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historian of Old Washington Historic State Park. Montgomery combed the documents in the Hempstead County courthouse and the pages of the local newspapers searching for items pertaining to the Blocks. His remarkable effort made my research much easier and provided references I probably wouldn’t have been able to locate in the time I had available for the project. Anonymous 1857 [Death Notice of Abraham Block]. Arkansas Gazette, April 4, 1857, 3:3. 1857 Obituary [of Abraham Block]. Extracts from The Occident 15(1). Reprinted in The American Jewish Archives, October 1956. 1871 Obituary [of Frances I. Block]. Washington Telegraph, December 20, 1871, 3:2. 1896 [Death Notice of] Augustus Block. (New Orleans) Daily Picayune February 9, 1896, 2nd part, 15:2. 1920 Extracts From the Note Books of Rev. J. J. Lyons: Items Relating to the Hays Family, New York. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 27. 1920 Manuscript Material: Items Relating to Congregation Shearith Israel, New York. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 27. Ashkenazi, Elliott 1988 The Business of Jews in Louisiana 1840–1875. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Atherton, Lewis E. 1971 The Frontier Merchant in Mid-America. University of Missouri Press, Columbia. 1949 The Southern Country Store 1800–1860. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. Berman, Myron 1979 Richmond’s Jewry, 1769–1976: Shabbat in Shockoe. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville. Bush, Isidor 1951 The Jews in St. Louis. Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society 8. Chambers, Henry E. 1925 A History of Louisiana, Vol. 2. American Historical Society Inc., Chicago, Ill. de Sola Pool, Rev. D. 1939 Gershom Mendes Seixas’ Letters, 1813–1815, To His Daughter Sarah (Seixas) Kursheedt and Son-InLaw Israel Baer Kursheedt. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 35. Ehrlich, Walter 1997 Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis, Volume 1: 1807–1907. University of Missouri Press, Columbia. Ezekiel, Herbert T., and Gaston Liechtenstein 1917 The History of the Jews of Richmond From 1769 to 1917. Herbert T. Ezekiel, printer and publisher, Richmond, Va. Ezekiel, Jacob 1896 The Jews of Richmond. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 4. Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1890 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. 1892 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, Vol. 1. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. Grant, Rosa Mayer 1961 History of the Abraham Block Family. Typescript FHF#012, Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, Washington, Ark. Hempstead County Genealogical Society 2000 Hempstead County, Arkansas, Cemeteries, Book 5. Hempstead County Genealogical Society, Hope, Ark. Hempstead, Fay 1911 Historical Review of Arkansas, Vol. III. Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. Jennings, Orville 1955 Family Bible of Orville Jennings. Pulaski County Historical Review 3(4): 63–64. Kirsch, Guido 1949 In Search of Freedom: A History of American Jews From Czechoslovakia. Edward Godson & Son Ltd., London. Kohler, Max J. 1894 Phases of Jewish Life in New York Before 1800. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 2. Korn, Bertram Wallace 1969 The Early Jews of New Orleans. American Jewish Historical Society, Waltham, Mass. BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY AND LIST OF REFERENCES 125 Kwas, Mary L. n.d. A Jewish Family on the Arkansas Frontier: The Block Family of Old Washington. Unpublished manuscript. Larkin, Jack 1989 The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790–1840. Harper Perennial, New York, NY. LeMaster, Carolyn Gray 1994 A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820s-1990s. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. 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