”Brown’s Valley

…William J. Davis built the largest store-house in the village, and stocked it with a full supply of notion goods, where he continued for a number of years, and left the mercantile field to Charles W. Ware, who occupied the same building for four years. …C. W. Ware was the first ticket agent.”

Reference Data:

History of Montgomery County, Arkansas, by Beckwith, Kennedy and Davidson, 1881, page 346