Eudocia Almeda Speakes/Speaks "Euda" Gresham was the youngest child and only daughter of Samuel Speaks of Virginia and his wife, Martha Ann Anderson Speaks of Clark County, Arkansas. Her parents both died when she was a child.
Her two brothers, were Edwin T. "E.T." Speaks who became a Dr. and made his home in Greenville, Texas, and William Anderson "W.A." Speakes, who became a planter and settled near Benoit, Mississippi.
Euda married William Wadley "W.W." "Will" Gresham from Mississippi and they remained in Arkadelphia, settling in the family home (built by her father, a carpenter, in 1858) on Caddo Street.
Euda and Will had two daughters, Elizabeth "Lizzie," who married William Claude Bradford and lived in Little Rock, and Beulah, who married Steve Edwin Smith and remained in Arkadelphia. Lizzie and Beulah produced five grandchildren. The daughters were both born in the family home and grew up in Arkadelphia, attending Ouachita Baptist College (now Ouachita Baptist University) where both majored in music.
W.W. Gresham was a merchant and owner/founder of the W.W. Gresham Mercantile Co. and the Gresham Opera House in Arkadelphia, as well as a store in Benoit, Mississippi.
Eudocia Almeda Speakes/Speaks "Euda" Gresham was the youngest child and only daughter of Samuel Speaks of Virginia and his wife, Martha Ann Anderson Speaks of Clark County, Arkansas. Her parents both died when she was a child.
Her two brothers, were Edwin T. "E.T." Speaks who became a Dr. and made his home in Greenville, Texas, and William Anderson "W.A." Speakes, who became a planter and settled near Benoit, Mississippi.
Euda married William Wadley "W.W." "Will" Gresham from Mississippi and they remained in Arkadelphia, settling in the family home (built by her father, a carpenter, in 1858) on Caddo Street.
Euda and Will had two daughters, Elizabeth "Lizzie," who married William Claude Bradford and lived in Little Rock, and Beulah, who married Steve Edwin Smith and remained in Arkadelphia. Lizzie and Beulah produced five grandchildren. The daughters were both born in the family home and grew up in Arkadelphia, attending Ouachita Baptist College (now Ouachita Baptist University) where both majored in music.
W.W. Gresham was a merchant and owner/founder of the W.W. Gresham Mercantile Co. and the Gresham Opera House in Arkadelphia, as well as a store in Benoit, Mississippi.
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