Mac Pasley William Pasley, born February, 1834, in Indian Territory, and Lucinda Jane Diven Edmiston Pasley, widow of Moses Edmiston, and second wife of William, born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1828, were married in Washington County, Arkansas, in the 1860s. Their children were Loretta, Mac Crawford, Martin Luther, and Hattie. Mac Crawford Pasley, born March 4, 1866, near Rhea's Mill, Arkansas, was my grandfather. After he finished the Amity School, Mac's family attempted to send him to Cane Hill College, a forerunner of the University of Arkansas. The dormitory for boys was apparently too restrictive for Grandpa. He refused to stay and his folks had to let him move home. On December 29, 1886, at age 20, he married 19-year-old Mary Bell McCord, daughter of James H. McCord, a school teacher, and Mary Jane Hartley McCord. After the birth of their first two children, Daisy Dolorita, April 1, 1888, and my father, Albert Vane, April 19, 1890, near Rhea's Mill, Grandpa moved his family by wagon to a farm near Vinita in Indian Territory, (now eastern Oklahoma). Edna Earle was their first child born after the move on August 3, 1892. Aunt Edna later related to us that it was the Barn area of Mac Crawford Pasley Farm 3 miles east of Cincinnati, Arkansas. L. to R.: son, Albert Vane Pasley and Mac Crawford Pasley Albert V. Pasley's 1912 English Class, Siloam Springs High School. custom in those days for pioneer families to provide hospitality for travelers since there were no inns for miles on the prairie. She remembered that one dark, rainy night, when she was about three years old, two horsemen knocked on their door and asked to spend the night. Her father invited them into their two room cabin and her mother fixed supper for the horsemen. But Edna was wary of the strangers. She sat in her little rocker by the fireplace, rocking her cat and watching the visitors. She didn't want to talk, but one of the men started teasing her about the cat's name. He said its name was Saskewatchen. She replied that it was not and refused to talk any more-. The Pasley family all slept in one room, even the strangers who slept with their saddles on the floor. After breakfast the next morning, they were on their way. Grandpa's family prospered on the prairie and more children were born; Gertie Bell, November 25, 1895, followed by Jennie Grace, April 6, 1898. Another boy, Robert H., was born October 10, 1900. On July 21, 1903, the family received a bonus; twins, Jesse Ray and Bessy May. The little Pasleys attended school with the Cherokee Indian children. Aunt Edna stated that they thought nothing of being the only "white" students in school as they knew their grandfather, William, was part Cherokee. But times were not always happy for the family. Grief and disappointment were unwelcome visitors. Little Gertie Bell died of membraneous croup March 23, 1897. One year after a season of dry weather, Christmas neared and there was money only for the barest necessities. My father, Allie, Pasley Twins, L. to R.: Bessy May and Jesse Ray, about two years old, 1905. Children of Mac Crawford Pasley and Mary Belle McCord Pasley of Cincinnati, Arkansas. Taken at Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Hew related that he and his brother and sisters were expecting no presents when their papa went to Vinita to buy a few provisions. But, to the children's glee, their beloved papa returned to their cabin with two sacks. One contained groceries and the other had presents. When the young father related his plight to the store keeper, the kindly merchant told him to select a gift for each child. My father, who was fascinated with penmanship, had a life-long memory of the pencil box received that Christmas, as the most cherished present of his childhood. Grandfather Mac's youngest sister, Hattie and her husband, George Barton, lived a few miles east of Cincinnati, Arkansas. Uncle George was a miller at Moore's Mill near Eureka School and the Bartons' home. Although the Bartons had no children, they knew of the good reputation of the Eureka School. Children attending ranged from the ages of 6 to 20. In Indian Territory most schools were the subscription type with terms as short as three months. Thus the Mac Pasleys pondered a return to Washington County where the children could get a better education. My grandfather made a trip from Vinita to Rhea's Mill to visit his parents and brother, Luther, as well as the Bartons near Cincinnati. His main purpose was to scout the area for a farm. He located one for sale near his sister in the Cincinnati area near Eureka School. He hired two drivers with covered wagons to return with him to his home in Indian Territory. His father also accompanied the group to help with the move. My Aunt Grace remembered that the twins were about six months old at the time they moved in December, 1903. The weather was very cold so Grandfather Mac sent my grandmother with Grace, age 5, Robert, age 3, the twins, and their grandfather, William, on the train from Vinita to Westville, where they were met by Uncle George Barton. He took the traveling Pasleys to his home to await the arrival of the covered wagon caravan from Indian Territory. Grand pa Pasley and the drivers loaded three covered wagons to make ready for their journey to Cincinnati, Arkansas. Allie and Doto, ages 13 and 15, rode in the wagon with their papa. When ready to board, one of the hired drivers announced that he had a bottle of whiskey and needed someone to sit beside him to protect his spirits from breakage. Eleven-year-old Edna quickly volunteered for the job. Even though the children were dressed warmly, with quilts to shield them from the cold, Aunt Dolo's toes were frost bitten during the trip. At night, the wagons served as sleeping quarters. Before planting time in the spring of 1904, the Mac Pasleys were settled in their new home east of Cincinnati, Arkansas, and Dolo, Allie, Edna and Grace were enrolled in Eureka School. Aunt Dolo helped her mother with the housework, canning, sewing all the children's clothes, caring for the twins and the last baby, Mac Emerson, born October 7, 1906. My father and Aunt Edna helped Grandpa with the farm where he raised a garden, corn, wheat, oats, and some cattle. Grandpa had two teams of horses and a team of mules. By 1905, he and Allie had set out a 40-acre apple orchard. My Uncle Robert related that Grandpa was Sunday School Superintendent of the Methodist Church at Cincinnati for about six years. He was also a Justice of the Peace. In that capacity, he performed a number of marriage ceremonies for couples in the Cincinnati area. In addition, he belonged to the Masonic Lodge of Cincinnati. His father was a member of the Prairie Grove Lodge. By the spring of 1906, Aunt Dolo had finished Eureka School. She took a civil service test and was appointed postmistress at Cincinnati at the age of 18! During her tenure as postmistress, she contracted a severe case of measles, and was in bed for several weeks. Prolonged bed rest was the prescribed treatment for severe illnesses in that era. Dolo gave up the job at the post office. Upon her recovery, she took the Washington County Teachers Exam, passed, and was certified to teach. Her first school was at Rennie, near Cincinnati. The next was War Eagle. Dolo's last school was at Colony, north of Cincinnati, on State Highway 59. During a term at Colony, she married Roy May, of Cincinnati, on August 20, 1922. They settled on a nearby farm and she continued to teach one more term. They later operated the Cincinnati telephone switchboard. After Allie graduated from Eureka he worked on the farm. Later, he attended high school in Siloam Springs for one year. Then he took the civil service test about 1913 for rural mail carrier. He scored well and was assigned a route out of the Rhea's Mill Post Office. About 1919, Grandpa's apple orchard had a bumper crop. He made enough money to build the large house they had wanted for their large family. Grandmother Mary Bell subscribed to the Holland's Magazine, where she got the ideas for the dream house. She drew the plans and work was started on the residence about 1/8 mile east of the old house. The new place had a two-story wing containing six bedrooms and a parlor. The one-story west wing had a large dining room, kitchen, large pantry lined with shelves for canned food, and screened porches on the north and south sides of the dining room. There was space off a hallway between the dining room and a back bedroom for the bath. No stairway was visible from the first floor. It was hidden by a door in the dining room. The arrangement also prevented downstairs heat from escaping up the stairway. A small water pump in the kitchen sink produced water with a slight push and pull of the handle. Another special feature was the pass through china cabinet between the kitchen and dining room. The two story section had an outside porch that wrapped around two sides. About the time the house was completed, Grandpa Mac developed Parkinson's disease. While carrying the mail from Rhea's Mill, my father met a pretty young widow, Rella Mae Henderson Cowan, a teacher at Howe School. The following year she taught in Watts, Oklahoma. After a few months courtship of commuting by train on weekends, Allie persuaded Rella Mae to give up the teaching job and get married. They were married in the Methodist Church in Watts, Oklahoma, February 19, 1917. In 1918, they bought the 160-acre farm, then known as the Jacobs' place, about 1/2 mile west of the Rhea's Mill store and post office. Father carried mail one more year. Then he farmed full time. By 1912, Edna had also finished Eureka School and secured a teaching certificate. Her first school was Scrougeout, near Wedington. The next was at Goshen (go-shen) located east of Fayetteville. During one of her summers at normal school (a special training school for teachers), Aunt Edna and one of the professors developed a special friendship. His name was Jimmy Lee Harris. Jimmy Lee quit teaching normal school to run for the Legislature from Washington County and was elected. He and Aunt Edna kept up a correspondence and decided to get married during the school term. They met on a train at "some town in Arkansas" for the ceremony. She returned to Goshen to finish the school year, and Jimmy Lee returned to the legislature. At the end of her school term and his legislative session, they moved to Winfield, Kansas, where he attended Southwestern University until he received his B. A. degree. His quest for a higher education was to benefit more of the Pasleys in forthcoming years. Around 1918, it was Aunt Jennie Grace's turn to try for a life away from the nest. She went to Fayetteville to take a civil service test for a post office job in Texarkana, Arkansas. She was the third of Mac Pasley's children to score well on the government test. So, she got the assignment in Texarkana. While working in the post office, she met a young man who worked with the mail on the trains. He was James Floyd Needham. They were married on January 21, 1924, and both continued working with the mail. 1921 proved to be a tragic year for the Pasleys. Grandpa Mac had Parkinson's disease, Grandmother had cancer, and their youngest son, Mac Emerson, died on February 21, at age 14. Mary Bell Pasley died on December 10, 1921 at age 54, after living in the new house just over one year. Robert was the last of the Pasley children to be certified to teach school. He got a job at Rock Springs, on the Jackson Highway, but after one year, was convinced that he should be a farmer. He took care of Grandpa and worked the family farm. In the meantime, Aunt Edna and Uncle Jim Harris moved to Dallas, Texas. Uncle Jim worked for the Y. M. C. A. and enrolled in S. M. U. Divinity School. The Pasley twins moved to Dallas to live with them and go to school. Bessy then graduated from a business college and moved to Texarkana, Arkansas, to live with her sister, Grace. Jesse (J. R.) worked with Uncle Jim at the Y. Later he worked at an ice plant while he finished high school and S. M. U. Aunt Grace remembers that J. R. finished the fouryear high school in three years, at the top of his class. He graduated from S. M. U. in 1929. Uncle Jim Harris received his B. D. degree and was ordained a Methodist minister. He was assigned a church in .the Weatherford, Texas, area. He continued attending S. M. U. as he worked toward his Master of Theology degree. By this time, Edna and Jim Harris were the proud parents of James Lawrence Harris, born November 5, 1926. When the writer was a child, one of the great times was to visit Grandpa and Uncle Robert. The big house was empty except for the two residents. Grandpa had a pump organ, a Victrola, and a new gadget, called a radio. To hear the radio one had to use headsets. There were three or four headsets and the adults were very excited about their new "toy". When they let the child of the family listen on a headset, it was baffling to her to understand why the adults were so delighted with a machine that produced sounds of static and scratchy music. A four to five-year-old of that era couldn't comprehend the significance of the new invention. Grandpa Mac died on August 28, 1928. His funeral was one of the vivid memories of the writer's childhood. Because of the heat, before the service the relatives were all gathered under the shade trees on the front lawn of the Pasley home. Little James Harris and Virginia Nell were the only grandchildren. James was wearing a navy blue sailor suit with white braid trim and short pants, while his cousin wore a beige silk pongee dress. Uncle Robert was engaged to a recent Apple Blossom Queen, Elsie Snodgrass, of Lincoln, Arkansas, so they captured admiring stares from his six-year-old niece. All the families climbed into Model T's for the ride to the service which was held in a white Methodist Church, high on a hill in Cincinnati. Thus, Mac and Mary Bell Pasley were departed from their family. They instilled in their children a heritage of Christian values, a love of country, and an unusual desire toward education as we shall see in the following lives. Aunt Dolo and Uncle Roy May lived on the farm in the Cincinnati area until Uncle Roy's death. Their daughter, Mary Bell, completed the Cincinnati Public Schools; then went to Weatherford, Texas, to live with Aunt Edna while attending Weatherford Junior College. She graduated from North Eastern State University at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Mary is a third grade teacher in the Hobbs, New Mexico, school system. She married George Mooney who works for a natural gas company. Their daughter, Alicia, is attending college and working on a degree to teach special education. Their son, Bill Mooney, attended North Texas State in Denton; Texas. He is a musician in California. Aunt Dolo lived her last years with Mary and family. She died of a heart attack, at age 75, in Hobbs, New Mexico. James L. Harris, son of Aunt Edna and Uncle Jim, graduated from Weatherford Junior College; then received B. A. and M. A. degrees from Texas Wesleyan College at Fort Worth, Texas. James has been Medical Education Director for the F. A. A. for the past 25 years. His career started at the agency in Fort Worth. Later he was transferred to Washington, D. C., where he worked until the F. A. A. headquarters were moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. James married Sammie Phillips of Weatherford, Texas. They have one daughter, Lauranne, who earned a B. S. degree from Bethany Nazarene College in Oklahoma City. In June of 1987, Lauranne graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma Medical School. She is currently doing an internship in a hospital in Oklahoma City. Next she has a three-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology. Grandsons of Mac and Mary Bell Pasley. James L. Harris and William Barton Pasley, July 1987, Weatherford, Texas. Uncle Jim Harris, formerly of Washington County, Arkansas, died in the 1950's. He was a helper and inspiration to Mac Pasley's family. Aunt Edna died July 15, 1987, in Oklahoma City. She had an alert and agile mind to her very last days. Aunt Grace and Uncle James Floyd Needham had one daughter, Jennie Carol, who attended the University of Arkansas and received a B. S. in Medical Technology. She works for a hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Uncle James died many years ago but Aunt Grace is 89, mentally alert, and residing with her daughter, Carol, in Shreveport. Carol married Joe Hays. Their daughter, Holly, is in junior college in Shreveport. Their son, Jim, is a high school student. Two years ago, Aunt Grace flew alone to Oklahoma City to attend her sister Edna's 93rd birthday party. Uncle Robert married Elsie Snodgrass soon after Grandpa's death. They farmed in the Cincinnati area on part of the original Pasley farm for many years. When they were in their forties, they took time off the farm to work in Fayetteville. Uncle Robert worked as a mail carrier out of the Dickson Street Station. Aunt Elsie worked in a nearby canning factory. They worked tho~e jobs for five years, saving money to buy a larger farm east of Grandpa's place. They retired in Lincoln, before they were disabled. Uncle Robert is now 87 years old. He plants and tends a beautiful garden each year, mows their lawn, cooks some, does The laundry, and cares for Aunt Elsie who had a stroke earlier this year. She is partially disabled. Uncle Robert, an amazing uncle, is mentally and physically agile. He likes to discuss the foods that are good for the body. Bessy May Pasley continued to live in Texarkana until she married Albert McKinney in 1936. They moved to Beaumont, Texas. Mr. McKinney died after they had been married just a few years. She later married Albert Lasiter who also preceded her in death. Aunt Bessy died of a heart attack in Beaumont, Texas, October 24, 1964. According to Aunt Edna, when the twins were in Eureka grade school, it was Bessy who did their homework after school each day. In the mornings she cornered her brother, Jesse, to help him with his lessons before they left for school. At that time, he disliked school intensely. It was ironic that Jesse was the one child of Mac and Mary Bell's clan to graduate from a major university. Jesse (J. R.) Pasley married Virginia Wyatt on February 14, 1932. He worked as a supervisor in the auditing department of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for his lifetime career. He died of cancer on November 23, 1971. J. R. and Virginia had two children; Nell Diane and William Barton Pasley. Diane attended North Texas State at Denton, Texas, before she married. Her oldest son, James McCary Bogan III, received an appointment to West Point and graduated in 1984. Her younger son, Todd Wyatt Bogan, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1986. Diane works in a veterinary clinic in Fort Worth, Texas. William Barton (Bill) graduated from S. M. U. in 1962, from S. M. U. Law School in 1965; and received his Master of Laws from the same university in 1974. He married a teacher, Linda Robbie Lewis. They have one son, Wyatt Lewis Pasley, a Highland Park Junior High student in Dallas. Bill, named for his great-grandfather, William Pasley, ht;ads a law firm in the Bank of Dallas Building. Since Luther Pasley had no grandsons, and Mac's sons, Robert and Albert, had no sons, Wyatt Lewis Pasley is the last male to carry the Pasley name from his great-greatgrandparents, William and Lucinda Jane Diven Edmiston Pasley of Rhea's Mill, Arkansas. Allie and Rella Pasley were my parents. They continued to live most of their lives on the farm west of Rhea's Mill. Allie farmed like his father - including a 40-acre apple orchard. When the good crop with high prices hadn't come through in about ten years after the bearing stage, he had the orchard cut down. Then he concentrated on a stock farm - cattle, hogs, sheep and goats. Many times a goat pushed its horned head through the fence in search of greener grass. Then the animal was stuck until one of us turned its head sideways to get the horns loose from the fence. The fence line had to be walked each day. Periodically, a neighbor would report to my father that a goat was high on a rock on Nola Nolen Koutsouflakis, Nancy Nolen Kirschbaum, and Nikki Nolen Gardner, December 1986, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, airport. Thomas E. Nolen and Virginia Pasley Nolen, November 1987, Del City, Oklahoma. We attended the Rhea Methodist Church. There was a minister one Sunday per month. The other Sundays we just had ~unday School. At Christmas time we always had a big cedar tree m _the church. It was decorated with strings of popcorn, and vanous homemade ornaments. On Christmas Eve there was a program by the children, and Santa Claus passed a bag of candy, an apple and an orange, to each person attending. Mother belonged to the "Club", or the Rhea Home Demonstration Club. She enjoyed the programs and the visiting. My father served on the Rhea's Mill school board for two terms when I was in grade school. The school building was used for community activities such as debates, pie suppers, and spelling bees. My dad enjoyed the debates. Mother and I like the pie suppers and the bees. Mother raised chickens and sold eggs for her "pin" money. In the late 1930s, my father built a double wall two room rock chicken house. The rocks were sandstones from the farm. On the In the winter time my dad liked to work on his inventions. When h~ was carrying the mail, he invented and patented some part to improve the performance of a buggy. Around 1915 or 1916, the buggy's manufacturer paid him $100.00 for the rights t? the patent. W~en, I was a child, he patented two different toy airplanes. He d1dn t have the contacts to sell bis toys to a producer. Woodworking was another hobby. He built a solid walnut buffet and china cabinet from lumber he had cut from trees on the farm. He also carved a set of birds from pine. My father paid a high personal price for the rock chicken house. He once continued to work on the rock after removing his goggles for a few minutes. A piece of steel from the chisel shot into his left eye. The injured eye was surgically removed and he was fitted with a glass eye. Twenty years later, he died of cancer which started in his remaining good eye. He died on April 17, 1961, at our home in Del City, Oklahoma. Mother sold the farm and bought a house in Lincoln. She attended the Lincoln Methodist Church and kept her membership with the Rhea Club. Thanksgiving Day, in 1968, she was riding in a car with neighbors, returning home from a dinner. As the driver crossed Highway 62, the right rear side of the car was hit by a Trailways bus. Mother's seat mate and next-door neighbor, Mrs. Williams, was killed. Mother's skull was fractured; she was in a coma two weeks, and totally disabled for life. She lived in a nursing home in Del City, Oklahoma, and died of pneumonia in Midwest City Memorial Hospital January 1, 1974. As the writer, I, Virginia Nell Pasley Nolen, attended Rhea Elementary School, Prairie Grove High School, and started to th~ Un!versity of Arkansas while still 16. After two years at the university, I taught elementary school at Viney Grove (northwest of Prairie Grove) for two years. Then I moved to Tulsa to work for Douglas Aircraft Company while attending the University of Tulsa. Flying had always been a secret passion, so I saved enough money to return to the University of Arkansas for two quarter terms. There was a flight school for air cadets at the Fayetteville Airport. Since I had no car, I enrolled in horseback riding lessons west of the campus, and flight lessons at the airport, in addition to the regular college schedule. On flight instruction days, if there was no ride to the airport, I went to the stables, saddled a horse and trotted off to the flight lessons. My flight instructor was Mr. Austin Ellis. The lessons in the plane were the most exciting times of my life up to that point. When the ten hours flying time had elapsed, I had soloed three times. With finances almost gone, I needed to return to work in the payroll department at Douglas. Mr. Ellis let me take my cross country flight to Tulsa, while my friend, Pat Johnston (now Reed), rode the bus with our baggage. There was no room for a third passenger nor luggage in the little Piper Cub plane. I graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1945, and moved to Oklahoma City where I secured a job with Braniff International Airways. During that time I married Thomas E. Nolen, a teacher and later administrator, in the Midwest City-Del City Schools. We took advantage of Braniff's travel benefits for employees by flying all their South American routes during two summer vacations. After the birth of our three daughters, Nola, Nancy, and Nikki, I became a substitute teacher. When Nikki was in kindergarten, I was drafted by the principal in the junior high school where my husband was vice-principal, to fill out the year for the counselor-librarian's position. I went to library school at the University of Oklahoma during the summers. During the year 1965-66, I was hired for the position of librarian at Jarman Junior High in Midwest City, Oklahoma, and worked there until retirement in 1986. It was a great honor to have the library facility named "The Virginia Nolen Library." I had to quit the master's degree program just a few hours before completion, when Mother was in the accident. My husband had his B. S., M. S., and all course work completed for his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. Our daughter, Nola, graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in ballet pedagogy. She danced professionally with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for five years. Knee surgery nipped her dancing career. She now teaches at Pittsburgh High School of Performing Arts; is married to Bill Koutsouflakis, and has 7-year-old Kiki, and 4-year-old Grace. Nancy attended Oklahoma City Community College and Pittsburgh Art Institute, married Tom Kirschbaum, and had Shawn, 12, and Cara, 9. Nancy has had an upholstery business, worked for the Dallas post office, Delta Airlines, and is currently a travel agent with N. E.W. S. Travel, Inc., Dallas, Texas. Nikki graduated from Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma, with a degree in vocal and instrumental music. She was outstanding female music student when she graduated. Nikki married Jim Gardner, and they moved to Los Angeles, California, to try the music business. She is currently head instructor for Barbizon Modeling School in Los Angeles. She does some modeling and sings with a band on weekends. She writes songs and music, and plans to be a professional musician. Jim is working toward a private helicoper license. It would seem that our grandparents, the Mac Pasleys, who braved a move one cold December in 1903, so their children could have better schools, influenced their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to strive for the same goal - a better education. By: Virginia Nolen =================== PASLEY, W.M. - Memerial of W.M. Pasley.Hall of Viney Grove Lodge Number 285, F. & A.M., Rhea, Arkansas.- Whereas: The Great Creator in his infinite wisdom has seen fit to permit the dread messenger Death to enter within the circle of our midst, our beloved and much esteemed brother, W.M. Pasley. Who departed this life January 13, 1922. He being a master Mason of this Lodge April 6, 1887 and mad an honorary member February 15, 1908. Resolved: That by the death of our brother we have lost a true and worthy member of our Fraternity, who was ever faithful to his convictions of right and to the ties of our brotherhood. Be it further Resolved: That while we his brothers greatly deplore and mourn his death, we cherish his memory in the abiding faith that our temporary loss is his eternal gain. Be it further Resolved; That we extend our Fraternal sympathy the deeply afflicted and sorrowing family, and commend them to him who doeth all things well. - C.C. Bunnell, J.F. Matthews, S.V. Rhea - Committee [Prairie Grove Herald 2/2/1921] William Pasley of Summers, Arkansas was born February 11, 1838 in Washington County, Arkansas the son of William Pasley born in South Carolina and Mintie Wood, daughter of William and Littie Wood of South Carolina. Subject was a Democrat, Presbyterian and a Mason. He was a Captain in James Pettigrew’s Company, Col. Gunter Brooks Regiment full time. In 1861 he married Lucinda Jane Devon, daughter of Irvin Devon of Washington County, Arkansas. Their children are: Mrs. Lorella Flint; Mac Pasley of Summer, Arkansas; M.L. Pasley of Rhea, Arkansas and Mrs. Hattie Barton of Summers, Arkansas [1911 Arkansas Confederate Census] Wm. Pasley, 82 years of age, who had been a resident of Washington County for many years, died recently at the home of a granddaughter in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The remains were returned to Rhea, this county, for burial. [The Springdale News 1/27/1922] W.M. Pasley filed Veteran Application #21518 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate pension and it was received as allowed August 16, 1917 at the State, citing service with the Arkansas Infantry from 1862 thru 1865. [State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives]