Early in 1980, the time was right to form a primary chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
in Clarksville, Arkansas.
Along with the help and encouragement from the Arkansas State Regent at that time, Mrs. James Harold Stevenson, the State Organizing Secretary, Mrs. Edward Lynn Westbrooke, Mrs. Henry Corey Miller, Organizing Secretary General, Ruby Young Coffman, Organizing Regent, and 16 other charter members of the Clarksville Chapter, the first meeting was held at the home of Ms. Coffman on April 16, 1980.
Clarksville Chapter was named as such after our county seat, and to keep alive the memory of Lorenza N. Clarke, a pioneer of Arkansas Territory, the State of Arkansas, the county of Johnson, and the City of Clarksville. The 17 Charter Members wanted the chapter to be readily identified as to name and location.
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