- 1. John S. Smith
- 2. Charleston, Arkansas
- 3. Insurance salesman
- 4. Farming, Merchant and Banking
- 5. Aug. 7, 1856
- 6. Wood county, West Va.
- 7. Married to Miss Nellie Norman 1887 at Subrosa,
Franklin County, Ark.
- 8. 1884
- 9. 1884—Fifty six years
- 10. Came on train
- 11. Started to Texas stopped off in Arkansas and never
went Texas, engaged in farming on Subrosa Mountain.
- 12. Some frame buildings but mostly log house, chimneys
were built of stone and some were built of logs and sticks, the
mortar was of clay.
- 13. Pine knots, candles and kerosene.
- 14. Unknown
- 15. Mostly wood some coal
- 16. Pork, beef some opossum and coon, very few turkey
and deer. Corn meal, flour, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and most all kinds of
vegetables.
- 17. Jeans and cotton goods.
- 18. Charivaries (shivarees) were common
- 19. Barrel of flour $6.00, meal 50 cents per bu., sorghum 75
cents
gal.
- 20. Shared with neighbors to large extent
- 21. Cotton, corn, wheat, mules, horses, cattle, hogs and
sheep.
- 22. Scooter plows or bull tongue plows, cost $1.25, the
stocks were made on the frame. Turning plows were bought, costing
about $8.00. Double shovels and harrows were bought at town, don’t
remember prices.
- 23. Farming, ginning, milling and stock raising.
- 24. Poke salad, mustard, wild strawberries and wild
blackberries.
- 25. Log house raising, log rolling, clearing land with
neighbors help, and house warmings.
- 26.Forest fires were fought by raking a path trough
the leaves and backfiring. House fires were combated with wet
sacks and buckets of water.
- 27. None
- 28. There was fine ferry boat at Ozark, Ark. And a stage coach from
Ozark to Charleston, Ark.
- 29. Mostly one room with fire place and used wood for fuel, Taught
in winter and summer.
- 30. Pleasant Grove, north of Subrosa about 1 mile, in Grover
Township, Franklin County
- 31. Dr. S. P. Gammill was the first I can remember, in 1885.
- 32. By Taxation and public donation tuition $1.50 per month for each
pupil payment was made in kind.
- 33. McGuffey Reader, Ray’s Arithmetic, Webster's Blue Back Spellers,
states Barnes' History and Pineus Grammar
- 34. Weekly papers
- 35. Charleston, Ark. 1899.
- 36. None
- 37. In West Va. about 1870
- 38. At Confederate Park one mile East of Charleston, in 1910
- 39-40. None here
- 41. None
- 42. At reunion, don’t remember date
- 43-46. None
- 47. American State Bank at Charleston, in 1932.
- 48-56.None
- 57. Seven
- 58. R. Guy Smith, Moss Beach California; Mrs. A. Starbuck, Ames,
Iowa
- 59. Phil, Elbert, and Robert Starbuck. (grandchildren). Julia , Ann, and Nancy Hill (great grandchildren)
- 60. None.
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- Transcribed by Whitney Robison, GHS Class of 2009
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