--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Group Record 0092 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Husband's Name Elias Huffman (Hufman-Hoffman) Born: 1813 Place: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Died: 11 Nov 1881 Place: Gurdon, Clark, Arkansas Married: 1834 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (Org A-128) Married: 10 Jan 1858 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (D-45) Spouse: Sarah (Fulks) Yardley Father: John Huffman (Hoffman-Hoofman) Mother: Mary M. ....... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wife's Name Elizabeth (Betsy) Jane Bradshaw Born: Abt 1815 Place: Kentucky Died: Aft 1850 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (census) Father: David Bradshaw Mother: ....... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Sex Name M David Ashley Huffman Born: 1836 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: 12 Apr 1860 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (D-157) Spouse: Elizabeth Josey Story --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Sex Name F Rebecca Ann Huffman Born: Abt 1839 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: 27 May 1860 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (D-165) Spouse: James Hanley --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Sex Name M William (Bill) Harrison Huffman Born: Abt 1842 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: 20 Apr 1875 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Married: 28 Mar 1867 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (E-63) Spouse: Eliza Elizabeth Wilson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Sex Name F Mary Magdaline Huffman Born: Abt 1844 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: 11 Nov 1858 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (D-78) Spouse: James H. Yardley --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Sex Name M Elias Franklin Huffman Born: 13 Mar 1846 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: 03 Jan 1933 Place: Married: Place: Spouse: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Sex Name M Thomas Drew (T.D.) Huffman Born: 1847 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: 25 Nov 1875 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (G-52) Spouse: Narcissa M. Brown --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Sex Name M Robert Crittenden Huffman Born: 1849 Place: Clark County, Arkansas Died: Place: Married: 28 Apr 1870 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (E-219) Spouse: Harriet M. Wilson Married: 05 Oct 1876 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (G-232) Spouse: Nancy Wingfield Married: 26 May 1884 Place: Clark County, Arkansas (L-37) Spouse: Emily C. (unknown) Edwards --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources of Information: Clark County, Arkansas Marriage Records; Census Records: Clark County, Arkansas 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880; Our Ancestors, Jessie Mae Ashford & Adelle Brown Ashford, (Malvern Graphics: Malvern, Arkansas), 1977, page 126, 127, 128; Jessie Mae Ashford, Arlington, Virginia correspondence with David Kelley, (1982, 1983); Mary Gail Tutt, McGehee, Arkansas correspondence with David Kelley, (1983); Family Group Record, David Bradshaw, Ancestral File Number 1SB8-PCP, FamilySearch® Ancestral File v4.19; Ralph E. Jones, Orem, Utah correspondence with David Kelley (15 Feb 2000) postmarked (17 Feb 2000); Ralph E. Jones, Orem, Utah FGR update via email (25 Feb 2000). Key: (Org) Original --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clark County, Arkansas Marriage Record --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The page having the marriage entry record for Elias Hoffman (Hoofman, Huffman) and Elizabeth (Betsy) Jane Bradshaw in Clark County, Arkansas Territory, Volume A is missing. An index entry for this marriage, providing their names, volume and original page number, is found in the Clark County, Arkansas marriage index. The marriage record entry was originally recorded in Book A, page 128. They were married in 1834 between March 5 and September 4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clark County, Arkansas Census 1840 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule of the whole number of persons within the division allotted to ------------. Head of Household Males Females Slaves Missouri 00 05 10 15 20 30 00 05 10 15 20 30 Township 04 09 14 19 29 39 04 09 14 19 29 39 Elias Hoofman 1 2 1 2 1 5 John Hoofman 2 1 2 1 6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clark County, Arkansas Census 1850 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule 1. Free inhabitants in South Fork Township in the County of Clark, State of Arkansas enumerated by me, on the ---- day of ---------, 1850. Jas. S. Ward, Ass't Marshal. 277-277 Elias Hoffman 37 m Farmer Missouri Elizabeth J. 35 f Kentucky David Ashley 14 m Arkansas Rebecca Ann 11 f Arkansas Wm. Harrison 8 m Arkansas Mary Magdalene 6 f Arkansas Elias Franklin 4 m Arkansas Thomas Drew 3 m Arkansas Robert Crittenden 1 m Arkansas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will of Elias Huffman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I, Elias Huffman, a farmer of the County of Clark and State of Arkansas, make this my last Will. I give and devise and bequeath my estate and property real and personal as follows, that is to say. 1st. I Will and (devise) to my lawful wife Sarah Huffman one acre of land commencing at the corner of lot 6 and extending to corner of lot 8 embracing one square acre and known as lot 7 as (per) survey and (plat) drawn by E.G. Fairbain, the above lot being and lying in the north half of the north west quarter of Section 33 in township nine, South of Range twenty west, in the vicinity of Gurdon, County of Clark, State of Arkansas with all the improvements thereunto belonging, with all the household kitchen furniture, also one house, two (milk) cows and twelve months provisions, the same to be hers during her natural life time and at the deease to fall back to be equally divided between my lawful heirs. 2nd. I Will and bequeath to my daughter Mary M. Yardley the sum of five dollars in lawful money of the United States. 3rd. I Will and bequeath to my son Thomas Huffman the sum of one Hundred and thirty one dollars and twenty five cents in lawful money of the United States. 4th. It is my Will and request that (the) balance of my property be equally divided between my lawful heirs, to wit, of my sons William H. Huffman's heirs, Robt. C. Huffman, and my daughter Mariah J. Bolt, Josephine Stewart and Susan C. Huffman, and I do hereby appoint Robt. C. Huffman one of my lawful heirs and citizen of the County of Clark and State of Arkansas and by occupation a farmer, Executor of this my last Will. In witness whereof I have signed and Sealed and Published and declare this instrument as my Will at my residence in the County of Clark and State of Arkansas on this the 13 day of September, 1879. (Signed) Elias Huffman (Seal) Witness: Jas. S. Dodgen, Wm. McLelland, Wm. Jasper Stafford --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The said Elias Huffman at his residence on the 13th day of September A.D. 1879, Signed and sealed this instrument and published and declared the same as and for his last Will and we at his request and in his presense and in the presence of each other have hereunto written our names as being witnesses. (Signed) Jas. S. Dodgen, Wm. McLelland, Wm. Jasper Stafford --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I, Elias Huffman do hereby appoint Robt. C. Huffman lawful Guardian for the Heirs of William H. Huffman, Deceased. (Signed) Elias Huffman (Seal) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- State of Arkansas, County of Clark Be it remembered that on this the 28 day of November A.D. 1881, before the undersigned Clerk of the Clark County Probate Court within and for the County, aforesaid, personally came and appeared J.S. Dodgen, Wm. McLelland and Wm. Jasper Stafford, who being duly sworn depose and say, that we saw Elias Huffman Sign the foregoing Will on the 13th day of Sept. 1879, He, the said Elias Huffman at the time declaring the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that we at the request of the Testator, his presence and in the presence of each other, Signed our names as attesting Witnesses thereto, and we verily believe that the Said Testator was of sound mind and disposing memory. (Signed) Jas. S. Dodgen, Wm McLelland, Wm. Jasper (his x mark) Stafford Attest: W.W. Beard (Seal) In testimony whereof, I have herunto set my hand and have affixed the Seal of Said Court on this the day first above written. (Signed) W.W. Beard, Clerk File Nov. 14th 1881. Admitted to Probate and recorded Nov. 28th 1881. (Signed) W.W. Beard, Clerk Elias Huffman, Will and proof, transcript provided by Ralph E. Jones, Orem, Utah (15 Feb 2000). Clark County, Arkansas (Will-Probate), Book B, page 98; Book C, page 61, 62. Section 4th of Will ... "my daughter Mariah J. Bolt" ... was the child of his second wife Sarah Fulks by her previous marriage to John Washington Armstrong Yardley. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gurdon Gleanings. Mr. Elias Huffman is quite ill. He is one of Clark County's old reliable citizens. Southern Standard, November 5, 1881, page 2. column 3. Gurdon Gleanings. Mr. Elias Huffman, one of the early settlers of Clark County, after a very painful illness, died on November 11, at 8:00 p.m. of malarial fever; he leaves a wife and several children to mourn the loss. Southern Standard, November 19, 1881, page 2, column 4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 03.06.00 David Kelley 2000 FGR-0092.HTM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------