Early Settlers Personal History

1. Mrs. Bettie McKinney

2. Paris, Arkansas, Route 3

3. House Wife

4. House Wife

5. 10/1/1874

6. Mississippi

7. Married to Andrew McKinney  Paris, Ark. 10/9/1872?

8. Came to Paris when 8 years old

9. 58 years

10. None

11. Father came to Arkansas for his health

12. We had hued log houses

13. Tallow dips for lights

14. None

15. Wood was used for fuel

16. Raised food and meat and game was plentiful

17. Home spun clothes

18. Horseback riding in early days

19. Food and clothes was cheap then

20. Borrowing was often practice

21. Early corn, peas, and wheel

22. Wooden home made plow stocks

23-24. None

25. Log rollings and house raising

26-28. None

29. Log school house with punching [sic] (puncheon) floors

30. School was in Logan County

31. Bob Horne

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

33. Blue Back Speller and Dane E.?  Arithmetic

34. Books was used for reading

35. At Paris Ark. 1912

36-54. None

55.Has a Bible of her great grandfather, this 135 years old his name was Til Yeats.

56. 14  desents [sic] (descendents)

57. Mintle McKinney, EllsWorth, Ark. Route 1

Mittie James,  Barnes, Arkansas

Guy McKinney, Paris, Ark. Route 3

Sylvin McKinney, Paris, Ark. Route 1

Edna McKinney, Paris, Ark. Route 3

58. A. J. Bennett and G. A. McKinney

59.None

Transcribed by Whitney Robison, GHS Class of 2009