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From: PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] CALDWELL - ACKLIN (Vera)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:50:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Thank you, Vera, for posting this obituary and / or news article.

Not sure exactly how, but I'm related to the ACKLINs. Our relative on the KING - HULSEY side, Clois "Ray" ASPLIN knew how we were connected. My last visit with him at their home (November 1993, I think), he and his wife were selling their place and moving to Seymour, Missouri. He said to be closer to doctors and hospitals. Ray's mother was Ethel (sp.) MEAD and her mother was "Banty" {HULSEY} MEAD. Ethel and my mother were born in the same year 1896. They attended school at Advance together. Ray and wife Arlie Mae died not long after moving to Missouri, both of cancer of the mouth. He had one daughter interested in family research, and he recommended I contact her in Edmond, Oklahoma. Ray had retired from the Oklahoma Tax Commission as an auditor and his wife Arlie Mae was a nurse from Lake Charles, Louisiana. His first wife, mother of their children, had died suddenly while on vacation in northwest part of U.S.

This should be on Baxter List for Baxter folks. Ray and his second wife, Arlie Mae, built their home on the right side of road, after leaving where the store was on the corner at Lone Rock, nearing location of Advance. That store was owned and operated by my KING relatives, the WOOD / WOODS. Through the years when we visited, we got cold cuts (sandwich makings) and parked under a tree and had lunch.

The older two-story home on the right was built by my mother's brother, Thomas Oscar PERRY, when he was a young man. I have pictures of it from early days when my Aunt Cleora {KING} and husband Theodore Brewer ROBERTSON lived there. The pictures -- that my brother and I took in mid-1980s -- look about the same as early day ones.

The home that the ASPLINs built in the 1970s was a bit off the road on the right. All that land was part of the Oliver Hazzard PERRY and wife, Mary Jane {BATY} homestead. The very old house on the left, owned and occupied by the ACKLINS, was home of my great-uncle Joseph Carroll Martin "Joe" PERRY and wife, Willa Ann "Annie" KING, daughter of Catherine {KING}. Annie was sister to Noah Webster KING (Lucille's father) and Charles Oliver KING.

Did you perhaps know the house in which Vivian CHAPMAN lived? We believe it was built by my grandfather, John Taswell PERRY, when my mother was about eight or nine (or about 1905). It was a two-story house. Perhaps I should visit land deeds on file, as my grandparents moved to Buffalo on the river, and then to Gassville, where Fannie {LUTHER} PERRY died and is buried. My grandfather and their youngest son, Henry Milton, moved to Broken Arrow, to be near my mother and family.

We have some good pictures of the little building at Burnt School House Cemetery. I remember the school bell, but not sure it was there when these pictures were taken. When your left Burnt School House Cemetery, and proceeded toward "the store", the location of our KING family's home was on the left side, marked only by a thicket of sapling trees. The WICKERSHAMs, RIDGWAYs, my parents first home, and others, of course, were in walking distance of the corner where the store was located.

Lone Rock was still thriving at turn of the 20th century. People looked forward to picking up their mail and visiting. Ray ASPLIN told of "Uncle Joe" HULSEY's response when a local invited him to go and have a root beer. He first refused until it was explained it was alcohol free. My Grandfather PERRY went after the mail, in hopes he would get to visit with some peddler ("drummer" in those days), as he loved to visit with people who had news of other locales. My mother said he often would invite drummers to their home, so he could hear their stories.

I remember we discussed William CALDWELL and Maudie ACKLIN thoroughly on the Baxter List. All of that would be in the archives, which I should visit to refresh my memory.

One of UDC's missions was to honor and care for living widows. In Tulsa, we took gifts, money, food, etc. to them -- "Lest we forget ... " UDC chapters know who they are and where they live. We visited two or three in the Tulsa area, especially remember one in Sand Springs, who was a former teacher there.

I've not done the research to learn how the ACKLINs are connected to me. That's something I should do.

Sure appreciate reading the article -- and would welcome anything further about Maudie.

Peggy

Peggy {KING} TRUESDELL


Vera Reeves <> wrote:
I thought some of you might find this interesting.

Baxter Bulletin - Mt Home, AR 8-19-2008
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808190318

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