- 1. Mrs. Margaret Caroline Street "Spencer"
- 2. Ratcliff, Ark.
- 3. Retired
- 4. Farm wife
- 5. 1849
- 6. Madison County, Ark.
- 7. Joe Tuttle, 1865, Logan County
- 8. None
- 9. Life
- 10-11. None
- 12. Log cabins with dirt floor, stick and dirt chimneys
- 13. Pine torches
- 14. Not yet used
- 15. Wood
- 16. Wild hogs, venison, wild honey,
father would take a load of venison hams to Ft. Smith every fall and sell them
- 17. Spun our cotton thread and wove our cloth, using cotton and wool.
Cotton was finger picked from the seed at home each night
- 18. None
- 19. Nothing bought except coffee which was 10 lb. to the dollar
- 20. People were very neighborly, if a farmer became sick his crop
was worked by his neighbors, if there were a widower or orphans in the
settlement they were also cared for.
- 21. Corn and cotton, a little wheat
- 22. All were homemade, called single stocks
- 23. None
- 24. Grapes, summer huckleberries, sassafras tea
- 25. Log rollings, hog killings, women would meet and spin thread,
camp meetings were held occasionally
- 26. --
- 27. Don’t remember
- 28. Not any
- 29. Had to go 3 miles across the mountain wasn’t any road at all,
little log house dirt floor and split log (puncheon) seats
- 30. --
- 31. Mr. Brown
- 32. Subscription school
- 33. Blue Back Speller, McGuffey’s Reader
- 34.Not any
- 35. Ratcliff, Ark.
- 36. --
- 37. 1908 on old military road
- 38. 1865 on a trip to Illinois
- 39. 1914
- 40. Not used in my settlement
- 41. None ever came our way
- 42. Don’t remember any
- 43-47. None
- 48. Jay hawkers were very bad, took every thing we had even to our dishes. Then
set fire to our house, one man in the bunch threatened to shoot me. Said he was
Jessie James, tried to make me carry the cotton out of the house after they
had set fire to it, I refused
- 49. No battles fought near me
- 50. Don’t recall
- 51.Never saw any
- 52. Not any
- 53-55. None
- 56. About 90
- 57. Ed Street, Ratcliff, Ark.; John Street, California; Annie Harless,
Ratcliff, Ark.
- 58. Bob Street, William Harless, Paschall Street (grandchildren). (great-
grandchildren) Carl Hall, Eva Hall, James Street
- 59. None
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- Transcribed by Alisha Carey, GHS Class of 2007
