1. Mary F. Phipps, “Smith”

2. Ratcliff, Ark.

3. Retired

4. House wife

5. Oct. 22, 1860

6. Alabama

7. Jim Riles, 1879, Waldron, Ark.

8. --

9. 70 years

10. Came by wagon from Alabama, first landed at Fayetteville, Ark. There for 6 weeks.

11. Was brought here by my father who was seeking better farming landed

12. Log houses, built of hewn logs

13. Grease lamps & pine torches

14. 1932

15. Wood

16. Pork, turkey, venison, squirrel, cornbread, and sorghum molasses

17. Spun thread and wove our own cloth. Making all of our clothes at home.

18. --

19. Coffee and salt was about the only items we bought. Corn cobs were sometimes burned and the ashes used for soda.

20. People were very neighborly if a person was in need of anything all the neighbors would help them. Widows and orphans were all taken care of by their neighbors.

21. Corn, cotton, potatoes Irish & sweet, sorghum

22. Plow stocks, homemade

23. None

24. Wild lettuce, grapes, summer huckleberries

25. Log rollings, house raisings, hog killings, quilting bees

26. Forest fires were allowed to burn

27-28. None

29. Log building with dirt floor and split log seats

30. --

31. Don’t recall

32. --

33. Blue Back Speller by Webster

34. No reading material at all

35. Booneville, Ark

36. Not used where I lived

37. 1912, Ione, Ark

38. 1865, Illinois

39. 1914

40. Wasn’t used

41. None

42. Don’t recall

43. No

44-47. None

48. Was too young to remember incidents

49. None

50. Don’t recall any

51. They were in the community, but don’t remember anything of organization

52-55. None

56. 68

57. Ada Brock, Muskogee, Okla.; Rachel Gason, Okla.; Daniel Seldon Riles, Paragould, Ark.; Rosie Godwin, Ratcliff, Ark.; Fancie Stone, Booneville, Ark.

58. Doc Godwin, Willie Godwin (grandchildren); great grandchildren, Hershel Godwin, Mildred Godwin

59. None

Translated by Alyssa Metcalf, GHS Class of 2007