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2 unusual facts about Saline County


Ewell Ross McCright

Ewell Ross McCright, (4 December 1917 - 24 April 1990) of Benton, Saline County, Arkansas was a captain in the United States Air Force during World War II who was famous for maintaining secret journals detailing information about fellow prisoners of war while held captive in a German prison camp.

I See Stars

On August 30 2013, all members were arrested in Saline County, Kansas for possessing and intending to use "hallucinogenic drugs", though it was not specified which drugs.


Ottawa County, Kansas

The Solomon River is the longest river in the county, entering from Cloud County to the northwest and exiting to Saline County to the southeast.

Sabatia arkansana

It was discovered in 2001 in several glades of the Ouachita Mountains in Saline County, Arkansas by John Pelton, a retired mechanic turned amateur photographer and naturalist.

Woods Fund of Chicago

The principal for the foundation came from business interests in the Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska, the Sahara Coal Co. headquartered in Chicago with mines in Saline County in far Southern Illinois, and Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. of Cleveland, Ohio.


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Benton, Arkansas

Kim Hammer - Baptist clergyman from Benton and Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 28 in Saline County

Bill Stouffer

Stouffer and his wife, Sue Ellen, currently live on their family farm in Saline County, Napton, Missouri, where Stouffer has been an active farmer since 1967.