Marion Co TOC

Ebenezer "Ebb" Newton, son of Allen Newton and Elizabeth (no surname known), was born in May 1838 in North Carolina, and Nancy Jane Jones, eldest daughter of Shedrick Jones and Nancy Jane King, was born September 1843 in Missouri.
Ebenezer and Nancy Jane married on August 8, 1858 in Iron Co., Missouri and moved to Marion Co., Arkansas around 1878, homesteading 160 acres in White River township in 1889.
Ebenezer served in Col. Schnabel's Battalion, MO Cavalry and applied for a pension in 1911; Nancy applied for a pension in 1912, after Ebenezer's death. Ebenezer died around December 1911 (possibly December 16, 1911 or January 4, 1912), and Nancy died on January 7, 1920. Nancy is buried in Wildcat cemetery Jimmie's Creek, Marion Co, AR, grave 301, though "Genealogies of Marion Co." lists her burial place as Flippin cemetery. I'm not sure which is correct.

Update: From Mary Lou Freeman Yoder (marylou.yoder@iedi.net): Ebenezer Newton and Nancy Jane Jones were my great grandparents. Ebb was the son of Allen Newton and Elizabeth Wilson. In the early 1940s, before the construction of Bull Shoals Dam, six cemeteries were moved to what is now the Fairview Cemetery a few miles from Flippin, going from Flippin toward the town of Fairview. (Not the cemetery in Flippin. Wildcat and Jimmie's Creek were two of those six, so they no longer exist.)

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