Clay County AR

Bracken, Mozell – Obituary

Mozell Bracken, 92, of Baker City, died Jan. 31, 2005, at her home with all of her six surviving children at her side. Her funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St. Pastor Bill Cox of McEwen Bible Fellowship will officiate. Vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. There will be a reception afterward at Community Connection, 2810 Cedar St. Visitations will be until 7 o’clock tonight and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at the funeral home. Mozell was born at Marion, Ill., on Oct. 20, 1912, to John and Emma … Read more

Biography of John E. Ball

JOHN E. BALL. One of the progressive farmers of Howell County, Missouri, is John E. Ball, who was born in Abbeville District, S. C., in 1850, a son of James Wilburn and Mary (Mosley) Ball, who were born in the Palmetto State November9, 1817 and 1807, respectively. About 1859 they came to what is now Clay County, Arkansas, by wagon, and there the remainder of their lives were spent, she dying in 1865 and he in 1872. They were farmers by occupation and for some time during the Civil War the father of the subject of this sketch served in … Read more

Clay County Arkansas Cemeteries

Garbuttsville Cemetery

Most of these cemetery listings are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Woodland Heights Cemetery, Rector, Arkansas The city of Rector is located in Clay County in northeastern Arkansas. The city has made a burial index for Woodland Heights Cemetery available on its website. About 6,500 individuals are buried in the cemetery. The database is organized into several “alphabetical by last name” PDFs. The data fields are last name, first name, middle name, birth date, death date, section/row, library, mortuary, vault, veteran, conflict, branch, and society. … Read more

Clay County, Arkansas Census

Clay County, Arkansas was formed from Greene and Randolph counties in 1873. 1880 Clay County, Arkansas Census Free 1880 Census Form for your Research Free 1880 Census Transcription Hosted at Ancestry.com – Ancestry Free Trial 1880 Clay County, Census (images and index) $ 1810-1890 Accelerated Indexing Systems Free 1880 Census Index Surnames: Abbott – Brown Surnames: Brown – Davis Surnames: Davis – Green Surnames: Green – Johnson Surnames: Johnson – McKay Surnames: McKay – Peebles Surnames: Pelmes – Sheafield Surnames: Sheaks – Turner Surnames: Uhels – Zimmer Free 1880 Census Transcription Bradshaw Township Cache Township Carpenter Township Chalk Bluff Township … Read more