Amanda Simpson

MARLAR, Amanda Simpson - Mrs. Amanda Marlar Buried At Prairie Grove - Prairie Grove, May 12. - Mrs. Amanda Simpson Marlar, 94, a native of Northwest Arkansas and wife of Capt. James Marlar, a Confederate veteran, who remembered hearing the guns fire at the Battle of Prairie Grove, in December 1862, died at a local hospital here early Thursday.

Mrs. Marlar had been confined to her bed since she fell at her home here and broke her hip on April 26th of this year.

Funeral will be held at the local Cumberland Church this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

The Daughters of the Confederacy directed music under guidance of Mrs. R.E. Cunningham. The Thomas C. Hindman Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy were in charge of flowers.

Mrs. Marlar was born in the Cove Creek neighborhood ten miles south of Prairie Grove and lived her entire life in this vicinity.

In 1878 she was married to Captain Marlar who had served throughout the War Between the States with the Confederate army. Mrs. Marlar outlived all her children. She is survived by the following grandchildren: Mrs. O.C. Howard of Bixby, Oklahoma; Roy Marlar of Cane Hill; Joe Marlar of Siloam Springs; and Zeb Marlar of Veterans, Wyoming.

Among other relatives are James Nixon, of Prairie Grove and Tommy Brewster of the old Simpson home place on Cove Creek, both nephews; several nieces including Mrs. Anne Patterson of Hulbert, Oklahoma; Mrs. Dolly Fane of Washington State; and Mrs. Fanny Moore of Greenland; grandnieces and grandnephews; Mrs. W.H. Baggett; Gordon Brewster; Mrs. C.A. McCormick; Fay and Jim Mack Nixon, all of Prairie Grove and others.

Mrs. Marlar was a life-long member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and until a few months ago was an active attendant at all services. [Northwest Arkansas Times 5/12/1939]