A Woman\u27s Place

I was fortunate to have both my maternal and paternal grandmothers in my life until I reached my mid-30s, so I had an opportunity to get to know them as women, as well as grandparents. Their strength continually amazed me

Contributions of Women to Clark County\u27s History

Excerpted from a lecture given for the Clark County bicentennial, this article focuses on the contributions of Clark County women to the community during the major movements and events of the late 19th and 20th centuries

Clark County, Arkansas: The Garden Spot of the Sunny South

Presented here is a typescript of a pamphlet produced and distributed circa 1877 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway to promote settlement in Clark County. The original pamphlet is housed in the collections of the Arkansas State Archives

The Wiley Funeral Home Records at Ouachita Baptist University

In 2009, Ouachita Baptist University\u27s Special Collections and Archives received a set of records from the Wiley Funeral Home (now Mitchell Funeral Home) of Arkadelphia, containing death certificates, burial transit permits, and funeral insurance records kept between 1941-1968. The records document the lives of several thousand African Americans who were either residents of Clark County or whose funerals were handled by Wiley Funeral Home

100 Years Ago: Front-Page Stories from Arkadelphia\u27s Southern Standard

The following news items were extracted from the front pages of Arkadelphia\u27s Southern Standard weekly newspaper of 1919. The articles illustrate the variety of news published by the paper and offer glimpses into life in early 20th-century Clark County. The return to normalcy following the end of a world war; agricultural and economic development of the county; and moonshining were just a few of the themes that ran through the news that made the front pages of 1919

Henry Ivens Stone, Local Inventor

Henry Ivens Stone was born October 30, 1866, in Clark County, Arkansas to William Clark W.C. and Mary Ann (Smith) Stone. Stone\u27s mother, Mary Ann, was the daughter of Dr. Willis and Margaret Janes Smith. Stone married Sara L. Sallie Turbeville on May 14, 1887, in Nevada County. Henry and Sallie lived in Whelen Springs, and were the parents of three children--Willie Mae, Warner Cap, and Henry Jr., who died before his first birthday. Henry Ivens Stone died from pneumonia on November 20, 1900. Frederick Vallowe, the great grandson of Stone, donated the original patent, transcribed below, to the Archives and Special Collections at Ouachita Baptist University in 2019

Struggling for Justice: Church Women United, Oxford, Mississippi 1962-1991

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Fresh Focus: Mississippi\u27s \u27Spy Files\u27: The State Sovereignty Commission Records Controversy, 1977-1999

Too often the pressure of the present day work environment lures archivists into ignoring their professional past or advancing shortsightedly into the future. To encourage such reflection on the archival enterprise, Provenance includes this section, Fresh Focus. We invite contributors to explore neglected chapters in archival history or to share an original, especially historical, perspective on the current world of archival affairs. Provenance particularly encourages submissions for Fresh Focus from new or student archivists who are, after all, the future of the profession. Foil owing is the third in a series of occasional essays or papers meeting these criteria

Another Man Done Gone

Author’s note: I grew up hearing stories about a maternal great uncle who died young following an arrest for some minor offense. As an adult, I hadn’t thought much about his story until earlier this year. While hunkered down in quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak, a cousin texted a photograph and a newspaper clipping to me and asked if I knew who the man was, or anything about what had happened to him. The photograph was of our great uncle, Richard Audell Clift, and the clipping was about his death. Reading about his death made me realize that there was so much about his story that I did not know; and so I began to research. My generation is probably the last one that may have any connection to him, and even that is only tangentially through stories I heard from my parents and grandmother, who was his sister-in-law. He died for a fine of $11.75. His story deserves to be told and remembered, and is especially fitting at a time in which our society is calling for changes within established systems of law and justice

Arkadelphians Play Baseball in Montana

Perhaps a little known facet of Clark County history is its connection to Negro League baseball in the early 20th century. Between 1917 and 1939, sixteen young men from Arkadelphia played baseball for the Butte Colored Giants in Montana