EAVS
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Introduction This newsletter,
for and about Edgmon and All Variant Spelling (EAVS), was established
to support the family members who want to help maintain family connections
and for those who have an interest in family data. I welcome articles from
anyone who'd like to share their info with the rest of us. All stories,
pictures, documents, public records, archived family data... any form
of information, which is connected in anyway to this large and diverse family,
is welcome. Archived public records and also information that has
not yet become "old enough" for public record... To contribute to EAVS
Newsletter, email your articles, pictures, announcements, ect. to: EAVS Take Care,
Have you found a website that contains family data or other information that could help us in our research? send the Web URL and it will be posted. Album... For those of you who enjoy collecting family photographs, this is the place where you might find new additions for your album or scrapbook. Perhaps you can import into your genealogy files with the use of your genealogy software. The following picture was submitted by Marian Bethel Thank you Marian! 
Marian provided the following information about the picture: The picture was taken 1908 Romulus, OK where they were living at the time. All the children were still single and living at home at that time. Standing, L-R: Della Edgmon (Lingefelt), H. C. Edgmon, Ava Edgmon, Abner Elsberry (Bob) Edgmon, Alice Pearl Edgmon (Bethel), and Turner Edgmon. Seated, L-R: Oren Edgmon, A. J. (Jack) Edgmon, Alma Edgmon (Tucker), Laura Belle Sexton Edgmon holding Velma Edgmon (Penn), and Viola (Ola) Edgmon (Hill). Thanks again Marian Note: Andrew Jackson Edgmon born Boxley, Newton County, AR to Braxton Edgemon and Polly Casey. Braxton was son of Samuel Deatherage Edgemon and Sally Percy. Samuel was son of William Edgemon and Nancy Deatherage... This issue of the EAVS also contains other photographs of family members...don't miss any of them. To share your family photographs and to have them appear in EAVS Newsletter, send to me via email.Judy Tate Ideas... Puzzles. A fun way to incorporate family history into your family gatherings is to present it in the form of a puzzle. Here is a web site that helps you build a puzzle for your next family gathering (good reunion idea)... Scanning
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Submitted by, Kim Marshall  Here is a little about my Family History... I was born in New London, Connecticut. My parents named me Kimberly Beth Edgmon. Kimberly was because my parents liked the name and also after the actress Kim Novak, like many other girls born at that time. Beth was the closest my parents could get to my Nana Edgmon's name Betty which she went by. My dad, Bobby Ray Edgmon was in the Navy and rode on Nuclear Submarines as a corpsman. He was home six months and gone six months for the first four years of my life. I had one older brother 3 year and 11 months, Robert James Edgmon. Robert is after our dad and James is after our Pop Paw Edgmon. 5 1/2 years later, one more child would be born, my sister Jennifer Louise Edgmon. Being a Navy Brat, I lived many places. My family stayed in Conn. until the summer of 1972, we always moved in the summer. In 1972, we moved to Hillcrest Heights, Washington DC, Maryland side. It was here I remember my parents getting a phone call that my Great Grandma Edgmon, Emma died. I never knew her, only saw her when I was 11 months, but don't remember any of it. In my brother's baby book, was a picture of him when he was 4 or 5 and our cousin Michaela with Grandma Emma. Summer of 1973, we moved to Jacksonville, North Carolina living in civilian housing for two years. Summer of 1975 we moved into base housing on Camp LeJune. Summer of 1976, we moved to Bowie, Maryland. My dad was stationed at the Naval Academy, but that didn't have any housing for us for one year. Summer of 1977 we moved onto the Naval Academy and stayed in the same house until 1982. This was the longest place I had ever stayed and became home to me and my most favorite place I have ever lived. Summer of 1982, my brother had graduated from High School and was on his way to University of Texas at Austin, while the rest of the family went to California. We lived on base at Camp Pendleton. Middle of 1984 school year, my parents divorced and my Mom, sister and I moved off base to Fallbrook, California. I graduated in 1986, was on my own and became a live in nanny for a family in Vista, California. while I attended a Jr. College near by. I only saw my Pop Paw and Nana Edgmon five times in my life. They lived in Saginaw, Texas in a little trailer home. The first time was December 1968 and I was 11 months old. I don't remember it at all. Just have some pictures in my baby album. The second time was April 1970. I was 2, and still don't remember this trip, again just have some pictures in my baby album. The third time was July 1975. I remember this trip. We fly to Texas, and had been off the plane two hours when I broke my arm. My parents and Uncles and family took us to Six Flags over Texas. The 4th time was during the school year of 1979/80. We went to Six Flags again. The last time was when my family moved from Maryland to Calif., the summer of 1982. We drove cross country and spent two weeks in Texas. I remember my Pop Paw being a tall, quiet man. He looked like he always had a tan because he was half Native American. He smoked a pipe and I loved the smell of his tobacco. He had the scented tobaccos like vanilla, etc. He had a bassett hound named Bobo. My Pop Paw would play his harmonica and Bobo would sing. I have a cassette tape with Pop Paw and Bobo making music together and of Pop Paw telling stories. My Nana Edgmon was a fuss budget. When we came to visit, everything had to be perfect. She was always in the kitchen cooking up a storm, and she could cook. She talked a lot and made up for Pop Paw's quietness. I think I get my "gift of gab" from her. Well, that is all I can remember. When I find out more, I will let you know. Kim Kim recently uploaded pictures of her two children to the archives of Edgmon ONELIST, Wood and Joshua Marshall... 4th great grandsons of William Edgemon and Patsey Deatherage.  Wood  Joshua
Our Heritage...
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Cora Mabel ClarkAs we travel down life’s pathway we forget our heritage. This is not good, as we’re forgetting history. History of our country and of the forefathers. So many of our great grandfathers who fought for our independence on these grounds, of the suffering an sacrifice their families endured. The escape from bushwhackers and wild animals, Indians, an may other misfortunes that might befall upon them. If you will only stop and think, that hasn’t been to long ago the blood they shed may possibly be in the spot you’re stand upon now, to preserve the freedom you now enjoy. We take this all for granted. I have been doing research on my ancestors, and I’m amazed at all I have discovered, In my discovering I have found that one of my great grandfathers came from Bledsoe County, Tennessee: Homesteaded in Newton County, Arkansas near Ponca, and raised his family in that area. The place he homesteaded stayed in the family for over one hundred years. Now the government has acquired this place and plans to let it go back into wilderness It being there in the Buffalo River in Newton County, Arkansas In this one hundred years, there has been several generations and they have scattered to the four winds. Some though have remained within one hundred miles of this old Homestead. That includes Harrison, Jasper, Kingston, Clarksville, Berryville, Huntsville, Springdale and Fayetteville, Arkansas. This Old Pioneer was Uncle Abraham Harvey Clark who married Sabra Ann Edgmon and it’s possible he is a descendant of the Abraham Clark Signer of the Declaration in Independence. however approximately two generation of records were destroyed in a fired that burned the courthouse in Blesdsoe County Tennessee, but do I know the Signer of the Declaration of Independence is of their lineage, or will I ever know? It’s doubtful that I’ll ever be able to find those missing links. Also I must not forget to mention another great pioneer of whom I’m a descendant and he was old Uncle Montgomery Newberry from Osage In Carroll County, Arkansas where now his old log cabin is a historical site restored and moved to Berryville. His ancestorage is a great as old Uncle Abraham’s he too coming from Tennessee. Many of his descendents are yet in the general vicinity of a hundred miles also. James William Mcghee another of my ancestors, a pioneer who fought in the was between the states. He is buried near Elm Springs, Arkansas his wife, having died years later is buried in Monroe cemetery near Berryville. Her name was Eliza Jane (Carter) McGhee. Nelson and Becky (Plumlee) Armer also share in my heritage they also came from Tennessee, first having come to Tennessee from Georgia. Madison Newton, Carroll, Boone, and Washington Counties are full of this line of Armers. How many of are aware of this heritage? These brave people blazed the way for you and me that we might now enjoy these privileges. These are my links into the past. Each of you have Four links. Each of these links make a chain. Where do you fit in this chain? It’s a network of people who have endured hardships so that we may enjoy freedom today. Some of your ancestors may have come from Germany, Poland or Russia, but we yet all fit into this line of heritage (a chain). Where did your ancestors come from most of you know by hear - say or at least back to your great grandparents. Why not keep a record for future generations? Because you will be a forgotten name to come in the future person down the Chain if you do not. To me this is a top of great value and I feel that a great number of the readers will find it of value too. How many of the younger generations know the history of their surroundings? This is so important as the older generation are soon going to be gone and there is such a great history that will die with them. Oh how I wish I could recall a lot of the folk lore that my ancestors have told and that I’ve forgotten. This is something we all should remember to jot down. It is so valuable, the culture, the background of our ancestors, the stories they have told of their ancestors. This is our heritage and it is so valuable. I was born and raised around Kingston, Madison County, Arkansas and that is a area that is rich with heritage wealth. So many newcomers in that area now. Do they know of the history of the old timers that maybe occupied the land that they how own some know others do not. Maybe its not a great lot of value to them, but yet it is history. I have been gone from that area since September 1944. But with the Madison County Record I have been able to keep up with some of the younger generations that were descendants of several generations older than myself. How many of you can yet do that? Maybe you say that doesn’t mean anything to me but it should. I can recall my father in the cold winter time going to town approximately once a month for groceries and feed that was needed for the stock, which wasn’t much as most of the hay, corn and fodder were raised for the stock, and also corn to be ground into mean for the family’s use. He would take corn to be ground into mean, eggs to trade for coffees, sugar, flour, salt and other necessary items. He would heat a flat rock, wrap it in gunny sacks, put it in the floor of the wagon to keep warm and be gone all day. That was also a time when he would find out how his neighbors were out on Sweden Creek, or our on the Red Lick Hill or people as far away as Red Star. I can recall these incidents and I cherish them, I was small and very seldom ever went to Kingston Arkansas with my father in the winter. However , in the summer time, these trips were very important. My mother and I usually went along. This was before a cafe was ever in Kingston, Arkansas. We’d go to Billy Boydston’s store. He always kept a big round wheel of cheese in his show case. We‘d buy a wedge of cheese and crackers or we’d buy Salmon and eat salmon and crackers for lunch. This was a treat. Then the cafe came and its first proprietors were Tom and May Dorsey, and what good chili they served. Before that Wilburn and Etta Burks had a small cafe, they changed it into a variety store, but after Tom and Mary Dorsey, they sold the cafe to King and Dollie Mashburn. He was also in the Real Estate business, along with the cafe How many of the later generation can recall these people? Can you recall where Billy Boydston’s Store was? Willburn Burk’s store, or where the old post office was located? Can you remember the old swinging bridge over Kings River? To me those were they good old days. To those that don’t recall where they were located, the post office was to the right of Burl Weathers’s store. There was also a hotel located just across the road from the Bunch’s store. It was run by Henry and Clemmie Burney. How many can remember the Hugh and Wilson Bunch’s dad He was a gentleman. Alvin Bunch was a big man as I recall, but he was a man that everyone admired, A distinguished gentleman and many of the old timers there today will tell you this is true, and is yet greatly missed. My Brother Joeseph Clark “Joe” owned the Blacksmith shop located on the Kingston, Arkansas Square Many of Kingston Citizens stopped to have a chat. So many of the present day citizens are descendants of so many well know, well liked old timers that many of the newcomers are not aware of Just the name a few of the older generations. H. T. (Tart) Lane, Elba, Uncle Jimmy Grigg, and Elizabeth, Sara Grigg, who had a sister Flora, who married a George Frisby from around Purdy, I’d like to hear from some of these if at all possible for genealogical purposes. Others are Jeff Roger, Lum and Lolar Stills, Uncle Sam Thomas, and Aunt Mandy, Uncle Booie Parker and Aunt Tennie, Aaron and Artie Gage, Uncle Jim and Aunt Lizzie Hane Seals, Smith Bradshaw, Joe Bradshaw, Loss and Edith Grigg, the Mc Ferrins, the Holts Gartons, Clines, Walls, Dorseys, McCrackens, Eaton’s, Armers just to name a few, also the Fanchers. Many of then still have descendants in the or near Kingston Arkansas today and many of them are my relation, or my ancestorage. Value your ancesterage and trace back on your family history. it is wealth. Even the skeletons that maybe lurking in your closets are history and should be preserved. I attended at Bluff Springs Arkansas. We lived at the time on the Jason Cane place, later the Slavens place. Those were the happiest days of my schooling.. My first teacher was Dalton Dotson. Which I discovered he was one of my ancestors. Many of my school mates still live in or near there to name a few Freelen Suggs, and her husband Bill Smelley Fern Suggs, Mccullough, Berniece and Rita Mc Arthur, Frank Maxine and Rhea Maxwell, Fred and Jess Carter, Midge, Berniece, Virginia and Blanche Whiteley, Leonard, Eutlena and Park FM Ferrin, Verna and Vela Holt, Murtie, Murle, Earl and Roy Styles, Grover and Wilburn, Hathorn, Leonard, Lewis and one other Thomas boy I’ve forgotten his name I’m sure they are others that I can remember at present. Those school days at Bluff Springs were days to cherish. I can yet recall the spring water. Tourists from everywhere would come and camp at this spring. I recall one tourist who came with a truck of victrolas and sold everybody one in that area, including us. I wish I had one of those old victrolas today Well those days are gone forever - cherish them and treasure them. Dig into your memory listen to others and keep note. It’s a sure way to keep track.. I am now compiling as much as I can into genealogy work and if anyone knows of any ancesterage please write me. My Daughter Virginia Arlene (Smith) (Simmons) Heard is compiling all of this information for me, for publication of Several Family Surname books. Any Genealogy information forwarded to her at the below address: Virginia Arlene (Smith) (Simmons) Heard PO. Box 1522 Los Lunas, New Mexico 87031 ![[IMAGE]](corasmith.gif)
Cora Clark Smith, shortly before her death
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