The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-29
HISTORY OF
 CARROLL. COUNTY
Compiled by the Goodspeed Publish ing Go. and Was First Published
 in the Year 1889.

dian village at the site of Betlefonte, Boone county: the Delawsre8 had a number of tepees on Long Creek, in Carroll county, and their principal town was on the James River, in Stone coun- ty, Mo. The Cherokees, from Georgia, began their migration about 1882, and the bands were wont to proceed leis- ur,iy, and paGse for awhile upon the borders of their WestcTn home. Several bands, numbering 800 or more, are mentioned by early settlers. They had with them large herds of cattle, horses, etc, and lived comfortably in their camps, cna Of which, in July, 1883, was situated north of Beryville several miles. A visitor to this camp says they were very hospitable; he was al most obliged to eat with them May be sometime get hungry and eat with you, was the logic of his host There were no resident Indians in this locality after 1855. Hunting parties from the "Nation" retafned frequently daring the winters until game became too AscaIce, but their relations with the white settlers were always friendly. No outrages by either party are known to have been perpetrated within the limits of the county.
 Emigration to that part of Arkansas within the bend of White River, and about it's head-waters, followed two distinct routes, the courses of which are best indicated by reference to pre- vioas settlements in she State, which naturally followed the valleys of the Arkansas and White Rivers Fort Smith was the terminus of d military road, which naturally invited settlement in that direction; but 1t was also upon the western boundary of the State, and emigfanta thther turned to the north for permanent locations The extreme northwestern part of the State was also accessible from St. Louis by a direct road; and thus it happened that many of the first settlers of Carroll county came thither after temporary sojourn in Madison or Washington.
 BatesVlle was for long time the limit of emigration up the White River valley. The level country to the east seems to have been considered pre- ferable to the mountainous region at it's source, which received but little at tention except from the hunter and trapper. It was by this route that the first white inhabitants of what is now Carroll county entered it's borders.
 William Sneed and his son, Charles Sneed, originally from Kentucky, re- moved from White River, near the mouth of Bear Creek, to Osage Town ship, in the spring of 1850. They lo- cated claim embracing several thous- and aces cE thc best land on Osare River. Here they had planted several acres of corn the previous spring, and were thus provided with food. They cut what was known as the old Dubu- qae road from Dubuque Landing, on White River, near Lead Hill; it passed through Carrollton, and thence follow ed an Indian trail southeast. John Boyd, one of the teamsters, is com monly given the honor of having driven the first team into Carroll county.
 Louis Russell went from North Caro- lima to Illinois, and thence to Arkansas; he is said to have settled on Yocum Creek, Section 2G, Township 20, Range B. in the present township of Hickory. in 1922. If such is the case, he must have been the earliest settler in the county. He was of English and Chero- kee descent. In 1886 he made a four ney on horseback to his former home in Illinois. He was nineteen days re- turning, and brought with him as many apple trees as he could carry. Not Wlthstanding the length of time they were out of the ground, many of the trees grew, and sprouts from their roots are still bearing This seems to have been the first effort at orchard planting. Russell assisted in the build ing of Fort Smith. He died in this county in 1869.
 David Williams, the first white in- habitant of the central part of the county, and therefore of it's western and northern portions, came from Ten nessee about 1881. He lived on Osage. about a mile and half from Berry, vile, in pole cabin, with his wife and three sons. They cleared several acres of land, but never made any permanent improvements. One of the sons mar Tied a Cherokee woman. Williams re- moved to Buffalo Valley in 1888. His hunting grounds had become too mar TOW.
 John, Alexander and Bruce Boyd, and Elijah Hulsey, brother-in-law to the two last named, removed from Crowley's Ridge, near Helena, Ark. in 1882, and settled on Long Creek be- low Carrollton, There were then liv- ing in the vicinity of Carrolton, Mar tin Standridge, his father f'Shot-gun'' Jerry Meeks and his brother, "Blue'' Jacob Meeks, "Black" Squire Blevins, Richard Blevins, Sam Blevins, and others of Cherokee and English de- scent, whose society was not appreciat- ed by their neighbors, as subsequent developments will show. They were from Georgia, and had not been living In this country many years prior to 1882 George Stone. from Melville,