Early Settlers Personal History

 

1. Walter William Brumley

2. Mena, Ark.

3. Retired

4. Farming

5. 8-26-1874

6. Dallas, Union Grove

7. Lola F. Dodd, Ransom, Ark. 1-30-1900

9.

10. All of his life

12. Was born in Polk County

13. Logs, chimney’s made of cat and dirt

14. Candles and pine knots

15. 1897

16. Wood was plentiful

17, Beans, potatoes, peas, Turnips, Fish and game was plentiful, Deer, Turkey, Bear, and Squirrels

18. Homemade clothing

19. Yes charivaries frequently

20. Potatoes, 3-bushels for $.50, eggs 3 to 5 cents per doz.

21. All shared their food and money as needed.

22. Corn, cotton, wheat and oats

23. Homemade plows and other farm Implements

24. None

25. Huckleberries, black berries, paw-paws, polk salad, sassasfrass roots spice wood tea, sweet gum resin was used for chewing gum.

26. In the summer they would attend revivals under brush arbors

27. The forest was burned over every year so as to make better grazing for the stock.

28. Washita River

29. None

30. Subscription School, $1.00 per month in 80’s

31. North of home place 1880

32. Ova Hopkins, Mr. Moncree, John England

33. Tuition $1.00 per month for each pupil

34. McGuffey’s Reader, Blueback speller, Ray's Arithmetic

35. Dallas Courrier, Dallas Pioneer, J. R. Lane, Publisher and Editor

36. Mena, Ark.

37.

38. Mena, Ark.

39. Ft. Smith, 58 years ago

40. Mena, Ark.

41-47.

48. Saw Columbus Moffett hung at Dallas, Ark., 1882. Horse thieves were very numerous.

 

Transcribed by Emily McCollom, Class of 2011