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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: April 1, 1903 Van Buren Argus
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:04:10 -0700

Van Buren Argus

Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas

April 1, 1903

OLD RECORDS

Through the Kindness of Miss Alice Cordingly an Interesting Record is Returned.

Through the kindness of Miss Alice Cordingly, the very earliest records of Fairview Cemetery have been furnished Mayor Woolum in order that he might make some important and necessary copies of it, as the records of burials there have been improperly kept, or many of them lost, a fact that is causing the cemetery committee a great deal of trouble in strengthening out the present records.

The old records cover a period from 1848 to 1862 and are supposed to be perfectly reliable. They are written in an ordinary blank book that are now used for "day books" or "blotters" by bookkeepers, and is remarkably well preserved. The record is the property of a Mrs. Clary, of Leesburg, Missouri, a descendant of the Phelps family, who were amongst the earliest and most highly respected citizens of Van Buren when it was but little more than a steamboat landing.

The first entry in the book records the burial of ""Jacob Hiner, drowned April 1, 1848", while the last entry reads, "Wm N Elliot, Nolan’s Brigade, Whitfield’s Battalion, McCullough Division, died March 13, 1862.

Fran Alverson Warren
e-mail:
479-369-2703
http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

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