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Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Fleming & Brockwell- Mike Walker
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:07:00 EST

Harold,

I not only surveyed the Spring Hill Cemetery and Pleasant Ridge Cemeteriy
among many others, but I mowed some of them including the Spring Hill Cemetery
for which I was paid by by Bill Floyd. It was a very cumbersome task. Mowing a
cemetery that large especially is no piece of cake especially when you want
to make each grave look beautified and not just haphazardly done. I am so
sorry, Harold, it has been so many years now that I cannot recall the Flemings in
the Spring Hill Cemetery. I do know it is a very old cemetery with graves
that date back to the beginning of Izard County history. As far as the Pleasant
Ridge Cemetery, I know nearly all of the Brockwell family were buried there.
I know Thomas and Ethel Kent Brockwell; George and Blanche Rogers Brockwell,
Cora Brockwell Simmons and her husband Robert Pinkney "Pink" Simmons, and many
more including I believe the earliest Brockwells who actually settled
Brockwell, J.H. and Mary West Brockwell who came here from Union City, Tennessee, in
1886 when George was 18. They were the real father and mother of the town of
Brockwell, not George although George did build the first store there in 1924.
That is really all he did. He owned the 40 acres on which the town was built
but did not donate any land. He sold it off to people to build their stores,
etc. My Uncle Orville Campbell's mother was a Simmons as well: Susie
Simmons Campbell Hames 1873 - 1956 and buried in Old Philadelphia Cemetery. I was
thinking she was connected with the Brockwells, but I may be wrong. George's
son, I believe, Amos Brockwell, is the one who closed the Brockwell store out
about 1948 or 1949, and most of the Brockwells ended up in the State of
Washington. I have met several when they would come back on visits. Very nice
people. By the way, a beer joint was in this same store as the Brockwell Store
during a time the Brockwells did not have control over it. It was run by someone
else very familiar to the towns of Brockwell and Oxford. Another beer store
was run at the other end of town by the intersection in the old Robert and
Lottie Neal Store by someone else when they did not have control over the store.
Brockwell has its share of white lightning stories.

Mike Walker

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