Laura Ella James

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Belle

Laura married Griffen Bradley between 1884 and 1917. Griffen was born between 1853 and 1873; died between 1887 and 1959. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alt. Born May 09, 1846
Fine Springs, Rudy Township, Crawford County, Arkansas

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Alt. Died April 09, 1891

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Burial Unknown
Love Cem

William married Millie Malinda Fine in Dec 1865. Millie (daughter of Jonathan Alfred Fine and Rachael Bracken Mankins) was born on 26 Nov 1845 in Washington Co., AR; died on 13 Sep 1891 in Fine Springs AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alt. Born November 26, 1845
Washington County, Arkansas

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Alt. Died September 13, 1891

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Lov Cem 3 mi. north of Alma AR

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Millie Fine

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Robert married Elizabeth Freeman between 1821 and 1864. Elizabeth was born after 1804 in Cannon Co. TN; died between 1849 and 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes for Jonathan Alfred Fine:
1861 Crawford, Arkansas, USA; Bought farm and spring from Hugh R. and Sarah Ann Frazier....Big Spring was then known as Fine Springs.

William and Cathrine Sivley Fine, son Jonathan Fine and his wife moved to TX about 1856. They went way down in TX to visit (Uncle Jake Sivley).

Jonathan's family moved back to Ark in 1859 and in Civil War one of their sons forced in Union Army in Ark., age 16, went over the hill with another neighbor boy and he knew the way into Texas. They went to Uncle Jake Siviey and joined the Confederate Army and got up with their older brother fighting in LA. War ended and one of the Fine brothers went to Uncle Jakes and stayed almost two years
before comming back to Ark. One of the (5) brothers died on way home only 100 miles from home.

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Fact 1: 1828, moved to Arkansas.
Fact 2: 1856, moved to Texas...to Visit Uncle Jake Sivley
Fact 3: 1859, moved back to Arkansas
Fact 4: 1859, brought herd of cattle (Source: Census* 12 Jul 1860 Bell Point Post Office, Lafayette, Crawford, Arkansas, USA.)

Notes for Rachel Mankins:
Death* 24 Feb 1897 At the home of George Fine, Hanson, Sequoia, Indian
Territory, USA. , Burial* 28 Feb 1897

Marriage Notes for Jonathan Fine and Rachel Mankins:
History of Benton County
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
William M. James was born on the farm where he now lives, in Rudy Township,
Crawford Co., Ark., in May, 1846, and is a son of Robert and Elizabeth
(Freeman) James, natives of Warren and Cannon Counties, Middle Tenn.,
respectively. In 1842 they immigrated to Crawford County, locating at Van
Buren, and two years later moved upon the farm our subject now owns, which
formerly belonged to Mr. James' brother, John. Robert and John were both
carpenters, and built three of the first gins
erected in the county. In 1849 Robert went to California, and mined for seven
years, after which he was never heard of. The grandfather, William James, was
of English descent, born in Carolina, and early settled in Warren County,
Tenn., where he died. The mother of our subject was married a second time, in
1854, to Moses Ford, and died in November, 1885, aged sixty. She belonged to
the Methodist Church. William M. is the third of five children. One of his
brothers, Romulus, died in the Little Rock hospital of measles during the war
while in the Confederate service. William remained at home until sixteen, and
then began farming on his own account. Two years later he joined Company G, of
the Sixth Kansas Battery, and a month later went to Texas, where he remained
until the close of the war. He then returned home, and in December, 1866,
married Millie, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel Fine, who were born in
Tennessee, in 1814, and Kentucky, in 1819, respectively. They were reared and
married in Washington County, Ark., and in 1858 came to Crawford County,
settling at Fine Springs, where the father died in
1875, and the mother still lives. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. James was a
pioneer of Washington County, Ark., where he died, and the maternal
grandfather, Peter Mankins, was also an early settler of that county. He
outlived four wives, and died a few years ago at the advanced age of one
hundred and thirteen. Mrs. James was born in Washington County, Ark., and has
borne our subject ten children, five sons and five daughters, all of whom are
Undisclosed in the neighborhood of their birth-place. Mr. James is a self-made man,
and has 356 acres of land, 125 being in bottom land. He is a successful stock
raiser, owns seven fine jacks, and spares no pains in the cultivation of his
stock. He has a large number of Poland China hogs, and is one of the well-to-
do men of the county. He has always been a Democrat in politics, and cast his
first presidential vote for Greeley. He has given his children good
educations, and one son is now attending school at Pea Ridge. Mrs. James
belongs to the Primitive Baptist Church.

Children of Jonathan Fine and Rachel Mankins are:
270 i. William Riley5 Fine, born November 01, 1837.
+ 271 ii. Peter Fine, born February 09, 1839 in Az.; died December 10, 1882 in Newberry Chapel Cemetery, Rudy, Crawford CountyArkansas.
272 iii. Alfred Fine, born December 06, 1840; died 1865.

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Cause of Death: died of pneumonia.

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Alt. Died November 12, 1875
Washington Co. AR.

Burial
Newberry Chapel Cemetery

Jonathan married Rachael Bracken Mankins in 1836 in Washington County, Arkansas. Rachael (daughter of Peter Mankins, Sr. and Rachel Bracken) was born on 26 Jan 1819 in Floyd County, Kentucky; died on 24 Feb 1897 in At The Home Of George Fine Near Hanson, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mrs. Rachel Fine Obituary

Died on the morning of Feb. 25, 1897 at the house of George Fine
near Hanson, I. I , Mrs, Rachel Fine in the 79th year or her age.

Grandma Fine, as she was familiar known, had Long been a res-
ident of Rudy township, in this county, where her remains were
brought for burial. She was a daughter or the late venerable
Peter Mankins of Washington County, 'she lived to the ripe old age
or 111 years. She was a member of tne Baptist Church and died as
she had lived, a devoted mother and grandmother, a true and faith-
ful Christian. She 1eaves behind her to mourn her loss a family
of seven sons, Walter, John, Carrol , Thomas , Hamilton , George and Calvin,
and one daughter, Mrs. Rachel Taylor, also seuenty grand-
children and thirty great-qrandchildren. Her renains were laid
to rest in Newberry Chapel Cemetery by the side oF the grave of
her husband, Jonathan Fine, who died twenty years ago.

Neighbors and friends in number more than two hundred assembled at the home of the deceased to join in Lhe last sad offices to the one they loved so well. The funeral services were by Pillows and White with (remaining three lines Ileqible).

Copied. from the old scrapbook Of John Calvin Fine,
Cleburna, texas, by his son, Peter Cooper Fine,. on
December 13, 1963. This obituary was in a Crawford
County, Ark. paper.

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Burial
Newberry Chapel Cemetery

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Notes for William Fine:
William and Cathrine Sivley Fine, son Jonathan Fine and his wife moved to TX about 1856. They went way down in TX to visit (Uncle Jake Sivley).

William & Cathrine Sivley Fine moved down to Huntsville before War
1812 and bought 180 acres off the plantation. Lived there until Jacob
died. William was soldier War 1812 and was discharged Dec. 22, 1813, they moved back into Tenn and sold back to plantation. By Lottery in D. C. soldier got 160 acres of the best of land in Ark, Mo & Ill__2 million acres set aside - and
William Fine's land was in a big valley 7 miles below Fayetteville
Ark. They came over land, came up, crossed Miss river on Ferry St.
Louis and turn into Mo down into Ark. Left Tenn 8 of Oct 1828 didn't
reach their land till in Mar 12 1829. Cathrine Sivley Fine lived 17
years longer than her husband. Lived to be 89 years old and her and
her husband buried in a unmark grave in a family graveyard on the land
given him for service war 1812.

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Alt. Born 1781
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Alt. Died September 04, 1864
Washington County, Arkansas

William married Catherine Sievely on 2 Apr 1807 in Jefferson County, Tennessee At Her Parent's Home By Reverand Lessee. Catherine was born in 1791 in Tennessee; died in 1881 in Washington County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FLASHBACK, Published by the Washington County, AR Historical Society
February 1988

Mankins, Peter, SR and Rachel
by Ouida Hunter Harkreader

Peter Mankins, who lived for more than 111 years, was one of the early
pioneers in Arkansas and the progenitor of many Washington Co. families. As a
child he played near George Washington's home. He lived through The
Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, and The Civil War.

Arkansas (Indian word meaning "downstream people") became the 25th state on
June 15, 1836. Fayetteville was incorporated the same year, and a chain
bearer for the surveyors was named Mankins.

Fayetteville had few houses when the Peter Mankins family came to the
Territory. Peter cleared the cane breaks along the west fork of the White
River, built a home and lived there for the rest of his life. In 1834, three
parcels of land were listed under his name in the Township 15 29th West and
5th meridian, known as White River Township.

Peter welcomed statehood in 1836, helped build schools and churches, worked
for good government, always voted -- first as a Whig, later Democrat. He
voted for Thomas Jefferson, General Hancock and 13 others. In 1861 he saw the
division of families and friends as Arkansas joined The Confederacy. At age
90 he was taken prisoner by
Union troops. In 1868 when Arkansas was readmitted under the Reconstruction
act, Peter was present.

Peter Mankins, Sr. was born Sept. 19, 1790 at Cedar Creek, MD, almost exactly
where the Kennedy Center is now. He died Dec. 30, 1881 and is buried in the
Reese Cemetery. His death was duly reported by Col. J.H. Hoose, who wrote, "I
daresay he never uttered an untruth willfully in the whole course of his
life; there was no deceit or hypocrisy in him. He was always plain and
outspoken, honest in his dealings with his fellow man, and ever ready to
assist the needy and distressed. If he ever had an enemy he outlived them all
for he left only friends."

But Arkansas was not the only state Peter helped settle. He had watched
George Washington's army as it marched through Alexandria, VA to meet
Cornwallis.
In 1803, in Orange County, NC he married Rachel Bracken Lewis, widow of
Zachariah
Lewis and mother of three children: George, Lydia, and Bracken Lewis. Peter
and
Rachel had eleven children, six sons and five daughters. Three sons, John B.,
William and Walter (named for his uncle) were born in Orange Co. NC.

In 1809 the Mankins and the Lewis children came through the Cumberland
Gap to the Block House, a rude fort near Prestonburg in Kentucky. Peter
cleared a Beech forest and built near the fort. During the War of 1812 with
England, Mankins was in charge of Harmonies Station, repaired its blockhouses
to protect the women in case of Indian trouble. In 1827 Peter sold his farm
to Samuel Porter, went to newly opened country in Illinois for a year,
returned to Kentucky, and purchased a big farm near Paintsville. Later it
was sold to Moses Preston. He then went back to Illinois for a short stay
before moving to the White River. Rachel bore eight children in Kentucky:
Peter Jr., Henry, Samuel, Edith (Enos Mills), Rachel (Jonathan Fine), Millie
(William B. Fine), Sarah, and Elizabeth.

Rachel was the daughter of Isaac Braken and Rachel Stalcop, whose marriage is
recorded in the Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, DE, Aug. 31, 1769

Members of the Price family (owner of the farm in White River Township) think
it is Rachel who is buried on the farm they call "Homeplace".

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Alt. Died December 30, 1881
Sulpher City, Washington Co. AR

Burial Unknown
Reese Cemetery, on middle fork

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Peter Mankins

Peter married Rachel Bracken on 23 Sep 1803 in Orange County, NC. Rachel was born about 1776 in Orange Co. NC; died about 1849 in Washington Co. AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rachel Brackin