I am trying to determine if any birth records have survived and are available from the year 1875 for Phillips County. I believe that my gg-grandfather, Paul Henry Gorman (1875-1946) was probably born there, since he appears at age 5 on the 1880 U.S. Census in Phillips Co., and his place of birth is listed as Arkansas.

I called the Phillips County Circuit Clerk's office and was told that I need to contact the Arkansas Department of Health, but I see that the latter only has birth records from 1914-present.

Am I out of luck?