Andrew Park of Central Arkansas

Andrew Park is the first person I researched. He and Deliah/Delia were my great-great-grandparents. They lived in Mississippi at the start of the Civil War and later moved to Lonoke in 1876. He owned 160 acres that he farmed a few years and then moved to Little Rock. In 1901 he was appointed Circuit Judge by Governor N. O. Pindall to fill the unexpired term of T. W. Wilson. Andrew and Delilah’s daughter, Katie, married Hugh McNew in 1897. Hugh’s father was James T. McNew, he was County Judge 1896 -1898 and 1898 – 1900. James T. McNew and Andrew Park were in-laws. I think this was the political connection for being appointed Judge.
My sister, Ann Jones, was helping me with my Civil War soldiers. She put out a query on a message board on a Civil War website. A man that worked at one of the colleges in Memphis, TN. answered the message. He said that Andrew Park was in the book “Gettysburg”, so I bought the book. In the back of the book it referred you to the History Commission at Little Rock where he got this information. I went then to the History Commission in L.R. and showed the head man working there that I had not been able to find this info that it referred to in the back of this book. In about 20 minutes he came out with a manuscript. Andrew Park had written a seven page manuscript in 1900 about his recollection of the Battle of Gettysburg. It is included in this book.
I had been searching Andrew at the History Commission at Little Rock, AR. off and on for about a year and never had ran across the manuscript. To find it was a good find when you have been researching your ancestors. The man that worked at the college in Memphis name is Mr. Miller. I think he was a professor; he wanted to see the manuscript also. I met him at the library in Memphis and gave him a copy of the manuscript and he gave me copies of letters that the 42nd Mississippi Regiment officers sent to Colonel Hugh Miller’s wife, when Col. Miller was killed at Gettysburg.
Mr. Miller was researching the 42nd Mississippi. The 41st Reg. was college students that joined the Confederate Army and fought beside the 42nd Miss. Regiment for most of the War.
Mr. Miller told me that he knew Rod Hardin, from Larkspur, Co. a man that was researching the 42nd Miss., also. He wanted to do a book on the 42nd. Rod had contacted the History Comm. in L.R. and even hired a man to do research for him and had no luck in finding this manuscript there. I called Rod and sent him a copy of the manuscript too. You will find a copy of his letter to me in this book. Mr. Miller also referred me to Mr. Bob Thompson, a lawyer from Tennessee. His great-great-grandfather was Colonel Hugh Miller. Bob Thompson sent me a copy of some letters where Colonel Miller died at Gettysburg. I’m putting a copy of these letters in this book also.
On this past Memorial Day, (now a few years ago) Andrew Park, a Civil War veteran, who is buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, in Cabot, AR. was presented a military foot marker by his great-great-grandson, R. B. Moore, of Lonoke, AR. Andrew was a soldier in the 42nd Miss., Co. I, and was in some of the major Civil War battles. At the History Commission, in Little Rock, R. B. found a 7 page manuscript of Andrew’s at the Battle of Gettysburg, also a book done by Time Life, Voices of the Civil War “Gettysburg”, which Andrew recalled, has a page in this book. R. B. is a member of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. Sherryl Miller, who works in the research room of the Lonoke Co. Library, has helped R. B. research his Park ancestors. R. B. is looking for relatives in the Cabot area who are descendants of Andrew and Delia Park. Some of these people are John Hall, Montine Hall, Maria Hall, T. C. Wiley, J. W. Calk (Caulk?), Walter B. Park, and Walter M. Park.