1. D. F. (B. F.) Miller Ratcliff, Ark.
2. Retired
3. Farmer
4. Dec. 1855
5. Pike County, Indiana
6-7. Rachel Miller, 1875, Petersburg, Indiana
8. No
9. 36 years
10. Travel by train
11. No special reason
12. Log houses, Stone chimneys
13. Tallow candles, grease lamps burned hog lard with twisted cloth
14. Don’t remember
15. Principally wood
16. Cornbread, squirrel, honey, pork
17. Spun the thread and wove the cloth then making our own cloth
18. --
19. Cloth was higher homemade jeans cost $1.00 per yard which was made
from virgin wool
20. If a family was in need his neighbors all helped him in any way
possible. If he became sick and unable to work they worked his crops
for him.
21. Corn, wheat, cattle & sheep
22. One horse turning plows, plow costing about $5.00
23. Sawmills
24. Polk (Poke) salad, sassafras tea, a spiced wood tea, wild grapes
25. Hog killings, House raisings, Corn huskings and log rollings
26. Forest fires were allowed to burn, trees were set on fire to get
rid of underbrush
27-28. None
29. Three months school out of each year, Held in a log school house
puncheon seats
30. --
31. Don’t Remember
32. State paid the teacher
33. Blue Back Speller principal book
34. Had newspapers and magazines but don’t recall name
35. Princeton, Indiana, Don’t recall
36. Were not used lived in the country
37. Dexter, Mo. about 1900
38. In Indiana 1865
39. Ola, Ark. 1912
40. Were not used where I lived in the country
41-47. None
48. Times were very hard, food and clothing very scarce
49. No battle fought in my community
50. None in Indiana
51-55. None
56. Eleven own children, 20 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, one
great-great grandchild
57. George Miller, Piedmont, Mo.; I. N. Miller, Kansas City, Kansas;
Roscoe Miller, Missouri; Edna Rackley, Wynne, Ark.; Bessie Tillman, Paris,
Ark.
58. Grandchildren Henry Romine?, Terral? Miller, Ben Rackley; great-grandchildren Bettie Lou
Ingle, James? Romine
59. None
Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class of 2007
