Izard County Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.
Izzard County Historian

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Index of Articles

1970
January 1970
Letter to Our Members – The Trimble Family – Izard County’s First Clerk – Civil Appointments – Constitution of the Izard County Historical Society – George Izard
April 1970
The Lafferty Family and The Rover – Excerpts from The Life and Adventures of L. D. Lafferty – The Great Homecoming of 1925 – A Little Bit of History – Did You Know?
July 1970
Letter to Our Members – Postscripts – History of the Town of Guion – Remembrances of Old Berry – A History of Barren Fork – Complete List of Izard County Judges – Did You Know? – Hear The Whistle
October 1970
The Calico Rock Ferry – Postscripts – The Wideman School – Izard County Clerks – A History of Calico Rock As I Knew It – Pioneer Families – Did You Know?
1971
January 1971
A Family of Doctors – Dr. James Smith – Dr. Jefferson Smith – Dr. John Smith – Dr. Solomon Smith – Dr. Robert Smith – More About Doctors – Izard County Newspapers – Izard County Sheriffs
April 1971
An Interview with George Weigart concerning his memories of the Ghost Town, Ruddells, Izard County, and its Lime History – North Arkansas Academy 1870-1905 – John William Cornelius Gardner – The Talley Cemetery – Big Spring Cemetery – Census Report of Izard County – Treasurers of Izard County – Dr. J.K.P. Black – Did You Know?
July 1971
Captain Robert Calvin Matthews and The Pineville Community- Did You Know? – Thomas Allen Izard County Clerk – Lafferty Izard County’s First Settlement – Answer to an Inquiry
October 1971
Dr. Edward A. Baxter – Of Special Interest to Billingsleys – Edward Nicholas Rand – The Thorn Hill School – Bingham (Arnold) Cemetery
1972
January 1972
Letter to Our Members – The Early Jefferys of North Central Arkansas 1816-1850 – C.F.M. Noland’s Description of Izard County in 1830 – Did You Know? - Biography of Charles R. Aikin
April 1972
The Early Jefferys of North Central Arkansas 1816-1850 Part II – References – United States Census Izard County, Arkansas 1830 – Death of Old Berry – 1916 Skating Party at Moccasin School-Berry – Governors of Arkansas Under French and Spanish Rule – Charles Henry Boatman Biographical – Did You Know?
July 1972
The Iron Mountain – My Memories – Zion: Then and Now – A. G. Albright – Whatever Happened To?
October 1972
The Historic Town of Franklin, Arkansas – The Anderson Blasingame Family – Grandpa’s Old Guns – Michael Wolf’s Good Day’s Work – The Light of Other Days – John N. Bates – Memorial to Maggie Finley and Malcolm Finley
1973
January 1973
A Short Biography of the Late Karr Shannon – Izard County’s Foremost Historian – In Member of My Father W. W. “Bill Copeland – The Joel Lawson Family – History of the Spring Creek Academy and the Spring Creek Church – Spring Creek Cemetery List
April 1973
Introduction – Francis Billingsley 1620-1684 – Memorial – The Billingsley Family in Izard County – More Billingsleys Past and Present – A Billingsley Quiz
July 1973
History of Melbourne, Arkansas – John Harvey Woods – Genealogical and Historical Memoirs of William Shadrick Davis of Southeast Izard County – Map of Melbourne – Excerpts From Letters – Lee A. Blank Biographical Sketch
October 1973
Oxford and Its Pioneers – Izard County’s Pilot Knob and The Hunt Family – Old Thorn Hill or Mt. Pleasant Singing School – Memorials to Rufas Davis, Fannie Davis, John Blair
1974
January 1974
The Old Philadelphia Church – Izard County Churches in 1889 – Did You Know? – Elijah Gillam Landers Pioneer Merchant – Dr. Hildred Meade – Trimble Campground Cemetery Survey – Last Will and Testament of Richard B. Harris – Letter – James H. Bone
April 1974
Dr. Henry Harlin Smith – The Hoss-Hair Pullers and Hill-Billy Quartet – The Long Walk Home – New Historical Booklet – Izard County Coroners – Rev. John Nickias Alexander Billingsley – A Voice From The Past – Roster of Township Officers Elected Sept. 14, 1908 – Jury List September Term 1907 – James Theodoric Warsaw Barksdale, E. A. Brown – Family Reunion
July 1974
Cemetery Survey Lists – A Stranger Comes to Calico Rock – Rufus Philo Jones – Pioneer Photographers with Samples of Their Work – George J. Dillard – W. O. Dillard – Memorials to Alvin Perryman and Everett Roberts
October 1974
The Watkins Brothers and Wild Haws – Watkins Cemetery Survey – History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Sage – History of the Church of Christ at Sage – History of the Sage Baptist Church – Memorials for Verna Yancey and J.W. Carpenter – Alexander Peyton Golden 1878-1959
1975
January 1975
Index Covering Period Jan. 1970-Jan. 1975 – The Wayland Arbor – Wayland Arbor Cemetery – Wayland Baptist Cemetery – One Man’s Reminiscences of Wayland Arbor School and Religious Meetings – The Dolph Community – Trimble Grave Marker – Reminiscences – Notes on the Outgoing and Incoming Izard County Officers in 1912
April 1975
Map of Mt. Olive, Ark about 1900 – Mount Olive, Its Rise and Fall – Addendum – Jeffery Cemetery – Letter of Praise of the Mt. Olive School 1909 – Bulger – Polk Ripley – Biography of James B. Woods – Izard County Assessors
July 1975
An Old Community A New City Pineville – Pineville Cemetery Survey – Memorials to R.K. Davis, Lex Davis, and Dr. Karr Shannon – The Whitfields – Jesse Franklin Drown – Dr. Joseph A. Schenck – Place of Birth: A Covered Wagon – Jim Dixon Witness to Three Atrocities of the Civil War – Dr. R. H. Morton
October 1975
Map of Nubbin Ridge – My Story The Autobiography of De Emmett Bradshaw – Wideman Then and Now – The Alfred N. McNairn Story – Memorial to Thomas Brockwell
1976
January 1976
The Muncy Family and the Muncy Hotels – Melbourne Cemetery Survey – Memorials for Andrew Fudge and Eunice Hunt - The Marion Alex Moser Family
April 1976
A Brief History of Missionary Baptist in Izard County – Civil War Skirmishes in Izard County – The Haunted Log School House
July 1976
Boswell – The Mayfields – Early Settlers The Vest Family – Vest Cemetery – Robinson Cemetery – Memorial – Widely Known and Beloved Pioneer My Grandfather, Henry W. Smith – The Woodcock Family – Aunt Betty’s Doctorings of Yesteryear – Census Records
October 1976
Lunenburg Map – An Old and Beloved Town Lunenburg – Franklin Perrin – Pioneer Teachers – Obituary of Henry C. Shannon – Lunenburg Cemetery Survey – Cross-County in 1878
1977
January 1977
Foreword – Kendrick and Walker Genealogy Including Some Family Lines – “Miss Johnie” – Tribute To A Teacher – Map of Philadelphia – Letter to the Editor – My Family - Flat Rock Cemetery – John C. Bone – Memorial to Emma Drown Morgan
April 1977
The Town of Mount Vernon A Mystery Solved – Pioneer Day – The Unfulfilled Promise – Memorial to John Woods
July 1977
Wises Chappel Missionary Baptist Church – Wises Chappel Cemetery Survey – Cross Roads – James T. (Jim) Dockins – Cross Roads Post Office – Thomas Jefferson “Tom” Lovelace – The William B. (Bill) Moody Family – The Hivelys – Hively Genealogy – Dr. Charles Leander Harris – Memorials to Mrs. Leona Fudge and Dr. Karr Shannon, Jr.
October 1977
Monument Inscription – Soldier’s Pictures – Corinth Cemetery Survey – Letters from France – A Civil War Execution – Athens in the Early 1900’s; The First County Clerk, John P. Houston – Map of Athens – Letter Written in 1866 – The Curtis Brown Family – For the Files of the “Izard County Historian” – An Unusual Manufacturing Company – A Good Story – Your Family Album
1978
January 1978
Family History of Rufas Kercheval Davis, Sr. and Fanny Lex (Bynum) Davis – Dr. William Hill Dillard – Genealogy of the George James Dillard Family – My Memories of Iuka – Letter from a Member – The October 1977 Meeting at Old Lafferty – Pleasant Grove Cemetery – Miss Emma Campbell’s School Souvenir – Biography of W. H. Winkle – Memorial to Allan B. Ross
April 1978
Greasy Bottom and Hidden Creek – The Benbrook Family – Josiah Converse Carrico – The Organization of the Izard County Historical Society – Memorial to Claude Gaston and Maude Gaston
July 1978
Meet our Assistant Editor – The Harvell Family – Widows – The Aklin Family – Historical Society meets at Melbourne – Home Remedies for Common Ailments – The Life of W. G. Wiley
October 1978
The Archibald Benjamin Garner Family – Emma Drown Morgan, Artist-Historian – Henry Hayden Shannon – Pioneer Drummers and Peddlers – Historical Society Meets at Calico Rock – The Reluctant Confederate – William Wainwright – Our Family Album
1979
January 1979
Rev. Abner Evans Family – Thomas Harris Linn – In Memoriam to Geneva Linn – What I Remember about My Mother and Father – Children of Thomas H. Linn, Sr. – The Strange But True Story of a Watch - History of the Jehoida J. Sams Family
April 1979
Judge Phenton Caldwell Sherrill – Slavery in Izard County in the Final Decade 1850-1860 – Blacks in Izard County in 1900 – Some History of the Family of James M. Kankey, Sr. – Descendants of James M. Kankey, Sr. Three Generations – October 1978 Meeting of the Izard County Historical Society – Genealogy of the Mashburn Family – Our Family Album – History of the J. J. Sams Family – Memorial to Edward Linn and Wilbur Linn
July 1979
History of the Killian Family in Izard County – The April Meeting – Going West in A Model T – Pioneer Day 1979 – History of the Izard County Home Demonstration Clubs – Nail Cemetery Survey – History of the J. J. Same Family Continued – Memorial to Benjamin Davis
October 1979
Picture of Old Concord Church Singing School – Introduction – Rev. Samuel Gunn Family – Map of Hidden Creek and Lyons Creek Area – Thumbnail Autobiography of Rex Floyd Bruce – Hidden Creek – Edward R. Puckett, Jr. and His Descendants of Izard County – History of the J. J. Sams Family continued – Diary of William R. Crisp – Baker Cemetery
1980
January 1980
James Laurence (Lawrence) and One Line of his Descendants – Lawrence Family Cemetery – Mayfield Cemetery – Newburg Then and Now – The John Bell Staggs Family of Izard County – Memorials to Frank Copeland and Willie Staggs – Index covering period from January 1975 to the present issue – Memorial to Henry Trimble
April 1980
Granny Sarah Langston Watts Frazier – How Four Lines of Watts Descendants Found Each Other – Books and Libraries in Izard County From Pioneer Days to the Present – A History of Finley Creek Church - Finley Creek Cemetery Survey – In Search of Slave Graves – Dixon Memorial – History of the J. J. Sams Family conclusion – Around The Square – The Baptist and the Commoner – Iuka School – Davis Memorial – Four Generation of the Elbert Benbrook Family
July 1980
The Charles L. and Sarah I. Spann Family Story “Spanning “ Over 100 years in Izard County – My Grandfather, Fred Ford Smith – Seven Generations of the Finleys and the Taylors – James Henry Bone and His Descendants – Wild Cherry – Church Letter – Knob Creek School – Cook Cemetery Survey – Looking Back
October 1980
The Lackeys Robert Waid and Nancy Welch Lackey and Related Families – More Information on Young Henry Yearry – July 1980 Meeting of the Izard County Historical Society Rededication of the War Monument – Enoch Obed Wolf – The Copeland Family –Billingsley Reprint – Gray Cemetery Survey (also called Felts Cemetery) – Looking Back – Dillard Family – Iuka School
1981
January 1981
Echoes from Halls in Izard County – The James Robert Arnold and Florence Texas Underdown Family – History of the Family of Frank Wayland – Sheriff Lucius Langston Solves a Mysterious Crime – Wideman Cemetery – Looking Back
April 1981
George W. Cypert – The Cypert Family – The John L. Welch Family – Stella Staggs Lovelace – Oxford Cemetery – Historical Material Lost in Fire – Looking Back – Sharing Information The Hamilton Line
July 1981
George Izard Second Territorial Governor of Arkansas – Our Family Trees are Branching Out – Sharing Information of the Doss and Gawf Families – Historical Society Meets at Boswell - The History of Boswell – Life Is But A “Spann” – Book Review – New Liberty Cemetery – Our Family Album – Rev. Henry Hays 1813-1897 – John Churchill 1828-1904
October 1981
Searching For a Man Named Smith – Did You Know? – Rev. Robert Alpheous King – Aunt Lucy Johnson Ninety-Six Years a Resident of Arkansas – 1880 Census of the Village of LaCrosse – Sharing Information on The William S. Gains Family – Book Reviews – Sylamore – Our Family Album
1982
January 1982
Shelling – The Wayland Family – the Ducker Family – Old Philadelphia Cemetery – Meeting At Newburg - Court Week in Mount Olive in 1857 – 1934 Calico Rock School Picture – Map of Johnson View School Area – Johnson View Honor Roll 1900 – Biography of J. H. Ayler – Look Back Obituaries – Book Review
April 1982
Trevathan Family – Book Review – The Diary of Elizabeth T. McSpadden – Sharing Information on the Pinkston Family – The Jumbo School, As I Remember It – Rosena Roxana Kirby Martin Wray – The Wiley Croom Family – Romance At A Nubbin Ridge Pie Supper – Shaver Campground Cemetery Survey – Memorial to Miss Clara Brunner – Memorial to Mrs. Johnie Gardner Craig
July 1982
Powell Three Brother and Others – The Falling Out – Pearogue School and Pearogue Hollow – Dr. James Jefferson Mason – Spring Meeting at the Old Baptist Church in Calico Rock – Old Baptist Cemetery Survey – Lunenburg Township Census 1880 – Handicraft – Looking Back – Old Obituaries – Ross School Picture
October 1982
Izard County Women in War, Peace and Politics – The Ancestry of the Byler Family in Izard County Part I – July Meeting of the Izard County Historical Society – Felix Elbert Staggs – An Echo of the Past – Book Reviews – The Hamm School 1915-1916 – Our Family Album
1983
January 1983
A Place Called Twin Creek – Twin Creek Cemeteries – As I Remember Twin Creek – The Ancestry of the Byler Family in Izard County Part II – October Meeting at Lone Star Schoolhouse – Lone Star Cemetery – The New Madrid Earthquake of 1811 – Dunce Caps – The Great Flood of 1916 – Antioch Cemetery – Book Review – Obituary of Archibald B. Estes – W. C. Dixon Document 1861 – Memorial to Elmer Fudge – Our Family Album
April 1983
The Gorby Community – Palestine Cemetery Survey – Gillihan Genealogy – More Kankey Family History – Neill Brooks, Editor and Publisher – Neill Brooks on the Pearl Trade – 1896 Letter from J.W. Lancaster to Catherine J. Trimble – Pleasant Ridge Cemetery – The Jordan Harris Family – Our Family Album
July 1983
William Allan Oldfield – The Heasley Family – Rocky Road To Romance -Lunenburg Township 1910 Census – Izard County Marriage Records – A Soldier’s Letter Home – The Willow Spring School – The Rector Family – Old Philadelphia Church Restoration – Memorials to Cecil Brumitt, Mrs. Stella Barnes, and Howard Linn
October 1983
Map of the Battles Around Atlanta – Introduction – Late Summer in Atlanta – Postscript – Levi Cook – Six Watts Brother Civil War Soldiers – Seeking Lafferty and Creswell Descendants - Reconstruction in Izard County – The Death of Nancy Anderson Cypert 1790-1862 – Michael Van Buren Shaver – The Old Military Road – Caney Spring Cemetery – Book Reviews – Looking Back Old Newspaper Articles – Our Family Album – Memorial to Mattie E. Davis Bollinger
1984
January 1984
Wanted Pictures of the White River – Brockwell A History of the Settlement and the Town – Owens Cemetery Survey – Antioch – Minutes of Rocky Bayou Baptist Association 1895 – Antioch Masonic Lodge #241 – The Beginning of the Izard County Schultz Family – Book Review – Watkins Unique Collection of Relics – Our Family Album
April 1984
Samuel Billingsley Hill – An Open Letter to Virgil Jones – Down a Long Dusty Road – History and Development of Calico Rock - Additional Information on Izard County – Blue Church Cemetery Survey – Autobiography of J. Orville Cheney Part I – Willis C. Jones Obituary – Some Reminiscences Connected With The Construction of the White River Railroad Division – The Old Blacksmith Shop – Old Obituaries – Memorials to Remmel Carpenter, Sr. and Harry Powell Dixon
July 1984
The Harber Family – Rhoda Jane Deshazo Harber – More on the Harbers – Recollections of her Father, Jasper Newton Seay – The Trail of Tears Through Izard County and James Watts – Born on the Trail of Tears – J. Orville Cheney Part II – No Bottom Cemetery Survey – Chinquapin Cemetery Survey – The 1938 Arkansas Picnic in Wenatchee, Washington – Floating on the White River – John Perry Caton – Book Review – Our Family Album – Memorial to Jack Harris – Congratulations Michael Walker
October 1984
Picture of the Town of Guion about 1938 – History of the Town of Guion – About the Author – Margaret Lafferty Creswell’s Grave Marker Dedicated by the Daughter of the American Revolution – Lorenzo Dow Lafferty – Athens Memorial Site – Book Review “The Bruce Web” – J. Orville Cheney Part III – A Letter to the Editor – Obituary of Henry Jones 1932 – “Salted” Springs Last – Capture of Contraband Whiskey 1919 – Godwin Cemetery – Mount Olive Cemetery – Our Family Album
1985
January 1985
The Stallcup Family – Stallcup Homsetead Document – J. Orville Cheney Part IV – Book Reviews – The Stoner Family – Early Settlers in the Calico Rock Area – Spring Hill Cemetery – “Aunt Peggy” Whitfield Obituary – James Lafferty and Mary Creswell Your Great-Great Grandparents – October Meeting at Trimble Campground – Ex-Confederate Pensioners – Family Album – Old Obituaries
April 1985
The New Izard County Courthouse – History of Boler Mill and Boler Family – The Daniel Jeffery House – Grandpa’s House Was Fun – Searching For Clues At An Old House Site – Shell Cemetery – Bates Cemetery – Old Liberty Cemetery – Local Items in Old Newspapers – Biography of Robert Franklin Livingston – Sage School Program 1903 – Our Family Album
July 1985
The Life and Adventures of Andy Pate – License to Master of Steam Vessels – History of the Pioneer Harris Brothers and Some of Their Descendants Part I – Allowances at Court in 1929 – Calico Rocket First Newspaper Published in Calico Rock February 18, 1904 – Calico Rock 1904 – An Update On The Finleys, Early Settlers in Izard County and The White River Valley – Spring Meeting of the Historical Society A Tribute To Emma Drown Morgan – Athens, Izard County’s Seat of Justice 1830-1836 – Memorial to Beatrice Jahay Carpenter -Memorial to Faye Louise Walker Byram
October 1985
Map of Old Anderson Big Lafferty Creek Area – Old Anderson now Lafferty – George Washington Peart Family and Allied Families; Brannon William Armstrong and Whitfield Bergman Smith – Peart Family Album – The History of the Pioneer Harris Brothers and Some of Their Descendants Part II – Mortality Schedule - Update on Athens Historic Site – Dr. Hines, Well-Known Van Alstyne Physician – Searching For Missing Relatives – Our Family Album – Allen Whitfield Obituary – Sylamore Cemetery Survey – Reed Cemetery Survey – Memorial to Harry Powell Dixon, Jr. – Memorial to Ray Ewell Davis
1986
January 1986
The Screws (Crews) Family – A History of Barren Fork – The History of the Pioneer Harris Brothers and Some of Their Descendants Part III – In Memory of Sarah Harris Dixon – Update on Athens Historic Site – Maude Douglass and the 4 D’s Death, Disease, the Devil and Drink – The Kingdom School – The Stuart Family of Izard County – Memorial to Walter W. Rhoades
April 1986
History of the Pioneer Harris Brothers and Some of Their Descendants Conclusion – Zebra Later Became Bexar Fulton County, Arkansas – Map of the Bexar Area – History of the Bexar Church – Memories of Bexar – Bexar Cemetery – Sexton Cemetery – Shepherd of the Hills Home – Izard County Townships – The Forrest Chapel Church – Wiseman School Picture – Mother’s Memories – Athens Update – Memorial to Bessie Myrtle (Carrico) Hudson
July 1986
Herron-Wolf Cemetery – Partee-Ramsey – Dedication Day at Athens Historic Site – My Arkansas Heritage, The Morrisons – Cross Roads School Picture – Wild Cherry Post Office Fulton County – Looking Back Old Newspaper Items – Memorial to Rosa Harris
October 1986
The Family of Owen Hunt and Laura Lou Dixon Hunt – Diary of Clarice Elizabeth Hunt Morris – What Happened to the 1908 Graduating Class of Batesville High School? – Margaret Robinson Family of Tennessee and Arkansas – Henry Jackson Kent Family – Obituary of Daniel Hively – Sharing Information on the Wolford/Woolfords – A Thousand Dollar Breakfast – Looking Back-Old Newspaper Articles – Old Obituaries – Twigs and Branches – Our Family Album – Memorial to Samuel Gibbs Lindley
1987
January 1987
The Porters of Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas – Old Water Mills of Piney Creek – Map of Old Water Mills – The Sons of Isaac and Hila (Martin) Finley and The Civil War – John Greene Chisum (One of the last Civil War veterans) – Autobiography of Oliver Smith Jones – Charles Smith Jones – Reeves Cemetery Survey Part I (A –L) – Minutes of Rocky Bayou Baptist Association 1895 “In Memory of the late James Wren”
April 1987
The Scott House Sylvester Scott and Augustus McKenzie Families – Sketch of the Scott Home Place – The Six Hively Orphans – Aunt “EM” Margaret Emaline (Matthews) McNeill – Where, Oh Where, Is Izard? – Twigs and Branches – Reeves Cemetery Survey Part II (M–S) – Thomas E. Helm Biography – Old Obituaries – Looking Back – Memorial to Robert Lee “R.L.” Davis, Alice Dodge Davis
July 1987
The Pucketts of Wayne – Robert Emmett Jeffery Foreign Diplomat – You Are Your Own Cousin – List of Brides From the Jeffery Family Genealogy – Where, Oh Where, Is Izard? Part II – Sharing Information on the Anderson Family – Class Poem-Calico Rock High School-1908 – Potpourri-Staggs, Copelands, Harris and Welch – Our Family Album – K.J.Lacy-Biography – Looking Back Old Newspaper Articles – Memorial to Charles Knox Shell
October 1987
Rest In Peace of Cemeteries, Tombstone, and Epitaphs – In Search of the Taylor Cemetery – Taylor Cemetery Survey – Katy Cemetery Survey – Lest We Forget “Uncle Buck” – The Hinsons of Northeast Arkansas – 1899 Letter to Willis C. “Nealy” Jones – Izard County 1870 Mortality Schedule – W.A. Brumitt Biography – Memories of a Knob Creek Farm – Book Reviews – Obituary of Carrie Bishop – Looking Back-Old Newspaper Articles – Old Obituaries – Memorial to Lee Baxter Harris
1988
January 1988
A Doctor’s Saddle-Bags of Cures – LaCrosse Cemetery Survey – Womack or Wammack – Some Anecdotes on Stealing Watermelons – Shelby W. King Obituary and Picture – A Romance of Yesteryear (Eva Phillips and James T. Shannon) - Sharing Information of the Gardners – Our Family Album – Izard County Excerpts From the Index to the Sharp County Record Newspaper 1877-1883 – Antics of Yore – David Crockett As I Knew Him – Melbourne High School 1907-1908 – Old Obituaries – Letters to the Editor
April 1988
Romancing The Rock – Place Names in Izard County – The Memoirs of An Arkansas Hillbilly – Calico Rock Murder Mystery – Company H Seventh Arkansas Infantry – Book Review - ???Haggard---Mason??? – Payne or Campbell Cemetery – Smith Family Cemetery – Hills Chapel Cemetery – Oak Grove Cemetery – Billingsley Cemetery – Old Obituaries – 7th & 8th Grade Calico Rock – Memorial to Nama Ann McNairn
July 1988
Jesse James Did He Teach School in Calico Rock – Historic Circle Tour – Old Slave Barn – Fulton County Arkansas Marriages – Obituary of Edith Magnolia Carter – Bert Allen Gibson – Ferguson Ancestors – Our Family Album – Letters to the Editor
October 1988
Hold Court Justice of the Peace Style – Township Officers – Light Shining Out of Darkness Tragic Events Endured by the Cothams – A Good Story The Civil War as seen by Elihu Beckham – Memories of Danny Smith – My Grandpa’s Barn – Drown Family Reunion in 1953 – 1880 Mortality Schedule for Izard County – More on the Bandit Gangs in the Ozarks – Two Versions of the Murder of William Trimble – Jones Cemetery Survey – Our Family Album – Old Obituaries – Letter to the Editor
1989
January 1989
Camp Sage-CCC – The Farthing Family – A Good Story Chapter IV & V by Elihu C. Beckham – From A Family Bible-Estes Family – Union Cemetery Survey A to MA – Family Album – Memorials to Dale Brown Woods and Hazel (Muncy) Woods
April 1989
Willy Garner’s Diary – An Old History – Searching For My Jeffery Kin – Union Cemetery Survey Ma-Wo – A Good Story Chapter VI & VII by Elihu C. Beckham – Our Family Album – Remembrances of Samuel Thomas Taylor – Death of Pvt. Otis Leo Ivie – Biography of the Hon. S.A. Brown
July 1989
Second Annual Historic Circle Tour Lafferty/Anderson Area – William S. Nail Biography – Jacob Mosier (Moser), Sr. Biography – Introduction – The Davidson Family – Davidson Family Album – A Good Story – Civil War Memories Chapter VII (part 2), VIII, IX & X by Elihu C. Beckham – Book Report – Pratt Cemetery – Letters to the Editor
October 1989
The Melbourne Times Centennial Edition – The John Thomas Churchill Family – Dumb Suppers – Charivari (Shivaree) – The Walter W. and Ona (Taylor) Fudge Family – Tate Cemetery – Brown Cemetery – Letter Written by Dr. Frank Lee to Rev. J.W. Love – Our Family Album – A Good Story Civil War Memories by Elihu C. Beckham – John W. Cone A Biography – Old Obituaries – Memorial Glenn & Monteene Robertson Hodges – Memorial to Barbara Jean Wammack
No Issues of The Izard County Historian were published in the years of
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.


1996 to 2012

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