Cleburne County and Its People, Volume 2Cleburne County and Its People is a historical account of Cleburne County and the men and women who made it what it is today. These men and women were as diverse as the Ozark Mountain's rock-laden landscapes. The pioneers who settled Cleburne County were as strong as the land, of hardy pioneer stock, and bold in thought and action. They were shrewd, strong-willed individuals who brought staunch beliefs and strong disciplines with them and settled in an untamed wilderness which became Cleburne County. Cleburne County and Its Peoplehas drawn from the past and the present--chronicling the lives of settlers facing hardships and tragedies, discovering profound beauty, mastering vast natural resources, and formulating democratic ideals. The stories in this book are honest interpretations of the human experience intertwined with the old and the new and adding exciting dimensions to the county of Cleburne and the state of Arkansas. The objective of Carl J. Barger, the compiler of Cleburne County and Its People, is to preserve a history of the county of his birth for students, historians, and all of the citizens of Cleburne County. Carl J. Barger is the author of Swords and Plowshares, a Civil War love story, and Mamie, an Ozark Mountain Girl of Courage, a story of the Ozark Mountain people, set in Cleburne and Van Buren Counties. |
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... north of the Edgemont Bridge which spans across Lake Greers Ferry. When the first settlers came to Edgemont in the 1840's and 1850's, the little community was known as Kinderhook. Kinderhook had one of the first post offices in Van ...
... North Little Rock, Carol Kaffka of Little Rock, and Lou Majors of Greers Ferry; one sister, Mrs. Azalea Wilson of Blytheville; eleven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the West Side Baptist ...
... North Little Rock; two daughters, Mrs. Geneva Jauch of Heber Springs, and Mrs. Loreda Ellis of Clinton; four brothers, Jim Davis and Todd Davis, both of Greers Ferry, Bud Davis of Edgemont and Troy Davis of Shirley, Arkansas; two ...
... North Cross Roads Church. Special music was by a quartet, Bynum Stark T. L. Turney, Oran Beasley and Jackie Pettit. Interment was North Cross Roads under the direction of the Masonic Lodge of Edgemont and Olmstead Funeral Home of Heber ...
... North Railroad as a bridge carpenter. On November 26, 1930, he married Miss Pearl Thompson of Cleburne County. To this marriage union were born five children. On Saturday morning, November 15, 1942, William Fletcher Rollins, age thirty ...