Emery
Monroe TATE, his wife Nancy Alecia
STARLING TATE, their daughter (my
grandmother) Hattie D.. TATE.
Contact Mary Lou at thevelvethanger@yahoo.com |
Can you guess what this is
a picture of and where
it was located in
Mississippi County.
Carrier pigeon coops?
Mailboxes for tall Mississippi County residents? Email any guesses to me at
vita444@aol.com |
Spence Carr, World War I soldier in 1918,
Author: Hubbell, Ken
Published: 1918.
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Birds-eye view looking north from
court house, Blytheville, AR |
Ben Shahn, Untitled, Mississippi County, Arkansas),
October 1935.
A young girl pulls the cotton from the plant. She is
careful not to damage the seeds that, if broken, release
thick oil that will spoil the cotton. School did not
open in this part of Arkansas until January first in
order for children to help pick the autumn cotton.
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A picture of a postcard, date
unknown, but probably circa 1937-40. The man in the hat and dark
suit, standing among the pickers at the left center of the picture is my
grandfather, Thomas L. Cassidy, Sr., according to my late aunt, Jessie
B. Cassidy Bennett. I remember as a child going to the field to watch
the start of the contest, which lasted the day long. Good pickers
could pick 200 pounds a day, but to win the contest, it was necessary to
weigh in with 350 to 400 pounds, if I remember correctly. The contest
was a yearly event, coinciding with the county fair. Submitted by Tom Cassidy
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American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image
Number, e.g.,
AEP-MIN73], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago
Library. The home of homesteader C. M. Bourland two miles north
of
Blytheville, Arkansas |
Wilson Tavern
Title: Interior Wilson Tavern
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Publication Date: 1939 |
Interior John Deere Farm Implements
Store, Wilson, Arkansas
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Publication Date: 1939, Courtesy Arkansas History Commission |
This was a "picture postcard". Written on the back is: Lizzie
Mills,
Carsons, AR. If anyone knows who is in this photo, please contact me.
It is probably members of the Mills family from Mississippi County,
AR. Contact:
Vernon DuBar |
The Creamery Float for the Blytheville Industrial Parade c. 1912.
All riders on this "float" are unknown to me except for
the little girl
second from left at rear of cart. She is Mattie Dell Westbrook Fletcher
at
age 10. Mattie Dell is my
Great Aunt.
Submitted by Jim Walden |
Lindsey Burchells mother was Lillie (Mills) and Emily (Stamps) parents
were Symantha Stamps and Elijah Weldon. Anyone with information
on these families please email Hope
hopelaw@net-magic.net. |
James E.C. Maxberry and his grandson Lloyd Maxberry. They lived around the Chickasawba township area in the late 1800's.
James was a farmer and is listed in Desmond Walls Allen's Arkansas
Land Donation Records: 1 May 1880 - 30 June 1882 for
Mississippi county, AR |
From
left to right:
My grandmother, Gertrude Staggs,
great grandmother,Martha Jackson
Brown and her daughter Effie Mae
Cunningham. The picture was taken
in Leachville, Ms, AR
Glenna Cunningham Davidson
www.km5tq@att.net |
Robert
E. Lee Wilson built several small
railroads to facilitate the
transportation of goods and timber.
Wilson's first line spanned the
distance from Wilson to Marie, to
Keiser and on to Victoria. Later the
company bought the Jonesboro, Lake
City and Eastern railway, running
from Jonesboro to Lake City, AR. |
Mr.
James A. Shivers and family, 1930.
Mr. James A. Shivers was principal
of Harrison School in Blytheville,
Mississippi County, Arkansas.
Photographer: Hubbell, Ken
Publication info: 1930, Courtesy of
Arkansas History Commission |
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Summary: A black mother and daughter
cook in a small kitchen at Wilson
Farm, Mississippi County, AR |
Photographer: Jack Pavoa
Publication Date:1939
Summary: Jim Crain examines stove for cooking in the kitchen of a black workers'
home at Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, Arkansas. On the right are a woman
and a girl holding an infant. Pots and pans decorate the stove and walls. |
Daughter of sharecropper,
Mississippi County, AR. |
Arkansas Sharecropper
1935 |
Merry
Christmas from Blytheville!
Lora and Robin Nunn, Christmas, 1981
Photographer: Ken Hubbell |
Santa's
Workshop, Second Street, Dell
Arkansas 1994
Photographer: Curtis Duncan
Photo Courtesy of Dru King |
Cotton
Weighing
Photographer: Jack Pavoa Date: 1939
Description: Cotton weighing at
Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, AR |
Cotton
Weight Book
Photographer: Jack Pavoa Date: 1939
Place: Lee Wilson Farm Mississippi
County, AR |
Blytheville in 1950's |
Westbrook Family
Second & Cherry St. Blytheville, Arkansas. Date App. 1905. Ira Oneal, Euvallah,
son Ira Brandon & Euvallah Brother Henry Brandon on Porch.
Submitted by: Jim Walden |
This is a picture of (from left to right) Mattie (b. 1906), Dicye (b.
1895), and Nora Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mills (b. 1900). They lived in the
Carson Lake area and later moved to the Mangrum community in Craighead
County. Their parents were James Madison Mills and Susanne Florence
Randall. Mattie married Jethro Z. McCrackin. Dicye married Henry
Farrar. Nora Elizabeth married John Wesley Boyd whose family was also
from Mississippi County. They are descendants of Thomas J. Mills, one
of the first settlers in Mississippi county. |
Thomasson Family
The photo is of (left to right, back to
front)....(back)Loreen "Toad" Thomasson, Mable Thomasson, Hosea Rodgers
(2nd
husband), Rosa Perkins Thomasson Rodgers, Cameleen "Camie" Thomasson,
(front) Gladys Thomasson, Edith "Dued" Thomasson, Lawrence Jefferson
"Buddie" Thomas. It looks like it was taken circa 1917 |
I am attaching a photo of Mary
Elizabeth Davis. Willie Davis was
the cook for my great grandparents
and this is a picture of her little
girl. She also helped in raising my
Mom who was raised by her
grandparents. Her grandparents were
William James Knox and Minnie
McBride Kelley of Blytheville.
James (Jim) Winston
piper965@aol.com
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