Life History

Notes

• 1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 22 April, Prairie Township, District 13, p 4A, Hse/Fam #59
  Rolen, Bedford Head M W 46 KY KY KY Farmer
  Rolen, Maggie  Wife  F  W 33 AR NC NC [born abt 1877]
  Rolen, John W  Son  M  W 3 AR KY AR
  
  In 1920, John is not recorded with his widowed mother's household, though his older sister Roberta, at age 14, is still at home.  Shirley Rowland Mitchell reports that John died before adulthood.  I have no further details.  At first I suspected the Spanish flu, which was pandemic in the year was 1918.  But then I failed to find the name of John or his sister Vernice in the Arkansas Death Index. which begins with the year 1914.  So they may have died before 1914.
  
  Originally I thought the record of a John W Rowland in Little Rock was him, of whom there is also one record in Faulkner County, north of Little Rock.  But this must be a different Rowland family.
  
  Social Security Death Index
  John W. Roland
  SSN: 431-22-4651
  Born 14 Oct 1907
  Died 7 Dec 1996
  Last Residence Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas 72206
  SSN issued Arkansas (Before 1951)
  
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  Maggie Ella McSwain.  She married Bedford Forrest Rowland.  They had the following children:
  
  Myrtle...born 1899...married Ray Allsup (He was not from Ethel)
  Sarah Elizabeth ...married Jim Jones (You may have listed him as James)
  Roberta.....married Leon Girard
  Martha.....married Walter Allsup (also not from Ethel)
  John...died before adulthood
  Walton ..... married Laura Snead (from Cabot)
  Edward.......married Ruth Snead (from Cabot)
  --  Shirley Rowland Mitchell, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 26 July 2013
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  "John, born about 1906, died between 1912 and 1920.  He is not in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, probably in the family cemetery."
  --  Shirley Mitchell, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, April 07, 2015
  
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  John W Rowland
  Birth About 1907 Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
  Death About 1914 Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
  
  Birth and death dates are approximate. No records have been found with exact dates. It is thought John died in the Spanish flu epidemic. It appears he died about 1914 or so.
  
  No burial record has been found, but it is thought that he is one of those buried in unidentified graves on the old Rowland-Jones family farm in Ethel, Arkansas, where the graves are marked only by natural stones with no names.
  
  Ethel is a rural community with a couple of stores and a post office, near the White River, south of St Charles. Ethel was one of the early post offices in Arkansas.
  
  Parents:
  Bedford Forrest Rowland (1866 - 1917)
  Maggie Ella McSwain Porter (1876 - 1915)
  Siblings:
  Myrtle Idelle Rowland Allsup (1899 - 1972)
  Sarah Elizabeth Rowland Jones (1900 - 1975)
  John W Rowland (1907 - 1914*
  Vernie F Rowland (1908 - 1914)
  Edward Doyle Rowland (1914 - 1970)
  Burial Rowland Family Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas, In the woods behind the Rowland-Jones home
  
  Created by Orville Jenkins Apr 09, 2015
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #4477414, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=144774149
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Sources

• 1. 1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 22 April, Prairie Township, District 13, p 4A, Hse/Fam #59
• 2. Email Sources
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 4. Social Security Death Index