BRINKLEY, Ark. (AP) - DORATHY MC DONALD ALLEN, a retired newspaper publisher and the first woman to serve in the Arkansas Senate, died Saturday. She was 80.
Allen and her husband, state Sen. Tom Allen, bought The Citizen in Brinkley, the Monroe County Sun in Clarendon and the Woodruff County Democrat.
Mrs. Allen became the first woman in the Senate when she was appointed to finish the term of her husband, who died in 1963. She later won election and served until 1974.
--Tulsa World (OK) - May 15, 1990

BATES, THOMAS H.
Died: May 23, 1906 in: Chicago, IL
Born: 1838
Type of practice: Allopath
Places/dates of practice: Brinkley, AR
Medical school: University of Nashville Medical Department, Nashville, 1871, (G)
Journal of the American Medical Association citation: 47:134
Cause of demise: nephritis
Source: Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, contributed by Janice Rice.


MRS. W. S. MC CULLOUGH, wife of the postmaster at Brinkley, died at Milledgeville, GA.  --Gentry Courier, Dec 23, 1904; transcribed by Tina Easley.

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