ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="Bill Millager"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> <meta name="Description" content="Our mission: to ensure that the history of Benton County is recorded and passed on to succeeding generations."> <meta name="KeyWords" content="Benton County, Arkansas, Bentonville, History, Historical Society, Ozarks"> <title>Pioneer - Benton County Arkansas</title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FBF7DB" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#FF0000" background="../../History/BCHS/T0007.gif"> <a NAME="Top"></a> <center><table BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=10 > <tr> <td><img SRC="BCHSCS2.gif" ALT="BCHS Foundation Stone" BORDER=0 height=109 width=169></td> <td> <center><b><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+3>Benton County </font><i><font size=+4>Pioneer</font></i></font></b> <br><b><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Annotated Tables of Contents</font></font></b> <br><b><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Volumes 1&amp;2: </font></font><font color="#000000"><a href="#sep55">Sept 1955 - Sept 1957</a></font></b> <p><b>&nbsp;<a href="../../BCHS/pioneer2.htm">Vol. 3 - 5: 11/57 - 9/60</a> | <a href="../../BCHS/pioneer_vol6.htm">Volume 6: 11/60-9/61</a> |</b> <br><b><a href="../../BCHS/pioneer_vol7.htm">Volume 7:11/61-11/62</a>&nbsp; | <a href="index.html">BCHS Main Page</a> |</b> <br><b>&nbsp;| <a href="#contact">Contact Us</a> |</b></center> </td> </tr> </table></center> <center><table WIDTH="450" > <tr> <td ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH="65%"> <table BORDER=2 CELLPADDING=5 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td><b><font size=+2>Visit </font></b>early issues of the <b><i>Benton County Pioneer</i></b>.&nbsp; Explore fascinating historical events.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bring early families back to life.&nbsp; These pages offer a <b><i><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+1>word-searchable</font></font></i></b> guide to the first 41 issues, from September, 1955, to September, 1962.&nbsp; (The <b><i>Pioneer</i></b> has been published continuously for more than 46 years.)&nbsp;&nbsp; <b><a href="#contact">For Information</a></b></td> </tr> </table> <a NAME="sep55"></a> <center><table COLS=1 WIDTH="80%" > <tr> <td WIDTH="85%"><b><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+2>Annotated Contents:</font></font></b> <br><b>Vol. 1,&nbsp; No. 1 Sept., 1955</b> <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Arkansas Pioneers of 1832 of War Eagle, Arkansas: The Sylvanus Blackburn Family, by Vera Key,&nbsp; (6 pages)&nbsp; <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 1, No. 2&nbsp;&nbsp; Nov., 1955</b> <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The VanWinkle Story, by Alvin Seamster&nbsp; (a separately-printed insert) <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Mt. Pleasant Community (history of), by W. R. Edward, p. 3 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Readin', Writin', 'n 'Rithmetic (early pioneer schools), p. 4 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Our Pioneer Homes (log cutting and cabin raising), p. 5 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Small Pioneer Mill (home grinding of meal), p. 5 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Camp Walker (history of), Alvin Seamster, p. 6 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Descendants of Mark Smith (family history), by Margaret Trautman, p. 7&nbsp; <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 1, No. 3 Feb., 1956</b> <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Settlement of Benton County, Arkansas, by Louise Plank, p. l <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Soldier of 1812 (David McKissick), p.2 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Lovely Purchase (Major William L. Lovely) - Short History, p. 2&nbsp; <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; How We Pronounce It (Arkansas), no author, p 2. <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville - The County Seat In&nbsp; Review, (Taken from Judge William A. Dickson's 1928 article; contains information about early churches, first lodge, early roads), no author, p.3 <br><img SRC="bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Other Early Settlers (Richard Burgess, Joseph and Charles Neal, Archer and Samuel Wilson, etc.), p. 7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The County's First Poor House, no author, p.7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville Churches Before 1850, no author, p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Recollections of Mrs. Betty Woods Lee, by Mrs. Lee, p. 9&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Early Benton County Milestones, by Alvin Seamster, p. 10-11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Early Business Transactions in Osage Township, by Bryce Woods, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; A School House Is Planned in Bentonville, 1841 Style, Includes a list of&nbsp; subscribers to the building, no author, p. 13-16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Thomas Nichols Family - Wagon Train to AR, by Myrtle Nichols Noecker,&nbsp; p. 13-16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Production Data (Crops in 1840), p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; How Towns in Benton County Received Their Names (Article from Goodspeed's 1889 History of Benton County, Arkansas), p. 17 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 1, No. 4&nbsp; May, 1956</b> <br>No Table of Contents <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The General Store (refers to sketch on cover) <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Meeting at Pea Ridge, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Historical Society, p 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Post Offices and Postmasters 1856, from Mitchell's Atlas 1865, p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Lt. Colonel Paul Liggett Anderson, p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Communist Colony in Benton County AR (Harmonial Vegetarian Society), by Clifford Fry, p.4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The New Hope Community, by Huey Huhn, from information from Marcus Gould, p.6.&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; The Applegate Drug Store, p.8 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Samuel Dee Woods Writes (Family history and information on Raphael W. Hansard), p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Our Trip to Pea Ridge Battlefield and Elkhorn Tavern, p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Things to Remember About the Early Settlers, by Alvin Seamster, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; More About How Towns in Benton County Received Their Names, Benton County Record and Democrat, 1930, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By-laws of BCHS (Revised April 8, 1956, p. 14 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 1. No. 5&nbsp; August, 1956</b> <br>With alphabetical Table of Contents <br><b><i>Commemorative Issue: Celebrating Rogers Diamond Jubilee, 1881-1956</i></b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Front Cover: That First Frisco Train, by Lon A. Pace <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Introduction (Rogers 75th -&nbsp; Diamond - Jubilee), by Erwin Funk, Editor of the Rogers Democrat, 1896-1930 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Margaret Jackson Blansett, Another Eye Witness of that First Train,  Old No. 17,' which came into Rogers; Gives the Following Account of the Event, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; A History of the Sikes Family, by Erwin Funk, pp 2- 4. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; My Early Memories of Rogers, by Georgia Eaves Godley,&nbsp; p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Albert W. Marshall Saw Rogers Grow Up, by Erwin Funk, p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Memories of Tom F. Morgan, by Vera Key, p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Excerpts from Souvenir Issue of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Town of Rogers, Arkansas Standard (magazine) p. 11-14&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; My First Impression of Rogers, by F. P. Rose,&nbsp; p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; J.B. (Bode) Stary remembers First Frisco Train, by Mrs. A. C. Brogan, p 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The John W. Bryant Family, by Marjorie Bryant, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Early Day Businesses of Rogers, p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Apple Blossom Festivals in Rogers, Margaret Troutman, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Fifty-nine Years a Milliner, Maggie (Mrs. J. A.) Pollock, p. 22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Stroud Family, Charley Stroud and Lola Dodson Morgan,&nbsp; p.23. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Important Dates and Events in the History of Rogers,&nbsp; p. 25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Growth of Rogers Churches, p 27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Old Blake Home, by Lottie Mistie,&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 32 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Leading Citizens of Rogers Fifty Years Ago, by Erwin Funk, p. 33 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 2, No. 1&nbsp;&nbsp; Nov., 1956</b> <br>(No Table of Contents) <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Story of Siloam Springs, by T. P.&nbsp; Fulton, p.1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Pioneering in Siloam Springs, by Stella Denny Holbrook, p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Business and Professional Men of Siloam Springs, as Advertised in the Siloam Springs Herald, March 22, 1901, by A. W. Perrine, p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Siloam Springs Celebrations, by <br>Louise Plank, p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Excerpts from Godspeed's 1889 History of Benton County, p. 7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Dedication of Plaque at Oakley Chapel, by&nbsp; Harold Womack, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Carnahan Sisters of Avoca, no author, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Our Highways, by Huey Huhn, p. 16 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 2, No. 2&nbsp; Jan., 1957</b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pea Ridge National Military Park (cover) <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Pioneering in NWAR: Memoirs of the late Miss Margaret Wood, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Palace Art Galleries, Monte Ne, by Mrs. Robert Buhrkuhl, p.5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Confederate Reunion of 1895, by Alvin Seamster, p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; The Horsleys, by D.B. Horseley, p. 7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Public Roads 1869, by R. F. Whiteside, p.7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Armed Students Guard Rogers Academy Campus, by Erwin Funk, p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rutherford, N.J. Founded by Waling VanWinkle, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Prairie Grove Memorial Park, by H.G. Huhn, p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Squally Days in Benton County&nbsp; (Life During Civil War), by W. R. Edwards, p.12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Courthouse Records, supplied by Alvin Seamster, p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Early Benton County Marriage Licenses Book 1, (no author), p. 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the Early Chancery Court Cases in the County (Divorce: Daniel Copeland v. Elizabeth Copeland),&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 18 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 2, No. 3&nbsp; March 1957</b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poem "Elkhorn Tavern," by Lucindia Cox, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Battle of Pea Ridge, by&nbsp; Bill Butler,&nbsp; p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pea Ridge National Military Park, by Alvin Seamster,&nbsp; p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; New Old Map of Battlefield p.2&nbsp;&nbsp; (Old map reprint p. 4-5) <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Pea Ridge Park Is Expected to Be in Operation During Fiscal Year Starting July 1, newspaper items, p.6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; A Correction: Margaret Woods Memoirs, (V. 2, No. 2, p.1) p.9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Soldiers Serving in the First Indian Brigade p.10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; List of units and commanders (Confederate and Union) involved in the Battle of Pea Ridge) pp. 11 - 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Interesting History of the Woods Family of Benton County, Samuel Dee Woods, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; A Reminiscence of Coon Hollow, David Compton, p.15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Find the Defendant (Stand Watie)&nbsp;  Not <br>&nbsp; Guilty,' by Alvin Seamster, p. 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Burials in Bozarth Cemetery, Northwest of Gentry, p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Marriage Licenses 1864-1867, p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; News Item From Twenty Years Ago, Column, Obit of Martha Stroback Kendrick (Mrs. W. L.), p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; A Shotgun Operation, Vera Key, p. 23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Data on the Early Schools of Siloam Springs, Sabra Davis, p.26 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 2, No. 4 May, 1957&nbsp;</b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville Graded and High School Would Open Sept. 30, 1889 p.3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Report of Cromwell AR School District #23 1889 p.4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Report of Batie School District #25, 1889 <br>&nbsp;p.4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Harmony Grove School, 1889 p.5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Robinson Free School Report Ending Dec. 6, 1889 p.5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Decatur Public School District #46 p.5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Early Roads in Benton County and Their Overseers p.5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Teachers' Institute Held at Sulphur Springs, Oct. 24, 1889 p.6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rogers Academy vs. Schools of Today, by Erwin Funk p.7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Black Jack, Arkansas School, March 4, 1873 p.9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Early Hiwasse Schools, by W. R. Edwards <br>&nbsp;p.10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Prof. Edwards Honored with a Birthday Celebration, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Gravestones in Patterson Cemetery, p 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; First Sunday School Organized in Bentonville After the Civil War, June 10, 1886, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Report of the Benton County Sunday School Convention Held at Rogers for Year Ending October 1, 1889,&nbsp; p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Alexander Winchester Dinsmore Family, (family history),&nbsp; p.15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Anderson-Dinsmore-Watson Families, (family history), p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Private Thompson of Texas Tells His Experiences in the Battle of Pea Ridge, by Samuel Thompson, p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Early Benton County Marriage Records, p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Burials in Austin Cemetery - four miles above War Eagle, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Journeyings of Private Squires in the Civil War, by Charles S. Squires, p. 22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Spring - Dunlap - Cabell Families, by Elsa Vaught, p.23 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 2, No. 5., July, 1957</b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Kihlberg Hotel (Sulphur Springs) Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Sulphur Springs  Record,' by Will Plank , p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Merchants In Sulphur Springs From 1912 - 1915, by Louise E. Plank, p. 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Notes on Sulphur Springs, by Mrs. Storm Whaley,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Reminiscences of Early Sulphur Springs and Its People, by S. Dee Woods,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Sulphur Springs Today, p.12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Wycliffe Movement, p.12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Call for Teachers' Institute, 1873, Alvin Seamster, p.13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Opening of Prize Drive of the Ozarks: Big Event in 1930's, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Early Development of the Apple Industry in Benton County, Pearl G. Banks, p.15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Early Lumber King (J.A.C. Blackburn), p.16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Osage Valley High School (1887), p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; A Short History of the Alden Family and the Doctor's Experiences, by Mrs. Luther Rife, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Editors Visit the West End of the County in 1889, p.20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Every Day Conveniences Not Old, Erwin Funk, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Interesting Old Benton County Marriages, p. 22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Post Offices in Benton County From 1865 to 1910, p. 23 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 2 No. 6 , September 1957</b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Goldsmith Davis and the Ben Davis Apple, Erwin Funk, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Blue and the Gray Reunion at Pea Ridge,&nbsp; Sept. 1889, by&nbsp; A. W. Hurley, p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Arkansas Boys and the Red River Campaign, by Erwin Funk, p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; I Remember When (Letter), by Elwood Walker, p.7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Gay Nineties, As Remembered by Mrs. W. A. Dickson, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Our Old Home Memoirs, Written by Rev. W. R. Edwards for His Grandchildren, p.12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Settlers' Annual Picnic at Osage Mills, by Maud Wallis p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; I Remember When&nbsp; - As Told to Me By My Mother, Minnie Rankin (Hackler) Smith, by Margaret Troutman, p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Letter to Mr. I. J. Ward from W. J. Howard (Sept. 18, 1857), p.20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp; Mr. W.A. Burgess, by H.A. Huhn, p.21 <br>&nbsp; An Old Workbench, p.21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; October Term Circuit Court, Second Monday in September, 1837, p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Uncle Alec Nail, Benton County's Oldest Citizen When He Died in 1920, by Erwin Funk, p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; "Benton County Tax Assessments in 1845, by Erwin Funk, p.23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; Election Proclamations (Sept. 5, 1898), no author, p. 23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5><font size=+1>&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp; In Memoriam (Lon Andrew Pace, Dr. Elisha Highfill, Besse Gould, Ralph Misenhimer), p. 23</td> </tr> </table></center> <a NAME="contact"></a> <table BORDER=2 CELLPADDING=12 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td>For <b>information</b>, or to purchase <b>back copies</b> of the <b><i>PIONEER</i></b>, please phone the society at (479)273-3890, or inquire by email to <font color="#000000"><font size=+1><a href="mailto:bchsark@juno.com">BCHSArk@Juno.com</a>&nbsp; or&nbsp; <a href="mailto:w.logue@cox.net">Win Logue</a></font></font>.&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <center> <p>&nbsp;| <a href="#sep55">Sept. 1955 - Sept. 1957</a> | <a href="../../History/BCHS/pioneer2.htm">Nov 1957 - Sept 1960</a> |&nbsp; <br>| <a href="../../History/BCHS/pioneer_vol6.htm">Nov 1960&nbsp; - Sept 1961</a> |&nbsp; <a href="../../History/BCHS/pioneer_vol7.htm">Nov 1961&nbsp; - Sept 1962</a> <br>| <a href="images/index.htm">BCHS Main Page</a>&nbsp; | <a href="#contact">Contact Us</a> | <br>All of the toc's are <b><i><font color="#FF0000">word-searchable</font></i></b> <div align=right><a href="#Top"><img SRC="images/top.gif" BORDER=1 height=23 width=27 align=BOTTOM></a></div> <font size=+1>&nbsp;</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align=right>&nbsp;11/2009</div> </td> </tr> </table></center> </body> </html>