Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
Baxter Bulletin newspaper Mountain Home, Baxter County, AR
date of issue May 29, 1942
Mrs. America Biggers, 84, died May 20. She was born in Douglas County, MO, on Apr 2, 1858 and came to AR when a child. She marriage Billy Biggers and they had nine children. Six children survive: Laure Biggers, Mrs. Mary Skiver, Mrs. Martha Skiver and Price Biggers, all of Mountain Home, Marcus Biggers and Mrs. Lola Fears of OK.
date of issue Jun 6, 1941
Mrs. Angline Biggers 87 (nee Barnes) marriage in 1871, died May 30 at home near Quality Ridge. Survivors are Mrs. Ida Jennings, Anges Biggers, Mrs. Mollie Studdard and Mis Lillie Hulsenbeck.
newspaper dated Jul 17, 1931
Jeff Biggers, age 81, died Monday. Survivors are his wife and four daughters; Mrs. Will Studdard, Mrs. E. A. Studdard, Mrs. Will Hulsenbeck, Mrs. Ida Jennings and Miss Agnes Studdard. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery. (We think "Agnes Studdard" was a typo.)
Baxter Bulletin newspaper of
Mountain Home, Baxter County, AR.
May 4, 1934
Wm. B. Lack, age 54, died at Bateville Sanitarium on Saturday of last week.
Burial was in Big Flat Cemetery. Survivors are his wife, one son, one brother and four sisters. One sister is Mrs. Mittie Gillihan of Clinton, OK.
Baxter Bulletin Apr 1, 1932
Mrs. R. S. Wilson died Wed. She came to Mt. Home in 1898 with her husband Lee Davis, brother to T. M. Davis, editor of the Baxter County Citizen. Lee died in 1905. They had three children: Mrs. W. N. Baker of Mt Home, Opie Davis and Mrs. Adlia Baker of Okmulgee, OK. Several years after the death of Lee Davis she marriage Dr. R. S. Wilson, who survives.
Apr 8, 1932
Mrs. W. S. Wilson (nee Mary Jeffries) reared at Mt Olive. She came here from Salem in 1898 with her first husband Lee Davis, partner of his brother, Murphy Davis. They had three children: Mrs. Walter Baker, Mrs. Adlia Davis and Mrs. Opie Davis. (has Mrs). She conducted the Commercial Hotel for many years. Later she marriage Dr. R. S. Wilson.
Baxter Bulletin 1987
Lena Beavers, area native, died Saturday
Lena Beavers, 91 of Bentonville died Saturday (Dec 12, 1987) at Bentonville Manor Nursing Home.
Mrs. Beavers, a housewife, was an area native, born Aug 29, 1896 in Rea Valley. She was Baptist.
She is survived by a brother George Jones of Bentonville. Her parents were William and Mary Elizabeth (Hall) Jasper.
Services were Monday at Bentonville with burial in Bentonville Cemetery.
Calico Rock Progress, Calico Rock, AR
Jan 24, 1930
Robert Buckner, age 14 years, son of Dan Buckner of Mtn. Home, accidentally shot himself with shotgun while out hunting Wednesday, the youngster was trying to scare a rabbit out of the brush pile while holding the gun by the barrel it was accidentally discharged, the load taking effect in left side near heart. He was carried to a near by house and a physician was summoned, but little hope for his recovery is retained..
Newspaper dated Feb 1, 1946
Died: Mrs. W. H. Smith, 58, a native of Baxter County, who moved to OK 27 years ago with her husband, W. H. Smith, also a Baxter County native. She died Sat. at Foyil, OK. Survivors include her husband, 1 dau Mrs. George Lewis of Foyil, 3 brothers: Dave Byrd of Mountain Home, Guy and Henderson Byrd both of Wetumka, OK. Burial was in a cemetery near Foyil.
May 4, 1972, "Baxter Bulletin" Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas
Claude Shanks, 56, brickmason, died
Claude Lake Shanks, 56, of Many, La., who was employed here as a brickmason for the past two months, died here Wednesday, April 19, at a local clinic. He was a native of Hardin, Ill., and a member of the Assembly of God Church.
The son of John Thomas Shanks and Lottie Stabler Shanks, he was born March 9, 1916, and was marriage to Ethel Smith in 1936.
No local service was held, and funeral and interment were at Many under the direction of the Warren-Meadows Funeral Home of that city. McClure-Smith was in charge of local arrangements.
