BlockPope County, Arkansas - The whole text, 1906 (part 2 of 2)
From D. Porter West's Early History of Pope County; a Story.., published 1906. 306 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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P. - To-morrow! Stranger, you won't git out'n these oiggins for six weeks. But when it gits so you kin start, you see that big sloo over thar? Well, you have to git crost that, then you take the road up the bank, and in about a mile you'll come to a two-acre and a half cornpatch, the corn's mitely in the weeds, but you needn't mind that, jist ride on. About a mile and a half, or two miles, from that you'll come
S. - You can't git at it nary time, till the weather stiffens down sum. Well, about a mile beyant, you come to a place whar thur's two roads. You kin take the right hand ef you want to, you'll toiler it a mile or so, and you'll find it's run out; you'll then have to come back and try the left, when j'ou get about two miles on that, you may know you are wrong, fur they ain't any road thar. You'll then think you are mighty lucky ef you kin find the way back to my house, whar you can come and play that thune as long as you please."
The above article was composed by Col. Edward Washburn, who resided at old Morristown and was a personal acquaintance of mine, and is referred to in my first article of History. - D. Porter West.
Article Xvi Muster Roll Of Captain West'S Company
by Lt. Colonel William Gray called into the service of the United States by the President of tn^. United States under the act of Congress approved May i;3, 1846, from the First day of July, 1846, (date of this muster) for the term of Twelve months, unless sooner discharged.
1, David West, captain; 2, Stephen Rye, 1st lieutenant; 3, Newton W. Brown, 2nd lieutenant; 1, I. S. Ellis, sergeant, aged 28; 2, G. W. Wil-
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