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Note: In 1882 on the marriage records it shows Louis Nashville (Nash) was living in Paragould, Greene Co, Arkansas, Louisiana State Death: Death Indexes, 1900-1929 Death index shows he was 61 at time of death but he was closer to 63 years. Listed in Volume 12 Certificate: 5874 Certificate Date: 16 1900 Census 15th day of June Smackover, Ouachita Co, Arkansas (note) Smackover is now in Union Co... (shows married 19 yrs) Genelly, Nash (head) age 48 b: abt Feb 1852 Mo/Mo/Mo Linnie wife 38 abt Feb 1862 IL/Ky/Ky Edna dau 15 Oct 1884 Ar/Mo/Mo Pearl dau 12 Oct 1887 " Ruby dau 8 July 1891 " Ruth dau 5 Aug 1896 " I think Louis N. was working for the R.R. at the time the below information occurred...So he could have been involved at the time of the below info. Paragould, Ar (is also where he and Linnie Morgan were married) The railroad's golden age is responsible for the town of Paragould�s name. Located in northeast Arkansas, the town has the distinction of being named for two railroad officials. Mr. Paramore was president of the St. Louis A & T, and Mr. Gould was president of the Iron Mountain and Southern when the two railroads met at the site in 1882. City fathers combined the names in an attempt to make both happy. Ernie Dean�s �Arkansas Place Names� puts it this way: �The name resulted from a compromise between two of American�s richest and most powerful railroad �barons,� or their representatives. Gould was Jay Gould, the son of a poor New York farmer, who earned his first money as a helper in a blacksmith shop. He achieved great wealth as a railroad developer and speculator in gold, owned a daily newspaper in New York City, and was involved in other enterprises. J.W. Paramore was a native of Ohio, who served with some distinction as a Union officer in the Civil War. His first railroad experience was with the Tennessee & Pacific Railroad. He was in the cotton compress business in St. Louis when he was said to have sensed the need for direct railroad service to and from Texas. The two men had an intense rivalry in their railroad businesses. Paramore was developing a main line railroad across Arkansas and Gould was developing another, both aimed at linking the business and industrial center of St. Louis with markets and resources in Texas. Their lines crossed at a point in Northeast Arkansas. Officials of the two railroads are said to have argued over a name for the place, and to have compromised by coining the name Paragould, thus honoring both barons. 1910 Census in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas His name is spelled Genererelly instead of Generelly.
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