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From: "June Ramsey" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Izard County History Book
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:17:02 -0500
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Mike in the Vol 4 Jan 1973 #1 There is a short biography of Karr Shannon in
which he stated he in the year he was elected Supt of county schools in 1926
he published his first book "A History of Izard Co." Then in 1932 he
published another book one of his books "Hillbilly Philosopy"
There are severalpages on him
June


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Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Izard County History Book


> Hi Philles,
>
> There is a misunderstanding somewhere because I also have the 1947 Izard
> County History Book by Karr Shannon as it mentions my great uncle as one
of his
> notables in the back - on the back page, Dr. Otis McMurtrey of North
> Hollywood, California, an Izardite, but I have seen with my own eyes and
I have a
> memory that has never failed me to this day. There was another earlier
version
> of the Izard County History published about 1927 or so. It is at the
Arkansas
> History Commission. Also, I read it at the late Ethel Kent Brockwell's
> house in Brockwell. It may not have been writeen by Karr Shannon but
someone
> else but it was written and it was published, and that is a fact. I read
it
> with my own eyes. It had a white cover, I remember very well, and it was
much
> thinner because there was not as much history 20 years earlier. This
book did
> exist, and I will bet my life on it and swear to it because I have an
> excellent memory and have not developed dementia yet that I know of. I
remember
> Ethel, the Brockwell postmistress for 43 years and a schoolteacher for 5
years,
> letting me read her copy of that very book. She also had the later 1947
> copy, but when I was a part of the will of Aunt Stella Barnes and Uncle
Jeff
> Barnes as they had no children, I was given this book as they were
rummaging
> through her shed and belongings. I received very little and was not even
> expecting to be in her will. I had mowed her yard for several years
before her
> death for 7 dollars plus cut bushes. I loved going in afterwards and
spending
> time as I always did with old-timers talking about the family. That is
how I
> learned so much about the Lawsons, and the tale of the disappearance
Uncle
> Sargent Lawson in the early 1880s at Brockwell and how Grandma Lawson was
later
> declared insane and put in the insane asylum at Little Rock and buried in
a
> pauper's grave though she was the oldest of a very wealthy and educated
> family, the Damrons who owned 700 acres of land at Brockwell. I have a
copy of a
> letter her mother Damron wrote in 1889 to her brother in Texas who had
> disappeared after the Civil War, Sherwood Lowe. She wrote a very
intellectual,
> intelligent letter as if she were college educated. She mentioned being
72 and
> Mr. Damron being 73 and six of their twelve children being alive. She
said
> she had a lot she could tell him if she ever saw him again in this world
but
> not in writing. I just wonder what some of those things were - could it
be
> the mystery behind the disappearance of her grandson, Sargent Lawson and
the
> insanity of her oldest daughter? I have gotten way off subject. My
point is
> that there was indeed a book on the History of Izard County published in
the
> 1920s that I read myself in the home of Ethel Brockwell, and everyone
knows
> her things were all auctioned off. Ethel was a very smart lady, and we
were
> very close as we lived across the road from each other all of my life.
As I
> say, the 1920s History Book was a book with a white cover. It can be
found
> again, and the 1947 book was not the first book and the only book written
on the
> History of Izard County. Just wanted to clear it up. Nothing else, but
> tell it like it really was.
>
> Mike Walker
>
>
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