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Perry’s Funeral Chapel, known for many years as Rumph Mortuary, is a historic commercial building at 312 West Oak Street in El Dorado, Arkansas.Built in 1927, it is a two-story red brick building, with a three-bay facade topped by a crenellated Gothic parapet.
Leachville was established in 1896 by land developers Joshua Gilbert Leach, James Wiseman Honnoll, and Sam McNamee, who afterward formed the Leach-McNamee Land Development Company. [ 4 ] The Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad completed a rail line to Leachville in 1899, and the Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad ...
Arkansas Aeronautics Commission; Arkansas Aviation and Aerospace Commission; Division of Insurance Arkansas Earthquake Authority Board; Arkansas Governmental Bonding Board; Rural Risk Underwriting Association; State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries and Burial Services; Division of Securities; Division of Services for the Blind
In the 1960s, a push for large companies acquiring smaller funeral homes and cemeteries occurred. [21] Although there has been a consistent push for consolidation, the majority of the industry still consists of small, family-owned businesses. [21] As of 2019, there are around 19,136 funeral homes that provide funeral services in the U.S.
Buffalo Island is a local name given to western Mississippi County and eastern Craighead County, Arkansas.It consists of the land south of Big Lake between the Little River (not to be confused with a stream of the same name in southwestern Arkansas) and the St. Francis River, containing the communities of Manila (Mississippi County), Monette (Craighead County), Leachville (Mississippi County ...
Born in Leachville, Arkansas to John W. Clark and Jean Bearden Clark, Clark decided early on that he wanted to be a politician. He graduated from Arkansas State University and received a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Arkansas School of Law prior to briefly practicing law. [1] He resigned in 1990 after being convicted of fraud.
By 1836, when Arkansas achieved statehood, the county's white population had slightly increased and the local Native population was pushed in the eastern part of the county, towards what is now Big Lake. The first county seat was a small community called Cornwall, which was located at on the banks of the Mississippi River, on the remains of an ...
A Chronicle of Arkansas Newspapers Published Since 1922 and of the Arkansas Press Association, 1930-1972. Little Rock, Ark: Arkansas Press Association. OCLC 2146483. Michael B. Dougan (2003). Community diaries: Arkansas newspapering, 1819-2002. August House. ISBN 0874837227.