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INVENTORY OF THE COUNTY ARCHIVES
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E No. 57 Polk County (Mena)
V Prepared by
‘ The Arkansas Historical Records Survey
E Division of Community {Service Programs
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E The Arkansas Historical Records Survey
Jénuary 1942

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HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY PROJECTS- i
» Sargent B. Child, Director 1
Raymond Foster, State Supervisor !
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RESEARCH AND RECORDS PROGRAMS i
Harvey E. Becknell, Director i
John C. L. Andreassen, Regional Supervisor §
Howard H. Jacoway, State Chief
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Leo G. Spofford, 'Chief Regional Supervisor _- }
May Bevens, State Director
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Chas. 13. Bra’un, Regional Director . g
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”To bring together the records of the past
‘ and to house them in buildings where they will
‘ be preserved for the use of men living in the
future, a nation must believe in three things.
It must believe in the past. It must "believe
I in the future. It must, above all, believe in
' L the capacity of its people so to learn from the
past that they can gain in judgment for the

1 creation of the future."
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j FOREWORD
The Eastern 93“. the 22143131 ensures sf. £392,533. is one of a number
: of guides to historical materials prepared throughout the United States
by workers on Historical Records Survey projects of the Work Projects
¢ Administration. The publication herewith presented, and inVentory of the
i archives of Folk County, is number 57 of the Arkansas series.
The Historical Records SurVUy program was undertaken in the winter
‘ of 1935-56 for the purpose of providing useful employment for needy un- .
i employed historians, lawyers, teachers, and research and clerical work-
ers. In carrying out this objective, the project wrs organiz d to com-
pile inVentories of historical materials, particularly the unpublished
government documents and records which are basic in the administration
of local gOVernment, and which provide invaluable data for students of
, political, economic, and social history. The archiVal guide herewith
presented is intended to fleet the requirements of day—to-day administra-
tion by the officials of the county, and also the needs of lewyers, bus—
: inessmen, and other citizens who require facts from the public records
, for the proper conduct of their affairs. The volume is so designed that
' it can be used by the historian in his research in unprinted sources in
the same way he uses the library card catalog for printed’sources.
, The inventories produced by the Historical Records Survey projects
- attempt to do more than give merely a list of records -— they attempt
1 further to sketch in the historical background of the county or Other
. ‘ unit of government, and to describe precisely and in detail the organiza-
} tion and functions of the government agencies whose records they list.
} The county, town, and other local inventories for the entire country
‘ will, when completed, constitute an encyclopedia of local government as
i well as a bibliography of local archives. Up to the preSent time more
then 1,500 Survey publications have been issued in the country as a
, whole.
1
r The successful conclusion of the work of the Historical Lecords
; Survey projects, even in a single couity, would not be possible without
‘ the support of public officials, historical and legal Specialists, and
( many other groups in the community. Their cooperation is gratefully ac-
‘ knowledged.
5 The Survey program wrs organized by Luther H. Evans, who served as
' Director until lurch l, 1940, when he was succeeded by Sargent B. Child.
1 The Survey oper tes as a H tion—wide series of locally sponsored pro—
, jccts in the Division of Community Service Programs, of which Mrs. Flo-
‘ rence Kerr, Assistant Commissioner, is in charge.
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1 no: RD 0. EHJTITFR
, _ Commissioner of
1 Work Projects

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E w ., . PREFACE ' ,
E 5' ‘ 1, V ;The Historical Records Survey was initiated in Arkansas in March »
E, '.5 1956 as aabranch of the Federal Writers' Project. In November of the
I ‘ 'same year the survey became an independent unit of Federal Project No. l,
E and functioned under Federal sponsorship until September I, 1939. On
(September 5, 1959, the unit became Stateewide locally sponsored project
I 1 ‘ under the supervision of Howard H. Jacoway. Mr. Iacoway resigned on
r~ ' " September=5, l940 to become State Chief of the Research and Records Pro-
E. °., grams and was sucCeedod by Raymond Foster who has served on the super—
_ E r~ 'lvvisory staff of the Survey since December 1958. ' L
L“. . -- V . . '
E A * E The Survoy is sponsored in Arkansas by the College of Arts and Sci—
' E ' ‘ V’OnCCS of the University of Arkansas and cc—sponsored by the county
E judges of the State. -It operates under the jurisdiction of Research
E and Records Programs of the Division of Community Service Programs of
. E ' the Work Projects Administration. The Arkansas unit_is under the tech— ,
E , ’nical and editorial supervision of the Central office in Washington, D. C.
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' E The Arkansas Survey has had as its chief objective the publication
E t of county inventories, but at present is also making a.survoy of State,
» E v - municipal, and church archives, early American imprints, manuscript de»
E ' positories and collections, and is preparing a guide to Arkansas news—
E .*' ~papers. ,A list of former publications will be found on the last page of
E this volume; ' " ' ‘ .
I . -The Survey is preparing a velume which will include detailed dis—
E ' Cuesions of the organization, structure, and evolution of-county govern—
E ._Xv»" ment in Arkansas. The material for this volume will be assembled from
. E ' V'the State's constitution, codes; and acts of tho GeneralmAsscmbly. The
E material will consist of all those laws and constitutional previsions
E that are governing and have governed [county offices. It is believed
5 E ' that the publication of this volume will make it unnecessary to repeat
‘ E certain items-of general information in forthcoming county inventories.
E ~Accordingly.the volume herewith presented contains only the historical
E sketch, the essay on housing, care and accessibility of the-records7
“ I and a listing of the records; Pending issuance ‘of the general volume
E «on county government, it is suggested that the reader eonSult ther
I lflslnntor C of; 33139933531 assigns. 2;: messes, in» .231 “Faulkner 99am
E (anflgy) for detailed discussions of county government.
E A consultation of the table of contents of this volume will indi—
E cate that the inventory is divided into two parts. In the first, or
i general section of the volume will be found a historical sketch of the .
county, and an essay on the housing, care, and accessibility of the
records. In the second section of the volume will be found a listing
of thc_records of county offices; The arrangement of offices by functions
is as follows: -General administration; recordings}”administration of
justice; finance; elections; education; health and welfare, and mis-
E ; ‘ cellaneous.: The records are segregated under subject headings, accord—
) ing to office of origin or final deposit, unless other classification

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j is directed by law. Under agencies, records have been classified, l
- so far as possible, according to the subjects with which they deal.
They are described in entries whose style is formalized to give the
,r , following information: Title of record, dates for which available,
‘ _ quantity, labeling of volumes or containers,-variant titles, descrip— ' '
g 3 tion of record contents, manner of arrangement,.indexing, nature of
. “. ‘fl'recording, size of volumes or containers,-and location. ,
3 1 . ».. lThe‘inventory of the-Polk County Archives‘was begun during the
f T latter part of 1939 and completed in September, 1941. The original
; ‘ ,_,.field workers were: Christine Buckholtz, Anna Grace and Rex Cunningham
j _,who were assisted in the subsequent completion of the inventory of g
3 ‘Polk County. Field work was done under the supervision of Rand Barker, }
Joe W. Watkins, Rue Whitaker and C. B. Cobb, District Supervisors, {
. j ,r, Joel H. Spragins and Wm, Nickell,»Assistant.State Supervisors of the
‘ Historical Records Survey.v,r . . .", - ' ' I
-'4 The work-in the State office included the editing of forms, - A
“.Jwriting of entries, historical and legal research, writing and edit— y
; . ”I ing of essays and publication of the volume. Persons in the State . i
1 ' editorial office to whom credit is due are: Albert A. Condray, i
‘ ‘.-forms editor; Mary H. Winburne and Jennie Birkhead, entry editors; _
l ‘ ‘Irene Thibault, Maids Arnold_and Gladys Lynn, writers, who prepare » I
1 f ed_the material for publicatiOn; Frances Kbnnedy who directed the l
, ‘ _ mimoographing and publication, assisted by Flossie Blasingame; andm
, Carl E. Ott who directed the preparation of the index, Maybelle ' . I
§ ' Neighbors and Pauline leFevers did the stencil cutting. . ., . . E
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‘ m. The editorial criticisms of Mabel S. Brodie, editor in charge
, ... of public records inventories in the central office, and Guy Pi Timboe, . n
j ' assistant editor, has been invaluable to the-Arkansas staff in pre—- l
1 paring this volume for publication. The administrative personnel ~ l
of‘Work Projects Administration, of the Division of Community Service 1
‘Programs, and of Research and Records Programs have cooperated withv 1
1 , the Survey in,all phases of its program. The helpful-suggestions IE ‘ l
I) Z and friendly counsel of.John C. L. Androasson, Regional Supervis0rmw i
' 'of Historical Records Survey, is gratefully acknowledged. ;“;”. :8. E
wj'fl The Survoy's-official sponsor, its(State—wide;Advisory‘Board,- A
, ”and the Community Advisory Board of Polk County each contributed. ’ I
- ,valuablo assistance to the project in the compilation and publica— .
‘ , ‘ tion of this Volume. .chor contributing agencies Wore: vTho firkansas
, History Commission; the Arkansas Supreme Court Library; the Little
. ‘Rock Public.Library; the Secretary.of State; the ArkansaS-State.
3 Library Commission; Arkansas Writers' Project, WPA; and the coun—r“:
ty officials of Polk County. ' ,. -., -‘- ...: $3. . -
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E ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS, AND EXPLANATORY NOTES . ‘
k a _ Abbreviations
g AAA ..........,..;............. Agricultural Adjustment Administration 4 7
3 A. Ark,....................;...a............L......... Acts of Arkansas~ ~ '
E Admr..........°..................;.......................'Administrator ,
g alph..........L...¢m.....{......,..........;.....}.....alphabetica1(ly)
g arr. ...............,.....,................................ arrange(d)
;ham § aver.'..........................,.;...................o....}.. "average _
E be. ...0.....a..............................................¢. basement .,
:er, } bdl. ......................................;..;................ bundle ._
g chron. ............................................. chronologica1(ly) '
i { cir. .......................................................... circuit '
' i . elk. ......................,.................................... clerk
co. ............................3............................... county
} d. .......................................:..u.................. drawer 3
. f deft. ......................................................u defendant
3 dist. .................n...................................... districtv
l ed. .4..;.;.;....a..................................... edition, editor ’
E est. .;...................;............................... estimate(d)
; et a1. ...........................;........................ and others~wal
' f.b. 'fild box(e-S)
; f.d, ..m................................................ file‘drawen(s),n
i gdn, .L;...................................................... guardian
' 1 h. ;....g;................................................. handwritten
» : hpf. ...........,..................;...... handwritten on printed‘fdf‘m~~
g hph. ..............................}..., handwritten under printed head
boe, V t ibid. ................................;‘.... ibidem (in the Seme.placel.
‘. i m. ......................................................;L;;.J..j main"
. g min. ................................................... mimaograph(ed)
ce I ms; ........;;;..g.,.........,............................‘\:menusoript
L. { n0(é) ................................,;................... number632~
E i numer. ..........................,.......e............... numerical(ly)
,. ‘ 5 off. ......................,.....................................Office.
a ? Op. cit. ............................} opemxcitato (in'the work cited )
'_ ’; pltf. plaintiff
E n,p(p) ,........................................................ page§SJ
r E r. .5,.....w.......................................J............. range
h ; rec. .......az.............;....,...,..,........JZ;:¢....;,.;W1recorder
ads i - 880(5) ................;......;.........,...;...........,...sectibn (s)
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f' , tpf. .;......................................... typed on printed foym
.:, [ ..,treas. .............................................225§11.;;~treasurer
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. E Um S. ..........;.........;.............................. United States
l i vol(s) 5..............................................;.. -v01ume(S)
r g i WPA ..:....:{..{.,...................... Work Projects Administration
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j try, the quantity3is~shown in chronmlogicql order, insofir is posSible,

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3 ' Figures-or letters in parentheses, following the number of volumes, t
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1 iile boxes, or other type of contq1ner, indicate the labeling. If no le— 4
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' ( Where no-stitement is-mude thit the record Wss discontinued fit the {1;
‘ last date shown~in the entry, it could not bc'definitcly established that
{ ; such W13 the case. ‘Nhere no comment is made on the absence of prior, ?
, j subsequent or intermediitc‘records, no dcfinite'informition Cduld be ob- ' .,
i tiined. - “ " ' ” " i
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‘ 5 rent or most-recent record unless change in contents is actually shown d
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3;‘ Abbreviations, Symbols and ~ '7
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Dimensions 4,
Dimensions are always given in inches, unless otherwise indicated; ’ ‘ 4,
in the entries, therefore, the symbol for inches (") is omitted. ‘ *
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have LJCition of Records T
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>ntonts 4 111 records ire in tho County courthouse unless otherwise noted. ,;*
‘ When all or a majority of the records of an office have a common loca— 4 1
added . tion, the location is indicated in a sentence immediately preceding the H
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'Q is 1 entries 01 each office. , »
, Cross References 4
, ,,U Title—line cross references are used to show the continuity of a re- .
' bro— cord series which has been kept separately for a period of time and with ',,
, other records for different periods of time. An example is that in entry 'f
14 "1896-97, 1908—-, in Deed Record, entry 10." They are also used in u‘
, _ all artificial entries, those set up to cover records which must be shown ‘ ;
_ separately under their proper office even though they are kept in files ,1»
on» or records appearing elsewhere in the inventory, as, for example, the , _3
1lc, ; title—line reference in entry 42; "In mortgage Record, entry 20," The ,3
description of the entry shows the title and entry number of the record .}
from which the cross reference is made, as, for example, these words in -f
entry 54; "Also contains: Bail Bonds, 1917-19, entry 73." Dates shown d
mos, 1 in the description of the master entry or entry of miscellaneous contents .3
>3 13‘ are used only for the part or parts of the record contained therein, and “Q
,, are shown only when they vary from those of the master entry. I
4 Citations W
the : A citation of an act of the Legislature of the Territory of Arkansas, , ‘JV
that ‘ or of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, or an act of a legis— H
r " lative body of another Territory or State, refers to the page number of ,5
ob— - - the official publication of the laws. .4'
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i Foreword OOCIIIO'IO.'|IIIIO'OI.OwlIII'O.'.*I‘IV..OOIOOO'OI‘IIQIOIOOIOIOOIO‘C v ‘
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E Preface OClio-llofii‘IIIOIOIDIIOU‘III-OOOC.OOIC00'...OOIOIDDIIOIOOIOHOO Vii
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E Chart Of County Goverrunent vDUI-IoOQ‘von1-...‘1‘1axon-o'n‘a.Ignacio-0'01. 16
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§ , County Offices and Their Records
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I Count}, Court OOOIIOIOIQ.OIlOOIIOIOOICEIDDIQGIIOOIDO‘HIII.IQOOO00!”.I 29 ‘,
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E Circuj—t Clerk as Recorder cocci-Iuo'oooouonn-olpnud-noooloaotoo-coo 5'2
3 Real property conveyances:~ Papers,-deeds, leases, mortgages,
§ mortgage releases, liens and lis pendens, surveys and plats,
’ i Personal property:~ Convoyances, mortgages; Bonds, commissions"
E and credentials. Miscellaneous.
; CerU-lt Court I...ouoo-vucoooo-con-cocoa...soooouucutouscoot-onntib‘ 42
E Civil division: Case papers, proceedingsy‘judgments and exocu- *
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E Criminal'division:' CaSo papers, indictments, proceedings, foes. **
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‘ "' ) “ii1 [Polk County lies in the extreme western part of the Arkansas Ouach—
_ i itas,‘a region of forested mountain peaks, long pine-covered ridges, and .
, ‘;ulv : 1pleasant valleys, (1) It has an area ofi 860 square miles (2), bounded
.' ,\ Z on the north by Scott County, on the east by‘Montgomery, on the south by
1 i Howard and Sevier, and on the west by the State of Oklahoma. (3) From
-= 65 1 an average of-l,300 feet'above Sea level (4), the'surface rises to its
% ~highest point-at Rich Mountain, 1,800 feet above the valley floor and
" 65 f 2,800-feet above sea level. (5) ~ . i .1.. . - 1 1
1 g The spindle-shaped end of the Novaculite Uplift,extends-to the cen-
1 ter of the county, circled by ridges of white, flinty rock. Elsewhere
' i are sandstone, shale, and slate (6), which form a soil best adapted to
_. 57 E the production of timber.: In the valleys is found a rich, sendy lodm1_
: 1 with: a red clay subsoil, and along the streams is a highly productive
__ 68 i, alluvial soil. (7) '. . . . . - 1
.. 71 ) r :Countless springs of varying mineral content, swift streams felling
£‘j15”over rocks.und boulders, and clear rivers are attractive features of this
_. 72 ? section of the~0uachites.' The historic Oudchito River, which has its
i source here, rebeives most of the northern drainage. Rolling Fork, Cos-
._ 72 ; satot, and Saline Rivers filow South, feeding into‘Littlo.Rivor in the
g 1‘ 1‘ a bounty of: that-slang. (8). ' . - .
i. 72 E 1 5 KIn the northern and southern parts of the county, forest lands to- ‘
p; 75 g tuling 187gb91 ecres, about oneathird 0T the county, have been acquired
} by the Ouuchita National Forest (9), and it has been proposed that the
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