From the WPA Federal Writers Project - answers to Questionnaire - Arkansas HRS Form J

Interview done by: Dell Y. Conley, Franklin County

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Early Settlers Personal History

1. Sem D. Nunnelee (2) Ratcliff, Ark.
3. Retired
4. Farmer
5. 1866, May 28
6. Dallas County, Texas
7. Sula Suggs, 1885, Ratcliff, Ark.
8. None
9. Came here when 1 year old
10. To small to remember the trip
11. -
12. Log buildings, with stone chimneys
13. Tallow candles & Grease lamps
14. 1929
15. Wood from the forest
16. Pork, cornbread, potatoes, turkey, venison
17. Shoes were made at home, Spun thread to mark our own cloth
18. -
19. Very little food or clothing bought
20. If a person was in need the neighbor would take corn, meat, and other things he could use.
21. Corn, cotton, wheat and oats, oats were tromped out by mules
22. Square pointed bull tongues on homemade plow stocks
23. Few sawmills
24. Spice wood tea and sassafras tea, Wild grapes, and summer huckleberries.
25. House raisings, hog killings, log rollings and rail maulings were very common
26. Forest fires were allowed to burn
27. Shaver Creek was named after Old Man Shaver
28. None
29. Small box house at Caulksville
30. Ratcliff
31. Liddie Keller
32. Subscription school paid $3.00 per family
33. Blue Back Speller by Webster,
34. None
35. Ratcliff Depot 1899
36. None here
37. Paris, Ark, 1910
38. Ozark, Ark, 1879
39. Paris, 1914
40. Wasn’t used here
41. None
42. Celebration of the completion of the Arkansas Central railroad at Paris, Ark. 1890
43-47. None
48. Don’t remember
49. None
50. Can't remember then
51. Not very active
52-55. None
56. 7 children, 18 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren
 
Transcribed by Alyssa Metcalf, GHS Class of 2007