- 1. William F. Oliver
- 2. Waldron, Arkansas
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- 4. Retired farmer
- 5. July 4, 1864
- 6. Benton County, Georgia
- 7. Mary Hudson 1886, James Creek, Scott
County, Arkansas
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- 9. 70 years
- 10. He came from Benton County, Georgia, when he was six years of
age in a covered wagon drawn by 2 yoke
oxens.
- 11. Because his parents was moving to Arkansas to take up some
free land for a homestead and him being a small boy he was forced to come to.
- 12. They were log houses with small logs split and turned flat
side up for the floor and was covered with oak boards made at home and one
small window in each house
- 13. Pine knots and candles made at home
- 14. Electric lights has never been used in the community yet
- 15. Wood
- 16. Cornbread ground by a water mill, biscuit bread, potatoes, beans,
meat. Game wasn’t for most supply they had deer, bear, squirrel, and wild
hogs, fish was also plentiful.
- 17. Cotton and woolen clothes were made by carding the cotton and
wool, and making the clothes
with an old wooden loom
- 18. They had shivaree quite often
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- 20. When a person was sick or needed help in those days several
people would go over and work his crop out or cut his wood and never think
about receiving a penny for the work just being his neighbor
- 21. Cotton, corn, wheat, and oats, cows, hogs, horses
- 22. Single stocks, double shovels, and bull tongue plows
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- 24. Wild lettuce, sassafras roots, poke salet, sumac berries
- 25. Hog killings, house raising, quilting bees, brush arbor
meetings, dances, games, game drives
- 26. Most fire fighting they would whip it out with wet pine tops
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- 29. School houses were made of logs and just one small room with one window on
each side, the seats were made of split logs the flat side turned up and still
smaller logs for the backs
- 30. Upon a hill surrounded by timber
- 31. Lillie Bell
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- 33. Blue Back Speller, geography, reading
- 34. Books
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- 37. 30 years ago on Jones Creek
- 38. 40 years ago
- 39. 16 years ago
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- 47. Several horse thieves in those days
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- 56. 120 descendants
- 57. Ester Walker, Waldron, Ark.
- Abbie Oliver, Waldron, Ark.
- Lillie England, Oklahoma City
- May Oliver, Oklahoma City
- Dessie Thomas, Waldron, Ark.
- 58. Hershel Oliver, Waldron, Ark.
- Curtis Oliver, Waldron, Ark.
- Willie Mae Thomas,
Waldron, Ark.
- Billie Joe Thomas, Waldron, Ark.
- Great-grandchild Robert Terrial
Oliver, Waldron, Ark.
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- Transcribed by Alisha Carey, Class of 2007
