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William Threet Poe

1817-1884

Known as "Judge Poe" within the Belfast, Arkansas community and as "Uncle Billy" among family

Judge Poe ran the one "general" store in Belfast and served as Justice of the Peace and Postmaster.

The original was composed of charcoal on paperboard 16 x 20 inches. It was displayed in an oak frame with painted plaster molding. In the early 1990s the paperboard crumbled into dust. Luckily, professional negatives were made in 1986. This digital image is a scan of a print from the 1986 negative

This portrait, along with the portrait of Joshua Holiman and Lucretia Ann Hogue hung in the Benton, Arkansas, home of Sarah Alma Poe Walton (1883-1969), great-granddaughter of John and Sarah. Alma likely had possession from 1929, when her father, William Elkin Poe, died, until they were given in the 1940s to her brother (my grandfather), Samuel Arthur Poe (1882-1947).