James Wickersham b. 17 Oct 1823 Mercer, KY, d. 6 Feb 1908 Yellville, AR.
Married Narcisa (Hamlet) Wickersham.
Parents Daniel Boone Wickersham and Susannah Martin Wickersham.
Children Daniel, Abner, Elmer, John W., Jessee, James E.,
George W.
Above info supplied by Lynda Witherspoon Finch
The following info supplied by: Barbara Chipres
James Wickersham was but a lad when he came to this county, and his early educational advantages were limited. He began doing for himself in 1846, he then being about twenty years of age, when he married Miss Hamblet, whose parents Abner and Sarah (Inge) Hamblet, came to this section about 1842, relocating on a farm on which they died in 1864 and 1867, respectively ....Immediately after his marriage, James Wickersham located on a farm one mile from Yellville, but in 1853 moved to the farm on which he now resides. In addition to tilling the soil he has followed the occupation of a carpenter to some extent and has erected many substantial buildings. He is the owner of about 600 acres of good farming land and has raised considerable stock. In 1863 he went to Missouri, where he made his home for two years, then returned to Arkansas, and has since been one of the most substantial citizens of Marion County. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a deacon, and in that faith they have reared their children.
Goodspeed Brothers, A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, p. 207
The town council last Monday night passed an ordinance forbidding blacksmith shops being built or blacksmithing done within 20 feet of any frame building. It also ordered the Marshall to set back all the fences on the street running past the parsonage to the lines of the recent survey ... This will make a near 40 foot street that will be very valuable to the town. "Uncle" Jim Wickersham kindly gives the town to use the street and improve it, but has not yet given a deed, but will as soon as the town is able to pay him for it.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County Arkansas, 10-10-1890
James Wickersham, Sr. hadn't "so kindly consented" to let the town improve the street running by the parsonage as we heard last week. He kindly (?) informed the Marshall that if he didn't quit work on it he would have him and all the work hands arrested. Just what damage was being done no one has discovered. He claims about half the streets in town and says they shall not be opened for less than $100 per acre.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10-17-1890
Bud McVey had a dog to go mad last Sunday evening near Uncle Jim Wickershams. The alarm was given in a short time 20 or 30 excited boys and men were on hand and the dog was shot. He had followed Mrs. McVey to Mr. Wickersham's and had been out where the children were playing for quite awhile and came into the house and took a fit. The folks managed to get him out the door and "Uncle Jim" went after help. It would be a good time to kill about 9 tenths of the dogs in Yellville.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10/3/1890
His birth date has been given a 1 Nov 1824, 17 Sept 1823 and 1826 and his birthplace as Terre Haute, Indiana
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc., 2001
Married Narcisa (Hamlet) Wickersham.
Parents Daniel Boone Wickersham and Susannah Martin Wickersham.
Children Daniel, Abner, Elmer, John W., Jessee, James E.,
George W.
Above info supplied by Lynda Witherspoon Finch
The following info supplied by: Barbara Chipres
James Wickersham was but a lad when he came to this county, and his early educational advantages were limited. He began doing for himself in 1846, he then being about twenty years of age, when he married Miss Hamblet, whose parents Abner and Sarah (Inge) Hamblet, came to this section about 1842, relocating on a farm on which they died in 1864 and 1867, respectively ....Immediately after his marriage, James Wickersham located on a farm one mile from Yellville, but in 1853 moved to the farm on which he now resides. In addition to tilling the soil he has followed the occupation of a carpenter to some extent and has erected many substantial buildings. He is the owner of about 600 acres of good farming land and has raised considerable stock. In 1863 he went to Missouri, where he made his home for two years, then returned to Arkansas, and has since been one of the most substantial citizens of Marion County. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a deacon, and in that faith they have reared their children.
Goodspeed Brothers, A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, p. 207
The town council last Monday night passed an ordinance forbidding blacksmith shops being built or blacksmithing done within 20 feet of any frame building. It also ordered the Marshall to set back all the fences on the street running past the parsonage to the lines of the recent survey ... This will make a near 40 foot street that will be very valuable to the town. "Uncle" Jim Wickersham kindly gives the town to use the street and improve it, but has not yet given a deed, but will as soon as the town is able to pay him for it.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County Arkansas, 10-10-1890
James Wickersham, Sr. hadn't "so kindly consented" to let the town improve the street running by the parsonage as we heard last week. He kindly (?) informed the Marshall that if he didn't quit work on it he would have him and all the work hands arrested. Just what damage was being done no one has discovered. He claims about half the streets in town and says they shall not be opened for less than $100 per acre.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10-17-1890
Bud McVey had a dog to go mad last Sunday evening near Uncle Jim Wickershams. The alarm was given in a short time 20 or 30 excited boys and men were on hand and the dog was shot. He had followed Mrs. McVey to Mr. Wickersham's and had been out where the children were playing for quite awhile and came into the house and took a fit. The folks managed to get him out the door and "Uncle Jim" went after help. It would be a good time to kill about 9 tenths of the dogs in Yellville.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10/3/1890
His birth date has been given a 1 Nov 1824, 17 Sept 1823 and 1826 and his birthplace as Terre Haute, Indiana
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc., 2001
James Wickersham b. 17 Oct 1823 Mercer, KY, d. 6 Feb 1908 Yellville, AR.
Married Narcisa (Hamlet) Wickersham.
Parents Daniel Boone Wickersham and Susannah Martin Wickersham.
Children Daniel, Abner, Elmer, John W., Jessee, James E.,
George W.
Above info supplied by Lynda Witherspoon Finch
The following info supplied by: Barbara Chipres
James Wickersham was but a lad when he came to this county, and his early educational advantages were limited. He began doing for himself in 1846, he then being about twenty years of age, when he married Miss Hamblet, whose parents Abner and Sarah (Inge) Hamblet, came to this section about 1842, relocating on a farm on which they died in 1864 and 1867, respectively ....Immediately after his marriage, James Wickersham located on a farm one mile from Yellville, but in 1853 moved to the farm on which he now resides. In addition to tilling the soil he has followed the occupation of a carpenter to some extent and has erected many substantial buildings. He is the owner of about 600 acres of good farming land and has raised considerable stock. In 1863 he went to Missouri, where he made his home for two years, then returned to Arkansas, and has since been one of the most substantial citizens of Marion County. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a deacon, and in that faith they have reared their children.
Goodspeed Brothers, A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, p. 207
The town council last Monday night passed an ordinance forbidding blacksmith shops being built or blacksmithing done within 20 feet of any frame building. It also ordered the Marshall to set back all the fences on the street running past the parsonage to the lines of the recent survey ... This will make a near 40 foot street that will be very valuable to the town. "Uncle" Jim Wickersham kindly gives the town to use the street and improve it, but has not yet given a deed, but will as soon as the town is able to pay him for it.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County Arkansas, 10-10-1890
James Wickersham, Sr. hadn't "so kindly consented" to let the town improve the street running by the parsonage as we heard last week. He kindly (?) informed the Marshall that if he didn't quit work on it he would have him and all the work hands arrested. Just what damage was being done no one has discovered. He claims about half the streets in town and says they shall not be opened for less than $100 per acre.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10-17-1890
Bud McVey had a dog to go mad last Sunday evening near Uncle Jim Wickershams. The alarm was given in a short time 20 or 30 excited boys and men were on hand and the dog was shot. He had followed Mrs. McVey to Mr. Wickersham's and had been out where the children were playing for quite awhile and came into the house and took a fit. The folks managed to get him out the door and "Uncle Jim" went after help. It would be a good time to kill about 9 tenths of the dogs in Yellville.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10/3/1890
His birth date has been given a 1 Nov 1824, 17 Sept 1823 and 1826 and his birthplace as Terre Haute, Indiana
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc., 2001
Married Narcisa (Hamlet) Wickersham.
Parents Daniel Boone Wickersham and Susannah Martin Wickersham.
Children Daniel, Abner, Elmer, John W., Jessee, James E.,
George W.
Above info supplied by Lynda Witherspoon Finch
The following info supplied by: Barbara Chipres
James Wickersham was but a lad when he came to this county, and his early educational advantages were limited. He began doing for himself in 1846, he then being about twenty years of age, when he married Miss Hamblet, whose parents Abner and Sarah (Inge) Hamblet, came to this section about 1842, relocating on a farm on which they died in 1864 and 1867, respectively ....Immediately after his marriage, James Wickersham located on a farm one mile from Yellville, but in 1853 moved to the farm on which he now resides. In addition to tilling the soil he has followed the occupation of a carpenter to some extent and has erected many substantial buildings. He is the owner of about 600 acres of good farming land and has raised considerable stock. In 1863 he went to Missouri, where he made his home for two years, then returned to Arkansas, and has since been one of the most substantial citizens of Marion County. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a deacon, and in that faith they have reared their children.
Goodspeed Brothers, A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, p. 207
The town council last Monday night passed an ordinance forbidding blacksmith shops being built or blacksmithing done within 20 feet of any frame building. It also ordered the Marshall to set back all the fences on the street running past the parsonage to the lines of the recent survey ... This will make a near 40 foot street that will be very valuable to the town. "Uncle" Jim Wickersham kindly gives the town to use the street and improve it, but has not yet given a deed, but will as soon as the town is able to pay him for it.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County Arkansas, 10-10-1890
James Wickersham, Sr. hadn't "so kindly consented" to let the town improve the street running by the parsonage as we heard last week. He kindly (?) informed the Marshall that if he didn't quit work on it he would have him and all the work hands arrested. Just what damage was being done no one has discovered. He claims about half the streets in town and says they shall not be opened for less than $100 per acre.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10-17-1890
Bud McVey had a dog to go mad last Sunday evening near Uncle Jim Wickershams. The alarm was given in a short time 20 or 30 excited boys and men were on hand and the dog was shot. He had followed Mrs. McVey to Mr. Wickersham's and had been out where the children were playing for quite awhile and came into the house and took a fit. The folks managed to get him out the door and "Uncle Jim" went after help. It would be a good time to kill about 9 tenths of the dogs in Yellville.
The Mountain Echo, Marion County, Arkansas, 10/3/1890
His birth date has been given a 1 Nov 1824, 17 Sept 1823 and 1826 and his birthplace as Terre Haute, Indiana
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc., 2001
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