Famous People of Monroe County

• Father Augustine Tolton – first U.S. black Catholic priest

• Xenophon Overton Pindall – Arkansas Governor

• Henderson Forsythe - daytime soap actor

• Mary Margaret McBride – writer & media personality

• Jack Blanton, editor of Monroe County Appeal and author

• Al Beck, artist and author

• Robert N. Bodine

• Gustavus Bower

• Miss Belle Johnson, photographer

• Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)

  • Headstones of Mark Twain's Family

  • The Quarles Farmhouse that Mark Twain Knew

• Gordon Snidow

• John Thomas Moore – Former President of American Baptist Association

• Samuel Clemens

• Al Beck