Early Settlers Personal History

1. Mrs. Ethel McCubbins (McCubbin)

2. Paris, Arkansas Route 3

3. Housewife

4. Farming

5. 4/2/1875

6. Paris, Ark. Route 2

7. Married Mr. John McCubbin in 1893 at Paris

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9. All my life

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12. Hued log houses

13. Tallow dips for lights

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15. Wood was used for fuel

16. They raised & dried their food & game was lots

17. Clothes were homemade of cotton & flannel

18. They often went horse back riding

19. Food & clothes were cheaper

20. Divided their food

21. Cotton, corn & wheat, and also remember when tomatoes were called Love Apples

22. Farming tools were homemade wooden stock

23. Cotton gin

24. Used sassafras roots for coffee

25. Log rollings, dances, & hog killings

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29. Small log school house & split log seats

30. Sandy, Paris Route 3

31. Teachers name was Watts

32. School was run by taxassion [sic] (taxation)

33. Books were Blue Back Speller & Rays Arithmetic

34. Books were used for reading matters

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37. First car was in Paris in 1913

38. First train at Coal Hill in 1890

39. First airplane were at Paris in 1917

40-55 not answered

56. 18 descendents

57. Garland, Will, and John McCubbin, Paris, Arkansas, Route 3. Mae McNeal Cussion [sic] (Cushing) Oklahoma. Maude Ezell Paris, Ark

Lorene & Corene Ezell and Great grandchild is Jackie Douglas Hatcher

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Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class of 2007