Cross County, Arkansas Genealogy

Cross County
	Cross County, Arkansas
	Map
	; Location in the state of Arkansas, United States Genealogy
	; Location of Arkansas in the U.S.
	Facts
Founded	November 15, 1862
County Seat	Wynne
	Courthouse
Address	Cross County Courthouse; 705 Union Ave E #8; ; Wynne, AR 72396; Phone: 870.238.5735 ;

United States Arkansas Cross County
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Guide to Cross County, Arkansas ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

County QuickStart:

	Arkansas Online Records

County Courthouse

Cross County Courthouse
705 Union Ave E #8;
Wynne, AR 72396
Phone: 870.238.5735

County Clerk has marriage and probate records from 1863, tax and county court records from 1865; Clerk Circuit Court has court and land records from 1865; Chancery Circuit Clerk has divorce records from 1866; County Historical Society has newspapers from 1935, cemetery records and family histories.^[1]

Beginning years for Cross County, Arkansas Genealogy government records^[2]
Birth	Marriage	Death	Court	Land	Probate
1914*	1863	1914*	1865	1865	1863
*State birth and death records began in 1914. Limited compliance until 1920's

Government and Related Websites

County Government and other Local Websites
County-clerk.net (unofficial site)	Clerks have jurisdiction over birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, land use, land rights, real estate, and other court records. Site provides links to unofficial websites with online records
PublicRecords.com (unofficial site)	Provides links to County officials and public records

History

Parent County

1862--Cross County was created 15 November 1862 from Crittenden, Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties.

County seat: Wynne ^[3]

Boundary Changes

For animated maps illustrating Arkansas county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Arkansas County Boundary Maps" (1813-1925) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Variant Spellings

Record Loss

For a list of record loss in Arkansas counties see: Arkansas Counties with Burned Courthouses

Places/Localities

Town/city records in the FamilySearch Catalog'

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Crittenden • Jackson • Poinsett • St. Francis • Woodruff

Template:ARCross County, Arkansas Clickable Neighbors

Genealogy Resources

Research Guides

African Americans

Bible Records

Cemeteries

Template:AR Cems Chart Headings

Find A Grave Click "Refine Last Search" on the left, enter a name, click "Search"

Arkansas Gravestones enter a name and click "Search"

Billion Graves Enter a name and click "Search" (Statewide. Can search by county, but many with no results.)

Find A Grave Click Search for a Cemetery on the right, click All Countries - click United States, click State, click County and search.

Arkansas Gravestones Click Browse Gravestones By Cemetery

Interment.net

Access Genealogy

USGenWeb Archives

USGenWeb Tombstone Project

ARGenWeb

RootsWeb

I Dream of Genealogy Scroll to the county and cemetery.

African American Cemeteries Online Scroll to the county and cemetery.

More cemetery lists

Linkpendium
Cyndi's List
DeathIndexes.com Scan through the list under Arkansas Death Records Indexes….
D'Addezio Search/browse by cemetery name, not people. (Statewide)

FamilySearch Catalog Select "Cemeteries"
- Also check towns for records

WorldCat

Periodicals

Societies

Census

Church Records

Court

Guardianship

Probate Records 1857-1943 Cross County portion of the collection: Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1979: Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1979 FamilySearch Historical Collections (Free, browse images)
- Includes Administration and guardian bonds and letters 1863-1921; Administration settlements 1866-1911; Dockets 1874-1922; Probate case files 1898-1930; Probate record index 1866-1878; Probate records 1857-1887; Wills 1863-1943.

Genealogy

Land and Property

Local Histories

Chowning, Robert W. History of Cross County, Arkansas, 1955 : a narrative historical edition preserving the record of the growth and development of Cross County, Arkansas, and chronicling the genealogical and memorial records of its prominent families and personages. Wynne, Arkansas : Wynne Progress, 1955.
- Online at FamilySearch Catalog (Free)

History Timeline

Emphasis for this timeline is on events that affected migration, records, or record-keeping. Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Arkansas County - The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture [1]

1541 - Hernando de Soto visited the village of Casqui (near present-day Parkin)
1803 - The sparse population of the area consisted of French hunters, Cherokee, and a few English frontiersmen.
1830s - The Cherokee were removed via the Trail of Tear and settlers from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Missouri moved in.
1862 November 15 - The Arkansas General Assembly created Cross County.
1882 - The first railroad was completed across Cross County.
1900-1927 - The growth of Vanndale and Wynne along the railroad balanced the decline of river cities such as Wittsburg. This transfer of population was increased by flooding in the river valley when the St. Francis River broke through its levees in 1912 and 1913, and especially in the Flood of 1927.

Maps

Maps of Arkansas (1813-1925)

Military

Naturalization

Newspapers

Finding More Arkansas Newspapers Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Cross newspapers in online catalogs like:

WorldCat
FamilySearch. Do a Cross County, Arkansas Genealogy Place-name search for these and other records in the FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see, FamilySearch Catalog Places Search).
Fayetteville Democrat at Ancestry.com ($)
Fayetteville Daily Democrat at Ancestry.com ($)
Daily Fayetteville Democrat at Ancestry.com ($)
Northwest Arkansas Times at Ancestry.com ($)
Courier Times at Ancestry.com ($)