Anne's Site

I’ve done some research and drawn some conclusions. I’ve also noted some mysteries.

This section will someday direct you to surnames, places, time periods, and resources. I’ll be that time traveler who keeps dropping names, and you’ll be the time traveler hoping he didn’t forget his towel.

Wherever possible, I will supply links to evidence supporting the facts given on this site. Site cites, if you will.

Where possible, I have linked to free and publicly available sources. The researcher will find images of vital records, government documents, miscellaneous papers, and books in the public domain, as well as books written by family members.

Here are a few books written by and about progenitors:

• Robert W. Adair (1835-1927), R.E.W. Thompson (1856-1937) : Two Southern Families : Worley, Carroll, Sellers, Lawson, Beauchamp, Casey, Nave (Related Lines) compiled by Shirley Brown Adair, Rockwall, Texas: n.p., 1994.   (More of Shirley Brown Adair’s thorough family history research is available for free through FamilySearch. Search the catalog for her as an author.)
• Reminiscences of Rev Donald Kennedy Campbell (1933)
• O.E. Goddard’s A Manual of Missions for Laymen (1907)  (the dedication to Rebecca Aylette Taylor Dowdle contains genealogical data)
• The Robinson Family, by Laura Pemberton Robinson (c1917)
• Rogers of Ouachita County, Ark. (1998) by Benjamin Rogers Smith

Here are some bibles and letters I own that provide genealogical clues:

• • Benjamin O. Hollis – Henry Barnet Smith Bible – Bracken and Mason Counties, Kentucky and Stuttgart, Arkansas, 1772-1926
  • Abel Shuford and Laura Harshaw Reinhardt Bible– Des Arc, Arkansas, 1847-1937
  • Laura Mitchell Unthank Bible Brown County, Ohio and Jasper County, Iowa, 1840-1917
  • Isabella “Ibby” Barr Gash / Oliver P. Gash Bible – Mason County, Kentucky, 1786-1886

• • 20 Feb 1809 letter from Paris Jenckes Tillinghast of Fayetteville, North Carolina to his cousins Nicholas Brown & Thomas Ives of Providence, Rhode Island
  • 24 Jan 1876 letter from James Jefferson Booe of Prairie County, Arkansas to his maternal aunt Harriet Anderson Shepherd
  • 6 May 1876 letter from James C. Turner of Coryell, Texas, to his sister and brother-in-law, Mary Turner and Ed Cramer of Camden, Arkansas
  • 8 March 1877 letter from Katie and A.H. Deets of Pilot Point, Texas to Katie’s maternal aunt and uncle, Mary Turner and Ed Cramer of Camden, Arkansas

And here are some documents that may help researchers in other ways:

Diary of Rev. Robert Harrison Poynter, 1896-1902, typescript with attachments, provenance unknown

I get along better with dead people than with living ones. I’m obsessed with genealogy and spend many hours researching people, places, and times. I hope someday someone can find my research and put it to good use.

I’m also a political junkie, armchair philosopher, avid bookworm, and compulsive writer. This site is the repository of it all.

Want to check out my library?

Email me at anneorsi@orsi.us.