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Early Settlers Personal
History
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Mr. Henry Askins
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2. Paris, Arkansas, Route 3
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3. Farming
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4. Farming
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5. Born 9/ 26/1878
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6. Independence County Arkansas
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7. Pearl Pilgreen at Paris, Ark 7/ 9/1905
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9. All my life
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12. Houses were built of logs & kitchens were separate
from house chimneys were stick & dirt?
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13. Tallow dips & candles were used for lights
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14. 1910
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15. Wood was used for fuel
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16. R(a)ised garden & meat & game was plent(i)ful
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17. Clothes were cotton & wool spun with lume
[sic] (loom).
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18. Early courtship was horse back riding & charivies
[sic] (charivaris more
commonly referred to as shivarees) were called serenading.
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19. Food and clothing were cheaper.
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20. Borrowed food
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21. Early crops were corn & cotton
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22. Homemade wooden plow stocks
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23. Manganese
mines
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24. Sasfras [sic] (Sassafras)
roots were used for coffee and wheat bran was used for coffee
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25. Log rolling in daytime & and dance at night.
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Log building with split log slats
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30. Hays Chapel, 9 miles west of Clarksville, Ark.
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31. Pro(f). Bunch
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32. By taxation
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33. McGuffey's & Blue back speller
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34. Books were used for reading
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35. Clarksville, Arkansas
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37. First car seen was at Paris Ark. 1905
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38. At Clarksville, Ark. 1875
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39. At Paris 1919
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42. Candidates for county & state offices gave free
picnics at Clarksville, Ark & barbecue dinner.
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56. 19 descendants
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57. Anna Mae Friar, Paris, Ark. Route 3
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Harold Askins "
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Virginia Morris "
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Imogene Askins " "
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Caroline Akins "
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Lois Spicer, Subiaco, Ark. Route 7
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Pairlee Cane, Ratcliff, Ark.
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Irene Vaughn, Subiaco
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58. Eugina Friar & Joe Junior Spicer
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Transcribed by
Whitney Robison, GHS Class of 2009
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