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CLARK CO. AR
Formed 1818 from Arkansas
Hot Springs formed 1829 from Clark
Union formed 1829 from Hempstead, Clark
Pike formed 1833 from Clark, Hempstead
Dallas formed 1845 from Clark, Bradley
CENSUS RECORDS
1830-1840 Clark Co. AR Census
No Duncan indexed
1850 Clark Co. AR Census
Colbath
Pg.200, #147, Thomas DUNCAN 30 Unknown farmer
Sally 25 AR
Martha J. 4, Pernesa Ann 2 AR
(MAD: Sarah W. in ?? 1880 Bradley Co. AR census)
Pg.200, #148, William DURAN 23 GA farmer
Mary C. 22 AL
(no children, not married in year)
Arkadelphia Town
Pg.228, #521, Solomon SPENCE 57 VA tavernkeeper & fam.
Benjamin S. DUNCAN 32 PA (& others)
(MAD: ?? also 1850 Benj. S. Duncan age 35 in Allegheny Co. PA)
Arkadelphia
Pg.229, #533, James S?. WARD 35 LA, Mary 36 MO
(all following last name WARD)
Mary Elizabeth 18, Isaac Smith 10 AR
James Duncan 7, Joseph Stephens 4 AR
Martha Jane 1, Henry M. 17 AR
1860 Clark Co. AR Census (part also from Denzil Mauldin 1/1987)
Terre Noir Twp.
Pg.39, #244-245, Delilar H. TIGRET (f) 50 LA domestic $200-$200
Mary J. 19 AR
Sarah DUNKIN 30 AR
Marthy J. 13, Larngey A. (f) 11 AR
Delila 10 AR
(MAD: Larngey is the best I could read, does not look like Pernesa)
Caddo Twp.
Pg.89, #261-260, Thos. FREEMAN 39 AR farmer $3200-$1000
Sarah J. 29 AL
Mary J. 11, Marth A. (f) 9, Thos. R. 5 AR
Sarah L. 3, child not named (m) 3/12 AR
William DUNCAN 17 TN (blank)
Pg.110, #407-406, G.A. DUNCAN (m) 50 TN waggon maker $0-$150
Milla (f) 50 NC
William 18, C.L. (f) 16 MS
Nancy J. 13, Amanda 11 MS
Alabama (f) 8 TN
Thomas 4 AR
(MAD: Gilmore A. Duncan, 1850 Lauderdale Co. MS census; 1870 Tippah Co. MS census)
1870 Clark Co. AR Census
Alpine Twp.
Pg.174, #71-71, DUNCAN, Marville ("f") 20 MO tenant $0-$0
Nancy 23 TN keeping house (not m/in/yr)
(MAD: should be male; 1850 Ozark Co. MO census; 1880 Calhoun Co. AR census)
Pg.175, #79-79, DAVIS, Loucinda 14 AR at school
Jessee 10 AR at school
Martin? (m) 6 AR
DUNCAN, Joseph 18 MO farm laborer $0-$0
(MAD: no adults listed in this household or at last of household above)
Pg.177, #116-116, TUCKER, T.C. (m) 39 TN farmer $1250-$0
Loucinda 38 TN keeping house
Benjamin 14, Nancy 12, John 11 AR
Susan 5, William 2 AR
DUNCAN, Joseph 20 AL farm laborer
Antoine Twp.
Pg.198, #151-151, DUNCAN, Thomas 57 SC farmer $0-$0
Sallie 57 SC keeping house
Abram M. 25 SC farmer
John R. 18 SC at home
(MAD: 1850 Edgefield Co. SC census; 1860 Itawamba Co. MS census; wife said to be Sarah Newton)
Arkadelphia Town
Pg.203, #41-38, DUNCAN, Wm. N. 35 NC ret. grocer $175-100
J.M. (f) 20 GA
(MAD: Wm.'s age of 35 and "ret." plain)
Caddo Twp.
Pg.242, #360-370, many black tenant families all listed together
DUNCAN, Harrison 30 AL BLACK tenant
Lucy 22 AR BLACK
John 6, James 2, Parelle (f) 1 AR BLACK
Pg.244, #378-387, TOWNSEND, Jack 25 GA BLACK tenant
Eliza 25 AR BLACK
William 8/12 AR b.Oct. BLACK
ROSS, Margaret 2 AR BLACK
Joanna 5 AR BLACK
DUNCAN, John 7 AR BLACK
Greenville Twp.
Pg.285, #69-69, DUNCAN, Jane 34 AL BLACK keeping house
Alexander 18, Mary A. 14 AR BLACK
Jeff D. 9, Moses 6, James 5 AR BLACK
1910 Clark Co. AR Census (partial)
Missouri Twp., District 56, SD 7, ED 56, Sheet 25B, #1385
Pg.240B, #497-506, DUNCAN, Mathew, head m/w 62 m/37 IL IL PA
Alice, wife f/w 56? m/37 10ch 10ch KANADA MO? Wales?
Chas, son m/w 21 s IA IL Kanada
Wm., son w/m 16 s IA IL Kanada
LAND RECORDS
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Automated Records Project. Washington [Hempstead Co.], AR Land Office, Act/Treaty of April 24, 1820, Entry Classification: Sale - Cash Entries
Name, Acres, Date land document signed
Duncan, Benjamin S, 80 acres, Aug 01 1837 (MAD: ? Clark Co. AR)
(MAD: Hot Springs Co. AR Deed C-28, mortgage, 10/3/1849 from J.B. Buckner to B.S. Duncan; from Vol.163, 1988, of "AR Genealogical Records." Benjamin S. Duncan possibly in Allegheny Co. PA 1850 age 35?)
Clark Co. AR Deed Index 1821-1858 (FHL film 1,010,001; SLC 6/16/2008)
Recorded date, instrument date
B-232: Duncan, B.S. & Co. to Lewis Randolph, gdn, May 15, 1837, May 13, 1851, lot 47 in Greensville
D-242: Duncan, Benj. S. to Harris Flanagin (Hanagin?), Aug. 4, 1840, Feb. 17, 1840, power of attorney.
(later Benjamin S. Duncan deeds not copied)
B-207: James Straw? and Jacob Strope, Commrs, to B.S. Duncan, April 2, 1837, March 28, 1837, deed, lot 78 in Greenville
B-231: & later not copied
Clark Co. AR Deeds (FHL film 1,010,005; SLC 6/16/2008)
B-207: 28 March 1837, James Sloan and Jacob Stroope, Comrs. of Clark Co. AR, to Benjn. Stiles Duncan & Co. of same, for $12.25, lot 78 in Town of Greenville. (FHL film 1,010,005)
B-231: 3 April 1837, Benjn. S. Cavender of Clark Co. AR to Benjn. Stiles Duncan, $35, town lot 47 in Town of Greenville. (FHL film 1,010,005)
B-232: 13 May 1837, Benjamin S. Duncan & Co. of Clark Co. AR to Lewis Randolph as gdn for Thomas Bankhead of same, $45, town lot 47 in Town of Greenville. All signed. (FHL film 1,010,005)
D-242: 17 Feb. 1840, Wm. H. Preston and Benj. S. Duncan, both of Greenville, Clark Co. AR, make Harris Flanagin Esqr. of afsd our agent and attorney in fact ... (FHL film 1,010,005)
COURT RECORDS
Go to the Clark Co. AR Court Records
HISTORIES before 1923
1890 "Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Southern AR" Clark, Miller, Sevier, Howard, Pike, Lafayette, Hempstead, Columbia, Little River, Nevada, Cleveland, Ouchita (sic), Dallass, Bradley, Calhoun, Union, Ashley, Drew, Lincoln, Desha and Chicot Cos.; by Goodspeed (FHL film 266,242; and from Betty Laarveld 5/1987)
Pg.116-117: Clark Co. Sheriffs: B.L. Duncan, 1844-46. Treasurers: B.S. Duncan, 1856-58.
Pg.154: Clark Co. Ithey Nash, editor and proprietor of the Gudon Advocate, a Democratic paper, was born in Anson Co. NC, in 1846, the second of five children, four of whom are still living, born to the union of Jesse J. and Dorothy (Duncan) Nash, natives of NC. The family moved from NC to MS in 1856, locating in Monroe Co., where the mother died in 1856. The father is still living in Monroe Co. at the age of 72 years. ... (more on Nash family not copied here.) Jesse J. Nash was the grandson of Michael Nash and son of William Nash, a farmer by occupation, who died in NC. The Duncan family are of Scotch descent, and trace their ancestry back to the Scottish wars. The subject of this sketch was reared and schooled in MS ...; until 1873, then to Pike Co. AR, in 1877 to Clark Co. ... In 1868 he married Miss Annie E. Grissom, a daughter of John M. Grissom, of Itawamba Co. MS, and by this union is the father of 5 children, viz, Ithey Yerger, Lelus McCaulas, Zela Yerger, and Lee Duncan Hubbard and Ledonia Grissom Yerger, twins. The McCaulas and Hubbard are ancestral names. ... (nothing more on family)
Pg.167: Clark Co. AR. Willis S. Smith, MD, one of most prominent old settlers of AR, born Todd Co. KY near Elkton (then Logan Co.) Aug. 10, 1810, 5th of 12 children, 9 sons & 3 daus, born to Millington and Barbara (Barton) Smith, natives of Edgecombe Co. NC. They were married in Stewart Co. TN and in 1808 moved from TN to Western KY ... Russellville. In 1810, same year subject was born, parents moved back to Stewart Co. where Fort Donelson now is, and in 1817 removed to Johnson Co. IL where he and wife both died, he in 1836 in 76th year, she in 1832 age 52; both Baptist Church. His father, Willis Smith, was Rev. Soldier and killed at Bunker Hill, the son of George Smith native of Ireland who came to America, located in Edgecombe Co. NC where he died. Maternal ancestors of subject were also natives of Ireland. (MAD: nothing more said about Barton family; Barbara was a dau. of James Barton and Mary Duncan; James Barton's will is listed in 1804 in Logan Co. KY; from article about Cardwell B.R. Smith by Kirby D. Watkins on pg.85, Vol.24 #2, June 1986, "AR Family Historian")
Pg.168: Clark Co. AR. Judge Isaac W. Smith, Whelen Springs, AR ... born Johnson Co. IL, Jan. 13, 1818, son of Millington and Barbara (Barton) Smith, natives of Edgecombe Co. NC, both dying in IL, he in 1835 in 65th year, she in 1833 in 54th year. Millington Smith was son of Willis Smith, also farmer, and soldier in Rev. War killed in a battle with the Tories in NC, the son of George Smith, native of Ireland. Millington Smith to Stewart Co. TN when a boy with his mother, there grew up and married, in 1817 to IL, 13 children (MAD: named but not copied here).
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