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William G. Mount was a resident of Powhatan. According to the Federal Census of 1870, he was listed ...
William G. Mount
"Dr. Coffman practiced medicine in Powhatan for 12 years, leaving for Black Rock in 1883, where entered the ...
James Coffman
Jack LeMay was a deputy sheriff of Powhatan in 1921. He was fined for carrying and potentially brandishing ...
Jack LeMay
The location of the county seat for Lawrence County has been contentious over the years. From the early ...
County Seat Relocation
James W. Butler (1829-1913) was a resident of Batesville, Arkansas who served as judge on the Third District ...
James W. Butler
Coffin & Gibson was a real estate company that operated in Powhatan in 1873. It is unknown which ...
Coffin & Gibson
H.H. Peden was a deputy postal clerk in Powhatan in 1883. He was charged with "depositing in the ...
H.H. Peden
R.S. Madison was the Lawrence County Tax Collector in 1915. According to a contemporary newspaper, he was the ...
R.S. Madison
Richard Ward was killed by his nephew Charles Wilson in August 1891. They apparently quarreled over a woman. ...
Murder of Richard Ward
In 1912, the following individuals were elected Office Winner Succeeding Representative Jefferson D. Boyle J.J. Bellamy County/Probate Judge ...
1912 County Elections
John McManus, George Roberts, and William Brooks were accused of the murder of Charles Buster in 1885. They ...
Murder of Charles Buster
Lon McCarrol was indicted and accused of killing George James on December 21, 1901 with a pistol. The ...
Murder of George James
Robert E. Craig (1824-1837) is the earliest recorded death at Powhatan (if current evidence is correct and the ...
Robert Emmett Craig
Mabel Lee Smith was found not guilty of the murder of her husband Charles Lee by poisoning strychnine ...
State of Arkansas vs. Mabel Lee Smith
Charles Hall was a soldier from Lawrence County, one of over 70,000 men from Arkansas who served during ...
Charles Hall
Due to the proximity to the Black River, Powhatan experienced several drownings in its heyday. In 1873, three ...
Drownings
Summary of Goodspeed Born August 12, 1823 in Georgia. He came to Powhatan in 1854. In 1876 he ...
Benjamin F. Matthews
James A. Martin was the son of Felix G. Martin and was of the firm J.A. Martin & ...
James A. Martin
8 rapes were tried in Powhatan during its time as an active courthouse. November 1911: victim: Minnie Nichols. ...
Rape
Senter Wilkins Stuart was the son of Powhatan merchant Frank C. Stuart. His mother was Emma Moore. He ...
Senter Wilkins Stuart
Mose Thompson was charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of Bob Weir near Black ...
Murder of Bob Weir
The following is a description of Powhatan in the year 1889. Goodspeed "Powhatan proves a profitable center for ...
1889
Summary of Goodspeed Attorney and county examiner, born April 1, 1852. Came to Powhatan in 1882 and practiced ...
Charles C. Rogers
Dave Donigan was murdered by Dan Allen on November 20, 1898. Governor Jones offered a reward of 100 ...
Murder of Dave Donigan
The Spring River Valley, which comprises the western line of the Black River valley is bordered by a ...
Mining
This page will link to pages summarizing activities, and residents known to have occurred in their respective year. ...
Powhatan By Year
Henry Wickersham a resident of Powhatan and tinsmith. According to records found on Ancestry.com, he was appointed as ...
Henry Wickersham
Henry White was convicted of the death of Charley Hale in 1898 in State of Arkansas v. Henry ...
State of Arkansas vs. Henry White (Murder of Charley Hale)
The following was copied from the Lawrence County Historical Quarterly, Spring 2009. Vol. 13 No. 1. pp. 18-19. ...
James Barney Haley
On Sunday February 28, 1875, around 4 am, a fire broke out in downtown Powhatan that destroyed much ...
The Fire of 1875
The following churches were known to exist: 1875 Methodist Church - History
Churches
William Drew Starr (1834-1876) was the jailer of Lawrence County. In 1875, Samuel Helms was convicted of murder ...
William Drew Starr
Dean Adams was a steamship that operated from 1880 to 1886. According to an issue of The Batesville ...
Dean Adams
Summary from Goodspeed Robert P. Mack is a native of Tennessee born August 27, 1848. Came to Arkansas ...
Robert Mack
The failure and liquidation of the Bank of Black Rock was a sensational legal case in the early ...
Bank of Black Rock Scandal
Tanneries were an important part of the American economy in the 19th century. The Lawrence County tax records ...
Tanning Yards
In 1898 the following officials were elected Position Winner Votes Loser Votes Probate Judge Cunningham 1262 Pearce 558 ...
1898 County Elections
In 1875, Samuel Helms was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. His appeal to the Arkansas ...
Samuel Helms
Sidney Welch Smith was a resident of Powhatan. The Powhatan SP archive has a partial typescript which claims ...
Sidney Welch Normant
Ella Hetch was a steamer built in Pocahontas, Arkansas in 1870. Her capacity was 125 bales.[1] She was ...
Ella Hecht
John R. Long was the sheriff of Lawrence County in the early 1920s. The Arkansas Daily Gazette tells ...
John R. Long
Also known as the Ficklin-Imboden house, this is a single-pen log structure with a gable roof, with a ...
Log House
W.M. Steadman operated a general merchandise store in Powhatan in the early 1900s. By 1908 he had relocated ...
W.N. Steadman
What do you know about The Civil War and Powhatan? 1861- Confederate In july 1861, Captain Elliot Fletcher ...
The Civil War and Powhatan
Personal Life and Family James Rufus Eudaly was born in 1846 in Tennessee. He had arrived in Powhatan ...
J. Rufus Eudaly
James and Wayland was a dry good, groceries, and clothing business that operated in Powhatan in the 1880s. ...
James & Wayland
Francis Wayland was born in Lawrence County on October 7, 1846 to Rev. Jonathan Wayland from Virginia and ...
Francis Wayland
Summary from Mother of Counties Son of B.F. Matthews. Husband of Lavinia Martin (sister of J.A., J.W. Martin). ...
William Matthews
Summary from Goodspeed John H. Martin was a merchant and postmaster of Powhatan. He was born June 17, ...
John H. Martin
Robert Mosby was found dead in his cell at Powhatan jail on May 10, 1901. He had hung ...
Robert Mosby
Green P. Nunn was an attorney practicing in Powhatan. He was partnered with Milton Dyer Baber.1 In 1852, ...
Green P. Nunn
Henry H. Caldwell was a resident of Walnut Ridge. He owned and operated a barber shop there until ...
Henry H. Caldwell
The Powhatan Weekly Visitor was a newspaper in Lawrence County, Arkansas founded by J.C. Shook in 1857. Source: ...
Powhatan Visitor
Baber, Milton Dyer Balfour, Andrew Bennett, ZT Bovay, Harry Elmo Caldwell, Henry H Childers, Charles C Coffin, James ...
People of Powhatan - By Last Name
Henry Martin is listed as a resident of Powhatan in 1880. The 1880 census lists his profession as ...
Henry Martin
J. Bowen Coffman was born in Hempstead County on November 17, 1861, son of Joseph W. Coffman. His ...
J. Bowen Coffman
Philip K. Lester was a member of the Powhatan Lodge of Masons. He was born in 1819, the ...
Philip K. Lester
Thomas C. Faulkner (1894-1918) was born in Denton, Arkansas but later moved to Powhatan. He served during World ...
Thomas C. Faulkner
Clifton Mills was a flour and corn gristmill located in Powhatan operated by Upson and Mount.1 The mill ...
Clifton Mills
Thomas Tewell murdered Lewis Cisssel on Christmas Day 1883. At the celebration of a wedding, Tewell arrived at ...
Murder of Lewis Cissel
In 1893, J.C. Smith was indicted for incest involving his niece Dollie McLaughlin. In August 1903, Joe Starr ...
Incest
Summary from Goodspeed John K. Gibson was an attorney and real estate dealer based in Powhatan. Born in ...
John K Gibson
Wayland & Darter was a general merchandise business in Powhatan. The business failed in 1891 with assets of ...
Wayland & Darter
The community was the economic hub of Lawrence County before its first platting in 1849. Situated on the ...
Powhatan, Arkansas
Standing Historic Buildings in Powhatan Churches Hotels and Boarding Houses Mills Factories
Buildings of Powhatan
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