his grey granite headstone is located in the Dodson Cemetery. The headstone has three small flowers at the top. The family name "Sikes" is listed below.
J. Wade 1828 - 1928 is to the left and Almira L. 1835 - 1898 is to the right. At the bottom are listed the grandchildren -
Nola B Duckworth 1875 - 1876
Siddie Duckworth 1880 - 1895
Chas. R. Duckworth 1878 - 1928
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"James Wad Sikes, "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950"
Name: James Wad Sikes
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 07 Jan 1929
Event Place: Bent, Arkansas"
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"James W Sikes, "Arkansas Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865"
Name: James W Sikes
Event Type: Military Service
Age (Original): 33
Military Unit Note: Second Mounted Rifles, S-Z
Affiliate Publication Title: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas"
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"James Wade Sikes, "United States Census, 1910"
Name: James Wade Sikes
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Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Esculapia, Benton, Arkansas, United States
District: 20
Gender: Male
Age: 81
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1829
Birthplace: Alabama
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Sheet Number and Letter: 19B
Household ID: 459
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)"
Events from 1828:
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June 3 – Gran Colombia – Peru War: President Simón Bolívar declares war on Peru.
August 27 – South America: Brazil and Argentina recognize the independence of Uruguay. Simón Bolívar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia.
September 29 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Varna is taken by the Russian army.
November 11 – Greek War of Independence: the London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
December 3 – U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
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January 1- The U.S. Army Air Corps airplane ? begins a six-day non-stop endurance flight over Southern California using aerial refueling.
January 17 – First appearance of comic strip hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre.
January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.
February 11 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See of the Catholic Church sign the Lateran Treaty to establish the Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Rome, resolving the "Roman Question".
February 14 – "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre": Five gangsters (rivals of Al Capone), plus two civilians, are shot dead in Chicago.
February 26 – The Grand Teton National Park is established by the United States Congress.
March 2 – The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
March 4 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.
April 4 – Karl Benz the creator of the first automobile dies.
May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards are presented in a 15-minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, honoring the best movies of 1927 and 1928, Wings (1927) winning Best Picture. Gerald Duffy (died 1928) receives the only Academy Award for Best Title Writing ever awarded (for his intertitles to the silent film The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)).
July 24 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
July 27 - The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war.
July 27 - Red Crescent adopted as an additional emblem of the League of Red Cross Societies.
September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks at 381.17, a height it will not reach again until November 1954.
October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
October 25 – Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.
November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.
November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole.