Genealogy Society Of Craighead County, Arkansas

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1 Genealogy Society Of Craighead County, Arkansas This month s meeting will be at the Jonesboro Public Library at 2:00 22 June 2003 VOLUME NUMBER SEVEN, ISSUE NUMBER FIVE JUNE 2003 MEETING HAPPENINGS: The May Meeting was held on May 18, 2002 at the Craighead County, Jonesboro Public Library. The program was on Resources at the Jonesboro Library presented by Nancy Matthews. Additional information on those resources is located further in the newsletter. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: The Executive Board meeting for June was held on June 14, 2003 at the Jonesboro Public Library. 1. The next Beginning Genealogy Class will be August 4 & 5 2. The last of Gina Horton s research material has been bound and donated to the library. 3. Begin making plans to attend the Arkansas Genealogy Society Seminar in Little Rock on October 17 & The next Executive Board Meeting will be 12 July DUES Membership Dues are $15 a year from January to January. Please send dues to GSCCA, P.O. Box 844, Jonesboro, AR If you don t receive your March Newsletter, check to see if you paid your dues. JUNE MEETING: -- Please Remember -- The June meeting date has been changed to 22 June 2003 because of Father s Day. Mr. B.A. Adams from the Parks Department speak to us about the City-Maintained Cemeteries. He will be able to update us on the planned restoration of City Cemetery. Mr. Adams was originally scheduled to speak in February and had to reschedule. BOOKS AT THE JONESBORO LIBRARY Land Causes Accomack County, Virginia by Stratton Nottingham VA Ac2 Virginia Land Office Inventory by the Virginia Genealogical Society VA Vi81 1

2 Jacob Wolf The Mansion & The Man by Bill D. Blevins AR Ba33b The Goat Woman of Smackover An Arkansas Legend -- Story & Pictures by Ramona Wood AR 398 Wo85 Rush a ghost-town -- History of Rush, Arkansas on The Banks Of The Buffalo River by Bill Dwayne Blevins AR Ma33b The Tutt & Everett War A Family Feud That Became a War in Marion County, Arkansas by Bill Dwayne Blevins AR Ma33b From The Jaws Of The Dragon Civil War Stories In The Ozarks by Bill Dwayne Blevins AR Ma33b Along The Osage Trace Schoolcraft In The Ozarks Journal of a Tour 1821 by Bill Dwayne Blevins AR Ma33b The Rover Life & Adventures Of L.D. Lafferty by Bill Dwayne Blevins AR Ma33b Webster (formerly Sumner) County, Mississippi Marriage and Will Records with Greensboro Cemetery by Betty C. Wiltshire MS We39 Montgomery County, Mississippi Cemetery Records by Evelyn Bell Crouch and Christie Crouch Genola MS Mo76 Mississippi Confederate Pension Applications A-G by Betty C. Wiltshire MS Mi69mili A-G Mississippi Confederate Pension Applications H-O by Betty C. Wiltshire MS Mi69mili H-O Mississippi Confederate Pension Applications P-Z by Betty C. Wiltshire MS Mi69mili P-Z Can a first cousin, once removed, return? GENERAL RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY by Nancy Matthews I. BOOKS 1, HANDY BOOK A. Information on States and Counties B. What records are available and where they are located 2. MAP GUIDE FOR CENSUS RECORDS A. Copy the maps for the States you are working on 3. TOWNSHIP ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES A. Out of Print book B. Copy Township maps for places you are working on 4. THE SOURCE A. Good information on other places to research B. Immigration Records, Newspapers, etc. 5. VITAL RECORDS HANDBOOK A. Forms to copy to use when ordering records in the U.S. as well as some other countries. B. Vitalchek.com some things can be ordered on-line. 2

3 II. 6. CRAIGHEAD COUNTY HISTORIACAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY PUBLICATIONS A. Has a 3-volume index to the publications 7. ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS A. 16 Volumes Alphabetical list of all soldiers B. Who served where, etc. C. Use with #8 8. UNITS OF CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY A. Information on Units B. Find name and unit in #7, look for more information in #8 COMPUTERS & INTERNET: 1. Broadfoot.com A. Order records on soldiers B. Record Books are on CD 2. FAMILY TREE MAKER COMPUTER A. Dedicated to FTM CD s 3. HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE A. Database of census records and books B. Can be accessed from home CRAIGHEAD COUNTY MARRIAGE This marriage was found in the Madison County, MO Marriage Book L No Fred Wilkerson of Craighead Co., AR to Zella May Billing of Madison Co, Mo 1 June 1915 by J M Ross, MG. NEWSLETTER: Many of our Society members have computers in their home and have access to and the Internet. For those members we would like to offer the following choices: (1) receiving their newsletter as an attachment, (2) viewing directly on the Internet, or (3) continuing to receive a newsletter through the regular mail. Please let me (Nancy Matthews) know your choice nlmatthews@ritternet.com. Unless you let me know different, you will continue to receive your newsletter through the regular mail. As always the newsletter is available by going to the Society s Website at Deserted-Converted Does your wife spend her life in a library? Is her nose always deep in a book? Serving left-overs, late, for your luncheon, Can she no longer be bothered to cook? Does she seek an affair with the postman? Do your overtures meet with riposte? It is not for his visits she's yearning But the letters of love in the post. Can you no longer enter your study? Does the desk overflow to the floor? With details that beg comprehension Of persons obscure and of yore. 3

4 And does she incessantly babble About things of which you don't give a toss, Of a long dead illiterate auntie Who witnessed a Will with a cross. Well! You've had it! I might as well tell you. Usurped and degraded like me. A genealogical widower, You take second place to a tree. No! I don't mean a gum or a wattle, Of chain-saws it taketh no heed! It's a sort of ancestral pyramid Extolling man's penchant to breed! I'm forming an organization For dissident folks such as I Whose spouses have left them to follow The all-seeing God I.G.I. What's that dear? Related to convicts? Great great grandad was with the First Fleet? His son was the first mayor of Bunyip And one of the nation's elite? His ancestors crossed with The Conquest? I'm related to dukes by the score? It's amazing this family history! Incredible! Do tell me more! Author Unknown PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL IN GENEALOGY text by Ron and Maureen Willis, Willis Photo Lab 2510 Old Middlefield Rd. Mountain View, CA / (415) retyped by Ted Swift (tswift@well.uucp) V. THE CABINET CARD (approx ). A card stock product, nearly four times the size of previous photographs on card stock. A. The larger size created new problems of photographic quality. Flaws that were not obvious in the smaller cards now became very visible. This gave rise to a new skill of photo retoucher. B. Success in retouching led to innovations in the darkroom and at the camera. Diffusion of the image reduced the need for retouching. This led to verbal skirmishes between photographers who insisted in "truth in photography". Opponents called retouching degenerating, demoralizing, and untruthful practices. C. Cabinet cards can be further dated by color of stock, borders, corners and size. QUICK DATING GUIDE TO CABINET CARDS 4

5 The earliest American-made cabinet cards have been dated only to the post-civil War period, beginning in Design and colors of these cards followed those of the cartes of that time. Cabinet cards are rarely found after Card Colors: White card stock of a light weight Different colors for face and back of mounts Face of buff, matte-finished, with a back of creamy-yellow, glossy Borders: Red or gold rules, single and double lines Wide gold borders Gold beveled edges Rounded corner rule of single line Metallic green or gold impressed border 1896 Impressed outer border, without color Corners: Square, lightweight mount Square, heavy board with scalloped sides. -Photographs mounted on card stock- The most popular mount sizes were: Carte-de-visite 4 1/4" x 2 1/2" Cabinet card 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" Victoria 5" x 3 1/4" Promenade 7" x 4" Boudoir 8 1/2" x 5 1/4" Imperial 9 7/8" x 6 7/8" Panel 8 1/4" x 4" Stereograph 3" x 7" REVENUE STAMPS ARE A TOOL FOR DATING PHOTOGRAPHS As part of the effort by the Congress to fund the Civil War, among a number of taxes levied was an 1864 Act which provided that sellers of photographs affix stamps at the time of sale to "photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, or any sun pictures", according to the following schedule, exempting photographs too small for the stamp to be affixed: Less than 25 cents 2 cents stamps (blue/orange) 25 to 50 cents 3 cents stamps (green) 50 cents to $1 5 cents stamps (red) 5

6 More than $1 5 cents for each additional dollar or fraction thereof. Stamps were applied from 1 Aug 1864 to 1 Aug Blue "playing card stamps are known to have been used in the summer of 1866 as other stamps were unavailable as the levy came to an end. The stamp was to be canceled in the original Act by requiring that the seller cancel the stamp by initializing and dating it in ink. The most rare of all of these stamps is the one cent (red) "playing cards" and the most common is the orange two cent "playing cards". Values for all of these stamps appear in the Scott's Specialized Catalog of United States Stamps. (to be continued) BOOKS -- BOOKS BOOKS 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas Volume pages indexed 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas Volume pages indexed 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas 2 Volume Set 368 pages indexed price $50.00 includes postage (members $45.00) 1900 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- about 437 pages indexed price $35.00 includes postage (members $30.00) 1900 & 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Two book set on CD Rom price $40.00 includes postage (members $35.00) 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas pages indexed price $18.00 includes postage (members $15.00) 1870 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas pages indexed price $15.00 includes postage (members $12.00) 1860 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas pages indexed price $12.00 includes postage (members $10.00) 1860, 1870 & 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three book set. price $40.00 includes postage (members $32.00) 1860, 1870 & 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three book set on CD Rom price $20.00 includes postage (members $15.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $10.00 includes postage (members $8.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $20.00 includes postage (members $18.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $20.00 includes postage (members $18.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $20.00 includes postage (members $18.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index Book Set price $60.00 includes postage (members $55.00) 6

7 Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume I indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume II indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume III indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three Volume Set price $75.00 includes postage (members $70.00) Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas Three Volume Set on CD Rom price $40.00 includes postage (members $35.00) Walking Through Your Past: A Guide to Finding Your Roots price $15.00 includes postage (members $12.00) Early Clay County Divorces: Western District, Corning Price $10.00 including postage by Gina Horton for GSCCA Early Craighead County, Arkansas Divorces: Western District, Jonesboro Courthouse Price $15.00 including postage by Gina Horton for GSCCA The Fighting Fifth: The Fifth Arkansas Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Floyd R. Barnhill, Sr. with Major Calvin L. Collier Member Books for Sale 1890 Tax Receipts (Real Estate Tax, Personal Property Tax & Poll Tax) Craighead County, Arkansas Price $35.00 including postage from: Nancy Matthews nlmatthews@ritternet.com 1890 Tax Craighead County, Arkansas on CD Rom Price $20.00 including postage from: Nancy Matthews nlmatthews@ritternet.com Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages on CD Rom Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Marriage Records of Sharp County, Arkansas: Southern District & Northern District Price $36.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1870 Census of Sharp County, Arkansas Price $11.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1880 Census of Sharp County, Arkansas Price $20.80 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1860 Census of Lawrence County, Arkansas Price including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com Price for 3 Sharp County Books including postage $63.00 Price for 3 Sharp County Books & 1 Lawrence County Book including postage $

8 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION NEW RENEWAL NAME ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER ADDRESS SIGNATURE RECEIVED BY DATE DUES ARE $15.00 PER YEAR DUE ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY. Officers: President Betty Woodall Vice President Gail Lies Treasurer Dorothy McCarns Publicity Lisa Upton Recording Secretary Donna Ishmael Corresponding Secretary Nelda Simpkins Historian Gregg Scott Publications Nancy Matthews The Genealogy Society of Craighead County, Arkansas P.O. Box 844 Jonesboro, AR