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• Elliott, James Thomas    b. April 22, 1823  d. July 28, 1875
  US Congressman. Elected as a Republican to represent Arkansas' 2nd District in the Fortieth Congress, he served for two months in 1869. A Georgia native, he studied law privately and became a practicing attorney in Camden, Arkansas in 1854. He provided legal expertise to the Mississippi, Ouachita & Red River Railroad and was chosen company president in 1858. During the Civil War he served the Confederacy as a Provost Marshal of the Trans-Mississippi Department under Generals Thomas Hindman...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Oakland Cemetery (Confederate), Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas, USA
   
• Hays, George Washington    b. September 23, 1863  d. September 15, 1927
  24th Arkansas Governor. Served as Governor of Arkansas from 1913 to 1917.
  Greenwood Cemetery, Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas, USA
   
• Laney, Benjamin Travis    b. November 25, 1886  d. January 21, 1977
  33rd Arkansas Governor. Served as Governor of Arkansas from 1945 to 1949.
  Memorial Park Cemetery, Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas, USA
   
• McClendon, Charlie   b. October 17, 1923  d. December 7, 2001
  Head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1962-1979, where he compiled a record of 137 wins, 59 losses, and 7 ties. (Bio by: Anonymous)
  Stephens Cemetery, Stephens, Ouachita County, Arkansas, USA
   
• McDonald, Maurice Neal 'Nick'    b. March 21, 1928  d. January 27, 2005
  Police Officer, Kennedy Assassintation Figure. He was the Dallas Police Officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre on November 22, 1963. While working crowd control outside the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, a radio call came in that patrol officer J.D. Tippit had been shot in Oak Cliff. McDonald was one of several officers who picked up Oswald's trail based on the description of a missing School Book Depository...[Read More] (Bio by: Ashley)
  Greenwood Cemetery, Camden, Ouachita County, Arkansas, USA
  Plot: Annex
   
• Meyer, Rhena Salome    b. 1905  d. January 21, 1988
  Known as the "Goat Woman" of Smackover, Arkansas, Rhena Meyer was an accomplished musician who could play seven instruments simultaneously as a one-woman band. When a circus she was with closed at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929, she and her husband, Charles Meyer, settled in the oil boom-town of Smackover, where they lived for decades in their 1915 Model-T circus/medicine-show truck. Mr. Meyer died in 1963. Rhena was widely known for her many pet goats. In the 1960s, she...[Read More]
  Liberty Cemetery, Louann, Ouachita County, Arkansas, USA
   

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