Jesse C. R. Daugherty

Arkansas Advocate, Jan 15, 1836
 Jesse C. R. Daugherty, 2 yrs 11mos 5 days, only son of Nicholas, died Nov 20, 1835 at Van Buren County.

William Daugherty

Little Rock Times, Jan 18, 1836
 William Daugherty, 72, died at his residence in Van Buren County.

Daniel McMillard

Little Rock Times, Feb. 1, 1836
 Daniel McMillard, 45, formerly of Natchez, Mississippi, died Tuesday Nov 19, 1835 at his residence in Van Buren County.

Mrs. Lucinda Lafferty

Arkansas Gazette, April 15, 1840
 Mrs. Lucinda Lafferty, in her 39th year, wife of John L., died April 3, 1840 in Van Buren County.

W. W. Trimble

Arkansas Gazette, Oct 21, 1840
 W.W. Trimble died October 9, 1840 at his residence in Van Buren County. He had just been elected Clerk of Van Buren County.

Batesville News, Oct 29, 1840
 Dr. W. W. Trimble, died Friday October 9th, 1840; He was born March 22, 1808 at Livingston County Kentucky; educated at Prinston Ky where he studied medicine; became a member of the Methodist Epis. Church.
[Obituary from Clinton, Van Buren County]

Wm K. Bradford

Submitted by Sandra Nichols
Clinton Banner Newspaper, 12/22/1881, Volume 2, #28, p.3
VBC Historical Museum, Clinton, Ar, Microfilm F, 419, C55, C5, October 6, 1881 - May 7, 1903
Died
 Bradford - At his residence in this county, 15 miles east of Clinton, Nov. 19, 1881, Hon. Wm. K. Bradford, aged about 70 years.

Baker and Cottrell

Submitted by Sandra Nichols
Clinton Banner, December 22, 1881
Clinton, Arkansas
Died
 Baker--At his residence at Bee Branch, on the night of the 9th Mr. W.H. Baker
Died
 Cottrell--At his residence in Middle Settlement, this county, on the 9th day of Dec., 1881 Mr. John Cottrell.

Thomas Jefferson Love

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Paper, December 22, 1881
Died
 Love - At the residence of his parents in Clinton on the night of Dec. 14th, Thomas Jefferson, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Love, aged two years.

Drury Harrington

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, January 5, 1882, page 3, column 1
 We are pained to announce the death of Drury Harrington, which occurred at his residence near town, on Sunday morning last.

John Fraser

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, January 19, 1882, p 2, c 1 & 2, top part of page
 
  ... residence in Athens, Arkansas, on the night of the 6th inst., Mr. John Fraser, in usual health on Friday evening, the 6th inst., he retired to rest about 8 o'clock, and during the night quietly and peacefully, without a groan, without a struggle, he breathed his last. ...
[the upper left corner of this article is torn and missing]

Mrs. Mahaly Hunt

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Paper, January 19, 1882
 Rev. J. C. Bradshaw visited Big Bottom last Sunday, where he went to preach the funeral of Mrs. Mahaly Hunt, who died at her home on the 13th inst. She was a noble Christian woman, and leaves an example behind her worthy of emulation. She leaves children, and many friends to mourn their loss. May their end be like hers, quiet and serene, and in full prospect of the heavenly rest which knows no end.

Bob Henderson

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Banner, February 2, 1882
St. Joe Jottings
 In Memory-While we rejoice with many blessings, God sends and takes from our midst some young flower. Ah! We should remember that the old must die soon, and the young may go long ere they do. For we owe the debt, and must one day pay it. On the 14th ult., at 3 o'clock, Bob Henderson was killed by a horse running away with and throwing him against a tree. From what I can learn, it appears the horse ran two miles before he killed him. But we believe he has gone where, if we live faithful, we can join him. Then, friends, cheer up. Though we consign our beloved to the narrow limits of the tomb, we have the hope of one day joining him where sorrow is unknown. The friends and relatives have the sympathy of the community.
Yours, St. Joe Boy.

Rev. James M. Starnes

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, April 6, 1882
Obituary
 Rev. James M. Starnes departed this life in Conway County, Ark., on the 29th day of December 1881. He was sick twenty-seven days. On Sunday, the 25th December, he was left by himself. The house in which he was staying caught fire while he was sleeping, and was awakened by the roaring of the flame above and around him. He got up took his bed and such other things as he thought he most needed, and was able to carry and went out and laid down. Then thinking of his trunk that contained his credentials, he went in again and saved them, thought the roof of the house was falling in. He said "if it was the Lord's will, he would rather live until February court, but the Lord's will be done." His persecutors had carried him through from conference to circuit court, then to county court, and he gained the victory in all. He said "the Lord would carry him through safe," and He has-- and has taken him home to rest. He prayed for his enemies as long as he lived.
His Mother

W. K. (King) Bradford

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, June 1, 1882
Funeral Services at Bradford's Chapel.
 The funeral services of Brother W. K. Bradford was held at Bradford's Chapel, Sunday, May 28, A.D. 1882, at 11 o'clock a.m., conducted by Rev. J. B. Fortner, assisted by Revs. J. C. Bradshaw and J. W. Bowden.
 At an early hour the church was crowded with ladies. It was then thought best to move to the grove, where all could hear the preaching; the congregation was large supposed to be between three and four hundred people in attendance; good attention and great interest was manifested on the occasion and when the preacher spoke of Judge Bradford's punctual attendance at church during his life, and of his vacant seat, the audience was moved to weeping and tears. The large attendance and profound interest manifested on the occasion, speak in loud tones of the loss felt in the death of Uncle King Bradford.

Mrs. Ruff's Baby

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, June 15, 1882
The infant child of the late Mrs. Ruff was buried Monday morning.
 The little infant child of Mrs. Ruff (lately deceased) who had for weeks endured pitiful sufferings, at the home of Mr. J. T. Bradley, passed to its bright and peaceful home on high last Sunday evening. Its death had been hourly anticipated and to the writers personal knowledge it can be truly said of the noble hearted, Christian ladies (humanity's best friend, the world over, in the hour of pain and affliction) that too much praise cannot be accorded them for their unselfish and devoted attendance upon the little sufferer, day after day, and night after night.

Martha A. Fraser

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Banner, June 29, 1882
 We were sorry, indeed, to learn by a letter received from the editor of this appear, Capt. Jas. H. Fraser, dated Little Rock, 2nd inst., of the death of his mother, which said event occurred at her home in Athens, Ala., on the 22nd. We extend our sympathy.

Van Buren County Banner, July 6, 1882
In Memoriam, Mrs. Martha A. Fraser
Athens, Alabama Carrier
 Truly God's children are gathering home. Scarcely a week passes that we, who remain, are not called to mourn the departure of some loved ones, till the air seems filled with farewells to the dying and wailings for the dead.
 And now one who may well be termed a mother in Israel has joined the innumerable caravan that moves to the pale realms of shade. Mrs. Martha A. Fraser (nee Wych) was born in Brunswick County, Va., June 29, 1807, and inherited the refinement and delicacy of feeling that the best blood of the Old Dominion can impart. Her sincere, simple dignity of character corned the fict?ous honors bestowed by the F. F. V., though fairly entitled to them all. She belonged to a newer aristocracy, that holy cross __? Seal is the Cross of the Crucified, set by the Holy Spirit on brown and heart, whose ?uerdon is the only crown of everlasting life, bestowed by the King Himself on her and all who with their Leader.

Have conquered in the fight
And forever and forever
Are clad in robes of White.

 Of the three-score and fifteen years of her life, more than two thirds were spent in patient, zealous, though most unpretending, devotion to her heavenly Master and His cause. Whether in the hovel of poverty; by the bedside of disease and death; teaching the ignorant; uplifting the fallen, or with the multitude that keeps holyday in the sanctuary, her hand, her heart, her voice were ever busy in His service, and now she has heard the blessed works, Insomuch as ye did it unto the least of My servants, ye did it unto ME; enter into the joy of thy Lord.
 Of the cultivated intellect; the chaste conversation; the clear reasoning; the courteous dignity; the generous hospitality that made her society a delight to all who could appreciate it, we need not speak. They are too well known even to require mention here, where most of her life was passed, and where many shall rise to call her blessed.
 But she is gone; and what comfort is left for us, who will long miss her tender voice, her loving face; her wise and gentle counsel? The memory of her virtues, the incentive of her beautiful example, the exercise of her divine charity, that charity that “thinketh no evil, believeth all things, hopeth all things”, and the cherishing of the same blessed hope that sustained her, till, at last, like her, we may pass.

Out of the shadows of sadness,
Into the sunshine of gladness,
Into the light of the blest,
Out of a land very dreary,
Out of the world very weary,
Into the Rapture of Rest.
One Of The Many Who Loved Her.

Van Buren County Banner, August 17, 1882, page 2, column 3
Tribute of Respect
 Resolutions upon the death of Mrs. Martha A. Fraser as adopted by the Athens Missionary Auxiliary Society.
(lengthy article)

Nelson Kemp

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, July 6, 1882
Died.
 At this home in Clinton, of typhoid fever, after a short illness, Nelson Kemp, aged about 32 years, on Sunday evening the 2d inst.
 In the death of Mr. Kemp, the community has lost one of its best citizens a good man, a true man, and one whose social qualities, and dealing with his fellow man, were of a high character. Words, we are fully aware, are mere idle vapors in the hour of affliction thought one of the God-given channels through which poor humanity is enabled to express its best and purest feelings; and as such, we tender, for ourselves and the community, to the grief-stricken widow - to the orphaniess [sic] children - to the brothers, and the relatives and friends of the deceased, the sincerest sympathy in this, their midnight of sorrow. May the green grass rest lightly over his grave.

James L. Love

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, July 6, 1882
Died.
 On Friday morning, the 30th ult., of a congestive chill, James L. Love, aged 18 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. H. Love, of Clinton.
 To the suddenly bereaved parents we offer our sympathy, calling to their mind the divine quotation from __? Writ: "The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

L. H. Bigley

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, July 20, 1882
 DIED. On Wednesday, the 12th inst. L. H. Bigley, of typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn their sad loss, as well as a large circle of friends and relatives. He was a true, honest man. The widow and orphans have the sympathy of the community.

Miss Mary F Maddox

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County paper, August 10, 1882
 Maddox - Mary F., daughter of T. V. Maddox; born March 15, 1867; died August 9th, 1882.
 Thus one of earth's most lovely girls just verging into womanhood, has crossed the river of death, and entered the land where the wicked cease from troubling, and the wary are at rest.

Mr Lispcomb

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Banner, August 17, 1882
 A young man by the name of Lispcomb, residing at Robert Collins's, Sr., in Middle Settlement, was thrown from a mule on Saturday evening last, and so badly injured that he died on Sunday morning.

John F. Berry

Submitted by Beverly Berry
Newspaper Obituary - 1887
 We learn that Mr. John Berry, a citizen of Archey Valley township, met with an accident last Thursday or Friday, which resulted in almost instant death. He was ploughing in a field near the house, took out his knife and cut a hickory bush, as if to get the bark for some purpose, and in attempting to strip the bark down, it gave way suddenly, the blade of his knife entering the inner side of his thigh and severing the femoral artery, from which death ensued almost immediately. He called to his wife and she ran to him and raised his head to her lap, but he only breathed once or twice after she reached him.
[Son of Prettyman and Elizabeth Berry
John F. Berry Born in Georgia around 1848 or 1849, died May 18 or 19, 1882

picture taken 1878]

H. C. Emerson Family

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County paper, June 25, 1889, Page 1, column 2
 Since the rains have ceased and the waters have subsided, we receive the sad intelligence that Mr. H. C. Emerson a highly respected citizen of the west end of the county, and a prominent candidate on the Democrat ticket last year, for legislative honors, had the sad misfortune to lose his wife and seven children in the flood last week. Mr. Emerson lived near the head waters of South Fork, and his house was situated near the river, and the rain fell in such torrents that the bottoms were overflowed very unexpectedly. And while the household were rapped in slumber, and after the father and mother had said their prayers and committed the little to the care of the All Wise Creator, the maddening waves came with a mighty rush, and in their attempt to make their escape to the highlands, the rushing waves in all her furry swept the mother and seven children to their watery grave.
 Two little boys the only survivors except the father drifted against trees and fortunately were saved from a like fate. Mr. Emerson in trying to save the babe almost lost his own life and to the fond father, when he reached the banks, found life extinct in the sweet little babe that so fondly clasped to his bosom. Search was instantly commenced and the bodies of the ill-fated mother and her six children were recovered and interred in the family burying ground.
 [missed last part of article]

Thomas M. Massey

Submitted by Sandra
The Primitive Baptist, Vol. 7, No. 5, Friday, Febuary 5, 1892
Martin, Weakley Co., Tennessee,
Obiturary of Thomas M. Massey (Van Buren Co., Ar.)
 Thomas M. Massey, son of Henry and Susan A. Massey, was born, Nov. 20, 1867 and died Nov. 11, 1891. Lacking only 9 days of being 24 years old.
 He was born in Monroe Co. , Mississippi and was raised in Van Buren Co., Arkansas, his father having moved to this state when he was very small.
 His father and mother are members of the Primitive Baptist Church.
 Tommie was a stout young man and was a noble-hearted youth; was teaching school at the time of his misfortune; he happened to hit his leg just below the knee joint, against the end of one of the seats and it caused inflamation and ran into white swelling and blood poision. After suffering untold misery for a period of seven or eight weeks, death came to his relief.
 He often expressed a desire to get well, but said if it was the good Lord's will to call him away from time to eternity , that he was not afraid to die, that he put all of his trust in God. He has often talked with the writer about his future state, having related to me his reason of a hope in Christ.
 Tommie was my true and faithful friend and I loved him as a brother, but he is gone where the voice of friendship cannot disturb, his peaceful repose. I have not a doubt but his spirit is now in the land of the blessed.
 He became a member of the M.E. Church about four years prior to his death, though he often expressed himself to the writer as being firm in the belief of the Primitive Baptist faith, believing that salvation was by grace without works. A day or so before he died he called his brothers and sisters around his bed and admonished them to live right and said that he wanted to meet them all in Heaven, where parting would be no more.
 He died in Scotland, Arkansas, at his father's home, his father having rented out his farm and moved to Scotland, to educate him and he had made rapid progress in his studies. Tommie was the only single child and the youngest boy and his parents doted on him very much and they thought he would be with them in their old age, but alas! death! the grim monster, came and blighted all of their hopes.
 Brother Cayce, we have not the space to portray all the excellency of this noble youth, suffice, it to say that he was true and manly in all his acts. If he had an enemy on earth we have no knowledge of it; he leaves a kind and loving father and mother , brothers and sisters to mourn his death. We sympathize and extend our condolence to the sorrowing relatives and friends, but would remind them that their loss is, Brother Tommie's eternal gain. And may the Lord sanctify the same to your good is our prayer for Jesus sake.
S.A. Stanley
Scotland, Ark., Dec. 23, 1891
P.S. Brother Cayce, please publish the following piece of poetry in connection with this obituary, written by his sister, Mrs. Safronia Lindsey.
S.A.S. [Samuel Armstead Stanley]

Thou mighty God and King
Who reigns supreme above
O condescend to bring
Some tokens of thy love
To one who would thy constant care,
Thy favors and thy blessings share

Thou never-failing friend
Help me my griefs to bear,
Thy Holy Spirit send
To chase away all fear--
May I from every creature flee
And take my sorrows Lord to thee.

However dark the way,
Till all my course is run--
Teach me O Lord to say:
Father thy will be done:
May all to thee I resign,
Assure me Lord that I am thine.

At last may I be found
Among the happy band
And join to sing thy praise
In glory's happy land:
There my I clasp Brother Tommie's hand
Forever with thee to reign.

Lovett Baby

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Democrat, July 23, 1896
 Mr. & Mrs. Jeff L. Lovett mourn the loss of their baby which died last Monday. We extend sympathy to the bereaved.

Frances Bennett

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Democrat, July 26, 1896
Obituary
 Sister Frances Bennett was born Oct. 8, 1848, in White County, Tenn. She professed religion and joined the M. E. church South in the fall of 1865, in which she lived a devoted Christian till the death angel called her home from Clinton, Arkansas, July 10, 1896.
 She was married to P. C. Bennett Aug. 30, 1866, their happy union has blessed with two children, both of whom still live to comfort their father, and share in his sore bereavement. Sister Bennett was a devoted wife and mother, highly respected and loved by all who knew her. She leaves a host of friends who heartily sympathize with the relatives in their death sorrow.
 Dear husband and children weep not as those who have no hope, be comforted with these words: The Lord himself shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the cloud, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
C. H. Nelson.
Clinton, Ark., July 20, 1896

Mrs. Jane Smith

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Clinton Democrat, July 26, 1896
Obituary
 Mrs. Jane Smith, wife of Mr. H. L. Smith, a prominent citizen of Craig township, died suddenly at her home last Saturday. Mr. Smith and the little orphans who are left behind have the sincere sympathy of the entire community.

Mrs. R. M. Emerson

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Democrat, March 15, 1900
 Rev. Oyler of Stone County will preach the funeral of Mrs. R. M. Emerson at the church here next Sunday morning at 11:00. Everybody is invited.

E. H. England

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Democrat, March 15, 1900
Y.M.C.A. Resolutions
 Whereas, in accordance with the will of God, in one of those mysterious workings of his providence, He hath removed form our midst our beloved friend and fellow laborer, E. H. England, and,
 Whereas, we would record our love and esteem for him, our appreciation of his faithful and able service, and our love and respect for his memory, be it,
 Resolved,That in sorrow we bow with humble submission to the will of God, who assures us that the faithful shall meet again,
 Resolved, That in Ed's death we have lost one whose intellect and learning inspired respect, and whose great, loving heart appealed so strongly to the affections of all that we shall always hold in loving remembrance the genial face and beautiful character of him whose death we mourn.
 Resolved, That we extend our sincere condolence to the mother so sadly bereaved, and pray the blessings of him who promised comfort to the afflicted, upon her,
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his mother; that one be printed in the Mirror; that one be sent to the Clinton Democrat for publication.
W. L. Oliver
S. J. T. Wynn
C. L. O'Daniel
Committee

Lucy Griggs

Submitted by Donnie Pickard
Van Buren County Democrat, March 15, 1900
 Mrs. Lucy Griggs died last Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. C. Lankford, who lives a few miles south of town. She was a pioneer settler of this county, and was a member of one of its most prominent families. She was buried Friday afternoon at the Huie graveyard. The Democrat extends condolence to the ---. [last line distorted]