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Joseph H. Battenfield (June 1848 — June 29, 1909) was an American newspaper publisher and merchant based in Russellville, Arkansas, in the years after the American Civil War. His weekly newspaper regularly took local officials to task over what he saw as the plundering of county wealth and published details of unwarranted attempts by county ...
Pope County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,381. [2] The county seat is Russellville. [3] The county was formed on November 2, 1829, from a portion of Crawford County and named for John Pope, the third governor of the Arkansas Territory.
While he was actually Pope County's "Superintendent of Public Instruction," his occupation in the 1870 census was listed as "teaching school" in Illinois Township, Pope County, Arkansas, that he was born in Illinois, wife in Indiana, daughter age 5 in Iowa and daughter 10 months in Arkansas, and that he had $200 in real estate and $900 personal ...
"The Black Experience in the First Decade of Reconstruction in Pope County, Arkansas", Arkansas Historical Quarterly 51 (Summer 1992): 105–119. Claunts, P. M. From Memory's Scrapbook: A History of the Early Days of Scott County, Arkansas. Waldron: The Scott County Library Heritage Committee, 1983. Goodner, Norman. A History of Scott County ...
Dover was either named by British aristocrats in the 1830s for Dover, Kent, England or by Stephen Rye in 1832 for Dover, Tennessee. [3] Incorporated December 31, 1852, [4] Dover was the county seat for Pope County from 1841 to 1887 [5] with the county's brick courthouse on the square bounded by present-day Camp, Market, Water, and Elizabeth Streets.
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. (July 15, 1940 – June 25, 1990) was an American mass murderer who killed 16 people over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987 and wounded several others. A retired military serviceman, Simmons murdered fourteen members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her ...
September 13, 2024 at 5:57 PM. As Ohio grapples with worsening drought conditions, the state fire marshal on Friday expanded the open burning ban to include Franklin and other central Ohio ...
Website. www.vanburencountyark.com. Van Buren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,796. [1] The county seat is Clinton. [2] The county was formed on November 11, 1833, and named for Martin Van Buren, President of the United States, who was Vice President at the time of the county ...