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While he was actually Pope County's "Superintendent of Public Instruction," his occupation in the 1870 census was listed as "teaching school" in Illinois Township, Pope County, Arkansas, that he was born in Illinois, wife in Indiana, daughter age 5 in Iowa and daughter 10 months in Arkansas, and that he had $200 in real estate and $900 personal ...
Pope County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,381. [2] The county seat is Russellville. [3] The county was formed on November 2, 1829, from a portion of Crawford County and named for John Pope, the third governor of the Arkansas Territory.
Fearing arrest, Simmons fled New Mexico in late 1981 with his family, first to Ward, Arkansas, in Lonoke County, and then to Pope County near Dover, Arkansas in the summer of 1983. The family took up residence on a 13-acre tract of land 6.5 miles north of Dover that they would dub "Mockingbird Hill."
In 1870, at age 22, Battenfield was a hardware merchant in Russellville, with $2,500 in real estate and his personal estate valued at $4,000, [6] possibly, in part, through the influence and guidance of his brother-in-law, Jacob L. Shinn, a wealthy local merchant—"the chief merchant of the county" according to George Alfred Townsend of the Chicago Tribune in an October 15, 1872, article.
James B. Grinder (1945–2010) was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered three teenage girls in Arkansas and a woman in Missouri between 1976 and 1984. [1] Grinder was not apprehended until his confession in March 1998.
The Arkansas Battalion of Infantry and Mounted Rifles consisted of five companies of men from Clarksville (Johnson County), Dover (Pope County), Fort Smith (Sebastian County), and Smithville (Lawrence County), totaling about 380 men. The Battalion was sent to Indian Territory to keep peace and allow U.S. forces there to enter the war.
Buildings and structures in Pope County, Arkansas (5 C, 5 P) E. Education in Pope County, Arkansas (1 C, 8 P) G. Geography of Pope County, Arkansas (3 C, 1 P) P.
It is a small community cemetery, with thirty marked grave sites, the oldest of which is dated 1853 and the newest 1934. It is the only surviving remnant of the community of Norristown, which was an early settlement and the first county seat of Pope County. [2] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]