Arkansas Ties ... A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That, and a Whole Lot of Arkansas

Nathan Bedford Forrest Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Memphis, Tennessee   Those hoof beats die not upon Fame's crimsoned sod But will ring through her son and her story. He fought like a titan and struck like a god, and his dust is our ashes of glory. - Virginia Frazer Boyle Nathan Bedford Forrest July 13, 1821 - October 29, 1877 Mary A. Forrest October 24, 1826 - January 22, 1893