"Scrapping out a living by trying to farm in Montgomery County back in those days was not a lot of fun and didn't feed the family very well." Reba Patton
"I just thought it was only my family that moved." Charlene. Posted July 8, 2000.
"Scrapping out a living by trying to farm in Montgomery County back in those days was not a lot of fun and didn't feed the family very well." Reba Patton
"I just thought it was only my family that moved." Charlene. Posted July 8, 2000.
Amerson | Barber | Benson | Carrier | Doyel | Evans | Fair | Hall | Herron | Holliday | Johnson | Kelly | Keown | Kirk | McKinney | Neighbors | Payte | Priddy | Reed | Rutledge | Scott | Shirley| Smith | Standridge | Swearengin | Vincent | White | Willhite
The 1920s were tough times in Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was an existence. The farmers along the Ouachita River were struggling with many trying to supplement their income with jobs e.g. saw milling, teaching, preaching, whiskey stilling. The farms were not economical units, acreage was low, soil poor, money was scarce, they were going into debt and families were large. They raised almost everything they ate and bread was homemade, too.
"Get all you can and can all you get."
They had tried to grow crops in the hills and amongst the brush and timber of Montgomery County and many walked off the land. Now days abandoned homesteads can be found on forestry land. Men began looking and listening for a better place to make a living. They heard there were good cotton crops in the flatlands of eastern Arkansas, that it was better and easier to make a living in Lee Co. Farm land was just growing up in sage grass there as people from Lee County had left to make a better living in the north cities. Some men went approximately two hundred miles east to look and found timber free land with rich dark soil in Lee County and decided to purchase acreage and move their families. Maybe they thought this will be the "land of milk and honey".
"It was only natural for others to follow as one daughter was married to a Neighbors, and one son married a Rutledge, while another son married a White." Reba Patton
Sion Sherrill Smith and family were the first to settle in Lee County in 1925. By the end November 1927 Bert Carrier moved his family to Moro. In December 1927 the Rutledges, Vincents and the Herrons left Montgomery County with the horse, cows, feed, machinery etc. in a freight train box car. The families journeyed for three days in wagons over gravel roads stopping at Hot Springs, Lonoke and finally Moro. The Lee County families encouraged their relatives and former neighbors around Oden to make the move. Families followed over the next three years settling around Westor and Holub area in Lee County. Later families traveled by truck and car.
Oden to Hot Springs 49 miles
Hot Springs to Lonoke 78 miles
Lonoke to Marianna 75 miles
Oden to Marianna 202 miles approx. or five hours todayStrong ties. Several of these families intermarried as they were neighbors and former Montgomery County residents. Some like the Doyels moved back to Montgomery County after a few years and others came back in later years to retire and be buried in Oden while others dreamed about coming back but never made the step. Among those who died in Lee County and were taken back to Montgomery County for burial were: Flossie Singleton, Mrs. Kelly, and Mrs. Standridge. Some families who lived in Lee County for a while but then moved back to Montgomery County were George Gortemiller, Dewey Goss, John Green Singleton, and Sherm Singleton. Several families would come down just to help pick cotton in the fall. Many families stayed and their offspring can be found in Lee County living near Moro and Marianna. Descendants are found in both counties today.
Yes, my connections between Montgomery County and Lee County are strong....not only with relatives. When I was growing up, I had many friends whose parents and grandparents were from Montgomery County. Bettie Dowler
Next group: Then, in 1925, Grover and Sally Scott, Fred and Sina Payte, Jim and Jeff Alexander moved to Lee County. Sina Payte was the daughter of Jim Alexander and Jeff was his son.
Fred's daughter Hazel Payte Dunning remembers that when she was a girl, many of the ones who made the move from Montgomery County to Lee County would come to their house first. She couldn't wait to wake up in the mornings to see who else had come during the night. Bettie Dowler
In the summer of 1926, Grover and Sally Scott went back to Montgomery County to visit. Grover talked his cousin Robert Lee Scott (from the Mt. Ida area) into taking his family to Lee County to pick cotton. Lee liked the country and when the cotton was picked, he went back to Montgomery County and got his belongings so that he could make his first crop in 1927. Lee Scott hired a Mr. Apple to move their household belongings in his truck. Lee's son Dewitt Scott rode with Mr. Apple. Lee, his wife Sarah Virginia Keown Scott, and their other son Floyd rode in their T-Model. Their livestock and farm implements were shipped on a train. Lee's brother Joseph Leonard Scott wanted to see the country, so he rode the train with their belongings.
William Woodville " Woody" Herron (1885-1970) buried Marianna, Lee Co.
In the winter of 1927, Woody Herron, Louis Shirley, and Royston Doyel bought adjoining farms in Lee County. The rest of the folks made share crops. Most of them lived on the "West Plantation." later known as Westor contrived from "West's store". Some of these were: Bert Carrier, Bill Scott, Sam Rutledge, ?Fair, Columbus and Susie Kirk and all their children, and ?Kelly. "The land was nothing but mud, black, gumbo mud."
George Gortemiller used his truck to move the Carrier's household furnishings from the Oden area. Bert, his wife Martha Wilhite Carrier and their family rode in the Model T. It took all day to make the trip. Rags were used to stuff tires because flats were plentiful and new tires were in short supply. When they had lived in Lee County a few years, the Carriers moved to a different house, and Max Standridge and his parents moved into the Carrier's former house.
Hard times followed these families even to Westor during the Great Depression. Poor commodity prices and widespread unemployment abounded. However, a strong community spirit developed and no one at Westor can be said to have gone hungry during the depression. Sewing bees, quilting parties, corn-husking, and all-day revivals contributed to the feeling of solidarity against adversity. Neighbor helped neighbor. Lee County History, pg. 77, Section T46"Lige Vincent, son of Josh Vincent, would go to Lee County and farm on the week-ends or whenever he could and helped pay for the land with the Oklahoma oil field work." Reba Patton
Tough times in 1929. "Charley Edward Amerson his wife Dona both grew up around Oden and were married in Oden in 1928 and had to borrow $5.00 dollars from the Oden State Bank to get married. They moved to Lee Co. around 1929 and lived in the Palestine area. Their daughter was born was born there in 1935. They did move back to Oden and are both are buried in the Oden Cemetery. Information courtesy of Charlene. Posted July 8, 2000.
Homesick. Most of the Montgomery County folks liked their new living conditions, but they were homesick for their families back in the mountains. After the crops were "laid by," Royston Doyel took a big truck full of people back home for a visit. Everyone from Montgomery County felt like kinfolk. In 1928, most of the people from the mountains got together and had Christmas in the old school house that was on the Louis Shirley farm. In 1933, they all met at Carrier's for Easter. Jack and Virgie Priddy had moved to Lee County by this time. Most of the folks who moved from Montgomery County either knew each other, or they knew relatives and friends of those who moved to Lee County. However, some of the children did not know each other until they met in Lee County. Information courtesy of Bettie Dowler. Posted Feb. 6, 2000.
"Grandmother was sick so they returned to Oden. Columbus Powhatten Kirk and Susie Jane Ledbetter-Kirk did move back when they got older and are buried in Oden. Their son is buried in Marianna." Melinda Lee Riden-Jardine Posted 14 Feb. 2000
Montgomery County News Thursday September 6, 2007
Deltha I. Fryar, age 88, of Royal, died Saturday, September 1, 2007.
She was born on November 22, 1918, in Crawford, Arkansas, the daughter of Columbus Powhatten Kirk and Susan Jane Ledbetter Kirk. She was married on the banks of the Ouachita River in Oden, Arkansas, to Vernon Franklin Fryar on April 21, 1934, who preceded her in death. She also preceded in death by her parents; one son, Haskell Fryar; two brothers, Andrew Kirk and Ray Kirk; five sisters, Dolly Ritter, Delia Jackson, Dora Fryar, Dinna Conrad and Dovie Snyder...."But he used to always want to retire in Montgomery County. My husband and I took him down there a couple of times in the last few years. He was able to spot where the roads had been moved etc. Was kind of sad because of so many changes as nature will take its course and the new generations come along." Reba Patton Posted Jan 27, 2000
Montgomery County News Feb. 1981
Curt WILLHITE
Curt Willhite 82, of Mena died Feb 8, in Wilhelmina Medical Center. He was born Feb. 22nd 1898, at Oden, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Willhite and was married to Mary Hill, May 1, 1916 at Oden. She preceded him in death Feb. 12 1978. He moved to Mena from Moro in 1969 and was a retired farmer and a member of the Pentecostal Church of Moro. Survivors include four sons: J.V. Willhite, Lem Willhite, Vernon Willhite, Bobbie Willhite. Two daughters: Mrs Iva Mae Duke, and Mrs Joyce Laster, Three brothers: Tom Willhite, Deck Willhite and Everett Willhite. Four sisters: Mrs. Martha Carrier, Marianna, Ark., Mrs. Dave Shannon, Mrs. Lessie Blanchard, and Mrs. Evelyn Finley. 18 grandchildren; 15 great children. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon Feb. 10th in the Oden Methodist Church at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Arthur Beshears officiating . Interment was in Oden cemetery under the direction of Beasley-Wood Funeral Home. Source: Copied from newspaper clipping in the procession of Nora Ledbetter of Oden. Moro is in Lee County, Arkansas, approximately 86 miles east of Little Rock. Curt moved to Lee County in 1935 and purchased a farm. His brother purchased an adjoining property.Polk Township 1920 Federal Census Montgomery County, Arkansas
Dwelling Household Age 18 WILLHITE Kirk L 21 Mary 18 Ida 1Other Montgomery Co. AR households that moved to Lee County:
Alexander,George Alexander,Jim Keown, Tom Carrier, Elbert Doyel, Rolston Evans, Coley Evans,Dave Fair, Alvin Hall,? Herron, Woody Holliday,Albert Holliday, Adley Holliday,Oscar Kirk, Columbus Neighbors, Will Rutledge, Sam Rutledge,David Scott, Bill Scott, Lee Shirley, Louis and wife Ellie Adeline Wilhite d/o John "Dock" Henderson and Mary Lucinda Hickey Swearengin, Warney Vincent, Josh White, John Willhite, Curt Willhite, Jessie Priddy, Jack Amerson, Charley E. Willhite, Dexter "Deck"References:
History of Lee County, Arkansas
Lee County Sesquicentennial Committee ISBN: 0-88107-101-3Carrier family page 213 by Chester Carrier Doyel John and Mary page 228 by Mary Doyel Herron William W. family page 252 by Rubye H. Neighbors Payte Richard Frederick page 311 by Hazel Payte Dunning White Reuben page 359 by Jewell Doyel White Willhite family page 363 by Chester Carrier
Montgomery County Families move to Lee County page 36 Section, T24 by Rubye Herron Neighbors
History of Westor pg. 77, Section T46 (Appreciation to Ed Whitehead, Mrs. John Doyel, Mrs. J. C. Neighbors, Mrs. Henry Boyer, and Mrs. A.J. Claywell for their assistance in compiling information for this short history...by Charles West)
Montgomery County: Our Heritage
Volume one compiled and edited by the Sesquicentennial Committee,1986. pages 0-669
Volume two compiled and edited by the Montgomery County Historical Society, 1991 pages 670-1214 Permission has been granted to Olwyn to do Lookups.Carrier Elbert Milton page 722 by Bettie Scott Dowler Doyel "J.R." page 57 by Christine Coyel Whittington Herron William Woodville page 793 by Rubye Herron Neighbors Scott Robert Lee page 920 by Bettie Scott Dowler Smith Sion Sherrill page 211 by William Watkins Vincent Joshua page 971 by Mac D. Vincent J.R.
Polk Township 1920 Federal Census Montgomery County, Arkansas
Dwelling Household Age 176 Carrier, Elbert M. 55 54 Doyle, Royston M. 35 157 Evans, Coley M. 25 59 Herron, Woodie W. 34 26 Holliday, Oscar 14 69 Reed, Henry J 48 2 Shirley, Lewis 41 143 Scott, John William Jr 26 114 Swearington, Warney H. 38 175 Vincent, Joshua 63 156 White, John M. 33 18 Willhite, Kirk L. 21Montgomery - Lee Counties researchers and surname interest:
Reba Patton Vincent Herron
Bettie Dowler Scott Carrier WilhiteMontgomery County Extension Homemakers Council. Cemetery Inscriptions of Montgomery County, AR 1986
LINKS:
Montgomery County Mt. Ida county seat
Lee County Marianna county seat Montgomery Co. ARGenWeb
Lee Co. ARGenWeb
Lee County History==============================
The Montgomery County Herald
Jun. 8 1894 Mt. Ida, ArkansasMajor Henly of Lee County, an attorney at law, has permanently settled in Caddo township and will practice his profession in Black Springs. He reports that there will be a large immigration in Montgomery this fall from the part of the State where he recently resided.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Monday, February 5, 1996Dona Shirley HOLLIDAY
PARAGOULD-Dona Shirley Holliday, 85, of Paragould, former resident of Marianna, passed away Feb. 1, 1996, at Arkansas Methodist Hospital in Paragould. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, ......; a daughter and son-in-law,..... ; one brother; ten grandchildren;17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Roller-Citizens Chapel, with burial in Marianna Memorial Park. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday at Roller-Citizens. Memorials maybe made to St. Jude's. Submitted by Bettie Dowler. Dona was the daughter of Louis and Ella Wilhite Shirley. This obit doesn't mention it, but Dona was born in Montgomery County.==============================
Paragould Daily Press
January 25, 1996Martha E. CARRIER
Martha Elizabeth Carrier, 99, of Paragould, formerly of Marianna, died Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996, at Paragould Nursing Center. She was born March 19, 1896, in Montgomery County. She was a homemaker and was of Assembly of God belief. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elbert Milton Carrier; and her parents, Alexander Clingman and Margret Singleton Wilhite. Survivors include three sons,..., a daughter ..., a sister, Dove....; 14 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday at Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Gary Anderson officiating. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Heath Funeral Home in Paragould. Submitted by Bettie Ilene Dowler
Polk Township 1920 Federal Census Montgomery County, ArkansasDwelling Household Age 176 CARRIER Elbert M 55 Martha 25 Ilene 3 Gleen 2 Chester 3/12==============================
Montgomery County News
Jan. 10 2002 Mt. Ida, ArkansasJewell WHITE, 93, of Fort Worth, TX, died Wednesday, December 26, 2001. She was born January 8, 1908 in Montgomery County. Survivors include: three sisters, Christine Whittington, Syble O'Neal and Marylin Berry; and two daughters, Gwen ... of Fort Worth, TX, and Patricia .... of Spirit Lake, Iowa. Funeral services were December 29, 2001, at the First Assembly of God Church in Marianna, AR, with Rev. Donald Nye officiating. Interment was in Marianna Memorial Park. Pallbearers were nephews Bill Berry, Bob Berry, Jim Doyel and Doyel O'Neal.
Lewis F. SHIRLEY
John Henderson (Dock) WILLHITE was born June 10 1846, in Tippah County, Mississippi to Julius and Polly Wilhite. John married Mary Lucinda HICKEY on August 9 1866 in Montgomery County , Arkansas and she was born January 31 1847. "Dock" died April 7 1933 in Polk County, AR and is buried at Board camp cemetery. He was in the Civil war, a farmer and of the primitive Baptist belief. They had nine children including Elle Adeline Wilhite who married Lewis Shirley 21st Jan. 1899, and they moved to Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas and lived on church street and owned a grocery store across the street. Louis and Elle's thirteen children were: Florene, Willie, Charmine, Dan, Raymond, Omer, Lona, Dona, Irene, Nellie, Henry, Etna and Grace Shirley.==============================
Barb McNabb Apr. 21 2005
Henry Jefferson Reed, b. 1871; Quillia York Reed, b. 1880
Children:
Ovia, (F) , b. 1909
Elsie/Eliza, (F), b. 1912
Monroe/Rolando, (M) b 1915
Herl/Harold, (M), b. 1918
This family was part of the migration to Lee County, AR from Montgomery County, AR. Jefferson Reed was born in Story, Montgomery Co.. Lived in Mount Ida and Oden. Left Montgomery Co. for Lee County, Texas township before 1930. SS information shows they were in Osceola, AR. in 1937. Ovia must have married as she is not in the 1930 census. My brother said you could see the Mississippi River from their farm. They were flooded and taken down to Memphis by boat. While there Jefferson Reed was struck by a hit and run driver. He received a head injury that later took his life. My mother, Donia Handley Jeans was the oldest and only child of Quillia's to live from her first marriage to Henry C. Hanley. In Donia's journals she says the boys, her half-brothers, took care of Jefferson's funeral arrangements. Later Monroe would move his family to Lake Providence, La and owned land on LA Hwy 134. Quillia lived near Monroe when she met and married Shelia Dye. At some point they lived in Red Bay, AL. Quillia's last letter to my mother was from a hospital in Jackson, MS where Quillia was receiving cancer treatments. She died December 1957. Her York family was buried at Hall Cemetery in Langley. She was the oldest daughter of Zachary Taylor and Eula Lloyd York. I don't have the burial of either Henry J. or Quillia. My mother said she was buried next to Shelia Dye. Her wish was to be buried at Hall Cemetery next to her parents. (Notes found in her Bible.) Barbara Jeans McNabb, granddaughter of Anna Quillia York, Handley, Reed, Dye.Polk Township 1920 Federal Census Montgomery County, Arkansas
Dwelling Household Age 69 REED Henry J 48 Quillie 40 Ovia 10 Elsie 8 Ramodo 5==============================
The Commercial Appeal 13 July 2007
Marianna -
GLADYS SCOTT SMITH, 95, died Saturday, July 7, 2007. She was born April 11, 1912 in Montgomery County, Arkansas and moved to Lee County, Arkansas in 1925. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Kirby Smith; and son-in-law, Jack Jennings. She is survived by two daughters, Claudine Smith Stiles and Earl of Marianna and Mary Carolyn Jennings of Springdale; two brothers, G. T. Scott and Faye of Byhalia, MS and L.D. Scott of Corinth, MS; two sisters, Eathel Walker of Hot Springs, AR, and Iris Phenix of Las Vegas, NV; six grandchildren, Natalie S. Gunter and Walter of West Memphis, AR, Ramey Stiles and Kerry of West Helena, AR, Scott Stiles and Christina of Jonesboro, AR, Martha J. Manley and Monroe of Springdale, AR, Mike Jennings and Jan of Mountain Home, AR, and Chris Jennings of Alexander, AR; and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 14 at the First United Methodist Church in Marianna, followed by burial in Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m., Friday, July 13 at Roller-Citizens Funeral Home in Marianna. Roller-Citizens Funeral Home 870-295-2528Dollie Mae RIDEN, 87, of Marianna, died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Forrest City. Ms. Riden was born, Saturday, January 21, 1911, and passed away, Monday, August 10, 1998. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 am Thursday, at Roller-Citizens Chapel, with Rev. Bill Elliott officiating. Burial will be in Marianna Memorial Park. Ms. Riden, a homemaker and member of Marianna M. B. Church, is survived by two daughters, Shirley Malonee of Jacksonville, AR., and Mary Jane Gentry of Ferndale, AR; two sons, Bill Riden of Hughes, AR. and Jim Riden of Olive Branch, MS. Two sisters, Dora Fryer and Deltha Wilson, both of Pencil Bluff, AR., 13 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Pallbearers are Ricky Riden, Jeremy Riden, Richie Riden, Dennis Johnson, Denny Johnson, and Bill Grigsby. (submitted by Melinda Lee Riden-Jardine on April 9, 2006 to the ARGenWeb Archivies)
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette 4 September 2005
REMEMBERING ARKANSAS Drought of 1930 left some in state desperately hungry
by Tom W. Dillard
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette 4 September 2005
Friends in Little Rock complain about the drought, and the eastern Arkansas delta region is reported to be extremely dry - to the point that heavy crop losses are expected. This drought can be, I suspect, compared to some degree to the great drought of my life - the one of 1980. But, the drought of 1930 is the one that sparked a great migration of people from windswept, parched Arkansas and Oklahoma farmlands to California. Climate historians note that the drought of 1930 was actually the culmination of a string of dry spells throughout the decade of the 1920s. As examples, in 1924 and 1925 some regions of Arkansas went more than 100 days without measurable rainfall. In the later year, Searcy recorded a 25-inch shortfall in rain. Arkansas City, near the Mississippi River, during the same summer recorded 118 days without rainfall. Interestingly, the tourist city of Eureka Springs often set records during droughts. In 1963 that Carroll County town suffered a rain shortfall of almost 28 inches. The drought of 1980, which was accompanied by a seemingly endless heat wave, again saw Eureka Springs as the driest place in Arkansas, with a shortfall of 21 inches. Weather statistics are easy to locate. One of the great collaborative ventures between our national government and its citizens has been more than a century of collecting and recording weather data. Many volunteers record weather data daily over very long periods of time. Former Montgomery County judge Bill Black of Mount Ida has won the Stoll Award for his half-century of recording the weather in his hometown in the Ouachita Mountains. (The Stoll Award is named for Edward H. Stoll, who recorded the weather in his Nebraska hometown for a remarkable 76 years.) Let's go back to the drought of 1930. That drought is particularly significant because it riled some starving Arkansas farmers around England, in Lonoke County, into demanding food assistance. The "England Food Riot," as this sad event has become known in the history books, was a result of far more than a record drought. The farmers who marched on the stores in England in January 1931 had suffered through a huge flood only a few years earlier, in 1927.
The summer of 1930 was a ruinous one for cotton farmers across most of Arkansas, as rainfall was especially scarce during June and July when the maturing cotton plants needed moisture. By August the entire state was suffering, with Helena on the eastern border suffering 103 consecutive days without rainfall. August added insult to injury by inflicting high temperatures on top of the lack of rain. Every reporting station in the state reported numerous 100-degree days. All farmers - whether landowners, renters or sharecroppers - suffered from the statewide decline in cotton production that averaged 40 percent less than the previous year. The corn crop was down by a staggering 70 percent, which meant that even feeding the livestock was a challenge. Many rural farm families subsisted on turnips, wild game and handouts from the American Red Cross. In St. Francis County fully half of the population received rations from the Red Cross. Meanwhile, more than 100 banks failed in Arkansas during 1930-31. The Lonoke County farmers who demanded food during that cold January day in 1931 were driven to desperation by seeing their families starve. One farmer stated that "we'll ask for food quiet-like, and if they don't give it to us, we'll take it, also quiet-like." Local merchants, who knew these starving farmers from years of selling them everything from brogan shoes to plow bits, opened their doors to the farmers. The national news media picked up on the confrontation in England, and the plight of starving and desperate farmers in Arkansas became a national concern. Gov. Harvey Parnell, who had been portraying Arkansas as a prosperous place worthy of industrial investment, was appalled at the bad publicity coming from the England affair, and he soon found himself in the curious situation of publicly denying starvation existed in Arkansas while quietly urging Arkansas U.S. Sen. Joe T. Robinson to seek more funding for emergency rations. Meantime, the Red Cross distributed food parcels and seed packets, with the hope that the growing season in 1931 would allow farmers to at least feed themselves.==============================
Lewis Miller Barber was born 6 Jan 1856 in South Fork Twp, Montgomery Co. AR. His parents were Ransom Barber and Cynthia McConnell. Lewis Barber died 6 Feb 1948 in Marianna, Lee Co., AR. He married Dollie Ann Summitt 13 Jan. 1877 in Montgomery Co., AR. She was the daughter of John Francis Summitt and Emaline Shaffer. They sold the land known as the Bill Carter place and homesteaded a big tract of land north of Sims, near the foot of the Chalybeat Mountain which was near his wife's family. Louis sold it off down to one hundred seventy acres and donated one acre for a cemetery, which is known as the Barber Cemetery. Louis built a big one room house out of logs that they cut themselves, then as his family increased, they added to the log house. He then married Florence Eurilla Regue Ollar 22 Aug. 1907 in Sims, Montgomery Co, AR. daughter of William Ollar and Matilda Jones.
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From FindaGrave.
Martha E. Wilhite Carrier 1896-2995 aged 99 Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery
and husband Elbert M. Carrier.
Son Chester Elbert Carrier, 92, of Paris, Arkansas passed away Sunday, November 6, 2011 in Paris.
Chester Elbert Carrier was born October 18, 1919 to Elbert and Martha (Wilhite) Carrier in Oden, Arkansas.
Glenn Earl Carrier Sr. born 26 Jan 1918 must have been born in Oden as well.
Sina Isabell Alexander Payte
BIRTH 22 Jul 1895 Oden, Montgomery Co., AR
DEATH 15 Dec 1987 (aged 92) Canon City, Fremont Co., Colorado
William David Alexander
BIRTH 5 Oct 1893
DEATH 29 Oct 1893 (aged 24 days)
BURIAL Brushy Cemetery. Oden, Montgomery Co., AR
A sister to Sina
Their father James Wm Alexander is buried at Moro, Lee Co., AR
Ruby Neighbors (Herron)
Birth date: May 05, 1908 Oden, Montgomery Co., AR
Death: May 27, 2003 (95) Moro, Lee, Arkansas, United States
Place of Burial: Marianna, Lee, Arkansas, United States
Immediate Family: Daughter of Woody Herron and Mary Ethel Lee Herron
Ida Mae Pruitt Amerson b. 29 Oct 1888 Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 4 Aug 1975 (aged 86) Palestine, St. Francis County, Arkansas, USA
BURIAL Salem Cemetery, New Salem, Lee County, Arkansas, USA
Her father John Edward Pruitt b. 1829 d.1897 (aged 67�68) is buried in Oden Montgomery Co. AR
Mother: Martha Catherine Carol Pruitt Clayborn (Claiborne) Mays, buried Oden.
Martha was first married to John Edward Pruitt, and second to William A. Mays. She was the mother of 7 daughters, including Ida Mae Pruitt Amerson.
Sister to Ida: Edith �Eda� Pruitt Singleton.
Eda Pruitt Singleton
1st Husband was Homer Gortemiller, married 3 Nov 1912
2nd Husband was Isaac Allen Singleton. Married 6 Sep 1920. Isaac is buried in Oden. Same plot as Ruth Emily Fryar.
Alice E. Rutledge Wilhite d/o William J. and Mary S. Rutledge. She married Mark Wilhite on December 13, 1925 in Scott Co., Arkansas. He was the son of Marion H. Wilhite and Margaret Lucinda Fryar Wilhite. Buried Y City, Scott Co. Her brother William Arthur Rutledge b. 1902 and died 1979 is buried in Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery.
Drury Jackson �Jack� Scott s/o William Mason Scott & Virginia C.P. Wells. He married Nancy Vines on 15 July 1894 in Montgomery Co., AR.
His daughter is Mary Jane Scott Seaburn
BIRTH 29 Mar 1914 Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas
DEATH 11 Feb 2009 (aged 94) Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas
BURIAL Lagrange Cemetery, La Grange, Lee County, Arkansas,
Lewis Franklin Shirley b. 20 Dec 1878 Montgomery Co., AR
DEATH 10 Jun 1955 (aged 76)
BURIAL Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery
He was the brother of W.H. Shirley, West Helena, Ark., and Mrs. Roy Garnett (Helen Shirley Garrett) of Cherry Hill, Ark.
Mother: Mary Jane Fryar Shirley
BIRTH Apr 1848 Tippah County, Mississippi, USA
DEATH 26 Jul 1904 (aged 56) Montgomery Co, Arkansas
BURIAL Shirley Cemetery, Montgomery Co. Arkansas, USA
Father: James Wright Shirley
Elbert Lee Standridge
BIRTH 18 May 1910 Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA
DEATH 8 Jun 1976 (aged 66) Forrest City, St. Francis County, Arkansas, USA
BURIAL Mars Hill Cemetery, Gill, Lee County, Arkansas
Father: Stephen Gulford Dudley Dud Standridge buried Owley Cemetery, Montgomery Co.
James H. McKinney BIRTH 1 Mar 1911
DEATH 27 Jul 1971 (aged 60) Buried Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery.
Parents: William Ruben McKinney and Mary Anne Standridge McKinney, Stanley Standridge Cmetery, Mt IdaEmail. Additional information, photographs, comments, reunion announcements, suggestions, notification of errors are welcomed! I invite you to offer further information on this migration as well as any other Montgomery- Lee County connections and add your surname interest. Montgomery County ARGenWeb.
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"In search of better land and more acres"
Share cropping persisted from the Civil War and through the Great Depression.