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Franklin County, Arkansas, 1860 United States Census
By Bobbie Jones McLane, ISBN 978-0-929604-39-8, 91 pages, $14.00

This compilation was first published in 1986, long before the days of online access to original copies of the federal census schedules. This transcription (in enumeration order), however, is still valuable because it presents the information in a different format, enabling researchers' eyes to catch something they might otherwise miss.

Arkansas Land Patents: Franklin County
ISBN 1-56546-018-9, 71 pages, $14.00

What are land patents? All of what is now Arkansas was once owned by the federal government--it is a public domain land state. People who purchased land from the federal government received documents called land patents. Land was obtained through purchase, military warrants, homesteads, scrip acts and other laws that allowed the land to be transferred out of federal hands. The paperwork generated in those sales can be very helpful to genealogists. Copies of the land patents make interesting additions to published family histories but the land entry case files are most apt to have helpful details about families or clues that help piece together information from other sources.

What information is included? The county volumes of land patents list patentee's name, volume and page of the patent book, land office, document and miscellaneous document numbers, type of transaction, precise legal description, and number of acres. Introductory information describes in great detail how to get copies of the patents and land entry case files, how to use other land record sources, how to integrate the information with other sources, what is found in a typical homestead case file, where and when the Arkansas land offices operated, and a selected bibliography. County maps are also included. The time period covered by this information is earliest settlement through 30 June 1908. Information from 156,784 patent documents is included. These county volumes are based on current-day county boundaries.

Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties
ISBN 0-941765-60-1, 36 pp, 1,351 veterans, $10.00

This book is an index to Confederate veterans who applied for pensions from the State of Arkansas. Information includes: veteran's name, widow or mother's name, company, unit, year(s) of enrollment, county from which applied and death dates of the veteran and his widow. Also included is a list of pensioners granted awards through legislative acts and a list of residents of the Confederate Home. Pensioners in this book are cross-referenced to the 1911 Arkansas Confederate Veteran census. A detailed summary of pension legislation and suggestions for further research are included. Pensions were based on the state of residence at the time of eligibility.

Arkansas State Donation and Swamp Lands: Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Scott, Sebastian, and Yell Counties
Compiled by Desmond Walls Allen, ISBN 1-56546-279-3, 145 pages, $24.00
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Or buy this book in .pdf with electronic delivery (no shipping), ISBN 978-1-56546-544-2, $8.95

Index to Arkansas' World War I Soldiers from Franklin, Johnson, and Pope Counties
ISBN 1-56546-250-5, 64 pages, $15.00

Franklin County Death Record Index 1914-1923

Franklin County was created: 19 December 1837.
Parent County: Crawford.
Progeny County: Logan 1871.
County Boundary Changes: Line with Johnson defined 14 December 1833, line with Crawford defined 4 March 1875, line with Crawford changed 28 March 1895.
County Records: In 1906, T.A. Pettigrew reported, "The records of the county, common pleas, probate, and circuit courts are complete from the date of the first court in 1839. The deed and mortgage records are incomplete; the courthouse was burned in 1863, but G.H. Ross, the clerk, saved from the fire all except the deed records. Since that date the deed records are complete. The records of the Charleston district are complete from 1891, they having been burned in that year. For the most part however, they have been rewritten."

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