If the genealogical bug once bites you, you are a doomed man; and never again will you be happy except when attempting to trace the elusive ancestor. It has all the fascination of a game for one who loves it. It is like working out a chess problem or a crossword puzzle; but much more exhilarating, for the pawns in this game were once living human beings. You have ancestral charts in blank, which theoretically can be filled in completely with the names of your ancestors; and there is no elation akin to that which you experience when a long-sought forebear is discovered and an empty space on the chart becomes a name and an entity. -- Donald Lines Jacobus, 1930
This page is under construction. Eventually, I plan to include more excerpts from Frances (Shiras) McClelland's History of Baxter County, a link to more information from the Baxter County (Arkansas) Historical and Genealogical Society, the full text of my Barr genealogy, and the full text of my genealogy of the Ramey and Bodenhamer families of Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Names of particular interest to me are:
These are the family names of my grandparents. There are, of course, hundreds of other surnames associated with them.
My biggest puzzles at the moment are:
Who are the parents of William Ramey (whose middle name is either Henry or Patton) of Scott County, Virginia. He was born in 1812 and died in 1900 and married Mary Lamar. His father is probably either Daniel or James Timothy. Anyone have any good information?
Who are the parents of John B. Enness who married Susan Barr in Cincinnati? He was probably born in Maryland, but possibly in New Jersey, and may have lived for a time in Philadelphia. His middle name might be Brown.
Any info on these? Let me know.