Early Settlers Personal History

1. Mrs. A. A. (Maud) (Farrow) McKelvey

2. 1003 Main (Van Buren)

3. None

4. Public School Teacher for 30 years. Was Bob Burns first teacher. He was rather a dreamer in class. She has lived in this home for about a year. He was very easy to get along with made friends easy in school.

5. 1870, Dec. 28

6. Fielding, Ill.

7. Yes. Mr. A. A. McKelvey, 1925, Van Buren, Arkansas

8. No

9. Since she was 9 month old, 68 years

10. Native of Arkansas

11. Come when 9 months old

12. Small frame house in Alma when she was 7 years old. Later here parents moved to Springdale.

13. Oil lamps

14. Wood was used

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18. Yes it was pronounced Shivaree

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20. Individual donation, her mother always made a quilt every year to give away.

21. Cotton and corn

22. Homemade

23. Farming

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25. Remember the Indians marching in a straight line selling baskets that they sold. Indians rode in Mrs. Emma Ria Millinery store and robbed the store. In 1880 she rode the first train Springdale. She was only 10 years old at the time. Latter to get in the box car.

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27. Picket Hill was named Picker Hill because of that they (federal) guard soldiers there.

28. Brodie Hotel was in it several times

29. She went to school to Miss Clara Eno, Grade school Margaret Wood. (from top of interview " Miss Eno was her teacher studied Latin History")

30. Where the city hall now is was called the Broadway school.

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33. Ray's Arithmetic

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35. The Globe Democrat, The Pathfinder, Ladies Home Journal.

36. Trolley car after the World War.

37. Here in Van  Buren a man by the name of Lamey (a tailor) owner. The first man that owned and automobile in this town. Didn't have any top, had wheels like a buggy. Don't remember when.

38. In 1875 was when she saw the first train

39. First airplane seen after the world war -- the planes.

40. 1932

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42. Celebrations of the Lights (Electric). Remember services for McKinley.

43. Met the man that is now Supreme Court Justice Hughes.

Fairbanks

Teddy Roosevelt (teaching)

William Jennings Bryan( shook hands with him)

James A. Blain (met in Greenwood)

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47. Remember the Taylor Bank Robber. Remember seeing People bank. Del Miller was the one give alarm the sheriff chase horse thiefs [sic] in home, Alma, when a child

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52. Christian Church

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56. No descendants

57. None - Have no children

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Transcribed by Whitney Robison, GHS Class 2009