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4/23/2018 4:49:46 AM
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( Both Greene and Green) However the facts reveal Greene is the corrected spelling, even though the census records spell it incorrectly) Transcription error in that era. mlc S. C. Turnbo: A Glance at the Early Settlement of the South Fork
of East Sugar Loaf Creek
A GLANCE AT THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
OF THE SOUTH FORK OF EAST SUGAR LOAF CREEK
By S. C. Turnbo

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Mr. Green served his township seven years as Justice of the  Peace. After he and wife had lived together 54 years she died on the 15th of June, 1899, and was buried in the graveyard on the old home fa
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Mr. Green served his township seven years as Justice of the 
Peace. After he and wife had lived together 54 years she died on
the 15th of June, 1899, and was buried in the graveyard on the
old home farm. The given names of Mr. Green’s brothers were
James., S.J., Hue, Bradford and Avery. The names of his sisters
were Almeda, Leethe Ann, Millie and Amandy. J. Hue was killed
in the fight near Booneville, Mo., during Price’s raid. Avery
died in Sharp County, Arkansas, where his mother crossed the
dark river of death. 
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>RE: for my writings to establish Daughters of American Revolution epistles:
Michiel (french spelling as best that I can determine) with an OBELISK pyramid shaped headstone
is My Great GrandFather, Matrilineal 
I traveled with my mother circa 1970′s Virgie Mae Hughey Clarkson Reed, with Melissa Mae and John Matthew
to the old home place in Lowry, ( a school house) then onto the farm that now is on private land 
Green=Greene + DeShields in Boone County, Arkansas
Among the first settlers on this creek is Mike Green whose home
place is up near the head of the creek five miles from Lead
Hill. On the 23 of August, 1905, I enjoyed a short interview
with Mr. Green at the residence of his son-in-law, John Baily,
who resides a short distance below Elixir Springs. I found
Uncle Mike to be quite lively for a man of his age and he talked
freely of the bygone days when men used oxen and bull tongue
plows on the farm, and the women spun and wove the home wear,
and the little boys beat the tan oak bark to pieces in order to
get it ready to be placed in the tan trough to tan the leather
to make the homemade shoes out of. Mr. Green was born in Anderson
County, Tennessee, December 5, 1822. Soon after his birth his
parents moved into Roane County, Tennessee where he lived until in 1845
when he married Miss Hannah Lacy. In recounting the time when
he settled on South Fork of Sugar Loaf Creek and the incidents
following it, he had this to say. “I and wife came here in the
year 1851. This section was then embraced in Marion County.
Soon after our arrival here we settled on a ridge one mile west
of South Fork where we lived a few weeks in a camp or until I
could build a small house. Deer were plentiful here then and it
was but little labor for me to keep plenty of venison on hand for
our use, but I will leave out all my hunting experience except
one little incident. In a few days after I had settled on the
ridge I made a deer lick in 150 yards of my camp which
attracted numbers of deer to it especially in night time and I
shot several deer here. One bright moonlit night while I was
sitting on the platform that I had constructed in a tree which
stood nearby to watch for the approach of deer, I saw a fine
buck come onto the lick ground and stop. He was a monster and
carried an enormous set of horns. I raised my old muzzle loader
to my shoulder and took aim at him and fired and he fell on his
tracks. I left my rifle up in the tree and hurried down and cut
his throat with my knife. The animal was so large and fat that
It took the combined strength of myself and wife to carry him
to the camp where we had more than an hour’s hard work in 
removing the hide and caring for the meat. After I had lived on
the ridge several months I moved to the creek and settled the
land which is known now as my homeplace.”

In speaking of the names of settlers who lived on South Fork when
he came there he mentioned Mr. Pleas McBride, Jimmie Jackson,
Joe Coker and Martha Ann Phipps who was Coker’s
housekeeper, and the three de Shields brothers, Bill, Handy and
John. Situated on Mr. Green’s land is an old time graveyard
where his daughter Almeda Green, who died in the latter
50’s, was the first interment here. In referring to the
building of the first schoolhouse in his neighborhood Mr. Green
said that John M. Gill and Jimmie Jackson had the honor of
building the first schoolhouse on South Fork. The house was put
up near where the Macedonia church house now stands and John M.
Gill was the first teacher that taught a school on this creek
which was taught in this same house.

Mr. Green said that some years after Gill and Jackson built their
schoolhouse he and Tobe Huey cut pine loge and hauled them to a
selected spot of land near where Mr. Huey lived and built
another school house which stood not far from where the de
Shields schoolhouse is now. At the breaking out of the Civil
War which Mr. Green said he did not think was very civil, he
aided with the South and served in Col. Schavel’s battalion
of mounted men. He was with this command when it accompanied
Gen. Price on his raid into Missouri in the fall of 1864, where
in the fight near Kansas City, Mo., he received a severe wound
in his breast which disabled him from further service in the
army. The bullet wound after it had healed over left a well
marked sear which indicated that he came near giving up his
life in defense of the Southland. After the close of the war
Mr. Green served his township seven years as Justice of the 
Peace. After he and wife had lived together 54 years she died on
the 15th of June, 1899, and was buried in the graveyard on the
old home farm. The given names of Mr. Green’s brothers were
James., S.J., Hue, Bradford and Avery. The names of his sisters
were Almeda, Leethe Ann, Millie and Amandy. J. Hue was killed
in the fight near Booneville, Mo., during Price’s raid. Avery
died in Sharp County, Arkansas, where his mother crossed the
dark river of death.

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