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The Van Buren County
Historical Society Museum is located at the corner of Third and
Poplar Streets in Clinton, Arkansas. The Museum is open to the
public free of charge.
For winter we are only open
Monday - Thursday 10am until 4pm. We plan to
be open of Fridays again starting March 1st.
Donations are appreciatively accepted.
Please contact us:
Phone 501-745-4066,
Email museum@artelco.com
Above:
Museum
volunteer Sharon
Baker (standing) assists another
Museum volunteer, Laquita Adams (seated),
with research in the VBC Museum Family History Room.
The Museum's Family History Room has an extensive collection
of family information and family group sheets, as well as research
material on Van Buren County and several surrounding counties.
The
Museum always welcomes copies of Van Buren County Family Histories and
local information to add to the existing files. The Historical Society's
collection of vintage photos number over 1,000. Reprints are available.
Your ancestors may be included!
The Museum is supported
primarily by voluntary donations, membership dues and the sale of its
publications.
Membership
in the Van Buren County Historical Society is $12.50 per year.
Members receive four (4) Van Buren County
Historical Journals, which are published quarterly.
Back issues of
the
Historical Journal are available for $3.00 each plus $1.00 shipping and
handling.
A variety of additional publications are available at the
Museum, or by mail order. To order a publication or become a member by
mail, send your request (including the name of the specific publication)
and include a check or money order for the total amount (including
Shipping & Handling). Be sure to include the address where you want
the publications or membership sent. Make payable and mail to: VBC
Historical Society Museum, PO Box 1023, Clinton, AR 72031.
A listing of various publications follows. For additional
information phone 501-745-4066.
PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE
NEW:
Birth, Death and Selected Item Index of the Van
Buren County Democrat. $20.00 plus $3.25
Shipping & Handling per Volume:
Vol. I -- June 5,
1909 to August 10, 1928
Vol. II -- August
17, 1928 to January 8, 1943
About these two books: Two
ladies from Indiana read microfilm and produced these books then donated
the information to the Historical Society with permission to use the
books as a fund-raiser. Their only request was that one-half of
the proceeds go to the upkeep of the Brickey Cemetery. The cemetery has
recently been restored and descendants of the folks who are buried there
are trying to create a fund for perpetual care.
A History of Van
Buren County
3rd Printing:
This book has been out of print for a
number of years. Due to many requests we have reprinted it. We would
like to emphasize that this is NOT a new edition -- it is the 3rd
printing of the history book that was originally published in 1976:
$20.00 Shipping & Handling $3.00
A
Pictorial History of Van Buren County, Arkansas - Memories of a Century
1890-1990 $35.00 Shipping
& Handling $4.00
The long-awaited reprint of this highly popular favorite is
now available.
Biographies
of Van Buren County, Arkansas
$25.00 Shipping
& Handling $3.00
269 biographies submitted by various people compiled with a
surname index. Hardbound
with gold lettering
Van
Buren County Early Schools 1850-1950
$20.00 Shipping
& Handling $3.00
Descriptions and various pictures from the many schools,
large and small, that were located over the county in early years.
Hardbound with gold lettering.
Cemeteries
of Van Buren County, Arkansas
$10.00 Shipping
& Handling $3.00
A survey of tombstones in community cemeteries, family
cemeteries, and burial sites. Also
records of the cemeteries that were relocated due to the building of
Greers Ferry Lake. 399
pages. Softbound with
surname index.
Researchers
Working Index to Cemetery Book
$10.00 Shipping
& Handling $3.00
A more convenient and faster way of finding information in
the Cemeteries of Van Buren County, Arkansas.
Softbound with surname index.
Groom’s
Marriage Index 1865-1991 (2nd Printing) $20.00 Shipping
& Handling $3.00
A printout of marriage licenses issued and recorded in Van
Buren County with location to courthouse by book and page number.
Indexed by grooms’ names.
272 pages.
Softbound.
Bride’s
Marriage Index 1865-1991 (2nd Printing) $20.00
Shipping
& Handling $3.00
Same as the book above, but listed by brides’ names.
Index
to Van Buren County History Book $5.00
Shipping
& Handling $1.00
Surname index to the book previously printed, History of Van
Buren County. Softbound
File
Index to Disposed-Of Court Papers for Van Buren County – 1861-1940 $13.00
Shipping
& Handling $2.00
Index to disposed-of court papers filed in the courthouse.
Lists date, name, box number, and file number of the cases.
Index is divided into four divisions:
Chancery Court; Circuit Court, Civil Division; Circuit Court,
Criminal Division; and Probate Court.
Approximately 200 pages. Soft
cover and comb binding.
U.
S. FEDERAL CENSUS
RECORDS
Census Records transcribed with complete index for Van Buren
County, Arkansas. Softbound.
1890 Census is
head-of-households compiled from personal tax records.
1840 Census
$10.00
(S&H $1.00)
1850 Census $20.00
(S&H $1.00)
1860 Census $22.50
(S&H
$2.00)
1870 Census $25.00
(S&H
$2.00)
1880 Census $27.50
(S&H $3.00)
1890 Census (from
tax records) $10.00
(S&H $2.00)
1900 Census $28.00
(S&H $3.00)
1910 Census 2-volume set $35
(S&H $4.00)
1920 Census - $35
(S&H $4)
1930 Census - $40
(S&H $4)
FAMILY
HISTORIES
The following books have been published and donated to the
Society for sale:
Two Pioneer Ozarks Families,
by Roy Edwin Thomas, Ph.D., soft cover, spiral bound. $17
(S&H
$3.00)
Our
Jennings Heritage, by Maxine Kelly and Wilda Jennings Jones $18.00
(S&H $3.00)
The
Hardin Family, by Maxine Kelly and Wilda Jennings Jones $10.00 (S&H $2.00)
The
Linn/Lynn Family (2nd Printing) by Kelly/Jones
$20.00 (S&H $3.00)
Following are publications written by Bert Stark, Jr.,
PhD.,
in conjunction with his research on his family and on local history. All
publications are $8.00 (plus
$2.00 S&H) each.
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History
of Greasy Valley (Morganton, AR)
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The
Life of Henry Poff (1829-1894)
-
The
Life of Jordan Titus Woodward (1833-1919)
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The
Life of Jesse Parish (1871-1940)
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The
Life of Daniel Parish (1844-1918)
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Three
Stark Grandfathers: Joe,
John W. and Thomas C.
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The
Life of John Peterson Parish (1811-1889)
-
Daddy
Bert – Life of Bert Stark, Sr.
-
Cultural
Roots from the Cleburne County Hills
"YESTERDAY IN VAN BUREN COUNTY"
HISTORICAL
CALENDARS
2006
Edition Now Available
Vol. 8 in
our series of "Yesteryear in Van Buren County"
historical
calendars, is now available. As in the past, the 2004 edition of
this popular calendar offers twelve vintage photos of various people and
places of Van Buren County in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as well as
a couple of more modern photos with tidbits of history thrown in to
enlighten everyone about the heritage of our great county. Printed on buff-colored, parchment-like paper preserving the
antique look of the photos. Excellent for framing.
2006 CALENDAR
$10.00 (plus $2.00 S&H)
2005 CALENDAR
$5.00 (plus $2.00 S&H)
2004
CALENDAR $5.00 (plus
$2.00 S&H)
2003,
2002,
2001, 2000,
1999 and 1998 CALENDARS $5.00
(plus
$2.00 S&H) each, while supply lasts.
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