Biography of Ed YOWELL, Scott Co, Arkansas

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Contributed by Delaine Edwards.
Aug 6 1999

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	The material transcribed below is from a special edition of the 
Scott County Advertiser newspaper of 3 April 1991, entitled "A Salute to 
Scott County Citizens 90 Years and Over." The interviews were done as
part of a celebration of the Bank of Waldron's 90th anniversary. They are
arranged alphabetically for presentation here. Pictures were included 
with these short biographies.

YOWELL, Ed: Ed Yowell was born in Indian Territory November 2, 1900, to
Bud and Myrtle Graves Yowell. He attended school in Crawford County,
Arkansas at Uniontown School No. 66, and at the Mountain Home school 
south of Mansfield. He joined the Church of Christ in 1930. He is a World
War I Navy veteran, and worked for Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. He married
his wife Minnie in 1951. He has 4 stepchildren, Neado Poole and Harriet
Holland, both of Van Buren, Mary Smith of Little Rock, and the late
Terry Edwards.