Early Settlers Personal History

1. Mr. John Ezell

2. Paris, Ark. Route 3

3. Retired farmer

4. Farming

5. January 24, 1868

6. Red Bench 9 miles south of Paris

7. Locky Keck. January 22, 1892

8. None

9. All my life

10. Native

11. None

12. Log houses

13. Pine knots. Grease lamps

14. Don't remember

15. Wood

16. Hog, Beef, Squirrel & wild turkey

17. Wool homemade spun & wove clothes

18. Horseback riding walking Sometimes they called “charivaries” shiveree and sarnade [sic] (shivaree and serenade)

19. Food and clothes were cheaper then

20. They would give their neighbors things and borrow from

21. Corn, cotton, wheat

22. Wooden Georgia stocks. Harrow

23. Flour mill

24. None

25. Dances, camp meetings, hog killings & corn husking

26-27. None

28. Don't remember any

29. Log building seats made of punchings [sic] (puncheons)

30. Six miles south of Paris

31. France Wutters

32. Free school by taxation

33. Blue Back speller

34. Books

35. Don't remember

36. Saw first horse car in Fort Smith

37. Saw first car at Paris in 1912

38. Saw first train at Paris

39. Saw first airplane at Paris

40. Don't remember

41-53. None

54. Saw a cave on mountain about 4 miles South of Paris & it was called Peggy's Hole

55. None

56. 30 descendents

57. Dave Ezell, Paris, Ark. Route 3,

Alfred Ezell, Paris, Ark. Rt. 3

Gertie McKinney "   "    "    "

Verna Tygart     "   "    "    "

Mary Luman        "   "    "    "

Ethel Strobble Paris, Ark.

Rosco Ezell         "   "    "    "

Everett Ezell     "   "    "    "

Doy Ezell, Chowchilla, California Rt. 1 Box 202

58. Loreene & Coriene Ezell. Great grandchild is Jackie Douglass Hatcher

59. None 
 

Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class of 2007