Isaac Belfield Milam (1820-1899)

Rebecca Pickard (1819-1891)

Photos from: Eunice Chandler Hockey

ISAAC BELFIELD⁶ MILAM

(JOHN BELFIELD⁵, JORDAN S.⁴, SAMUEL³, JOHN MILAM OF² HALIFAX, VIRGINIA, UNK FATHER OF VIRGINIA¹ MILAMS) was born November 01, 1820 in Hickman County, Tennessee, and died January 12, 1899 in Boone County, Arkansas; buried old Milum Cemetery near Harrison, Ark.

He married (1) REBECCA PICKARD Abt. 1837 in Hickman County, Tennessee, daughter of PETER PICKARD and ELIZABETH SANDERS. She was born June 25, 1819 in North Carolina, and died January 12, 1891 in Boone County, Arkansas; buried old Milum Cemetery near Harrison, Ark.

He married (2) MALINDA LOWERY CANTRELL November 25, 1891 in Boone Co., Arkansas, daughter of ANDREW LOWERY and RICIA MCFALLIN. She was born May 19, 1853 in Ash Flat, Arkansas, and died October 25, 1934 in Harrison, Arkansas; old Milum Cemetery.

Notes for ISAAC BELFIELD MILAM:
MAKING A BEAR GET UP OFF ITS BED TO SHOOT IT
By S. C. Turnbo
Among the pioneer stories of Boone County, Ark., is an account told by Mr. Isaac Milum, an early settler on Crooked Creek who lived 3 miles below Harrison.

KILLED ON HIS PORCH
By S. C. Turnbo
Mr. Isaac Milum, a long resident on Crooked Creek and who is dead now, dictated the following to W. L. Ridinger and the latter sent the account to the writer in a letter at Protem, Missouri, which was received on the 31 of January, 1895. "Elias Willbright lived in the center of Bakers Prairie just north of where Harrison,, Boone County, Arkansas, now is. One day in 1863 Mr. Willbright was called out on his porch by a mounted man who was well armed who after giving him a severe abuse while holding a pistol in his hand, then the blood thirsty man leveled his pistol at Willbright and shot him down in the presence of his family. These horrible murders were very common in the northwest part of Arkansas during the war between the states, "said Mr. Milum.
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One day in the year 1895 Mr. W. L. Ridinger who lives near Harrison, Arkansas, gathered the following sad account from Mr. Isaac Milum, an early resident of Crooked Creek. Mr. Ridinger sent the story to me in a letter to my address when I lived near Protem, Taney County, Missouri. The letter read thus, "Mr. Milum related to me how James Deshazzo who lived one mile and a half east of where the town of Harrison now is. When the Civil War was at great heat or in 1863 a bunch of bandits rode up to Deshazzo’s yard fence one night and after dismounting they called to Deshazzo to come out and give them directions how to go to a certain place for they had become bewildered in the dark and did not know where they were. Though they had not called his name but he believed they were telling the truth and the unsuspecting man went out at the door onto the porch to direct the pretenders how to got when they shot him down by the light of the fire that was in the fireplace. The unfortunate man never spoke after he fell."

Notes for MALINDA LOWERY CANTRELL:
Widow with several children.