Re: McCleskey family yell co. Arkansas
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McCleskey family yell co. Arkansas
glenda mccleskey 3/28/05
The following entry is elsewhere in this forum(http://genforum.genealogy.com/mccleskey/messages/171.htm).I am part of a rather large clan in georgia descended from Pink and Isabella Dawson who were on the below trip but returned to Georgia.You can see there graves (and other McCleskeys and Dawsons) at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacobb/cemeteries/dawson/http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacobb/cemeteries/dawson/
From Yell County (Arkansas) Historical & Genealogical Association Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1988, "McClanahan/Mccleskey Family History in Arkansas,": "James Franklin McCleskey, wife Sallie Fowler McCleskey and children, Ida Lavinia, Willie Gertrude and Charles Edgard, left Marietta, Georgia in the Martin Wagon Train on Monday morning, Nov. 8, 1869, for Arkansas. In the party were Ervin J. Fowler, brother of Sallie Fowler McClanahan (I think this is a typographical error and should be McCleskey), wife Fanny Bell Fowler, children Chessie and Johnny (an adopted son), Thompson Reed, Ben Bryant, Tom Holbrooks, Thomas Smith McCleskey, (brother of James Franklin McCleskey) wife Georgia Babb McCleskey and children Thomas Columbus, Lavinia Isabel, Dora Rachel, Robert Lee and Lena, Pink Dawson and wife Jane McCleskey Dawson (sister of J.F.M.) and children Ina and Florence.
All these except the James Franklin McCleskeys, Thomas Smith McCleskeys and Ervin J. Fowlers returned to Georgia the following fall.
Reconstruction days following the Civil War strife led to this migration to Arkansas, a then new country. Traveling by train from Marietta to Memphis was a "snap" trip compared with travel by steamboat from Memphis to Dardanelle, a river town in Yell County. Boats on which travel was made were the "Caldwell," the "Fort Grison" and the "America."
The party disembarked at Dardanelle. They were headed for Ozark, a place several miles up the river but were so weary of travel they were glad to get off in a good-looking country. They made settlements in the Spring Creek community about twenty miles west of Dardanells, in and near a village called Fergeson's Mills, later came to be called Belleville. Here James F. McCleskey and Sally Fowler McCleskey lived and reared their family. Susan Aseneth, Oscar Colquitt and Conrad Fowler were their other children born after coming to Arkansas."
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glenda mccleskey 3/29/05
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Michael Hartley 3/30/05
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