Independence County Books

 

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These are some of the materials which I have collected about Independence County, Arkansas.

Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas by Josiah Shinn
1820 Arkansas census
1830-1840 Independence County censuses
1850 Independence County census
1860 Independence County census
1890 Personal Property Tax Assessment List
Marriage Record A (in Excel format)

A Guidebook to Historic Homes of Batesville, Arkansas

Independence County Historical Society Chronicles 1959-1997
Independence Pioneers, Volume 1

     Table of Contents:  "Creation of Independence County" by Craig Ogilvie

                                   "Dr. Philip Burton" by Nancy Britton with Dora Le Ferguson

                                    "George Case: Pioneer Merchant" by Dr. Marion S. Craig

                                    "Churchill" by Nancy Britton

                                    "Conditts" by Wanda L. Clark

                                    "Craig-Hardin" by Dr. Marion S. Craig

                                    "The Dorr Family of Independence County" by Roberta Dorr Brown

                                    "Earls: An Early Black Family" by Nancy Britton and William "Ben" Earls

                                    "Engles-Engels Family: Riverboat Men" by Nancy Britton

                                    "George Gill" by Twyla Gill Wright

                                    "The Grigsby Family" by Dr. George Lankford

                                    "The James Family of Cedar Grove" by Dr. Philip James and Craig Ogilvie

                                    "Daniel James of Jamestown" by Nancy Britton

                                    "Kerlin" by Nancy Britton

                                    "John Lafferty: County's First Permanent Settler" by Mary Cooper Miller

                                    "Lamans of Cave City" by Nancy Britton with Ruthel Heasley

                                    "Uriah Maxfield: Early Merchant" by C. Fitzhugh Spragins

                                    "Meachams of Hickory Valley" by Nancy Britton

                                    "Rutherford" by Nancy Britton

                                    "The Wilsons of Highrock" by Yvonna Wilson Turner

Independence Pioneers, Volume 2

                                            "Ball Family Has Early Ties in County" by Gary W. Perkey

                                            "The Barbers of Hutchinson Mountain" by Nancy Britton

                                            "The Brewers of Hickory Valley" by Nancy Britton and Jewel Brewer Beel

                                            "Theophilus and O. T. Edmondson, Early Storekeepers" by Effie Edmondson

                                            "The Robert M. Evans Family" by Craig Ogilvie

                                            "The Fitzhugh Family: Longtime Batesville Business Family" by Fitzhugh Spragins

                                            "The Gray Family of Hickory Valley" by Nancy Britton with Vera Gray Harris, Beulah Ball Holmes, and Dr. Stacy Jackson

                                            "The Family of Stevadson A. Hail" by Betty Hail Massey

                                            "The Ivy Family" by Connie Ivy

                                            "The Joblin Family: From Isle of Wight to Batesville" by Nancy Britton with Margaret Joblin Farnham

                                            "The Family of Jesse Lassiter" by Bertha Perkey

                                            "The Lenehans of Sulphur Rock" by Polly Lenehan Bell

                                            "The Urban Farmstead of James A. Luster" by Nancy Britton with Winnie Luster Atchison

                                            "The Mack Family from Moorefield" by Nancy Britton with Mary P. Engels

                                            "The Magnesses: Pioneers of Big Bottom" by Robert Craig

                                            "The McSpadden Family" by Nancy Britton and Lynn McSpadden

                                            "Rev. John Wesley Miller, Pioneer Baptist Minister" by Mary Cooper Miller

                                            "Monday: A Familiar Name in Batesville Clothing" by Bill Monday

                                            "The Ogilvies" by Craig Ogilvie

                                            "The O'Neals" by Margaret Joblin Farnham

                                            "The Sherrills and Shirrells of Independence County" by Nancy Britton with Wanda Clark and Ardith Foster

                                            "Job Ball Stark of Ruddell Township" by Dr. Marion Stark Craig

                                           "William C. Tate, Early Pioneer" by Wanda L. Clark

                                            "Trimble Family Among Earliest Settlers: by Arvie E. "Bubba" Burks

                                            "The Waughs of Washington Township" by Nancy Britton

                                            "Abram Weaver: A Family Tragedy" by Nancy Britton and Dora Le Ferguson

                                            "The Wyatts of Desha" by Nancy Britton and Dora Le Ferguson

                                            "Samuel Butler Wycough" by Harry Wesley Maxfield

          
Life in the Leatherwoods by John Quincy Wolf
Cemetery Records of the Newark-Magness Area

Cemetery Records of Independence County, Arkansas by Chalman E. Green and Mae Chinn Green (published 1980)

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Updated December 6, 2007.