MILLER COUNTY, AR - Early Land Entries

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Submitted by: Becky Hargett <bhargett@cityscape.net>
        Date: 1998
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From "The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas",
Published 1890 by Goodspeed.  Chicago, Nashville, and St. Louis:
The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1890 (Page 182)

Speculators in land appeared early in the forties, and people at once
began to get titles to their land by entry.  The earliest entry on
record is that of A. J. Armstrong, in 1840, in the north part of the
county.  Many of these entries had been here as early as 1836 - for
example R. Kelley, the father of Col. W. R. Kelley, of Texarkana.
In 1841 no entries were recorded.  In 1842 were those of Martin G. Cagle,
Rich. H. Binford, Sheridan W. Williams, Collins Johnson, G. Crenshaw,
Benjamin F. Reyburn, Azariah Moss, J. B. Glass, John Parkman, C. W.
Waddell, Haynes Crabtree, J. M. Daniel, Amstead Waddell, G. McDaniel,
J. L. Howard, J. C. Wilson and Mary Crabtree.

A larger number entered in 1843:  Levi Eder, Reddin Bird, W. W. Andrews,
D. V. Palmer, Elizabeth Chappell, A. C. Roberts, W. M. Burton, George
Dooley, R. H. Finn, Harriet Wynn, Robert Cannington, Phineas Nash, E. L.
Pryor, J. W. Paup, B. Lloyd, R. F. Loftus, L. A. Kirk, W. H. Fore, A. C.
Owen, J. P. Alford, E. C. Stringer, James Dick, Robert Hamilton (a very
wealthy man), Jarrett James, I. N. Jones, S. D. Rainey, James Trigg,
Henry Crabtree, John Trigg, H. Trammell, D. Sayers, T. J. Edwards, T. P.
Day, Josiah Garland, W. H. Garland, K. Taylor, A. Hemphill, M. Cryer,
J. G. Fuller, James Abraham, J. H. Neely, J. Dickson, W. Crabtree,
F. Henderson, J. Crabtree, John Bradley, J. B. Diggs, R. Kelley and
R. Blanton, nearly all of whom were on bottom lands.

From this time to 1850 there were but few:  W. F. Morris in 1849;
M. Wright, a very wealthy man, in 1849; John Kirby in 1846; L. Earle,
and J. W. Rogers, in 1844, were all that appeared on the records.  The
greatest influx was probably from 1854 to 1860.  Since the war it has
been more gradual, but greater probably since 1873, since the railways
were completed, and especially great since 1882.
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