Early Settlers Personal History

1. Tom Walker

2. Paris, Ark. Gen. Del

3. Retired

4. Caretaker of Paris Court House

5. Born Aug. 18, 1880

6. Near Boonville, Ark.

7. Lavada Ayres, Paris, Ark.

8. Native

9. All his life native

10. Native

11. Native

12. Log houses. Ruff [sic] (rough) lumber houses & dress lumber and some stone & brick chink dobbed [sic] (daubed) house.

13. Coal oil and grease  lamp

14. 40 year ago

15. Wood and coal

16. Hog meat & beef & wild hogs

17. Wool & cotton hand woven clothes

18. On horses and buggies. No

19. Charivaris were usually pronounced as shivaree. Food and cloth were 20% lower then

20. Farmers would loan one another. Count meat and land through the fall

21. Corn & cotton, potatoes, wheat & oats, sorghum, tomatoes stopped being called love apples about 50 years ago.

22. Wooden beam turning plow, wooden V Harris Georgia stock wooden double shovels

23. Farming and saw milling

24. Poke salad [sic] (salit) and sassafras

25. They had log rollings, house raising, sorghum making, hog killing and play parties, camp meeting

26. By hand

27. --

28. Roseville, Ark. was a noted boat landing.  Altus, Ark. was stage landing. Paris, Ark. was a stage landing.

29. Corley, Ark. in a frame building & home made seats.

30. Corley, Ark.

31. Mr. Brown

32. Taxes and tuition a dollar a month

33. Blue Back Speller

34. Newspapers & some books

35. Fort Smith, Ark. about 60 years ago

36. Made trolley car about 50 yrs. ago.

37. In 1912 at Paris, Arkansas

38. 45 yrs. ago at Spadra, Ark.

39. 30 yrs. ago at Fort Smith, Ark.

40. In 1917

41. About 1819

42. George Washington's birthday and the 4^th of July & Christmas

43. No

44. Jim Jewell, B. Smith and Swill Doug? fought a duel at Corley Ark.

45-46. No

47. 48 yrs. The Logan County treasure was robbed

48-50. No

51. Made effort to straighten up the neighborhood Ku Klux Klan

52. In 1913 joined First Christian Church at Paris, Ark.

53. No

54. He dug up Indian mounds at Caulksville, Ark.

55. No

56. Thirty

57. Earl Walker Paris, Arkansas

      Ruel Walker    "        "

      Hester Hill      "        "

      Robert Walker "        "

      Helen Walker  "        "

      Wanda McCorley       "        "

58. W. J. Walker Grandchild

      Mary Nell Walker      "        "

      Bill Don Walker         "        "

      Lavada Marie Walker "        "

59. None 
 

Transcribed by Alyssa Metcalf, GHS Class of 2007