Arkansas Gazzette, Thursday June 5, 1980

"State Archives are Better Place for Newspaper 
Item Researching"

SARAH PIPKIN and Jerome Bonaparte Kesterson were married
in Saline County in 1851. Both died during the Civil War,
and their children were raised by Pipkin relatives in 
Saline County.

Sarah's parents, Mary Couch & Willis Pipkin, came to Saline
County from Alabama about 1832. Their son, James W. Pipkin,
had a daughter named Johnnie, born about 1809, who married
a Terry. 

Only one of Jerome's brothers, Marion Kesterson, is known
to have survived the Civil War period. In 1880, he was in
Dorsey (now Cleveland) County, probably near Rison, and his
mother, Dollie, born in Virginia, lived with him.

I would like to learn her maiden name and also to locate
Marion's granddaughter, Julia Kesterson Davidson.

Mrs Lorna LaFave
13308 36th Ave NE
Seattle, Wash  98125

(Note: Willis, son of Lovett Pipkin, married Mary Couch,
Willis died 1848 & buried Salem County Cemetery. Mary
died 7 Jun 1890)