Linnie Alberta Goldman

LIDDY BARTHENIA BELL9 GOLDMAN (MARTIN COLUMBUS (LUM)8, MARTIN JAMES (POLK)7, MOSES (GOOLMAN)6, MARTIN5, MARTIN4, JOHANN GEORGE3, CONRAD2, CONRAD1) was born March 30, 1894 in Liberty Hill, Washington County, Arkansas, and died February 03, 1998 in Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas *Buried at Academy Cemetery. She married ALEXANDER PRESTON DUNN April 03, 1912 in Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, son of ALEXANDER DUNN and LUCINDA CHANDLER.

Notes for LIDDY BARTHENIA BELL GOLDMAN:

l Linnie became the post mistress at the Evansville, Arkansas Post Office after her husband, Preston was moved to Fort Smith.

l Aunt Linnie is our wild woman of the family because she ran a nudist colony at Evansville. I think that this was after Pres died. She pushed the limits on everything. It took the Arkansas State Legislature to close her nudist colony down. Once she needed more water for the camp and no one would help her so she through a stick of dynamite down the well and knocked out water all over the mountain. I think that she had several husbands in her lifetime and was a very wealthy woman. It is said that she had money in every bank around northwest Arkansas and owned loads of real estate around Fort Smith and Lincoln, AR.

l When St Elmo's body was brought back after he was killed in WWII she pried open the casket to make sure it was him.

l Preston's wife, Lowrence O'Keefe, refused to allow Linnie to bury him at Evansville at the Academy Cemetery even though the headstone says that he's buried there. He's buried at the National Cemetery at Fayetteville, Arkansas

l Linnie died just 8 weeks before her 104th birthday. She had suffered two strokes and was unable to speak above a whisper or swallow. Her daughter, Lelah, said that she only weighed 54 lbs the day she died and was very literally skin and bone. I saw her the week before she died and she smiled at me with what appeared to be recognition.