Arkansas
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Crawford County
From: Crawford
Co, AR Notebook, p. 33
(1830) "Census
shows 2,440 persons living in Crawford County, making it third in population; only behind
Lawrence and Hempstead Counties. Upper Township, in which Ft. Smith was located, had
a population of 876 whites, 135 slaves and 2 "Free Coloreds". Richland
Twp., in which "Van Buren" was located, had a population of 468 whites and 62
slaves. Among the wealthiest men in the county in this census year were Mark Bean,
Ben Moore Sr., John Dillard, Henry A. Quesenbury, Thomas Moore Sr., Ben Weaver, Wm.
Stagner, Nicholas Crouch and James Standefer. Arkansas
Territorial population reached 30,388 by this year."
Sebastian County
Goodspeed; ARKANSAS;
HISTORY OF SEBASTIAN COUNTY; p. 725.
"Murder of Seaburn
Standifer. - In September, 1847, a man named Hadley deliberately and in cold
blood shot and killed Seaburn Standifer, a citizen of the county, living about seven miles
south of Fort Smith. He was tried for the offense at Little Rock and acquitted."
Goodspeed. ARKANSAS;
HISTORY OF SEBASTIAN COUNTY; p. 693.
"The first
settlers on Mazzard Prairie, in addition to those already named, were Jesse,
Thomas and Seaburn Standifer and Samuel B. Stevens. The
early settlers were very fond of horse-racing, and near the residence of Samuel Caldwell,
on the south edge of Mazzard Prairie, they prepared and maintained a race-track on which
they trained their horses for speed."
