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JACKSON COUNTY WEBSITE BY CHARLOTTE CARPENTER SMITH charcsmith@verizon.net
HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY: CLICK TO SEE TOWNSHIP MAP
Jackson Co. was named for President Andrew Jackson. It was organized in accordance with an act of the legislature of theTerritory of Arkansas,5 Nov.1829. As then constituted it contained nearly all of what is now Woodruff Co.The site of the permanent seat of justice for the county was chosen in 1832 at Litchfied which was on the Jacksonport and Augusta road at the crossing of Village Creek about 3 miles north of the present town of Newport. In 1839 the seat moved to Elizabeth, a place on the northeast side of White River, midway between Jacksonport and Newport. It is now under the river and no longer there. In 1852 it was moved to Augusta which is now the Co seat of Woodruff Co. Next year 1853, Jacksonport became the Co. seat and finally it moved to Newport, the largest town in the county and there it has remained.
JACKSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE- Newport, Ark 72112-
County Clerk has marriage records from 1843-present. Check the marriage records online listed below. Probate records from 1845 to present. Land Record from 1831 Clerk of the Circuit court has divorce, civil and court records.(see below for State record) Jackson County Courthouse-208 Main Newport, Ark 72112 and County Clerk County Courthouse, P.O.Box 641 Newport , Ark 72112-0641 Telephone 870-523-7420
Birth and death records are obtained from Arkansas Dept of Health, Vital Records, 4815 W Markam St slot 44, Little Rock, Ark 72205-3867 or go to website
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.. TO JOIN AND TO CONTACT EMAIL ivq2@suddenlink.net or write them at Jackson Co Historical Society P.O. Box 711 Newport, Arkansas 72112
Stream of History
The project is under construction.
More issues will be added as they become digitized.
Click the link below to access the digital collection.
While browsing the issues of Stream of History, if you choose "access this item," please be patient. The pdf will take time to download.
http://cdm15320.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15320coll
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORY WEBPAGE http://jackson-county-history.webs.com/TUCKERMAN LIBRARY- 200 N. Main Tuckerman, Ark 72473 phone 870 349-5336-good local genealogy collection for the Tuckerman area.
JACKSON COUNTY LIBRARY 213 Walnut, P. O Box 190, Newport.Ark 72112,telephone 870-523-2952 or fax 870-523-4283 has great collection of local history and genealogical collection in its Arkansas Room. LIBRARY . Library website www.jacksoncolibrary.net
CIVIL WAR RECORDS
JACKSON COUNTY GUARDS
ARKANSAS CIVIL WAR MESSAGE BOARD
Be sure to check these records. You should go through each Jackson County group if you have any ancestors that were of age to be in the Civil War. You might find your surname or ancestors. To order records from the National Archives email inquire@arch2.nara.gov put "form" in subject and in message include how many and the number of the form and your full name and mailing address To order Arkansas records go to www.state.ar.us/ahc/form3.txt or form 4 for pension forms
USE THIS SITE FINDER TO CHECK NAMES ON JACKSON WEBPAGE
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Subscribe to Jackson Mail List
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NEW!! Marriage records from 1846 to present online goto jacoarkcountyclerk.us
MARRIAGE RECORDS FROM ARKANSAS ACHIVES
Be sure to check this for Surnames
GOODSPEEDS- Biographies of Jackson Co. 1890
JACKSON CO ARCHIVES
check this important site for many records
Early Land Patents of Jackson Co Federal land patents
ARKANSAS GAZETTE NEWSPAPER 1815-1850 click on Arkansas Ties
ARKANSAS TIES- lots of good things and the Arkansas Gazette for all the early years with names . also list of Jackson Co memorials
HOW TO RESEARCH AFRICAN AMERICAN
BLACK GENEALOGY -census help
BLACK GENEALOGY- how to search
BLACK GENEALOGY-1860-1870 census
WHITE CO CEMETERIES SOME ON JACKSON CO LAND
Jacksons Funeral Home http://www.jacksonsfh.com
Dillinger Funeral Home- www.dillingerfuneralhome.com
DIVORCES Names and Location
SOME EARLY PROBATE RECORDS
Early Land Patents of Jackson Co
WORLD WAR II DEATHS BY COUNTY-JACKSON
EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF JACKSON CO
NEWPORT INDEPENDENT TODAY
NEWPORT CITY WEBSITE
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIEY
has history of the Iron Mt route through Jackson Count
NEWPORT COUNTRY MUSIC STATION
List of all Arkansas Census records online
1930 online Bird Township, Tuckerman names only in alphabetical listing.
1860-1870 SLAVE-SLAVEHOLDERS census
SOME CIVIL WAR DEAD FROM JACKSON
1863 LIST OF NEEDY SOLDIER FROM JACKSON
DIGITAL PHOTOS OF TOMBSTONES IN WALNUT GROVE CEMETERY, NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
contact; Rita Grigsby
1890 Property Tax list
REFERENCE & LOOK UPS FOR JACKSON COUNTY
INDEX OF THE GENEALOGY OF "STREAM OF History" see above digital copies at Jackson Co Library site
JACKSON COUNTY RECORDS ON MICROFILM
JACKSON CO PHYSICIANS 1850-1900 LIST OF NAMES
APPLICANTS FOR CIVIL WAR PENSION FROM JACKSON CO.
SWIFTON AND VICINITY=LIST OF PEOPLE
1850 Census Mortality list
1870 Census Mortality list