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 3 - 5: </font><a href="#nov57">Nov 1957 - Sept 1960</a></font></b> <p><b>| <a href="pioneer.htm#sep55">Vol. 1&amp;2: 9/55-9/57</a>&nbsp; | <a href="pioneer_vol6.htm">Vol. 6: 11/60-9/61</a> |</b> <br><b>| <a href="pioneer_vol7.htm">Vol. 7: 11/61-9/62&nbsp;</a> | <a href="index.html">BCHS Main Page</a>&nbsp; |&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=12 COLS=1 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td> <center><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 35 issues, from September, 1955, to September, 1960.&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></center> </td> </tr> </table> <a NAME="nov57"></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 3. No. 1. Nov., 1957</b> <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tuck's Chapel and Cemetery <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tuck - Crest and Coat of Arms, p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp; Tuck's Chapel, by Pauline Carnell,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;pp. 4-11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp; A Pea Ridge Boy was American Aviation&nbsp;&nbsp; Ace in A.E. F. (Field Kindley), by Erwin Funk,&nbsp; p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Warren H. Wright Lived in Benton County 80 Years, by Erwin Funk,&nbsp; p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Records of a Confederate Officer - From the Day Books , Scrap Books and Receipts of Capt. William Frazier Patton, p.13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do You Remember When? (various news items from 1889 and 1890) from Horton Miller scrapbook, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bills Adopted By Teachers of Benton County August 8, 1898, to Provide for County Examiner of Schools, p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pea Ridge Normal School, by Jo S. Stevenson,&nbsp; p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hendrix Academy at Orchard (now Gentry) in 1898,&nbsp; p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Widows Receiving Confederate Pensions, p.19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aunt Ann Gilbert, Last Living&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Slave, (Obituary,) 1957), p. 20&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Memories of Aunt Mary Ann Gilbert, by Will Plank, p.20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Civil War Stories, by Bessie L. Tuck Rogan, p. 21 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; How Devil's Eyebrow Got Its Name, by Erwin Funk, p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Township History, by Erwin Funk, p. 23 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; More Marriage licenses, 1868-1869, p.25&nbsp; <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>&nbsp;Vol 3. No. 2 , Jan. 1958</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ground Breaking Ceremony, New Daisy Manufacturing Plant, South of Rogers, AR. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Civil War Experiences of a Benton County Youth. By&nbsp; J. G. Heaslet&nbsp; (contains Heaslet genealogy and gravestone information), p.3&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How Old Is Cross Hollows?, by Erwin Funk, p. 10 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Hammacks (family history), by Henry Hammack, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fayetteville Member Sends Interesting Note Regarding the Basham Family, by Elsa Vaught, p.15&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Spring Creek Missionary Baptist Church During the 19th Century, by&nbsp; Thomas Rothrock, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Professor J. R. Roberts and the Pea Ridge Academy, by Erwin Funk, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; More Marriage Licenses (1868-1869) Erwin Funk, p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Slave is Freed&nbsp; - A Slave is sold, by Alvin Seamster, p. 24 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Land Transfers By County People from 1846 - 1853(Book B, Benton County Circuit Clerk Records), p. 25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elisha J. Highfill, by Thomas Rothrock, p.27 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol 3. No. 3. March 1958&nbsp;</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Early Mills in Benton County (Wager, Osage-Alden), by Maud Rice and Emmaline Rife, p.1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Newspapers Established Prior to 1880, by Erwin Funk,&nbsp; p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Souvenir - School District #54, Hazel Valley, Benton County, AR, Aug. 29 - Dec. 15, 1899, p.6 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Charter Members of the American Legion, Benton Co., AR, .by Ray Henry, p.7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reminiscences of Old Anderson Township and Its People, by George Gearhart, p.8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Analysis of Benton County Census Report for 1850, by Erwin Frank, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Tuck Coat of Arms, p 13b <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Program of Teachers' Institute at Osage Mills, April 1887, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rogers Academy and Prof. J.W. Scroggs, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An Old Letter from Baties' Prairie (collrction of Mary Trone Linthicum)&nbsp; in August 1847, by&nbsp; Erwin Funk, p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last Will and Testament of Robert Dickson - 1849, supplied by Alvin Seamster, p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Leaves Mayville for Railroad Town (Thomas Richard Keith), Alvin Seamster, p.18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Good Country - A Look at Pea Ridge, Garfield, Brightwater , and Avoca In the Spring of 1889, A. W. Hurley,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gravette Was Seven Years Old August 9, 1900, Gravette Gazette, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Marriage Licenses Benton County 1869 - 1872,&nbsp; p. 22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Benton County Hammacks - An Appendix, Henry Hammack, p.23 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 3, No. 4&nbsp;&nbsp; May, 1958</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Confederate Veterans' Reunion in Bentonville In Sept. 1891, Benton County Sun, p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Notes on Confederate Leaders, (John S. Marmaduke, Frances M. Cockrell, Edward C. Cabell, Joseph O. Shelby, James F. Fagan, Maj. Gen. Shoup, Maj. Gen. Hindman, N. B. Pearce), by Will Plank,&nbsp; p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Spectator's Story of the Battle of Pea Ridge, author unknown,&nbsp; p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Silver Springs and Monte Ne, by Erwin Funk, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not All Corn Went to the Mill, by Erwin Funk, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Betty Blake (Mrs. Will Rogers) Born Near Silver Springs (Old Name of Monte Ne), by Erwin Funk,&nbsp; p.12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; William Hope "Coin" Harvey and Monte Ne, by Erwin Funk, p.12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Maysville Man Became Famous as Military Strategist in United States Army, (Capt Dumas), by Will Plank, p.14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rogers and the Mystery of the Passenger Pidgeon, by Erwin Funk, p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Marriage License Records Benton County 1869-1872, p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Touring Benton County in 1902 With the Political Menagerie, by Erwin Funk, p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tennessee Cousins Write Benton County Kindred the Family News in 1865, by&nbsp; D.K. Maxwell to a Cousin Griffin, p.23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elm Springs Academy, Benton County Democrat news item, p. 24 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville Public School Opens 5 Sept. 1898, Benton County Democratnews item, p. 24 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sale of Slave, Phinehas &amp; Rachel Holmes to James N. Wallace...1837, p. 24 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sale of Slave, Barnett Forsyth to Gideon G. Pace...1838, p. 25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Slaves in 1859, by Erwin Funk, p. 26 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Letter to Ozias Maxwell from Calvin Maxwell, 1865, p.26 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Horticultural Society Meeting July 25, 1902, Benton County Democrat, p. 27 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 3, No. 5 July 1958&nbsp;</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville College, by Alvin Seamster, p.1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Those Razorback Hogs Weren't Always as Advertised, by Will Plank,&nbsp; p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Osage Mill Story, by Elsa Vaught, p.3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As We Little Girls Saw It - Life in Eastern Benton County Before and After the Turn of the Century, by Lillie Preston, p. 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rogers Has Seen Many Newspapers Come and Go, by&nbsp; Erwin Funk, p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lowell Was Laid Out in 1881, by Erwin Funk, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pratt Cemetery and the Pratt Family, as told by&nbsp; Martha Pratt Voltz to Lottie Mistie, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Still a Mystery - Who was "the Spectator", p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; James Travis - Soldier, Hunter, Freighter, by Erwin Funk, p. 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Blackburn Cemetery at War Eagle, by Alvin Seamster, p. 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News Notes from the Lowell Leader, Vol. 2. No, 1, Jan. 23, 1903, by Ed J. Huggett, Editor,&nbsp; p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Records, provided by Alvin Seamster, pp 21-22 <br>&nbsp;- First Partition Suit, filed Nov. 1837 term; <br>&nbsp;- Rule of the Court 1897,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- First Deed in Benton County, AR, May 12, 1838. Samuel and Martha Whitehead to Singleton Langston;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- Certificate of John B. Dickson, Clerk of the Circuit Court, 16 July 1838 signature;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- Transfer of slave Ezekial Dickson to James M. Dickson, 26 May, 1837 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Marriage License Records Benton Co. 1869-1872, p. 22 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol 3, No. 6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sept. 1958</b> <br>Table of Contents of Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History of the Benton County Fair, Report of Secretary, 1903, p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Benton County Free Fruit Fair, by Ruth Dickson Berry, p.3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rogers Held First Benton County Fair in 1888, by Erwin Funk, p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Most Unforgettable Experience (James Patton water grist mill), by W.R. Edwards, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Uncle Zack Baker Was a Most Colorful Character, by Erwin Funk, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; More Notes on Old Bentonville College of 1895-1897 - Part Two, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Men Served in Most Important Engagements in Cherokee Territory, by Will Plank, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Arkansas Bound," poem, by Eve &amp; Huey Huhn, p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Late Rogers Diamond Jubilee Ripple, a tidbit submitted by Erwin Funk, p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Will Probated in Benton County, Samuel Tevan, 1838, Alvin Seamster, p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Interesting Bits From Old Newspapers - Those Good Old Days in Gravette - p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Public Notaries in Benton County in an Early Day, p. 22 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 4 No. 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nov. 1958</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover.&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Memorium - Margaret Jackson Blansett, p. 2; Claude H. Strode,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 3; Henry E. Brashear, p. 3, and cont .p 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville's First Sunday School After the 1886 War, by Alvin Seamster, p.3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Great American Air Base Named After Benton County Flying Ace, author unknown, p. 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Uncle Peter Carnahan Writes of Events in His Ministerial Life of Long Ago,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recalling the Kruse Gold Mine in Rogers, by Erwin Funk, p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Maysville's Big Fire of March 12, 1891, author unknown, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Prominent People in Bentonville's Past, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pea Ridge Battlefield as Seen by Citizens in 1921 (fifty-nine years after the war), article by T. S. Rice in "Southwest American" magazine,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ku Klux Klans in Benton County, by Erwin Funk, p 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Railroad Contract for Building of the Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad Company, Benton County Democrat, March 8, 1898, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Siloam Springs  Doings' in 1881, City Records, p. 22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Interesting Bits from Papers of 1893, p. 23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Horticultural Society Meets June 1893, p.23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville Market Report as of June 21, 1893, p.23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1893 County Sunday School Convention to he held in Rogers, p.23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Marriage License Records, Benton County, 1869-1872, p. 24 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 4. No. 2&nbsp;&nbsp; Jan. 1959</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Daisy People from Michigan, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History is an Accumulation of Facts, by Erwin Funk, p.4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Decatur Once a Big Fruit Shipping Point, by Will Plank, p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Callaghans Lived in Benton and Washington Counties, by Alvin Seamster, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miscellaneous Benton County Firsts, by Erwin Funk, p.13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My Story of Siloam Springs Eighty-Six Years Ago, by Rev. C.H. Hatfield, p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Following is an Interesting Letter Which Tells of the Aftermath of the Civil War, by Caroline Curtis to Harriet Woolsey, p.18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County's Best Known Citizen Prior to the Civil War: Judge A. B. Greenwood, by Erwin Funk, p.19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Topics for Argument in the Gay Nineties - Rogers Arkansas,by Erwin Funk,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Good Old Days on the Farm (Ice Cream Social at Pea Ridge), p.23 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 4 No. 3 March, 1959</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Brief History of Cave Springs, by Mrs. Wallace Venters, p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Interesting History of Cave Springs, by Reba Oakley, p. 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Erwin Funk Remembers Cave Springs,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 7 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Interesting Bits from Old Newspapers: Cave Springs Progress, July 28, 1911; Cave Springs Star, March 22, 1912, p. 7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bartlett's Cave - Now Cave Springs, by Pearl T. Banks, p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Roasting Eggs at the Spring, by Esther McClure Carter, p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Railroad Time Table - Rogers Southwestern Railway, p.11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Earlier Settlers, by Alvin Seamster, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Glimpse of Cave Springs Today, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When Tobacco Was King in Benton County, by Will Plank, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News from Benton County Democrat, April 23, 1887, p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Benjamin Bingham and Nancy Bingham Family, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Notable Arkansans: James H. Berry, p. 17 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; A Missourian's View of Bentonville, Bentonville Sun, Mar 21, 1891, p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hezekiah Highfill, By Ethan Alyn, p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Good Old Days of Benton County Pioneers, by Erwin Funk, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Final Installment of Benton County Newspaper History, Items From the Benton County Democrat, June 11, 1887, p. 24 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Volume 4, No. 4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May 1959</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A History of the Building That Has Been Known for More than 100 Years as the Elkhorn Tavern, by Elsa Vaught, p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Notes on the Jesse C. Cox Family with a Partial Genealogy of His Four Sons Who Lived in Benton County, by Elsa Vaught, p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Judge David Compton,  Pioneer' Member, Dead, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Howard M. Cox Dies in Kansas, Obit.,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bessie Hanson Lampe Dies, Obit., p. 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. Louzena Pattishall Burgin Dies, Obit., p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Home Near the Pea Ridge Battle Field Looted (Includes Civil War Story), by Erwin Funk, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Company "A" Arkansas Home Guard Militia Organized by Joseph R. Rutherford, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Confederate Veterans Entertained at a Dinner Party, Nov. 18, 1909, by Erwin Funk, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Civil War Receipts for Miscellaneous Items, Given by Nell Dickson Patton to Alvin Seamster, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Confederate War Bond, p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of Interest in 1876, Bentonville Weekly Advance, p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What's in a Name? (Naming Patterns for towns, sites, etc.), by Erwin Funk,&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Memoriam: F.W. Bartell, Obit., p. 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Games and Sports of Half a Century or More Ago, by Erwin Funk, p. 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From the Benton County Sun, March 3, 1905, supplied by Mrs. A. C. Scott (mostly statistics), p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is Your Name Listed Here? Interesting Post Offices Uncle Sam Closed Through the Years, p. 21 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Volume 4, No. 5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; July, 1959</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Albert P. Woods Dies, Obit., p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; F.W. Bartell, Obit., p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Around Mt. Pleasant, by W. R. Edwards, p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History of the Methodist Church of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by Sabra A. Davis,&nbsp; p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Time Bentonville Baseball and Football Stars, by J. Tom McGill,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rogers as Seen from a Walnut St. Window, by Erwin Funk, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Bit of History of Benton County Grand Jurors for Circuit Court, April, 1897, in Bentonville, p.15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tripping Through North AR in the Year 1894 (visit to the Pea Ridge Battlefield) from an article in the magazine Outing, by Lora S. LaMance, p.16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Missourian's Life in Arkansas, by A.J. Sanders, p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Names and Dates on Tomb Stones in an Old Cemetery at Cave Springs, p.18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Annual Gentry Picnic Held in California, p.19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cross Hollows, Twice Tenting Ground for Army, p 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Who is Lumber Lou? (Jessie Brashears Gilstrap), p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Odds and Ends of Benton County History, by Erwin Funk, p. 21 <br>&nbsp; - Apple Blosssom Queens 1923- 1927;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; - Mary Elizabeth Wardlaw, Bio;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; - Rogers Academy Graduate Becomes University Star; <br>&nbsp; - Believe it or not, This is no Apple Country;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; - When  wet  or  Dry  was the Biggest Issue;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; - Resented Questions about Personal History;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; - Judge Parker was Truly a Big Man) <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News Items from the Benton County Sun, March 21, 1891, p. 23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News Items from the Sulphur Springs Speaker, June 17, 1893, p. 23 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 4. No. 6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; September, 1959</b> <br>Table of Contents on Cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Ozarks Arts and Craft Fair (War Eagle), by Blanche Elliott, p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tombstone Inscription (J.H.S. Blackburn), <br>&nbsp;p.2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Eagle-Owl Battle, by J.H.V.H. (Submitted by Blanche Elliott of War Eagle), p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; War Eagle Water Mills Go Back to 1838, by Blanche Elliott, p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First War Eagle Post Office Opened in 1883, p. 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Legend is all That Remains of Long Ago Days But Folk of War Eagle Were Very Lively, by Bryan McGinnis,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 11&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How to Make a Letter of Long Ago - The Callaghan Letter, p. 15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From the Benton County Democrat, August 25, 1898 (Ordinances), p.16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Two Old Letters (D.W. McCay to wife Jean; D.W. McCay to son William, 1863), p.17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another Old Letter (M.C. Robinson to Sam'l Evans, 1839) p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Time Log Rolling, by W.R. Edwards <br>&nbsp;p.19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Down in Arkansaw: That State as Viewed By One Who Lived There (March 1985), by Erwin Funk, p. 21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iowa Editor Sees Cherokee Bill and Judge Parker (from Manning, Iowa Monitor, 1898), p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Political Firsts, listed by Erwin Funk, p. 22&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;-First and succeeding courthouses,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- First county officers,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- First attorneys,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- First Congressman,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- Succeeding Congressmen,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- James H. Berry sketch,&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;- Arkansas vs. Arkansaw. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A News Item: James Henry Scruggs, contributed by Elsa Vaught (memories of Cross Hollows, short Bio.), p. 24 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Crop or Two at War Eagle, contributed by Blanche Elliott, (J.D. Chastain's father's stories about Chastain family history), p. 25&nbsp; <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 5,&nbsp; No. 1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; November, 1959 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History of First Methodist Church , Bentonville, AR (Inside front cover, no author listed) <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Memoriam (Benton Countians P.K. Scruggs, J. F. Gulledge, William Elbert Jordan),&nbsp; p. 1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; War Record of Charles Foxwood, Sr., during the Civil War by Theodore P. Potts, pp 3, 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History of Law Enforcement in Benton County AR (stories of early incidents of law enforcement) by Eli Leflar (Rogers Attorney),&nbsp; pp. 4 - 7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Democrat County Convention, Bentonville, AR 9 June 1892 (Proceedings, listings of delegates and members of committees.) No author listed, pp. 7-9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Cherokee House in West Benton County (Hotel built in Cherokee City, AR short item.) No author listed, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clean Sweep for Arkansas, 29 September, 1911. (Apple growers and their prize-winning varieties, Tri-State Fair, Memphis, TN.&nbsp; Short Item) No author listed, p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Coin W. Harvey (short item concerning appearance in Court in regard to the Road Case against the Monte Ne Railway),&nbsp; p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; S. D. Woods and Mrs. Dor Orr opening new store (news item),&nbsp; p. 9 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Village Names by Edsel Ford (reprint from Arkansas Democrat 6 September 1959.&nbsp; Concerns Avoca and Brightwater), pp 10, 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Return to Pea Ridge (poem by Edsel Ford),&nbsp; p.11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Haste Family ( Franklin C. and Barthena) by Mrs. Stella Haste Rascoe, p. 12&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W. T. Patterson, Ninety Years Old, Honored at Pea Ridge (includes biography), no author listed,&nbsp; pp 13 - 14 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Political Firsts, Continuation by Erwin Funk. (History of the first Arkansas legislature with some of the representatives, delegates to the State Constitutional Convention of 186l, Confederate Legislature of 1864 and redistricted legislature of 1868; 1897 Arkansas Gazette list of prominent citizens of Northwest Arkansas counties; political candidates of 1888 and 1898; other political events.&nbsp; First Benton County Grand Jury members, first petit jury members, description of opening days of Circuit Court each March and September, first site of Benton County Courthouse; first store in Bentonville.) Author Edwin Funk, pp 14-15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pea Ridge Fathers Name Streets in their Town for Leaders in the Famous Battle, by Billie Jines, pp 16 and 17 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The "Firsts"in Benton County History by Lois Snelling (chronology of events), pp 17 - 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Noted Lecturer Tells of Human Side of the Civil War (Dr. T. Harry Williams' lecture at the University of Arkansas. His subject: "Fraternizing the Chivalry in the Civil War".)&nbsp; No author listed p. 20.&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; County's Old Settlers Picnic Discontinued. (Celebrations at Osage Mills for 56 years.), No author listed, p. 21. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Roll of Membership of Masonic Lodge of Bentonville in 1869.&nbsp; (Found in cornerstone of Methodist Church), No author listed, p. 21. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Old Folks 13 July 1894 (persons who responded to the call of Hansard and Larreck, Photographers, for pictures during the month of June, 1894.) Item from Benton County Democrat, p.22&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Program From the Teachers' Institute in 1900 at Bentonville, AR.&nbsp; (Participants and subjects listed.&nbsp; Clara B. Kennan, contributor, adds comments on her first days of school.),&nbsp; p 23&nbsp; <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 5 No. 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b> January, 1960 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. Frances Cox-Scott Has a Birthday, Back of front cover <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Octogenarian Remembered the "Bushwhacker" Days: William E. Jordan Biography by his daughter Cora Wright pp 1, 2, and 3&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Memoriam: Finis Holmes Wood, Theodore Herman Lampe.&nbsp; No author listed, p&nbsp; 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County "Down Under" (Caves and their legends.) By Lois Snelling, pp 4, 5, and 6&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Hog Killing" Time (In Northwest Benton County).&nbsp; (Family information and the process of butchering and curing hogs.) By. Rev. W. G. Jones, pp 6-8&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miscellaneous Bits of News, Benton County Democrat, 11 June, 1887, p 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Californ-i-a or Bust (John Riley Woods' letter to his wife Margaret about his trip to California, 27 September 1852 with added biographical data by his grandson, Glen Woods.) pp 9, 10, 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History Is Being Made Every Day That We Live (For the Year 1910) (From Files of the Rogers Democrat about Benton County Pioneers who died - and other subjects - in 1910) by Erwin Funk, pp 12, 13, 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Grape Shot and Minie Balls (artifacts found near Potts Hill). By Mrs. H. F. Carnell, p. 14 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gann's Ridge (Gann family information, keepsakes, Gann's Ridge School, pioneers, post office.)&nbsp; By W. R. Edwards, pp 15, 16, and 17. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stepping Stones in Benton County History (Items about early days in Rogers) by Erwin Funk,&nbsp; pp 18 and 19.&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; More About the Tobacco Business in Benton County (Bentonville Companies; by-laws of the Arkansas&nbsp; Tobacco Company.) By Alvin Seamster, p.22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Old Wire Road, Benton County's Favorite Highway (History) By Lois Snelling, pp 22, 23, and 24 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 5 No. 3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp; March, 1960 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Pea Ridge National Military Park. (History of efforts to obtain it with names of persons who worked to bring it to reality.) By Alvin Seamster, pp 2 and 3&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Report on Washington trip (delegation to finalize the creation of the Pea Ridge National Military Park with the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.) By Clayton N. Little,&nbsp;&nbsp; pp 3 and 4. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pea Ridge, Gettysburg of the West (History of the Battle) By Dr. Walter L. Brown, reprinted from the Arkansas State Historical Quarterly, Spring, 1956, pp 5 through 13. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Return to Pea Ridge (Poem by Edsel Ford, Poet Laureate of Arkansas), p 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Battle of Maysville - October 22, 1862. (History of, with copy of General James G. Blunt's report, reprinted from the New York Daily Tribune, Dec. 26, 1862, front page, column 4.) By Elsa Vaught, pp 14 through 19.&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When Rogers Was Much Younger (Items from a scrapbook compiled by Horton H. Miller) Submitted by Erwin Funk, p. 19 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Bit of History of "Cherokee National Seminary" (from The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Spring 1959, p. 64) An address given by Mrs. Ida Tinnin at Northeastern College, Tahlequah, OK, on the fiftieth anniversary of her graduation .&nbsp; She lists Beatties' Prairie families whose sons and/or daughters were graduates there.) Submitted by Mrs. Tinnin, p. 20&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elkhorn Tavern Deserted Since Descendants of Original Owner Move to Garfield.&nbsp; (History of the building and the Scott family at the takeover by the National Park Service.) By Will Plank, pp 20,21, and 22&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Battle of Dunagin's Farm was First In Arkansas (Ambush near Avoca Fatal to Soldiers of Curtis's Vanguard, 17 February 1862.( By Will Plank, pp 22, 23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Grim Reminders of the Battle of Pea Ridge (Relics Found on the battlefield with descriptions of the arms and ordnance used during the conflict) By Will Plank, pp&nbsp; 23 - 25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; General William Yarnell Slack (details of General Slack's reburial in the National Cemetery, Fayetteville) By Alvin Seamster, pp 26-27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Garfield, Arkansas (Original name, Crowell - history of the town) By Alvin Seamster, pp 28-29 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cross Writing (Dr. Neil Compton's collection of mid-nineteenth century letters exhibiting fine penmanship) By H.G. Huhn, p. 29 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Erwin C. Funk (Tribute and biography after his death, 1 February, 1960) No author, pp 32-33 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Two Early Editors of Rogers (Colonel Graham and Frank Mason) By Erwin Funk, p. 34 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arkansas Monument on the Vicksburg Battlefield (Sketch of the monument and its inscription; source of funds for the purchase of the monument) By Elsa Vaught, p. 35 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 5 No. 4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May, 1960 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In remembrance of Pauline Mistie (Active BCHS member who died 28 February, 1960) By Eli Leflar, p. 2. Obituary, p. 3 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Forrest Larimore (Tribute and biography) No author, p. 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. Malinda Frances Cox-Scott (Tribute and obituary) By Elsa Vaught, p. 5 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; George Newton Gearhart (Obituary) No author, p. 6 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Address by Conrad L. Wirth, National Park Service, at the Ceremony Establishing Pea Ridge National Military Park, Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas, 7 March, 1960 (Text of Mr. Wirth's speech), pp 7- 10 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thank You, Mrs. Dooley (Short autobiography; she was a granddaughter of Sylvanus Blackburn of War Eagle Mill) By Mrs. Dooley, 26 January, 1960, p. 12 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Oklahoman Came Back to Arkansas to Visit (Brief biography of James Henry Scruggs) By Elsa Vaught, p. 13 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alexander Winchester Dinsmore (Biography of an early Benton County settler) By B.W. Green of Little Rock.&nbsp; (Note: see also May, 1957 Pioneer), pp 14-15 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Resolutions of Respect (For Mr. A.W. Dinsmore) By E.S. McDaniel, James M. Bohart, Geo. W. Moore, Committee, People's Bank of Bentonville, p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remarks of Hon. Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas in the House of Representatives, Monday, 5 May, 1930 (Text of his speech honoring Mr. A.W. Dinsmore), pp 6-7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aunt May Doak (Mary Abigail Robinson: biography and family history) By Margaret Ann Smith Troutman, pp 18-20&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Various Benton County History Following Civil War (Begins with occupation of Bentonville by Federal troops, 8 March, 1862.&nbsp; Describes the disruption of civil government and actions taken by the County Court, including obtaining donations to rebuild the courthouse.) No author, pp 20-21 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benton County Has Built Four Court- houses (History, with more details on the building of the 1928 courthouse.&nbsp; Article contains information from the 2 December, 1926 Benton County Democrat that lists the contents of the box placed in the cornerstone, with names of the donors.) By W.R. Edwards, pp 21-23 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cephus Washburn, Missionary to the Indians (Outline of his life and ministry. Hugh Park's book, Cephus Washburn, Reminiscences is mentioned.) No author, pp 24-25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From Sulphur Springs Speaker, Vol. 5, No. 47, 17 June, 1893 - John B. Huffman, Editor (Various items on residents and events), p. 26&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Henry Burke Named Teacher of the Year in Siloam Springs (Brief account) No author, p. 27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. A.L. Peacock Honored on 90thBirthday (Brief account with biography) No author, p. 27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thornsberry Church Just Over the Line in Washington County (Short history)&nbsp; No author, p. 27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Bentonville Bank Robbery of 1893 (Eyewitness account) By W.L. Marley, pp 28-31 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville Shipped During 1897 (Number of railroad cars of various goods and produce, including 13,345 lbs. of poultry.) No author, p. 31 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One Hundred Years of Grahams in Benton County. (History of the Graham Family, early settlers.) By Erwin Funk, pp 32 and 33. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sugar Cookies (Letter to Mr. Huey Huhn from Paul E. Hulbrok describing a hike by Boy Scouts in 1912 to the Pea Ridge Battlefield from Bentonville and the later mapping of the Battlefield.&nbsp; Mr Hulbrok and crew were treated to cookies and lemonade by a lady resident of the area.), p. 34 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Letter to Huey Huhn from J.R. Craig (about the Eagle Hotel in Bentonville and owner Mrs. Jane Clark.&nbsp; Recounts General Siegel's interrupted breakfast story.), p. 35 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 5 No. 5&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; July, `960 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. Effie Lee Walker.(Notice of death of BCHS member Mrs. Walker) p1 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Report of the Arkansas Historical Meeting May 6 and 7, 1960, Ft. Smith. Arkansas, By ElsaVaught, p. 2 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pea Ridge Park will Play Important Role in National Civil Way Centennial.&nbsp; (Text of a speech by Karl Betts of Washington, D.C. at the "Deed Day" Ceremony at the Park on 4 March, 1960.), pp 4, 5, 5, 7, and 8. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Salt of the Earth - and of Benton County.&nbsp; (Importance of salt throughout history; sources of salt for early settlers; refers to Mrs. Hiram Carnell's account of Tuck's Chapel residents' trip to obtain salt; salt wells in Indian Territory destroyed by Union troops.) By Lois Snelling., pp 10 and 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Indian Troops in the Confederacy (Brief account reprinted from an Oklahoma Historical Society Quarterly.), p. 12&nbsp; <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pioneer Tools, Gadgets and Souvenirs (Cites the collection of W.G. Check of Gravette, Arkansas which occupied more than two thousand square feet of floor space, plus other items outside .) By W. R. Edwards, pp 13, 14, 15, and 16. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unusual Happenings in the History of Benton County. (Rogers Democratcolumn entitled "It Really Happened" recounted two unusual tales, by Erwin Funk,&nbsp; p. 16 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Osage Valley High School Commencement Exercises, 1 July 1889 (Complete program of events with participants.) From Benton County Democrat, 2 July 1889, pp 17 and 18 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News Items from Benton County&nbsp; Democrat, 2 July, 1889 (Nineteen items about Bentonville events and residents.), pp 19 and 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sulphur Springs High School, 1918-19 (Brief information about the structure and the principal, Professor Claud Coffelt.), p. 20 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sugar Cookies (Maple sugaring on a farm near Sulphur Springs in the 1890's.) By W.G. Jones, pp 21-22 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Confederate Veteran Remembers (J.W. Jones, the last Confederate veteran in Benton County, dictates his memories of his life and times.) By Marie E. Andrews, pp 22-24 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From the Diary of an Iowa Soldier's Trek Through Northwest Arkansas (By an unidentified man who was in the Battle of Prairie Grove.&nbsp; He describes events of camp life before and after this battle.) No author, pp 24-25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lingow Family, Early Residents of Maysville (Short history of Martha Lingow and her family written by daughter Laura Belle Tracey.), p. 25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; History of Monument to Valiant Soldiers Who Died in Battle for the South (History of the Confederate monument erected on the Bentonville City Square, and description of the ceremony at the unveiling.) No author, p 26-27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville News of 8 March, 1891 (Six items of local events.) Bentonville Sun, p. 27 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From Benton County Journal, 21 June, 1893 (Nineteen items from various county locations.), pp 27-29 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unusual Happenings in the history of Benton County (Two early events.) By Erwin Funk, p. 29 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation; But Sin Is a Reproach to Any People" (A proposal by T.A. Winkleman of Rogers to post the Ten Commandments in school rooms, and also to post an admonition to "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, etc.," plus a "Code for Pupils Ten Years Old and Through the Teen-Age," printed on a pledge card for each school authority to furnish to the pupils.), p. 30 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; News from the Pea Ridge Pod, Vol. 2, No. 1, Thursday, 9 July, 1914 (eighteen items, including a report on the opening of the Pea Ridge Normal School, with curriculum and instructors listed.), pp 31-32 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some Civil War Marriages (Eleven couples listed, dates range from 1862 through 1865.), pp 32-33 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From the Siloam Springs Democrat, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1 July, 1898 (Five items, including a brief report on the city's eighteenth birthday celebration.),&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; p. 33 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bentonville's Second County Jail (Brief description of the specifications of the new jail.) No author, p. 34 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unusual Happenings in the History of Benton County (Three items: an elephant in a baggage car jerked the air brake control; a Benton County woman sued her brother for 45 cents; Mrs. Farmer, elder in the Siloam Springs Church of the Nazarene, was the first woman to perform a wedding ceremony in Benton County.) By Irwin Funk, p. 34 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miscellaneous Benton County Firsts (1877-1960) By Erwin Funk, pp 35- 39 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Nice Letter (To Mr. H. G. Huhn from Carrie Jackson Davidson about her tardy dues for Benton County Pioneer.)&nbsp; p 39 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Allen - Jackson Record (From a letter by Carrie Jackson Davidson.&nbsp; Family record from the grandparents and their children through her parents and their children.) p. 40 <p> <hr SIZE=6 WIDTH="100%"> <br><b>Vol. 5 No. 6</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; September, 1960 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; War Eagle's Seventh Ozarks Arts and Crafts Fair (Brief description of the setting and type of exhibits.) By Blanche H. Elliott.&nbsp; Back of front cover. <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wild-Life Around War Eagle Mills in the Year 1860 (History of the area, native birds and animals), pp 3 and 4 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Very Nice Letter (To Mr. H. G. Huhn from Robert Lee Mernagh about his life in Bentonville from 1884 to 1892. He mentions neighbors, fellow church members and tells of his conversion at age 14.)&nbsp; p 7 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rocks (A tale about a real estate deal.)&nbsp; By H. G Huhn, p 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; George N. Gearhart (A brief tribute to his life.)&nbsp; By Mrs. Bertie Parker, p. 8 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. C. E. Moore writes (Letter to H.G. Huhn about membership.&nbsp; She encloses a family history of Mary Elizabeth White Thompson) pp 9, 10, and 11 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Honor Thy Father and Mother (Exodus 19:12) (The story of John Samuel Hackler, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Sarah Ann Puckett.) By Margaret Smith Troutman, pp 12 through 25 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ghost Towns of Benton County, AR (Leetown, Eldorado, Cross Hollows, Bloomfield, Monte Ne, Brightwater and Avoca.) By Lois Snelling, pp 27, 28, 29 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unusual Happenings in the History of Benton County, AR. (Three items) Erwin Funk, p. 29 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; List of Names from School Records of Buttram's Chapel...1882... (Names and ages at the time.) By Alvin Seamster,&nbsp; p. 30 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Huffman Hall Long Prominent in Rogers History (History of second floor room or rooms in downtown Rogers) By Erwin Funk, pp 31 and 32 <br><img SRC="images/bullet_s.gif" height=15 width=5>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unusual Happenings in the History of Benton County (1923 and 1916 items) By Erwin Funk, p 32 <center> <p><font size=+2>* * *</font></center> &nbsp;</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>| <a href="pioneer.htm#sep55">Vol. 1&amp;2: 9/55-9/57</a> | <a href="pioneer_vol6.htm">Vol. 6: 11/60-9/61</a> | <br>| <a href="pioneer_vol7.htm">Vol. 7: 11/61-9/62</a> | <br>| <a href="index.html">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> <br>The address of this page is <a href="pioneer2.htm">pioneer2.htm</a></center> <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>11/2009</div> </td> </tr> </table></center> </body> </html>