Clover Family Research Compendium

Created, Edited, and Maintained By June Clover Byrne

For the Clover Family Historical Society

Arkansas Miscellaneous Records

 

On This Page:
    Early Historical Records
    Native American Research
    Newspaper Tidbits
    Washington County, Arkansas Brands and Marks 1840 to 1969.
    Miscellaneous Records 

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Early Historical Records

        Rhonda Clover sent me the following two items which are certainly tantalizing. Remember that Arkansas was part of what of the Missouri Territory at that time. Following the Louisiana Purchase, negative rumors circulated about Governor Wilkinson. The residents of the St. Louis area showed their support for Wilkinson by sending letters to the president. This collection is called the Wilkinson Memorial. The residents who signed the letters lived in St. Louis, St. Charles (SC), St. Ferdinand (SF), and Ste. Genevieve (SG). In addition, residents from Cape Girardeau and New Madrid areas of the Louisiana Territory are included; however, Cape Girardeau and New Madrid residents are not indicated by a location designation. John Clover signed but no location was given suggesting that he was in the Cape Girardeau or New Madrid area about 1805. http://stlgs.org/DBgovernmentCensusMoTerritory1805.htm

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     The signature of John Clover was in section 11 of the list of signers of the 1810 petition of land owners who feared losing their land because of the legal changes after the Louisiana Purchase. The entire record is on line at: http://showmethebitticks.com/other_doc/1810_land_petition_tc.htm  The lists, containing 986 signatures of Missouri Pioneers in the year 1810, copied from the Territorial Papers of the United States, Vol. XIV, Louisiana-Missouri Territory, 1806-1814, pages 382-397. Compiled by Clarence Edwin Carter, U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1949.

        These two records are tantalizing because they tell us that a John Clover was west of the Mississippi River by 1805.  We know that the John Clover and Tabitha, his wife, signed a deed in Monroe County on 17 July 1818.   Did he move back to Monroe County after 1810?  Is this another John Clover? At the present time, I do not think any conclusions can be drawn.  Nevertheless, it suggests that we need to do more research in these areas.

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          Winston De Ville, Mississippi Valley Melange, (Ville Platte, Louisiana, Monograph, 1995). This book includes many of the early records of the Louisiana Purchase area.  No Clovers were found, however, the records are mostly from the 1700s. That would probably have been too early.  However, with the record above, it is clear that we cannot take this for granted.

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Thanks to Rhonda Clover for sending me this information:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txredriv/Miller3.html
ARKANSAS TERRITORY, TERRITORIAL PAPERS, Clarence E. Carter (ed), The Territorial Papers of the United States, Territory of Arkansas XX, 629

1828 Miller Co. Petition
PETITION TO GOVERNOR IZARD BY CITIZENS OF MILLER COUNTY
[NA:OIA, Lets. Recd. (Delawares and Shawnees): DS This petition is in its entirety on the website. It has to do with Indian Problems and is dated 20 March 1828.  
Isaac Clover is one of the petitioners.

Native American Records

        Most of the Clovers with Native American blood lived in Arkansas and later Oklahoma.  However, they were out of the Mississippi Choctaw group. Since the records cover several states, I have put them all on the Native American page on the following page.

United States Wide Databases

Newspaper Tidbits

http://www.arkansasresearch.com/descl93.txt 
    The following is from the index to Life & Times from The Clay County Courier Newspaper,
1893-1899, Published in Corning, Arkansas ISBN 1-56546-112-6, 138 pages, $21.00
plus shipping. Available from Arkansas Research, PO Box 303, Conway, AR 72033
See http://www.ArkansasResearch.com for more information. I do not know what the entry reads.
        Clover, Estella Miss, 34
        Clover, W. A., 6, 8, 10   

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http://www.arkansasresearch.com/Ran1912.txt 
    This entry was found in index to the book, Historical and Genealogical Abstracts from Randolph County, Arkansas, Newspapers of 1912 by Burton Ray Knotts, published by Arkansas Research, Inc., PO Box 303, Conway, AR 72033, 501/470-1120, www.ArkansasResearch.com  I do not know what the entry reads.  
        CLOVER, JANIE, 89

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    Stephen J. Chism, The Arkansas Gazette Obituaries Index, 1819 to 1879, (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1990).  This is an index with no actual obituaries.  There are no Clovers.

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    James Logan Morgan, Arkansas Newspaper Abstracts 1819 to 1845, Volume I, Obituaries and Biographical Notes from Arkansas Newspapers, 1819 to 1835, (Newport, Arkansas: Morgan Books, 1981), 81.
        Stephen Lunsford, c55, indicted in Union County, along with James Clover, c28, excaped from     Clark County jail at Greenville, reward notice. Arkansas Gazette, 28 July 1835; Arkansas Adventurer 7 August 1835; LR Times 8 August 1835.  [No mention was made of what the c before the number is, but it might mean ca. which would mean that James was about 28 years old.]

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The following items were sent to Rhonda Clover by the Arkansas Gazette as the result of a query.  

Elisha Clover was listed on Volume A: 070

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