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Early Settlers Personal History 1. J. M. Campbell 2. Ratcliff, Ark. 3. Retired 5. Nov. 12, 1856 6. Edge Hill, Polk County, Arkansas 7. Lou E. Abner, Boydston Church, Franklin County, Ark. 8. -- 9. Life 10-11. -- 12. Built of logs covered with shakes chimneys built of stone 13. Tallow candles, poured at home 14. 1928 15. Wood 16. Pork, Beef, wild turkey, venison, squirrel and honey, fish and corn bread 17. Made all of our clothes, shoes included. Spun and wove the cloth bought first clothes when I was 14 years old 18. Women wore hoop skirts 19. Nothing bought except salt. Didn’t know about prices 20. Can’t remember needing or giving help, everyone had plenty. 21. Wheat, corn, Irish potatoes, cotton, hogs and sheep 22. Homemade stock, no turning plow, plowed with steers 23. Sawmills 24. Poke Salet, Sassafras tea 25. House raisings, hog killings and log rollings were a very common thing and all the neighbors took part 26. Forest fires were allowed to burn except around rail fences paths were cleared around them 27. None 28. Wasn’t around any 29. Had what they called loud school. Everyone talked and studied out loud. 30. First attended at an old abandoned house, later at a box house built by the community 31. R. S. Campbell Sr. 32. Subscription 33. Blue Back Speller. Learned alphabet from a leaf of an old dictionary 34. Didn’t have any 35. Ratcliff R.R. Depot in 1890 36. Where not used where I lived 37. Ratcliff in 1910 38. Ozark 1885, on Iron Mountain Railroad 39. Paris, Ark. 1914 40-42.-- 43. Bill Harris, Outlaw 44-46. None 47. Bill Harris his brother and a man by the name Skidmore were hung a Roseville for stealing horses. They were hung by the citizens. They were known as the worst outlaw gang of the county at that time 48. Was 9 years old when the war broke out, our house was robbed several times by the Kansas Jayhawkers 49. None 50. No contact with them 51. Never saw any 52-55. None 56. About 75 57. R. S. Campbell Jr., Ratcliff, E. J. Campbell Stillwell, Okla., Johnie Campbell, Montgomery, Alabama, Daisy McVay, El Monte Calif., Kate Carpenter, Calif., Ellen Nixon, El Monte, Calif. 58. Grandchildren, Grace Conley, R. L. Campbell, Mittie Parker. G. Grandchildren, Harold Conley, Latha Dale Conley, Elmo Nixon 59. None
Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class of 2007
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