Descendants of Charles Woolverton



Wiley Uriah Halbrook and Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton


Husband Wiley Uriah Halbrook 1 

           Born: 21 Mar 1854 - Headwaters of Point Remove Creek, near Morrilton, Van Buren County, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died: 8 May 1904 - RFD, Cleveland, Van Buren, AR
         Buried:  - Woolverton Cem, Northeast of Morrilton, Van Buren, AR


         Father: Joseph Erwin  (Grandpap) Halbrook 1
         Mother: Molinda Rebecca Hilburn 1


       Marriage: Dec 1875

Wife Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton 

           Born: 1 May 1858 - Adamsville, McNairy County, TN
       Baptized: 
           Died: 21 Aug 1954 - Clinton, Van Buren County, AR
         Buried:  - Woolverton Cem, Northeast of Morrilton, Van Buren, AR


         Father: William Louis Woolverton {FGID: 42696034}
         Mother: Letitia Elizabeth (Aunt Letty) Goodjoin 1


Children
1 M ? Halbrook 

           Born: Bef 1878 - Conway County, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 






2  M  William Irwin Halbrook





            AKA: William Erwin, Willie Halbrook
           Born: 14 Mar 1878 - Conway County, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Minnie Lodusky Dickson
           Marr: 7 Jun 1906 - Methodist Church, Brinkley, Monroe, AR



         Spouse: Odell Holbrook
           Marr: Van Buren, AR






3  M  Ollie F. Halbrook





           Born: 16 Jan 1880 - Conway County, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died: 14 Jan 1881 - Conway County, AR
         Buried:  - Woolverton Cem, Northeast of Morrilton, Van Buren, AR








4  M  Oscar V. Halbrook





           Born:  - Conway County, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Rose Wells 1






5  M  Clarence Halbrook





           Born: 
       Baptized: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



         Spouse: Jennie Hammond 1






6  M  Christopher Columbus (Lum) Halbrook





            AKA: Lum Halbrook
           Born:  - Choctaw, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died:  - Clinton, Van Buren County, AR
         Buried:  - Huie Cem, near Choctaw, Van Buren, AR



         Spouse: Amanda Ward






7  M  Orlando Bolton Halbrook 1





           Born: 17 Jan 1885 - Van Buren, AR
       Baptized: 
           Died: 6 Oct 1934 - Cleveland, Conway County, AR
         Buried:  - Old Liberty Cem, Conway, AR



         Spouse: Anna Myrtle Koone
           Marr: 31 Jan 1916 - Van Buren, AR









General Notes: Husband - Wiley Uriah Halbrook



FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF21626

from William Erwin Halbrook - "A School Man of the Ozarks"

"Wiley Urijah Halbrook, my father, was born on the
head waters of Point Remove Creek in Van Buren County,
March 21, 1854. At the age of 21 he was engaged to my
mother, and like the pioneer young men of his day, ranged
over his hunting area to select a site for a home. He chose
one on an oak ridge near a lusty spring. He hewed logs
and rived boards from the nearby timber, secured lumber
for flooring from a distant sawmill, chinking the cracks between
the logs with chips' and daubing with mud, built a
chimney with native stones, to which home he would fetch
his bride.

My father married Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton during
Christmas week in 1875, the daughter of William
Louis and Letitia Woolverton. She was born May 1, 1858,
at Adamsville, McNairy county, Tennessee, moved to Arkansas
with her family in 1872, and settled on Lick Mountain,
Conway county, known to-day as Woolverton Mountain.
Her father was a prosperous farmer, owned slaves
prior to the Civil War. Eefore their migration to Arkansas
the family lived for a few years at Cottage Grove near
Paris, Tennessee, where my mother received an education
much beyond the girls of her day. So to his cabin my father
brought her as his wife, and here they started housekeeping
with such utensils as they could use in cooking on the fireplace.
A son was born that did not live. Here in this cabin,
March 14, 1878, was I born.

At that time it was customary for a settler to squat
on land, make a clearing, and if it suited him he later took
advantage of the homestead law, to file an application, live
on it a bona fide five years, make proof that this had been
done, and secure a title from the Federal Government for
as much as 160 acres. Accordingly, Father went to the
county seat some forty miles distant and filed his application
to this tract he had chosen for a home. There he
learned to his surprise that this tract on which he had
settled, made a clearing and built his home, had been granted
by Congress to a corporation as a subsidy for building a
railroad from Little Rock to Fort Smith.

Being unable to buy the land from the corporation,
Father filed a claim to a tract just north of the spring,
and proceeded to build another cabin and start all over.
Here were born four of my younger brothers, Ollie, Oscar,
Orlando, and Clarence; my youngest brother, Columbus
was born at Choctaw, where my father worked at a sawmill
for some time. My mother, as you see, had a fancy
for names beginning with the letter "O." I was named in
honor of both my grandfathers, William for my maternal
grandfather and Erwin for paternal one. William was also
the name of my paternal great-grandfather."


Research Notes: Husband - Wiley Uriah Halbrook



Wiley Ulysses Halbrook learned to read after he was married.  His wife
taught him to read and enjoyed telling about it, according to Winona
Halbrook Cannon.

"Wiley U. Halbrood built a cabiin for his bride, Sarah Elizabeth
Woolverton Halbrook,  When he went to the court house to file a claim to
homestead the land, he learned that he had built his house on land that
had been granted to a railroad corporation.  He built another house
nearby."
Conway County - Our Land, Our Home, Our People


General Notes: Wife - Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton



FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF21623

from William Erwin Halbrook - "A School Man of the Ozarks"

"My father married Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton during
Christmas week in 1875, the daughter of William
Louis and Letitia Woolverton. She was born May 1, 1858,
at Adamsville, McNairy county, Tennessee, moved to Arkansas
with her family in 1872, and settled on Lick Mountain,
Conway county, known to-day as Woolverton Mountain.
Her father was a prosperous farmer, owned slaves
prior to the Civil War. Before their migration to Arkansas
the family lived for a few years at Cottage Grove near
Paris, Tennessee, where my mother received an education
much beyond the girls of her day. So to his cabin my father
brought her as his wife, and here they started housekeeping
with such utensils as they could use in cooking on the fireplace.
A son was born that did not live. Here in this cabin,
March 14, 1878, was I born."

correspondence with Derrick Cannon


Research Notes: Wife - Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton



The Civil War Battle of Shiloh was fought close enough to her home that
she heard the roar of the cannons.  (William Erwin Halbrook's "A School
Man of the Ozarks", p160)

She started teaching when she was 15 years old.  She was a teacher for a
short while until about the time that she was married.

Called Sarah Jane in Conway Co, history


Notes: Marriage



FTM
MARR: RIN MH:FF6195






Sources






1. Conway County - Our Land, Our Home, Our People.







Sources






1
Conway County - Our Land, Our Home, Our People.


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