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Life & Death on Cedar Creek
An 'old timer' told me about his Grand-father, who 'homesteaded' on a creek in the Ouachita mts.
The year was 1906, & he worked at a sawmill hauling logs with his team of oxen, the mill was located on 'Cedar Creek'.
His Grandfather & dad worked together, there was a 'company store' & a small community of houses, his dad married a girl named Bessie Crank.
One time he shot a 'panther' off a rail fence, & it ran & fell in cedar creek at a large hole of water known as 'the blue hole', where it expired.
His Fathers mother-in-law is buried on a little knoll with one of her babys, she came from England originally, by way of MO first.
It is the most peaceful gravesite I have ever seen, with just the babbling brook, & the wind in the pine trees.
Old piece of metal may be from the 'old mill', probably a mill ran by a 'steam boiler', build near to the creek.
pic's are Cedar creek, gravesite, metal piece, Grandsons working on the RR in later years, & little girl, (daughter of homesteader).
Fossis...............
An 'old timer' told me about his Grand-father, who 'homesteaded' on a creek in the Ouachita mts.
The year was 1906, & he worked at a sawmill hauling logs with his team of oxen, the mill was located on 'Cedar Creek'.
His Grandfather & dad worked together, there was a 'company store' & a small community of houses, his dad married a girl named Bessie Crank.
One time he shot a 'panther' off a rail fence, & it ran & fell in cedar creek at a large hole of water known as 'the blue hole', where it expired.
His Fathers mother-in-law is buried on a little knoll with one of her babys, she came from England originally, by way of MO first.
It is the most peaceful gravesite I have ever seen, with just the babbling brook, & the wind in the pine trees.
Old piece of metal may be from the 'old mill', probably a mill ran by a 'steam boiler', build near to the creek.
pic's are Cedar creek, gravesite, metal piece, Grandsons working on the RR in later years, & little girl, (daughter of homesteader).
Fossis...............
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