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County Resources, Poinsett County
As I See It: My Life and Times By Georgia Lewis Moore, ISBN 1-56869-109-2, 230 pages, $9.95 Beginning in 1988, and continuing for seven years, George Moore wrote a newspaper column in the Trumann, Arkansas, newspaper. Those wonderful, newsy essays are all included in this book. They're filled with stories about the people, places and events in the area. Anyone with Poinsett County roots will love this book! There are many photos and illustrations. Arkansas Land Patents: Eastern Arkansas Counties
(Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties)
What information is included? The county volumes of land patents list patentee's name, volume and page of the patent book, land office, document and miscellaneous document numbers, type of transaction, precise legal description, and number of acres. Introductory information describes in great detail how to get copies of the patents and land entry case files, how to use other land record sources, how to integrate the information with other sources, what is found in a typical homestead case file, where and when the Arkansas land offices operated, and a selected bibliography. County maps are also included. The time period covered by this information is earliest settlement through 30 June 1908. Information from 156,784 patent documents is included. These county volumes are based on current-day county boundaries. Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Eastern Arkansas (Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Greene, Lee, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett and St. Francis Counties)
This book is an index to Confederate veterans who applied for pensions from the State of Arkansas. Information includes: veteran's name, widow or mother's name, company, unit, year(s) of enrollment, county from which applied and death dates of the veteran and his widow. Also included is a list of pensioners granted awards through legislative acts and a list of residents of the Confederate Home. Pensioners in this book are cross-referenced to the 1911 Arkansas Confederate Veteran census. A detailed summary of pension legislation and suggestions for further research are included. Pensions were based on the state of residence at the time of eligibility. Arkansas State Donation and Swamp Lands: Craighead, Mississippi, and Poinsett Counties
See our detailed explanation about donation and swamp lands under our "Land Records" category. (Then click your "back" browser button to return to this page.) Index to Arkansas' World War I Soldiers from Craighead, Mississippi, and Poinsett Counties
Poinsett County was created: 28
February 1838.
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