Meet the Authors

Jimmie and Doris Evans Dewberry

Jimmy Dewberry was born March 27, 1929, in Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas. He's been a teacher, then director of student services at Arkansas Valley Vo-Tech School (later Arkansas Valley Technical Institute). He's retired now and his hobbies are genealogy, hiking, and backpacking.

Doris Evans Dewberry was born June 14, 1931, at Friley, Johnson County, Arkansas. She's a nurse, retired from Clarksville Medical Group. Her hobbies are also genealogy, hiking, and backpacking; and in addition, she sews and gardens.

They are the parents of Kathryn Purdom and Janice Shelton. The Dewberry's grandchildren are Wade, Emily, Lydia, Anna, Nathan, and Naomi Purdom.

Jimmie's ancestral lines are:

Dewberry (to Ark. in 1893 from N. Carolina)
Vaught (to Ark. in 1847 from Jackson Co., Ala.)
Wages (to Ark. in the 1830s from Kentucky)
Horner (to Ark. in the 1840s from Tennessee)
Mounts (to Ark. in 1836 from Illinois)
Williams (to Ark. in the 1830s from Kentucky)
Wood (to Ark. before 1840 from Tennessee)
Coker (to Arkansas before 1830)
Patterson (to Ark. early 1850s from Tennessee)
Cox (in Henderson Co., N. Carolina and Greenville Co., S. Carolina)
Guthrie (Spartanburg, N. Carolina)
Cowan (to Ark. in the 1840s)

Doris' ancestral lines are:

Evans (James Barney Evans of Madison Co., Ark.)
Harris (to Ark. 1860s from Illinois)
Karr (to Ark. 1870 from Hall Co., Ga.)
Whitmire (to Ark. 1870 from Hall Co., Ga.)
Clark (to Ark. before 1840 from Tennessee)
Henderson (to Ark. before 1840 from Tennessee)
Butler (to Ark. 1870 from Hall Co., Ga.)
Phillips (to Ark. before 1850 from Tennessee)
Magness (to Ark. before 1830)
Shelton (to Ark. 1850s from Alabama)
Howard (to Ark. 1850s from Alabama)
Tabor (to Ark. before 1830 from Tennessee)

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