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Renowned Arkansas novelist Donald Harington died. He was 73.
Harington drew upon his boyhood summers in the rural Madison County
community of Drakes Creek to create
Stay More, a fictional Newton
County town that formed the setting of all but one of his 15 novels,
which blended
culture, humor and mystical elements to form intertwined
story lines praised by critics........
Donald Harington and his Stay More Novels: A Celebration of 35 Years
Big Turnout Says Goodbye to Old Main
Madison County Record
Table of Contents
Visit Our Neighbors
Arkansas
Counties that have been
part of
Madison County
history,
and counties that are currently neighbors
include:
Benton,Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Izard, Johnson,
Lawrence, Lovely, Newton, Washington
Our Smith Family; The
Descendants of Simon Peter Smith I, Madison County,
Arkansas
Contains 246 pages, with full name index, and 23
photos.
Price is $15.00, plus $2.50 postage, if mailed.
It
can be ordered from:
Joy Russell
14825 Highway 23
Witter, AR 72776.
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"The Walden
Family"
346
pages with index.
The book is hardbound and is $45.00 includes shipping.
It has nine generations of Walden and extended families with lots of pictures
of families
of Madison County. Some family names: Barker, Berry, Bond, Boren, Buchanan,
Burns,
Casey, Dotson, Everett, Fields, Fowler, Gilbreth, Graham, Griffith, Grimes,
Hatfield, Jones,
Marshall, Martin, McLoud, Montgomery, Nicely, Perry, Piguet, Presley, Rhodes,
Smith, Stansell,
Walden, Whiteley, Wolden, Yarbrough and Yingst, plus many
more.
It can be ordered from:
Barbara Worley
733 Madison 8535
Huntsville, AR (479) 738-2762
Contact Mary Achterhof [maryachtrh@aol.com] for any
questions the book .
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This book is 53 pages
long. It includes 19 photos taken at
the dedication of the Huntsville Massacre Monument on
30 September 2006, at the
site of the Huntsville Massacre. This
book also includes the transcription of Dr. Kevin Hatfield’s
speech and slide
presentation that was given at the dedication.
This speech covers the entire story of the events leading up
to and
including the Huntsville Massacre on January 10, 1863. This is the first time that the entire story of The Huntsville
Massacre
has been all compiled in chronological order.
This book can be ordered from:
The Madison County Genealogical &
Historical Society
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“Master
Index for Tombstones in all Madison County, Arkansas,
Cemeteries”
This book is an index of
names appearing on tombstones in every Madison County cemetery, as well as a
few cemeteries just
listings, as well as the
fieldstones which have been identified across county lines in adjoining counties. It was compiled by
Joy Russell and has over
425 pages with more than 23,000 entries.
Over the past 25 years, the Society has published numerous cemetery
books, as well as enumerations of cemeteries
which appeared in “The Madison
County Musings”. This book contains a list of all of the names
appearing on tombstones
from these printed cemetery books. By using
this book, a person can determine which cemetery listing to go to in order
to
find additional information on a person buried in Madison County. Please keep in mind that you may not find all
recent
burials in this index, since this database
covers only what has been published in our cemetery books.
We feel
this book will be very beneficial to people who know someone is buried in
Madison County but don’t know which
cemetery they are buried in.
This book can be ordered from:
The Madison County Genealogical &
Historical Society
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"Madison County Cemetery Book #8"
This book contains: Kingston Cemetery; Kingston
History Section; Cecil Cemetery; the David Page Grave;
Lane Cemetery; and small
family cemeteries near Kingston. It is 228 pages long, has a full-name
index;
and contains over 360 photos of Kingston residents who are buried in
these cemeteries.
(This book contains more photos than any other book that
we have ever printed.)
This book can be ordered from:
The Madison County Genealogical & Historical Society
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