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Notes for Solomon Melson

1840 Pike Co, Arkansas, p70, line 9:
Solloman Melson - 00011/01010001
1m 15-20 c1820-25 = Washington G. Melson [brother to Solomon]
1m 20-30 c1810-20 = Solomon c1816
1f 5-10 c1830-35 = Emily Brunetta Melson [sister to Solomon]
1f 15-20 c180-25 = Rosanna Melson [sister to Solomon]
1f 50-60 c1780-90 = Rosanna Ballou Melson [mother of Solomon]
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Tax Lists, Pike Co, Arkansas

Melson, Solmon 1838
Melson, Solomon 1836
Melson, Solomon 1837
Melson, Solomon 1839
Melson, Solomon 1840
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January 5, 1893
Mr. Solomon Melson was born in Boone Co, Mo., Dec. 15, 1815, and died April 15, 1892; he moved with his father to Clark Co., Ark. and settled at Grey's Ferry on Little Missouri river in 1816, and has been for seventy-five yers a highly esteemed citizen, for a number of years an honored Mason, and for forty-five years a faithful member of the M.E. Church, South. by his death we loose a kind neighbor, and an affectionate father, a wise counselor and guide. We have often heard him say, this has been a happy world to me; I have always lived at peace with my fellow-m,an. He now sleeps at Ebenezer by the side of his wife and five sons. He leaves three children to mour their loss, and bids them good-night, but not goodbye.
A. Friend
[Arkansas Methodist, Vol. XI, No. 33, January 5, 1893, p7, col 1]

Buried: Bethel Cemetery, Blevins, Hempstead Co, Arkansas.
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Solomon Melson Bible Record
Solomon Melson of Hempstead County, Arkansas and Jane Elvira Ward of Hempstead County, Arkansas married October 18, 1842 by Wm. Bowls

Births
Solomon Melson December 15, 1815
Jane Elvira Melson January 26, 1821
Leander Elmore Melson August 26, 1843
Leandus Elmington Melson November 14, 1845
Leanah Elbe Melson February 18, 1848
Isaac Gwinn Melson August 25, 1850
John Washington Melson May 4, 1853
Mary Rosanah Melson February 4, 1856
William Green O. Melson January 19, 1859
Thomas Charles Eldridge Melson December 26, 1861
Walter Douglas Melson October 21, 1886

Marriages
Leander Elmore Melson and Mary Ellen Wingfield July 17, 1864
Leandus Elmington Melson and Mandy Rosenbum June 20, 1866
Leandus Elmington Melson and Rosina Mautz November 5, 1885
Leanah Elbe Melson and Henry Clay Carlton September 23, 1869
Mary Rosanah Melson and John William Connel March 16, 1871

Deaths
Isaac Gwinn Melson October 16, 1857
John Washington Melson March 25, 1858
William Green O. Melson February 7, 1864
Thomas Charles Eldridge Melson October 17, 1865
Jane Elvira Melson March 11, 1886
Leander Elmore Melson February 3, 1890

Memoranda
Married on the 23 February 1908 Arlis Melson to Malinda Pettigrew

Children's Births
John Gray Melson April 29, 1909
Isaac Boone Melson April 17, 1911
Lucy Ellen Melson March 23, 1913
May Lou Melson November 26, 1922
Arlis Elmore Melson September 20, 1925

Married on the 23 January 1932 Isaac Boone Melson to Mary Marie Summers

Bible of Bascom Melson, Eugene, Oregon, 1967
Children's Births
Bascom B. Melson July 7, 1934
Isaac Boone Melson February 4, 1938
John Gray Melson Dec 14, 1940
Mitchell Carter Melson January 4, 1943
David Carl Melson May 11, 1965
Deaths
John Gray Melson August 12, 1922
Malinda Melson April 20, 1928
Lucy Ellen Melson Williams July 1957
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