This tree is the result of the connection between a list of names in the 1900 federal  census, a 1954 funeral home record and a 1955 obituary.

1900: Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas - The family of John and Elizabeth [Coker]  Stinnett includes four children with the last name of Crawford (Dolph, Willie, Bessie  and Freddie) who are recorded as John's stepchildren.

1954: Joplin, Jasper, Missouri - The burial record of my great-grandmother, Anna  Stinnett Coker, lists a niece among her survivors, Mrs. Bessie Minor of Carthage,  Missouri.

1955: Bessie Minor dies September 1, 1955 in Carthage. Her death certificate only  lists her father's surname - Crawford. But, both her death certificate and her  obituaries give her birthplace as Yellville, Arkansas. Among the survivors in her  obituary are two brothers - Dolph McCurran of Batesville, Arkansas and [Norvell]  Clifford Crawford of Springfield, Missouri.

I believe that Walsie Crawford Earls is a descendant of my Coker family (see Stories  for my basic assumptions). This website is my attempt to walk backwards through time  to find the ties that bind various Batesville families to my Cokers and Stinnetts  from Yellville. Most of the names have been culled from public record sources such as  obituaries and county records (birth, marriage, death).