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===Secondary sources===
*[http://www.webbercreek.com/foot2.html A Compendium of Arkansas Community Place Names], note 6 : "The probable reason for the removal of the county seat from "Whitson's Place" was the death of William Whitson. On December 15, 1836, "State Representative John Lassiter killed Wm. Whitson in a dispute over the re-location of Crawford Courthouse to Whitson's Store at Whitsontown... Although the court ruled it to be a case of self-defense, John W. Whitson, son of the deceased, killed Lassiter on October 10, 1838, in revenge... Lassiter and his wife Mary, who died in 1840, are buried in the southeast section of Fairview Cemetery in Van Buren." (From:Crawford County Arkansas Notebook: A History in Chronological Form, 1820-1920, By Clovis E. Miller. 1991, Page 96)"

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=an&dbid=7931&iid=HistBenton-AR-0615640&rc=1281,740,1416,773;1436,740,1576,774&fn=william&ln=whitson&st=d&ssrc=&pid=615 ''History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.''] Chicago, IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1889. "History of Franklin County", Page 611 where in a "list of persons who entered land in Franklin County before 1840" we find "...William Whitson, 1834, 6-10-28..." which means that in 1834, he entered on Section 6 of Range 10 North in Township 28 West.

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=an&dbid=7931&iid=HistBenton-AR-0514640&rc=863,856,1026,897;1039,856,1211,897&fn=william&ln=whitson&st=d&ssrc=&pid=514 ''History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.''] Chicago, IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1889. "History of Crawford County", Page 511 mentioning that in the Eighth Arkansas Territorial Assembly (1835), William Whitson was Representative from Crawford County.

*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcrawfo/doc/Shootings1836.html "The Shootings of Col. William Whitson and State Senator John Lasater, 1836-1838, in Crawford/Franklin Co., Arkansas : And the escape of John Witherspoon Whitson : The true story of a 70 year old secret and a 166 year old family mystery"] by Cathleen M. Sato

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