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HISTORY OF SCOTT COUNTY 
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Copyright, 1922, by H. G. McCutchen 
 
HISTORY 
 
 of 
 
 Scott County 
 Arkansas 
 
 By 
 Henry Grady McCutchen 
 
 

 WORKS OF REFERENCE 
 
 Shinn's History of Arkansas. 
 
 Goodspeed's Biographical and Pictorial History of 
 
 Arkansas. 
 Harrell's Civil "War and Reconstruction in Arkansas. 
 Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association. 
 Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 
 Hinemon's Geography of Arkansas. 
 Journal of the Knight of Elvas. 
 Files of the Arkansas Gazette. 
 Allsopp's History of the Arkansas Press. 
 Gerstaecker's Travels. 
 Nuttall's Journal. 
 Washburn's Reminiscences. 
 Jewell's Methodism in Arkansas. 
 Pope's Early Days in Arkansas. 
 Tremayne's Table of U. S. Post Offices, 1830. 
 Files of the Post Office Department. 
 Files in the Office of the Adjutant General of Arkansas. 
 Files of the U. S. Census Bureau. 
 Report of the Secretary of State (Terrall). 
 Myers' Compendium of the Rebellion. 
 County Records. 
 
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TO 
 MY FATHER AND MOTHER 
 
PREFACE 
 
 In the following pages I have endeavored to pre- 
 sent the out-standing facts of the history of Scott 
 County. I have been impelled to do this by several 
 reasons. First, I confess to a measurable sentiment 
 in the matter. The county is my home, and the 
 men and women who made this history are my 
 homefolk. Their history is, so to speak, my own, 
 and, therefore, a very absorbing study to me. 
 
 Again, I would hold up to the present and suc- 
 ceeding generations, and mirror to them, the fit 
 examples of character, civic virtues and moral 
 leadership displayed by our pioneer forefathers in 
 making the history of the county what it is. 
 
 Further, it is a lamentable fact that almost every 
 one is more familiar with State, national, and even 
 foreign history than with the history of his own 
 county or community. We know who the first 
 President, the first Governor, or the first Roman, 
 German or English ruler was, but we cannot tell 
 who was the county's first sheriff or judge or clerk. 
 It is the purpose of this booklet to enable the citi- 
 zens of the county to know something of the early 
 community history — and tlie makers of this history. 
 
 An effort has been made to present an impartial 
 and connected account of the leading facts of the 
 County history. In this, I have been hampered by 
 
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lack of complete records. The early official papers 
 were destroyed by fire, and what other records were 
 accessible are fragmentary and incomplete. But 
 the facts here given are for the most part taken 
 from the offcial records on file in the Federal De- 
 partments at Washington, D. C, and in the Library 
 of Congress there. I am indebted to Mr. Dallas T. 
 Herndon of the Arkansas History Commission for 
 the roster of Scott men in the Civil War. Much of 
 the atmosphere has been obtained from conversa- 
 tions with old settlers of the county. 
 
 In offering this brief account of some of the lead- 
 ing facts of our local history, I am mindful of the 
 fact that my readers will be mainly citizens of the 
 County. 1 have kept this probability constantly 
 in mind. I have also been conscious of the possible 
 historical value of such a treatise and have en- 
 deavored to include as part of the subject matter 
 only well-authenicated facts. 1 have tried to put 
 these facts into a condensed narrative, and rigidly 
 to refrain from comment thereon, tempting as such 
 a course has at times been. 1 trust this booklet will 
 be accepted in the spirit in which it was prepared — 
 a spirit of service to the people of the county. If 
 this result is accomplished even only to a small de- 
 gree, I shall feel that my labors have been amply 
 repaid. 
 
 H. G. M. 
 Abbott, Arkansas, 
 
 October 1, 1922. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 The First Inhabitants 
 
 When the New World first became known to 
 Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century, the 
 entire country was inhabited by a barbarous people 
 which later came to be called Indians. They lived 
 in tribes or bands, and at intervals moved from place 
 to place in search of game or for other reasons. They 
 lived by hunting and fishing mainly, but practiced a 
 rude agriculture. In some parts of the New World, 
 notably in Mexico and Peru, they had reached a 
 comparatively high state of civilization. 
 
 These early inhabitants had spread over the whole 
 of the territory now comprised in what is Arkansas 
 and Scott County, where they had settled along the 
 creeks and rivers. The numerous mounds along the 
 small streams of the county, especially in Lewis 
 Township, indicate the early occupancy of this re- 
 gion by very populous tribes. On the farms now 
 owned by WiUiam Chitwood and J. P. McCutchen 
 no less than two scores of these prominent mounds 
 are situated. They are circular in shape, being on an 
 average about twenty yards in diameter, and gen- 
 erally rise to a height of eight or ten feet. They he 
 along the course of the Little Petit Jean creek. 
 
 On the McCutchen farm is a large burial ground. 
 It occupies the south bank of the Little Petit Jean 
 directly across from the mound area, and was evi- 
 
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dently used by all the numerous peoples along this 
 stream for many miles. It is situated on the highest 
 point of land on that side of the stream. The soil 
 of this burial ground is of a black, murky, greasy 
 character, and after a rain on a hot day it gives off 
 an offensive odor. It is filled with arrow heads, 
 broken pottery, remains of mussel shells used in 
 making their earthenware, skeletal fragments and 
 other evidences of the use by the Indians of this 
 vicinity, of this plot as a place to bury their dead. 
 
 Game was abundant in this part of the counti-y 
 during its occupancy by the Indians. Buffalo and 
 elk abounded, as did deer and turkey. Besides, the 
 forests teemed with wolves, bears and panthers and 
 the lesser animals and birds. But it was principally 
 the bufl'alo, of the animals, that helped to determine 
 the tribal dwelling place. This animal had well de- 
 fined trails over which it yearly migrated, and these 
 usually led along the river courses and the higher 
 land or the crests of ridges, where the traveling 
 would be free of the swamps and mire in all seasons. 
 A trail of this sort was the old Indian trail that ran 
 from the northeastern part of the State to the south- 
 western corner near where Texarkana now stands. 
 Its course was almost parallel with that of the pres- 
 ent line of the Iron Mountain Railway across the 
 Slate. It led along the edge of the high ground that 
 commences there and rises to the mountainous por- 
 tions of the northwest. By these game trails the 
 Indians settled, and they came to be his roads, as 
 later they were to become the highways and rail- 
 
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ways of the white men who succeeded the savages 
 in dominion over these reahns. 
 
 In Scott County, these trails found the mountain 
 passes through which our roads of the present day 
 lead. There were the passes of Cedar Creek and 
 Mill Creek and Forem through the mountains of 
 the souUi, while Petit Jean Pass and Lookout Gap 
 gave the game and its Indian pursuers passage to 
 the north. And today the white man uses these 
 selfsame passes in negotiating the mountain barriers 
 on these two sides of the county. 
 
 When De Soto pased through the county in 1541- 
 42, he found the region fairly thickly settled by the 
 Indians. They lived in cities — probably on the 
 mounds before described — and tilled the soil. The 
 abundance of high ground in the county made it 
 suitable for Indian occupancy and the grazing of 
 the buffalo. And De Soto found these people well 
 supplied with food and living comfortably. 
 
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CHAPTER II. 
 The First Whites 
 
 Although the New World was discovered in 1492, 
 no exploration of the interior of North America was 
 attempted until fifty years later. In 1539 Hernando 
 De Soto, accompanied by six hundred nobles and 
 warriors, landed in Tampa Bay, Fla., determined 
 to find the fabled Eldorado. They marched north- 
 west through the states of Alabama and Mississippi, 
 fighting the Indians and exploring the country along 
 the march, and at length reached the Mississippi 
 River at a point in the vicinity of where Memphis 
 now stands. They crossed the river in 1541 into 
 the present state of Arkansas. Continuing in a 
 northwesterly course, they finally crossed the Bos- 
 ton Mountains of northwest Arkansas into the plains 
 of southeast Kansas. Here De Soto turned back and 
 determined to find the hot springs of which the 
 Indians had told him. So, starting a southeasterly 
 course he reached the Arkansas River at or near the 
 place where Ft. Smith now stands. It was then get- 
 ting late in the fall and winter and he decided to 
 camp for the winter. Therefore, moving southeast 
 about thirty or thirty-five miles, he built an en- 
 campment and spent the winter of 1541-42. 
 
 This camp must have been somewhere in the 
 north part of Scott County, most likely in the vicini- 
 ty of the present post offices of Lucas and lone in 
 
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Logan county. The account of this expedition 
 speaks of numerous Indians hving close by his 
 camp; and the mounds and burial ground situated 
 in close proximity to this supposed site of De Soto's 
 camp seem to evidence it as the location of his 
 winter quarters. Also, on the old Bagwell farm near 
 Lucas, it is said that about fifty years ago there 
 were found some old Spanish coins of an early six- 
 teenth century mintage, which are supposed to have 
 been left by De Soto's expedition. 
 
 During the winter, De Soto lost several men and 
 more horses and his conquering host became a 
 dispirited band by the time spring opened up and 
 they were ready for the resumption of their journey 
 to the hot springs. Added to these troubles, his in- 
 terpreter died, thus rendering communication with 
 the natives difficult if not altogether impos- 
 sible. The southward journey was resumed in 
 the spring and led through the Petit Jean Pass in the 
 Poteau mountains, probably along the course of the 
 present Ft. Smith and Waldron road. The journalist 
 of the expedition speaks of tlie abundance of game 
 and of dense thickets, which were no doubt located 
 in the Fourche valley territory. The expedition 
 passed near the site of the village of Greenridge, 
 then to the Cedar Creek Pass in the south part of 
 the country, striking the Ouachita River near where 
 the town of Mt. Ida, in Montgomery County, now 
 stands. From this point the expedition proceeded 
 along the river to the hot springs. 
 
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Thus the members of De Soto's party were the 
 first white people to visit the present hmits of 
 Scott County. All along the route of the expedition, 
 wide detours were made into the surrounding coun- 
 try and careful search prosecuted for the precious 
 metals. They probably explored the greater part 
 of the central and eastern portions of the county. 
 The country seems to have been fairly thickly settled 
 by the Indians, who appear to have been compara- 
 tively prosperous. The expedition had no trouble in 
 subsisting on the countrjs for they took from the 
 natives food and skins sufficient for their purposes. 
 
 Thus sixty-six years before the English settled 
 Jamestown, Scott County had been visited and ex- 
 plored by the whites, although it was destined to 
 wait nearly three hundred years longer for perma- 
 nent settlers. 
 
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CHAPTER III. 
 Traders and Hunters 
 
 I. The French 
 
 The French under De Tonti estabhshed a settle- 
 ment at Arkansas Post in 1686, which not only was 
 the first in the present state of Arkansas but also in 
 the entire Mississippi valley. The post thrived and 
 had an extensive trade with the Indians of the sur- 
 rounding countr3\ These French hunters and trad- 
 ers paddled in their frail canoes up th^ Arkansas 
 River and the various smaller streanis^liereto,^to 
 reach their far flung trading posts. One of the most 
 famous of these centers of trade was Belle Point on 
 the Arkansas, now known as Ft. Smith. It com- 
 manded the trade of the entire country surrounding 
 it. From such points the hunters and traders pene- 
 trated deeply into the forests in every direction. In 
 this manner, Scott County was visited by these early 
 French. They also came up the Fourche from the 
 post of Little Rock into the present limits of the 
 county. The same was true in lesser degree of 
 the Poteau River. 
 
 These Frenchmen roamed all over the countiy, 
 christening its rivers and mountains and prairies 
 with French names that endure to this day. Some of 
 these are Point Sucre, or Sugar Loaf Mountain, Mag- 
 azine Mountain, Petit Jean River, Fourche La Fave 
 
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River and Poteau River. These were the landmarks 
 that guided them through the interminable forests. 
 From Belle Point one could see the tall spire of 
 Point Sucre uprearing itself into the very heavens. 
 Farther east Magazine Mountain was likewise visible 
 to a large area. And these mountains beckoned — 
 "Something hid behind the ranges 
 Go and find it, go and find it." 
 These bold and daring adventurers went and 
 found, but did not permanently settle the county. 
 
 2. Anglo-Saxons 
 
 The frontier of the Anglo-Saxons was constantly 
 being pushed westward. The hardy class of ad- 
 venturous hunters was ever penetrating deeper into 
 the forests to the west in seach of better hunting 
 grounds, or for pure adventure. They were a rug- 
 ged type who chafed under the restraints and con- 
 ventions of civilization, and found contentment in 
 the wild free life of the frontier. They moved over 
 the land in covered wagons with very little personal 
 or family effects, and "squatted" wherever they 
 found conditions suited to their purposes. They 
 usually followed the retreating habitat of the game, 
 now steadily being pushed westward by the advanc- 
 ing tide of civilization. When game became scarce, 
 these irresponsible folk simply moved to a new lo- 
 cation where it could be found in abundance. 
 
 The territory now comprehended in Scott County 
 began to receive some of these squatters as early 
 
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as 1820, although it, had doubtless been visited 
 by hunters from the settlements at Ft. Smith, 
 Dwight, Little Rock, and other points along the 
 Arkansas River several years before. Some of the 
 squatters were turned back from their westward 
 course in 1820 by the conclusion of a treaty with the 
 Choctaw Indians. This treaty provided that in ex- 
 change for their lands east of the Mississippi River, 
 they would be given lands lying south of the Arkan- 
 sas River and west of a line drawn from a point on 
 the Arkansas about where Dardanelle now is, to the 
 Red River near the present site of Texarkana. Scott 
 County lay within this area. The Indians be- 
 gan to arrive from the east soon thereafter, and it 
 was not long before trouble arose between them 
 and the few families of whites resident within the 
 limits of these Indian lands. The dissatisfaction 
 with this treaty among the whites rapidly assumed 
 state wide proportions, and representations were 
 made to the national government to have the In- 
 dians given lands farther west instead of the tract 
 in question. Accordingly, in 1825 the Secretary of 
 War concluded a second treaty, by which the west- 
 ern boundary of the State was fixed substantially as 
 it is today, the Inidans being pushed west of the Po- 
 teau and Kiamichi rivers where they have since 
 resided. When the new line was drawn, it was found 
 that about two hundred families were living west of 
 it, most of whom were near the Red River around 
 Ft. Towson. Major Bradford, who commanded the 
 
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garrison at Ft. Smith at this time, was ordered to 
 remove these settlers. This was done, and they 
 were given lands farther east. It is thought that 
 perhaps some of these were located in Scott County, 
 but no records are available to establish the fact. 
 It is very likely, however. These would be the 
 first permanent white settlers of the county. 
 
 3. Nuttall's Expedition 
 
 Thomas Nuttall, scientist of Philadelphia, Pa., in 
 1819 ascended the Arkansas River to Ft. Smith, care- 
 fully noting the topography and fauna and flora of 
 the country through which he passed. In his ac- 
 count of the journey, he speaks of the abundance 
 of game in the Fourche and Petit Jean valleys, and 
 saw only a few scattered bands of Indians in the 
 whole territory. This is a strange phenomenon. 
 When De Soto visited the county two hundred and 
 fifty years before, the entire country was thickly 
 settled by the natives. Whether they emigrated 
 or were visited by plague is not known; the fact 
 remains that their numbers were greatly reduced 
 during this period of time. 
 
 Further up the river he saw the peak of Maga- 
 zine Mountain and made a drawing of it. Arriving 
 at Ft. Smith, he found it to consist of the fort and 
 barracks for the garrison of seventy-five men. Ma- 
 jor Bradford was in command. There was only one 
 small log house. Leaving Ft. Smith, he made an 
 overland trip to Ft. Towson on Red River, over 
 much the same course the old military road sub- 
 
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 Map Showing Early Explorations of Scott County 
 
 IS 
 
sequently took. He speaks of seeing deer feeding 
 in daytime on the prairie four or iSve miles from 
 Ft. Smith, and when ten miles south of Ft. Smith, 
 he camped in clear view of Point Sucre, twenty-five 
 miles to the south. Another day's journey brought 
 his party to the base of the mountain where he 
 camped and noted the Cavianol Mountains to the 
 northwest. The Indians had a tradition that the 
 immense pile of stone on the summit of this moun- 
 tain had been built by their predecessors as a bea- 
 con for the tribes of the whole surrounding country. 
 Moving on southwest, Nuttall at length crossed the 
 Poteau in the vicinity of Howe or Heavener, and 
 continued in this direction to his destination. 
 
 About where the Poteau enters Scott County, he 
 saw immense herds of bison, which would usually 
 stampede at the approach of his party. Wolves, 
 deer, bears and panthers were numerous, besides all 
 the native lesser animals. He tells the story of 
 one of his men coming upon the carcass of a fawn 
 lying at the root of a large tree, and beside it was 
 the dead body of a wolf. Looking up into the tree 
 the man saw the huge panther that had evidently 
 done the dual killing. It was presumed that the 
 wolf had attempted to feed upon the dead carcass 
 when he was set upon and killed by the watching 
 panther. 
 
 This scientist carefully noted the Poteau Moun- 
 tains and ascertained the fact that they form the 
 
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crest of the divide that separates a wide stretch of 
 country on either side. There were no settlers in 
 the vicinity of Scott County on the west. 
 
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CHAPTER IV. 
 The Formation of the County 
 
 1. Early Political History 
 
 Arkansas was a part of the Louisiana territory 
 purchased from France in 1803. In 1812 this im- 
 mense domain was divided into the territor}^ of 
 Louisiana and the district of New Madrid. In 1819 
 Arkansas was detached from the Missouri territory 
 and made a separate territor>% with the seat of 
 government at Arkansas Post, James Miller was ap- 
 pointed governor. Scott County was at first a part 
 of Pulaski County, and later successively a part of 
 Crawford and Pope counties. 
 
 In 1833, Scott County was formed, being named 
 for Judge Andrew Scott. In addition to the region 
 now included in the county, it also covered the town- 
 ships of Boon, Washburn and Reveille, which have 
 since (1875) been cut off" and made a part of Logan 
 County. The seat of justice was established at or 
 near the present town of Booneville and was known 
 as Cauthron. The county officers appointed were 
 Elijah Baker, County Judge; S. B. Walker. Clerk; 
 James Riley, Sheriff, and J. R. Choate, Coroner. 
 These officials held office for a term of two years. 
 They were succeeded in 1835 by James Logan, Coun- 
 ty Judge; Gilbert Marshall, Clerk; Charles Hum- 
 phrey, Sheriff, and Walter Cauthron, Coroner. In 
 
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1836, the state government became effective by the 
 admission of Arkansas territory as a state of the 
 Federal Union. 
 
 2. Close of Territorial Days 
 
 The census of 1830 was taken while Scott County 
 was yet comprehended in the counties of Crawford 
 and Pope. The enumerators were James Wilson 
 for the Crawford portion and John R. Scott for the 
 Pope County part. Only the names of heads of 
 families were recorded, the other members of the 
 family being merely numbered. The population for 
 the parts of the counties later embraced in Scott was 
 about 500. Many of these resided in the townships 
 of Boon, Washburn and Reveille, not now a part 
 of this county. 
 
 But the County was now rapidly filling up with 
 people. They came up the Fourche and Petit Jean 
 valleys. The completion of the old military road 
 from Little Rock to Ft. Smitli in 1824 gave impetus 
 to immigration. The settlers came over this road 
 to Ft. Smith, then went north and south into the 
 surrounding country and found homes. A post 
 road was established from Little Rock to Ft. Smith 
 during the same year, with post offices at Ft. Smith 
 and Dardanelle. The settlers of Scott County 
 received their mail from one of these two offices 
 prior to 1835. The mail was delivered from the east 
 once every two weeks. There was no post office 
 in the county before 1835, when tlie first one was 
 established at Boone ville with Gilbert Marshall as 
 
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first postmaster. The mail was delivered weekly 
 by a post rider from Old D wight near Russell ville. 
 David P. Logan was the first carrier. The con- 
 tract schedule of mail delivery was as follows: 
 From Dwight by Dardanelle to Scott court house, 
 seventy-five miles and back once a week. Mail in 
 the opposite direction left Scott court house every 
 Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning and ar- 
 rived at Dwight the following Monday at eleven in 
 the morning. 
 
 There was not a church or school in the county 
 when the State was admitted to the Union in 1836. 
 It is known that rehgious services and private 
 schools were sometimes held by itinerant preachers 
 and teachers in the homes of the settlers, but no 
 organized church or school was in existence. The 
 church was even better off than the schools, though, 
 for ministers of the gospel were more numerous 
 than teachers. Reverend G. W. Sorrels, a Methodist 
 minister, preached over the western part of the 
 State between the years of 1830 and 1840. He fre- 
 quently held services in Scott County, amidst the 
 most primitive circumstances. The following is 
 a description of general conditions at this time: 
 
 *'James F. Gaines and wife came from Fayette 
 County, Tenn., to Scott County in 1837 and settled 
 on Fourche River. At that time there were no pub- 
 lic roads and few families had found their way to 
 the valley. There was no preaching anywhere in all 
 that region of country and Mrs. Gaines was the only 
 
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professor of religion in all that country. She had 
 been converted at an early age in west Tennessee 
 and had enjoyed the advantage of regular religious 
 service. The wickedness of this rude population 
 was a great trial to this devoted Christian; for such 
 was the disregard of the Sabbath that it was the 
 principal day for shooting, kiUing beeves, visiting 
 and engaging in trade. Two or three times a week 
 they would meet for a general carousal. There 
 were children grown who did not know what a 
 preacher was, so dense was the ignorance of the peo- 
 ple on religious questions. At last Mrs. Gaines 
 heard that a Methodist preacher would hold services 
 nearby. The news was well circulated and the 
 whole community came out to see and hear the 
 preacher. They listened awhile, then sent their 
 children to light their pipes and smoked while the 
 sermon was being delivered. After this the circuit 
 preacher, Adams, gave them a regular appointment 
 for preaching, but very little was accomphshed until 
 some Tennessee Methodists came out and settled in 
 the community. About 1842, Rev. John Cowle was 
 appointed to the Ft. Smith circuit and succeeded in 
 estabhshing Methodism in Scott, Sebastian, and 
 surrounding counties." 
 
 Travel during this period was over roads newly 
 cut out of the forests. There were no bridges and 
 frequently the traveler would reach a stream, and 
 finding it swollen from heavy rains, would be com- 
 pelled to halt and wait for the waters to subside 
 
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before a crossing could be made. These incon- 
 veniences of travel were augumented by the pres- 
 ence in the forests and thickets of dangerous ani- 
 mals, too frequently ready to attack the lonely 
 traveler. What roads there were usually followed 
 an old Indian trail, and was little more than an 
 enlargement of it-. 
 
 The western boundary of the State and County 
 was surveyed and fixed by Joseph C. Brown in 1824, 
 but was resurveyed again by Henry E. McKee in 
 1877, and a slight variation from the former line 
 was recorded. This long strip came to be known 
 as the "Cherokee Strip." The land survey of the 
 county was made between the years 1830 and 1835. 
 By this survey the land was divided into sections. 
 Many old landmarks of this survey may still be seen 
 in the county. 
 
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CHAPTER V. 
 New Statehood, 1836-1861 
 Before Congress had passed the customary en 
 abling act, authorizing preparations for statehood, 
 the various counties elected delegates to a constitu- 
 tional convention at Little Rock for the purpose of 
 drafting a constitution for the state that was to be. 
 Scott County elected Gilbert Marshall as its delegate. 
 The convention proceeded to frame a constitution, 
 which was duly ratified, and Arkansas was admitted 
 to the Union on June 15, 1836. In the election that 
 ensued thereunder, the following officials were 
 elected : 
 
 County Judge Gilbert Marshall 
 
 Clerk — — 
 
 Sheriff Charles Humphrey 
 
 Treasurer Walter Cauthron 
 
 Coroner G. R. Walker 
 
 Surveyor T. J. Garner 
 
 Representative .James Logan 
 
 These men thus became the first elected officials 
 of the county under the state government. They 
 were all residents of that part of the county after- 
 wards detached and added to Logan County. This 
 sl'<ov>'s how little influence the remainder of the 
 county had in political affairs up to this time, which 
 is attributable to the fact that most of the population 
 
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was located around Booneville. But this condition 
 was not long to remain so; for immigrants were 
 coming in in large numbers. The census of 1840 
 showed a population of 1,694. Gilbert Marshall 
 was the enumerator. The number of people had 
 more than doubled in a period of ten years. 
 
 When the county began to be settled in the central, 
 southern, and western parts, the location of the 
 county seat at Booneville became inconvenient to 
 the majority of the citizens, and in order that it 
 might be more centrally located, it was moved to a 
 new site on the old Glass farm about two miles 
 northeast of where Waldron is now located. The 
 new site was named Winfield, although the post 
 office at that place, which had been established 
 in 1840, was called Poteau Valley. This continued 
 to be the seat of the county government until 1845. 
 In that year, William G. Featherston, who was deal- 
 ing in real estate, offered to donate ten acres for 
 the permanent location of the county seat, on con- 
 dition that it should be located on his farm. This 
 was agreed to and the seat of justice was moved to 
 its present site. The name of the town was changed 
 to Waldron, and the name of the post office was 
 changed to that, also. At this time, there was only 
 one house in this vicinity, and this was the residence 
 of WilUam G. Featherston. It was a double log 
 house, and stood somewhere close to where the 
 railroad station is now located. When the post of- 
 fice was established in 1840, Featherston became 
 
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the first postmaster. In the same year. Parks post 
 office was estabhshed with Fehx G. Gaines as post- 
 master. In 1845 an office was set up at TomUnson- 
 ville (now Boothe), with Joseph Tomlinson as 
 postmaster. Thus the county had three post ofTices 
 by 1845. 
 
 The first post road within the present limits of 
 the county was laid out in the year 1838. It com- 
 menced at Booneville and ran by the sites of Wal- 
 dron, Parks, and Zebulon, Pike County, to Wash- 
 ington in Hempstead County, a distance of 140 miles. 
 Mail was carried on horseback, and the schedule 
 provided tiiat it should leave Washington each 
 ^Wednesday at one o'clock in the afternoon and 
 ;arrive at Booneville the following Saturday at eight 
 p'clock in the afternoon. James F. Gaines was the 
 jfirst contractor for this service, and his salary was 
 $1,250.00 per annum. Trips were to be made fort- 
 nightly. 
 
 Another route was established in 1845 from Ft. 
 Smith to Waldron by way of Chocoville (now Mans- 
 field), with Elza Harlow as contractor. Mail ser- 
 vice was authorized weekly. The salary was $249.00 
 per year. 
 
 In 1850 the route from W^aldron to Mt. Ida in 
 Montgomery County was put into operation. The 
 distance was fifty-two miles, and William Gibson 
 was the contractor, at an annual salary of $229.00 
 per year. Service was weekly. 
 
 The roads over which these post routes were 
 
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Post Offices and Post Roads in Scott County Before 1850. 
 
authorized had been cut out a few years before by 
 the settlers as they pushed farther into the wilder- 
 ness. Even at this time the homes were very few 
 and far between, as will be seen by naming the 
 settlers along the road from the north part of the 
 county to Waldron, about the year 1850. This was 
 the most populous part of the county, too, at that 
 time. This road came over Black Jack ridge about 
 the old Watkins place. The first residence was 
 the old Norris home. Two miles south was the 
 Sparks farm, now owned by George Sorrels. Then 
 came the farms of Thomas GUsson near Pleasant 
 Grove church, and the Long place near the Narrows 
 of Little Petit Jean. Immediately south of the 
 Narrows, lived Andrew Tomlinson, and around 
 Boothe was the large landed estate of Joseph Tom- 
 linson. The Witt farm was between them. Then 
 came the homes of the three Powels beyond the sec- 
 ond ford of Petit Jean, now known as the Metcalf 
 and Fuller farms. Five miles further south was the 
 residence of Dotson Huie, and another mile brought 
 one to where Daniel Boultinghouse lived. Three 
 miles farther was the Turman place, then that of 
 Reed, now the Leming farm, at Waldron. 
 
 In going from where Mansfield now is to Hon 
 through the Lookout Gap in the same year, one 
 would first pass the residence of Mark Holbert. Two 
 miles farther on was the Henley place. No other 
 house would be passed until one reached the double 
 log house of Jackson Hon on the other side of the 
 
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mountain. The intervening distance was an un- 
 broken wilderness. 
 
 Roads had been opened up down the Poteau by 
 1850 and also southwest to Blansett. Fourche val- 
 ley had several roads by this time, one going to 
 Danville in Yell County. But none of these were 
 roads in the modern sense of the term. The road 
 was like nature left it, except that the trees and 
 logs were cut out of the way. Bridges were 
 unknown. 
 
 In 1850 there were eight townships in the county 
 as follows: 
 
 Hickman Mountain 
 
 La Fayette Tomlinson 
 
 Park Boon 
 
 La Fave Washburn 
 
 The townships of Boon and Washburn have since 
 been detached and added to Logan County. The pop- 
 ulation according to the census of 1850, as enumerat- 
 ed by E. H. Featherston, was 2,937. This of course 
 included the people of Boon and Washburn town- 
 ships. By the census of 1860, the population was 
 given as about 4,500. John A. Fry was the enume- 
 rator. These figures indicate that there was almost 
 a hundred per centum increase in the population 
 during each decennial period. 
 
 The schools and churches of the county had a 
 similar growth. In 1840 there was not a single 
 school within the present limits of the county. 
 About 1847 the common school law was enacted. 
 
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It provided that the sixteenth section of the pubhc 
 land should be applied to the support of the public 
 schools. School districts were set apart, and in 1850 
 the county had six such schools. The following 
 were the teachers: 
 
 James M. Vance Hickman Township 
 
 William W. Sorrels Hickman Township 
 
 Franklin Bates Hickman Township 
 
 John H. McLeod Hickman Township 
 
 William H. Thornton Mountain Township 
 
 Luther F. Pollard Tomlinson Township 
 
 In 1860 there were ten pubMc schools, presided 
 over by the following teachers: 
 
 B. F. Scaggs Boon Township 
 
 C. M. Trammel Boon Township 
 
 T. F. Hitchcock Boon Township 
 
 Geo. W. Duncan Reveille Township 
 
 Mary Lewis Tomlinson Township 
 
 C. I. Stovall Tomlinson Township 
 
 Thos. I. Price Tomlinson Township 
 
 I. W. Colwell Hickman Township 
 
 John Barnett Hickman Township 
 
 R. B. L. Speaks Hickman Township 
 
 F. A. Taff Hickman Township 
 
 In the above list, it will be noted that the name 
 
 of one woman, Mary Lewis, appears. She taught 
 school at Lewis Prairie as early as 1855. In view 
 of the modern feminist movement and the conse- 
 quent increasingly large share that woman is play- 
 ing in the public life of the country, the name of this 
 
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woman teacher stands out prominent. Mary Lewis 
 was the county's first pubUc woman. 
 
 By 1860 churches had been estabhshed in nearly 
 every community. The itinerant preacher had yield- 
 ed to the circuit-riding pastor. The pastor usually 
 held services once a month in every church in his 
 circuit. The Methodists seem to have been first in 
 the county. They established a church on Fourche 
 as early as 1842. The other denominations soon 
 followed. The services were usually held in the 
 district school house, but afterwards log churches 
 were erected. 
 
 The resident ministers of the gospel in 1850 were 
 as follows: 
 
 Jno. S. Robertson Hickman Township 
 
 Washington Sorrels.—. Hickman Township 
 
 J. W. Taylor Hickman Township 
 
 E. T. Walker Tomlinson Township 
 
 J. V. Whitford Boon Township 
 
 D. F. Anderson Reveille Township 
 
 In addition to these, other noted ministers 
 preached occasionally in the county. Some of these 
 names are: 
 
 Geo. W. Sorrels 1836 
 
 A. R. Winfield 1852 
 
 Elijah Smoot 1851 
 
 Jesse Griffin 1857 
 
 H, W. Balsh 1843 
 
 J. B. Sheffield 1850 
 
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B. T. Benefield 1858 
 
 Jacob Whitesides 1840 
 
 The following lawyers practiced their profession 
 
 in the county prior to 1860: 
 
 J. K. Raymond Hickman Township 
 
 J. H. Thompson Hickman Township 
 
 G. W. Featherston Hickman Township 
 
 I. C. Read ...Tomlinson Township 
 
 C. H. Hawthorne began the practice of law in 
 Tomlinson Township a few years later. 
 
 The merchants of this period were: 
 
 G. W. Featherston Hickman Township 
 
 G. W. Bird Hickman Township 
 
 G. W. Gains Hickman Township 
 
 E. C. Moon Tomlinson Township 
 
 The Bates brothers entered the mercantile busi- 
 ness at Waldron a few years later, and their enter- 
 prise is still in operation. These early merchants 
 did a general mercantile business. In addition to 
 the usual stock in trade many of them sold liquor 
 also. They "freighted" their goods from Ft. Smith 
 or Ozark in wagons. It consisted mostly of flour, 
 coffee, sugar, dry goods, ammunition and farming 
 implements. Except for these necessaries, nearly 
 every farm was economically self-sustaining. 
 
 The physicians of the county before 1860 were: 
 
 E. H. Barnard Mountain Township 
 
 William DuVal Tomlinson Township 
 
 P. C. Bush Tomlinson Township 
 
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0. C. Mitchell Boon Township 
 
 Stephen H. Chism Boon Township 
 
 W. E. Elkins Boon Township 
 
 1. C. Field Parks Township 
 
 G. R. Stanfield La Fave Township 
 
 W. A. Linthicum Boon Township 
 
 I. D. Carlton Reveille Township 
 
 E. H. Dunman Tomlinson Township 
 
 James H. Smith Hickman Township 
 
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CHAPTER VI. 
 Period of the Great Civil War 1860-1874 
 1. Secession ^ 
 
 Slavery did not exist to any. extent in Scott Coun- 
 ty, and for this reason the national agitation of this 
 question, which had been rocking the country for 
 over a quarter of a century and threatening to dis- 
 rupt the Union, was not of a personal character 
 with the people of the county. They did not begin 
 to think strongly on the subject until confronted 
 with the reality of disunion and war. Their sym- 
 pathies were for the union of the states, and when 
 it came to electing delegates to the state convention 
 to determine the attitude and policy of Arkansas in 
 the matter, they elected a Union man, E. T. Walker, 
 as the delegate from Scott County. This was early 
 in 1861. The delegates from all the counties of the 
 State met at Little Rock and, after deliberating for 
 a short while, adjourned without action other than 
 to authorize the president thereof to call the con- 
 vention together again if conditions warranted. 
 This was done and the convention met in second 
 session about the first of May, 1861. The question 
 of union or disunion was paramount. On May 6, an 
 ordinance of secession was adopted. The county's 
 delegate voted for secession, and his action in doing 
 so under the circumstances met with the approval 
 
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of the people. They naturally sympathized with 
 the South, when the issue became sharply drawn. 
 
 2. Military Events 
 
 As soon as the call for volunteers had been issued, 
 the people of the county turned to the grim duties 
 of war. A company of seventy-five men was organ- 
 ized in early summer. Its ott'icers were G. W. 
 Featherston, Captain; J. C. Gibson, First Lieutenant; 
 W. F. Patterson, Second Lieutenant, and John Raw- 
 lings, Third Lieutenant. This company took part 
 in the battle of Oak Hill, after which it was dis- 
 banded and its members united with other units. 
 It was known as Company D, First Regiment, of 
 Arkansas Volunteers. 
 
 Another company under Captain William Patter- 
 son was organized in December, 1861, and a third 
 under Captain G. W. Featherston in February, 1862. 
 This latter was merged with the 19th Arkansas 
 under Col. Dawson, and saw extensive service east 
 of the Mississippi River. 
 
 Gangs of bushwhackers and marauding bands 
 early began terrorizing the county. In September, 
 1863, the Federal forces, consisting of the 14th Kan- 
 sas cavalry, arrived in the county and marched on 
 Waldron. Major Featherston and Captain Isaac Bag- 
 well were in command at that place with a small 
 guard. In a surprise attack on September 11, the 
 Federals captured the Confederate forces and held 
 the town. The losses on the Union side were one 
 
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Map Showing Federal Activities in Scott County, 1863-64. 
 
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killed and two wounded. The Confederate losses 
 are not known, although Major Featherston was 
 seriously wounded. Scouting parties were then 
 sent out by the Federals. The first of these went 
 down Dutch Creek on December 9, and another 
 went from Waldron to Dallas in Polk County on 
 Dec. 11, 1863. Still another proceeded from Wal- 
 dron to Baker Springs in Howard County through 
 the celebrated Forem Gap in January, 1864. This 
 last party lost one man killed and one man wounded 
 on its journey. Another skirmish occurred at Wal- 
 dron on February 1, in which one man was wound- 
 ed. After this battle the Federals evacuated Wal- 
 dron on Feb, 4, 1864. The Federal forces were com- 
 manded by Lieut. Col. Ov^^en A. Bassett, and later 
 by Lieut. Col. Searl of Col. James Johnson's Regi- 
 ment of First Arkansas Infantry, organized at Fay- 
 etteville in March, 1863. Man3'^ citizens of the county 
 enlisted with the Union forces after the Federals had 
 taken possession of the country. Another battle 
 took place at Waldron on Dec. 29, 1864, in which 
 two men were killed and six wounded. 
 
 When the Union forces evacuated Waldron, they 
 set fire to every house in town except those of Wil- 
 liam G. Featherston and Elijah Leming. Feather- 
 ston's residence had been the Union headquarters, 
 and Leming was thought to be a Federal sympa- 
 thizer. His residence was burned after the troops 
 had departed, supposedly by Confederate agents. 
 
 On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered, and the war 
 
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was soon over. The men of local companies were 
 disbanded, and those who had been in service in the 
 east at length returned to their homes. Peace, with 
 its healing processes, was at hand, when the blight- 
 ing curse of the war's aftermatli, reconstruction, 
 fell upon the people. It was worse for them than 
 the war, terrible as that had been, 
 
 3. Women of the War Period 
 Most all of the able-bodied men of the county 
 were away from their homes during the years of 
 the war, in the military service. The only people 
 left were the women, children and old men. It 
 therefore devolved almost entirely upon the women 
 to provide for their family needs, and to keep the 
 homes together. This they undertook manfully to 
 do. They planted the crops, cultivated them and 
 harvested them. They had to go to Ozark or Ft. 
 Smith to have the corn or wheat ground into meal 
 or flour. They would go in crowds on these duties. 
 As many as eleven of these women from Scott alone 
 formed one train to Ozark, in the closing days of 
 the war. Wagon trains of fewer members were 
 more frequent. The women harnessed the teams, 
 drove the wagons, and attended to the business of 
 the journeys. Added to these hard duties, was the 
 larger one of caring for perhaps three of four small 
 children. 
 
 These women frequently came together and hved 
 in the house of one of their number for the better 
 
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protection of all concerned. The bushwhackers 
 made them no end of trouble. They murdered and 
 plundered voraciously and indiscriminately. They 
 killed old men of seventy who were therefore utter- 
 ly harmless from a military point of view. Their 
 conduct was of the most ruthless and cruel sort; 
 as for instance, at a home in the north part of the 
 county, they called out a young husband and uncere- 
 moniously shot him. Then they compelled his 
 young wife to cook breakfast for them, with his 
 dead body lying at the root of a tree close by. It 
 then devolved upon the women of the neighbor- 
 hood to bur>^ him. 
 
 These maurauders, discountenanced alike by both 
 belligerents, also, plundered the homes of the de- 
 fenseless women and took their bread. And there 
 was no authority to punish the perpetrators of these 
 foul deeds. Two of the most noted of these heroic 
 women — mothers of heroic sons away in battle — 
 were Mrs. Ann Anthony and Mrs. Polly Graves. 
 The former lived in the Poteau valley, while Mrs. 
 Graves lived on Lewis Prairie in the north part of 
 the county. They both labored unceasingly in the 
 war services of their communities. 
 
 4. New Constotutions 
 When the Federal forces had wrested the north- 
 ern half of the State from the Confederacy, a pro- 
 visional government loyal to the Union was estab- 
 lished by groups of the citizens, and was recognized 
 
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by President Lincoln. A new constitution was 
 adopted in 1864, recognizing the abolition of slavery. 
 Scott County's delegate to this convention was Elijah 
 Leming. This reinstatement of the State to its for- 
 mer status in the Union is known as presidential re- 
 construction. 
 
 The mild policies of Lincoln were not to prevail, 
 however. After his death in 1865, the radicals in 
 Congress obtained the upper hand, and a new re- 
 construction of the State was ordered. A new con- 
 stitution was adopted in 1868. Charles H. Oliver 
 was the delegate from Scott County. 
 
 About 1872 the Federal soldiers who had formed 
 the main support of the carpet bag government in 
 the State after the war were withdrawn and self- 
 government restored to the peoplie. Accordingly, 
 a new constitution, based upon this wider freedom 
 was adopted in 1874. J. W. Sorrels represented the 
 county in this convention. This constitution is the 
 organic law of the State today. A new one was 
 formed in 1918, but failed of ratification by the peo- 
 ple. The delegate to this last convention was W. A. 
 Bates. 
 
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CHAPTER VII. 
 The Scott County War, 1874-1879 
 
 The people were forgetting the horrors of the 
 great war with its train of evils and were settling 
 back into tlieir peaceful occupations, when the coun- 
 ty began to take on the appearance of a lawless com- 
 munity. For a period of about five years, commenc- 
 ing in 1874, a condition of affairs bordering on an- 
 archy prevailed. Murders were frequent, and the 
 perpetrators went unpunished; property was in- 
 secure, and there was no rehef; and the citizens 
 vv^ere for a time helpless before the lawless elements. 
 
 The first instance of this state of affairs was the 
 killing of a negro on Lewis Prairie in 1874. Sus- 
 picion attached itself to certain persons of the neigh- 
 borhood, but they were never apprehended. In May, 
 1874, Jacob Jones was killed at Waidron. During 
 the winter of 1874-75, C. Malone was clandestinely 
 shot, and former sheriff, Nathan A. Floyd, was 
 charged with being the guilty party. He was in- 
 dicted, tried and acquitted. Malone had formerly 
 acted with Floyd as a Repubhcan, but now a rift 
 had appeared between them. On March 11, 1875, 
 J. H. Nichols, a negro who resided near Waidron, 
 was killed in the road about a half mile south of 
 that town. Two other negroes, David and Henry 
 
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Carroll were arrested, charged with this crime. 
 They were tried and acquitted. 
 
 The series of murders and defeated justice aroused 
 the county, and public sentiment demanded that 
 this lawlessness be brought to an end. Instead of 
 this, later in March of the same year another negro 
 was shot and no arrests made. The sheriff, F. C. 
 ("Buck") Gaines, seemed to be unable to cope with 
 the situation. 
 
 The whole trouble apparently had its base in a 
 feud between two factions, viz: the Gilbreaths, 
 Bates and Malones on one side and N. A. Floyd and 
 his followers on the other. In the spring of 1875, 
 Peter K. Beam, a friend of the former faction, noti- 
 fied Floyd that he (Floyd) was to be assassinated 
 and claimed that he had been offered a large sum of 
 money to kiU him but had refused. He was then 
 requested to testify as to this matter before the grand 
 jury, but refused on the ground that he would be 
 killed if he did so. He was killed in his field soon 
 thereafter. 
 
 Floyd's life was again threatened, as was also 
 that of McClure, his partner. Soon after a man 
 named Russell was killed. A short time before, he 
 had stated that an effort had been made to induce 
 him to kill Floyd. A few days after this statement 
 had been made, a man approached him on the 
 street near the courthouse and invited him to go 
 into the courthouse to play a game of cards. He 
 accepted and when he entered the building, he was 
 
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incontinently shot. There were several persons 
 present at the time, but no evidence could be ob- 
 tained to fix the guilt of the crime. The citizens 
 were either aligned with one or the other of the 
 factions, or were else afraid to reveal a knowledge of 
 the facts. Floyd then left the county, going to Mis- 
 souri. He had been engaged in the mercantile 
 business since retiring from political office, and 
 after leaving, he hired two men named Martin 
 and Hill to prepare his effects for shipment. While 
 engaged in this duty, they were both shot. Mean- 
 while court convened, and Judge Joyner held the 
 session surrounded by an armed mob. 
 
 The citizenry demanded that steps be taken to re- 
 store law and order in the county. The sherift' 
 appealed to the governor for aid, and the adjutant 
 general of the State, Gen. Carroll D. Wood, was 
 sent to the county. Order was apparently restored 
 and the trouble settled. 
 
 The disorder again broke out in June, 1867, when 
 the residence of Judge Frank Fuller was shot into 
 by two men, and Judge Fuller wounded. In Au- 
 gust, two men on the Floyd side were murdered. 
 The sheriff again asked the governor for aid, and 
 Gen. Robert C. Newton was dispatched to Waldron. 
 He set about organizing the militia, and by the last 
 of August, 1876, he placed a company of fifty men 
 under Col. Hooper on duty, and the reign of terror 
 ceased temporarily. 
 
 Early in the summer of 1877, J. L. ("Shabe") 
 
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Davenport shot at Judge Fuller, but a bystander 
 knocked the pistol upward and no one was killed. 
 The August term of court was approaching, and 
 Judge John H. Rodgers was warned not to attempt 
 to convene court. But he persisted and held the 
 session. J. D. McCabe was the prosecuting attorney 
 at the time. Great excitement prevailed all over 
 the county. The sheriff was panicky, and begged 
 the governor to send state troops to his aid. Drs. 
 Caruthers and Bell, T. G. Bates and the sheriff fled 
 the county for safety. The sheriff continued his 
 weak and persistent pleas to the governor for help. 
 He finally came back to Parks where he established 
 his headquarters. Meanwhile, the county had been 
 divided into two militia districts, known as the 
 northern district and the southern district. The 
 militia of the north had been organized into a com- 
 pany of one hundred men under Col. J. W. Sor- 
 rels. His assistants were Capt. H. W. Dixon and 
 Capt. J. M. Williams. These companies were ready 
 for duty in August, 1877. 
 
 The southern militia was organized under Col. 
 Joshua M. Smith. His assistants were Captains A. 
 Lunsford, William Mankin and W. R. Cox. The 
 company consisted of seventy-five men, raised in 
 Mountain Township and vicinity. At this juncture 
 General Pomeroy, new State adjutant general, took 
 up his residence at Waldron. He ordered the militia 
 under Col. Smith to Waldron to protect the spring 
 session of circuit court (1878). This term of court 
 
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adjourned without accomplishing much toward re- 
 estabhshing peace and quiet in the county. 
 
 The already tense excitement of the people was 
 further intensified by the murder, on Feb. 6, 1878, of 
 J. L. Davenport, better known as "Shabe" Daven- 
 port. He was shot at Waldron, apparently from 
 an upstairs window. He and his family were well 
 known and prominent in the north part of the 
 county, and his murder caused a frenzy of anger 
 to sweep over this part of the county. The citizens 
 resolved to take affairs into their own hands. They 
 had waited vainly for an orderly process of the 
 courts to establish peace and quiet, but had been 
 disappointed. About a hundred of them formed a 
 mob to go to Waldron to set the affairs of the county 
 in order. They met at Lookout Gap, north of Hon, 
 and from this rendezvous they started for Waldron, 
 but found the Poteau River unfavorable and were 
 forced to turn back to their homes. This was a 
 fortunate occurrance for all concerned, for the citi- 
 zens of Waldron had been informed of the intended 
 attack and had fortified the town strongly in a man- 
 ner to make it impregnable. The sheriff also em- 
 ployed the militia at that place to this end. Much 
 bloodshed would inevitably have resulted had the 
 march of the citizen mob not been halted. 
 
 The action of the citizenry of the north in form- 
 ing this mob served to emphasize the gravity of the 
 situation and the necessity for a thorough investi- 
 gation of the causes of the disorder, and punishment 
 
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of those responsible for it. The governor thereupon 
 ordered a company of Frankhn County mihtia, 
 under Col. J. P. Falconer, into Scott County to as- 
 sure the orderly operation of the courts. The mih- 
 tia of the county was so completely aligned with 
 one or the other of the two factions that it could 
 not be so employed. 
 
 Attorneys H. F. Thomason and Walker were re- 
 tained by the State to assist the prosecuting attorney 
 to thoroughly probe the causes of the existing dis- 
 order. Their fee was $3,000.00. Eleven prisoners, 
 including the county clerk and other leading citi- 
 zens, were to stand trial. The sheriff, Gaines, was 
 also ordered to be arrested, and William Chitwood 
 made the arrest. The trials were held before Justice 
 Blevins at Old Cedar Grove. The court was guarded 
 by the assembled militiamen. After a heated trial, 
 amidst tense feelings, all the prisoners were acquit- 
 ted, and returned to their homes. 
 
 The lawlessness then gradually came to an end. 
 Some of the leaders fled the country, some had been 
 killed and others were ready to become again law- 
 abiding citizens. 
 
 The fundamental cause of the disorder was the 
 deep-seated desire of the people to rid themselves 
 of an alieii government, which had been fastened 
 upon them during the early days of Reconstruction. 
 Carpetbag government was distasteful and the peo- 
 ple did not feel free until it had been overthrown. 
 The anarchic state of aff'airs gave the county much 
 
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unfavorable advertisement and left the treasury de- 
 pleted. The county has only recently recovered 
 from its blighting effects. 
 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
 Growth and Development, 1880 
 After the turmoil of the factional strife had ended, 
 the people once more turned their faces toward 
 the future in a steady internal development. No 
 great outstanding event occurred during this period 
 but there was symmetrical progress — progress in 
 all lines of activity that made for the betterment of 
 hving conditions of the poeple. 
 
 I. Post Offices and Postal Routes 
 In 1870, there were six post offices within the 
 present boundaries of the county, located at the fol- 
 lowing places: 
 
 Black Jack Parks 
 
 Boles Waldron 
 
 Nebraska Olio 
 
 Since that time other offices have been established 
 until at this time there are over twenty-five in the 
 county. These are all fourth class offices except 
 Waldron, which is a third class office. 
 
 The following table will show how the mail was 
 delivered to these post offices: 
 
 From 
 
 To 
 
 Length 
 
 Frequency 
 
 Contractor 
 
 Salary 
 
 Ft. Smith 
 
 Waldron 
 
 .% mi. 
 
 Weekly 
 
 .1. C. Gibson 
 
 $227.00 
 
 Ft. Smith 
 
 Black Jack 
 
 :56 mi. 
 
 Weekly 
 
 J. Stephens 
 
 220.40 
 
 Danville 
 
 Waldron 
 
 55 mi. 
 
 Weekly 
 
 J. C. Gibson 
 
 224.00 
 
 Danville 
 
 Parks 
 
 65 mi. 
 
 Weekly 
 
 J. F. Perry 
 
 275.00 
 
 Waldron 
 
 Slosson's 
 
 200 mi. 
 
 Weekly 
 
 John Gable 
 
 148.00 
 
 Mt. Ida 
 
 Waldron 
 
 52 mi. 
 
 Weekly 
 
 G. Whittington 
 
 249.00 
 
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The first rural free delivery service in the county 
 was established out of Abbott post office on April 1, 
 1908. Walter Jones was the first carrier. The sec- 
 ond route was established out of Waldron a few 
 years later, with W. R. Cox as the carrier. This 
 service has been extended until a large number of 
 the post offices are now supplied in this manner. 
 
 2. Roads and Bridges 
 
 Closely allied with the establishment of the post 
 roads of the county was the construction and main- 
 tenance of a system of public highways. The coun- 
 ty has not been fortunate in this matter. The roads 
 were first cut out of the forests by the settlers with- 
 out reference to scientific principles of road building. 
 A road was made whenever and wherever the settler 
 wished to go. They usually follow^ed an old Indian 
 or buffalo trail, and were not thought of as being 
 the foundation of a future highway system. 
 
 But with the great increase in population, it be- 
 came necessary to recognize certain lines of travel 
 as county roads, to be maintained at public ex- 
 pense. The maintenance of the roads took the 
 form of the employment of free labor. A road 
 overseer was appointed in each township to super- 
 vise the road work in his territory. Every male be- 
 tween the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years 
 was required to work a certain number of days per 
 year. By this method the roads were maintained. 
 Recently a road tax has been levied for the definite 
 
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purpose of affording funds with which to hire labor 
 and purchase materials for use on the public roads. 
 
 The first bridges in the county were private enter- 
 prises, chartered by the Slate and constructed by 
 private capital. Toll was charged all who used the 
 bridge. One of the earliest and most used of these 
 was Trotter's bridge on the Ft. Smith and Waldron 
 road near Boothe. It was built about forty years 
 ago by W. L. Trotter, who kept it in operation until 
 a few years ago. 
 
 The first constructive road-building campaign was 
 inaugurated by Judge A. F. Smith in 1914. Steel 
 bridges were erected over the Petit Jean, Poteau and 
 Fourche rivers. So much enthusiasm was aroused 
 by these improvements that the county embarked 
 upon a larger and more comprehensive bridge- 
 building program. During Judge Payne's terms of 
 orlice, 1916-1920, road bonds \vere iloated to the ex- 
 tent of $100,000.00, the proceeds of which were to 
 be used for improving the highways and for building 
 bridges. These improvements were never made. 
 But the funds are gone, and the county was plunged 
 in debt for nearly the entire amount of the bonds. 
 Judge Payne resigned his office and removed from 
 the county. He has since been indicted by the grand 
 jury. 
 
 3. Schools and Churches 
 The number of the public schools has kept pace 
 v/ith the growth in population. In 1860 there were 
 only ten. Now there are nearly one hundred. The 
 
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crude log school house has been supplanted by the 
 modern frame building, with good equipment and 
 apparatus. In a large number of the districts more 
 than one teacher is employed. Some of the earlier 
 teachers of this period were: 
 
 Philip B. Young Brawley Township 
 
 James D. Bradburn Mountain Township 
 
 Stephen Graves Lewis Township 
 
 Prominent teachers later in this period were: G. 
 E. Henderson, H. J. Hall, J. Y. Payton, J. W. Mc- 
 Nutt, W. W. Lundy, J. D. Little, G. G. Ellis, Wesley 
 Gardenhire, B. A. Thompson, Mrs. A. F. Smith, Mrs. 
 G. Henderson, J. L. Hough, N. O. Tatf, Mattie Stone, 
 Mrs. Etta Pledger, J. W. Black, Utie Alexander and 
 E. Holland. 
 
 Ghurches have been established in every com- 
 munity. The Methodists, Baptists, Ghristians and 
 Presbyterians are the leading denominations. No 
 Gatholic or Jewish church has ever been erected 
 within the limits of the county. 
 
 4. Newspapers 
 
 The first newspaper to be published in the county 
 was called the Beformer. Publication of this jour- 
 nal at Waldron was begun in 1874 by W. R. Allison. 
 It appeared for about a year, when the printing out- 
 fit was removed to Booneville. 
 
 In 1887 P. G. Stone started the Gitizen. It was Re- 
 publican in politics. In 1890 the plant was sold to 
 M. Keener, and A. G. Leming became editor. It 
 
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continued for about a year under the new manage- 
 ment, when it was purchased by the Reporter. 
 
 Another newspaper called the Vindicator ran for 
 a short time in 1897. 
 
 A paper known as the Wasp was started by H. N. 
 Smith about 1905. It was a fiery controversial peri- 
 odical, and under the inspiration of its able editor 
 it became one of the leading county papers of 
 western Arkansas. It was also purchased by the 
 Reporter in 1908. 
 
 The Sentinel was also founded by Judge Smith at 
 Waldron in 1910. It was a paper much like the 
 Wasp had been, its editorial opinion being largely 
 a reflection of the political views and predilections of 
 its editor. It was sold to W. E. Baker in 1912, who 
 merged it with the Advance-Reporter. 
 
 The Scott County Record, one of the papers now 
 in existence at Waldron, was started in 1915 by W. 
 E. Baker. He sold it in 1920 to A. F. Smith, who 
 became its editor. 
 
 The oldest paper in the county is the Advance- 
 Reporter. It was started at Waldron in 1878 by 
 S. H. Farley, and has been issued continuously since 
 that date. Its editors have been S. H. Farley, M. M. 
 Beavers, J. M. Harvey, Hubert J. Hall, W. E. Baker 
 and J. B. Cox. It is now pubhshed by J. B. Cox and 
 son. 
 
 5. Towns and Villages 
 
 Waldron was incorporated in 1875. After it was 
 burned during the factional strife, new and better 
 
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buildings were erected. Brick business houses took 
 tlie places of the frame structures that were burned. 
 The first hotel in the town and county was the old 
 Featherston Inn near the railroad station. About 
 1875 the Malones erected a more modem hotel which 
 is still in business. It played an important part in 
 the Scott County war. Adjutant General Pomeroy 
 in 1878-1879, made it his headquarters while in 
 charge of the militia. It was thus referred to as 
 "Pomeroy's Citadel." 
 
 When the tow^n was burned during the Civil War, 
 the court house and all the county records were lost. 
 No effort was made to rebuild it until in 1904. Dur- 
 ing the administration of Judge H. N. Smith a mod- 
 ern building was erected with fireproof vaults for 
 housing the official records. 
 
 Mansfield on the northern boundary line is an 
 important shipping point. When the Frisco rail- 
 road was built in 1885, only a post office and a gen- 
 eral store were located in this vicinity. The post 
 office was known as Chocoville, and Marion Watts 
 had been postmaster and merchant. Soon the town 
 of Mansfield grew up and is now a well-constructed, 
 incorporated town. Its growth was further in- 
 creased by the building of the Rock Island railroad 
 through this part of the county in 1899. The Arkan- 
 sas Western railroad was constructed to Waldron in 
 1902. 
 
 Villages are numerous throughout the county. 
 
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Some have high schools and others have very good 
 graded schools. 
 
 6. Definition of County Boundaries 
 Scott County was formed on November 5, 1833, 
 by act of the territorial legislature. The boundaries 
 were first defined on October 24, 1835. On Decem- 
 ber 16, 1838, the boundary between Scott and Craw- 
 ford was defined. The townships of Boon, Wash- 
 burn and Reveille were added to Logan County 
 March 21, 1873. By act of the legislature in 1903, a 
 further annexation was made to Logan County. 
 
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APPENDICES 
 
 59 
 
APPENDIX I. 
 Heads of Families in Scott County in 1830. 
 
 Jesse Southern 
 Thomas Hixon 
 John B. Walker 
 William Kenner 
 Gilbert Marshall 
 William Hicklin 
 John Titsworth 
 Arthur Hix 
 John G. Oliver 
 Charles Wolf 
 A. Mitchell 
 Margaret Fort 
 Isaac Mitchell 
 George Caulk 
 Henry Davis 
 Robert Scott 
 Joshua Hudson 
 Edward Davis 
 William Wood 
 John Price 
 Rebecca Wells 
 George Grounds 
 William Scott 
 David Fort 
 David Titsworth 
 Nancy Kuykendall 
 Jesse Noakes 
 Ann McLean 
 Elijah Edwards 
 Jacob Reader 
 Spear Titsworth 
 Nancy Williams 
 John Sexton 
 Is Baker 
 John Clem 
 John Moore 
 Nancy Featherston 
 William Featherston 
 William Sinclair 
 
 Thomas Sinclair 
 Thomas C. Sinclair 
 Webster McCastlin 
 John St. Clear 
 Dryden Wilkins 
 Jesse Barnett 
 BoUy Williams 
 William Caughron 
 Thomas Humphreys 
 Hugh Gilbreath 
 Jacob Hale 
 John Hale 
 Jacob Ring 
 George Frazer 
 Henry Frazer 
 John Fisher 
 George Gold 
 William Anthony 
 Charles D. Humphrey 
 John Piles 
 Sam Lemons 
 George Williams 
 Thomas Piles 
 James Long 
 E. G. Haines 
 K. Tomlinson 
 James Tomlinson 
 Cyrus Parks 
 William Rose 
 John Plemmons 
 David Castleberry 
 Peter Tomlinson 
 H. Tidwell 
 Esom Tidwell 
 Isaac Lindsey 
 John J. Hammond 
 Celia Mayes 
 John Palmer 
 Enos Hughes 
 
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Robert Mayes Sam W'^>-land 
 
 Hartwell Howard Wesley Garrett 
 
 Charles Atkins Jonathan Logan 
 
 James Hodges William Rhoads 
 
 Matthew Mayes James Riley 
 
 Bartley McEmmelly William Moad 
 
 John Ross James Matthews 
 
 James Standefer Isaac Miers 
 
 Joseph A. Meal John Gofford 
 
 John Davis Stephen Gofford 
 Issac Barnett 
 
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APPENDIX II. 
 Heads of Families in Scott County in 1840. 
 
 John Sexton 
 John Riley 
 William Garner 
 
 D. M. Morrison 
 William Patterson 
 Charles Hodges 
 James Anderson 
 William Ellington 
 
 A. H. Kuykendall 
 Charles Logan 
 Josiah Buckner 
 Calvin Jackson 
 Grieff Chambles 
 Aaron Chambles 
 Jesse Gravson 
 
 E. W. Davis 
 
 B. Dailey 
 Joel Williams 
 William Hunt 
 William Tidwell 
 Jefferson Rhoen 
 William Boylin 
 R. Lamb 
 
 J. R. Choate 
 George Carroll 
 Joseph Tomlinson 
 James Sorrels 
 Russel Easton 
 Isaiah Harper 
 William Anthony 
 William G. Featherston 
 Aaron Harlan 
 Daniel Boultinghouse 
 James Boultinghouse 
 Harrison Huie 
 J. H. Dupree 
 Levi Brawley 
 Finis Farmer 
 J. H. Davis 
 
 Dennis Boultinghouse 
 Henry Frazer 
 Jackson Hon 
 Jesse Anthony 
 W. D. Whitmeyer 
 John Barnett 
 Wesley P. Teat 
 James Stewart 
 Richard Hines 
 William Hull 
 J. P. Moore 
 Elizabeth Grayson 
 Catharine Grayson 
 R. J. Cooks 
 Marcus Stafford 
 N. Hixon 
 O. L. Davis 
 Isaiah Barnett 
 Allen Thompson 
 J. G. Thompson 
 William Miller 
 Enos Haines 
 Pleasant Robinson 
 John Herren 
 J. D. Harris 
 Jeff Gofford 
 William Spillers 
 Jonathan Parker 
 H. Dailey 
 Mih Bilbreath 
 James Taylor 
 Solomon Baker 
 John W. Cannon 
 Jeff George 
 Wkilter Haney 
 Elijah Garner 
 James Spillers 
 Jacob Ring 
 John Hunt 
 
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William Burns 
 Daniel Hunt 
 William Hunt 
 Thomas Williams 
 David Williams 
 J. H. Morris 
 Walter Terrell 
 James Bonegler 
 V, Stewart 
 Chris Griffith 
 J. H. Taylor 
 James Johnson 
 T. F. Taylor 
 Joseph Griffith 
 E. Arnold 
 James Dennis 
 William Stewart 
 William Riley 
 John W^eaver 
 Wesley Wheat 
 J. G. Garrett 
 H. Copeland 
 Wiley Tomlinson 
 Bazlen Underwood 
 Joseph Fisher 
 Jesse Fisher 
 John Marshall 
 John Ivey 
 James A. Hendrick 
 H. Arrington 
 George Williams 
 James Long 
 Robert R. Duncan 
 E. King 
 
 Thomas Glisson 
 Ezekiel Williams 
 Elias Phipps 
 John Doyle 
 H. A. Patterson 
 Mack Wilmeth 
 Thomas Kamplain 
 Gilbert Marshall 
 Robert Petitt 
 Silas Hart 
 Jonathan Logan 
 John Newman 
 Thomas Brown 
 
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 Andrew Scagg 
 Edward Riley 
 Joseph Patterson 
 Robert Hammond 
 William Kenner 
 J. P. Click 
 J. A. Morrison 
 W. C. May 
 Walter Cauthron 
 F. E. Anthony 
 J. F. Gaines 
 William H. Shelton 
 John Wood 
 
 C. Davis 
 Edward Lamb 
 Z. Garner 
 James Miller 
 Cyrus Park 
 James Hall 
 Sam Snowden 
 Gil Cribby 
 
 J. O. Logan 
 Wiley Davis 
 Jacob Pierson 
 B. McAnnally 
 Sarah Swainey 
 Jsaiah Hickerson 
 Theo P. Sadler 
 John Lee 
 William Stewart 
 Miles Ladd 
 William Scott 
 Hester Ladd 
 
 D. Choate 
 D. Burns 
 
 Benjamin McDaniel 
 H. Dailey 
 William Cornelius 
 Absalom Cornelius 
 A. Reese 
 
 Joseph Gault 
 James Jackson 
 Edmund Brewer 
 Robert Jackson 
 James Biggs 
 W. K. Davis 
 Henry Stobuck 
 
L. Hopper 
 
 D. Wallis 
 Gilmore Hopper 
 J. B. Biggs 
 William Poor 
 Ann McLean 
 Nancy Blagg 
 John Wilson 
 John Sharp 
 William Graham 
 William Underwood 
 
 E. Underwood 
 Elizabeth Britt 
 Doctor Cribbs 
 D. C. W. James 
 George Wilson 
 
 J. T. Sadler 
 Signal Hoover 
 Rebecca Bateman 
 John Williams 
 Reuben Hettall 
 Martha McMurry 
 Isaac Riley 
 J. P. Hoover 
 John Riley 
 G. Jackson 
 John Scott 
 James Logan, Sr. 
 James Logan, Jr. 
 William Meads 
 William Rhoads 
 William Lewis 
 
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APPENDIX III. 
 
 Roster of Company D, First Regiment of Arkansas 
 Volunteers. Raised in Scott County, 1861. 
 
 COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 
 
 G. W. Featherston, Capt. W. F. Patterson, 2nd Lieut. 
 
 J. C. Gibson, 1st Lieut. John Rawlings, 3rd Lieut. 
 
 NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 
 
 P. N. Lewis, 1st Sergt. Isaac Patterson, 1st Corp. 
 
 Harrison Glass, 2nd Sergt. 
 S. L. Easters, 3rd Sergt. 
 A. E. Frizzell, 4th Sergt. 
 
 .foel F. Smith, 2nd Corp. 
 John B. Graves, 3rd Corp. 
 Robert Hall, 4th Corp. 
 
 PRIVATES 
 
 B. E. Brasher 
 Dennis Boultinghouse 
 Daniel Baxter 
 S. B. Baxter 
 William M. Blythe 
 T. D. Bowers 
 James Boultinghouse 
 James Caviness 
 James Davis 
 Francis Dalton 
 Henry J. Fry 
 James M. Head 
 Jackson P. Head 
 Felix G. Hawkins 
 Francis P. Holly 
 James Newman 
 Robert N. Johns 
 Hiram Jones 
 Thomas B. Jones 
 James Kincaid 
 Mark McMullin 
 Sam W. Perkins 
 James McMullins 
 Hobert P. Park 
 Thomas Parks 
 B. F. Smith 
 John W. Salley 
 William P. McCauley 
 Jackson Chandler 
 William Ford 
 Junis G. Whittington 
 
 Wilev A. Tomlinson 
 (;. A.^Torbett 
 John C. Wood 
 Jesse F. Wall 
 Jesse R. Skinner 
 Ox-ew T. Wisdom 
 Isaac Lucas 
 Sam W. Johnson 
 Samuel Dark 
 Mark Graves 
 B. W. Holston 
 James A. Chitwood 
 William H. Crawford 
 
 D. C. Cameron 
 James Vandigriff 
 James Brasher 
 (ieorge Smith 
 (iilbert M. Shelby 
 William A. Walls 
 John Dollins 
 
 F. M. Featherston 
 
 E. H. Dunman 
 Beverly Young 
 William Young 
 William Rowland 
 William Garrison 
 William Colman 
 Leon Glass 
 William Richey 
 John Tanner 
 
 L. H. Marrs 
 
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APPENDIX IV. 
 
 Names of Scott County Men Who Participated in 
 
 the World War. 
 
 Sidney Lee King 
 Herbert Stewart 
 Guy G. May 
 Sam Jones 
 George A. Phillips 
 Roy D. Payne 
 Harry Earl Oxford 
 Jesse Martin Bell 
 William I. Watts 
 Grover M. Wiles 
 Charlie M. Calor 
 James W. Sorrels 
 Charley I. Nix 
 Henry E. Oliver 
 Samuel J. Vaughn 
 Dennis T. Huddleston 
 Charles W. Webb 
 William B. Maxwell 
 Lee Wesley Crawl 
 Jesse Lee Higgins 
 John Sherman Osborn 
 Granville G. Coplan 
 Walter C. Maxfield 
 Allen Roscoe Gentry 
 Reuben D. Caskey 
 Ray Dailey 
 Henry H. Tolleson 
 Robert Deming 
 Herschel M. Upchurch 
 William W. Lynch 
 George Syler 
 George Newton Miller 
 John Coplan 
 Malcom C. Bird 
 Newton Boyett 
 Jesse B. Tucker 
 Floyd W. Powell 
 M. C. Ross 
 
 Jay T. Floyd 
 Dewitt T. Lancaster 
 Frank D. Caler 
 Henry Dobbs 
 WilliaTn M. Ayers 
 Arthur L. Sherrill 
 Henry Stephen Hale 
 Robert W. Blackman 
 William L. Hawthorne 
 Victor L. Williams 
 Henry C. McNutt 
 Cole Y. Ellis 
 James Stephen Rose 
 Jesse Frank Phillips 
 George A. Miller 
 Add Roper 
 James L. Mitchell 
 Albert B. Stewart 
 Lowell Owens 
 Ernest W. Reed 
 Thomas F. Mays 
 Cheves F. Barnes 
 Andrew Callahan 
 James A. Hancock 
 Hallie Hartwell 
 James F. Ferguson 
 Earl S. Boyer 
 Bailus J. Rowland 
 Lonza Rhodes 
 Grover J. Williams 
 William Rigley 
 Columbus C. Bruton 
 Riley F. Bennett 
 James E. McCafferty 
 Ben F. Jones 
 James H. Aynes 
 Sherman B. Atwood 
 Oscar Elmer Mize 
 
Oscar Warren 
 John J. Hedgepath 
 Joe L. Vise 
 Jim Bell 
 Bud HoUiman 
 William T. Boyett 
 Leo A. Ferry 
 James W. Davis 
 Robert DeFoor 
 Andrew J. Sherrill 
 Edward B. Plummer 
 Lee Patterson 
 Charles R. Martin 
 Isaac Rains 
 James E. Hayes 
 Leslie S. Tomlinson 
 Hugh Gaines 
 Tom B. Hawkins 
 Jim Speaks 
 Elmer G. Pitts 
 James L. Robson 
 Alvin W. Epperson 
 Zelmar S. Watts 
 Regland Greer 
 John L Watson 
 Omer Cheek 
 Lynn L. May 
 George P. Nolan 
 Charles Preston Allen 
 Martin L. Bond 
 Otto Strickland 
 Jess D. Langston 
 Gen. Grant Blackwell 
 Robert D. Limbocker 
 Harvey C. Goodman 
 William W. Cross 
 Andrew L. Hunt 
 Luther H. Curtis 
 James A. Parson 
 Car Brown 
 James H. Pearson 
 Ben F. Ford 
 David H. Bacon 
 C. W. Edward McClure 
 Miles H. Hill 
 John P. Wiles 
 R. D. Rose 
 
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 John W. Gwin 
 Fred H. Millard 
 Fred Dunn 
 Idis Lee Dunn 
 Howell Shores 
 Ottie Waldo Hunt 
 Boyd P. Nored 
 John H. McClain 
 Richard E. Duffy 
 James F. Jett 
 John Brasher 
 Grady B. Pitts 
 Will Campbell 
 James E. Ridgway 
 S. Wallace Pitts 
 Albert F. Foster 
 Sterling Lacefield 
 George H. Page 
 Elmer F. Bond 
 Jeff Jett 
 
 James W. Epperson 
 George Scroggins 
 Otis P. Rowland 
 William A. Brixey 
 Richard M. Jones 
 Carman Bethel 
 John J. Holleman 
 Jacob R. Huckaby 
 Addius Black 
 Charles B. Bickle 
 James W. Dedman 
 Auxie H. Hunter 
 Albert F. Abbott 
 John Dee Alley 
 Robert L. Neely 
 O. C. Richmond 
 Arthur Franklin 
 Cleaver N. Harrison 
 Murphy C. Maddox 
 Hubert S. Sanford 
 Heeda D. Coker 
 Bratcher E. Park 
 Orville M. Strickland 
 Basil S. Drewery 
 Clarence Logan 
 Greene B. Hawthorne 
 James E. Lewis 
 
Harrison E. Ellis 
 Columbus Nichols 
 Johnson Rennick 
 Lester Stewart 
 Joe Henry McGlain 
 Raymond C. Frazier 
 Lamar J. Higgins 
 George Sparks 
 Hobart Richmond 
 Robert L. xMcCafferty 
 Newton Foster 
 Tie Kemp 
 Elmer N. Wilson 
 Aud Plummer 
 Clyde H. Davis 
 Martin A. Dedman 
 William M. Dozier 
 George S. Booker 
 William E. Mankin 
 William H. Billings 
 Roy D. Ford 
 Roy Beatty 
 Clifton Scott 
 Robert A. Beasley 
 Columbus C. Titsworth 
 Virgil R. Piles 
 Bryant Denton 
 Ben L. Ayers 
 Granville Richmond 
 Noah E. Rainwater 
 Sherman M. Rupe 
 George Walker 
 Anderson Oglesby 
 
 Joseph M. Davenport 
 Roy Mackenzie 
 Marvin E. Goff 
 Andrew F. Buland 
 Andrew Smith 
 Samuel T. Lewis 
 Grady Cole 
 William F. Bennett 
 Elmer F. Bowden 
 William S. Piles 
 Thomas L. Powell 
 Bernard Robertson 
 William C. Rowton 
 Chester J. Brown 
 James V. Basinger 
 Ester Hunt 
 Andrew FF. Buland 
 George Cockrell 
 William Condry 
 James Cockrell 
 Charles H. Payton 
 Henry G. McCutchen 
 Louis E. Payton 
 Claud Smith 
 N. O. Taff 
 Oscar Abbott 
 Parks Jones 
 Horace Looper 
 Lyndon L. Casey 
 Earl Graves 
 Clive Harger 
 John Pennington 
 
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APPENDIX V. 
 County Officers. 
 
 1833-35 
 
 County Judge Elijah Baker 
 
 Clerk S. B. Walker 
 
 SheriflF James Riley 
 
 Coroner J. R. Choate 
 
 1835-36 
 
 County Judge James Logan 
 
 Clerk Gilbert Marshall 
 
 Sheriff Charles Humphrey 
 
 Coroner W. Cauthron 
 
 1836-38 
 
 County Judge Gilbert Marshall 
 
 Clerk — — 
 
 Sheriff Charles Humphrey- 
 Treasurer W. Cauthron 
 
 Coroner G. R. Walker 
 
 Surveyor T. J. Gamer 
 
 Representative James Logan 
 
 1838-40 
 
 County Judge — — 
 
 Clerk W. Kenner 
 
 Sheriff Charles Humphrey 
 
 Treasurer W. Cauthron 
 
 Coroner J. R. Choate 
 
 Surveyor T. J Garner 
 
 Representative Gilbert Marshall 
 
 1840-42 
 
 County Judge — — 
 
 Clerk S. H. Chism 
 
 Sheriff Wm. Garner 
 
 Treasurer Jesse Perkins 
 
 Coroner H. A. Patterson 
 
 Surveyor T. J Garner 
 
 Representative J- ^- ^*^^^^ 
 
 *^ S. Humphrey 
 
 1842-44 
 
 County Judge Levi Bradley 
 
 Clerk E. H. Featherstoii 
 
 Sheriff J. B. Garrett 
 
 Treasurer — — 
 
 Coroner Geo. Carroll 
 
 Surveyor W, Wheat 
 
 Representative ^ F- Gaines 
 
 A. Thompson 
 
 1844-46 
 
 County Judge Wm. Kenner 
 
 Clerk John Baxter 
 
 Sheriff A. Harland 
 
 Treasurer G. W^ Read 
 
 Coroner James Stewart 
 
 Surveyor J. Anthony 
 
 Representative — — 
 
 1846-48 
 
 County Judge Elijah Arnold 
 
 Clerk Wm. Kenner 
 
 Sheriff J. B. Garrett 
 
 Treasurer G. W. Read 
 
 Coroner James Stewart 
 
 Surveyor J. Anthony 
 
 Representative ...E. H Featherston 
 
 1848-50 
 
 Comity Judge M. H. Blue 
 
 Clerk J. B. Garrett 
 
 Sheriff J. R. Baxter 
 
 Treasurer J. M. Swinney 
 
 Coroner W. Hodge 
 
 Surveyor Charles Cauthron 
 
 Representative M. Gilbreath 
 
 1850-52 
 
 County Judge J. H. Tliompson 
 
 ("lerk W^m. Kenner 
 
 Sheriff J. R. Baxter 
 
 Treasurer J. M .Swinnev 
 
 Coroner W. B. Carr 
 
 Surveyor E. H. Featherston 
 
 Representative— .Charles Cauthron 
 
 1852-54 
 
 County Judge J. R. RavmoncJ 
 
 Clerk Wm. Kenner 
 
 Sheriff R. C. Reed 
 
 Treasurer J. M. Swinney 
 
 Coroner A. Kuykendall 
 
 Surveyor S. H. Powell 
 
 Representative M. Gilbreath 
 
 1854-56 
 
 County Judge W. E. Elkins 
 
 Clerk E. H. Featherston 
 
 Sheriff R. C. Reed 
 
 Treasurer T. I. Gates 
 
 Coroner Drew Choate 
 
 Surveyor W. T. Dollins 
 
 Representative James Logan 
 
 69 
 
1856-58 
 
 County Judge J. H. ForLet 
 
 Clerk J. C. Gibson 
 
 Sheriff Wm. Gibson 
 
 Treasurer J. C. Moles 
 
 Coroner John Pace 
 
 Surveyor W. T. Dollins 
 
 Representative J. F. Lee 
 
 1858-60 
 
 County Judge H. Hine 
 
 Clerk J. C. Gibson 
 
 Sheriff Wm. Gibson 
 
 Treasurer J. C. Moles 
 
 Coroner J. E. More 
 
 Surveyor J. H. Johnson 
 
 Representative J. F, Forbet 
 
 1860-62 
 
 County Judge J. H, Smith 
 
 Clerk Stephen Graves 
 
 Sheriff Wm. Gibson 
 
 Treasurer J. C. Moles 
 
 Coroner A. Ross 
 
 Surveyor J. H. Johnson 
 
 Representative J. F. Lee 
 
 1862-64 
 
 County Judge Wm. Oliver 
 
 Clerk L. D. Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff C. C. Lewis 
 
 Treasurer J. W. Evatt 
 
 Coroner R. H. Holley 
 
 Surveyor C. L. Hough 
 
 Representative E. Leming 
 
 1864-65 
 
 County Judge J. T. Harrison 
 
 Clerk F. M. Scott 
 
 Sheriff G. Kincannon 
 
 Treasurer J. W. Evatt 
 
 Coroner C. L. Hough 
 
 Surveyor — — 
 
 Representative (Confd) E. Leming 
 
 1865-66 
 
 Comity Judge N. Ellington 
 
 Clerk C. H. Oliver 
 
 Sheriff J. W. Barnett 
 
 Treasurer — — 
 
 Coroner C. L. Hough 
 
 Surveyor — . — 
 
 Representative E. Leming 
 
 70 
 
 1866-72 
 county Judge ]S;S!^f}r 
 
 Clerk L. D. Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff N. A. Floyd 
 
 Treasurer J. W. Evatt 
 
 Coroner W. D. Riley 
 
 Assessor C. Malone 
 
 iJ. Bethel 
 
 Surveyor > D. P. Davis 
 
 ) C. A. Bird 
 Representatives — 
 With Polk, Montgomery and 
 Hot Spring. 
 J. V. Harrison 
 J. H. Denby 
 J. F. Lane 
 J. J. Sumpter 
 Jas. Bethel 
 Elected, but not admitted — 
 C. K. Kymes 
 R. Bollen 
 N. Ellington 
 
 1872-74 
 
 County Judge... Board Supervisors 
 
 Clerk W. B. Turman 
 
 Sheriff F. C. Gaines 
 
 Treasurer N. Johnson 
 
 Coroner Wm. Chitwood 
 
 Assessor T. Suddith 
 
 Surveyor C. L. Hough 
 
 Representatives — 
 With Polk, Montgomery, Hot 
 Spring and Grant. 
 
 L. D. Gilbreath 
 
 J. J. Sumpter 
 
 G. W. Latta 
 
 H. H. Barton 
 
 1874-76 
 
 County Judge L. D. Pendery 
 
 Clerk J. C. Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff F. C. Gaines 
 
 Treasurer W. D. Looper 
 
 Coroner G. W. Smith 
 
 Assessor W. H. Highfill 
 
 Surveyor C. L. Hough 
 
 Representative L. H. Fuller 
 
 1876-78 
 
 Comity Judge S. Harrell 
 
 Clerk J. C, Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff F. C. Gaines 
 
 Treasurer W. D. Looper 
 
 Coroner G. W. Rea 
 
 Assessor C. M. Vise 
 
 Surveyor C. L. Hough 
 
 Representative J. H. Smith 
 
1878-80 
 
 County Judge J, H Payne 
 
 Clerk J. C. Gilbreath 
 
 SheriflF Sam Leming 
 
 Treasurer E. McCray 
 
 Coroner T. F. Smith 
 
 Assessor C. M. Vise 
 
 Surveyor G. W Blair 
 
 Representative A. G. Washburn 
 
 1880-82 
 
 County Judge J. H. Brown 
 
 Clerk J. C, Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff John Rawlings 
 
 Treasurer A. D. Peace 
 
 Coroner T. F. Smith 
 
 Assessor P. H. Young 
 
 Surveyor G. W Blair 
 
 Representative F. C. Gaines 
 
 1882-84 
 
 County Judge J. H. Brown 
 
 Clerk J. C. Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff C, M. Vise 
 
 Treasurer A. D. Peace 
 
 Coroner c. H. Bell 
 
 Assessor P. H. Young 
 
 Surveyor .W. T. Brown 
 
 Representative G. E. James 
 
 1884-86 
 
 County Judge J. H. Brown 
 
 Clerk J. Cj Gilbreath 
 
 Sheriff c. M. Vise 
 
 Treasurer T. M. Evatt 
 
 Coroner J, L. Baker 
 
 Assessor p. H. Young 
 
 Surveyor W. T. Brown 
 
 Representative A. G. Washburn 
 
 1886-88 
 
 Coimty Judge Roland Chiles 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 Sheriff C, M. Vise 
 
 Treasurer T. M. Evatt 
 
 Coroner F. G. Thomas 
 
 Assessor E. B. Yoimg 
 
 Surveyor w. J. King 
 
 Representative A. G. Washburn 
 
 1888-90 
 
 County Judge Daniel Hon 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 Sheriff i W. T Brown 
 
 ■ } Free Malone 
 
 Treasurer T. M. Bottoms 
 
 Coroner w. L. Tolleson 
 
 Assessor e. N. McCray 
 
 Surveyor w. J. King 
 
 Representative W. G. Houck 
 
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 1890-92 
 
 County Judge J. M. Harvey 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 Sheriff L. P. Fuller 
 
 Treasurer D. A. Edwards 
 
 Coroner T. H. Johnson 
 
 Assessor E. N. McCray 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative J. W. McNutt 
 
 1892-94 
 
 County Judge E. D. Yandell 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 Sheriff L. P. Fuller 
 
 Treasurer D. A. Edwards 
 
 Coroner J. C. Oliver 
 
 Assessor J. D. Benson 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative R, E. Sessions 
 
 1894-96 
 
 County Judge J. W. Combs 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 Sheriff G. M. Grandstaff 
 
 Treasurer C. A. Finley 
 
 Coroner D. C. Bevill 
 
 Assessor G. W. Cornelius 
 
 Surveyor J. B. Cox 
 
 Representative .W. A, Houck 
 
 1896-98 
 
 County Judge J. W. Combs 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 Sheriff G. M. Grandstaff 
 
 Treasurer W. A. Evatt 
 
 Coroner D. C. Bevill 
 
 Assessor G. W. Cornelius 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative Jacob W. Rogers 
 
 1898-1900 
 
 County Judge S. K. Duncan 
 
 Clerk L. P. Fuller 
 
 Sheriff T. J. Center 
 
 Treasurer W. A. Evatt 
 
 Coroner D. C. Bevill 
 
 Assessor W. F. Abbott 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative J. O. Sullivan 
 
 1900-02 
 
 County Judge G. W. Cornelius 
 
 Clerk L. P. Fuller 
 
 Sheriff G. M. Grandstaff 
 
 Treasurer p. M Gilpin 
 
 Coroner L. D. Duncan 
 
 Assessor W. F. Abbott 
 
 Surveyor w. J. King 
 
 Representative. ..Sam W. Simpson 
 
1902-04 
 
 County Judge H. N. Smith 
 
 Clerk T. M, Duncan 
 
 Sheriff G. M. Grandstaff 
 
 Treasurer P. M Gilpin 
 
 Coroner L. D. Duncan 
 
 Assessor R. F. Payne 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative Cheves Beviil 
 
 1904-06 
 
 County Judge H. N. Smith 
 
 Clerk T. M. Duncan 
 
 SherifiF G. M. Grandstafl 
 
 Treasurer J. M. Martin 
 
 Coroner L. D. Duncan 
 
 Assessor R. F. Payne 
 
 Surveyor W. C. Wood 
 
 Representative J. M. Hough 
 
 1906-08 
 
 ("ounty Judge W. A. Bates 
 
 Clerk S. K Duncan 
 
 Sheriff T. J, Center 
 
 Treasurer T. M. Evatt 
 
 Coroner C. A. Atkins 
 
 Assessor J. H. Oliver 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative W. F. Faulkner 
 
 1908-10 
 
 County Judge W. A. Bates 
 
 Clerk S. K Duncan 
 
 Sheriff . ..T. J. Center 
 
 Treasurer J. M. Martin 
 
 Coroner L. D. Dimcan 
 
 Assessor J. H. Oliver 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative— -Sam W. Simpson 
 
 1910-12 
 
 County Judge T. W Stone 
 
 Clerk S. K Duncan 
 
 Sheriff R. F. Payne 
 
 Treasurer J. M. Martin 
 
 Coroner I. K. Leming 
 
 Assessor G. E. Crowley 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative Tom Payne 
 
 1912-14 
 
 County Judge A. F. Smith 
 
 Clerk J. M. Martin 
 
 Sheriff R. F. Payne 
 
 Treasurer Earnest Holland 
 
 Coroner J. H. Harvey 
 
 Assessor G, E. Crowley 
 
 Surveyor W. J. King 
 
 Representative H. R. Cantrell 
 
 1914-16 
 
 County Judge A. F. Smith 
 
 Clerk J. M. Martin 
 
 Sheriff R. L. Sherill 
 
 Treasurer E. Holland 
 
 Coroner J. H. Harvey 
 
 Assessor Luney Black 
 
 Surveyor J. B. Nance 
 
 Representative J. MM. Millard 
 
 1916-18 
 
 County Judge Tom Payne 
 
 Clerk T. O, Abbott 
 
 Sheriff R. L. Sherill 
 
 Treasurer T. M. Evatt 
 
 Coroner J. H. Harvey 
 
 Assessor Luney Black 
 
 Surveyor J. B. Nance 
 
 Representative J. M. Millard 
 
 1918-20 
 
 County Judge Tom Payne 
 
 Clerk Lee Piles 
 
 Sheriff O. S Bird 
 
 Treasurer T. M. Evatt 
 
 Coroner J. H. Harvey 
 
 Assessor W. O. Smith 
 
 Surveyor M. R. Cruce 
 
 Representative J. H. Oliver 
 
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APPENDIX VI. 
 
 Members of Ihe State Senate From the Scott 
 County District. 
 
 SCOTT AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES 
 
 R. C. S. Brown 1836-40 
 
 J. A. Scott 1840-44 
 
 SCOTT AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES 
 
 J. F. Gaines 1844-48 
 
 S. H. Chism 1848-52 
 
 ,/csse Miller 1852-56 
 
 SCOTT AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES 
 
 G. J. Clark 1856-64 
 
 Charles Milor 1864-66 
 
 H. L. Holliman 1866-68 
 
 SCOTT, POLK, MONTGOMERY AND HOT SPRING COUNTIES 
 
 1). P. Beldin 1868-74 
 
 SCOTT AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES 
 
 .1. F. Wheeler 1874-76 
 
 H. T. Kerr 1876-80 
 
 J. P. Hall 1880-84 
 
 R. H. McConnell 1884-88 
 
 A. G. Washburn 1888-92 
 
 J. F. Weaver 1892-96 
 
 H. J. Hall 1896-1900 
 
 George Sengel 1900-04 
 
 SCOTT AND POLK COUNTIES 
 
 George Legate 1904-08 
 
 John P. Logan 1908-12 
 
 E. J. Lundy 1912-16 
 
 Ren H. Johnston 1916- 
 
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APPENDIX Vn. 
 
 Circuit Judges Twelfth Judicial District. 
 
 P. C. Dooley 1873 E. E. Bryant 1890-94 
 
 P. B. Rutherford 1882 S. T. Rowe 1898-1906 
 
 John S. Little 1886 Daniel Hon 1906-14 
 
 J. H. Rogers 1887 Paul Littla 1914-19 
 
 T. C. Humphrey 1890 John iBrizzolara 1919- 
 
 Prosecuting Attorneys Twelfth Judicial District. 
 
 D. D. Leach 1873 Ben Cravens 1900-04 
 
 J. S. Little 1877 A. A. McDonald 1904-08 
 
 A. C. Lewis 1884-86 Paul Little 1908-12 
 
 J. B. McDonough 1886-92 L S. Simmons 1912-14 
 
 T. N. Sanford 1892-96 Earl U. Hardin 1914-20 
 
 Jo Johnson 1896-1900 Sam Wood 1920- 
 
 Chancellors Tenth Chancery District. 
 
 J. V. Bourland 1903-13 
 
 W. A. Falconer 1913-19 
 
 J. V. Bourland 1919- 
 
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