Elbert Carter Markham Elbert Carter Markham spent his sixty-three years in the shadowed folds of the Ouachita Mountains where the Caddo River cuts through pine and oak. He was born in 1849 in Colbath Township of Clark County, a place that would later split into pieces of Montgomery and Pike counties. His father Carter Markham had arrived in the region as a young man from Alabama and built a life there as a Baptist preacher. The family story that passed down through generati