Saturday, March 6, 2021

In the News, from Newspapers.com

 Sister Betty has subscribed to this service.  These are a few items of interest.



Above items published in the Star Progress, Berryville, Arkansas 12 March 1909.


Star Progress, 9 July 1909 Gertie Maples teacher at Black Oak School, Melton Powell Moore School. Dan Norton said that Eva Bell Meek told him that the cemetery in my neighbors field was known as Black Oak Cemetery and when she was a child there was a school name Black Oak School just a short distance away towards her house.


Melton Powell and Miss Gertie Maples marriage Arkansas Gazette 26 April 1911.


Melton Powell 17 June 1926. Moving from Coin school to Sunny Lane, Coin Items, Star Progress.


Ora Gaddy, Anna Gaddy and Jesse Powell teachers, 24 March 1911. Bessie Carmack on this list married Garland Eldridge in December 1911. Anna Gaddy is likely Anna Robertson Gaddy Metz.  Her husband George Gaddy, Ora Gaddy's brother died in 1908.  She married James Metz in 1916 to become the Annie Metz that was our mother's friend at Denver.


Huston Gaddy and family came last week from California to Denver Arkansas to take charge of the Denver Garage, 01 Sep 1927.


Dollie Gaddy Crawford obituary 23 March 1933, Star Progress.


Powell / Cooper Reunion 12 Sep 1940, Brock School House near Cassville, Missouri.


Powell / Cooper Reunion page 2.


Pleas Cooper wife's death, 18 Nov 1920 in Cassville newspaper.  The wife's name is not given, only Mrs. Cooper. Our files have her name as Cora May Clanton Cooper.


Mrs. Pleas Cooper's death, page 2


Cora May Clanton Cooper, Pleasant Claude Cooper and child, likely Arl Dewey Cooper born 1913.