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Margaret Fronabarger (b. 1845)
Notes for Margaret Fronabarger:
**Margaret Fronaburger previously married to Wallace Hickox on Feb. 8th, 1866,
Mrs. Margaret Fronabarger Hickox ( records read "Hickey")
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Pope County Historical Association Quarterly;Vol. 30; No. 4, December 1996; "The Early Settlement of Bell's Chapel,"Milton C. Tucker, pp. 27:
,,,,," Following the original Civil War, Union troops from the north came to the Southern states as occupation forces to stay through the reconstruction period.When the Confederate soldiers returned home from the war irritation tended to develop between the occupation forces and those returning veterans of the Confederate Army.....Among the Union soldiers who came to Pope County was one, Wallace Hickcox, who became county clerk at Dover.He met Margaret Fronabarger, the daughter of John Fronabarger, a very beautiful girl, and they were married on the 8th of February, 1866.....On August 31 of 1872, Wallace Hickcox, the county clerk, along with the sheriff and the deputy sheriff nailed up the doors to the county offices and left the courthouse.As they rode down main street a citizen of Dover fired at and killed Wallace Hickcox."
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Margaret married J. T. Claunch, widower,with two children.
U.S. Census, 1880, Pope Co., Wilson Twp, Ark.,shows J.T. Claunch 31,Mary E. Claunch8,C.M.Claunch 7,as "boarders" in house of W.H. Bruce
More About Margaret Fronabarger and Wallace Hickox:
Marriage: February.8.1866, Pope Co., Ark..
More About Margaret Fronabarger and John Truman "Tru" Claunch:
Marriage: October.14.1877, Galla Rock,Pope Co., Ark.
Marriage Notes for Margaret Fronabarger and John Truman "Tru" Claunch:
Marriage dates:Pope County Marriage Records, Books B&C; Russellville Public Library:
CLAUNCH, J. T., 28, to Miss Margaret E. HICKEY**, 30, both of Galla Rock TWP., 14 Oct. 1877,
by J.P. Lowry, MG, E-168
**Margaret Fronaburger previously married to Wallace Hickox on Feb. 8th, 1866
Children of Margaret Fronabarger and John Truman "Tru" Claunch are:
- +Lula Maud Claunch, b. June.9.1878, Atkins, Pope, Ark., d. May.13.1963, Morrilton, Conway Co., Ark..
- +Elsie Jane Claunch, b. October.23.1882, Atkins, Arkansas, d. October.29.1972, Vian, Oklahoma.
- +Clarence Vernon Claunch, b. September.4.1885, Atkins, Ark., d. November.4.1918, Atkins, Ark..