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artwork by Gary Beasley
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WHO ARE THOSEMy family was in Arkansas in the Vilonia area and around Searcy. Few records exist about their activities.
Both my parents were born and raised there in Arkansas. I don’t have a lot of info on my father’s side; the pile of pictures from my aunt had no notes to tell what was what.
My mother’s family did a bit better, and I do have a family shot of my great-grandfather Arly Furgeson with his parents and siblings from back in the days of glass plate cameras. They had a farm in the Cypress Valley area near Vilonia, Arkansas.
John Furgeson’s house in Cypress Valley, AR
My wife, Dale, also comes from a Southern family. Her grandfather, Merle Haywood Norton, used to drive the mule driven trolley from Marietta I think to Atlanta.
Her father went to the one room schoolhouse on Kennesaw Mountain through the eighth grade. She had a great great grandfather who was in Andersonville, who married a southern lady and homesteaded in Alabama.
Mule Trolley. Photo Credit: railga.com
Arly Furgeson and Family