1.   Mrs. Polly D. Hedger

2.   Havana Arkansas R. F. D. #1

3.   Retired

4.   Housewife

5.   1853

6.   Yell County, Arkansas, about 2 miles from present home

7.   Yes, John Farmer - 1876

 John Hedger

8.    -- 9.  Native

10.  All her life 11. -- 12. --

13.  Hewn log houses with wide fireplaces,

14.  Pine knot fires, tallow canellas

15.  None  16.  Wood

17.  Vegetables, Corn, Wheat, and Potatoes raised at home. Pork, beef, mutton raised at home, wild fruits, berries and game, wild greens such as poke salad etc.

18.  Home spun made of cotton or wool, woven and made by hand

19.  -- 20.   Most things bought were higher then than now, not many were bought since  nearly everything needed was produced at home

21.  -- 22. -- 23. -- 24. Farming, Trading, Hauling

25.  --

26.  She remembers when a child of nine she saw a mob take a neighbor out and hang him to the limb of an oak tree, They were called "Bushwackers". She was tending cows at the time. Those "Bushwackers" or scouts raided the community stealing horses, killing other stock, burning some houses and doing other damage. When the mob stopped at a blacksmith shop to shoe a horse a young lady named Lydia Saintjohn stepped away and told some of the other settlers who stationed themselves at a place near a narrow place on the road known as Cedar Creek narrows. A skirmish was fought in which two of the raiders were killed. The women drove an ox wagon under the man hanged to the tree, took him down and buried him.

27. -- 28.  First post of office: Cedar Hill

     Mathias H. Smith was first postmaster. Mail came along Dardanelle and ... (cutoff at bottom) ... because of so many cedar trees.

29. -- 30. Small log hut, hewn logs with large heavy door, large fireplace, homemade seats.

31. Cedar Creek, On high bank of creek near present location of church about 1837.

32. -- 33. Tuition. 34. Webster's old reader and speller.

35. -- 36. -- 37. -- 38. -- 39. -- 40. -- 41. -- 42. -- 43. -- 44. No. 45. -- 46. -- 47. Dates on    her mother's tombstone, her mother was born 1829.

48. -- 49. -- 50. -- See question 26.

51. -- 52. -- 53. -- 54. -- 55. -- 56. -- 57. Two sons living, one daughter dead.

    18 grandchildren; 14 great grand children.

58. -- 59. -- 60. None