Here is a letter that I got from a wonderful person who shared this info with me of a book that has been so helpful in finding my ancestors! (There are even pictures of W.B.Flippin in this book.)
Hi Lissa:--What a fascinating evening I've just spent! Been comparing your
site data with what's here. Unreal :-)
Not sure where you got my address, but here's a bit about me. I'm a
founding member of the Historical Genealogical Society of Marion Co. AR.
Another member and I researched (with help) and compiled the data that's in
"Genealogies of Marion Co. Families 1811-1900" which the Society published
in 1997. Whenever I run into a site that looks as if it might have data on
any of the 400+ families in "Big Blue" (it's Internet nickname since it's
bound in blue), I often enter a query to see what's out there.
Basically you have the same data on yo
ur site that we have in Big Blue re
Adams except we've gone into more detail re all descendants of James Adams
Jr. & Phoebe Davis - spouses, kids, etc. And, wherever possible, we've
cross-referenced all spouses to their parents. The same holds true for
Tucker, Poynter, Jenkins, Flippin, etc. Because Big Blue is Marion Co. AR
oriented, the branch of each family that tracks to here is pretty much what
we've covered (as best we could with few out-of-county and out-of-state
resources).
Currently we're working on "Supplement to Genealogies of MCAR Families
1811-1900" primarily because we've discovered marital links both
out-of-county and out-of-state that we were unaware of before 1997. Your
reference to Orange Tucker, for example, gives us a place to start next
door in Boone Co. and to add data to that family.
If there's any way I can help with your Marion Co. AR families, do let me
know. I'll be glad to dig up whatever I can. You might, by the way,
consider getting a copy of Big Blue since you have so much kin around here.
The bibliography and list of contributors (each with addresses) alone
could be helpful.
Thanks so much for your response
Oh. Did you find me in KY? If so, it's because I'm curious about the
early apparent relationship between the Adams and the Wolf families who,
we've been told, came in here together. Also curious about their possible
relationship with the descendants of the Shawnee chief Peter Cornstalk (one
of the Adams girls married a Peter Cornstalk, Shawnee or Cherokee-Shawnee
chief, ca 1834 in Jacob Wolf's house on White River). You're aware, I'm
sure, that this was Osage country before the Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware,
etc. moved here around 1810-12-plus.
Thanks so much for a most entertaining evening.
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Flippin,
Flippin:
To B. F. Fee, Esq.
Dear Sir: I hardly have the time or space to give you as lengthy
an answer as your communication in the Watchman, from its length,
would demand, however, a few words will suffice.
The little notice made of T. H. Flippin in The Echo of the
10th inst., and which seems to be the cause of your distress, was
meant as a merited compliment to Mr. T. H. Flippin "only this and nothing
more."You may have supported the Democratic ticket. The Echo did
not charge or insinuate that you did not. What is that that needs
no accuser? As to Mr. Flippin, I have it from numerous reliable
sources that he not only voted the ticket, but worked hard for its
success. I have yet to hear the man say the same of you, except
yourself.Mr. Brumbelow, I suppose, can paddle his own canoe, and
if he is aggrieved at anything The Echo has said complimentary of
Mr. Flippin, and not of himself and yourself, he will find the
columns of The Echo "everly" open, through which he can make his
complaint.In conclusion, Mr. Fee, I will say that you and Mr.
Brumbelow were not even thought of when the personal notice of
Mr. Flippin was written, and I hope no improper inferences will
be drawn by "some people that does not know the facts."
Yours, Democratically, H. B. Dallam, Editor Mountain Echo.
P. S. -- "I mean what I say," and could say more.
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Mrs. James Lynch, Mrs. C. C. Poynter and Grandma Flippin have
been quite sick for the past week.
Judge W. B. Flippin returned home from an extended trip down in
the eastern part of the State. His health is greatly improved.
[The remainder of Mr. W. B. F., Jr.'s article is too faded to read.]
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Hon. T. H. Flippin, although defeated in the primaries for
Representative, like the Democrat he is, worked faithfully for the ticket. Judge Flippin, of White River township, was in town Tuesday.
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On Monday the editor received a handsome cane fishing rod,
a present from that jovial, whole-souled gentleman, W. B.
Flippin, Jr., our excellent White River correspondent. The
cane is about sixteen feet in length, beautifully proportioned,
and well seasoned. It is just such a rod as would be appreciated
by any disciple of Isaac Walton, and with much delight will we
hie away to the banks of Crooked to angle for the unsuspecting
little fishes. Very many thanks, friend B., for the handsome present.
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Poynter, Flippin
248-282 Flippin, Elizabeth 82 f mo KY NC NC
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FINDING A TURKEY’S HEAD UNDER AN ASH TREE
By S. C. Turnbo
On the 10th of June, 1907, I remained overnight with James Houston Painter who was born in White River Township, Marion County, Ark., November 22, 1867. He married Miss Bertha Flippin, daughter of Jim Flippin and grand daughter of Hon. W. B. Flippin, and when I saw him he was living just west of the new town of Flippin on the White River division of the Missouri Pacific Railway. Mr. Painter related to me the following incident of hunting. He said that English Denton, an old hunter, shot a wild turkey hen one day on a high timbered knob, a spur of Lee’s Mountain one mile west of where the new town of Flippin is now. The turkey was not killed outright, but rose and flew away. But Mr. English said he did not think she would get far before she would drop to the ground dead. I and Thomas Denton, son of English Dentom, made a search for the turkey and discovered a turkey’s head lying under the bows of an Ash tree that stood on the side of the mountain below where the turkey had been wounded. The head was fresh and had been jerked off a short time previous to our finding it. A further search revealed a dead hen turkey that was headless lying 30 yards below the foot of the ash tree. It was evident that the head and body belonged to the same turkey and was the same that Denton had shot. The head had not been shot off for the bird had been shot through the body. The only explanation that was satisfactory to us was that the turkey after It was shot had rose high above the tree tops and fell and struck in among the limbs of the ash tree and its head and neck and caught in the forks of a limb of the tree and the weight of the turkey and the force of the fall had pulled its head off. This occurred in 1872, when I was five years old," said Mr. Painter.(Poynter)
Husband: FLIPPIN, William Baugh
born 4Sep1817 Monroe Co., Ky
buried Ar
marr 1841 Izard Co., Ar
Other wives: BUTTS, Rachel;
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Descendants of Thomas Flippin, Sr.
Thomas Flippin, Sr. b 1675 [Ulster Co., Scotland] d before 1747 [Cumberland Co., VA] m Elizabeth
Thomas Flippin, Jr. b 1711 [Ulster Co., Scotland] d 1754 [Glouchester Co., VA] m Unknown
Ann Flippin
Elizabeth Flippin
William Flippin d [Cumberland Co., VA] m Mary Price
Joseph Flippin b 1759 m Anne Atkinson
Thomas Flippin b 1740 [Cumberland Co., VA] d Dec.01, 1830 [Henry Co., VA] m (1774)
Rhoda McAdoo b about 1755 d about 1813 ancestors
William Flippin< b 1775 d after 1830 m (Dec.10, 1797)
[Warren Co., KY] Polly Johnson
Thomas Jefferson Flippin b 1799 m (Mar.02, 1826)
Drucilla Murray
Absalom B. Flippin b June 16, 1828 d Feb.06, 1908 m
(June 03, 1857) Sarah Ann Holt
Nancy Flippin b 1831 m Andrew Jack Ash
William Flippin b 1832 m Jane Welford
Elizabeth Flippin b 1834 m Rodam D. Prine
Emaline Flippin b 1836
James Flippin b 1838
Isham Flippin b 1840 d Mar.30, 1864 m (Apr.11, 1861)
Elizabeth Jane Ash
Fanny Flippin b 1844 m Robert Reeves
John Thomas Flippin b Feb.14, 1847 d Nov.29, 1931 m
(Mar.04, 1869) Mary E. Richardson
Minerva Flippin b 1848
Mary Ann Flippin m James Prine
Susan Flippin
Absolom Flippin b 1804 d before 1860 m (Aug.02, 1826)
Emelia Fuget
Reuben Flippin b Jan., 1828 d Dec.08, 1905 m (1855)
Catherine Logsdon
Thomas Flippin b 1832 d Dec.15, 1894 m (Aug.15, 1894)
Nancy Ann Buchanan
John Flippin b 1835 m Anne A.
Mahaly Flippin b 1835 m William T.
Andrew Jackson Flippin b Aug.01, 1839 d Feb.09, 1930 m
(June 25, 1860) Lydia Jane Hughes
Nancy Flippin b 1843
Benjamin Flippin b 1846 m (Mar.03, 1867) Maggie J.
Oliver
John Flippin b 1779 d July 06, 1890 [St. Francis, OK]
m (1807) [Jefferson Co., TN] Nancy Neal
Martha Flippin b 1810 d 1880 m ? Wright
John Wright
Mary Wright
John Looney Flippin b Nov.22, 1812 m (Feb.03, 1838)
Sarah Ann Bryant
Frances Caroline Flippin b Nov.22, 1838 m Samuel
Houston Mount
Tennessee Flippin b 1840 m (Aug.03, 1856) Giles Belew
John Bryant Flippin b 1842 d Nov.02, 1917 m (Dec.30,
1869) Alice Beard
Milton Brown Flippin b Feb.12, 1844 d Mar.29, 1931 m
(Apr.11, 1867) Josephine R. Ward
George Washington Flippin b 1844 m (Apr.11, 1867) Mary
Malissa Cribbs
Hugh Martin Flippin b 1848 d 1886 m (Nov.11, 1866)
Polly Jane Belew
Mary Ann Flippin b 1850 d 1903 m (Nov.01, 1866) John Belew
Elizabeth Nova Scotia Flippin b 1853 m (June 13, 1870)
Winn ***John Looney Flippin m (2nd ) Mary Pauline
te
Susan Victoria Flippin b Sept.07, 1857 d Mar.05, 1954
Dec.28, 1881) Philip Franklin Johnson
Sarah Queen Flippin b Jan.02, 1859 d Sept.21, 1961 m
c.20, 1878) William A. Crabtree
William McAdoo Flippin b June 23, 1860 d Feb.17, 1928
Sept.28, 1904) Lilla Frances Field
Ella N. Flippin b Jan.25, 1863 d 1887 m (Dec.06, 1883)
Samuel Belew
Cora Virginia Flippin b June 20, 1866 d Nov.14, 1959
Cordie Clementine Flippin b Apr.08, 1868 d Sept.04,
1923 m (Aug.10, 1902) J. Thomas McCoy
Thomas Alfred Flippin b 1814 d 1891 m (Dec.20, 1840)
Hannah Belew
Mary Jane Flippin b 1842 m Samuel H. Skinner
Louisa E. Flippin b Mar.01, 1943 d July 03, 1909 m R.
F. Black
Caroline Flippin b Dec.01, 1844 d Jan.14, 1886 m
(1860) William Riley Taylor
John C. Flippin b Mar.24, 1846 d Oct.12, 1895 m Mary
Virginia Flippin b Feb.18, 1848 d July 09, 1931 m
(July 18, 1865) James Frank Taylor
Giles Harvey Flippin b Mar., 1850 d Dec.29, 1888 m
Caldonia Music
Tennessee Flippin d after 1901 m John F. Diamond
Samuel Houston Flippin b May 12, 1857 d Jan.02, 1877
Belle Zory Flippin b 1863 d after 1901 m Milton Column
Bowers
Benjamin McAdoo Flippin b Jan.01, 1819 d after 1901 m
(June 22, 1838 Elizabeth Jane Caldwell
Bird L. Flippin b 1840 d between 1861 and 1865 {Civil War}
Benjamin John Neal Flippin b 1841 m (1865) Nellie
Keaton
William Henry Flippin b 1843 m Callie M. Campbell
Edwin E. Flippin b Mar. 24, 1846 m Feb.13, 1878 Nannie Gales
Ellen E. C. Flippin b 1848 m (Dec.07, 1867) David Pennington
Fannie Flippin b May 17, 1850 m George Stone
Mary D. Flippin b May 17, 1850 m (Sept.08, 1855)
James A. Flippin b May 06, 1852 d Nov.05, 1855
James Allen Flippin b Mar.16, 1826 m (Nov.23, 1846)
Minerva Augusta White b Jan.30, 1827 d Apr.15, 1882
Patience E. Flippin b Nov.30, 1847
Nancy Ann Flippin July 09, 1849 m (Apr.23, 1863) John Young
Mary Almeda Flippin b July 04, 1851 d Apr.28, 1903 m William Hughes
Rohester McAdoo Flippin b July 07, 1853 d 1946 m James M. Curtis
Lucy Flippin b July 10, 1856
Pantha Agusta Flippin b Jan.06, 1858 d Dec.04, 1947 m
(Apr.03, 1881) James Phillip Marbut
James Emerson Flippin b Aug.08, 1859 d Nov.01, 1911 m
Margaret Grother
Joseph Flippin b Apr.28, 1861 d Oct., 1861
Adah Flippin b May 25, 1863 m Onas Whaley Alburty
***James Allen Flippin m (2nd ) Mary Cantwell
Ethel Flippin
James Allen Flippin, Jr.
Mary Ann Flippin b Feb.07, 1829 d Mar.19, 1877 m
(1850) John McGilvery Griggs
Jessee Griggs
Nancy Flippin b Nov.12, 1780 d Aug.20, 1856 m (Feb.16,
1797) Thomas Neal d June 22, 1859
Isaac Flippin b 1781 d 1845 [Monroe Co., KY] m
(Oct.30, 1816) Nancy Watt b 1798 d Sept.27, 1872
Milton A. Flippin b 1818 d 1880 m Arsenia Campbell d
1880-1890
Nancy Flippin b 1842
Mildred F. Flippin b 1844
Catherine Flippin b 1846
Elizabeth M. Flippin b 1849
Mary T. Flippin b June 14, 1852
Emeline W. Flippin b 1821 d Oct.13, 1879
Elsey B. Flippin b Dec.07, 1823 d June 16, 1887 m
Jacob Gumm b Feb.29, 1820 d Oct.16, 1887
Mary Jane Flippin b July 13, 1852 d Oct.21, 1892 m
James Akers
Samuel Wesley Flippin b 1828 d 1900 m Nancy Lewis b 1830
James Asbery Flippin b July 30, 1852
William Clay Flippin b Mar.09,1854
John Isaac Flippin
Frances Flippin
Nancy Elizabeth Flippin
Elisha Watt Flippin
Mary Jane Flippin
Tiv Flippin
George Washington Flippin
Arrie Mont Flippin
Elijah Charles Flippin
Thomas A. Flippin b May 24, 1830 d May 18, 1890
[Johnson Co., TN] m Martha J. Smith
Francis M. Flippin b 1832 d Aug.31, 1899 m (Dec.18,
1875) Ann R. Turner
Mary Francis Flippin b 1885 m William Alfred Dishman
Effie Flippin
Melia Flippin
John C. Flippin b May 03, 1836 m (Oct.24, 1853) Louisa
C. Sanders
James Flippin b Nov.26, 1783 d May 10, 1858 m
(Sept.24, 1807) Isabella Brown b 1789 [Green Co., TN]
d Aug.29, 1859
Elizabeth Flippin b 1785 m (Mar.09, 1803) George Goodman
Polly Flippin b 1786 m (Dec.10, 1805) Icabod Clarke
Mary Flippin b Mar.14, 1789 d July 17, 1865 m (1811)
Lodowick Turner Goodall
Thomas H. Flippin b 1793 d Mar.24, 1856 m Elizabeth Baugh b Jan.01, 1798 d Sept.15, 1891
William Baugh Flippin
Rhoda Flippin b 1795 d before 1830 m (Apr.20, 1815)
Jesse Goodman
Jesse Flippin b Dec.10, 1798 d 1869 m (Oct.23, 1819)
Elizabeth J. White
Albert R. Flippin b 1820 d 1863 m (1839) Charlotte Rochelle
Jabes Flippin b 1822 m Patience Holt
James Allen Flippin b 1825
William Jorden Flippin b 1826 d 1892 m (1848)
Elizabeth Palmor
Joseph T. Flippin b 1828 m (1842) Elizabeth Hancock
Rhoda Flippin b 1829 m (1856) John Bryant
Woodson L. Flippin b 1830
Patience J. H. Flippin b 1834
Jarvis Flippin b 1837
Nelson Flippin b 1840
Allen Flippin b 1841
Jesse Flippin b 1843 d 1852
Mary Flippin b 1846 m John Murphy ***Jessee Flippin m (2nd ) Mary P. Walker
Allen Flippin b 1801 m (Nov.11, 1824) Rosana Baugh
***Thomas Flippin (b 17400 m (2nd ) (Dec.24, 1816)
Jane Maconer
Ann Flippin
Elizabeth Flippin m Stephen Bedford
Robert Flippin
Sarah Flippin
Ralph Flippin b 1714 d 1796 m Nancy Murray
John Flippin b 1746 m Nancy Brown
Lucinda B. Flippin b 1809 d 1886 m Benjamin Hatcher
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E. L. Berry went down in the Flippin neighborhood Sunday.
From him, we learn that Judge Flippin, chairman of the Democratic
Congressional Committee for this district, will make a call for
primary elections to be held in each county in the district to
vote for delegates to a convention which will be called to meet
at Harrison about the first of October. The basis of represent-
ation will be the same as in the State convention.
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Elizabeth Jenkins, Flippins, father,
Rev. Wm. C. Jenkins had two children bitten by a rabid puppy.
They were promptly taken to Mr. Taylor's mad-stone, and in a
few days after his return home another mad dog bit another
child, and he immediately took it to Mr. Shelton and all these
children are now well. These are all plain, borne facts, and
facts are very stubborn things. I could give you many cures
that I know of by these mad stones, but give these only as a sample.
I am aware that physicians generally are prejudiced against the
mad-stone, and advise people accordingly, but I am an old and
retired physician and were I bitten by a rabid animal I would
take the mad-stone in preference to Mr. Pasteur or anything else
I know of. Red chick-weed and also elecca-pane [elecampane] root
have long been known as antidotes to dog poison.
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Mtn. Echo, July 16, 1886LOCAL ECHOINGS
Judge Wm. B. Flippin, of White River, was in town yesterday.
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Rev. W. B. Flippin, one of Marion County's oldest and best
citizens, was in to see us Monday and left us some handsome
specimens of the kind of mineral they are digging up down
there. Besides being fine samples of the riches zinc and
lead ore, these pieces are supposed to contain paying
quantities of silver, which if it be the case will add
another attractive feature to prospecting in that section. Harrison Times.
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The preaching at the graveyard last Sunday was a very
solemn affair. It was in memory of Aunt Bessie Flippin,
who died at the great age of 96.
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On last Saturday I was presented a nice linen handkerchief from
Grandma Flippin that she had hemmed with her hands as neat and
nice as if it had been done on a forty dollar Howe machine. She
gave me the handkerchief as her eighty-eighth birthday gift.
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Judge W. B. Flippin, "Capt" A. G. Cravens, and neighbors Jenkins
and Barb armed themselves with a double-barreled shotgun and
accessory fishing tackle and sallied down to the river last week
to string up the finny tribe and have a little recreation and tell
their best yarns, and have a good time generally. Jenkins said
that they caught 500 pounds of fish, and that Barb looked like a
French fish market when he started for home on foot in the morning
with 300 pounds of fish strung across his "wethers" and eight
bed quilts under his arms. But your correspondent is inclined
to doubt his veracity, as I perchance met the judge on his return
home with only one little hog sucker tied at the end of three yards of string.
Our assiduous singing master, James Flippin, is the happiest man
in the township. The newborn babe is a girl; usual weight.
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1880 Marion Co., AR - White River Township
AR
247-281 Flippin, William B. 63 frm KY TN KY
Agnes 64 wife KY NC KY
Jane 30 dau AR KY KY
AR
262-297 Flippin, Thomas H. 32 frm AR KY TN
Mary E. 29 wife TN TN TN
Claude 7 son AR AR TN
Loolie 5 dau AR AR TN
Zellie 2 dau AR AR TN
Garland 3 son AR AR TN
David W. 2/12 son Apr AR AR TN
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The Democratic County Central Committee, at its meeting April 24,
appointed the following committees in the several townships to
hold the primary election August 7th, to wit:
White River - J. A. Flippin, W. H. Barnett and T. H. Poynter.
James' Creek - Robert King, Wm. Parker and J. H. Pangle.
North Fork - J. N. Girffin, J. C. Rea and E. T. Record.
Franklin - James Jones, Austin Brown and J. M. Ball.
Blythe - J. P. Brady, W. L. Pierce and Jonathan Dobbs.
Hampton - Wm. McEntire, John Angel and J. Q. Adams.
Prairie - James Rose, P. R. Davis and James Pigg.
Buffalo - G. W. Cox, C. W. Blythe and Foster Hand.
Tomahawk - R. P. Wilson, John A. Harris and Harvey Oner.
Bearden - Calvin Summers, T. M. Rea and N. J. Bearden.
Water Creek - Wm. Thompson, R. R. Carson and Wm. Dosher.
Union - De Roos Bailey, Alex. Hurst and A. S. Layton.
Sugar Loaf - Isaac Kesee(sic), Wm. Thornton and Frank Campbell.
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"A man's home is his castle, and so I built mine to look like one" said Tom Flippin.
Built in 1899,
the Flippin House, is a National Historic Site. It is built on a hill above Clatskanie, a little town, on Highway 30 just 60 miles from Portland and 35 miles from Astoria .
Thomas J. Flippinbuilt it. He was one of my Flippin ancestors..(don't take that wrong!) He was a logger and sawmill owner. His family lived in crude houses built of rough boards called sawmill shacks, for carrying water and wood. The Flippins seem to prosper wherever they go and before long, Thomas hired Markwell & Sons to build the Castle. It was restored 81 years later by its fifth owner. They now have tours of it.
Tours: Mon. - Fri. Groups, please call and set up a date and time. A fee of $3.00 per person is required. Lunch is served at noon for a donation of $2.50.
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MARION COUNTY, ARKANSAS HOH CENSUS INDEX 1840
FLIPPIN, Allen, Thomas H.
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Grandma Flippin is 89 years old and she gets around as
lively as a cat on a pallet.
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(with permission)
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST WHICH OCCURRED AT YELLVILLE
AND ON JIMMIES CREEK IN THE LONG AGO
By S. C. Turnbo
One among the roughest streams in North Arkansas is Jimmies Creek in Marion County, which empties into White River just below the mouths of the Two Sisters Creeks. Jimmies Creek is noted for its many rugged mountains gulches and rough hollows, but never the less it is inhabited by several industrious families and a few people settled along this water course several years before the war. Among the residents here is Billy Parker son of John Garrison Parker and Mary (Johnson) Parker. Billy Parker was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee October 29, 1832, and when he was grown up to be a young man he turned his head westward, he arrived at Yellville in Marion County Ark. in the year 1850. He said that Yellville was only a small country village then and contained only two small stores. Jim Berry owned one of them and Bob Jefferson and Jess Wickersham was the proprietors of the other store. Some of the names of the other citizens who lived at Yellville at the time were John Wickersham and Jim Wickersham who were brothers to Jess Wickersham. There was another Wickersham whose given name was George. There were also Prink Jefferson and the old man Jefferson, Gid Thompson, John Estes, Garrison Phillips, Dr. William Oowdry, Jess Young and Judge Wood. "I remember" said Mr. Parker "that George Wickersham was accused of killing Tutt by ambushing him in the bluff at town while Mr. Tutt was going down the creek. Alph Burns shot and killed Doe Treat who weighed 250 pounds. I. C. (Ice) Stinnette was sheriffe of Marion County when I come to Yellville in 1850. Billy Brown succeeded him in the sheriffes office. After Mr. Brown was killed, Mr. Stinnette served again as sheriffe. I have a fresh recollection that when Brown was killed and after John and Randolph Coker was put in jail at Yellville I was appointed as one of the guards to watch the jail and prevent the escape of the Coker boys who were chained together. During one dark night while a violent thunder and rain storm was passing over someone got in to the jail house and cut the chains off of the ankles of the Coker boys and lead them out of the jail house and the two prisnors made their escape. But I was not on guard that night.
I moved to Jimmies Creek in 1852 and bought an improvement from Mr. Elam McCracken who come to Jimmies Creek in 1851. There were hundreds of wolves on this stream when we went there. My wife whose name is Elizabeth and who is a daughter of Elam McCracken had a busy time keeping the wolves from destroying all of our flock of sheep. Some of the early residents of Jimmies Creek were Jimmie Lawson, William Jones commonly known as ‘Flatty’ Jim Gage, John McVey, Jones Osburn, Jim Lovell, and Carl Pace. Bill Flippin was the first man I heard preach on Jimmies Creek which occurred long before the war where the wild cat school house now is. Carl Pace taught the first school in this neighborhood which was taught in the year 1857 in a small log house that John Parker built on Wild Cat Creek which empties into Jimmies Creek. John Pangle was the man who built the little water mill on Jimmies before the Civil War commenced. This little corn cracker stood just below where Kingdom Springs is now."
RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY DAYS IN MARION COUNTY
ARKANSAS AS TOLD BY A LADY CONTRIBUTOR
By S. C. Turnbo
A few items of interest of early days on White River. is given by Mrs. Polly Ann Hasket who came to Marion County with her parents Steve Tucker and Patsey (Barber) Tucker in 1842. She was born in Hickman County Tennessee February 15, 1828. When her parents came to Ark. they crossed White River at a place called Elizabeth and stopped 4 months in oil trough bottom. Whey they moved to the Rock Ribbed hills of Marion County, on their way they crossed Sycamore Greek and crossed Little Red River near where Clinton now stands and though the beautiful valley of Wileys Cave. Mrs. Hasket says that when they stopped in the now famous oil trough bottom there were only a few patches of land cleared, the remainder of the bottom was a dense cane brake. The trip from the bottom to Marion County was interesting. The pure air and fine scenery of the then wild woods was not easily forgotten. Only a settlers cabin was seen here and there. "The first deer I ever seen in my life was on a pine ridge below the present site of Clinton, but I did not know they were deer at the time. Me and my sister Nancy had rode ¼ mile in front of the wagon when 7 animals rose up from behind a big pine log and darted away. Two of them were large and carried great horns which sprangled out into sharp points. Two others were smaller and had no horns The other three were little fell over and spotted ail over. We girls were superstitious and foolish and thought the animals were big devils and little devils. We wheeled our horses around and galloped back until we met the wagon and told a frightful tale to father about seeing so many devils rise up from behind the pine log and run. But after we gave him a description of the beast he told us they were deer - two bucks - two does and three fawns. When we come Into Marion County I was 14 years old", said Mrs. Hasket. "It was here in this county I married Jess Hasket in 1850 but when we first went there in 1842 father bought a claim from John Jenkins who lived on Fallen Ash Creek 1 ½ miles east of Yellville. Jenkins had been digging a well and he contracted to finish the well for father but one day when he had gone down in the well to work he was overcome by foul air and died before he could be rescued." Mrs. Hasket in giving the names of settlers living in Flippin said that Mort Runnels, Jim Gage Jim McCabe and old man Tacket and Jimmie Lover and his wife Becca. These last lived on Fallen Ash Creek." Mrs. Hasket went on to say that their manner of living in those early days were plain and frugal. "We mostly lived on wild meat but used some pork ever now and then. When the settlers began to raise hogs they were compelled to use every precaution to prevent their destruction by wild animals. I remember when we put up a hog to fatten it had to be enclosed in a stout pen and the top of the pen covered with and we weighted these down with stones to prevent bear from scratching into the pen and killing the hog. When our family needed coffee and salt father would carry a lot of fur and peltry to Little Rock and make an exchange for these necessaries. We women made part of our wearing apparel with cards spinning wheel and hand loom. A few women would keep a web of cloth on hand for emergencies or in case the family should move away on short notice. Of course it was then like it is now somebody was on the move all the time. The majority of the men wore home made hats or caps. The latter was made of skins of coons or wild cat and worn with the tail hanging down at the back part of the neck. Abe Woods was the first man we got acquainted with after coming into Marion County. I well remember Uncle Tom Flippin father of Hon. W. B. Flippin. We lived on his farm awhile. One Sunday evening Uncle Tom took a notion to select a place for the burial of his body after death. He requested his wife to accompany him and his wife invited me to go with them and I accepted the invitation. Mr. Flippin went to a spot of ground where there was one grave that of a child, where he selected a spot of ground to suit him and made a mark on a black Jack sapling to indicate where he desired his mortal remains to rest and when the old man was called away into the chilly arms of death he was laid to rest on this same spot of ground. This grave yard is known now as the Flippin Graveyard. I remember that while we lived on the Flippin farm 10 Indians came there one evening on their way to Batesville. They said they were from the Indian territory and ask permission to stay all night. Mr. Flippin gave his permission and allowed them to cook, eat and sleep in a small log hut that stood near his dwelling. The party were composed of men, boys and one woman. The chief of the band was an old man. W. B. Flippin and Agnis his wife daughter of Straud Adams gave them some provisions which pleased them so well that they would bow their heads and grunt. When these Indians got ready to retire for the night they placed their bows and arrows in a row in the cabin and spread their blankets down on the floor and lay down on them like a lot of children." In speaking of old times Mrs. Hasket relates an amusing anecdote of Dr. Cowdry who came to Yellville about 1836. "But It is only hearsay to me", said Mrs. Hasket, "but the settlers said it was true. Many of them laughed and told it after we came into Marion County. Dr. Cowdry was well known along White River from Batesville to the Mo. state line as an honest and an able physician and had a host of friends. Sometimes he was known to visit the sick 75 miles distant. Though while he knew a great deal of the practice of medicine and surgery and alleviated the suffering of the afflicted far and near but he had no experience in growing corn and did not understand the formation of a ear of corn. One spring season Cowdry’s wife who was a daughter of a man by the name of McCubbin who built a little mill at a spring below mouth of big North Fork - knew something of the art of farming planted a few rows of corn in the garden. One day after the shoots had formed on the stocks the doctor went into the garden and saw the shoots and supposing they were suckers and detrimental to the formation of roasting ears pulled them all off and carried them into the house to show his wife. Laying them down he told her they were suckers and he had snatched them off so that the ear could form. His wife was so astonished that she threw her hands up and exclaimed "why doctor you have ruined my roasting ear patch for them are the shoots that the ear is formed from". But Cowdry refused to believe it until his wife went on to explain the matter to his satisfaction then he gave it up. This incident shows that the most intelligent are liable to be mistaken in some things once and a while." Continuing Mrs. Hasket went on to say that her father lived a while on Isaac Wilson’s mother’s farm on Crooked Creek two miles below Yellville. "If you remember" said she "Isaac Wilson kept a hotel In Yellville before the war. Mrs. Wilson was a well to do woman. Among her stock was several fine milk cows which kept fat on the cane in the creek bottoms. Mrs. Wilson allowed us to milk the cows and I well re-collect what a quantity of nice butter and cheese we made from the milk of these cows. Mrs. Wilson said that she had suffered a great deal from the depredations of wild beast before we went there. The old lady said that a few months before we went there a panther came into the yard one night and went up a persimmon tree that stood near the house. The tree had a bushy top and being in the fall of the year the limbs were loaded with possom fruit. The panther cut some awful diaoes while in the tree by screaming, growling and breaking off the limbs by its weight. Mrs. Wilson said that she and the other members of the family were bad scared. Finally the ferocious beast leaped out of the tree and went away. Next morning the ground under the persimmon tree was covered with persimmons that the panther had knocked off."
S. C. Turnbo
The above was written in 1901.
Please note in the sketch that Fallen Ash Creek runs into White River on the opposite from Cotter or just above. The Flippin Barrens lies between White River and Yellville. The Flippin Graveyard is on the summit of a low wooded hill ¼ mile north east of the town of Flippin. This August 16, 1907.
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"MRS. TERSEY FELLOWS AND THE WOLVES
By S. C. Turnbo
The old pioneer settler William B. Flippin informed me that Lee’s Mountain in Marion County, Ark., derived its name from a man of the name of Lee who stopped awhile in the early twenties in what is now called Flippin Barrens, which lies between Yellville and White River. Mr. Flippin said that the old settlers told him that Lee made no improvements here except breaking an acre or two of land. The spot where he located was beautiful, but it is told that the few settlers who lived in the river bottoms discouraged Lee by telling him that if he made a permanent home here he would starve to death, and he left for other parts. The part of the Barrens where he lived was mostly prairie, and after he went away the settlers called it Lee’s Prairie. It retained this name until Thomas H. Flippin came to this part of the county in the month of March, 1837. Since then it is called Flippin Barrens, but the mountain retains the name to the present day. As we ascend Lee’s Mountain on the south side, we have a grand scenery composed of the valley of Fallen Ash Creek. The little town of Flippin and the low hill just northeast of the village on the summit of which is the Flippin graveyard. We also have an extended view of the track of the White River branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway which runs between the base of the mountain and Fallen Ash Creek. John H. Tabor informed me that he built the first log cabin in the Flippin Barrens and set out a few apple scions, which was the first apple orchard set in Marion County. This was in the early part of 1833 and the land where this orchard stood was afterward known as the Betsey Tucker place. Looking across to the south side of Crooked Creek the noted Hall Mountain looms up in full view. This hill which was so well known to the bear hunters of old divides the waters of Lower Buffalo and lower Crooked Creek. Among the old pioneer settlers who lived many years in the Flippin Barrens was the Hon. W. B. Flippin, son of Tom Flippin, both of which is mentioned in the foregoing. William Flippin is dead now but during his life he was an honorable and useful citizen. I remember that he represented the people of Marion County in the legislature at Little Rock and served a term as County Surveyor and filled other useful offices and was also a prominent preacher and a noted writer. During his lifetime Mr. Flippin delighted to relate stories of early life here among the wild animals. His narratives are reliable and entertaining. One among his amusing accounts which he told frequently is of a woman who had an adventure with a gang of wolves while on her way to a blacksmith shop. The story as was told by Mr. Flippin is as follows.
"There lived in the early settlement of White River Valley, five miles above old Tolberts Ferry, a woman by the name of Tersey Fellows who had, from some cause, separated from her husband. She was of Yankee descent and had a fair English education. Added to this she possessed good common sense. She had some sons and daughters nearly grown when she and her husband separated. She was a large fleshy woman and a good manager on the farm. Among her horses was a big gray or white horse she called Boston-Boss she often called him. She was monarch of her own land and superintended the cultivation of it and, of course, had to provide the necessary farming tools, which then consisted of the bull tongued and single shovel plows. She would take a dry beef hide and soak it in water until it was soft and turn up the edges and shape it into a kind of saddle bag to hold her plows. Her iron, when she had any, consisted of a piece of an old wagon tire. When ready to start to the shop she would saddle up Boss and throw the beef hide containing her plows across her saddle and go to the blacksmith shop at the mouth of Big North Fork, which was 20 miles or more below where she lived. Just think, now, if men had to go to a blacksmith shop at the present day that was 20 miles from their home, lots of horses would go unshod and many farming tools would go unsharpened. This woman was certainly a plucky one.
"In course of time, Allin Flippin, an uncle of mine, moved into the country and located on Fallen Ash Creek, and put up a blacksmith shop. I was told, on my arrival here in 1837, Fallen Ash Creek was named for an Indian who once lived at the mouth of this stream. Allin Flippin lived near where the old village of Flippin now stands near one fourth of a mile from Flippin Station on the railroad and near ten miles from the residence of Mrs. Fellows. The following spring, after my uncle began work in his shop, Mrs. Fellows’ plows needed some necessary work and Boss needed shoeing, she had no dry beef hide on hand, so she killed a beef and used the green hide and prepared it in the usual way to hold the plows., and mounting Boston, her favorite horse, she went on her way to the new shop-it was ten miles nearer than the one at mouth of Big North Fork. The trip would not be so long and tedious. She felt safe while riding Boss and never hesitated to go far and near when business called her. She knew the nature and ways of the prowling wolf and the screaming panther. She did not fear an attack from a wild beast while on Boss’s back, if a wild animal should attack her Boss would soon carry her out of danger. On that day she was unexpectedly annoyed which was beyond her anticipation, for while she was riding along a dim trail at the north end of Lee’s Mountain a pack of hungry wolves, attracted by the fresh beef hide, came rushing up behind her-holwing like mad fury. The attack from the vicious animals took her on surprise but she kept her presence of mind and as the pack rushed toward her she urged Boston into a gallop and continued to urge him until he went along the trail at his best speed and the woman kept in advance of the holwing pack. Mrs. Fellows was not overly frightened but however as the horse ran along a few yards in front of the impudent creatures, the beef hide slipped off the saddle, and hide and plows fell to the ground. Probably no other woman, or even a man would have stopped at this critical moment, but would have urged their horse along the faster. Not so with Mrs. Fellows, however, for she halted at once, and dismounting quickly snatched up some stones and threw them at the wolves and caused them to stop where they stood and howled while she was replacing the plows back in the hide. Then lifting it from the ground, she put it across the saddle and led the horse to a log nearby and mounted again.
"While leading the horse to the log the wolves followed and were in a few yards of her and the restless and frightened horse when she remounted. The entire pack put up a direful holwing. Their presence and dreadful noise was not comfortable, and when the woman seated herself in the saddle again, she made Boss spread himself running. The noisy wolves pursued. The race was interesting from the fact that the large fleshy woman on the big white horse was able to keep in the advance of her four footed foes. The wolves wanted the fresh beef hide and stayed at Boss’s heels. Tersey was determined they should not have it. Onward she urged the willing horse at breakneck speed until she hove in sight of a settler’s cabin. Here, to the woman’s great relief, the howling beasts stopped and went back into the forest.
"After her excitement calmed and Boss’s scare was over the woman proceeded onto the shop at her leisure and the smith sharpened her plows and shod Boston. When my uncle had finished the work the woman sold him the beef hide in payment for the work in sharpening the plows and shoeing the horse saying that she could manage to do other ways to carry her plows back home by pealing hickory bark and tieing the plows together and hanging them to the saddle. This trip to the shop put a weaner on the woman, for she learned to carry her plows to the shop other ways than wrapping them in a green or fresh hide."
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SAD ACCOUNTS OF THE CIVIL WAR
By S. C. Turnbo
Mrs. Mary Jenkins, widow of W. C. Jenkins who died at Protem Missouri July 29, 1895, was born in Washington County, Tennessee, March 19, 1831. Her husband, W. C. Jenkins, was a prominent preacher of the Christian church and was born in the same county and state, May 16, 1828. He and his beloved wife, who is a devoted Christian, were reared in the same neighborhood in Washington County and were playmates together and were married there January 25, 1849. Three children-Star, George and Elizabeth-were born to them there. In 1856 they left their old home in Tennessee and crossed the father of waters and settled in St. Francis County, Arkansas, where they lived one year and pulled up stakes and recrossed the big river and settled in Barren County, Kentucky, where they remained until the early part of 1860 when they went back to Arkansas where they arrived in Marion County in the month of March and settled land in the Flippin Barrens where the Rock Spring is a mile or more northeast of the railroad town of Flippin. Though the water of the Rock Spring did not flow out in a large volume but it was cold, nice and healthy. Mrs. Jenkins, in mentioning a few names of old settlers who lived near them in the Flippin Barrens, says there were Bill Painter(Pointer) and Parlee, his wife, and Tom Painter whose wife was named Adaline and Houston Painter who married Nancy Jane Denton, daughter of Bill Denton. There were also Joe Lewellen and Billy Reynolds, the last named of which his wife’s name was Annie. Mrs. Jenkins’ husband lies buried in the cemetery at Protem where he died. Their three children that we have mentioned that were born in Tennessee, Star lies buried in the cemetery at Flippin. George married Jane Sanders, daughter of Tom Sanders. Elizabeth is the wife T. H. (Tom) Flippin, son of Hon. W. B. Flippin. In speaking of the hardships in Civil War times Mrs. Jenkins said that there was a family who lived on Lee’s Mountain near a small tan yard their names of which are forgotten. Some of the children that belonged to this family starved to death. These children would cut off small bits from the dry hides and either scorch them on coals of fire or chew and swallow them raw. "This is horrible to think of and repeat the story of these sufferings years after it took place, " said Mrs. Jenkins.
In relating the destruction of human lives in the Flippin Barrens during that ever memorable conflict she said that a single man of the name of Jim Brown came with her and husband from Kentucky and was living with them. Brown was an unhealthy man and was subject to epileptic fits at a certain period each month. One morning a lot of bushwhackers killed Derl Woods, who lived on the Fallen Ash road. I heard the reports of the guns while they were shooting Mr. Woods. His wife was named Sally and I heard the poor woman screaming while they were putting him to death. After this band of guerrillas had overrun part of the neighborhood they arrived at Jim Jackson’s who lived a quarter of a mile from our house and began to annoy and chase two negroe boys that were at Jackson’s. Mr. Brown was in our house at the time and went out of the house and started to run and the band of men saw him and charged down the lane toward our house and soon overhauled him and shot him to death. One ball took effect in his face, another in the chest and another in the arm. This occurred near an hour before sun down. There were a few scattering men left in the neighborhood who were friends to the south and when the guerrillas retired that evening these friends collected together and put out guards and buried the dead bodies of Brown and Wood in the Flippin graveyard."
In giving an account of another sad affair In war times Mrs. Jenkins said that there is a bottom on the south side of White River a few miles above old Tolbert’s Ferry that was known as Cave Bottom. It was then called an out of way place and so secluded that it was deemed an excellent spot for the men to hide in on the approach of an enemy. One evening during the winter season while snow covered the ground Shelt Williams, Jack Tate, John Wood, John Tyler and Jim Tyler while in hiding there were attacked by the enemy and Sheit Williams, Jack Tate and John Tyler were killed. Jim Tyler feigned death by falling on his face in the snow after he was slightly wounded and his foes thinking he was really dead did not go to him to make an investigation to see whether life was extinct or not and thus he escaped with his life. John Wood was mounted on a small but resolute mule and its rider compelled the animal to plunge into the ice cold water of the river and swam across to the north shore then he rode the mule a few miles up the river and swam back to the south side again and arrived at our house just before day break. Mr. Wood was bareheaded and nearly froze. The dead body of Williams was hualed home and buried there in a shallow grave. He was buried in the same clothes he was killed in. A few pieces of plank were substituted for a coffin. Jack Tate was buried at Flippin. Do not know where Tyler was buried.
Mrs. Jenkins is a daughter of Joshua and Betsey Davidson. Her parent died in east Tennessee. Mrs. Jenkins related the foregoing account to me at her home one mile east of Protem, Missouri, on Wednesday, September 11, 1907.
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Turnbo Manuscripts
... remained overnight with James Houston Painter(Poynter) who was born in White River Township, Marion County, Ark., November 22, 1867. He married Miss Bertha Flippin, daughter of Jim Flippin and grand daughter of Hon. W. B. Flippin, . He married Miss Bertha Flippin, daughter of Jim Flippin and grand daughter of Hon. W. B. Flippin, and when I saw him he was living just west of the new town of Flippin on the White River division of the Missouri Pacific Railway. Mr. Painter related to me the following incident of hunting. He said that English ... ... Denton, an old hunter, shot a wild turkey hen one day on a high timbered knob, a spur of Lee’s Mountain one mile west of where the new town of Flippin is now. The turkey was not killed outright, but rose and flew away. But Mr. English said he did not think she would get far before she would drop ...
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The Shepard Room
... for school and church purposes and it was also used by the electors of Franklin Township as a voting precinct before it was removed to Peel. The Bill Flippin and Bill Jenkins two noted preachers in the Christian Church who lived in the Flippen Barrens east of Yellville held several protracted meetings ...
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A PANTHER ATTEMPTS TO LEAP ON A MAN ON HORSEBACK
By S. C. Turnbo
The following account was furnished by Hon. W. B. Flippin who said that Simean Tolbert, who lived near where the town of Mountain Home is now in Baxter County, Ark., went to White River one day on a visit. On his way back home a rain storm commenced falling and Tolbert’s clothes were soon soaked with water. As he rode along he pulled his hat down to prevent the rain from hitting him in the face. To his surprise his horse lunged forward in the road. After the scared animal jumped two or three times its rider looked back and saw a panther in the road that had sprang off of a limb that hung over the road. No doubt the panther intended to leap on Tolbert but the horse being active had sprang from under it and lit in the road behind the horse. Tolbert urged his horse away from there on a fast run and if the panther followed him he did not see it."
W. B. Flippin gives a brief account of himself and his father, Thomas Flippin, of being on a camp hunt one night on Buffalo in Searcy Co., Ark., and while broiling some fresh meat on hot embers for supper a lot of wolves began collecting together close to camp and made a direful racket. It appeared for a while that the impudent brutes would charge us and take camp, but we contrived to keep them back by throwing plenty of cedar brush on the fire and other stuff that was easy to ignite, which kept up a big blaze. After a while the wolves slowly retired and did not molest us anymore that night. It was evident that the meat which we were broiling on the coals attracted them to us."
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Company F, 4th Mississippi Infantry
This roster was transcribed from the Works Progress Administration Source Documents for Calhoun County. Please send any biographical information about these men to: Jim Taylor
~Miscellaneous Information not found in the W.P.A. film
Sons of the South - Calhoun County
FLIPPIN, Thomas E., Sergeant
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Marion Co AR Newspaper Abstract
Marion County, Arkansas - Mountain Echo NewspaperJuly 1886 through August 1886
W. B. Flippin, Jr., of White River, paid this office a pleasant
call yesterday. He reports everything lovely in the barrens.
Drummers have been as numerous as candidates the past two weeks.
If both were like the seven-year locusts the country would be better off.
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Marion Co AR Newspaper Abstract
Marion County, Arkansas - Mountain Echo
NewspaperNovember 1887
Judge W. B. Flippin, accompanied by our White River
correspondent, W. B. Flippin, Jr. started on last Monday to
Johnson county. B. told us confidentially that that the
judge was going over to Johnson after a wife and promised
to tell us more about it next week.
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JURY LIST
Grand Jury :
John A. Harris, , J. F. Davis, T. H. Flippin
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It is said that Judge W. B. Flippin will move to Johnson
county sometime in the near future to spend the winter on
the sunny side of the Boston Mountains.
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Turnbo
S. C. Turnbo: He Desired to Hear the Word of God, But the Devil Persuaded the Man to Listen to Him By S. C. Turnbo.... Soon after the Civil War the citizens of Franklin Township in Marion County, Ark. built a log house in the river bottom just below the mouth of Becca’s Branch. The house stood at the foot of the bluff and was used for school and church purposes and it was also used by the electors of Franklin Township as a voting precinct before it was removed to Peel. Bill Flippin and Bill << Jenkins>> two noted preachers in the Christian Church who lived in the Flippen Barrens east of Yellville held several protracted meetings here, on one occasion while meeting was going on there a man who was drunk made his appearance one Sunday evening to listen at what the preachers said; he told them that he was much interested in hearing the gospel preached, and that he would make money by going home but he had rather stay and hear how souls ought to be saved and that he had a soul that needed to be saved and he wanted to hear the gospel plan of salvation and he would stay and be an attentive hearer. While the congregation was collecting, the man lay down on one of the benches that was used for a seat and went to sleep before the speaker began his discourse and slept sound and snored loud during the services and until after the congregation was dismissed. In fact they had to wake him up and take care of him by taking him to a citizens house, where he received kind attention until he was able to go home.
