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Mary,
Are you familiar with the Izard County mailing list?
There are Benbrook descendants on that list, if you would like to join, let me know and I will tell you how if you dont know. It is a free mailing list through rootsweb. You might be able to make contact with several connections there.
I have distant connections with the Benbrooks by way of the Culp's. One of my great great grandfather Culp's brothers , Doctor Tom Culp married Elizabeth (Betty) Benbrook and one of Abraham Ruddell and Mary Culp Ruddell's daughters second marriage was to a Creswell/Criswell.
After joining the Izard mailing list, I have found I have many many connections to the first settlers of Izard County.
I was just recently ran across some information on Charley Benbrook being a Doctor and on Mary Lafferty, while researching a connection I have to the Morton's and Martins of Baxter Co. Arkansas.
I am posting it here for you to read, sounds as if this is your Lafferty's too.
This was posted and also sent to me by Peggy King Truesdell of Tulsa, Oklahoma
It was some time ago that I posted the following to the Izard List, as I felt
Anita {MARTIN} HARVEY had connection to Laura Frances MARTIN that married one
of my great-uncles, Jeremiah Sneed PERRY. This was because Helen {HURST}
CHAPMAN had approached my mother and asked what was the nickname for Laura
Frances MARTIN. My mother told her it was "Pony."
From "The Izard County Historian," Volume 16, Number 1, January 1985 Issue,
page 35, article heading:
JAMES LAFERTY AND MARY CRESWELL
YOUR GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENTS
Submitted by Helen Chapman
Route 1, Box 15
Norfork, AR 72658
My mother, Elva Morris Harvey Hurst, wrote what little she knew about her
family shortly before her death in 1947. She was ill at the time she wrote
it but I copied it exactly as she had written it. She always said we were
kin to the Lafertys, Jefferys, Benbrooks and Harrises. She was just 9 years
old when her mother died and she was never with her father or his people
again. She wrote this from memory of things she heard and knew about when
she was a small child.
After reading about the Lafertys in the "Izard County Historian," I have
hopes of learning more about my mother's people. And I hope the pictures
will help bring a response from family members who are not known to me at
this time.
"James Laferty and his wife owned a farm on White River below Calico Rock.
He left his family and went to Texas before the Civil War. She was Mary
Cresswell before her marriage and was the mother of four children. Her
daughter, Morris Jane, was your great-grandmother.
"The Creswells seem to have had lots of doctors. There was a Dr. Creswell.
One of Mary's sisters married a Dr. Milburn who had a son who was a doctor
and his son was the Dr. Milburn who died recently at Calico Rock.
One of Mary's daughters, Margret Laferty married Dr. Charles Benbrook. I can
remember him coming to our house to treat your great, great, grandmother,
Mary Lafferty, for she stayed with us once when I was a small child. She was
the only grandparent I ever saw. She was my great grandmother.
I don't know much about her but she raised my father, Bob Harvey and his
sister, Mary Harvey, and two more of her grandchildren who were left orphans.
They were Albert and Dow Harris. She seems to have been a very determined
person. They tell me that after the war all the fence had been destroyed
around her river field. She and her two grandsons, ages 11 and 13, made and
hauled rails and refenced it. She lived to be 96 years old.
"Your great-grandfather, Samuel Rufus Harvey, and his wife, Morris Jane
Laferty lived near Mt. Olive. After the war, he and five other men took a
herd of cattle to Texas. They were never heard of again. It is believed
that Indians or outlaws killed them. His wife died soon after, leaving a
daughter, Mary, and my father, Robert Glen Harvey. They were raised by their
grandmother, Mary Laferty.
"Your grandfather, Robert Glen Harvey, and your grandmother, Anita Florence
Martin, were married October 10, 1888, and became parents of five children.
They moved to Texas when I was a small child and she died there September 29,
1898. My father brought us children back here to my mother's people to raise
and he went back to Texas and died there in a short time."
* * *
Pictures with captions:
(1) Mrs. Robert Glen Harvey (Anita Martin). Photo made in Texas in 1898 when
she was 36 years old. She was the mother of Elva Morris Harvey. Photo
courtesy of Helen Chapman.
(2) Elva Morris Harvey at age 16. Photo was made in 1906. Photo courtesy of
Helen Chapman.
* * *
The above is typed exactly as written. The women are both beautiful!
Lovely. Anita has very dark eyes and hair.
* * *
Sorry to repeat here -- but was at bottom of my previous post.
In a previous post, I mentioned that Helen {HURST} CHAPMAN came up to my
mother in June 1978 and asked her what her aunt's name was. Her nickname was
"Pony," and her maiden name was Laura Frances MARTIN, b. March 1, 1856, d.
January 4, 1896 in Snowball, Searcy County, AR, where she is buried. She
married my mother's uncle, Jeremiah Sneed PERRY. After her death, he married
Margaret Lou WORTMAN, of Searcy County.
PJKT Note from my mother: "Martins lived at Coldwater, near McPhearson, in
Baxter County."
I'm posting the above, with hope that someone will know relationship between
Laura Frances MARTIN and the above Anita {MARTIN} HARVEY.
Peggy King Truesdell
I believe we have determined that the relationship of Laura Frances Martin and Anita/Anetta Martin Harvey is that they were sisters.
Sandra
sandrajw@tanet.net
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