Major Hezekiah Allen, Columbia Co, AR

This query comes from a call to editor Tommy Goodwin. The caller (C. A.) is
interested in a relative named Augustus Monroe Allen in this area or
possibly Columbia County. Since I don’t know exact dates I will address the
earliest Allen’s to Columbia County.

Major Hezekiah Allen* note Major is not a rank but a name, was born about
1843, in Georgia. At the age of ten, his father, Hezekiah Allen moved his
family to Coosa County, Alabama. Hezekiah had three sons, Major, Albert,
and William H. Allen. Upon moving to Arkansas, Albert Allen and William
Henry “Dick” were mustered into the Confederate Army where they served in
Col A Grinsteads infantry. This later became Co C 33rd Arkansas Infantry. I
am sending you under separate cover a copy of a picture of Major Hezekiah
Allen that appeared in a local Genealogy Magazine with a couple of short
articles. Census records and the article reflect the Allen’s lived in
Ebenezer Community and Spotsville Community and were Methodist. There is a
wealth of information on other Hezekiah Allen’s in the 1750’s through 1850.
I am assuming it is a family name.

Information about the Bodcaw Lumber Company— The Bodcaw Lumber Company was
incorporated in Texarkana, Miller County Arkansas in 1889 in order to
engage in purchasing, manufacturing and selling lumber. Two years later the
Company moved its operation to Stamps, Arkansas. By 1917, the Arkansas
based company was dissolved and its assets transferred to Good Pine,
Louisiana. International Paper Company, Pineville, Louisiana donated the
Collection of Lumber Company records to the Special Collections Division,
University of Arkansas, on August 6. 1998. The records consist of minute
books and stock ledgers.

Contents
1 Minute Book, Jan 1889-Dec 1905
2 Minute Book, Feb 1906-May 1917
3 Minute Book, Apr 1917-Dec 1941
4 Stock Ledger, ca 1917-1941
5 Funny Louis Lumber Company stock and cash ledger, 1911-1921

In 1889 William Buchanan, a Tennessee sawmiller, acquired Bodcaw in Stamps,
Arkansas, laying the groundwork for the company later acquired by
International Paper.