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You're gonna love what's coming to townPosted Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at 9:26 PM
In the next couple of weeks, the best publication I have seen (maybe ever) will be ready to hit the streets for you to pick up. Keep watching your favorite stores for "Avenues." It's a magazine this area has needed for a long time. Get ready ... you're gonna love what's coming to town!
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Erma Harris is Areawide Media's Managing Editor for The News, The South Missourian News and the Villager Journal.
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ROBY FAMILY REUNION 2010
The man that was responsible for the Roby family,
James K. Roby, 19 December 1844 to 25 September 1878,
was buried in a field north of Viola, Arkansas. It is hard to get to the grave site from the road and it has not been maintained for many years. It was evident that it would be lost in time from lack of up- keep and being so isolated. Many thought that something needed to be done.
A group of the family decided that we should move his grave site to a cemetery, the well maintained Mount Calm Cemetery, a short distance from were he is buried. It is easy to get to, directions as follows: from Viola, AR. travel north on 223 Highway approximately 3-4 miles until you come to a small sign pointing west (left) onto Mt Calm Road (gravel apx. 1 mile) until you come to Mount Calm Cemetery . There is a church across the road from the cemetery.
This generation knows very little of his past, like the names of his parents or what happened to them, brothers or sisters if any, other than the fact that his seed begat this family tree. We basically know next to nothing. Our Historian, W.S. Dunn, found records of his enlistment Aug 15 1863 in a confederate unit of Company G, 8th Arkansas Cavalry. You know James K. may have even got the word in 1876 of Gen. Custer's demise at Little Big Horn.
The Roby family reunion this year will be August 13th, 14th, & 15th. Friday afternoon the 13th of August at 5:00 pm at Mount Calm Cemetery, we will have a re-interment ceremony, with the Reverend Patricia Roby Fankhouser presiding along with Captain Talburt (a direct descendant of a member of Company G, 8th Arkansas Cavalry) and his men in reenactment uniforms from the Civil War period and the 'Sons of Confederate Veterans'. After the ceremony we will move to the reunion site at Holiday Hills Resort. Please make your reservations as ealy as possible at Holiday Hills p 870 488-5303 , dead line is July 15th. Tell them your with the Roby family.
The family would like to invite frinds of the community to the service & ceremony. Thanks bobroby