Scope and Content Note

This collection contains family correspondence, deeds, general financial materials, tax receipts, land patents, and certificates.

Content Description

The collection consists of materials relating to the Hammock and Tharp families of Arkansas; the bulk of the materials are family photographs, accompanied by manila envelopes labeled by Kathryn Kelly with identifying information and, in many cases, biographical notes. Also included is a published book regarding the family, and printouts from Kelly's Ancestry.com family tree.

Scope and Content Note The Hardin-Stark Family Materials contain the genealogy of several families including, Bollinger, Faqua, Greathouse, Hardin, Harton, Melvill, Mitchell, Moore, Quinn, and Stark. Also include in this collection are tax and deed records relating to the Hardin-Stark family holdings in Arkansas. In addition, the collection contains photographs and a scrapbook belonging to Martha Mitchell Stark tracing her...

Scope and Content Note Hewen's two journals date from 1881 and 1884; the 1884 journal is numbered "volume XI." The journal from 1881 is not numbered, and no other journals are in the collection. Each is a record of his daily existence for an entire year, functioning additionally as exercises in penmanship, of which Hewen was justifiably proud. Although his home was in Baring Cross, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Hewen made frequent trips by mule and train to Cabot (Lonoke County), Arkansas for shopping, as well as to...

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The collection consists of five scrapbooks and a school book that belonged to Blanche Chenault Junkin. Four scrapbooks primarily contain newspaper clippings relating to the Chenault and Junkin families of Pulaski County, but also include correspondence, birth and death announcements, programs, invitations, and other materials; one scrapbook relates to the Chenault Methodist Church in Fourche, Pulaski County, Arkansas.

Scope and Contents The collection contains the professional papers of Arkansas journalist Robert S. McCord. The bulk of the collection consists of McCord's subject files, which often include correspondence, clippings, notes, and other research materials related to subjects of his articles and columns. Correspondents include businessman Sam Walton, historian John Kirk, and politicians such as President Richard Nixon, U.S. Representative Beryl Anthony, and Vermont Governor Richard A. Snelling. While subject...

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The collection consists of a November 1906 collector’s bond in the amount of $550,000 for Pulaski County Sheriff C.C. Kavanaugh, as well as accompanying sureties affidavits for 20 co-signers, who include notable Arkansans William M. Kavanaugh, J. H. Carmichael, F.B.T. Hollenberg, and James P. Clarke.

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Record book containing proceeding minutes, clippings, and tally sheets pertaining to party activities in Pulaski County, and one folder of laid-in materials.

Scope and Content Note Materials include correspondence, court documents, scrapbooks, diaries, physician appointment books, photographs, drawings, etc. An avid collector of Arkansas-related historical materials, Margaret Smith Ross assembled a collection that includes her personal papers, historical and genealogical research materials, and the original records of the Pulaski County Circuit Court dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her personal papers include correspondence,...

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Certificates for two witnesses, George Lewis and Sam [Speight], in the case of Arkansas vs. [Janie] Jones, signed by F. J. Ginocchio, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Pulaski County, October 27, 1911.