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Early Settlers Personal
History
- 1. Mr. John McCubbin
- 2. Paris, Arkansas Route 3
- 3. Farming
- 4. Farming
- 5. 12/10/1875
- 6. Roseville, Arkansas, Logan County
- 7. Ethel Brown 1898. Paris, Ark.
- 8. None
- 9. All my life
- 10. Native
- 11. --
- 12. Hued log house
- 13. Tallow dips for light
- 14. --
- 15. Wood was used for fuel
- 16. Fish & game
- 17. Home spun clothes
- 18. Often went horseback riding
- 19. Food & clothe were cheaper
- 20. --
- 21. Corn, cotton, and wheat
- 22. Wooden plow stocks
- 23. Cotton gins
- 24. --
- 25. Log rolling, house raisings & cottings
[sic] (cotton?)
picking
- 26-28. --
- 29. School house was frame building
- 30. Roseville, Paris Route 3
- 31. Doc. Wilder
- 32. By taxassion [sic] (taxation)
- 33. School books were Blue Back Speller and
Ray's Arithmetic
- 34. Books were used for reading matter
- 35. First telegraph was in Paris 1900
- 36. --
- 37. First car in Paris in 1913
- 38. First train in Fort Smith 1890
- 39. First airplane in Paris in 1917
- 40. 1926
- 41. --
- 42. Celebrated when they voted liquor listins
[sic] (licenses?)
out in 1885 they buried a dummy in barrel
- 43-46. --
- 47. Logan County treasure were robbed 55 yrs.
ago they broke in Court house & got it the robbers were Robert Haskins and
Luce Ezell
- 48-55 not answered
- 56. 18 descendents
- 57. Garland, Will and John McCubbin, Paris,
Ark. Route 3; Maude Ezell, Paris, Arkansas Mae McNeal, Cussion [sic]
(Cushing?) Oklahoma
- 58. Lorene and Corene Ezell, Great grandchild
was Jackie Douglas Hatcher
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- Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class
of 2007
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