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In the 1870 County election the following men were nominated for candidacy Joseph Judkins for Sheriff Champ T. ...
1870 County Elections
From Goodspeed "In 1873 the first court-house at Powhatan, a large two-story brick structure, with offices below and ...
1873 Courthouse
1875 Methodist Church - Architecture
1875 Methodist Church - History
The courthouse sits on a rise overlooking the Black River. It is a two story brick building, set ...
1888 Courthouse
The following is a description of Powhatan in the year 1889. Goodspeed "Powhatan proves a profitable center for ...
1889
In 1898 the following officials were elected Position Winner Votes Loser Votes Probate Judge Cunningham 1262 Pearce 558 ...
1898 County Elections
In 1912, the following individuals were elected Office Winner Succeeding Representative Jefferson D. Boyle J.J. Bellamy County/Probate Judge ...
1912 County Elections
Act No. 85 was a law enacted by the State of Arkansas on March 26, 1887. It divided ...
Act No. 85
Ada Stuart (January 4, 1818-December 24, 1871) was a resident of Powhatan, wife of C.S. Stuart. She was ...
Ada Stuart
Ada Wells was born in 1874 in Powhatan, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. Wells ...
Ada Wells
Summary from "Mother of Counties" Born January 23, 1816 in North Carolina. Settled in Powhatan area by 1843, ...
Andrew Balfour
The failure and liquidation of the Bank of Black Rock was a sensational legal case in the early ...
Bank of Black Rock Scandal
Summary of Goodspeed Born August 12, 1823 in Georgia. He came to Powhatan in 1854. In 1876 he ...
Benjamin F. Matthews
Beth Goza was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas and suspected murderer. On June 13, 1883, Beth was ...
Beth Goza
Black River and Lower Mississippi Floods of 1890
Standing Historic Buildings in Powhatan Churches Hotels and Boarding Houses Mills Factories
Buildings of Powhatan
The following businesses are listed as existing in Powhatan during the following years. Sources from R.L. Polk's Arkansas ...
Businesses and Commerce
Businesses and Commerce Banks Drug Stores Merchants Farms Grocers Hotels and Boarding Houses Laundries Manufacturers Masons Mills Newspapers ...
Business of Powhatan
More stuff needs to be added here. Is there anything unique about the cemetery or the people buried ...
Cemetery
Champ T. Stuart Jr. was the son of Champ T. Stuart Sr. He was born February 17, 1858 ...
Champ Terry Stuart Jr.
Champ T. Stuart Sr. was born in 1810 and died in 1884. He is buried in the Powhatan ...
Champ T. Stuart Sr.
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr. was born in Powhatan in 1841. He married Martha DeArman (daughter of John DeArman ...
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr.
Charles C Childers
Summary From Goodspeed: Democratic politician, born April 23, 1842. Moved to Lawrence County in 1869. Son of Charles ...
Charles Coffin
Summary of Goodspeed Attorney and county examiner, born April 1, 1852. Came to Powhatan in 1882 and practiced ...
Charles C. Rogers
Charles Hall was a soldier from Lawrence County, one of over 70,000 men from Arkansas who served during ...
Charles Hall
Charles H. Coffin was the son of James Park Coffin and brother of Maxwell Coffin2. He attended Arkansas ...
Charles H. Coffin
The following churches were known to exist: 1875 Methodist Church - History
Churches
This page relates to the history of Lawrence County and Northeast Arkansas as it pertains to the Civil ...
Civil War
Clay Sloan
Clifton Mills was a flour and corn gristmill located in Powhatan operated by Upson and Mount.1 The mill ...
Clifton Mills
Coffin & Gibson was a real estate company that operated in Powhatan in 1873. It is unknown which ...
Coffin & Gibson
From Wikipedia This is a single-story brick building, standing at a historically major street corner in Powhatan. It ...
Commercial Building
The Cora Bell was a steamer, described as a “dinkey that was plying between Jacksonport and Pocahontas.” On ...
Cora Belle
The following is a list of Lawrence County Clerks from 1888 to 1965. Clay Sloan (1888-1890) J.Bowen Coffman ...
County Clerks
The location of the county seat for Lawrence County has been contentious over the years. From the early ...
County Seat Relocation
The following crimes were tried in Powhatan during its time as county seat. Current records are indexed from ...
Crime
Dean Adams was a steamship that operated from 1880 to 1886. According to an issue of The Batesville ...
Dean Adams
The Democratic Primary of 1920 was a contested election in Lawrence County. The Forty-Third General Assembly of Arkansas ...
Democratic Primary Scandal of 1920
Dolly Varden was a steamer that operated on the Black River. She does not appear in Way’s Packet ...
Dolly Varden
Douglas Horton was a blacksmith who lived in Powhatan at the turn of the 20th Century. On August ...
Douglas Horton
Due to the proximity to the Black River, Powhatan experienced several drownings in its heyday. In 1873, three ...
Drownings
The economy of Powhatan included: Lumbering Mining Farming River trade Skilled trade Labor
Economy of Powhatan
E.F. Pritchett was a Presbyterian minister in Powhatan who tended to Samuel Helms while he awaited execution for ...
E.F. Pritchett
E.H. Hall was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan until 1922, when he resigned. Sources: "Deputy Clerk Resigns." ...
E.H. Hall
"Elizabeth Rebecca"1 was born on August 4, 1853 in Powhatan. She was the daughter of Dr. Marion DeKalb ...
Elizabeth Rebecca
E.L. King was a veterinarian residing in Powhatan around 1910. He placed numerous ads in papers advertising his ...
E.L. King
Ella Hetch was a steamer built in Pocahontas, Arkansas in 1870. Her capacity was 125 bales.[1] She was ...
Ella Hecht
Summary from Mother of Counties F.G. was father of Josiah Martin. Owned wagon business in Powhatan. Later sold ...
Felix G. Martin
Francis Wayland was born in Lawrence County on October 7, 1846 to Rev. Jonathan Wayland from Virginia and ...
Francis Wayland
Frank C. Stuart was a resident of Powhatan and merchant, who likely owned the Commercial Building. He was ...
Frank Charles Stuart
Frank Stuart Wells was born April 29, 1882 in Powhatan, Arkansas. He was the son of Dr. John ...
Frank Stuart Wells
F.W. Tucker
George Thornburgh (January 25, 1847--March 9, 1923) was a politician, soldier, educator, and resident of Powhatan. Early Life ...
George Thornburgh
George Walter Wells (b. 1868/9 , d. 1943) was the son of Dr. John R. Wells and Henrietta ...
George Walter Wells
Summary from "Mother of Counties" Owned a two story home overlooking Black River in Powhatan. Served as mayor ...
George W Flippo
George W. Palmer (c. 1841-1889) was a soldier who fought for the Union during the Civil War. He ...
George W. Palmer
Green P. Nunn was an attorney practicing in Powhatan. He was partnered with Milton Dyer Baber.1 In 1852, ...
Green P. Nunn
In February 1923, the Arkansas legislature passed Act 430, requiring all citizens to register their handguns with the ...
Gun Permits
Most of this information came from "The Doctrine of Creative Destruction: Ferry and Bridge Law in Arkansas" by ...
Harry E. Bovay
Harry Gray v White and Black Rivers Bridge Company was a lawsuit brought before the Lawrence Circuit Court ...
Harry Gray v. White and Black Rivers Bridge Company
Helen M. King (1895-1988) was a rug-hooking artist. She was born in Powhatan on September 20, 1895. She ...
Helen Martin King
Henry H. Caldwell was a resident of Walnut Ridge. He owned and operated a barber shop there until ...
Henry H. Caldwell
Henry Martin is listed as a resident of Powhatan in 1880. The 1880 census lists his profession as ...
Henry Martin
Henry Wickersham a resident of Powhatan and tinsmith. According to records found on Ancestry.com, he was appointed as ...
Henry Wickersham
H.H. Collins was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan beginning in 1922. He succeeded E.H. Hall after he ...
H.H. Collins
H.H. Peden was a deputy postal clerk in Powhatan in 1883. He was charged with "depositing in the ...
H.H. Peden
The following hotels and boarding houses were known to exist in Powhatan: J.Rufus Eudaly's Hotel (1906) Rex Boarding ...
Hotels and Boarding Houses
In 1893, J.C. Smith was indicted for incest involving his niece Dollie McLaughlin. In August 1903, Joe Starr ...
Incest
Jack LeMay was a deputy sheriff of Powhatan in 1921. He was fined for carrying and potentially brandishing ...
Jack LeMay
James A. Martin was the son of Felix G. Martin and was of the firm J.A. Martin & ...
James A. Martin
James A. Martin & Bros was a wagon, carriage, and farm implement manufacturer based in Powhatan. It was ...
James A Martin & Bros - Wagon Manufacturing
The following was copied from the Lawrence County Historical Quarterly, Spring 2009. Vol. 13 No. 1. pp. 18-19. ...
James Barney Haley
"Dr. Coffman practiced medicine in Powhatan for 12 years, leaving for Black Rock in 1883, where entered the ...
James Coffman
The James Grigsby Gang was a criminal organization that operated in northeast Arkansas between 1886 and 1891.[1] The ...
James Grigsby Gang
James McCall was sheriff of Lawrence County in 1902-1903. 1902: removed an unnamed African American male from Powhatan ...
James McCall
James P. Coffin was the county clerk and commissioner of public buildings in Powhatan. In 1879, he was ...
James Park Coffin
James and Wayland was a dry good, groceries, and clothing business that operated in Powhatan in the 1880s. ...
James & Wayland
James W. Butler (1829-1913) was a resident of Batesville, Arkansas who served as judge on the Third District ...
James W. Butler
J. Bowen Coffman was born in Hempstead County on November 17, 1861, son of Joseph W. Coffman. His ...
J. Bowen Coffman
J.M. Percival
John A. Lindsay (July 7, 1820-February 14, 1894) was a soldier, land-owner, and businessman who lived in Powhatan.1 ...
John A. Lindsay
Summary from Goodspeed John H. Martin was a merchant and postmaster of Powhatan. He was born June 17, ...
John H. Martin
Summary from Goodspeed John K. Gibson was an attorney and real estate dealer based in Powhatan. Born in ...
John K Gibson
John L. Wells was born in Powhatan in 1871. He was the son of Dr. John R. Wells ...
John L Wells
John R. Long was the sheriff of Lawrence County in the early 1920s. The Arkansas Daily Gazette tells ...
John R. Long
John R. Wells (September 5, 1838- July 6, 1918) was a resident of Powhatan and a practicing doctor ...
John R. Wells
John S. Ficklin (1804-1846) was a merchant, politician, and soldier from Lawrence County, Arkansas who is considered by ...
John S. Ficklin
John William Martin
John W. Kelley was born to Marvel and Sally Kelly in Georgia in 1830. After his father died, ...
John W. Kelley
Joseph D. Boothe was a resident of Powhatan, originally from Indiana. Nothing is known about his life except ...
Joseph D. Boothe
Personal Life and Family James Rufus Eudaly was born in 1846 in Tennessee. He had arrived in Powhatan ...
J. Rufus Eudaly
The following is a chronological list of Lawrence County Judges that served in the courthouse at Powhatan. W.A. ...
Judges
Larry Brown was a suspected robber from Lawrence County. Nothing is known about Brown's life before his brush ...
Larry Brown
Laura Wells was born in Powhatan on October 8, 1866. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. ...
Laura Wells
For much of its early life, Arkansas did not have a formal, organized public education system. Private establishments ...
Lawrence County School Districts
Lewis K. Coffman was born in 1837 in Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky. By 1860, he was residing in Lawrence ...
Lewis K. Coffman
Also known as the Ficklin-Imboden house, this is a single-pen log structure with a gable roof, with a ...
Log House
Lucas Brooks Poindexter
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