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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] CLARK (Alaine/Evalyn)
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 11:05:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: <36.b052380.26e6a288@aol.com>


Thanks, Peggy!

So very very interesting!

Jean C.


At 03:24 PM 9/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings from Tulsa - proud to say we had rain this morning and temp down to
>75!
>
>In my great-great-grandfather's narrative, he mentions these two Clarks,
>which I presume were brothers.
>
>" . . . We had made our arrangements to move to Arkansas on September 15
>(1874 or 1875). As two of my married sons were aiming to move with me, we
>did not start until the first day of October. So we bid the swamps adieu and
>started for Arkansas. {Family had moved to Pemiscot County, Missouri
>Bootheel, from Weakley County, Tennessee.}
>
>As we got within four miles of Black River one evening, we passed a house
>where a man was killing a hog. I asked him if he would sell me a piece. He
>said he would and asked me where I was from. I told him, formerly from
>Tennessee. He said he was a Tennessee man. He said he was from Haywood
>County. I told him I was from Weakley County.
>
>I then asked him if he knew two men, by the name of CLARK, James and Calvin.
>He said, yes, those two men were members of the same church that he was. I
>knew they were Primitive Baptists. I then asked him if he was. He said he
>was. I told him that was what I claimed to be. We had a hearty handshake.
>
>He asked me where I was bound; I told him Washington or Benton Counties. He
>said he had just returned from the Association in Sharp County, and that
>Brother Goad had just come from the West and found more provisions in Sharp
>County than anywhere else. So, we moved near Powhatan and camped.
>
>The brother had told us how to find Brother Goad, as he lived near the road.
>We traveled all day and that night camped near Powhatan.
>
>My oldest daughter was taken sick next morning. [Samantha {Ridgway} Coffey,
>who lived in Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas.]
>
>We crossed the river and began to find rocks. My children had never seen any
>rocks larger than their heads. They all got out of the wagon to see the
>rocks. They soon saw enough rocks, so we drove out, opposite Brother Goad's.
>
>I went to his house, one-half mile away. I found him at home and one of the
>finest little men I nearly ever met. He came to the camp with me.
>
>We had to take my sick daughter and infant to the house to stay that night.
>
>He gave us information about the country, and route that we were aiming to
>travel.
>
>So, next morning, as daughter seemed better, we journeyed on, though Brother
>Goad said it would be almost impossible to get feed for our teams.
>
>After we passed through Sharp County, we drove to Smithville, six miles.
>
>I am a little too fast with my story.
>
>Brother Goad told me of a Primitive Baptist church near his home, that I
>afterward visited many times and found them to be of the same faith and order
>as the Baptists I was identified with in Tennessee and Kentucky.
>
>At Smithville, a man came out to our wagons, and I asked him if he could tell
>us where we could get feed on the road we had to travel. He said that he
>lived six miles on our road and had plenty of feed and he would be at home by
>the time we could drive there. So we drove on.
>
>It was a noted place, and a most desirable farm that I have seen in this
>State. There were 200 acres of open land, a rich bottom on the Strawberry
>River. We reached his place a while before he did.
>
>While waiting for the man to come, I saw a wagon coming down a long, steep
>hill, from the way we were aiming to go. ... stop him, and he was moving. I
>told him I was moving, too. He said he would like to get some feed and
>provisions. We soon got into a conversation, as usual. He asked me where I
>was going. I told him I was hunting for a healthy location, and some
>Primitive Baptists.
>
>It was three o'clock, and we camped together until morning. He was moving to
>Black River Bottom. As I had lived there [Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee and
>Pemiscot County, MO] for seven years, and my family had lost their health.
>This brother and his family seemed to be in good health. I persuaded him not
>to take his family into the swamps. Brother Goad had an entry house and five
>or six acres of cotton to pick, was also a Primitive Baptist, and I knew he
>could get in there. . . ."
>
> From narrative of William Alexander Ridgway (b. 1825, Weakley County, TN; d.
>1917, Shady Grove, near Buford, Baxter County, AR)
>
>* * *
>I'm continuing this in a new post as there are others mentioned: Hardy MILLS,
>for example.
>
>Peggy in Tulsa
>
>
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