The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-12

ONdIIdICC IieiN loNabSd. iiIo was accompanied by two Scotchmen named Anderson and Frazier. On their overland trip from New Madrid, after crossing Red river, they found only one house until they arrived at the mouth of the Cadron, which they reached April IS. This house was To- cated in what is now known as Har- din township and was occupied by four bachelor brothers, Abraham, Isaiah, William and Obadiah Wyley and how long they had been residing there was not learned.
 When the Benedicts arrived at the mouth of the Cadron they found an old block house which had been erect ed by previous settlers for protection from the hostile Indians, who roamed this country in those days. The set | tiers in this community were Jno. Me Elmurray and his sons, David, John, Robert and Hardin; Benjamin Mur- ] phy, the cFarlands, Harvey Hager and the Newells. Proceeding further down the Arkansas to the point now known as Red Hill," Mr. Benedict found the settlement of Adam kuy- 1 kendall, with his sons, Amos, Peter and Adam, Jr About three miles l lower he found another settlement, in which resided Charles Adams, Reuben i Euston and Mr. Carlisle and sons. Four miles further down were the habitations of Thomas and John Bur row and James Lemons. MT. Bene- dict continued further down until he reached the mouth of the Palarm, where he found the settlement of the i Massengills and Flannigins. There were two of the Massengills-b ers-and the two Flannigins were al- so brothers. Both men had wives and large family of children. The Flannigins and Massengills had been Tories during the revolutionary war, and at the end of that great struggle found it unpleasant and perhaps un- safe to remain on the Atlantic coast, and fled to the interior with the ln- dians, finally drifted along as out l laws and becoming accustomed to and resumng the habits of wild men of the forest They at last located on the Arkansas, where they were found | by Mr. Benedict. who purchased his first home of William Flanngin.
 Soon thereafter, when the white settlers began to get numerous, the Flannigins and Massengills, prefer ring ot live beyond the reach of civil zation, picked up their belongings and moved to a newer country where the laws of newcomers would not an noy them and to continue their depre- dations. In ISIS, the year the Bene- diets arrived, the first saw and grist mill was built by William and John Standlee in the territory TOW em- braced in Faulkner county. The mill was operated by water power. Other settlers that arrived during that and the next year were John Euglebright, tanner and a currer, who establish ed the first tannery ana boot and shoe shop successfully operated west of the Mississippi in this latitude; AL bert Eastwood, manufacture of chairs and spinning wheels; James Stevenson, who opened another boot and shoe shop, and two Frenchmen. Droup and Refell, who conducted small store.
 Up to the time the Benedicts arriv- ed, in ISIS, not a foot of ground had been cultivated outside of a few gaf- den spots; the settlers having SUD- ported themselves with proceeds de- rived from hunting and fishing. In this way they supplied their families with meats and obtained their grocer ies ard other provisions by trading furs to those who shipped provisions up the Arkansas in keel boats. If space permitted, full list of all the eaarly settlers would be given, but as it is, only those who played an in- teresting part in the earlier days of this country are notated.
 The people of the now Faulkner territory played a conspicuous part in the civil war, even though the county was not organized. In the summer of 1861 several companies were organized in Conway and ad- joining counties for the Tenth Arkan- sas Confederate Regiment. Compa- Iries were raised by Capts. J. M. Ven tLo and Obed Petty, and both of t1cm were enlisted almost entirely from the territory now composing