Montgomery County, Arkansas: Biographies, History, and Historical Maps

36 pages including 30 family biographies plus 4 different historical maps featuring the locations of 37 Montgomery County communities

An informative and historical overview of Montgomery County, Arkansas including two separate books on CD which include 4 historical maps (1855, 1895, 1898, and 1915); plus the full 1891 Southern Publishing Company "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Montgomery County, Arkansas" book including 30 family biographies.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in two separate books, ALL on one CD:

Book One on CD: Maps of Montgomery County, Arkansas
Included here are the West Central region of Arkansas sections of 4 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1855 map that shows the area of Montgomery County just thirteen years after its formation. Locations shown include: Caddo Cove * Centerville * Iron Springs * Montgomery * Mt. Ida *

B. A map of 1895 Montgomery County showing the locations of 19 different settlements including all of the following: Bear * Black Springs * Buckville * Caddo Gap * Cedar Glades * Crystal Springs * Hickory Station * Hopper * Lucky * Manfred * Mazarn * Mount Ida * Oden * Silver * Sims * Stillwater * Story * Tackett * Washita *

C. A map of 1898 Montgomery County showing the locations of 24 different settlements including all of the following: Bear * Black Springs * Buckville * Caddo Gap * Cedar Glades * Crystal Springs * Fancy Hill * Hickory Sta. * Hopper * Lucky * Manfred * Mazarn * McKinney * Mount Ida * Oden * Ophir * Plata * Silver * Sims * Stillwater * Story *Washita * Waters * Welch *

D. A map of 1915 Montgomery County showing the locations of 26 different settlements including all of the following: Black Springs * Buckville * Caddo Gap * Cedarglades * Crystal Sprs. * Fancy Hill * Fir * Gaston * Ghent * Huddleston * Lucky * Mazarn * Mimosa * Mount Ida * Oakwood * Oden * Ophir * Redbird * Silver * Sims * Slatington * Story * Washita * Waters * Welch * Womble *



Book Two on CD: The complete 1891 "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Montgomery County, Arkansas" by the Southern Publishing Company
This detailed (36 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of information about Montgomery County, Arkansas from its earliest settlement up to 1891. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Montgomery County, Arkansas including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 30 different family biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Boundary
• Description
• Rivers and Streams
• Mineral Springs
• Timber
• Minerals
• Livestock Raising
• Statistics
• Fruit and Grapes
• Diversified Farming
• Early Settlement
• Pioneer Settlers
• Slaves
• Public Lands
• First Tax Book (1845)
• Present Taxable Wealth
• County Organization
• Early Records
• County Seat
• Municipal Townships
• County Buildings
• County Officers
• Population
• Court Record
• The Civil War
• Towns, Cities, and Villages: Bear City * Crystal Springs * Silver City * Mount Ida * Caddo Gap * Black Springs * Buckville * Cedar Glades * Chapmondville * Hickory Station * Other Locations *
• Schools
• Churches
• Biographies

Included is a total of 30 family biographies including each of the following surnames:
(Some surnames have multiple biographies) (hundreds of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Bates * Bowers * Collier * Goodner * Hargrove * Hollifield * Hopper * Housley * Irby * Jeffrey * Johnson * Martin * Miller * Nelson * Nobles * Reeves * Robins * Rowton * Sandlin * Scott * Smith * Thornton * Vaught * Watkins * Welch * Whittington * Williamson * Witt *



Montgomery County is located in West Central of Arkansas and is surrounded by the following counties: Polk County, Arkansas * Scott County, Arkansas * Yell County, Arkansas * Garland County, Arkansas * Hot Spring County, Arkansas * Clark County, Arkansas * and Pike County, Arkansas.

Each of the two books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books on this CD is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium I or higher computer with a CD drive.

The cost for this CD containing both books described above is only $3.95 plus shipping! A large amount of information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Montgomery County, Arkansas from its first settlement to 1891.