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Was Abner an attorney? Yes!
http://www.pcahs.org/pcaolr/fgr01/fgr-0096.htm |
... "That said William G. Thornton is the brother of Abner
E. Thornton, Esq., who before said marshal's sale
was and thence until and after said conveyance last mentioned
to the State, continued to be the Financial Receiver of said
Bank; ..." Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the
Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the State of Arkansas, E.H.
English, Volume 12, July Term, 1851, Case No. 333. |
http://www.pcahs.org/pcaolr/chancery/chanc-08.htm |
Abner E. Thornton vs. Nancy E. Jacbos &
others
Petition for Title
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Abner E. Thornton
vs.
Nancy Jacobs & others
Petition for title.
This day came the complainant by his Solicitor and files his petition herein
setting forth the marriage of the said Defendant Nancy Jacobs with Thomas
Wingfield. And it appearing to the Court that such marriage has actually
taken place. Therefore on motion of said Complainant it is ordered that said
Thomas Wingfield be made party to this Suit and that process of subpeona
issue against him directed to the Sheriff of Hempstead County returnable to
the next term of this Court and thereupon came James S. Ward, guardian ad
litem to the said defendants Wingfield Jacobs and John Jacobs and filed his
answer herein and thereupon this cause was continued intil the next term of
this Court.
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Clark County, Arkansas Chancery Record B, 1839-1852, pages 19-20.
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Abner E. Thornton vs. Nancy E. Jacbos et.
al.
Bill For Title
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October 20. 1841.
Abner E. Thornton, Complainant.
vs.
Nancy Jacobs, Andrew J. Smith, Margaret Smith late Margaret Jacobs, Thomas
Wingfield, Nancy Wingfield late Nancy Jacobs, Wingfield Jacobs and John
Jacobs, Defendants.
Chancery.
This day came the complainant by Hubbard his solicitor, and process having
been served on the said defendants, Nancy Jacobs, Andrew J. Smith, Margaret
Smith late Margaret Jacobs, Thomas Wingfield and Nancy Wingfield late Nancy
Jacobs, and they having failed to enter their appearance herein, and demur,
plead or answere to Complainants Bill and it appearing from the allegations
of Complainant's bill: Therefore on motion of Complainant by his said
solicitor, it is ordered and adjudged by the Court here, that the
allegations in Complainant's Bill contained be taken for confessed, as to
the said last named defendants, and the said defendants Wingfield Jacobs and
John Jacobs having put in their answer to Complainant's said bill by James
S. Ward their Guardian ad litem, and thereby admitting the allegations in
Complainant's Bill; that Nathaniel Jacobs in complainants bill specified, in
his lifetime, on or about the Eighth day of December in the year Eighteen
hundred and thirty six received from the said Complainant the sum of one
hundred dollars money of said Complainant with which to enter in the Land
Office at Washington, Arkansas the North half of the South East quarter of
Section Eleven in town nine South in Range twenty-two West, for the use and
benefit of said Complainant and that afterwards on the ninth day of December
1836, the said Nathaniel Jacobs entered the above described tract of land in
the name of him the said Nathaniel Jacobs, with the money of said
Complainants, and that the said Nathaniel Jacobs in his lifetime so admitted
the facts to be, and that the above described tract of land is situated in
the County of Clark and that the above named defendants are the heirs and
representatives of the said Nathaniel Jacobs deceased, and hold the title
and interest in and to the above described tract of land as held by the said
Nathaniel Jacobs in his lifetime.
Therefore on motion of Complainant by his said solicitor, it is adjudged and
decreed by the Court here, that the above named defendants, Nancy Jacobs,
Andrew J. Smith, Margaret Smith late Margaret Jacobs, Thomas Wingfield,
Nancy Wingfield late Nancy Jacobs, Wingfield Jacobs and John Jacobs convey
to the said Complainant Abner E. Thornton by a good and sufficient deed,
with general warranty only executed and acknowledged in this Court,
aforesaid North half of South East quarter of Section Eleven in Township
nine South in Range twenty-two West, and that said defendants deliver to the
said Complainant all evidence of title relating to or concerning said tract
of land. But because said defendants are not all before this Court, on the
further motion of said Complainant, it is ordered and decreed that James S.
Ward be and is hereby appointed a commissioner herein, and that he convey to
the said Complainant Abner E. Thornton, deed of general warranty, the title
in, and to the aforesaid tract of land in the place and in behalf of the
said defendants, that he only execute and acknowledge said deed before this
Court on or before the third day of the next term of this Court, until which
time this cause is continued.
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Clark County, Arkansas Chancery Record B, 1839-1852, pages 36-37.
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March
4, 1840 - Arkansas Gazette Agents
List of Agents, for the Arkansas State Gazette.
... Clark County, Greenville - Abner E. Thornton, Esq.
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Board
index » Newspaper
Articles » Arkansas
Gazette (1819 - 1930) |
? from our Abner E.
Thornton?
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December
2, 1847 - A.E. Thornton
Post subject: December 2, 1847 - A.E. Thornton
MONUMENT NOTICE.
ALL persons holding monies collected for the erection of a
Monument in honor of the officers and soldiers, who have
fallen in the Mexican War, are requested by the Monument
Committee, to pay over the same without delay, to the
Treasurer; and forward a Report, or the subscription upon
which the money was collected, to Col. L.J. Reardon, Secretary
of the Board.
The above notice is given, because a sufficient sum has not
yet been received by the Treasury to defray the expenses
connected with the removal to Arkansas, of those who fell at
the battle of Buena Vista; and also because the Committee
desire to know the amount that has been raised for Monument
purposes.
A.E. Thornton, Treasurer
Little Rock, Arks., Nov. 24th 1847. |
Maria Pauline
Thornton
Is this a
daughter of our "Abner E Thornton"?
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Post subject: May 19, 1845 - Maria Pauline Thornton
From the Arkansas Banner,
OBITUARY.
Since the fatal fiat went forth - "dust thou art, and
unto dust-" which awful enunciation cast a deep gloom and
a melancholy shade over smiling Eden the relentless
executioner of the sentence has in all time, and in every
place, been marring the joys of earth, by the indiscriminate
execution of his work of devastation!
A more melancholy instance of death's disposition to prey upon
the brighter beings of earth, has not fallen under our
observation, than that of the fate of Maria Pauling Thornton,
daughter of Col. Abner E. Thornton, of this city, who was
stricken down in the bloom and beauty of life!
This interesting young lady, whose sad death we are called
upon to announce, to her friends in distant places, were born
in Clark county, Ark's., June 17th, 1830; where her parents
lived until they recently moved to Little Rock. She professed
religion, and attached herself to the M.E. Church, in
September, 1843, and departed this life, in this place, on the
20th April, 1845, after a very few days illness, in the 14th
year of her age.
The writer had the pleasure of a short acquaintance with her,
and he has rarely met with a more interesting young lady.
She was just entering upon the most interesting period of
female existence, the threshold of young womanhood, and
exhibited a sweetness of disposition, and a sprightliness of
intellect, which indicated a moral, social, and menial
organization of a very superior case, and a cultivation in
advance of her age. She was exceedingly dutiful, affectionate,
deeply pious, and manifested all those amiable and exulted
traits of character, which are the sure, and known results of
early teaching in the great principles of that sublime
religion which she professed.
She came smiling among us like a bright, innocent being from a
purer world, but was suddenly called away, to a home more
congenial with her spirit! She came, and briefly passed away,
like some tender, beautiful flower, that blooms in the beams
of early spring, but is nipped by a frosty breeze, yet
lingering in the traces of departing winter! She came and
passed away, like the mild, bright vision of a dream, from the
fancy of a startled sleeper, which leaves a sweet remembrance
of its appearance, and a sigh for its sudden departure!
But she left her friends not without consolation! And while
from the clouds of sorrow, the storms of grief pour down upon
life's stream, and almost overwhelm them in its distressing
agitation, the star of immortality from beyond the far off
coast of time, throws back its gilding beams in transcendent
radiance upon the troubled waters, and bids them hope and
rejoice in the assurance which it affords of a final, blissful
and perpetual re-union with the much loved and departed one!
Jun. En. |
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Post subject: February 28, 1837 - Agents for the
Gazette
AGENTS FOR THE GAZETTE
...Abner E. Thornton, Esq. Clark county... |
Our Abner E. Thornton?
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PAPEES OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR 373
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NO. 2622. J. P. WADDELL TO LAMAE
Galveston, April 23rd 1858.
Hon MIRABEAU B LAMAR.
DEAR SIR.
In the month of October last (1857) Col
A E Thornton, my Father
in Law and the friend of your wifes Father left or intended
leaving
New York on the Steamer Northern Light for Aspinwall, bound to
San Salvador City on a trading expedition, since which time
his family
have heard nothing of Him. I have made inquiry in vain in New
York & presuming that there was an American Consul at San
Salvador
have addressed him, but with no better success. Presuming that
you
have it in your power to communicate with any Agent of the
Govern-
ment that may be in that place, I have written to request that
you will
institute the necessary enquiry in regard to Col
Thornton & advise me
of the result. By so doing Sir, you will confer a favor upon
his anxious
& distressed family.
Eespectfully yr friend and obt Servant,
J F. WADDELL
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The voyage to Aspinwall by steamer Northern Light, and from
Panama to San Francisco by the Sonora, was a long and tedious
one of twenty-five days.
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Our Abner E. Thornton?
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Abner E. Thornton (son of William
Thornton and Mary)
was born December 13, 1805. He married Mary
Jacobs on October 13, 1828.
More About Abner E. Thornton and Mary Jacobs:
Marriage: October 13, 1828
Children of Abner E. Thornton and Mary Jacobs
are:
- Ebu
Thornton, b. 1832.
- John
Thornton, b. 1836.
- Lafayette
Thornton, b. 1838.
- William
Thornton, b. 1840.
- Maria
Paulina Thornton.
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Thornton:
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Witness: A. E. Thornton A. E. Thornton Sheriff in Clark Co
1832-1833, 1835-1836 AR State Legislature - Senator -
1836-1840
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CLARK COUNTY ARKANSAS; PAST AND PRESENT editor Wendy
Richter Okolana Christian Church Dr. Willis S. Smith may have
taught the first Sunday School in Okalona and Clark County in
1833. Writing a few years later, Smith recalled that people of
all ages attended. Among those families were McLaughin, Crow,
Caruthers, Cornelius, Gentry, Gibbins, Thornton,
Elkins, Lisenby, Pierce, Rieves, Keath, Lewis, Wood,
and Stewart.
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CLARK CO., AR - PROBATE RECORDS p ?99 October term, October
13th 1846 Ara Beall (Peff) VS Joshua Elkins Deft &
Garnashee (Garnishment) This day came the said defendant and
files his answer to the interrogative filed by the Plaintiff
in this case. p 347 Ara B. Beall (Plaintiff) vs Joshua Elkins
Deft and Garnashee of Abrner E. Thornton
(GARNISHMENT) This day came the parties the plaintiff by
attorney and the defendant in proper person, and the said
plaintiff, having on the on the first day of our present term
filed his alligations and interrogatives herein and the same
having been omitted to be noted on the record on that day, it
is ordered that the same be noted of record as of that day and
thereupon the Defandant Joshua Elkins files his answer herein
whereby it appears that he is indebted to the said Abner
E. Thornton in the sum of one hundred and
ninety-four dollars, and it appearing to the court here that
on the 17 day of April A.D. 1846 at and during the April term
1846 of this court, the said plaintiff recovered against Mary
Freeman, Thomas I. Freeman, William Clover, and the said Abner
E. Thornton the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars and
sixty-five cents for his debt, and his costs in that suit in
that ?? expended, which costs were to??ed to the sum of
sixteen dollars and sixty one cents, and it also appearing to
the satisfaction of the court that said recovery remains in
full force and effect and in no wise reversed vacated or set
aside and remains wholly unpaid. It is therefore considered by
the court that the said plaintiff Ara B. Beall, have and
recover of and from the said defendant Joshua Elkins, the said
sum of one hundred and sixty four dollars and sixty-five cents
for his debt and also the said sum of sixteen dollars and
sixty-one cents the cost aforesaid expended for his damages,
together with interest on this judgement at the rate of ten
per cent per annum from the 17th day of April A. D. 1846 and
that the said Abner E. Thornton
be barred and precluded from his remedy against the said
Joshua Elkins for the same, and that the said Defendant have
and recover of and from the plaintiff all the cost in and
about this case in this be?? expended.
A. E. Thornton Sheriff in Clark Co
1832-1833, 1835-1836AR State Legislature - Senator -
1836-1840,
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CLARK CO ARK, COURT MINUTES p. 24 July Term, 1845: Monday,
July 14, 1845, . . . William Elkins, coroner, posted bond of
$5,000 with Joshua Elkins and A. E. Thornton
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Estate of Jacob Holman
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County of Clark,
ss.
State of Arkansas,
To All Persons To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:
Know ye, that whereas Jacob Holman of the County of Pike, died intestate as
it is said, on or about the twenty-sixth day of October A.D. 1842, having at
the time of his death personal property in this State which may be lost,
destroyed or diminished in value if speedy care be not taken of the same, to
the end thereof, that the said property may be collected, preserved and
disposed of according to law. We do hereby appoint Abner E. Thornton of the
County of Clark, administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels,
rights and credits which were of the said Jacob Holman at the time of his
death, with full power and authority to secure and dispose of the said
property according to law, and collect all monies due said deceased and in
general to do and perform all other acts and things which are or hereafter
may be required of him by law.
In testimony whereof, I, James S. Ward, Clerk of the Circuit Court and
Exofficio Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Clark
aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at
office, this 28th day of November A.D. 1842.
Jas. S. Ward, Clerk.
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The State of Arkansas,
County of Clark,
I, James S. Ward, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Exofficio Clerk of the
Court of Probate in and for the County of Clark, do hereby certify that the
within and foregoing letters of administration granted to Abner E. Thornton,
on the Estate of Jacob Holman deceased, were this day duly recorded before
they were delivered to said administrator.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as clerk as aforesaid and
affixed the seal of office at Greenville, this 28th day of November A.D.
1842.
Jas. S. Ward, Clerk.
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Clark County, Arkansas Letters of Administration (1838-1856) pages 21-22.
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The State of Arkansas,
County of Clark,
Clark County Probate Court
In Vacation November 28th 1842.
This day personally came Abner E. Thornton before me, James S. Ward, Clerk
of the Circuit Court and Exofficio Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for
the County of Clark aforesaid, and on his motion, letters of administration
is granted to him on the Estate of John Holman deceased, upon his entering
into bond conditioned according to law i the penal sum of sixteen hundred
dollars, with Joshua Elkins and John H. Nelson as his securities. And
thereupon, the said Abner E. Thornton took the oath prescribed by law as
administrator of the Estate of Jacob Holman deceased.
Witness my hand as clerk as aforesaid, this 28th day of November A.D. 1842.
Jas. S. Ward, Clerk.
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Clark County, Arkansas Probate Record Book A (1840-1847) page 70.
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In Clark Circuit Court In Vacation.
June 25th 1845.
Hiram Moore, Complainant
vs.
Abner E. Thornton, Mary Holman and the unknown heirs
of Jacob Holman deceased, Defendants.
In Chancery.
... "to obtain title to certain lands (80 acres) ... Mary Holman widow of
Jacob Holman deceased and the unknown heirs of said deceased are non
residents of this State. It is therefore ordered that notice be given said
non resident defendants by publication in the Washington Telegraph a
newspaper published in this State ... (to) appear before the next term
hereof ... on the first Monday of September next."
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Clark County, Arkansas Chancery Record B, 1839-1852, pages 75-76. Excerpt.
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Peter Holliday vs. Ambrose
H. Sevier
Abstract
On April 28, 1829, no judge appeared to hold court so it
was adjourned and the case was picked back up in the summer
term. On August 19, 1829, the parties consented to a verbal
statement of Chester Ashley on oath in lieu of a written
affidavit in favor of his motion to continue the case. Trimble
entered the order to continue the case at the cost of the
defendant. On March 30, 1830, the court finally picked the
case up again. At that time, Judge Trimble ordered that a jury
come to hear the evidence – the jury consisted of William
Thornton, Archabald
Huddleston, Jame
Little, John
J. Langley, H.E.
Thornton (the foreman), Henry
Ashabranner, Augustus
B. McDonald, Joseph
B. Riley, Benjamin
Hardin, Samuel
Lewis, Micajah
McDonald, and Moses
Guice. Sevier objected to the entry of the receipt into
evidence, but the court overruled the objection and admitted
the receipt. The court stated that the receipt was evidence
conducing to provide a privity
of contract between Sevier and Holliday. Sevier excepted to
this ruling and filed a bill
of exceptions. The jury found for Holliday and thus, the
Clark County court entered a judgment for him in the sum of
$164.04 ½.
On April 1, 1830, Sevier moved the court to arrest
the judgment against him and filed his reasons for the motion.
First, he stated that Holliday's declaration did not contain a
statement as to whom the notes were payable, whose notes they
were, nor that they belonged to Holliday in the first place.
Also, the consideration
for contract was not formally or expressly stated in the first
two counts, nor was the contract stated with sufficient
certainty. Furthermore, the conversion count was defective
because it never stated that the note was Holliday's property
or that it was converted to Sevier's use. Also, the second
count was defective because it did not appear certainly
whether the sum mentioned in that count was different from
that mentioned in the first count. Nevertheless, on August 2,
1830, a writ
of execution issued to the Clark County sheriff from the
clerk Isaac
Ward against Sevier for $168.04 ½ and $43.90. On August
10, 1830, Abner E. Thornton, the deputy sheriff, made an endorsement
on the writ of execution, noting that he had received it.
However, the sheriff of Clark County, Abner
Wells, noted on September 27, 1830 that the execution was
not served by order of Holliday's attorney.
Thornton, Abner E. |
Sheriff of Clark County
from 1831 to 1835; member and foreman of the jury which
found damages for Peter Holliday against Ambrose H.
Sevier in Holliday
v. Sevier (1827); sheriff in Collins v. Johnson
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Thornton,
William |
Member of the jury which
found damages for Peter Holliday against Ambrose H.
Sevier in ; deputy sheriff of Clark County in Holliday
v. Sevier (1827); |
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THE CLARK COUNTY MURDER TRIAL
In 1831-32, Charles S. Cocke allegedly shot
and killed Zebulon Edmiston. The following account is in the
scrapbook of Dr. Willis S. Smith (now in the Arkansas Historical
Commission Collection):
A CRIMINAL CASE
In 1831 or 1832, Charles C. Coches, having
held hard feelings (whiskey) toward Zebulon Edmiston, for
several months, shot and killed Mr. Edmiston, and made his
escape, to the then wilds of Texas. Mr. Edmiston was a large
man, and said to be rather overbearing toward his adversaries;
but a good honest man, very well respected by those who had
the chance to know him. Mr. Coches was rather weak in physical
strength, and had been in serious difficulties in the states,
and had barely escaped punishment there. The governor of the
territory (John Pope) offered a reward for the apprehension
and delivery of Mr. Coches. The detectives, however, were
daily making use of all chances to hear of his whereabouts.
Mr. Coches was taken sick in Texas, Mexico, and was unable to
secrete himself any longer. He was captured and delivered to
A. E. Thornton, sheriff of Clark County, by James Gibson, the
then sheriff of Hempstead county.
At the March term of the Clark circuit
court, 1833, the case was before the grand jury, and a true
bill of indictment for murder was returned unto the court, and
the defendant, Coches, was arraigned before the bar for trial.
The United States of America - Territory of Arkansas vs.
Charles Coches - indictment for shooting and killing Zebulon
Edmiston.
The court met according to adjournment,
Thomas Hubbard represented the U.S. and Robert Crittenden the
criminal. On motion of Crittenden, the court appointed six men
as guards, who after being sworn, entered on their duty. Mr.
Coches health being so bad, it was not safe to keep him in the
jail for he was in articulo mortalis. The jail was an old log
house, not good enough for a well person, therefore the
prisoner was kept in a house where his wants could be attended
to. Mr. A.E. Thornton, then sheriff, was connected with
affinity to Mr. Edmiston, and this being made manifest to the
court, an elisor was appointed to act as sheriff during the
important trial.
The petit jury was summoned and selected
and the case progressed. Each contested every inch of ground
they could in their favor, respectively. Judge Hubbard was a
lawyer of marked ability, no better choice could be made for
the U.S. Bob Crittenden was said to be the best lawyer in the
territory and as an orator had no equal. Ashley and Sevier
were called to assist on the side of the defense, both very
able lawyers. After able speaking in behalf of the prisoner,
and the defense, the case was closed.
The jury returned a verdict of murder in
the first degree, as charged in the indictment. The verdict of
the jury was read in court to the prisoner, and after other
preliminaries were had, his honor, Judge Cross, ordered the
prisoner to stand up, and then asked the prisoner if he had
anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed on
him. The answer being returned in the negative, the judge
passed sentence on him. The time fixed for the execution was
the 20th day of April, 1833, between the hours of 10 o'clock
in the forenoon and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner
to hang by the neck until dead. A motion for new trial and
arrest of judgment were overruled.
The prisoner was remanded back into the
custody of the sheriff, A.E. Thornton, and then into the care
of the guard, almost dead by that dangerous disease, ascites.
Drs. Cocks and McDonald were chosen as physicians to
administer medical aid to the criminal. They treated this case
until the day of his execution. Dr. Cocks was the best read
physician I ever had the pleasure of meeting in Arkansas. On
the day of the execution, in Greenville, I saw more people,
than I ever saw, in Greenville, up to that date. Several
ministers followed him to the gallows.
He made no confession in regard to his
future. He said he died wrongfully.
[Sent by Howard V. Jones to Bob Ewing, 26
Jul 1999]
The following articles appeared The Arkansas
Gazette:
MURDER.
At the late General Muster of the Militia of Clark county, on
the 29th ult., Mr. ZEBULON EDMISTON was shot from his horse
just as he was leaving the muster ground and apparently
without provocation by a man by the name of CHARLES S. COX,
who immediately fled and made his escape though promptly
pursued by 20 or 30 men. Cox had been residing in that county
for some time past and has a family there, but is understood
to be a fugitive from justice from Tennessee, where he had
committed a murder and is withal, a very worthless man. Mr.
Edmiston was a respectable citizen of Clark county.
[The Arkansas Gazette, November 9, 1931, page 3, col. 2.]
Stop the Murderer.
$250 REWARD.
WHEREAS, CHARLES S. COCKE, wilfully, maliciously, and without
any known provocation, late in the evening of the 29th day of
last month, at the house of Col. Jacob Wells in Clark county,
Arkansas Territory, did present a gun at Zebulon Edmiston and
fired immediately and shot him through the body of which he
died in a few minutes. The murderer made his escape
immediately:
Now, therefore, I, Nancy Edmiston, widow of the aforesaid
Zebulon Edmiston, do offer a reward of two hundred and fifty
dollars for the apprehension and safe delivery into the
custody of the Sheriff of the aforesaid county of Clark, of
the said Charles S. Cocke; and I do hereby bind myself to pay
said sum to any person who will apprehend and safely deliver
him into the custody of the sheriff as aforesaid.
The said Charles S. Cocke is about 40 years of age, about 5
feet 11 inches high, of rather a slender form, thin face,
light red hair, blue eyes, and fair skin; it is supposed he
will make for the Texas. Said Cocke came to this county some
four or five years ago and passed by the name of Charles
Scott; his name however was found afterwards to be Charles
Scott Cocke and as I have learned, he has frequently told
since he came here, that he fled from the State of Alabama for
committing murder. \par Given under my hand this 20th day of
November 1831.
NANCY EDMISTON.
[The Arkansas Gazette, December 7, 14, and 21, 1831.]
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, it is represented to the Governor of the Territory of
Arkansas, that a murder was perpetrated, in the county of
Clark, in said Territory, on the body of Zebulon Edmiston, by
a certain CHARLES S. COX, who fled from justice, and is now
going at large.
Now, therefore, I, JOHN POPE, Governor of the Territory
aforesaid, to the end that the said Charles S. Cox, if guilty
of the crime with which he stands charged, may be punished
according to law, do hereby offer a reward of Two Hundred
Dollars to any person who may apprehend and deliver the said
Charles S. Cox to the proper authorities of said county, to be
there proceeded against and dealt with according to law.
Given under my hand at Little Rock, A.T. this 10th day of
January, 1832.
JOHN POPE.
[The Arkansas Gazette, January 18 and 25, 1832.]
We understand that Charles Cox who shot Mr.
Zebulon Edmiston in Clark county last year and for w hose
apprehension the Governor offered a reward of $200 has been
apprehended in Texas and brought back and is now securely
lodged in the Jail of Hempstead county.
[Arkansas Gazette, October 24, 1832, page 3, column 1.]
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.
At the Circuit Court of Clark county which sat last week,
Charles S. Cocke was tried on an indictment for the murder of
Zebulon Edmiston, on the 29th Oct. 1831, found Guilty, and
sentenced to be executed on the 29th inst. (April) Counsel:
for the prosecution, T. Hubbard, Pros. Att'y., and A.H. Sevier;
for the prisoner, C. Ashley and R. Crittenden.
[Arkansas Gazette, April 3, 1833, page 3, column 2.]
EXECUTION.
On the 29th ult., (April) Charles S. Cocke suffered the
highest penalty of the law in Clark county, for the murder of
Mr. Zebulon Edmiston near two years ago. We understand he died
without making any confession, though it is generally believed
that he had perpetrated other murders than the one for which
he was executed and had committed at least one act of
brutality on a respectable young lady before he fled to
Arkansas for which he ought to have suffered death years ago.
[Arkansas Gazette, May 8, 1833, page 2, column 3.]
PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
Washington county, May 21, 1833.
Dear Sir. - ... A man by the name of ... has been
industriously circulating a report in the county, that Col.
Sevier volunteered to defend Cox, murderer of Edmiston in
Clark county. This slander has been circulating among the
relatives of the unfortunate man who fell by the hands of Cox,
for the purpose of injuring Col. Sevier; but I trust it will
have no effect, when it is understood that Crittenden and not
Sevier, was the man who defended Cox. This slander is worthy
of the man who has given it circulation ...
EDITORIAL.
We know not how any man could have the hardihood to trump such
an arrant falsehood that Col. Sevier volunteered to defend
Cox. The truth is, he was employed to aid in the prosecution,
and we trust it will not be derogating from the fame of the
Prosecuting Attorney, Mr. Hubbard, to say that, Mr. Sevier,
belongs much of the credit of convicting the prisoner.
The murder was one of the most deliberate and cold-blooded
acts of the kind ever perpetrated in the county, and excited
an almost universal burst of indignation from the people,
several of whom united in employing Col. Sevier to assist in
bringing to punishment the wretch who had committed such a
flagrant breach of the laws.
The defense was conducted by Col. Ashley and Mr. CRITTENDEN,
and we have no doubt they used every exertion in their power
that duty required of them to save the life of their guilty
client.
EDITORS, Gazette.
[Arkansas Gazette, May 22, 1833, page 2, column 5.]
Commentary
Zebulon Edmiston was related to several
prominent men in the community. As noted above "Mr. A.E.
Thornton, then sheriff, was connected with affinity to Mr.
Edmiston". Sheriff Abner E. Thornton was related to Zebulon
Edmiston by marriage because his sister married David Crawford
Edmiston, a brother of Zebulon Edmiston. Zebulon's wife was
Nancy Moore, who may have been related to Matthew and Nathaniel
Moore, early settlers and magistrates of Clark County.
Nevertheless, once again, Charles Scott Cocke
was surrounded by notable men of the time. The accounts indicate
that he was defended by the law firm of Chester
Ashley and Robert
Crittenden (precursor to the Rose law firm). He was
prosecuted with the assistance of Ambrose
Hundley Sevier.
Although Sevier and Crittenden had started
out as political allies, in 1827, Crittenden killed Sevier's
cousin and political ally, Henry
Wharton Conway in a duel. This caused quite a stir, both in
Arkansas and elsewhere since, at the time, Henry Wharton Conway
was a member of Congress.
Charles Cocke had connections with both:
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He had served with John Crittenden, father
of Robert Crittenden, in the Virginia House.
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He later contacted Sevier in connection with
his Pension Application.
Although there is no indication that Charles
Scott Cocke and Zebulon Edmiston were engaged in a duel,
politics and dueling seemed to be a way of life in Arkansas.
Since dueling was illegal in Arkansas, most duels were fought in
places where dueling was still legal. Even the judges who were
supposed to uphold the law, occasionally took up arms against
each other. Governor John Pope had a nephew who was involved in
several duels and finally lost his life in a duel in Mexico.
In the case of Charles Scott Cocke, the
governor offered a reward for his capture. Governor Pope may
have been motivated by more than a desire for justice, since one
of the people who dueled his nephew was a John Cocke, who might
have been a cousin of Charles Scott Cocke. On the other hand,
the duel might have been with John Watkins Cocke who married
Governor Pope's daughter. John Watkins Cocke appears to be a
descendant of Abraham Cocke and Mary Batte, possible ancestors
of Charles Cocke.
Chester Ashley
United States Senator from Arkansas
Chester Ashley (June 1, 1790 – April 29,
1848) was an American
politician who represented Arkansas
in the U.S.
Senate from 1844 until his death.
Ashley was born in Amherst,
Massachusetts in 1790; while a child he moved with
his parents to Hudson, New
York. He was a graduate, with honors, of Williams
College; following this, he took a course in law in Litchfield,
Connecticut. Ashley moved west upon completion of
his education, going first to Illinois,
and thence to Missouri.
In 1820 he arrived in Little
Rock, Arkansas, soon becoming one of the best and
most prominent lawyers in the Arkansas
Territory; for a time, his partner in practice was Robert
Crittenden. Together, Ashley and Crittenden founded Rose
Law Firm.
For some twenty years Ashley's practice was the
largest in the state, and he became a wealthy man. This
led him to try his hand at politics; in 1844 he
canvassed the state campaigning for James
K. Polk for president; the Democrats
were victorious, and Ashley was elected by the state
legislature to fill a vacancy in the Senate. Soon after
entering, he was made the Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee; in 1846, he was reelected to
the Senate. Two years later he was taken suddenly ill in
the Senate Chamber and died not long after.
Chester Ashley is the namesake of Ashley
County, Arkansas.
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Sevier Ambrose
Ambrose Hundley Sevier (November 4, 1801 –
December 31, 1848) was a Democratic
member of the United
States Senate from Arkansas.
Ambrose Hundley Sevier was born near Greeneville,
Tennessee in Greene
County, Tennessee. Sevier moved to Missouri
in 1820 and to Little
Rock, Arkansas in 1821.
In Arkansas he became clerk of the Territorial House
of Representatives. He studied law and was admitted
to the bar
in 1823. Sevier became a member of the House of
Representatives and served from 1823 to 1827 and served
as speaker
of that body in 1827.
Sevier was elected as a Delegate to the Twentieth
US Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Henry
Wharton Conway. Sevier was reelected and served as
delegate in three successive congresses from 1828 to
1836 when Arkansas was admitted to the Union. Sevier is
known as the "Father of Arkansas Statehood".
In 1836 Sevier was elected as the first member of the
United
States Senate from Arkansas. He was reelected in
1837 and 1843. He resigned from office in 1848. During
the twenty-ninth
Congress he was allowed to hold the seat of
President pro tem of the Senate for a day, though he was
not actually elected to that post. During his tenure he
served as chairman of the Committee on Indian
Affairs and was a member of the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
In 1848 Sevier and Nathan
Clifford, the Attorney General of the United States,
were appointed ambassadors to Mexico
by President James
K. Polk to negotiate the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American
War.
Ambrose Hundley Sevier died on his plantation
in Pulaski
County, Arkansas. He was buried in the historic Mount
Holly Cemetery. The State of Arkansas erected a
monument in the cemetery in his honor.
Sevier was the grandnephew of John
Sevier, first cousin of Representative Henry
Wharton Conway, Governor James
Sevier Conway, Governor Elias
Nelson Conway, brother-in-law of Senator Robert
Ward Johnson and father-in-law of Governor Thomas
James Churchill.
Sevier
County, Arkansas is named in his honor.
Ambrose
Hundley Sevier at the Biographical
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Henry Wharton Conway (March 18, 1793 –
November 9, 1827) was a delegate to the United
States House of Representatives from the Arkansas
Territory.
Henry Wharton Conway was born on March 18, 1793, near
Greeneville,
Tennessee in Greene
County, Tennessee. Conway was educated by private
tutors. He was commissioned as an Ensign
in the United
States Navy during the War
of 1812 and was promoted to Lieutenant
in 1813.
In 1817, Conway became a clerk in the U.S.
Treasury and served in that position until he moved
to the Missouri
Territory in 1818. In 1820, he moved to the Arkansas
Territory.
In Arkansas, he was appointed as receiver of public
moneys and served in that position in 1820 and 1821. He
was elected as a delegate to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth,
and Twentieth
Congresses.
Conway was mortally wounded on October 29, 1827,
during a duel
near Napoleon,
Arkansas[1]
with Robert
Crittenden who was Secretary of the Arkansas
Territory. Conway lingered for a couple of weeks after
the duel but succumbed to his wounds.
Henry Wharton Conway died on November 9, 1827. He is
buried in the Arkansas
Post cemetery.
Conway was the brother of Governor James
Sevier Conway and Governor Elias
Nelson Conway. He was first cousin to Senator Ambrose
Hundley Sevier and Governor Henry
Massey Rector. He was also third cousin to
Confederate General and Virginia Governor James
Lawson Kemper.
Conway
County, Arkansas is named for him.
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March
23, 1830 - Justices of the Peace
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
The following is an official list of the JUSTICES OF THE PEACE elected by
joint vote of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, on the
7th day of November 1829
CLARK COUNTY
Antoine township - Abner E. Thornton, Nicholas Keith, John Gentry, Charles
Cox, Mose Moore, Samuel Rose.
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July, August, September 1979
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THORNTON Mrs. H. Ivan Rainwater (Dorothy T.) 2805 Liberty
Place. Bowie
Maryland 20715 - My great great grandfather, Andrew J.
THORNTON, and his brother Abner E. THORNTON, were among
the first settlers
in the Okolona settlement in Clark Co • AR (before 1830)
Abner E.
THORNTON was a State Senator in the first State Leg~slature
in Ark. (1836-
1840). I am seeking biographical material which I hope ~1ll
tell the place
of his birth and who his parents were. I have pretty c~ear
evidence that
the parents of Abner E and And~ew
J THORNTON were William and
Mary (?)
THORNTON but would like confirmation r do not know he,
maiden name Since
Abner E. THORNTON was a State Senator. there must surely
be biographical
material about him in State records
My other problem concern& my great grandfather. Oav1d
A.hley THORNTON,
son of Andrew J. THORNTON and Louisa A. (?) THORNTON. Davl
Ashley THORNTON
was a private in Co. I, 1st Regiment Arkansas Infantry and
d1ed in Little
Rock in St. John's College. 14 September 1862, the college
having been
converted druing the War to hospital use Records in che
National Archives
do not tell where he was buried Perhaps a Little Rock
Newspaper published
shortly after that date would carry an obituary Can anyone
help me? I
will appreciate any additional data or even a tiny clue'
I would like very much to get in touch with one of the AFH
members who
would be willing .to help me. ei
ther on a paid basis or tn
e""hange for
similar
help in genealogical sources in Washington, DC and/or Maryland.
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A. E. Thornton Sheriff in Clark Co 1832-1833,
1835-1836AR State Legislature - Senator - 1836-1840,
A. B. Beale State Legislature- Representative 1854-55,
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CLARK COUNTY ARKANSAS; PAST AND PRESENT editor Wendy
Richter Okolana
Christian Church Dr. Willis S. Smith may have
taught the first Sunday School in Okalon and Clark
County in 1833. Writing a few years later, Smith
recalled the people of all ages attended. Among those
families were McLaughin, Crow, Caruthers, Cornelius,
Gentry, Gibbins, Thornton,
Elkins, Lisenby, Pierce, Rieves, Keath,
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Estate of Jacob Holman
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County of Clark,
ss.
State of Arkansas,
To All Persons To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:
Know ye, that whereas Jacob Holman of the County of Pike, died intestate as
it is said, on or about the twenty-sixth day of October A.D. 1842, having at
the time of his death personal property in this State which may be lost,
destroyed or diminished in value if speedy care be not taken of the same, to
the end thereof, that the said property may be collected, preserved and
disposed of according to law. We do hereby appoint Abner E. Thornton of the
County of Clark, administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels,
rights and credits which were of the said Jacob Holman at the time of his
death, with full power and authority to secure and dispose of the said
property according to law, and collect all monies due said deceased and in
general to do and perform all other acts and things which are or hereafter
may be required of him by law.
In testimony whereof, I, James S. Ward, Clerk of the Circuit Court and
Exofficio Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Clark
aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at
office, this 28th day of November A.D. 1842.
Jas. S. Ward, Clerk.
____________________________________________________________________________
The State of Arkansas,
County of Clark,
I, James S. Ward, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Exofficio Clerk of the
Court of Probate in and for the County of Clark, do hereby certify that the
within and foregoing letters of administration granted to Abner E. Thornton,
on the Estate of Jacob Holman deceased, were this day duly recorded before
they were delivered to said administrator.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as clerk as aforesaid and
affixed the seal of office at Greenville, this 28th day of November A.D.
1842.
Jas. S. Ward, Clerk.
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Clark County, Arkansas Letters of Administration (1838-1856) pages 21-22.
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The State of Arkansas,
County of Clark,
Clark County Probate Court
In Vacation November 28th 1842.
This day personally came Abner E. Thornton before me, James S. Ward, Clerk
of the Circuit Court and Exofficio Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for
the County of Clark aforesaid, and on his motion, letters of administration
is granted to him on the Estate of John Holman deceased, upon his entering
into bond conditioned according to law i the penal sum of sixteen hundred
dollars, with Joshua Elkins and John H. Nelson as his securities. And
thereupon, the said Abner E. Thornton took the oath prescribed by law as
administrator of the Estate of Jacob Holman deceased.
Witness my hand as clerk as aforesaid, this 28th day of November A.D. 1842.
Jas. S. Ward, Clerk.
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Clark County, Arkansas Probate Record Book A (1840-1847) page 70.
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In Clark Circuit Court In Vacation.
June 25th 1845.
Hiram Moore, Complainant
vs.
Abner E. Thornton, Mary Holman and the unknown heirs
of Jacob Holman deceased, Defendants.
In Chancery.
... "to obtain title to certain lands (80 acres) ... Mary Holman widow of
Jacob Holman deceased and the unknown heirs of said deceased are non
residents of this State. It is therefore ordered that notice be given said
non resident defendants by publication in the Washington Telegraph a
newspaper published in this State ... (to) appear before the next term
hereof ... on the first Monday of September next."
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Clark County, Arkansas Chancery Record B, 1839-1852, pages 75-76. Excerpt.
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Arkansas
Territory
On March 2, 1819, President James Monroe signed the
bill creating Arkansas Territory. The act which
created Arkansas Territory provided that the
territorial governor "shall be commander-in-chief
of the militia of said territory, shall have power to
appoint and commission all officers, required by law,
be appointed for said territory..."[29]
At the time of its formation, the new Territory of
Arkansas included the following five counties:[30]
- Arkansas
- Lawrence
- Clark
- Hempstead
- Pulaski
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Articles
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September
27, 1825 - Appointments by the Governor
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR,
Antoine Barraque, Sub-Agent to the Quapaw Indians.
David Tollett, Justice of the Peace, Mine Creek
Township, Hempstead County
Isaac Baldwin, Justice of the Peace, Big Rock
Township, Pulaski County
Nicholas Rightor, Surveyor of Phillips County
John C. Sumner, Coroner of Crawford County
Military - Clark County
Thomas S. Drew, Major, 1st Reg't Arkansas Militia;
Abner E. Thornton, Judge Advocate;
William Kelly, Paymaster;
George W. Rogers, Captain;
Josiah Smakey, 1st Lieutenant;
John Fentim, 1st Lieutenant;
John Hood, 2d Lieut.
James Bankston, 2d Lieutenant;
James J. Melson, Ensign;
Middleton Scarborough, Ensign
Cavalry -
George H. Owens, Captain in the Lawrence County troop
of Cavalry;
Robert Muir, 2nd Lieut;
Squier Pevehouse, Cornet
William McDonald, 1st Lieut in the Hempstead County
troop of Cavalry;
Joseph Alcut, 2nd Lieut;
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May
9, 1838 - Appointments by the Governor
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR
Capt. James Johnson, of Hempstead county, to be
Commissioner to select Salt Springs, in the place of
James Logan, resigned.
Abner E. Thornton, of Clark county, to be State
Director of the Real Estate Bank, for the Branch at
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- ID: I13775
- Name: Abner E. THORNTON
- Sex: M
- Birth: ABT 1810 in Tennessee 1
- Death: UNKNOWN
- Note:
1850 Victoria, Victoria County, Texas Census;
Roll: M432_916; Page: 237; Image: 111.
Abner E. Thornton, age 40 (born circa 1810),
male, Merchant, born Tennessee.
Mary A. Thornton, age 40 (born circa 1810),
female, born South Carolina.
Ebu (Eba?) Thornton, age 18 (born circa 1832),
male, clerk, born Arkansas.
John Thornton, age 14 (born circa 1836), male,
born Arkansas.
Lafayett Thornton, age 12 (born circa 1838),
male, born Arkansas.
Wm. J. Thornton, age 10 (born circa 1840), male,
born Arkansas.
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Post subject: May 4, 1848 - Little
Rock Bible Society
Little Rock Bible Society
From the Banner
Pursuant to previous notice, a meeting of the friends
of the Bible, without regard to denominational
distinctions, was held in the Methodist Church in
Little Rock, on Sunday evening, April 2, 1848.
Mr. Thomas W. Newton was called to the chair, and Mr.
Charles Rapley appointed Secretary. Mr. Banks, agent
for the American Bible Society, in a brief address,
explained the object of the meeting, to be the
organization of a society to be named the Little Rock
Bible Society, Auxilary to the American Bible Society.
The object of its formation to be the gratuitous
circulation of the Scriptures among those families in
the city and neighborhood, who are without a copy of
the Scriptures, and are destitute of the means or the
desire to procure it. The constitution of the Parent
Society was adopted, and an agent appointed to
ascertain the families who are unsupplied with the
Scriptures, and provide each with a copy.
The meeting was addressed by Rev. Mr. Turrentine, Rev.
Mr. Green, Rev. Mr. Stevenson and others and was then
adjourned till the following evening. But owing to the
inclemency of the weather was further adjourned until
Wednesday evening, April 5th, when the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr. Dodge,
President; Rev. J.F. Green, Corresponding Secretary;
C. Langtree, Recording Secretary; C.P. Bertrand and
Rev. W.W. Stevenson, Vice-President; David Bender,
Librarian, and Col.
A.E. Thornton, Treasurer; Hon. Judge Ben
Johnson and Rev. A. Hunter were appointed honorary
Vice Presidents.
A proposition was also made that the congregation of
the Evangelical churches of the city should make their
several Pastors, life members of the Parent Society,
which was responded to, on the part of those
congregations by several gentlemen present.
An agent is now actively employed in distributing the
Bible in this county, who will probably be prepared to
make a report of his operations at the next regular
meeting of the officers of said society.
G. Langtree, Recording Sec'ry.
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Post subject: September 27, 1825 -
Appointments by the Governor
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR,
Antoine Barraque, Sub-Agent to the Quapaw Indians.
David Tollett, Justice of the Peace, Mine Creek
Township, Hempstead County
Isaac Baldwin, Justice of the Peace, Big Rock
Township, Pulaski County
Nicholas Rightor, Surveyor of Phillips County
John C. Sumner, Coroner of Crawford County
Military - Clark County
Thomas S. Drew, Major, 1st Reg't Arkansas Militia;
Abner E.
Thornton, Judge Advocate;
William Kelly, Paymaster;
George W. Rogers, Captain;
Josiah Smakey, 1st Lieutenant;
John Fentim, 1st Lieutenant;
John Hood, 2d Lieut.
James Bankston, 2d Lieutenant;
James J. Melson, Ensign;
Middleton Scarborough, Ensign
Cavalry -
George H. Owens, Captain in the Lawrence County troop
of Cavalry;
Robert Muir, 2nd Lieut;
Squier Pevehouse, Cornet
William McDonald, 1st Lieut in the Hempstead County
troop of Cavalry;
Joseph Alcut, 2nd Lieut;
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Post subject: March 23, 1830 - Justices of
the Peace
The following is an official list of the JUSTICES
OF THE PEACE elected by joint vote of the General
Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, on the 7th day
of November 1829.
CLARK COUNTY
Antoine township - Abner
E. Thornton, Nicholas Keith, John Gentry,
Charles Cox, Mose Moore, Samuel Rose.
Caddo township - Issac Ward, Winthrop Colbreth, John
B. Anderson, John Gallaway, sen., Allen H. Johnson.
Missouri township - Noah Reeder, Isaac White, William
Kelly, Jacob Birndlee, Washton Sorrells
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Information found be TCT 05
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Family Search Site:
Abner E Thornton, "United States
Census, 1840"
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Abner E Thornton, "United States Census,
1840"
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Abner
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Event Place: |
Antoine,
Clark, Arkansas |
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110 |
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Abner E Thornton, "United States
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Abner E Thornton, "United States Census,
1830"
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Abner
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Event Place: |
Caddo,
Clark, Arkansas Territory |
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198 |
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M19 |
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5 |
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0002473 |
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First General Assembly
^Members of the first General Assembly of the State of
Arkansas were elected August 1, 1836. The constitution
of 1836
provided- that the General Assembly should consist of
a senate
and a house
of representatives ; that the senate
should consist
of not fewer nor more than thirty-three members ; that
the house
should consist of not fewer than fifty-four nor more
than one
hundred members ; and divided the state into districts
for the
election of members of the two houses. It was also
provided
that the members elected on the first Monday in August
should
meet on the second Monday- in September. The state
house,
which owed its erection to the constructive enterprise
of Gov-
ernor John Pope, though not completed, was put in
condition,
and the General Assembly met within its walls for the
first time
on Monday, September 12, 1836.
Those elected to the senate were: Arkansas and
Jefferson
counties, Samuel C. Roane ; Carroll, Izard and Searcy,
Charles
R. Saunders ; Chicot and Union, John Clark ; Clark,
Hot Spring
and Pike, A. E. Thornton; Conway and Van Buren, Amos
Kuy-
kendall ; Crawford and Scott, Richard C. S. Brqwn ;
Crittenden
and Mississippi, William D. Ferguson; Greene and St.
Francis,
Mark W. Izard ; Hempstead and Lafayette, George Hill ;
Inde-
pendence and Jackson, John Ringgold ; Johnson and
Pope, John
Williamson ; Lawrence and Randolph, Robert Smith ;
Miller and
Sevier, Joseph W. McKean ; Monroe and Phillips, James
Martin ;
Pulaski, Saline and White, John McLean; Washington,
William
McK. Ball and Robert McCamy.
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42 OUTLINE OF EXECUTIVE
his body was taken to Fayetteville and buried in the
Evergreen
Cemetery, where his Masonic brethren erected a
monument over
his grave. Two of his wives are interred in the same
cemetery
by his side Mrs. Nancy J. Yell, who died on October 3,
1835,
and Mrs. Maria Yell, who died -on October 14, 1838.
His first
wife died in Tennessee, before he came to Arkansas.
Third General Assembly-
Members of the third Gerferal Assembly were elected
Octo-
ber 5, 1840. There were twenty-one senators and
sixty-three
representatives. Of the senators, sixteen were
Democrats and
five were Whigs. In the house there were forty-one
Democrats
and twenty-two Whigs.
The members of the senate were: Arkansas, Jefferson
and
Desha counties, J. Smith; Benton and Madison, A.
Whinnery ;
Carroll, Marion and Searcy, W. C. Mitchell ; Chicot
and Union,
J. Clark ; Comvay and Pope, J. Williamson ; Crawford
and Scott,
J. A. Scott; Critenclen and Mississippi. \V. D.
Ferguson; Hemp-
stead, J. H. Walker; Hot Spring and Saline, C.
Caldwell; Inde-
pendence, M. Magness ; Izard and Lawrence, J. S.
Licklin ; John-
son and Franklin, S. Adams; Miller and Sevier, T. W.
Scott;
Monroe and Phillips, D. Thompson ; Pike and Clark, A.
E.
Thornton; Poinsett and St. Francis, M. W. Izard;
Pulaski, R. C.
Uyrcl: Randolph, W. '15 lack: Washington, O. Evans, D.
Walker;
White, Van Burcn and Jackson, L. 11 Tully.
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Trial of John H. Mosely
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EARLY SKETCHES,
In August, 1837, while the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee Indians
were migrating to their new homes in the north of Arkansas; west of Missouri
the Choctaws and Chickasaws homes were in the northern part of Arkansas, and
their direct road to their new homes was the old military road, commencing
at Old Jackson Mission, passing through Missouri and Arkansas via Little
Rock, to Fulton on Red River, near the then western boundary of Arkansas.
During their moving they were frequently troubled with horse thieves,
stealing their ponies worth from five to ten or fifteen dollars, and
complaint being made by the Indians to their agents about the loss of their
ponies along the road in Clark and Pike counties, their agent(s) used some
energy to arrest and bring the thieves to justice.
One party was captured in Pike county, convicted, and executed by the name
of Tyre O'Neal. A man by the name of John H. Mosley, then residing on the
said military road at Clear Springs, in Clark county, was arrested as
accessory before the fact for horse stealing (indian ponies), examined
before a justice's court, thought guilty and committed to jail to await
his trial in the circuit court; it being a capital offense was not permitted
to bail. Mr. Thomas McLaughlin acted as constable and James L. McLaughlin
was the then justice of the peace (two noble men never lived) in Antoine
township, near where Okolona now stands. Hon. L.I. Handy was judge of the
circuit court, James S. Ward was clerk of Clark county and Dr. Willis
Smith (the writer) was sheriff. Mr. Stevenson was state's attorney, but
resigned before court convened. Court in course met, but Judge Handy was in
feeble health, and adjorned for the space of three or four weeks. During
this time, the sheriff was compelled to keep a standing guard of twelve men
to prevent the prisoner making his escape by the help of outside friends,
the jail being nothing but a log house. This was the most trying and
exciting time that the writer ever experienced in this county in forty-nine
years; it tried the hearts and souls of men. It drew the lines of
demarcation between honest men and thieves and counterfeiters. "Birds of
the same feather ganged together."
Court met pursuant to adjornment, his honor, L.I. Handy, presiding. There
being no attorney for the state, his honor appointed John Fields prosecuting
attorney pro tem, assisted by Samuel Hempstead. Both had just commenced the
practice and were men of marked ability. Samuel Moore was called to their
assistance during the trial, a man of law and judgement. The prisoner was
indicted and arraigned before the bar, defended by George Conway, J.W. Coke,
Albert Pike, Grandison D. Royston, Thomas Hubbard, John Taylor, Judge Hall
and Childress. This drew men from every part of the state. The little town
(Greenville, the then county seat of old Clark) was crowded with both
strangers, not too many, only their special friends, and so remained.
About this time the county was flooded with raised bank notes; for instance,
the addition of a cipher to the right of the figure on a five dollar bill,
raised it to fifty, and on a ten dollar bill, to a hundred dollars, and so
on to a thousand, and were so well executed, that none but a close observer
could detect the fraud. But I will now return to the trial of said Mosley.
The grand jury returned a true bill against Mosley for being an accessory
before the fact for stealing Indian ponies.
State of Arkansas
vs.
John H. Mosley
Horse Stealing.
George Conway, Grandison D. Royston, Thomas Hubbard, J.W. Coke, Albert Pike,
Judge Hall, J.S. Taylor, _________ Childress, A. Fowler and Chester
Ashley for the defense, the most talented bar (I) ever had the good luck to
meet in Arkansas. The jury being made and empaneled, the prisoner was
arraigned before the bar and the examination commenced. The state seemed to
leave nothing undone and pushed forward with skill and ability, criticizing
every law point, while on the part of the defense, escaped the attention of
the lawyers (not) noticing every gap left down, if any. The case lasted
about two weeks, when it was closed and the jury retired, was out 24 hours
and returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the bill of indictment. The
defense moved for a new hearing but his honor, L.I. Handy, refused to grant.
The defense moved for an arrest of judgement.
The case was ably argued by the contending parties, and lasted five or six
days, but motion for arrest of judgement was overruled, and (when) the
prisoner was asked by his honor if he had anything to say why the sentence
of death should not be passed on him, plead not guilty. The judge then
passed the sentence of death. After asking the prisoner if he desired to
have the 30 days alloted him, and receiving an affirmative answer, his
honor passed the sentence of death, to hang by the neck until dead, dead,
dead, on the ninth day of December, 1837, (the Arkansas Gazette says,
"... the tenth day of December" ...) The guard was now increased to 24 men.
Many exciting scenes occurred during this time and on the day for his
execution. From all appearances various plans were tried for the rescue of
the prisoner from the sentence of the law by his party, but none succeeded.
Money was offered freely for his release.
During this interval, petitions were sent up to James S. Conway (Governor)
for his pardon, but all proved abortive until the day of his execution, when
the prisoner was shrouded and seated on his coffin, the prison door was open
and the wagon standing ready to carry the prisoner to the gallows and the
adjusting of the rope around the prisoner's neck. John S. Taylor, attorney,
came with a respite for 20 days for the convict, just in time to rescue the
prisoner. In a few more minutes he would have gone to that bourne from
whence no traveler returns.The prisoner was then placed in jail to await
the expiration of the twenty days. On the eleventh of December, at night,
Judge Hall came with a pardon in full from Governor Conway, on condition
that the party pay all legal fees except guard hire, and quit the county in
10 days and the limits of the state in 40 days, and not be found again in
the state, and if so, to suffer death as the sentence was pronounced on him.
The party soon settled all costs and the prisoner was discharged. When the
door was opened to discharge the prisoner, a crowd of his friends were
present, and the first words uttered by the prisoner, was: "Well, boys, all
of you come up to the grocery and take a drink."
This looked strange to me, a man just escaping from the sentence of death,
who had his shroud on, sitting on his coffin, (and) should think of whiskey
instead of prayer and thanksgiving to God. Thus ended one of the most
important criminal trials ever held in Arkansas. On the day for the
execution, there were more people present than I ever saw in Arkansas at one
time, before or since, ... excitement ran high. I thought the prisoner would
be taken from my custody and hung anyhow. At that time horse stealing was a
capital offense by special act of the legislature. All of the attorneys for
each side are dead, except, Grandison D. Royston and Albert Pike. Judge L.I.
Handy and James S. Ward, clerk, are dead. Dr. Willis S. Smith, the then
Sheriff, is yet living. Copy of the respite and death warrant:
James S. Conway, Governor of the State of Arkansas
To whom it may concern and especially to
The Sheriff of Clark county, Arkansas:
Know Ye That, Whereas, John H. Mosely has been condemned and sentenced by
the Circuit Court of said county of Clark, to suffer death by hanging on
the ninth day of the present month.
Now Therefore, I, James S. Conway, governor of the aforesaid, grant to said
John H. Mosley a respite from the sentence of the said circuit court of
Clark county. For the time and space of 20 days, from the date fixed for
his execution. And you the said sheriff of Clark county, are commanded to
suspend the execution of said sentence, of the said court on the said John
H. Mosley, for the said space of 20 days from the date fixed ... for his
execution.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the state to (be) (af)fixed, this seventh day of December, 1837, and of
the Independence of the U.S., the sixty-second year.
(Seal of State) J.S. Conway, by the Governor
R. H. Watkins, Secretary of State.
In (this) case of the State of Arkansas vs. John H. Mosely, the following
named persons were summoned by the sheriff of Clark county as guard to keep
the said Mosely secure day and night, as the jail was not secure, having
been made of logs; and the county site being then Greenville, was then
sparsely inhabited, the county was new and not settled much at the time.
The guard was one half on duty at a time while the other half was resting.
I remember well, at one time, Col. Bozeman and I sat on guard most of the
night: Col. Bozeman, Joseph Gray, David Morrison, Frank Russell, Thomas
McLaughlin, John Crow, J.H. Crow, B.F. Crow, James R. Crow, Abner Hignight,
George Horner, Abraham Newton, William Jones, Jesse Skinner, William
Pettyjohn, Col. Jacob Wells, A.A. Wells, G.W. Wells, James Sloan, Joseph
Hoofman, Elias Hoofman, Jesse Hoofman, Thomas Wingfield, Jacob Wingfield,
John Wingfield, Charles Wingfield, William Wingfield, Willis S. Smith, Dr.
J.T. Hayden, Hendrix White, Richard Wilson, Sam Kelley, John Stephens,
William Gentry, Jack Gentry, James Gentry, M. Ward, Jacob Logan, Benjamin
Logan, George Overbaugh, Abraham Weir, Z. Weir, Charles Franklin, William
Franklin, William Jones, Jr., John Lisenby, Lemuel Lisenby, Peter
Leatherman, J.S. Stuart and A.E. Thornton; A.J. Thornton, Moses Guice, B.F.
Wyatt, Enoch Frier, Peter McCain, _________ Prewit, F.C. Lisenby, Thomas
McNeely, Richard McNeely, William McNeely, Robert McNeely.
The guard would certainly have to be relieved by others. The average of the
guard was twelve men. There were many persons on guard, no doubt, not named
above. I write from memory altogether. It is nearing 40 years (1877) since
the transaction of the above occurrence took place, and but few are now
living who took part in this great trial. It is now one of the past events
of our county history, and but very few of the above name(d) are now living
to relate those trying times and talk them over when we meet. The memory of
those veterans should never be forgotten by those who live in the future.
Those who have departed this life and gone to the spirit land, I sincerely
hope, are gazing on those joyful scenes in that "Happy Land" and visiting
around the throne of God, or seated by some silver fount of life recounting
over their toils and trials whilst imprisoned here.
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Scrapbook of Dr. Willis S. Smith, Arkansas History Commission, Little
Rock, Arkansas.
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JOHN H. MOSLEY PARDONED
GOV. CONWAY has granted a pardon to JOHN H. MOSLEY, convicted of horse
stealing, at the last session of the Clark county Circuit Court. It appears
to have been a fair case for executive clemency, as he was believed have
been not the principal, but the accessory to the crimes. The punishment,
also, was considered disproportional to the crime. As the new code will
make an essential change in the part of our criminal jurisprudence, there
can be no question, we presume, of the propriety of extending mercy to the
convict, who will, in all probability, abandon the country.
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Arkansas State Gazette, December 12, 1837, page 2 column 1.
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David Kelley 1996
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On a much more
serious note, William Moore was twice charged with
assault. First, William was indicted on the charge of
assault and battery "commited on the Body of one
Elizabeth Galbreath on the tenth day of September A.D.
1834." (Circuit Court file #2449) The
circumstances of the event remain a mystery, but
Elizabeth was probably related to William's wife
Rebecca Galbreath. Sheriff
A. E. Thornton was unable to find William Moore in his
bailiwick. It seems William and his family had
fled the Territory, since his daughter Mary Jane was
born in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, on 18 Nov 1834.
Years later, in September 1844, William was charged
with assault and battery on the body of Elias Hoffman,
it being alleged that he "did beat bruise wound
and illtreat and other wrongs to the said Elias
Hoofman there and then did to the great damage of the
said Elias Hoofman." William was taken into
custody at the home of Nancy Bolt by the sheriff who
"afterwards released him by he as principal and
John Moore as his security entering into a
recognisance . . . in the sum of fifty dollars."
(Circuit Court file #1682) However, William apparently
then left the county. From 8 Nov 1844 through 27 June
1851, ten warrants were issued for William's arrest on
this single charge; each time, the sheriff reported
that William Moore could not be found in his
bailiwick.
To paint their
actions in a less negative light, one could say that
Moses Moore and his sons imbibed deeply of the
frontier spirit of rugged individualism. In their
emigrations from Georgia to Kentucky to Illinois
Territory to Missouri Territory to Arkansas
Territory--and in the case of some of Moses's sons, to
the Mexican province of Texas--they faced dangers from
outlaws and Indians as well as the hardships and
challenges of an untamed land. When they believed they
were in the right, they were not afraid to stand their
ground and fight. James Walker Moore and Thomas W.
Moore both migrated to Texas when it was still under
Mexican jurisdiction, and they fought for the cause of
independence in the Texas Revolution. Thomas, as it
turns out, was not afraid to fight his fellow Texians
if necessary. The following story is recounted in the
1893 History of Texas--Together
with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson,
Bastrop, Travis, Lee & Burleson Counties:
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In the years that followed,
other events which occurred support the proposition
that William was closely related to Nancy, Moses
Walker, John, and James Walker Moore. Abraham Bolt
died in Clark County on 13 Oct 1844, naming Benjamin
Bolt as the executor of his will and Nancy Bolt, his
widow, as the executrix. On 2 Nov 1844 the following
persons were bound to make inventory of the
possessions of Abraham Bolt: Nancy Bolt, Benjamin
Bolt, William Moore, John Moore, Moses [W.] Moore, and
John K. Allen. A few months later, on 14 Feb 1845, the
sheriff took William Moore into custody (for his
assault on Elias Hoffman) "at the late residence
of A Bolt in South Fork Township and afterwards
released him by he as principal and John Moore as his
security." William bolted the county, and Sheriff
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