I just sent this to someone, and since I have it handy, I will post it to
the list again.  Perhaps you might recognize someone?

Thanks.
Jean Cuevas waldy@worldnet.att.net

John FERGUSON married Elizabeth BALLARD
        1. Joseph Thomas FERGUSON
                + Molly HOARSLEY
                  2. Oscar FERGUSON
 
               + Ruth Caroline WILES (2nd wife)
                  2. Sarah Ellen FERGUSON
                  2. Laura Elizabeth FERGUSON
                  2. Mary FERGUSON
                  2. Eva Pearl FERGUSON
                  2. Vada FERGUSON

                + Ida JERDEN (3rd wife)

                  2. Leroy FERGUSON
                  2. Female FERGUSON

               + Georgia Alice LUCK DILL        (4th wife)
 
                  2. J.T.FERGUSON
                  2. Female FERGUSON

                 + Belle HALL HATMAN (5th wife)
 
                 + Hesky Ann MAYFIELD (6th wife) b. 1866,
                   d. 1945 Izard County

        1.Johnny FERGUSON
        1.Frank FERGUSON
        1.Mark FERGUSON (born blind)
        1.Henry FERGUSON
        1.Robert FERGUSON
        1.Albert FERGUSON
        1.Mary FERGUSON (born blind)
 
Jean Mayfield Cuevas
Marietta,GA

John 3:16 <><
 

M.L. FERGUSON, piano tuner who has "doctored" thousands of Arkansas pianos
in 45 years, has never seen a ray of light.  Yet the world has a face all
its own for him.  And his sense of direction is so strong that he can go
anywhere that anyone else can go.
        "He has the Homing instinct of a cat or a pigeon", a close friend said in
describing Mr. Ferguson.  Once a friend took him home in a car at night.
By mistake he drove to 2222 Center Street, instead of 2222 Louisianna.
When Mr. Ferguson stepped out of the car he said at once, "This isn't the
right place.  You must be on Center Street."
        Blind from birth because of failure of the optic nerve to develop, Mr.
Ferguson came from his farm home near Batesville at the age of six to enter
the Arkansas Scool for the Blind.  Each summer he returned home and his
parents and nine brothers and sisters took it as a matter of course that he
roamed all over their 160 acre "one-man" farm, for everyone knew he could
find his way.
        Years later, as a business man in charge of his own going enterprise of
rebuilding and tuning pianos, he went to Batesville to buy the old home
place.  "It was just sentiment, but I wanted to hire someone to run the
farm, and I wanted to keep it to visit.  But they told me that some campers
had stayed overnight in the abandoned house about two months before, and
had burned the house and barn down.  I turned around and came back and
never went there again. I can 'see' that house just like it was when I was
a child.  I can even 'see' the nail I had driven to hang my razor strap on
when I was a young fellow"
                        Does Not Play Piano
While still a chld, Mr. Ferguson decided he would be a piano tuner, but he
didn't bother to learn very much about playing the piano.  "If I had been
able to play, I would have wasted a lot of time playing for people," he
said.  He tuned his first piano at 14 and received a $5. gold piece which
he kept for years.  At 16 he was graduated from the blind school and began
to build his trade.  For some years he traveled throughout the state,
visiting Batesville, Jonesboro, Paragould and Newport, and going up the
White River valley as far as Cotter.  He scoffed at the idea that he might
need help in traveling, for trains never gave him any trouble.  If he
needed guidance in reaching addresses, he could always hire a boy to show
him around.
By 1913 Mr Ferguson's Little Rock trade had grown to such an extent that he
dropped the out-of-town work.  Since then he has rebuilt and tuned
thousands of pianos, some in homes of owners and some in his workshop.  He
has 14 pianos in his shop, including two handsome square pianos which he is
rebuilding and restringing.
"Until the automobiles got so numerous, I went everywhere in town, but I
don't go about so much alone any more,"  Mr. Ferguson said.  He has more
work than he can do.  The quality of his workmanship is proved by the number
of long-time customers who still send for him or send their pianos to his
shop.
Mr. Ferguson's hobby is woodwork.  a favorite pastime is making furniture.
"After I've been working on pianos for a few days, I drop everything and go
to my bench and make something." he said.  "That's as necessary to me as
food and water. I have to do it."
He has made many storage cabinets and other handcrafted fixtures for the
pleasant larg-roomed house which he has occupied at 2222 Louisianna Street
since 1922.  Tables, chairs, and other articles also are products of his
bench, including four sets of porch furniture for the Blind Women's Home.
He enclosed a basement stairway, built a fence from the house to the
garage, and made and hung every screen--about 30-- in the house. "
The neighbors get scared when they see me up on a ladder," he chuckled.

              Installs Transformers
But their surprise was nothing compared to that of the workmen who came to
work on the roof and were amazed to find Mr. Ferguson walking joists of the
attic. "They didn't know I already had been up there to put in a
transformer for the doorbell," he chuckled.
Mr. Ferguson had a large audience the time he cut some limbs out of a large
hickory tree in front of the house.  And when he was building the backyard
fence at night some motorists stopped their cars to watch him drive nails
in the dark.
He was disappointed when the buildings of the old Blind School at
Eighteenth and Center Streets were torn down recently.
"I knew every inch of the place, and it was always home to me.  That's
where I grew up."
Mr. Ferguson has a brother in California and two others in Sharp County.
He has never married, and for many years has made his home with the Misses
Stella Mae and Lavanna WELLS, supervisors for the Sothwestern Bell
Telephone Co. for 35 years. The two families formerly lived at 1000
Louisianna Street.
Mr. Ferguson's one unrealized ambition was to become a surgeon. "Look at
these hands," he said, holding up his tapering fingers. "If I'd had my
sight, I could have been a surgeon.  But I get a lot out of life.  Anybody
that wants to make his way in this world can do it."

Other surnames I am researching;
Alexander/Alsop/Alsup/Bacon/Ballard/Bedsaul/Beverage
/Bledsoe/Denton/Farrier/Ferguson/Hale/Hawkins/Houser
/James/Jeffery/Langston/Lawson/Mason/Mayfield/Rhorer/
/Wiles/Wright