Henry Pinkney Loftin Great-grandfather Thadyus Henderson "Coop" Loftin was born in Alabama, March 11, 1858, and came to Arkansas with his mother when he was a small boy. We believe his mother to be buried in the Antioch Cemetery, 4 miles south of Morrow, Arkansas, with only a rock for a headstone in the Loftin row. No one knows her name. Coop Loftin possibly had two brothers, but they had gotten separated from the family during the Civil War. George and Jessie, apparently older brothers and they were thought to be married, Jessie to a Mary and George to a Elizabeth. One had a son named John. Great-aunt Luannie "Annie", daughter of Coop, always said if we find other Loftins with their name spelled the same, they must be our lost relatives. Thadyus Henderson married Sarah Francis Burrow March 14, 1882 in Crawford County. They had three children: Henry Pinkney Loftin (my grandfather), James Abraham Loftin and Luannie Loftin (who never married). The Loftins lived in the communities of Skylight, Cove Creek, Garrett Hollow and on to Morrow, where they lived until their deaths. After Coop Loftin's wife Sarah died, his daughter, Annie lived with him until his death. Sarah (Burrow) Loftin's parents, Isam K. and Mary Ann (Clanton) Burrow are buried in Garrett Creek Cemetery, south of Prairie Grove and Cove Creek. The Garrett Hollow School located in the Prairie Grove Battlefield Park was the school where the Loftins attended when it was located at Garrett Hollow. My dad, Oscar Omer Loftin and his brother Vernon, sons of Henry P. Loftin are in the school picture in front of the school building. Henry Pinkney Loftin had five sons: Oscar Omer, Vernon, Ray, Ernest Omer (Grandma forgot she had already named her oldest son Omer, it was told) and Arvel Stanford. Vernon and Ray did not have middle names. Grandma was Florence (Walton), twin to Flora, two other sisters, Fanny and May, brothers - Fred, Elmer, Alfred and Virgil Walton. Parents were Mary Ellen (Rhodes) and John Walton both born in Indiana. Married May 7, 1885 in Washington County, Arkansas, they later moved to Morris, Oklahoma. After John's death??? she, Mary married George Cole and left him, came back to Arkansas about 1920 and lived until her death, 1959. (Always remembered as Grandma Walton). She lived with her daughter, Florence and Henry; his sister, Annie, had moved in with them after her dad Coop had died. Annie was always helping out her brothers, Henry and Jim, with their families and grandchildren. Grandpa Henry used to laugh and joke about the "bad times" all three women gave him. He was a very good Christian man. I never saw him mad at anything or anybody. I spent a lot of good times with them. Grandma Florence raised her five boys, washing on a rub board and she couldn't see going modern, to a wringer washer, during World War II, I remember. She didn't want the butane refrigerator that my dad tried to give them before they put in electricity. They kept milk and butter in a well bucket, hung down in hand-dug well and the icebox with big block of ice came later. James Abraham, (Grandpa Henry's brother) married Alta (Pitts) and they had six children: Charlie, Irene (Loftin) Abshier, Clyde, Glenn, Dean and infant Eugene, who died, two days old. My dad Oscar Omer Loftin married my mother, Martha Maude (Cuzick) from Odell, Arkansas. She had only been off the Mountain at Odell, once, I believe she said when she married my dad. They were the parents of three of us children: lcephine (Loftin) Sears, Aftin Leroy and Jimmy Dale. My dad worked for the Washington County Road Department most of his working years, grading roads. Moved to Beaumont, Texas, in 1945, worked in shipyard, at end of war moved to Yakima. Washington, for a while. Back to Arkansas and to Washington County Road Department until retirement. By: Mrs. lcephine Loftin Sears