Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for July 11, with notable births and deaths of people with Arkansas connections for this date. Information is drawn from state archives, historical societies, contemporary newspapers and other media archives, and legal records. Much of this information comes from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, an online publication. ChatGPH has collected this data.
On July 11, 1881, Hayes White was executed in Arkansas for murder, an event preserved by the Arkansas Democrat under the headline “Hung for Murder.”
On July 11, 1884, the federal court at Fort Smith carried out a triple hanging: John Davis, Jack Womankiller and Thomas L. Thompson, convicted of murders in Indian Territory. Womankiller’s case connects the date to the Cherokee Nation; Davis’s crime was in the Choctaw Nation…