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From: "candyandrick" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Izard County History Book
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:30:57 -0500
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That figures....<heavy sigh>

Rick Lawrence - Tulsa

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Cooper Walker" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Izard County History Book


> Hi Rick...the only reference I see to Lawrence in the book is on page
> 100...Tilman E. Lawrence as Representative in the state legislature for
> the years 1929-33.
>
> I could be wrong...
>
> Later...Joyce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "candyandrick" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Izard County History Book
>
>
>> Guess I better ask my two cents worth....Does this history book say
>> anything about the Lawrence's coming to Izard County or mention my
>> gggrandfather Willaim Martin Lawrence?
>>
>> Rick Lawrence - Tulsa
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:58 AM
>> 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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