Louisiana-Arkansas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Group Record 0006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband's Name Joel Saunders Wingfield Born: 16 Nov 1854 Place: Claiborne Parish, Louisiana Died: 06 Aug 1942 Place: Delight, Pike, Arkansas Married: 16 Dec 1875 Place: Pike County, Arkansas (BR) Father: John Wesley Wingfield Mother: Nancy Rebecca Ward --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife's Name Nancy Emoline Kelley Born: 11 Nov 1858 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: 01 Feb 1911 Place: Delight, Pike, Arkansas Father: Robert McMahan Kelley Mother: Sarah Adaline Carpenter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Sex Name F Nora Lee Wingfield Born: 06 Sep 1876 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: 20 Jun 1948 Place: Delight, Pike, Arkansas Married: 08 Aug 1889 Place: Nevada County, Arkansas (D-389) Spouse: James Edward Kirkham --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Sex Name F Cora Cornelia Wingfield Born: 11 Aug 1879 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: 28 Mar 1920 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Married: 04 Oct 1903 Place: Pike County, Arkansas (B-494) Spouse: Felix Errett Copeland --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Sex Name F Mary Dow Wingfield Born: 20 Jul 1881 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: 30 Oct 1963 Place: buried ... Pike County, Arkansas Married: 05 Oct 1902 Place: Pike County, Arkansas (B-361) Spouse: Henry Theodore Mansfield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Sex Name F Lula Wingfield Born: 21 Mar 1889 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: 03 Jul 1909 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Married: 04 Mar 1906 Place: Pike County, Arkansas (C-177) Spouse: Clarence Miller --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Sex Name M Charles Elmore Wingfield Born: 31 Jul 1894 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: Place: Spouse: Beatrice Robertson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Sex Name M Bob Stell Wingfield Born: 26 Oct 1896 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: Mar 1992 Place: Arkansas ... (SSDI) Marr 1: 10 Feb 1918 Place: Wife 1: Sue Elizabeth McElhannon Marr 2: Place: Wife 2: Sallie Ethel Winfield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Sex Name M Claude Lesley Wingfield Born: 22 Feb 1899 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: Mar 1986 Place: Little Rock, Pulaski, Ark ... (SSDI) Marr 1: Place: Wife 1: Marr 2: Place: Wife 2: Ella (unknown) Wingfield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Sex Name M Clyde Wesley Wingfield Born: 22 Apr 1901 Place: Pike County, Arkansas Died: 02 May 1964 Place: Curtis, Clark, Arkansas Married: Place: Spouse: Chessa Thelma Bledsoe --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources of Information (include): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pike County, Arkansas Census Schedules 1880, 1900; Pike County Tribune, August 7, 1942, Volume 21, Number 26, page 1, column 2: Joel Wingfield, 88, died ... ; Pike County, Arkansas Marriage Records; Nevada County, Arkansas Marriage Book D, page 389; Bob Stell Wingfield Bible Record, Bob Stell Wingfield, Okolona, Arkansas (23 Nov 1974); Bob Stell Wingfield, Okolona, Arkansas interviews by David Kelley (23 Nov 1974 & 05 Aug 1975); Audrey Delaney interview by David Kelley, Delight, Arkansas (11 Aug 1975); Joel Saunders Wingfield Bible Record, Audrey Delaney, Delight, Arkansas (14 Oct 1978); Social Security Death Index (Bob Wingfield, Claude Wingfield). Key: (BR) Bible Record; (SSDI) Social Security Death Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pike County, Arkansas Census 1880 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missouri Township # 42 Joel S. Wingfield 25 m w Lou Ark Ark Nancy E. Wingfield 21 f w Wife Ark Ark Ark Nora L. Wingfield 3 f w Daughter Ark Lou Ark Cora C. Wingfield 10 mo f w Daughter Ark Lou Ark Sarah Kelley 58 f w Mth in law Ten Ten Ten --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pike County, Arkansas Census 1900 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 75A Township: Missouri HSD/FAM: 66/66 Wingfield, Joel. Head w m Nov 1854 45 m 24 Lou Ark Ark Wingfield, Nancy E. Wife w f Nov 1858 41 m 24 07-07 Ark Ark Ten Wingfield, Cora Dau w f Aug 1879 20 s Ark Lou Ark Wingfield, Mary D. Dau w f Jul 1881 18 s Ark Lou Ark Wingfield, Luler Dau w f Mar 1890 10 s Ark Lou Ark Wingfield, Charles E. Son w m Jul 1894 5 s Ark Lou Ark Wingfield, Bob Son w m Oct 1896 3 s Ark Lou Ark Wingfield, Colonel Son w m Feb 1899 1 s Ark Lou Ark Sakes, Henry Brdr w m Oct 1874 25 s Ark Geo SCa --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1900 Federal Census of Pike County, Arkansas: Shane Hill, Dorothy Kennedy Partain, Pike County Archives and History Society, Murfreesboro, Arkansas 1995, page 163. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CURTIS The community of Curtis was established in the 1870s on the Iron Mountain Railroad. Some of its early residents came as the result of a brochure distributed by the railroad listing the virtues of the area ... Curtis acquired its name in 1873. Halfway between Arkadelphia and the small settlement of Gurdon, railroad officials chose the site of Curtis for a fuel chute ... By 1880 there were only five families in the small community ... Manufacturing of lumber from the forests surrounding Curtis became the backbone of the community ... The Thomas Mill at Curtis was by far the largest of the mills ... (and) consisted of a sawmill, dry kilns, a planing mill, lumber sheds and open storage lumber "stacks" ... A railroad depot had been in existence about as long as the mill was in operation ... A "section crew" that worked out of Curtis kept the railroad in good state of repair for several miles. The crew consisted of a foreman and three or four laborers who travelled to their work on the railroad in an open-top rail car. Clyde Wingfield served as foreman of this crew from the 1930s to the 1960s. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clark County, Arkansas: Past and Present, 1992, page 254. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Kelley 1999