Overstreet, J.C., Jr.

These papers were accumulated by the families of J.C. Overstreet Jr. and his wife Helen Darr Gillette Overstreet and their daughter Linda. John C. Darr, Helen's paternal grandfather, came with his family from North Carolina to Arkansas in 1855. Darr went on to become a founder and prominent merchant in Atkins, Arkansas. Her father James A. Gillette and his family moved to Arkansas from St. Charles, Missouri; Gillette was later a well-known attorney in Atkins. In 1937 Helen married J.C. Overstreet Jr., the son of Carl Overstreet and Leila Smith Overstreet, whose families were pioneers in Plummerville, Arkansas.