Lisa Childs

Also, a thing that I mention sometimes but is often lost in all that’s going on:

By RNS’ count, at least 55 religious organizations — including the leaders of entire Christian and Jewish denominations — have signed on to lawsuits against the Trump admin this year, mostly related to immigration.

It me! Thanks @billchilds.bsky.social for thinking of me - I love little puzzles!

‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.

It’s my impression that it wasn’t as expensive to litigate as we think. My family in the Ouachitas took their case to SCOTUS 20 some years later (with a former CSA soldier representing them) And they were hill country farmers.

Is your UT email a good one? I’d like to write long form about things. It does look right!

And Black people’s ages were often kept in their enslavers’ records so if they left the area, they wouldn’t know. (By “worried” I meant it wasn’t something they kept track of - they didn’t have to report it regularly.)

As far as fudging: censuses are very sloppy and most folks aren’t that worried about their ages. I tend to believe the earliest census for a person is closest. (A 3 yo vs. a 33 yo, say.) The census taker may ask a neighbor to guess - ages ending in 5 or 10, also suspect.

Elaine Massacre of 1919 - Encyclopedia of Arkansas The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the ...

I made a rough public family tree last night, but I can’t figure out how to link the tree properly - also, Phillips County is where the Elaine Massacre would occur so there’s a lot of historiography. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elai...

Which named son “Jas” (probably Jasper) who served in the 45th USCT. They’ve redone Fold3 so I haven’t found him there - at least in Mississippi, men were enlisted under their enslavers’ last names.

and his 1860 census doesn’t have enough enslaved people in it to support the personal property value - their digital version may be jumbled.

I’ve also found that enslaved people only sometimes take their enslavers’ last name. I tend to think of it as analogous to women and marriage. Generally speaking, enslaved people do know who their father was. I’d look to see if Judge Jones’ wife was a Roan/Rhone/etc.

1870 United States Federal Census

I wouldn’t rule this man out. Edmond and Edward often get misrecorded in census records. And if so, you’ve got testimony from his brother:

www.ancestry.com/sharing/4769...

And always give a lot of slosh to birth dates - censuses are unreliable.

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Daniel Rhone (abt.1820-bef.1880) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Is this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Daniel Rhone born abt. 1820 Petersburg, Virginia, United States died 1880 Arkansas, United States including research + descendants + more in the free famil...

I’d start with this narrative and work sideways.

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rhone-178

Daniel Rhone (abt.1820-bef.1880) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Is this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Daniel Rhone born abt. 1820 Petersburg, Virginia, United States died 1880 Arkansas, United States including research + descendants + more in the free famil...

I’d start with this narrative and work sideways.

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rhone-178

I am pretty good at it, but I’m better at western Arkansas than eastern (although I’m also pretty good at northern Mississippi). Happy to poke around if you have a few more clues, though.

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

1. As Chris notes, in addition to journalist plaintiffs in here, there's a religious plaintiff: Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister who was filmed being shot by federal agents with what appeared to be pepper balls while praying outside the Broadview ICE office.

I just spoke with that pastor…

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

Great thread. Read to the end.

Ours are strictly free range.

We’ve got seven chrysalises on our house (near our milkweed patch).

#OutOfCECOT and from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. nwa.pressreader.com/article/2819...

Arkansans protest outside El Salvador consulate, call for due process | Arkansas Advocate Northwest Arkansas residents gathered outside the El Salvador Consulate in Springdale Thursday to highlight hundreds of immigrants deported to a Central American prison without due process.

#OutOfCECOT another perspective

Demonstrators gather outside Salvadoran Consulate in Springdale to protest deportations "We are not ok just grabbing people off the street without any due process."

Here’s an important thing we did today. #OutOfCECOT

Nope. Closed again in 2019.

Once Again, Spudnuts in Magnolia. Stories about food and history in Arkansas

Maybe it still is www.tiedyetravels.com/2016/04/magn...

There used to be a Spudnuts donut shop in Magnolia. I believe they used potato flour.

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