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Early Settlers Personal
History
- 1. Mrs. R. J. (Rebecca J.) Gattis
- 2. Ratcliff, Ark.
- 3. Retired farmwife
- 4. --
- 5. 1855
- 6. Franklin County
- 7. T. J. Gattis, Oct. 25, 1875, Franklin County
- 8. --
- 9. Life except 1 year and 6 mo. in Texas
- 10-11. --
- 12. Double building log house chimney at each
end
- 13. Tallow candles
- 14. --
- 15. Wood
- 16. Mutton, beef, fish, deer and other wild
game
- 17. Homemade clothes, spun own thread and then
wove with loom.
- 18. --
- 19. Nothing bought, raised all food
- 20. All was divided with neighbor
- 21. Corn, oats, wheat, rye, some cotton,
cattle, hogs, tomatoes grew wild and were small
- 22. Old fashioned homemade plows. Top harrow
- 23. None except flour and grist mills
- 24. Poke salad [sic] (salit), wild plums, cherries and
grapes
- 25. Log rollings, house raisings, hog killings
- 26-27.--
- 28. Roseville
Boat Landing named after old man
Rose
- 29. 3 mo. in the summer the old Blue Back
Speller, Geography
- 30. School in dwelling house and Barber School
house
- 31. Isaac Crossno
- 32. Tuition
- 33. Speller, Geography
- 34. --
- 35. No
- 36. --
- 37. Don't Remember
- 38. Arkansas Central
- 39-42. --
- 43. General Cabbel [sic] (Cabell), Capt. Council
- 44-46. --
- 47. Harris Boys Skidmore were hung at
Roseville for stealing horses
- 48. No, men and boys, Yankees had charge of
every thin Southern Bushwhackers helped protect woman and children
- 49-55 not answered
- 56. 14 children about 90 Grandchildren & great
grandchildren
- 57. Buddie Gattis, Boyd Gattis, Paris; Melvin
Gattis, Ratcliff; Jeff, California; Blanche Summers, Gore, Oklahoma; Mrs.
Valera Nixon; Clyde, Texas
- 58. Great grandchildren: Roy Hilda, Jewell
- Grandchildren Howe, Willie, etc.
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- Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class
of 2007
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