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March 22, 1951

Charline Woodford Beasley Person died in Texarkana (Miller County). Person ran a 5,000-acre cotton plantation in Miller County, Arkansas, after the death of her husband. Person was an active community and church leader, helping build the community church in Garland (Miller County) and steering her hometown through the Great Depression. She was also the only woman chosen to represent Arkansas at the St. Louis Exposition of 1926.

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Robert Brownlee, a skilled stonemason, moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1837 when he learned of the need for masons to help complete construction of the new statehouse, now known as the Old State House. Brownlee worked on several state projects but also made his living by carving objects such as the monument shown here at the gravesite of William Gilchrist, Grandmaster Mason of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, located in Little Rock’s Mount Holly Cemetery.

 

Robert Brownlee, a skilled stonemason, moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1837 when he learned of the need for masons to help complete construction of the new statehouse, now known as the Old State House. Brownlee worked on several state projects but also made his living by carving objects such as the monument shown here at the gravesite of William Gilchrist, Grandmaster Mason of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, located in Little Rock’s Mount Holly Cemetery.

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