Wear Kibler Schoonover 1910-1982

Wear Schoonover was born in Pocahontas on March 18, 1910, and played end at the University of Arkansas from 1927 to 1929. In 1929 he led the NCAA in receptions and became the first Razorback named a first-team All-American. Arkansas put him in the first class of its Sports Hall of Fame in 1959, one of five, and the College Football Hall of Fame followed in 1967. Away from the game, he spent most of his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He died in Arlington, Virginia, on May 12, 1982.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 8.7 mi
  The ghost-town site of Arkansas's first post office, courthouse and federal land office, on the Black River, with open-frame outlines of the courthouse and a dogtrot house.
• Powhatan Historic State Park — 15 mi
  A river port and county seat on the Black River whose 1888 courthouse, 1873 jail, log house and academy still stand where they were built, with a state archives branch in the same park.
• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 23 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• Randolph County Court House — steps away
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley — steps away
• The Pocahontas Civil War River Walk Memorial — 0.3 mi
• Birthplace of Billy Lee Riley — 0.3 mi