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From: "philles" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Izard County History Book
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:21:38 -0500
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Hello Mike,
My only concern was that it was not the book I purchased in Melbourne. As
long as it was one of the older publications, I am happy. I too, love to
listen to the older people talk and tell their stories. Life was so
different then. When they tell their stories, I can close my eyes and
almost imagine being there.
Thanks,
Philles
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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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