Lee Davis Selph b. 15 Jul 1863 d. 30 Nov 1945 Married: Oct 1893 Buried: Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co., AR Father: David Jackson Selph Mother: Jane Newman
Kate Gwaltney b. 22 Aug 1869 d. 29 Nov 1949 Buried: Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co., AR Father: Francis Marion Gwaltney Mother: Nancy Cravens
CHILDREN
Atha Selph b. 19 Aug 1894 Logan Co., AR d. 26 Mar 1990 Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park & Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR
Husband: Ross Leslie Jamison b. 1894 d. 1990 Buried: Pincrest Memorial Park & Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR plot: section 7
Francis Leland Selph b. 12 May 1897 d. 3 Sep 1936 Hot Springs, Garland Co., AR (VA Hospital) Buried: Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co., AR Married: 8 Jun 1918 Logan Co., AR
Wife: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Cummins b. 12 May 1898 d. 3 May 1984 Buried: Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co., AR Father: William S. Cummins Mother: Sallie X
Maurice Jack Selph b. 5 Feb 1899 d. 1 Oct 1984 Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR Married: 16 Dec 1923 Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park & Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR
Wife: Mattie Rebecca Lee b. 26 May 1905 Subiaco, Logan Co., AR d. Nov 1942 Buried: Houston, Harris Co., TX. Father: Arthur Henry Lee Mother: Pearl Idell Huffman
2nd Wife: Aline W. X b. 30 Aug 1907 d. 3 Oct 2000 Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park & Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR
Nina Alice Selph b. 8 Feb 1901 d. 20 Feb 1903 Buried: Prairie View Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
Marion Davis Selph b. 23 Dec 1903 Logan Co., AR d. Dec 1980 Logan Co., AR Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park & Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR plot: section 7
Wife: Geneva E. Carpenter b. 26 Apr 1911 d. 2 May 1989 Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park & Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR
Nancy Pearl Selph b. 7 Sep 1905 Prairie View, Logan Co., AR d. Oct 1980 Conway, Faulkner Co., AR
Married: Logan Co., AR
Husband: Alva B. Hixson b. 11 Sep 1890 AR d. Jan 1981 AR Father: Pleasant Blaine Hixson Mother: Nettie Mitchell
Raymond Earl Selph b. 14 Aug 1908 Spadra, Johnson Co., AR d. 8 Apr 1997 Hernando, De Soto Co., MS Buried: Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN
Wife: Ruth Hardy b. 23 Jan 1917 d. 17 Oct 2000 Buried: Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby Co., MS
Wyatte Alford Selph b. 31 Aug 1910 Spadra, Johnson Co., AR d. 7 Mar 1993 Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR plot: section 7
Wife: Virginia Little b. 17 Aug 1917 d. 25 Feb 1999 Buried: Pinecrest Memorial Park & Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline Co., AR plot: section 7
Hollis Woodrow Selph b. 3 May 1913 Prairie View, Logan Co., AR d. 6 May 1997 Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN
Wife: Irene Varner b. 20 Jan 1919 d. 15 Jan 1998 Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR
Lee Selph attended school in Ellsworth. After his father's death, he moved to Prairie View and worked as a teamster hauling frieght to and from the railroad at Spadra. Lee was a fiddler for the local parties where Kate met him and "chased" him until their marriage October 1893. Lee became the 12 mile mail carrier at Shoal Creek by wagon and a team of horses. After a back injury in 1902, Lee worked at mining and farming. Kate worked as a seamstress and took in boarders. By 1910, the Selph's resettled in Prairie View, and ran a store located across Francis Marion Gwaltney, besides continuing in work of mining and farming. The family attended the Prairie View Methodist Church. In 1913, by selling his best horse, Lee acquired a house until they moved to Little Rock, AR in 1933.
1870 Federal Census, Shoal Creek, Johnson Co., AR:
Hixson, Pleasant, 47
Sarah A., 46
John A., 20
Francis, 17
Ellen M., 15
James G., 13
Sarah J., 10
Pleasant W., 7
William S., 4
1880 Federal Census, Ellsworth Township, Logan Co., AR:
Hixson, Pleasant, 59
Sarah, 51
James G., 22
Pleasant Wesley, 17
William Sherman, 13
Emery Lafayette, 7, son
The Paris Express, dated 3 Dec 1945, “Lee D. Selph, 82, of Little Rock, died in a Little Rock hospital Friday. He was born and reared at Prairie View. He had been a resident of Little Rock the past several years. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Survivors; wife, Mrs. Kate Selph; Sons: M. J., Houston, TX, M. D., San Francisco, CA, M. E., Memphis, TN & Wyatt A. & Hollis W., Little Rock; Daughters; Mrs. Ross L. Jameson, Little Rock, & Mrs. Alva R. Hixson, Conway”.
The Commercial Appeal 9 Apr 1997 Raymond E. Selph, founder of Selph's Cricket Ranch, a downtown fixture for more than 40 years, died of cancer Tuesday at his home. He was 88. Mr. Selph, of Hernando, MS, was owner and manager of paid fishing lakes in Hernando and was a member of Hernando United Methodist Church. A former railway mail clerk, Mr. Selph got the idea for a cricket ranch when he saw crickets packaged and going through the mail. Selph tested a few of the Australian gray crickets on a fishing trip and decided to raise them. Selph's Cricket Ranch, which raised crickets for fishing bait and animal food, followed. The ranch eventually settled in a building on South Front until the business was sold in 1990. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Memorial Park. Mr. Selph, the husband of Ruth Hardy Selph, also leaves a daughter, Sandra Selph Rhoda of Hernando; a brother, Hollis Selph of Clarksville, Tenn., three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
The Commercial Appeal 18 Oct 2009RUTH HARDY SELPH, 92, former owner of Selph's Cricket Ranch, died October 17, 2009 at Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto. The family will receive friends from 9:30 a.m. Monday, October 19 until service at 11 a.m. at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park. She was a lifelong member of Calvary Episcopal Church, Sunday School teacher for many years and a member of Zonta Club. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Selph. She leaves one daughter, Sandra Selph Gooch and her husband Terry of Hernando; sister, Olivia Rond of Memphis; grandson, James Loy Beene, Jr. of Memphis, granddaughter, Lee Ann Glona and her husband Lee of Pearland, TX, grandson, Eric Beene and his wife Marie of Hernando; great-grandchildren, Michael, Matthew, Michelle, Chase, Austin, Mitchell, Samantha, Caleb.
Francis Marion Gwaltney & Nancy Cravens
Arthur Henry Lee & Pearl Idell Huffman
David Jackson Selph & Jane Newman
Francis Leland Selph & Elizabeth Cummins
