Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Amos Doyle BATES

1.  Amos lived in Amarillo, Texas in 1988...


Willie Laurelle WILEY

1.  Willie attended the Church of Christ.  [Ancestry.com offers name as Lanelle W. Wiley]

2.  He was a retired farmer and carpenter.

3.  The service for burial was graveside service only.  He was buried at the Hoskins Cemetery, Crow Mountain, Pope, Arkansas.  Lemley Funeral Service in charge of Atkins, Arkansas.

4.  Information from the obituary in the Daily Record, Russellville, Arkansas, paper.

5.  As of December, 2001, he had 5 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.


James Ewing BARTLETT

1.  James graduated from Hector High School and Arkansas Tech...

    His childhood years were at Appleton and he attended school at the Appleton School thru the 8th grade.  He went to Hector High School and graduated in 1946.  Following graduation,  he went to California to be with his grandparents and find a job.  James worked at the box factory that his grandfather worked at for about 6 months.  He returned to Appleton and got a job at International Shoe Factory at Russellville.  His job was scheduling the work to be done in the manufacturing area.  

    Uncle Sam called and he went to the Army in December 1950.  He was stationed at Ft. Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas and was with the 5th Armored Division.  He was discharged in December of 1952 and went back to Internation Shoe Company.

    June 12, 1953, James married Wynona Spears, from Jerusalem, Arkansas.  He quit his job at Internation Shoe Factory in August 1954 and started to college at Arkasnas Tech University.  James completed his B. S. degree in less than 3 calendar years and went to work for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.  He worked for them at Fort Smith, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee and El Dorado, Arkansas.   April 1, 1960, he began working for Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department in Little Rock, Arkansas.  He worked there in Utilities (getting utilities moved for highway construction or improvement) for 28 years before retiring.  He retired as Chief of the Utility Section.

    James was born at his grandparents home at Dover.  His mother had gone to visit her parents for a few days and the road between Appleton and Dover was rocky, rough and a dirt one.  The trip was probably too much and James arrived 3 weeks early.

    James' summer time was filled with helping his mother (Pauline) and his daddy (Covey) with work that would help them.  Occasionally, he would get  to go and visit for a week with his grandparents, General and Eva Tuck.  

    During the high school years, James helped show movies at different locations.  These were shown at Appleton on Saturday night but during the week were shown at other small towns.  James' job was to run the projector and many people depended on this for some of their entertainment.  

    Earlier in life, James had a little dog named "Penny"  that went all over the farm with him and was a great deal of company to James.  Penny would come to the Appleton School at lunch and go to the girls first, set up and beg for food.  He always got plenty to eat even though he was fed well at home.  He never went to school on Saturday or Sunday, probably because James wasn't at school either on those days.  Never could decide why he didn't go on Sunday's since the family always came to Appleton to church.

    James had black hair when he was growing up.  He always said his hair turned gray because he was living with a Spears.  Most of his hair is gone now (like the relatives that were men of the Lemley family) and we have a very good saying for this - "You never saw a marble top on cheap furniture."  Wynona always says she got the most perfect man she ever met and she believes this.

    Traveling for James and Wynona during the working years was a 2 week vacation some of which, where in the states and probably visiting relatives but their hope was to retire,  move back to Wynona's home place and travel.  This they did by remodeling and adding on the home place 3 times and having traveled to all the continents except Antarctica.  They have refused to go there 3 times due to the extreme cold and the scenery being ice and penguins.  They have crossed the oceans 30 times since they retired and traveled 50 states (2004).  

    James and Wynona celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2003 in the Bahamas after a surprise celebration at the Jerusalem Church of Christ a few days before they left on the trip.

    They are active in work of the Jerusalem Church of Christ, VFW and Ladies Auxiliary, Community Building, upkeep of the Cedar Creek Cemetery and helping people in the community.

    They do enjoy life and doing things together.  Where you see one of them, you will see the other one.  

    Earl L. Jones, has visited in their home a few times, the last time being in 2006 with son Aaron Tood Jones...we were served good food, discussed much "family history" and has to say this....what a Bartlett pair!!!!


Wynona SPEARS

1.  Wynona graduated from Jerusalem High School...

2.  She attended Arkansas Tech...

3.  Wynona & James are quite a pair...friendly...caring...loves life...and they love their "Family History", and have provided much data for this research.  They get an "A+" grade.   

James & Wynona Bartlett
P. O. Box 53
Jerusalem, Ark 72080
1-501-669-2381
E-mail: jebart@ipa.net

    Wynona was born at Jerusalem and lived in Jerusalem all her life until she went to college.  She attended school at Jerusalem School and graduated in May of 1949.  She attended college at Arkansas Tech University.  She taught math and science at Jerusalem School but quit to find a job that would pay all year instead of a 9 month school term.  She had talked James into quitting his job and going to college and didn't want him to work while he was going to college.

    Wynona worked in the Standards and Payroll Section of Arkansas Cotton Mills, Morrilton, Arkansas.  When James transferred from Fort Smith,Arkansas, to Memphis, Tennessee, with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Wynona worked for Union Planters National Bank in the Exchange Department.  When James transferred to El Dorado, Arkansas, Wynona worked at Warner Brown Hospital.  She worked 5 days a week and had a different job every day.  May 9th, 1960, Wynona went to work for Chicopee, Inc.  This was a division of Johnson and Johnson and this was after James was working for Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department.  There was a large mill at Chicopee at that time but when Wynona retired 30 yearslater (June 1, 1990) there were 4 large mills there.  She was one of 4 superintendents in the 4 mills.

    Traveling for James and Wynona during the working years was a 2 weeks vacation some where in the states and probably visiting relatives but their hope was to retire, move back to Wynona's home place and travel.  This they did by remodeling and adding on to the home place 3 times and having traveled to all the continents except Antarctica.  They have refused to go there 3 times due to the extreme cold and the scenery being ice and penguins.  They have crossed the oceans 30 times since they retired and traveled 50 states (2004).

    James and Wynona celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2003 in the Bahamas after a surprise celebration at the Jerusalem Church of Christ a few days before they left on the trip.

    They are active in work of the Jerusalem Church of Christ, VFW and LadiesAuxiliary, Community Building, upkeep of the Cedar Creek Cemetery and helping people in the community.  They do enjoy life and doing things together.  Where you see one of them,you will see the other one...The Bartlett Pair.


John Eli "Je" CHURCH "Jr."

1.  Notes from Wynona S. Bartlett and Eura Faye Norwood...


Luther Mack NORWOOD

1.  Sources:  Notes from Eura Faye Norwood records...
                     Wynona S. Bartlett article...
                     Eric Newson Book, P. 68, 69.


Eura Faye SPEARS

1.  Eura Faye was Assistant Postmaster of Jerusalem, Arkansas from 1948 to 1998.

Mack & Eura Faye Norwood
P. O. Box 3
Jerusalem, Arkansas - 72080