and me, Who has lived, and loved, and learned true charity; Her children have come, and grown, and are gone, And some of them died in life's early morn; But friends by the score, she lives now to greet- At her vine-clad cottage down on Cherry Street.
Her caste knows no peer; her influence lives; Her right hand is greeting, while her left one gives; And not one of the lowly has she ever turned down; Generosity is her passion-star of her crown, As she reigns in the realm of her arborough retreat- At her vine-clad cottage, down on Cherry Street.
Arkansas
ORIGIN AND PRONUNCIATION
By DALLAS T. HERNDON, Secretary Arkansas History Commission
Facts which are the result of research of the best authorities of the country.
The name Arkansas is clearly of Indian origin. Nor is there longer any doubt as to its meaning. As used by the Indians themselves it meant the "down-stream people."
In the Indian tribe, which DeSoto, the Spanish explorer, in 1541, LaSalle, the Frenchman, in 1682, and other French ex- plorers, at later dates, met with in the region now known as Arkansas, called themselves Quapaws. These Quapaws were part-or a tribe-of the great Sioux family, one of the several great branches of North American Indians.
The abode of the Qupaws originally, or at all events as long ago as there is any tradition of them, was north of the Ohio river, perhaps near where the Ohio empties into the Mississippi. In that vicinity they were part of a federation of tribes, the other members of said federation being the Kansa, Omaha Osage, and Ponca tribes; all of whom were kindred tribes, of the great Sioux family.
Sometime prior to the coming of DeSoto (1541) and his followers among them-how long can only be surmised-the Quapaw tribe migrated down the Mississippi river, crossed that river and took its abode along what is now the Arkansas river. Thereafter, and by reason of that migration down the Mississippi, the Quapaws came to be called, by their kinsmen and once con- federates-the Kansa, Omahas, Osages and Poncas-the U-gakh- pa; which word, in the Siouan language, meant "down stream people."
The word U-gakh-pa was written by the early explorers- euphonically-in a number of ways. Marquette (1673) wrote it "Arkansa"; LaSalle (1680), Acousa; Penicant (1700, Arkansas; Gen'l. Z. M. Pike, American explorer of the southwest (1811) Arkansas. All these explorers heard the word spoken by the Quapaw or Arkansas and wrote down as best they could, doubt- less, what they heard. Again, in 1819, when Arkansas was formed a Territory by act of Congress, the name of the new Ter-
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ritory so formed appears in the Congressional act of creation a number of times. There it is invariably spelled Arkansas-the natural English spelling of the word.
The fact is that the final letter "s" in the name Arkansas is incorrectly added, was added originally, no doubt, by certain early writers to denote the plural. The evidence all goes to show that the only correct pronunciation is as if the name were spelled Ar-kan-sa, with accent on the first and last, syllables. The "a" in the first syllable should be sounded like "a" in "arm"; in the last, as "a" in "law".
HARMONY
HAGARVILLE
LUOWIG
CLARKSVILLE
HARTMI
UNION GROVE
COAL
SPADRA LAMARCABIN
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KNOXVILLE!
JOHNSON COUNTY
ARKANSAS
ARKANSAS FLAG
The National colors are used: red, white and blue. On the rectangler field of red is a large white diamond with a blue border. Arkansas contains the only diamond mine within the possessions of the United States, and should be called the "Diamond State." The three blue stars signify the three nations to which Arkansas has belonged: Spain, France and the United States; the three stars, as a second motive, typify that Arkansas was the third state plotted from the Louisiana Purchase; and also the three stars, as a third reason, indicate the three years over the century, when the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803. Arkansas and Michigan were the two states admitted into the Union together, and that fact is indicated by the pair of stars on the lower angle of the band. The twenty-five stars around the border signify that Arkansas was the twenty-fifth state to be ad- mitted to the Union.
MANNER OF SELECTING FLAG
The idea of selecting and adopting an official flag for the state of Arkansas originated in the Pine Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in 1912. A committee appointed from the Chapter took the matter up with the next general assembly. A sub-committee from the committee ap- pointed by the assembly, searched the records to ascertain if there had ever been an official flag. Nothing was found. Ar- ticles were published in leading newspapers requesting artists to submit designs, with the name of the artist enclosed in an ac- companying sealed envelope. The committee to select one from the designs submitted, consisted of seven members, of which Hon. E. W. Hodges, Secretary of State was the chairman. A unanimous vote selected the flag here given. It was drawn and submitted by Miss Willie K. Hooker of Pine Bluff. In February of 1913, the legislature of Arkansas adopted this design as the official flag.
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T. J. KENDRICK RESIDENCE "The Vine-Clad Cottage, Down on Cherry Street."
THE PICNIC GROUNDS AT COAL HILL AS THEY CELEBRATED IN THE PAST CENTURY
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MAIN BUILDING, COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
JOHNSON COUNTY COURT HOUSE (Built in 1873-as it is today)
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CLARKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
BUILT 1892
CLARKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
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THE CALLSE
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS-1923
GROVE HALL. COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS (GIRLS' DORMITORY)
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
OLD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-1859 (Remodeled, 1904)
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FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
OLD METHODIST CHURCH-1870
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CENTER SECTION OF FULTON ST., WEST SIDE OF SQUARE (DESTROYED BY FIRE FEB. 29, 1912)
WEST SIDE OF SQUARE-1921
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R. H. McKENNON'S RESIDENCE
A SUMMER HOME IN THE OZARKS
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R. S. DAVIS RESIDENCE-BUILT BY JACOB ROGERS, 1858
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Page 45 -* stone buildings, should read store buildings.
Page 112-Walker Laster, should read, Alvin Laser. Walker Laster is an operator in the bituminous feld.
Page 143-Mrs. F. S. Poynor, should read, Mrs. F. Q. Poynor Page 161 -* the pioneers were Isaac and Rachel, should read John and Rachel.
Page 165-Sam Johnson, should read, Louis Johnson.
Page 197 -* of different families, should read, Earl Johnson, a coal operator. and Harris Johnson, a planter, the father of the former.
Page 135-Mervin Russell of Ozone had been a soldier in the regular army for two years at Jefferson Barracks, before war was declared. He served in France several months, and at the close of the war was sent back to camp in South Carolina, where he became a victim of meningitis, and died.
Chapter II should read, Part II.
The manuscript containing the list of Confederate Veterans, who constitute the John F. Hill Chapter of Johnson County, was lost and through an oversight was not given place in this volume, hence they are listed here:
ROLL OF 1921.
McConnell, E. T, Commander Langford, W. H., Adjutant Jett, W. S. 1st Lieutenant McAfee, W. H., Chaplain
Ogden, A. B., 2nd Lieutenant Miller, A. C., Color Bearer Garrett, S. H., 3rd Lieutenant
Adams, J. R. Hamlin, J. C. Pratt, J. N.
Adkins, T. M. Holland, Howard Quick, J. J.
Adkins, Ezra
Hughes, J. V. Reed, John
Armstrong, Jno.
Hunt, Mose Reynolds, Ed
Bufford, I. Lemley, W. E.
Rogers, R. A.
Bush, W. J. Coffee, J. G.
Lewis, J. W.
Robinson, J. W.
Crowley, W. M.
Shurley, W. E.
Crowley, J. S.
Newton, Wilson
Smith, G. G. Stegall, J. G.
Dixon, S. A.
Pearson, Tom
Stewart, L. F.
Farmer, T. J.
Porter, H. W. Thompson, N. S.
Garrett, George
Poteet, W. H. Taylor, J. J.
Gray, R. W.
Pitts, L. W.
Williams, L. W.
Hamilton, W. P. Pyron, T T.
Wood, J. R.
Dickerson, W. C.
Morgan, H. P. Moad, J. G. Newton, J. L.
Sawrie, R B
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