- Early Settlers Personal
History
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Joe Lofland
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Gravelly, Arkansas
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Retired Farmer 4. Farming
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February 6, 1854 6. Bluffton Arkansas
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Yes, Miss
Tiffany Jane Crawley
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-- 9. Native 10.
87 Years 11. --
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Houses built of logs, cracks "chinked and
daubed" with mud mixed with grass. Chimneys built of "mud cats and
sticks." "Mud cats" were blocks of mud and grass.
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Grease pan with twisted rag, later tallow
candles
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1939 16. Wood 17.
Wild game, vegetables, wheat, corn, fish,
wild fruits and berries.
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Game was plentiful, deer, turkey, squirrel,
opossum, raccoon, wild hog.
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Home spun clothes made by hand in the
home
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Went to Morrilton to buy corn for bread.
Dug dirt from floor of "smoke house" and put in water, then strained
the water and boiled it down to get salt.
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Wheat, corn, vegetables, cattle, horses,
dogs, goats, sheep
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Farming, trading, hauling
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Poke, Sassafras, wild fruits or berries
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Remembers being at meeting held under an arbor near the bank of Gafford's
Creek, when the preacher (Rev. Lingo) fell backward into the creek.
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Bluffton, so named for the bluff nearby,
Gravelly Hill so named for a hill of gravel near by.
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First school - a little log hut near the
Bluff (now known as Bluffton) used split log benches
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An early teacher was Mr. McCall
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Webster’s Blue Back speller and Webster’s
dictionary
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None 37. --
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His father was killed in the yard of
their home in 1865. His mother with five children went to Texas in
an ox wagon, and on this trip they had only dried beef without
bread. Federal soldiers pushed the boys off their horses and took
them. The mother and children returned later in the year to
Arkansas.
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Forty eight
- 8 children
- 29 grandchildren
- 11 Great grandchildren
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One daughter
- Mrs. Allie Swains, Gravelly Arkansas, others in Texas.
Addresses not attained
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