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What a wonderful job you have done on Franklin Co., AR web site. Thank you so much, it is appreciated. Patti L. Silvestri, Lake Havasu City, AZ
Surname: Davis
Jane Scott
_Alibonnie@aol.com_ (mailto:Alibonnie@aol.com)
15 August 2009
I have been searching for my husband's paternal great-grandfather, Marvin
B Davis, born about 1885 in or around Franklin County, Arkansas.About 1917, Marvin was murdered outside a mine in Ozark as he showed up for his
first day of work there. Apparently there was another man in the running for
that same position and when Marvin showed up for work his competitor shot and
killed him.Marvin's younger brother, name and age unknown, avenged his
brother's death by killing the man who took his brother's life and soon
thereafter left Franklin County eventually settling in Sebastian County.If I could find the name of the brother I might be able to find their parents and
other siblings, if any. Marvin and his brother were half cherokee. At some
point in time the family took the name of Davis. We don't know their Indian
name. Marvin's wife's family also took the name of Davis. Mary C Davis
was half choctaw.
My father-in-law was told that Marvin's avenging brother was
eventually an owner of the Davis and Sons Wholesale Grocery Company in Fort Smith.
The only other bit of information my father-in-law could tell me was that
Marvin was deeded eighty acres just outside of Ozark with documented court
records to substantiate ownership. That property remained in the family for
several decades after Marvin's death. I found Marvin, Mary and their two
eldest children, Paul Albert and Lillie on the 1910 Mountain, Franklin
County, AR census.
I found a couple online, Marvin and Mary Davis, buried in the
Greenwood Cemetery in Franklin County. But this Mary died in 1963 so it doesn't
match with my great-grandmother-in-law who was suppose to have died in a house
fire in Franklin County about 1936. It has crossed my mind that the numbers could havepossibly been transcribed incorrectly. If so, this might be my husband's paternal great-grandparents.
March 6, 2009
Surnames: DAY and CAGLE
My great grandparents
George William DAY and Nancy Jane CAGLE. I am looking for when or where George came from. He married Nancy J Cagle (daughter of Green L Cagle) on Dec 31, 1872. I have found Nancy in 1850,1860,1870 Franklin County, Arkansas census But I don't find George until 1880 in prison at Big Rock (now Little Rock) Arkansas and Nancy with four children in Franklin County, Mulberry, Arkansas. thanks
Mae Morgan
Maesplace2@sbcglobal.net