Josephine B. Wright Greenlee Crump (1840-1920) spent the first few years of the Civil War living near Harrison (Boone County) with her infant daughter. Mrs. Crump's first husband, T.J. [?] Greenlee, a private in Company D, 27 Arkansas Infantry [?], worked as an attendant at St. John's Hospital in Little Rock (Pulaski County). In 1863 he brought his family to the state capitol by horseback where Mrs. Crump helped attend the wounded at St. John's. After Union forces occupied the city, T.J. Greenlee was imprisoned at the Little Rock penitentiary and eventually Johnson's Island near Cincinnati, Ohio. Approximately twenty years later, Mrs. Crump recorded her activities and adventures during the city's occupation, which were typed by Mr. Crump's secretary.

Many years after the war, Mrs. Crump began a journal which she kept intermittently from 1894-1920. It includes discussions of her work in the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mrs. Crump also mentions her sons Archie and George, and daughter Josie. During 1894, Mrs. Crump recorded a description of a journey she took with her second husband, George Crump, a United States Marshal in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), who was transporting prisoners to Kings County Prison in New York City. Mrs. Crump also describes a visit to U.S. Representative from Arkansas, Colonel Samuel W. Peel, and his wife in Washington, D.C.