Message From: Lee Sedivy

My gr-gr-gr-grandfather, Samuel NOE, married his wife (#3) in Limestone. She was Mary Jane (Swafford) McGee. Their children would be 1/2 blood to me as I am related to Samuel through his second marriage.
Children from marriage # 3, married into the following families: Curtis
Casey
Young
Phillips
Pitts
Leavell
Chronister
Pruitt
Young & Davidson
I have VERY little info on these lines.
Lee

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Message From: Diana Boothe

I hope you are ready for this one, lol...........
Robinson/Roberson-and all variations,
Shatwell/Shatswell-and all variations,
Martin
Henson
Woodward
Bohannon
Peoples
Freeman
Smith
Tennison
Reed
Essex-------and the rest of the Newton County relations that go with these..:-)
Diana
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Message From: Ray Richardson

<< Message From: Lori Reddell
...... Sexton >>

My ggg-grandmother was Mary Rebecca Sexton 1815-1899 and married my ggg-g-pa Fielding Lewis Richardson. They started out in Kentucky and ended up in Arkansas, Newton & Madison Co's. Was wondering if she had other family that also came there. Do you show her name in any of your records?
Ray
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Message From: Ray Richardson

<< Message From: Inez Eddings Darwazeh
Eddings Waters Farmer Vallines Star Agee Jones Shamedah >>
I didn't mention on my roll call the names Villines or Farmer, but I am related to both those names by marriage going back a ways.
Ray
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Message From: Bert Bryant

That Clove chewing gum was my favorite and Grapette for the soda pop. We always said soda pop 'soddy pop'. Some places around the country they say only pop and others soda. I like saying soddy pop, keeps me young. By the way, Judy the picture of the old cabin came in the mail. Thanks alot, I appreciate it.
Bert
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Message From: Virginia Heard

Lori,
Have any of your Collins staggered over the state line to Iron County, Missouri? I have Collins from there Before there Kentucky
Thanks Virginia
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Message From: Ray Richardson

Message From: Freda Carpenter
<< That is true,Ray, BUT I would much rather get these kind than the scams,viruses,worms or people wanting you to buy someting I get on a daily basis,you can stop getting these if you want to,just wish it was that easy with others.I get close to 100 to 150 sometimes more emails a day because of the sites I am an administrator of & for the queries I have everywhere. Sorry to see ya go but understand as well. >>
Oh, I wasn't going to go anywhere, I like getting the messages even though some don't say a lot, but that's ok. Like somebody said, you never know when you are talking to a cousin and just might find out some important info about about your family line. Also, I have enjoyed the reminiscing about the 'olden days.' Lots of good memories there.
Ray
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Message From: Jetty Baker

Mine are Armer, Snow, Plumlee . We are decendants of Clinton Plumlee , Eliza A. Plumlee married John Thomas Snow. Mary Tennessee Snow married Robert Ozias Armer, Noah Armer married Gladys Battenfield. Noah and Gladys are my parents.
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Message From: Bert Bryant

One of my fond food memories were those old see through food cases. With big logs of balogna and hard wedges of cheese. And pork and beans out of a can or canned salmon on crackers. That was the life. And of course, wash it all down with a Grapette out of that chest type cooler.
Bert
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Message From: Barbara Crutchfield 

Okay!
Crutchfield
Moten
Jones
Barbara
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Message From: Virginia Heard

Those Chests with the slides to pull your pop from were hard to tangle sometimes especially if you were on the short shide Ha ha
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Message From: DeLinda Watkins

Hi Freda
What Ashlock are you researching?
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Message From: Freda Carpenter

James Livingston Ashlock who married Jane M. Bailey.He was the son of Francis Palmer Ashlock & Mary{Molly} A. Watson.I am really looking for a time the Ashlock's came to Newton County from KY & TN & who Mary's parents are.
Cull Ashlock who married Martha Watson was J.L.'s half brother from F.P.'s second wife Polly Jane Hopper.
And any other ASHLOCK's I've missed
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Message From: Joy Baldwin

Virginia, Can I add the Barnards, Sparks and Selfs to that roll call? Am still looking for some descendents of Mary S. Clark d/o Thomas Clark who m. Samuel Self. Also would like to find a marriage record for Lucinda Clark b. 1854 d/o of Thomas Clark also.
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Message From: Virginia Heard
Lets do a Roll Call Which is a Definate Genealogy Subject by all defination
Clark
Armer
McGhee
Bunch
Casey
Edgmon
Newberry
Denton
Plumlee
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Message From: Inez Eddings Darwazeh

Eddings Waters Farmer Vallines Star Agee Jones Shamedah
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Message From: Ella Criner Porter

Good Idea Virginia!!! My list is pretty extensive, except for a couple, who may have settled in Searcy County, most settled in Newton County.
Criner
Hensley
Hefley
Stephens
Duck
McGeHee
Cheatham
George
Broadstreet
Lively
Briggs
Wilburn
Thanks Much, Ella Criner Porter
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Message From: Judy Tate

Dear Terri,
Sometime feel that we will never find any additional on Elijah Coffee. He died so young...have often wondered just how he died too...have you ever heard anything? On his headstone E. L. Coffee. I use to think, well he had a middle name. But came to the idea that the e l were simple the first two letters of his given name. Have noticed similar with others...a Philemon signed and was known as P H...but he had no middle name... p h were first two letters of given name. Elijah and Samarah lived closer to Swain, than to Mossville where he is buried. That made me think that maybe he had family at or near Mossville. But my grandma, who was born and raised at Swain, said he was buried there for the same reason that her parents were. The Swain Cemetery sites right there on the 'edge' of a cliff...grandma said it was so hard to dig graves there...often had to use dynamite to break through to dig. So alot were buried at Mossville rather than in their community cemetery. Have never made any connection to other Coffee/Coffey of Newton County. The one other Coffee that I cannot place with a family is a Ben Coffee. He is in a picture taken ca 1919/21 at Mossville...is leaning in doorway of church, holding the roll. The picture does not show facial features to where I could compare to picture of Elijah Coffee. Isn't it something that there is a picture of Elijah...he died young and we know so little, but have a picture of him. Compare that to individuals that lived a long life and left a huge trail of information about their life, but no picture. Elijah was known as Bud Coffee. Have read material that states Bud is used similar to Junior. So, perhaps Elijah's father was also Elijah. Did find an Elijah Coffee in Clay County, Kentucky who had a son Elijah...couple of yrs. off on the birth year. But have been unable to find additional to compare to what we know about our Elijah Coffee. The census does state that he came from Kentucky. Samarah's grandfather, Marchant Thomas was among the first 300 inhibitants of Clay County, Kentucky. But no Coffees at that time in Clay or surrounding counties. Think it makes it even harder on us by Elijah fathering only the three girls and no sons. In addition to having a picture of him, it is also great that he has a headstone...there are so very many unmarked graves or graves marked only with a rock. I do wish we could find more on him, but our brick wall is nothing compared to our poor Samarah. The girls were babies when he died and so very many more hardships were ahead of her. I admire her for being able to overcome as much as she did...don't know how she did it :o).
Take Care, Judy Tate
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Message From: James Harris

THE CRACKED WATER POT
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master's house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. 'I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.'

'Why? asked the bearer. 'What are you ashamed of?'

'I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master's house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts,' the pot said.

The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, 'As we return to the master's house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path.'

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the pot, 'Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master's table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house.'

Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them. There is a lot of good out there. There is a lot of good in us! Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life! Or as I like to think of it--if it hadn't been for the crackpots in my life, it would have been pretty boring and not so interesting...

Thank you all my crackpot friends.
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Message From: Judy Tate

Dear Patricia,
A daughter of Maude Sparks and Jim Williams was buried at Shiloh Cemetery in Newton County yesterday. I had called a cousin to ask about the picture of Flora Sparks, she said that Ivory Watson had been sick for a long time and had died on Saturday. Ivory was daughter of Maude Sparks and Jim Williams, born January 11, 1910...was wife of George Watson. She was 90, George will be 91 on Christmas day...
Take Care, Judy Tate
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Message From: Glynda Campbell

Judy, I love the list but find it too much for me to handle right now....I'll be back tho, my folks were and my heart is in Ar.
Glynda Campbell
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Message From: Virginia Heard

Fowler, Bill and Nina Lee (Duty)
Fowler, David 'Beast' and Nancy (Villines)
Fowler, Earl Herchael
Fowler, Ed and Belle (Wyatt)
Fowler, Eddie and Sandra (Cain)
Fowler, James Wm. and Nancy (Field)
Fowler, Oscar
Fowler, TRoy, Dixie and Family
Fowler, Troy Jr, Ima Jean (Fowler) and Family
Fowler, Walter, Ava (Edgmon and Family
Morris - Nne Listed
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Message From: Judy Tate

There are two of Vance Randolph's Pissing in the Snow paperbacks on eBay...I bid on one, but there is another one :o). If you are familiar with his work, this is another one on same line...ozark folklore/tales. Use search on eBay homepage for: ozark...that ought to get you to the books.
Take Care, Judy Tate
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Message From: Anita De La Rosa

Judy,

Just for your information............... there are about 5 of us on here, myself included, that I sometimes get 2 copies of the same e-mail from. Sometimes someone is answering a message that I have not received yet, but I caught on to what was going on so if there was a message I don't understand I keep that message to see if I receive the original message the person was replying to. I know you have been trying to work some bugs out and I would rather receive a duplicate message than not receive it at all. So I am not complaining.....this is for your information only incase you were not aware this happens here. I only have 24 hours in a day............I swear you must have at least 72 to be able to accomplish all you do. : -)
Anita
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Message From: Barbara Crutchfield

NewtonCoFamilies@prodigy.net writes:
The machine opened up like a deep freeze and the bottles were partly immersed under cold water and you would have to slide the bottle along the slide to get it out.

I always liked it when we stopped for gas and got some pop from the cooler that had ALL KINDS...Grapette, Orange Crush, Nehi, Coke, etc.....emerged in chopped ice!
Barbara
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Message From:  Freda Carpenter

ROLL CALL...ASHLOCK,MILLSAPS,SNOW
Freda Carpenter
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Message From: Ray Richardson

<< Message From: Carol Best
Vonda,
Not that we know of. My husband's father was given away at birth and raised by who we think was an aunt. And it has been very hard trying to make a definate connection with the families that we THINK he comes from. I am not aware of a Clyde Best and Dorothy Sparks nor are we aware of Bert Sparks and Bucy Sutton >>

I seem to remember as a small child hearing my grandfather, Walter Frank Richardson then living in DutchMills, mentioning the names Bert Sparks and Bucy Sutton several times. He was from Newton county and it seems like those were some of his friends from over there. That would have been in the late '50s. I can't count the times I wished he, my Grandma, and so many others were around to ask them about these things.
Ray
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Message From: Barbara Crutchfield

NewtonCoFamilies@prodigy.net writes:

Message From: Jetty Baker
Who ever said this was a place of business? I delight in these memories or short notes. I don't think anyone ever gave this a controled list. It seems most of us like small talk. Jetty