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December 24, 2006
Just wanted to wish everyone a very safe and happy Merry Christmas, Love Pris
December 23, 2006

Can anyone tell me what has happened to Big Momma over at Arkansasfamilies.net.  Her website is down and I have lost her email address.  Help!

December 18, 2006

I had hoped to post a few pages with lots of nice Christmas lights in central Arkansas, but no

such luck.  The State Capitol was the best thing going and my pics of Sherwood's Mystical

Forest, turned out terrible.  Maybe I will practice the night shots more.

 

One more thing, my message board is being blasted with messages, which I delete every

day, but they are getting slicker on posting.  Now they are posting with a name in the subject line

make it look like genealogy.    I am open to suggestions.  The only thing I know to do is

keep trying to weed them out. - Pris

 

Arkansas State Capitol

 

 
December 8, 2006

This looks interesting - Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff.   It might be that Russ Johnson

has covered this on his website, I will have to look.  Don't listen to me on here, I am just talking to myself.  :)

December 7, 2006

I have been doing a little internet browsing on Arkansas and will be adding

interesting links as I find them. 

 

This website covers the Arkansas License plate from

1910 to now -Arkansas License Plates

 

Steve Twaddle has a great site of Arkansas photographs at Arkansas Photographed

 

Want to take a trip down memory lane - Check out Black Oak Arkansas rock group,

you do remember them don't you?

 

The Arkansas Country Doctor Museum looked pretty interesting and I think I am going

to add it on my list of things to do this weekend down in Washington County.

December 4, 2006

With the help of Mark Dodson, I was able to photograph the memorials over at the

Little Rock Air Force base.  There is one marker that I really wanted that was

still under construction and it looks like it is a conglomerate of lots of old markers

they gathered up, so maybe Mark will be able to shoot it for me when they finish.  I got a

few of the markers on that, so will add to if and when I can.

Added

November 27, 2006

 

Edward Grady Thompson - Mount Holly Cemetery

November 22, 2006
Added Queen Wilhelmina State Park and Lodge in Polk County, Arkansas.
November 20, 206
Added
November 17, 206
Added the Blue Angels Air Force Show by Mark Dodson.
November 16, 2006

Added a new and revised listing for Oakland Cemetery here in Little Rock.  Previous

list was 23,000 names and the new list is over 42,000.

 

Added pictures of the following in Little Rock, Arkansas:

Added the County Court House & War memorials for Montgomery County, Arkansas

 

 

 

Go Hogs - Highway 10
October 29, 2006

Added the Ten Mile house, which is also known as the Stagecoach and the

McHenry House in Pulaski County on Highway 5/Stagecoach Road.

October 26, 2006

Added Mount Magazine and Subiaco Abbey in Logan County & Mount Nebo in Yell County by Mark Dodson. 

Added Subiaco Abbey Cemetery in Logan County.

October 17, 2006

Updated the listing for Richards Cemetery in North Little Rock.  Re-photographing by Mark Dodson

turned up 5 new names.

October 16, 2006

Added a memorial for the Mental Asylum, aka State Hospital Cemetery in Pulaski County, Arkansas.

Added the following in Dallas, Texas

Added the Fort Worth Stockyards

San Antonio, Texas

 

 

In San Antonio,  I visited briefly with Jack at the stoplight.  He says his name

is Jack Marvin, like Lee Marvin.  Here's to you Jack.... may all of the homeless

people in Texas dress and be as charming as you.

October 14, 2006

Added the following in:

Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas

Harlingen, Texas -

Johnson County, Arkansas

September 27, 2006

Added the following places located in:

September 26, 2006

Added 1,650 new articles to the Arkansas Gazette Democrat for the year 1850 in a new format and

need feedback if you have time to check it out.  This index is for actual articles

instead of transcriptions.  I will be redoing the previous years as time allows.

September 25, 2006
Added the following in Conway County:

This is located on the cliffs in Atkins, Arkansas.  Wasn't this sign painted up there

years ago? 

 

Info from Jan Butler: It was first painted on the bluff by Earl Herbert "Tex"

Kiazer (deceased) in the early fifties. He was a star football player for the Atkins

Red Devils. I'm sure he had help from his buddies, because it would be impossible

for anyone working alone to hang over the side of the mountain and paint at the same

time. He was a "wild and crazy fellow" long before wild and crazy were popular!

He did breathe life into a sleepy little town though.

Just to put it in perspective for you..... this is how far I zoomed in.....that trucker is on

I40 and I am Highway 64.  While I was shooting it,  I thought it would have been

pretty cool if Linda Hatcher was sitting up there on the top waving!  ;)

September 20, 2006
Added :
September 19, 2006
September 15, 2006

If you have ancestors from Alabama (who doesn't?), Desmond Walls Allen is now

publishing Pauline Jones Gandrud's Alabama Soldiers Manuscript Collection

electronically for $4.00 per Soldier. This is just great, I love this format and

hope she publishes more this way.   http://www.arkansasresearch.com

September 14, 2006
Added the rest of my trip to Hot Springs:
September 13, 2006
Added a few more places in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas:
September 12, 2006
Added a few places in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas:
September 11, 2006
Added a new page for :
September 10, 2006
Added a new page for :
September 9, 2006
Added updated listings for:

Added new pages for

September 7, 2006
Added information on:

Added the Grant County, Arkansas Courthouse and War Memorial.

September 6, 2006

1844 - Arkansas Gazette

Wives Wanted. A good chance for a speculation. – The following advertisement, under the head of wife wanted, is in the Batesville, (Ark.,) News: Any gal what’s got a bed, calico dress, coffee pot, and skillet, knows how to cut out briches, can make a huntin shirt, and knows how to take care of children, can have my services till death parts both on us.

September 5, 2006
Added updated listings in Pulaski County for:

Added the following structures & memorials in Pulaski County:

September 3, 2006
Added the following in Pulaski County, Arkansas
September 2, 2006

I love the Little Rock Trolley Cars.  For .50 cents you can take a 40

minute round trip tour of downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock.  All-day

pass is like $2.00.  Get on and get off as much as you want.

September 1, 2006

Mabelvale, Arkansas.

August 30, 2006
August 29, 2006

Added

August 28, 2006
Added an updated listing for

Added complete transcriptions for the following cemeteries (photographs no longer available)

Added new information on the "Packett House" over on Cantrell in Little Rock, thanks to Linda Hatcher.

August 25, 2006
Added an updated list for

Added the following houses in Little Rock, Arkansas

August 24, 2006

Added Freehouse Cemetery in Bradley County, and a revised list for Wheeler Springs Cemetery

in Bradley County, Arkansas.

August 23, 2006
Added the Bradley County, Arkansas Court House and Memorials.
August 22, 2006
Added the

I thought the following picture was pretty cool.  The lumberjacks are located on Highway

79 between Pine Bluff and Fordyce.

 

August 18, 2006
Added the following located on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds in Little Rock.
August 17, 2006
Added the following located on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds in Little Rock.
August 16, 2006
Added the Vietnam Memorial, the War of 1812 Memorial, and the Confederate Memorial markers located on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds in Little Rock.
August 15, 2006
August 12, 2006

 

Peaceful evening on the Arkansas River.

By the way, the message board is up and running.  If you find any broken links

on the site, please let me know.  Pris - ArkansasTies@ArkansasTies.com

August 10, 2006

Added photographs of the Battle of Brownsville Historic Marker, Woodlawn

Historic Marker and some overview shots of Brownsville Cemetery, donated by

Mark Dodson of Cabot.

August 8, 2006

Added a photo from a Hartman, Johnson County meeting and a Hartman School Band,

donated by Mary Crawford of Conway.  Can anyone identify more people,

years, dates, or locations?  Thanks Mary!

July 17, 2006
Added Davenport Crossing Cemetery in Lawrence County, Arkansas.
July 10, 2006
Added photographs on the following located in Pulaski County, Arkansas:
July 9, 2006
Added photographs on the following located in Pulaski County, Arkansas:
July 8, 2006
Added photographs on the following located in Pulaski County, Arkansas:
July 7, 2006
Added photographs on the following located in Pulaski County, Arkansas:
July 04, 2006
Added a virtual tour of the markers and dedications at MacArthur Park in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.
July 3, 2006

 

June 23, 2006

Up and running on the new servers and every things seems to be running pretty smoothly

considering the mess from the past year.  If you find any broken links, please drop me (Pris)

at ArkansasTies@aol.com.  I am still working on reposting the messages from the old message

board and should have that finished up here in the next week.  Thanks to everyone for

their patience and help! 

May 7, 2006

The message board on this site is not functioning properly and this is something I am working on. 

You can post to the website but your message will not show up in the table of contents, however,

anyone searching for keywords listed in your message, will be able to bring it up doing a search

using the search engine.  I hope to have this fixed soon, but since I have moved to new servers,

this may be a major problem, and I may need to put up a new message board.  Rest assured, none

of the messages will be lost.

April 28, 2006

My Aunt Madge passed away this week and my friend, Dave Brannon's Mother, Marie Garrett,

passed away this week.  Please keep us in your prayers as we try to get back on track.

 

MARIE GARRETT, 90, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, died Monday,

April 24, 2006, at home.She was an amazing woman. Her optimism and resilience were a constant testament to her faith.
Her abundance of love and compassion were blessings she shared with everyone she knew.
She was a multiple medalist in the Senior Olympics, an award winning cook, an accomplished

seamstress and an avid gardener. She was active with the Senior Citizens of Jacksonville for many

years and enjoyed playing games, socializing and listening to gospel music. A love of travel took

her to every region of the country. When she talked about her adventures, her description always

started with, "I saw so many pretty things," and always ended with where she was going next. This

 time, she's going home to stay.  Marie Margaret was born February 13, 1916, to the late Josie

LaForce and George Graham. She was a lifelong resident of Pulaski County.
 

Her grace and kindness often overshadowed the quiet, unending strength that she relied on countless

times throughout her life. Marie was preceded in death by all of her siblings : sisters, Ina

Brannon, Oleda Smith and Birdie Pearson; brothers, Paul Graham, Raymond Graham and Clarence Graham. Through the course of her life, her faith and family sustained her as she was widowed four times. Clayton Dover, Elmer Brannon, Marvin Johnson and Elgin Garrett, all passed

before her. Surely, first in line to greet her in heaven will be her son, Jearl Dover,

who she missed dearly in her last years, her infant daughter, Elsie Dover, and

 great-grandson Douglass Roddy.
Marie, known to many as Nanny or Granny "Rie," is survived by a multitude of

family and friends who celebrate her shining example of ninety years well lived

and mourn the loss of her vibrant presence in their lives; daughters, Lois Douglass (Jerry),

Farmington, New Mexico, Lorene Jones (I.F.), Little Rock, Arkansas, and Martha

Hardin (Keith), Cabot, Arkansas; sons George Dover, Pocahontas,

Arkansas, Doyle Dover, North Little Rock, Arkansas, and David Brannon (Anita), Lonoke,

Arkansas; 20 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild ;

special friends

Peggie Sears and Frieda Ward.
 

Visitation will be Wednesday, April 26, 2006, at Moore's Cabot Funeral Home

from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral Services will be Thursday, April 27, 2006, 1 p.m., at

Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, Cabot, Arkansas. Rev. Cliff Hutchins

will officiate, with special words from Rev. Ben Leonard and Rev. John

Sammons. Pallbearers will grandsons, Jearl Dover, Jr., Keith Dover, Bill Dover,

Randy Douglass, Danny

Dover, Paul Mordecai, Todd Yates and Jeremy Hardin. Honorary pallbearers will

be granddaughters,

Rita Atkins, Janet Roddy, Denise McMahan, Deanna Sandoval, Elise Bills, Kimberly

Mordecai,

Brandy Brannon, Kari Stevens and Amber Johnson.
The family requests that memorials be made to Hospice Home Care because of the outstanding care

provided by Tracy Bridges, CNA, and Mary Brown, RN. (1501 N. University Ave., Suite 500, LR,

72207; 501-296-9043 ). Funeral arrangements are under direction of Moore's

Jacksonville Funeral Home, (501) 982-2136.

 

 

Madge Lou Frances Crain of Sheridan died at her home Tuesday, April 25, 2006.

She was born the daughter of Bailey Martin and Canzadia Mae Coulter on October

18, 1925. She was a 1944 graduate of North Little Rock High School and later

attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

After raising her family, she reentered the work force and over the years was employed by the V A

Hospital, Arnold’s Beauty Supplies, Miller’s Flowers and Doctor Jimmy Chang. She was an avid

gardener and loved to brag on and spoil her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors are her husband of 62 years, Archie A. Crain; son, Michael A. Crain of Yellville and his

wife, Donna; daughter, Mrs. Cheryl Haynes of Sheridan and her husband, Rodger; daughter, Mrs.

 Lisa Chang of North Little Rock and her husband, Jimmy; sister, Berthel Miller of Cabot and her

husband, Charles; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren; and a host of loving nieces and

nephews and friends.

Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday at North Little Rock Funeral Home,

1921 Main, 758-1170. Online obituary and guest register at www.northlittlerockfuneralhome.com.

April 7, 2006

Added photographs of all of the memorial markers that I found over in Lawrence County,

Arkansas at the Court House - Lawrence County Court House

March 15, 2006
Added:
March 14, 2006

Wow, I can't believe it is decoration time already!  Seems likes spring was just not too long

ago, not that I am complaining, I am ready for it.  Linda Hatcher, bless her heart, sent me a

couple of decoration days to announce.  Please keep in mind that most cemeteries in Arkansas

need money and hands for upkeep.  If you can't contribute one, maybe you can contribute the

other.  If you need help on where to send money, let me know, and I will try to send you in the right

direction.  If you have one you want listed or pictures of a decoration day in the state of Arkansas,

just drop me the info and I will get it posted.

  • Bayou Meto, Jacksonville AR - Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th

  • Mt. Pleasant, Cabot AR  -Saturday May 13th and Sunday May 14th

February 28, 2006

Some of you know that I have been taking care of my Uncle for the past 5 years.  He passed

away Saturday at the VA hospital, so I will not be processing any orders until this weekend. 

My apologies for the delay.

Bailey Martin Coulter, Jr.
10/22/1936 - 2/25/2006

Bailey Martin Coulter, Jr., age 69, of Mabelvale, went to be with his Lord Saturday,

February 25, 2006. He was born October 22, 1936 in North Little Rock, Arkansas,

a son of the late Bailey and Canzadia Box Coulter. He was a U.S. Air Force Veteran.

 

He is survived by three sons, Bailey Martin Coulter III, Michael Coulter and Joey

Coulter; two daughters, Laura Goodwin and Shelly Coulter; two sisters, Madge Crain

and Berthel Miller and niece Priscilla Weathers.

 

A memorial graveside service will be at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at the

Arkansas State Veterans’ Cemetery in North Little Rock with Reverend Jake Osburn

officiating.   Arrangements by Roller-Drummond Funeral Home

February 21, 2006

Added Palarm Bayou Cemetery in Pulaski County, Arkansas.  Donated by  Wilber

George.  Thank you Mr. George!

January 1, 2006

County, Arkansas.

 
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