Early Settlers Personal History

1. Mrs. Prince Albert Evans (Miss Lettie Brown Johnson)

2. Dyer, Arkansas

3. Housewife

4. Housewife

5. April 26, 1890

6. Foreman, Arkansas, Little River County

7. Yes, Mr. Prince Albert Evans, Dec. 3, 1921, Dardanelle, Ark. Yell County

8. Not an immigrant

9. 50 years

10. Born in Arkansas

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12. In 1897- She lived in a box house built by 4 posts set in the ground and then boxed around it. It has a plank chimney and clay back and jams made of clay and grass

13. Coal oil lights - pine knots

14. 1927

15. Wood

16. Fish and game were plentiful- She can remember when turkey and deer were plentiful. She has eat lots of wild turkey and deer

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20. The neighbors were always good to divide with anyone who were in need. The people around would give them food and clothes. Now days the country gives to the poor.

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23. Farming was an early industry- Most everybody farmed- most of them made a good living farming, too.

24-28. not answered

29. Foreman School- a frame building located about 7 miles out from Foreman. Seats with no back.

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31. Pro. L. R. Barnett was her first teacher and she thinks he’s still living

32. Free school paid by school taxes

33. McGuffey Reader

34. Weekly Commercial Appeal- Capper's Farmer, Pathfinder, Foreman Sun, Comfort Magazine

35. At the depot at Foreman

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37. 1911- the owner was C. B. Cotton Nelly, Arkansas

38. See at Foreman

39. 1916 at Dardanelle

40. 1930

41. 1898, 99, 1900

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43. Remember when President McKinley was killed. Remember the song about President Garfield

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51. Ku Klux Klan was organized after the Civil war for the purpose of keeping the Negroes from rising up against the white people. It a secret organization or that is if you were a Ku Klux you to not let anyone know you were a Ku Klux- the Ku Klux scared the Negroes.

52. She is a charter member of the Dyer Church of Christ

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54. In Yell County there is a Indian Cemetery - The people that live near this Indian cemetery dig in this cemetery and some have some pottery that was worth as high as $500 just for 1 Indian pitcher. For a while the people here were stopped digging up this Indian pottery. However the government said nobody could keep them from digging up this pottery for it was in demand.

55. Dardanelle was named about an Indian lad that jumped off a rock and his name was Darnell. That is how Dardanelle got its name

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57. Mrs. Clinton D. Hall, Monrow (Monroe), Okla.

      Mrs. John D. Arbuckle, Dyer, Ark.

      Mr. C. S. Evans, Detroit, Mich.

      Mrs. A. G. Cash, Detroit, Mich.

      Billy Evans, Dyer, Arkansas

      Emma Jo. Evans, Dyer, Ark.

58. Hazel and Charles Hall, Bobby Ann, C.D. Hall, Joan Arbuckle, J.D. Cash, Clifton Austin Evans

59. She has not written any books, diaries, journals, sketches or newspaper articles

Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class of 2007