Glad to hear you all are okay. So far it seems the weather has been weird everywhere. We had 2 feet of snow in December with temps in the teens. That is really strange in NW Washington coast. It hung around through New Years, then it started raining. Not the usual drizzle but honest to goodness rain. Mix that with the melting snow and very high tides and it not a good thing. You can normally drive onto our island because of dikes built on either side of the road. Unfortunately, there was a break in the dike and we once again. Everything is back to normal now and the eagles are here in full force and spring is not far behind. I enjoy the emails, thanks for putting this together.
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HARMON UPDATE - MARCH 2009

Danny - A very month for updates!

Danny    Re: Benton County History Book

Re: Randolph listing

There is only one Randolph listed.
J. D. Randolph was on the 1921 school roll for the second grade in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

Apparently Siloam Springs was a "Quaker" town.! This is the first time I have ever heard this!!
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Randolph - Washington County History Book - about 60 entries in the index
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Re: Ingram listings

F40 ;

Nancy Ingram was William Jackson Autry's second wife. They married about 1877-78. There is no record of their marriage. Nancy was the daughter of James M. Ingram and grand daughter of William Easley of Benton County, Arkansas. they had two children Erasmus (Ras) Autry b. 1880 and Louisa Carolina Autry, the grandmother of the writer. (Erasmus was a well-witcher).

William Jackson Autry's third wife was Nancy's older sister Lousinda Marndia Ingram Ernest in about 1890. They had two children, Vivie  b. 1890 and Mandfy b. 1892.

Jackson raised his family on Hickory Creek until 1888. He sold his land to Silas Graham Ingram, brother of his second and third wife.

Jackson let his dogs decide which side of the war he would fight in, The confederate dog won so he fought for the Confederate Army.

Danny, Dad's oldest brother, Dewey (Dude) was also a well-witcher. He selected the location for two wells on our property, the house well and a much deeper well for the farm.  I seen to remember we all tried holding the wish boned shape of the stick with our hands reversed, thumbs pointing back toward the chest. I could never get the stick to dip at all. Guess I'm not a very good witch!

There are 3 pictures and the article is two large pages if you want a copy. 
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F194:
Nancy Ann Cox was the daughter of Samuael Selathiel Cox (somtimes spelled Cock). She married Francis Ingram.

About 1861-1862 Selathiel married Martha Ann Hoggatt.  The proof of their marriage was a "certificate of Chiefs"  issued by the 1st and 2nd chief of the Miami Kansas Indian tribe.

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F314
Maternal grandparents to Vera Lou Goree  were Claude and Ida Bell Ingram Nail.

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F339
Parents of Helen Etta Nai lwere Claude Columbus and Ida Bell Ingram Nail.
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F423
James Ingram was born in Illinois in 1826. His parents are thought to be Pleasant and Celinda Ingram. He was a civil war Captain and then a circuit minister.

James married Amanda, born 1828, by 1848.
Children:

William Ingram, born 1848, died of malaria in the Civil War
Silas Graham Ingram, born 5 September 1850, called "Sol"
Eliza Jane Ingram, born 1853

Miranda "Rindy" Ingram, born 1855

Amanda died in 1855.
James married Sarah Elizabeth Easley, born 1838 in Tennessee

Children:
1.Frances Marion Ingram, b. 1857 (Frank), married Nancy Cox
         Children:
          Ida Bell Ingram, married Claude Columbus Nail
          Della Ingram, married Lee McGarrah
          Salathiel, died as a baby
Frances Marion Ingram, b. 1857 (Frank), married Linda Burch

2. Nancy Ingram, born 1859, married Jack Autry who had been

    married to her half-sister, Miranda

           Children:
           Ras Autry, born 1880
           Louiza Autry, married Frank Loyd
3. Lucinda C. Ingram, born 1860, married Samuel Leak(1) & Ed Smith (2)
4. Virginia Ingram, born 1867, married John Stanley

            Children:
            Grace Secor Stanley
            Roy  Stanley
            Etta Stanley
5. James Ingram

Silas Graham Ingram married Mary Dicia Easley, daughter of Francis M. Easley.
Eliza Jane Ingram married James Northan Patton.
Miranda Ingram married Frank Earnest (1), German White (2) & John Autry.
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F436
Susan Mariah Ingram, b. 5 June 1838 married Beurban Pinkney Jonnson
In 1878 Reuban died and Susan married John Covey .
2 pages & picure if you want.
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F550
Francis Lee (McGarrah?), born 10 December 1891 married Mary Della Ingram
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F607
Claude Columbus Whitehead, born 25 December 1884, died 12 April 1974
married Ida Belle Ingram 16 December 1908, 9 children
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F608
Parents of Ida Belle (F607) born 1 June 1888 were Francis Marion and Nancy Cox Ingram.
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F819
Sale of land from John Ingram and wife Larissa Ann Ingram to William R. Quarles and Sarah R. Quarles.
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F947
James D. Whittle was born the 29th of January, 1853 and married the 20th of December 1874 to Martha V. Ingram, the daughter of Lewis and Nancy Jane (Bingham) Ingram. 7 children.
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T57 (The spring at Elm Springs)
I have not yet found out why Elm Springs (a Washington county town) is in a Benton County History book.
 
John Ingram set up a water mill in 1844, and it was the first to use the waters of the stream for power. Other mills soon blossomed.
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T58 (History of Elm Springs)
Elm Springs is one of the oldest towns in Northwest Arkansas. The first land entry was made as early as 1831 by Thomas McLain. A Mr. Ingram entered land on the site of Elm Springs in 1840. Elm Springs probably had the strongest spring in Washington County. John Ingram found these springs strong enough to operate a water mill. His miller was B. J. Deaver who later became his partner. This was the earliest mill in the county and the village formed around it. William Barrington joined McLain and opened a store and christened the town "Elm Springs".

Early businessmen included Barrington, Shelton, McAllister, and a pioneer by the name of Moses. A post office was established in 1848.

The Civil War almost depopulated Elm Springs. Businessmen in Elm Springs were Dr. Christian, F. F. Febster, James Pollack, Trotter & Wasson, B. J. Davis, and Farrar & Reed.

In 1889, Elm Springs had several businesses. M. D. Steel, R. L. Ritter and G. A. Wilkerson ran general stores. W. V. Steele had a combined drugs and notions store.

Source: The Goodspeed, Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwestern Arkansas, 1889

by Glenda Jayroe Stevens
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Ingram- Washington County History Book - about 40 entries in the index

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Danny

The B. J. Deaver mentioned is my great great grand father.
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Sandra Boyd

Is this research that you have done? If so, do you know anything about Claude Nail, married to Ida Ingram?
Thanks, Sandy
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Danny

 

Info sent by email direct to Sandra
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Ronnie Routh

 

Very interesting. The Routh family had 4 sections of land around Fishback, just outside (SE) of Fayetteville. Early 1830's. Four sons, the youngest was my Great Grandfather.
 
Well, it's March, and I need to make plans for the Harmon reunion/visit. Colleen is getting married April 2nd, Jay (Grandson) is graduating High School June 12th & Katie (Granddaughter) is graduating from College June 14th. We also have something planned for Sept. 19th. So let me what your thinking, are you planning on coming to Arkansas this year? I know how much Hilary likes to visit Cemeteries. :o)
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Ronnie Routh

 

Actually, it's Sept 26th that we have something planned. No big deal.
Melanie is doing great. All is well.
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Danny

 

No plans yet. We have a wedding here in December. Possible I might come by myself. Will keep your days in mind.
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Danny

 

I would like to get all of you to help write the history of the Harmon Grocery and Produce! Please help! I plan to include the history into the Harmon Community website that is currently changing! Anything you can remember or ideas, put it in! I am adding the Harmon Recipe website to the Harmon Community website and then close the current Recipe one. I am moving a lot of stuff out of the McCamey website and into the Harmon Community one. Things like school pictures, Harmon Reunion pictures, Harmon area pictures and stories and all of the Harmon updates from 2002 to 2009.  Any new ideas?
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Harmon Grocery and Produce
by the Harmon Community members.

 

The Harmon Grocery store was started in 1902 by George Harmon (maybe Harman). He purchased a small store from Abner Brown which was located between the White Oak cemetery and the White Oak school . This area was known as Old Wheeler/Henry's spring. According to Linda Kinion " Early history of Harmon Community", earlier operators of the store included Granville Wright and Squire Hogg.

 

George Harmon moved the store to across the road from where Ida Thompson later lived. A United States post office was established in the store. George Harmon became post master and the community became known as Harmon. In 1906 the post office was discontinued.

 

Who then operated the store after  that?

 

I have no more history of the store until 1937 when the newly weds Nolon & Sue McCamey purchased the store. They lived on and worked the E. B. Crain farm between Harmon and White Oak when they first married. After buying the store they moved closer to it, to the "white" house behind Arch Thompson and next to where Walter Moore later lived. According to Sue McCamey's notes they were still running the store through the 1950s. I can remember them still running the store when I was in my first year of college at Arkansas Tech at Russellville in April 1959. Later I remember Dan & Edna Jones running the store and living behind it in a trailer house in the early 1960s. I think Russell & Hazel Hinshaw built a home where the trailer had been and took over running the store.

 

Luin Clark ran the store for Dad During world War 2 while our family lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma where Dad was employed at Spartan Aircraft building airplanes for the war. Following the death of my brother Larry in December 1944 in Tulsa, we moved back to Harmon in 1945.  Dad had to register for the draft then and had passed his physicals when the war ended in September 1945.

 

In the 1940s there was one gas Conoco hand pump at the store. In the 1950s we changed to the Gulf company. Electricity had come to rural Arkansas. The new miracle gas called Ethyl had been invented. So we got two electric pumps, one for regular gas and one for the new ethyl miracle gas with gobs of wonderful lead!

 

With electricity, the ice boxes went out. The coal oil lamps went out. Eventually the coal stoves went out. New electric refrigerators, stoves, lights came in ..even phones changed from a wind up machine on the wall to a black dial phone on the "PARTY LINE".

 

Names I can remember (need dates) of the Harmon Grocery-

 

Nolon and Sue McCamey, off and on from about 1938 to 1959
Lilliard & Goldie Routh, from ??  to ?? 
Windy & Wilma Pearson, from ??  to ??
Mae Lynch, from ??  to ??
Dan & Edna Jones..about 1960, from ??  to ??
Russell & Hazel Hinshaw, from ??  to ??
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Danny

 

HARMON in the 1950s

 

There were a lot of things happening in the early 1950s. Even my school photos in 1952. So please put on your memory caps and maybe we can come up with enough to put it in the new Harmon Community website! Let me know! What were you doing then ?
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Danny
 

Re: Goldie Routh letter to Sue McCamey dated October 7, 1952.

 

Goldie was living in the back of the Ida Thompson house in Harmon  with Ronnie. Goldie's second son Paul was born later in September 1953 in California and Colleen was born in November 1958. Lillard had already left Arkansas and was in California. Lillard earlier had been driving "chicken" trucks for dad. I am guessing he had been driving since the late 1940s. Not for sure when but I think Lillard and Goldie ran the store.

 

Sue, with Nolon, Danny and Donnie, had moved from Harmon in the summer of 1952 and were living in DeQueen Arkansas. We did not return to Harmon until about March 1953. I finished one month of grade 8 in Harmon school in April 1953. My grade 9 in Springdale was in the year ended April 1954.

 

Ronnie was in school in Springdale before he left at Christmas time 1952. He played center in the Springdale football team and they had had a 2 year winning streak. He says he had to hitchhike home after football practice each day. I am not for sure who was running the store at that time.

 

Goldie says Lillard is working with Junior Perona at the markets in California. She also said Brewster and Lillie McNeely are on the way to California. Ronnie & Goldie will leave for California when Ronnie gets out for school Christmas vacation on December 19, 1952. She and Ronnie do not have a car.

 

When Lillard & Golden lived in Harmon with a car and Lillard was on the road driving, the 10 year old Ronnie drove Goldie around with NO kind of license at all!
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Jack Thompson      with 1949 photo inside Harmon Grocery

Hope you get this.
 
R to L: Windy Pearson, dad, Jeannie Pearson, and I.
 
By the way dad and mother owned the store too. My guess is around 1928. Don't know how long nor the immediate prior or subsequent owners. Gene thinks they leased it out for a period as well.
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Danny

 Thanks Jack! 1949, I was 9, Jeannie was 11, you were 4, Windy was 31 and your Dad was 49. Very hard to remember things now. Windy must have been running the store, either purchased or leased I don't know..

 

I think that was the adding machine on the counter. Suzy has it now at her home in Bentonville. There was a check (cheque) machine that punched tiny holes in the checks written. Don't know where it is. The coal stove in the background. Epsom salt. Robin Hood flour. Cream of wheat. Corn flakes. Looks like calendars everywhere. I can't make out the other names on the packaging!

 

1928, that was 10 years before my Mom & Dad took over the store and 12 years before I was born.

 

Anybody else?    Danny
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Ronnie Routh

Thanks to Jack for finding this photo. I remember standing by that stove on more than one cold day. :o) I remember Mom attaching the adding machine slip to the receipt & filing it.
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Danny

Ron, help me out with some dates. Looks like Windy was 1949. I would guess your folks about 1951?

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Dennis Hinkle

 

Danny, don't forget that Roy and Carolyn Trammel ran the Harmon Store for a time.  I think Roy went to teach mechanics at the NW Vo-tech after that.  Carolyn still works for Harp's Food Stores as a Human Resource Trainer, the last I heard. 
 
Regarding the question about Claude Nail and Ida Ingram marriage, if you can give me a time frame, I will look them up, either on Ancestry or Washington Co Courthouse.  I may have something on them; but I need the time line so that I can be sure.  If they were around in 1910-1930, please give me the name of one child that would still be at home.  -- Dennis h.

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Dennis Hinkle

Me again.   According to Ancestry.com, Claude Columbus Nail and Ida Bell Ingram, were married in Benton Co, Arkansas on Dec. 16, 1907.  I have not verified this with Benton Co.  But one may call the Archive person who manages these old files in Rogers, Ark.  The main Courthouse is in Bentonville; but the older records are kept in the Rogers Annex.  The persons there can copy the license for you; however, there will probably be a small charge. 
 
Claude's parents headstones are also available at Ancestry.   If someone needs the pics, I could pirate them for you.  Ha.   However, those pics are copyright protected and you can only use them for your personal benefit. 
 
There are several family trees on Ancestry that has tracked this family.  There is enough information to write a small history.  - (bird dog- jest a' huntin')  - Dennis
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Danny

I replied by sending photocopies of the Nail & Ingram info in both the Washington and Benton County history books.
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Danny

Carolyn Trammel (Mrs. Roy) worked at the store (maybe they owned it??) ( maybe 1960s or 70s??). She now works for Harp's Stores in Springdale office and may still live at Harmon on Arbor Acres Road.
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Jimmy Lynch

My mom worked at the Harmon Grocery, I can remember going with dad to pick her up in his brand new 58 Pontiac.  It was a hard top dark red. It had been raining and the road was quite muddy. We had just washed the Pontiac and were creeping along slowly with all the windows down when we spied an approaching truck going like mad toward us somewhere around Horace Stamps house. We couldn't get the windows up fast enough to prevent a spray of muddy water from hitting us, inside and out. I guess mom must have worked there from about 1955, and worked there after dad was gone, in 1964.
 
My wife was workings there keeping the books when we married in late 58. she was there about a year, Mom was there at the same time.
 
Dolores' mom, Audrey May was at the store working for Roy & Carolyn Trammell, and her dad Bill May worked for Roy in the shop, there at the store and later in the shop which had been moved over behind Roy's house across the road from Wilbur Rankin's old place. I will try to pin down some dates for you.  The store must have closed when Roy opened his shop behind the house. That must have been around 1965.
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Connie Wilcox Test

I remember the smell of the store, it was a little like the cleaning products we use on wood furniture.  I think that they cleaned the floor and treated it from time to time with an oil product.  I loved that smell.  Once, on my way home from Bible School (I walked) I was hot and stopped and got a popsicle and charged it to granddad....I was probably about 9 and I think that your mom was there...I'm not sure how we came up with charging it but later I sure wished that I hadn't done it.  Granddad was not all happy.  Loved that store...I remember the first time we drove by and saw it when it was deteriorating.  I think that people voted there and I THINK that I remember going down there to wait for election returns....Seems like I remember falling asleep in the truck....
 
By the way, I retired December 31, 2008, and I can't say much for it.   On January 27 the ice storm hit us, and with 8 acres of trees, we were in bad shape.  Out of electricity for 5 days and friends from Springdale with health problems stayed with us because we had a generator..then the second week of February I was diagnosed with shingles and that is where I have been for the past 6 weeks.  Still on the mend...Didn't have them as bad as some but worse that some.   We took the shingles shot a couple of years ago, and although it is effective in maybe 70% of the cases, I was one of the unlucky ones, but it may have been a lighter case, no way to tell.   I would still recommend anyone to get them, it is worth the odds not to have this monster...certainly makes a person humble and more understanding of people who are suffering. 
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Danny

That brings back some memories!

 

The Harmon Casino...Anyone remember?
Each player takes a penny. (Multiple? Can't remember). Make a line, the edge of a floorboard about 1 to 2 yards from the wall. Stand behind the line and toss your penny toward the wall. If your penny touches the wall you lose, unless every one else does the same. The penny closest to the wall wins all the pennies. I don't remember winning!!!!!!!

Harmon Elections on the front porch  of the store.

First off everyone was supposed to vote Democratic. That other bunch were the carpetbaggers and should be shot or tarred and feathered and sent back north on a rail! Some of the election officials and counters were McCamey's, including my father.  The election was either the 1952 or 1956 election. Eisenhower & Nixon for the republicans and  Stevenson & Sparkman in 1952 for the democrats . In 1956 Kefauver was the Democrat's vice president choice. Eisenhower won both elections and was followed as president by Nixon. By the day following the election it was known throughout Harmon who had voted Republican.

Credit, my start in the finance world
In the late 1940s  I was about 10 when my folks left me IN CHARGE of the store. We finally got a customer. Caigal Drake and his drinking buddy were driving an older car and parked at our one hand powered gas pump. He talked me out of 50 cents gas on credit. Don't know how many gallons that was but boy did I get into trouble. I immediately learned the rules of finance, especially credit!
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Gerald Harp

Danny - was showing the Harmon newsletter to my friend Keith Harmon yesterday, but he said the people that ran the store were another clan of Harmon's.  Keith use to service some of the cases in the store for your mother, he remembers her having to go get measles shots since she was pregnant with with one of you children.   Off to races this PM with Vicki, Eicher's and Johnson’s on Friday..  Hope all is well with you you..   Harp………………………
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Danny

Measles

 

Mention this to Nick. I had to go to the hospital because Mom was pregnant and I must have had the measles. They put me into a room with Nick. I/We listened to the Springdale football game, They announced I was playing an OK game. This was probably in the fall of 1956.

 

When Nick was finally sent home, he asked if I wanted a ride. I said yes and left with him. A few hours later the hospital finally found me. I had not checked out!

 

Mom was pregnant with my sister Suzy who was born when I was 17. Suzy is now a grandmother to 4 grandkids with another one due next month.

 

All is well here. See ya, Danny
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Nick Eicher

You may have well had the measles, but I don’t know why they put you in my room, as I had my tonsils removed.
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Danny 

Probably just a precaution?  Thanks for the ride home!

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Suzy McCamey Steele

Danny,  I was just reading the email about  the Harmon grocery store and you mentioned that you thought I had the adding machine.  I actually have the check machine and not the adding machine.
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Danny

I got it backwards. I think I remember the adding machine had a pull down handle! When I went to work in Harrison, Arkansas back in the 1960s, it was a new office (for my CPA company) and there were no adding machines at all, no manual or electric adding machines or calculators. Just use your stupid head!!! (And spend all day just getting the books in balance).
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Liz Pearson Sabata

My Dad owned the store in the 60's and sold to the Trammel's late 60's early 1970.

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Danny

Thanks, Liz !  Great picture Jack had of the Pearson's & Thompson's.

 

If the date of the picture was 1970, the ages would have been:

Arch Thompson  70
Windy Pearson  52

Jeanie Pearson  32
Jack Thompson  25 

 

If the date of the picture was 1949, the ages would have been:

Arch Thompson  49
Windy Pearson  31

Jeanie Pearson  11
Jack Thompson  4 

All 4 of the people in the picture , to me, fit the 1949 date.

 

But it is very possible that the picture could be 1949 and the sale could be 1970. We know that Arch had the store more than once. I know my Dad had it more than once. Windy may have had it more than once.  It is very likely the picture was 1948 and the final sale to the Trammels could have been in 1970. That is one thing I want to find out, the history of the store.    Thanks, Liz.... I will soon put the picture on the website.
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Bob Mitchell

Danny, don't forget my Mom and Dad also owned the Harmon store way back in the 20's.
I do not remember the dates, but I remember my Dad telling about not speaking Italian. 

People from Tontitown would come out and buy merchandise at Harmon. 

They didn't trust any one adding up the total-so they would buy one item-pay for it get the

change-then buy something else.

This had to be in the early 20's.
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Danny

Wow, no I did not know. And love the story of the Tontitown people.
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Danny

I lost several emails in the past two weeks. If you sent me an email and have not seen it on the Harmon Updates please send it again. I am not ignoring your emails. I just got sloppy and lost them.

One I know I missed and that was from Jack Kinion about the 1952/1953 school years at Harmon. I returned from school in DeQueen in grade eight when there were only a few days left in the school year. I remember something was different about those few days. But I'm not sure what. It might be that everyone else in grade 8 was bussed to Springdale. But with only a few days to go maybe they just left me at Harmon? I do remember I was in the year end tests in DeQueen before we left. They may have decided to leave me at Harmon doing nothing. It is sometimes hard to remember all the details of 55 years ago. That's my only excuse. I have always believed that there were 8 grades at Harmon than year. It might be possible I was the only one in it and I didn't do any school work anyway!

Please send me your email again. I may have just answered the wrong question! Sorry!
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Danny - Lost emails

OK, I found some of the lost emails. All of them, don't know!
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Jack & Norma Kinion

Hi, Danny-Greetings to you and Hilary!  I don't keep in touch much but I do read with interest all of your news each time you send it.  Review your memory and make sure of this because I know that you have mentioned it several times in your writings about your finishing eighth grade at Harmon School.  We lived in Harmon in the 1950's moving there on March 1st, 1951, on Linda's 10th birthday and leaving in March, 1959, to return to Oklahoma.  During that time Harmon School only went through the 7th Grade--the little room having grades 1 through 3 and the big room having grades 4 through 7.  When I was living there, I went to Springdale Junior High for my 8th and 9th grade years leaving the 9th grade in Springdale in 1959 and moving back to Pryor to finish that year.  I am certain that Norma, my older sister, also attended Springdale Junior High when she was in the 8th grade.  So--to make a long question short, are you certain that you attended Harmon for your 8th grade?  Regards and keep up the good work, Jack
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Ron Routh

I think Dad & Mom had the store around 1950 thru 1951. That time period.
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Danny

That fits with my thinking! There may have been more times that my Dad & Mom left the store and then came back later.
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Charles Cripps 

 

One of the people that run the store was Roy Trammel, he also built a garage next to the store, I think he bought the store from Russel Hinshaw.  I do remember those old hand powered gas  pumps.    I will try to refresh my memory and send more later
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Danny 

Any more emails I missed?
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Jo Ann Juneau Kahn
 

Danny -  

I have a new e-mail that I think might enjoy receiving your  updates. .. .     It's   Neva  Cram -- her brother: Stanton Neva  is in Searcy- retired music professor at Harding. . .she is married to a physician,  Dr. Bill White. 

       
It's  a  long story, but  I'll try to condense it. . .
When I was in the 7th and 8th grade,  Neva  played the piano for all of the Glee Club stuff  and I was so  enchanted with her abilities. . .I can so well remember thinking :   " If I could ever play like that !!!"  Well --  the years passed and I practiced hard and  finally  as a Junior. . .I was the one chosen to play the piano for your class to march in for graduation  ( among other things w/the glee club ).   So I decided to go to Harding and major in Music !!     It was several years after I left Harding that I discovered that she was on the staff there.  You can't imagine how excited I was to see her in person and relate my  story to her  ( about how much she had influenced me and my life decisions ) .   Anyway  --  I'll  give her your  e-mail   (this one )   and let her be the one to say she wants to see these notes.    Personally,  I have loved reading all of the things people are remembering.  I think it's  fabulous how you've  created this community of remembrance - -
 
All is well in  L. A. - -   my knee surgery has finally taken a turn for  GOOD  !!!!    It was like suddenly,  I could stand up and just start walking and not hurting.   The pain has stopped called the surgeon and cancelled the injections of  SYNDISC - - - so. . . I'm doing great at the moment ,  but knowing the devil of  Osteoarthritis,  it'll raise its ugly head at some point  but  it's  not  today !!!   Blood work was not so good  a couple months ago  and so my last appt.  ( last week ) . . .all the numbers were  PERFECT !!   It's almost like they had someone else's  blood  !!  Just amazing.       I hope Truman  is  doing well after his surgery.   Last I heard he was  doing OK.

 

Copy of this sent to Neva - - - so  I'll let her tell you to add her to the list, or not.
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Neva White

Danny,
 
I think you must be several years younger than I am because I must admit that I can't recall your name or your face!  Sorry.  You probably are closer in age to Stanton.  He is four years younger than I am.  By the way, are you aware that we almost lost him this year?  He had an accident in his workshop and cut off his thumb, index and middle fingers on his right hand - his writing hand and guitar-playing hand.  We are sad about that, but he is receiving occupational therapy and is learning how to use that hand with what fingers he has left!  He was in the hospital for three months - from mid December through mid March. He has only been at home for a short while.  He had  surgery on that hand the day of the accident and shortly after went into renal failure.  Things just went from bad to worse after that and he wound up having a very serious illness called ARDS - adult respiratory distress syndrome - a condition that affects the lungs.  We were told that the recovery rate was, at one time, only 1 out of 3, but now, 2 out of 3.  Thankfully, he recovered, but not without other bumps along the road.  His wife, Jenny, could give you a "play by play" of the whole journey because "that angel" stayed right by his side the whole time!!  We are blessed to have her!  He is doing extensive physical therapy and seems to be making good progress.
 
I am glad that Jo Ann told me about what you are doing.  I have virtually lost all contact with  Springdale and it is my own fault.  After I graduated and went to the U of A, met my future husband, married after a year of teaching at Springdale Junior High and a year of graduate school, we moved to Chicago where he went to medical school at the University of Chicago.  During his second year there, our first child was born and our lives forever changed!  All our attention was turned on him and the other children that came along!  We were blessed with a daughter and three other sons.  The third child died at three months as a result of crib death in 1964.  Nine years later, my Mother died and the next year, my brother just older than me, died.  I suppose I am telling you all this to help you understand how I lost contact with Springdale.  I did attend my 50th high school reunion!  It was good to see old friends, but since then I haven't kept in touch with any of them!  Shame on me!!
 
Well, I have talked longer than I intended to.  I hope I haven't bored you!  I just wanted to let you know a bit about our family and the last 50 plus years!  My! My!  How times truly flies!!!
 
I look forward to receiving your newsletter - - is that what it is called?
 
Thanks, Neva White
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Danny
   
Hi Neva, I graduated from Springdale High school in 1958.  We had our 50th anniversary last year in Branson. Missouri. There were very few students that I could still recognize. What years did you and Stanton graduate from Springdale?

I was born in a farming community about 8 miles southwest of Springdale called Harmon. The Harmon life seemed to center on the Harmon Methodist Church, the Harmon School and the Harmon Grocery store. Only the church is still there. Almost all of the old families have left the community. I started my McCamey family tree website back in 1997. It quickly became necessary to prepare a Harmon Community website also. The emails started. A lot of members just "listen" to the emails and only occasionally send emails. That's OK. They are listening. The Harmon Updates name was chosen because we could not think of anything else. The "members" are family people, community people and a lot of other people who are just interested. I live in Australia. The members are spread from Australia to all over the USA. Since 2002 we have had a "family" reunion at the Harmon Methodist Church almost every year. Family, community and interested people come in for about 2 hours. So, welcome!
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Connie Wilcox Test

Bob Mitchell's story about the Italian people shopping with them, reminds me that my granddad, George Dobbs, had a little store in his front yard, at the corner, where Harmon Road off 68 (412) west, curved east toward the school.  This was in, maybe mid to late 20s, because my mom, born in 1920, said that she learned her alphabet from the products on the store shelves.  I have the ledger of sales, actually charges, that my grandparents kept.  Grandmother  glued favorite recipes over some of the pages, but there are still lots of accounts, showing purchases/charges and payments, usually in the form of grape cuttings, (that is how he got his two vineyards), labor or other products.  It is wonderful to look at it and see the names and what they bought and/or traded for.  Fioris, Haneys, Pianaltos, Bariolas, Piazzas as well as neighbors.  I doubt that anyone living would remember the store, it was long ago....He seemed to carry overalls, material, thread and other domestics as well as the usual food, tobacco and such....Thanks for bringing up wonderful memories.....I do remember once when I was, probably a young teenager, a car came up the driveway.  A lady had brought her father to the house.  He had moved to California owing granddad an account and had come back some 30 or more years later prepared to pay the account and interest.  Grandmother went to get her "recipe" book and found his account, which he paid (I believe that he remembered the exact amount) but granddad would not accept the interest...Probably too shocked to figure it.
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Danny

I also remember people that I did not not know appearing at the house years after the store closed to pay their old bills. Dad had just kept all the old unpaid ones and when they paid it was just a thank you and both parties respected each other. I don't think there is much of that around anymore.
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Linda Hinkle

Danny,  My late husband's grandfather, L. D. Price, pastored the Assembly of God Church in Harmon for many years and several families from Harmon attended, I know the Eldridge family and I think Griffith family, and the Gray family.  Do you remember the small wooden Church before they built the brick one?

When Wayne and I married in 1963, we rented a small trailer from Reed Delozier, I remember going into the Harmon store at least once but I'm not sure who owned it at that time.  Wayne worked for Wendy Pearson hauling chickens.

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Danny

 

Linda, Wayne Eldridge was a very good friend of mine back in my teens (50s). He was two years younger than me. Their property and ours were adjoining on what is now known as the Eldridge road.  In my younger years I would slip off and play with Wayne quite often. The thing I remember most were several persimmon trees on the back of their property. That was where I learned at a young age never to taste a persimmon that was green. Makes your face go YUK!

Wayne used to drive for Dad too. I did not know Wayne had died until I saw his tombstone at the Elm Springs cemetery. On my McCamey website, check out the photo M52 for Mr. & Mrs. Herman Eldridge 50th wedding anniversary. I think you may be mentioned. Also, H12 Ollie & Louene (Clark) Eldridge. And H6, H16, H18 is Bobby Eldridge (married Muriel). One of the boys  (Dale) married Louise Clark who died very young.  Louise was Louene's sister. And Nadine Eldridge, I think this was Coy Eldridge's wife, is on the first page of the Harmon Recipe website. I don't remember the two girls, Audrey and Shirley.
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Gerald Harp

 

Danny – Nice to get your notes again – getting a little confused on the Stanton Cram?  Is he the one who was preaching at the Friendship Baptist Church here East of Springdale?  Living on Pin Oak St in Springdale for a short period of time?  Missed the horse races with Johnson and Eicher this weekend due to headache but think they had a great time.  Class dinner this Thursday evening……………Have a great day………………………….gharp.
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Danny

Me too on Cram, I am waiting for Neva to respond. (Neva, can you help)

Look at all the money you saved by not betting!!!
See ya, Danny
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Niva Cram White

Danny,
 
It was nice to hear from you!  You asked when Stanton and I graduated - - my year was 1953 and Stanton four years later.  You said your graduation was in 1958, so you and Stanton were "in the building" at the same time, right?  I saw that you are in Australia.  Is that Australia, as in AUSTRALIA, or is that the name of the city you live in?  If it is the real Australia, what in the world are you doing "down under?"  Harding University, where I taught for 20 years and retired from in 2002, has a couple on the faculty who are from Australia.  The accent is wonderful to listen to, isn't it?
 
I looked at the cookbook you have online and saw the name Eileen Bookout a lot.  That is a very familiar name, but I can't remember why.  You know they say the mind is the first thing to go! 
 
I look forward to finding other familiar names on your website.  As I read about it and how you grew up, I thought, "That is exactly the way I grew up, too!"  I think it is sad that our children don't have the same opportunity to experience that kind of life.  We didn't know how great it was, I'm afraid!!
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Danny

Just checked the 1957 annual and there he is, "Stanton Cram".

I moved to Australia in 1971 so I have lived most of my life here. Had a lot to do with marrying a great Aussie girl back in 1975!

Eileen Bookout. There was a Marie Bookout in Stanton's 1957 class but I don't know her family history. Edith Eileen Mitchell of the Thompson family in Harmon married John Henry Bookout in 1946 (Preacher was Rev. Bill Downum.) She passed away in December 2007.  Edith's  mother was Bess Thompson Mitchell.

I am in the middle of changing the 3 websites into two at the moment. I'm getting behind in everything.

 

see ya, Danny
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Billy Jack Mayes

Read your last email.  Enjoyed as usual.  Jack Kinon's email brought back a lot of memories.  Except for part of my 3rd grade and the 4th grade, I attended the Harmon School.  Had forgotten  the 1950-1951 school year was the last year the 8th grade was there.   I was the smartest, tallest, best looking, the stupidest, shortest and the ugliest graduate that year.  Come to think of it I was the only one in the 8th grade.  So I guess that I was the cause of them moving the 8th to Springdale.  Those years were some of the best in my life.
 
Reference the grocery story, one of the things I remember the most about the store is that Chris Thompson would come to the store and make one purchase and that was a Dr Pepper soda pop.
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Carolyn Page

Danny, evidently my other e-mail did not make it to you.    Russell and Hazel Hinshaw owned the Harmon store for a period of time.   When I worked in Springdale at First State Bank I remember them moving back to Arkansas and purchasing the store.   The bank was still on the north of side of Emma so that had to be around 1959-60.   I thought Roy and Carolyn Trammel bought the store from Russell and Hazel.   I talked to Linda Lewis and when she and Mike were married they bought the store in 1982 from the Baileys.   Mike is the one that tore the store down.       Hinshaws built the house behind the store.
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Danny

Sorry, this must be part of the emails I lost!

I remember that back in 1960-1961 I bought from Dan & Edna Jones at the Harmon Grocery 100 cans of food with no labels for $10.00. They lived in a trailer house on the hillside just behind the store. It lasted for years!  The Hinshaw house was built at the location of the Jones trailer. Garland Dalton (Jones) had already left home. I remember Dan Jones later had a Kraft Foods milk route. I think that was in the Rogers/Bentonville area where Dan & Edna moved to. ( I think my$10.00 cheque bounced!)

I'm guessing here. Dad bought the Dan Jones property at Harmon around 1975. (Suzy, check my dates.) Suzy & Tony first lived in the Jones house until they built their house across the road from Cotton & Beth Clem. Dad & Mom started building their new house on the property in 1978 (our son James was born in July 1978). Hilary, James and I visited my folks in June 1979. We stayed in their house across from Ervin & Ellen McCamey while the new house on the James place was being built.

There was a scare about the airplane, the DC10 , while we were in Arkansas and we were stuck in Arkansas, Los Angeles and Hawaii until we finally found seats to get back to Australia. James does not remember but he was sick from the time we left Sydney until we finally arrived back to Sydney.
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Barbara McCamey Ludwig

Hi... Sorry I haven't written lately but I want to put in my 2 cents about voting in Harmon.  Do any of you remember the most vocal Yellow-Dog Democrat in the the bunch,  Clyde McCamey.  He hated Republicans and Plymouths.  I will never forget the stories that he would tell and the bad guy was always a D___ Republican who drove a Plymouth.  I guess that. to him, the worse thing you could do is vote Republican and drive  a Plymouth.

 

Many stories about the store.  Donnie always got to bring refreshments to our club meeting in the Thompson's vacant hen house, because he would bring candy and cokes from the store.  Of course the only club members were Jack Thompson, Vicki, Donnie and I.  Arch gave us the place to have meetings if we cleaned it out.  Of course our meetings mainly consisted of eating the candy and drinking the cokes.  Then we would go help feed cattle on the hill across from the church.

 

I took Dad out there last Sunday for a ride.  Things do not look the same as you remember from your childhood.  They have paved the road down past Granddad McCameys house.  That was a good thing.   Dad has been having health issues the last week or so- more than usual.  We do not really know what is going on at this time.  He has been to several Dr. and labs are good.  Mom broke her arm last week, so she is down as well.  Not too good right now.
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Danny  To Hal & anyone who has Google Earth

"To Harmon from wherever you are" (by way of Tontitown Arkansas)

Go to intersection of Highway 412 and Barrington road.
That is a truck parking area on the south west corner of the intersection.
Side trip first, go north on Barrington road to Baker Avenue.
South west corner of the intersection was my grandfather Bakers farm.

All his building are gone. There is a modern house there now.

Go back to start at Barrington and 412.
Go west on 412 about 2 miles & turn south on Harmon road.
Follow Harmon road about 1.5 miles to intersection with Wildcat Blvd.
Turn east .5 mile and turn south again on Harmon Road.
Harmon school was on the southeast corner of the intersection.
At 1502 Harmon road look west & see my folk's final home in Harmon.
Continue south .2 mile to intersection of Eldridge road. South east at

1742 Harmon Road is our house from 1948 to about 1978.
(I left Harmon in 1959.)
Continue south to intersection of Harmon and Floyd roads.
North on the intersection was Harmon Grocery/Produce.
Side trip again. slip up Floyd  to 2280 Floyd Road.
I was born there.

Back to Harmon Road & continue south to 19056 Harmon Road,

The Harmon Methodist church.

 

Hal that cost a lot less than flying, didn't it!
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Danny    - Websites

From now on there will be 2 websites.
1. I call it McCamey. This one should be family stuff only.
2. Harmon Community - for the community and non family stuff.

I moved a lot from the McCamey to the Harmon site. School pictures, reunion pictures, etc.
The Harmon site includes what was there before plus the McCamey moves and the entire Harmon recipe site.
I was running out of space so I changed the site host, It costs a bit to buy but I think it will be worth it. I  will be able to put ALL the reunion pictures up and to do whatever special things we might want to do.

Please let me know if there are problems I don't know about. I think all the links are OK! Fingers crossed.

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Danny

I am beginning to wonder if my 8th grade records even recorded me as being anywhere. If that is so, I'm sure had an A in everything. Course no one can dispute it! (And no one would believe it).
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Connie Wilcox Test

Now these are fun memories....First to Barbara, I loved to listen to Clyde McCamey and my granddad  talk politics.  My grandparents were also 110% democrats.

Stanton Cram was/is the minister of the Friendship Baptist Church.  I had an opportunity to visit with him a few times a few years ago and really enjoyed getting to know the man he became.  Very sorry to hear about his accident.  My father really thought a lot of him as he became acquainted with him as a minister
 
I remember the little wooden Assembly of God church.  I used to visit with the Davis girls.  Jeannie and I were friends.. they had a "brush arbor" and on summer nights when they had their meetings outside we could hear them singing....we would sit in the yard and enjoy it.  Also, remember, the Harmon baseball field was on the north side of the church parking lot.  I remember watching ball games there.  I remember the Tontitown boys but does anyone remember any of the Harmon players, or was it just a mix of the area neighborhoods?  Search memories.

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Linda Hinkle

I don't think I made myself too clear when I mentioned in my email about Harmon, the Wayne I was referring to was Wayne Price, though I had know Wayne Eldridge most of my life from church. He and my husband Wayne were good friends and  worked together for Wendy Pearson. We ran around with Wayne Eldridge and his wife Sue in our early years of marriage. Both Waynes are now deceased.
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Danny

Thanks Linda, I do sometimes go off tract! Sorry!

I should have asked long ago, what is your maiden name? If at Harmon, where did you live?
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Bill Wright

Neva,

 

I remember being in your vocal music class in the '57-'58 school year (my eighth grade). Your classes were held in the bottom floor of the SHS junior high building. The building was the high school until the early fifties. It also seems like you occasionally visited someone in the Harmon community sometime in the early or mid fifties, but my memory may be playing tricks on that one.
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Ralph Henderson

Is this the e-mail for Donnie Or Danny?
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Danny

It's Danny here. I am copying Don so you have both our email addresses.
We both live in Australia and believe it or not we speak to other a half dozen times a year.
Curious how you got this address but it is not private at all. I assume you are from Harmon?
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Danny     Barbara/Ervin

Barbara says thanks to you guys and is reading all the greetings to Ervin. 

He likes the prayers, good thoughts and "stories'.
If she has any news we can send it out.
I don't intend to send the greetings out to the group.

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Neva White

Danny,
 
I saw that Gerald Harp sent an email asking about Stanton.  As far as I know, there is only one Stanton Cram who blessed the Northwest corner of Arkansas and he is my dear brother!    He did, indeed, preach at Friendship Church after living in Harrison a number of years.  Unfortunately, while he was at Friendship, he had severe health problems that caused him to eventually retire.....that was very hard for him to do.  He and Jenny lived in Springdale when they first returned "home", but they now live in Lowell on Ervin McGarrah Road.  I think I spelled that right!  They were fortunate enough to buy enough land so that, in time, their two children built homes beside them.  They now enjoy a close bond with their children and five grandchildren in a very beautiful country setting.  Jenny even has chickens which lay those wonderful fresh eggs!  Stanton has continued to preach in some churches who temporarily need a preacher.  Of course, this accident where he cut his fingers and thumb off has taken him
out of that loop......all we are concerned about now is his full recovery! 
 
So you are an "Aussie" by marriage!  I hear that Australia is a beautiful country and it has a fabulous opera house of unusual design!  My husband is an opera singer and has sung in regional  opera houses.  He was good enough to make the big time, but decided against it because we had a young family when some of the opportunities came along for him to pursue such a career.  I would love to visit the "down under" land, but I doubt it will ever happen.
 
I teach English online and have students from all over the world, but I have never had anyone from Australia!  Not that I consider you an English student, you understand, but it always fascinates me when I can sit at my computer in Searcy, Arkansas and commune with someone on the other side of the world!  I have students from Haiti, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, the Congo,  Rwanda, India, Germany, Egypt, Nigeria, Philippines, Madagascar.  Many of them begin the course and drop out for one reason or another, but I have at least had contact with all of these people and, as I said, I find it fascinating!
 
Good luck with your family email spot!  I hope the expense was not too great!
 
Neva
 
 THIS IS FOR GERALD HARP
 
Gerald,
 
Hello!  All the questions you asked about Stanton are correct.  He preached at Friendship Church after moving from Harrison where he preached at the Eagle Heights Baptist church there.  He and I grew up in Springdale and I knew Reland and Judy and your parents.  I think you had an older brother other than Reland, didn't you?  I was so sorry to hear of Reland's death some years ago.  Jenny, Stanton's wife, told me about it.  I think she and Carolyn were close friends before they moved to Harrison.
 
I played the organ and piano at First Baptist during my high school and college years and got married in that old building that was once First Baptist.  I have many wonderful memories of my time at First Baptist and growing up in Springdale.  It is certainly a different town than it was back then.  And Harp's has grown - -
congratulations!  I visited your store in Searcy where we live and it is a beautiful store.  It is on the other side of town from where we live, so I shop closer to home, but I think my youngest son and his wife shop there.  They live on Honey Hill road, just down the highway a short distance from your store.
 
One other thing.... I met your granddaughter at the hospital in Springdale.  She was there with Caroline Webb, Stanton's granddaughter.  Small world, isn't it?
 
Neva White
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Carolyn Page                 Thompson Revised DVD

Thanks so much for the copy of Harmon history.   Jimmy, Delores and I viewed it 2-3 times last night and we thought we recognized a few more people.  In the fishing pictures, Jimmy thought he recognized Clyde McCamey and Ervin McCamey.   At the dinner at the Thompson place, Euna McCamey is in it (she was Roy’s first wife).  Also, Mae and Darryl Lynch; Liza Woods – Earl’s wife; Gladys Collins; Wilbur Rankin; and possibly Roy McCamey.   Not knowing the year on each Easter makes it hard to pick people out.   WE thought one could be Sally Delozier but don’t remember what year she and Jerry married – they did celebrate 50 years 3-4 years ago!    Jimmy questions whether Jary Lewis was in the community during those years and what was his brother’s name.   Jary was the younger brother, wasn’t he.    I was amused at how they were backing out and leaving the Church – almost like a demolition derby!!!    It appeared to be windy most of the Easters and the women and their hats – my how times have changed.
 

 The DVD didn’t work on Jimmy’s TV but we could see it on the computer.   I will have to try it at home on my TV.

 I talked to Michael yesterday and he hadn’t gotten his copy yet but was looking forward to getting it.

 Thanks again for sharing.
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Danny

I tested each copy both on the computer and out DVD player on the TV. As long as you can see it somewhere I would be happy. I sent Michael's copy in the same mail as yours but to his Bella Vista address. Let me know if it has not arrived this week and I will send another. If so, I will send it to you & you give it to Michael. Ask Michael if he is receiving the Harmon Updates.

The fishing picture. The thin guy who looked like he was dancing around to get into the picture was (pretty sure) Nolon McCamey, my father. It was after Grand River Dam in Oklahoma would announce the date and time that they would shut the gates on the dam. The water would flow on downstream below the dam and leave water holes in the rocks. They caught the fish in those holes with their hands, sometimes reaching under overhanging rock to bring the fish out. Some of those fish were huge. I can remember watching Dad clean a catfish at home that seemed to be longer than a yard, which was about my height. The whole community wood go and try to catch, (say) a week's supply of food and have fun doing it!

Date of the movies, I guess late 1940s/early 1950s. Don was born in 1947. The picture of Mom holding Don's hand looks like Don was age 2 or slightly less.

I will have another look at it soon. There were very few people I could identify. Maybe some of the Thompson's could identify more!

If anyone else wants a copy, let me know and include your mailing address. Warning, it goes so fast you keep your finger on the pause button!

The ones I have sent so far are to:
Bill Thompson
Jack Thompson
Danny McCamey (me)
Ron Routh
Liz Pearson Sabata
Jim Lynch
Don McCamey
Michael Callahan
Carolyn Page
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Jack Kinion

Hi, Danny--Boy, did Bill Wright's comment about being in Neva's 8th grade vocal music class hit me like a ton of bricks.  I was also in her class in 1957-58 and even went on to be in her "select" boys choir later.  That was big-time stuff for me (and for Richard Pearson also) as we got to meet class in the cafeteria during 1st hour and we had special songs in the big concert later in the year.  I always respected and admired Neva so much in the way she handled discipline in her classes (and yes, she had some discipline problems!  Remember Johnny James who didn't really care about singing but he did enjoy causing problems?)  I still remember "Buffalo Gals" as one of the songs that we liked to sing.  And, to make matters worse, that class was ALL boys so you can imagine how difficult it was for Neva to keep all of that testosterone under control.  Alas, my plans to pursue a music career ended when my voice changed!  Ha.  I remember Neva as a beautiful young teacher who was still a single woman and I think all of her eighth grade boy students were in love with her.  Ah, memories!  Danny, you provide such a welcome venue for all of us to relive our youth, and for that I thank you.  Regards, Jack
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Ralph Hendrickson

I am Kenneth Hendrickson’s brother. We lived in the old house on the dirt road between Arch Thompson’s place and Charles Floyd. We would catch the bus at the Harmon store when we went to Harmon school.
 
My dad and mom were Tommy and Bessie Hendrickson. Tommy would clean chicken houses and load hay for your dad and other people in the Harmon community.
 
I am 63 and Kenneth is 60. I think we were more Don’s age than yours. I do remember you quite well as Don’s older brother.
 
Kenneth now lives in the Arch Thompson home place. I live in Horn Lake, MS which is a suburb of Memphis, TN.
 
One of the relatives from Harmon sent a link to the Harmon school pictures and I got your e-mail from that.
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Danny

Hi Ralph, Your Dad and I worked together several times back in Harmon. That was over fifty years ago now.

One job I have to tell you about. My Dad had an old truck with side and front & back boards that were about 4 feet high. Dad had an idea that instead of using straw on the floor in those huge chicken houses, he would experiment with using saw dust from a saw mill down on highway 16 at Fayetteville, just down that long, long hill next to the football stadium. It must have the middle of a very hot summer. I was 17 and it was in 1957. With a large shovel each, we climbed into that old truck and I drove. As we started out from Harmon, your father adjusted the side window so he could see what was behind. He had that habit and you could not get him to change. That mirror was supposed to be for the driver's use. He did it every time! I gave up! So we drove to the saw mill. The saw dust pile must have been 30 to 40 feet high. A very hot day and portions of the saw dust file were on fire. A smothering fire you could not put out. I think the sawdust must have been cheap. We let the backboard down and started shoveling. Each shovelful must have been about 10 pounds each. You throw it up onto the back of the truck. Then later shovel it again to the front of the truck bed. You just keep doing this over and over. Finally you get close to finishing. The sawdust is at the front and level with the side boards. Then you put up the back board and shovel over that until the truck was full. I don't remember if the sawdust was covered or not. By that time you are so tired,  you could care less. So we drive back to Harmon in the old, old truck. First up that football stadium hill in the lowest gear and hope it does not stall. You can only see behind on the drivers side all the way. Think it was fun going up the hill, going down had the potential for a lot more fun. With all of that weight. Think back, there was more than one hill between Harmon and the saw mill....We get to the chicken house. Guess what, it has to be unloaded and then spread down the long chicken house, about 200+ feet.

Lunch time, stop at the store for two sandwiches. One baloney and the other Long Horn cheese. Sometime you only make one sandwich, a super one  with the combined insides. Usually water from Grandma Thompson's spring.

Guess what, the afternoon was just like the morning except it is hotter. You do it all again! And if you are the driver, you go all day not seeing the road behind on the passenger side. That day played a big part of my decision not to stay on the farm. Tommy certainly had my respect. I have never worked that HARD in my life.

Thanks, Ralph. I have wanted to tell that story all my life. I'm 69 now!

The websites changed last week.
McCamey: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmccamey/

Harmon Community:  http://www.harmoncommunity.com/
Emails are the same.
(Ralph, we have a Harmon Update email list.
If you want on, let me know. I will email you this one.)
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Ronnie Routh     Harmon Baseball Team

I know that my Dad, Bob Mitchell, Gene Thompson & Billy Thompson were on the Harmon Team. I was very impressed that Billy was good enough to play with the adults. Those were great summers.
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Danny

Any one know  who else was on the team?
I remember they sometimes played Tontitown at the field across the road from Woodie's Beer Joint.
I can also remember getting 10 cents from my folks to go watch and buy two drinks at 5 cents each.
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Connie Wilcox Test

Someone mentioned Marie Bookout.  I don't know if she was related to John Henry Bookout, but I wouldn't be surprised if he and her father weren't related somehow.  Marie's father owned a plumbing business and lived and had their business, in the '60s or so on Backus near the little strip mall.  I think that Marie's husband, one of the many Jim Reeds in this area, worked in that business too.
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Richard Pearson

It’s amazing to hear all this about Stanton Cram. I and my family have been VERY blessed to know Stanton. Stanton came to Friendship in December of 1994. My wife and I attended church there at that time. Stanton led me to Christ in February 1995 and performed Melissa and my wedding in April 1996. Stanton and I went to several conferences together and also went to a few Promise Keepers meeting together. In June of 1997 Stanton licensed me into the church and I learned a great amount of wealth from him. The Lord used Stanton to grow the vision of the new church on HWY 412 and Ill never forget his first day in the new building. Stanton blessed Melissa and I and was there to see all our children being born. I last seen Stanton on his birthday 2-2-9 and he was not well at all. He has been in the hospital for several months and the last I heard he is getting better but a long road ahead.
 
Stanton is one of a kind and I look at him with great admiration.
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Linda Tackett Price Hinkle

We all get off track sometimes.  My maiden name was Tackett, my dad, Ollie Tackett was a minister and preached many times at the Assembly of God Church in Harmon for Rev. L. D. Price, (who later became my grandfather thru' marriage.). Someone sent an email about remembering the little wooden Church there and the brush arbors, wow, that brought back memories from my childhood, we were probably there. My father-in-law, Carl Price helped build the new brick one many years later.  Thanks for the memories, you are doing a fantastic job, I know how much work this is.
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Danny    to Sandra Boyd

Hi Sandra,

I have a problem and I'm lost.

Did you send me several pictures of what I would call the Davis house (near the school )plus the family members!
It might have been 3 or 4 years ago. I can only find one of them and that is of the school teacher,
Bernice Young Jones.

I also have the booklet " Life with Uncle Buck".

That is all I can find. Did I get them from you (I think I did) ?
And can I get more copies?

Thanks, in advance!
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Sandra Boyd

 Hey, Danny,
   I have been meaning to contact you and thank you for the info on Claude Nail. I don't think that he is who I am looking for after all. When I saw his name on your sight I recalled seeing it in some of my granddad's papers, or I thought it was Nail. It might be Neil. You had mentioned Hickory Creek also and it seemed to fit. Anyway, I was looking for a connection to Dibler. But, thank you for responding.
  Yes, I had emailed you some Harmon pics. There was one of a line of school children with the Davis kids. I was hoping that someone might recognize family their family members and tell me who they were. Another was a pic of Bill and Buck in front of Granddad's store, again I was hoping that someone might recognize the others. The Bernice Jones pic was also one that I sent.
   I did send to Barbara some of the, Life With Uncle Buck books. She passed them out at the reunion two years ago. I have some more, misplaced at this time. But, I think that Barbara has some more.
   Is this the info that you needed? Again, thank you. I do enjoy reading everyone's remembrances
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Danny

Great! Can you email the pictures again please (including the Bernice Jones one). I have the book! Do I have an OK to use the book info on the website (some time in the future) In my Harmon website. I ran out of room for pictures and I must have pushed the wrong button! (Happens a lot these days) I will check the Washington and Benton county history books for Dibler.
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Barbara McCamey Ludwig

Someone gave me one of the Uncle Buck books and I took it to Dad.  He has read that cover to cover many times and still enjoys it.  I want to thank all of you who have sent the e-mails to Dad.  He will certainly enjoy them but I will have to read them to him as he is having trouble seeing right now.  Ralph Hendrickson,  I am so glad to hear from you.  Do you live around here?  Mother and Dad both have asked about you and Kenny many times.  Do you remember Nana McCoy (my grandmother) taking all of us plus your mom, you and Kenny to town.  We also got to go to the library.   I guess that we probably exceeded the passenger limit on that old black car but nobody ever stopped us, so away we went.
Barbara (McCamey) Ludwig
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Connie Wilcox Test

I would love a copy of the DVD sounds like fun...my address is P O Box 561, Johnson, AR 72741.  Thanks.  The Lewis family bought our house just north of Herman Eldridge place in probably 1952 or maybe.  When they bought in we moved to Springdale and I started the last part of my 7th grade there. 
 
I remember well going to Disney Dam on those fishing trips.  We would go with lots of people in Homer Smith (uncle to Thelma, Gilbert, Jimmy and Johnny Phillips) big truck, riding in the back and camping for a couple of nights. My grandparents always tried to get me to stay here with someone but most of the time I wouldn't.  Once in a while they could convince me to stay with Kenneth and Louene Clark...It was amazing seeing all of the people just picking up those great big fish..
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Danny

 Hi Connie, I will send you a copy of the DVD tomorrow. Luin went on those "fishing" trips too!
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Sandra Boyd

  Will be glad to resend the pics. Do you have the one of Jeanie (I think) Davis, a Harmon school pic. Also, I have one of Buck's young school pic's, at Harmon. I think that he is in the group school photo, a newspaper clipping, that you already have.
   I don't think that there would be a problem using quotes from Life With Uncle Buck , as long as you credit Edna. There is one on file at the Shiloh Museum and the Rogers Museum, also. If anyone would want to read it in its entirety.
Later, Sandy
P.S. Thanks to others who offered help on Claude Nail. If anyone knows how he might be related to the Diblers, I would appreciate it.
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Danny

I think our email are crossing! Whatever you send I promise to take care of this time!
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Bill Thompson

Bringing up the subject of the Harmon baseball team has stirred up some pleasant old
memories.  I just called Gene and talked with him about the team and we had some good
laughs.  Ron Routh mentioned some who played and Gene and I remembered some more.
Our brother, Paul Thompson, who was between Gene's and my age played.  Jerry DeLozier,
Harold Hodson from Wheeler, Buster Granata, and Lester Ceola.  It seems like we  traveled
to most of the games in my dad's old green chevy panel truck. This was his delivery truck
for baby chickens.  I remember one Sunday afternoon we were traveling between Springdale
and Fayetteville to a game and as we drove by the Country Club where they were playing
golf, Lester Ceola said, "That beats anything I every saw.  If I were playing that game,
I'd bunt every time  so that I wouldn't have to run so far."
   Thanks for bringing up so many pleasant memories.
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