Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-11
Snapshots From the History of Old Pine Bluff

uel laylor were early identisiad vii,
 the interests of Jefferson cg1n.ty ,b
 former being the first shariff an
 later county judge, the latte, sc,,in
 Sc fTal tiles as county -ra1yu,a.
 Another pioneer was Dr. Woad ruaS
 CT Who came from Nashville Nortr
 carolina and bought land on ,h
 river a few miles aoavn ptnn 1;b,f,
 Ills plantation mclu1od Tuct,r'
 lake, Wl!:h Was for maa.. years
 1aVorlte alace for 5ln;,4. schoo
 plcnlcs and resort for disciplas q
 Isaac. Na.ton, who wolilo g1tl, r
 circle Of friends and have q fish fry,
 Dr. Tucke" was twice ,,!,sfjed hi
 daughters Nere Miss MzEyz =Nr, Fr,a Mosby, Mrs. Betty Wrigh,, Mrs. Rec
 Fletcher an@ Mrs, Henry Nersoam
 His son, : H. Tucker was | prom
 nent met: han and banker in IitfI, Rock
 The Bradferd families owned fnt farm west of Dr. Tuck2r's; they alsf had a saw mill. There We're ff1:, brothers. Liil, Bob H4ur9 and Wdi ter; the last named had jus a;,ajnet mans es.,e and enteral .he soutI.. ern army in 1861.
 Jacob 9i-nmp was aN aariv tsi. dent of tho town and built his ,.ome
 on bank of the bayou named for him. For several years he was county sur- veyor. Tne present court hDuee was eullt by h m and GeCage heeIer in lS5S Both were devoted members of the Mas - traterh. and the ',la- sonic Lodge was named in honor of Jacob 'Brunmp. His Step daughter married !sr.s Il a. Buck and ,;:e::" son Thomas 11 Y arc ;a&l:,!. a.e 70. = dents of i'iae i.:r.i.
 George Keller was a prominent contractor Hhe promoted the inons- trial interests of the town. He had large family; six daughters and two sons and lived in a fine res idence oG Puiieil s;ree. which ht a. forwards sold to Mr. Isaac Mills The old Eluther, ,l.a. nctn! Lew oc- cupies the spot. " i'a!'A.' $ dansh- Fer Miss Bettie, and son still live here. Ot':r gocd ci.heEs w1G were important factor il building Gp. :h" town, " aTe t,.3 brothers Randall 2l d James Mitols |, .lac)n all TrcI and w. D. Va:Lon w. D. Vernon ard Jacob Steck married sisters. Ellin and Mart'n GoiJir. dauga.ers of Icv. Co1bin Meth>ds- preacher MT. Steck has ....s.'c loEg and 1selul life and died February 24,, leaving a widow eighty-siX years old, who lives with their daughter, Mrs. Out, ton. In 1889 Ambrose Hudgins, Thomas Greenfield, Robert and John Walker came to Pine Bluff. Mr. Greenfield soon opened small stock of dry goods and groceries and MT. John Walker a stock of drugs. MT. Walker died in 1S40, and as MT. Robert Walker had been elected county clerk, he could not succeed his brother in the drug business, so MT. J. w. Greenfield, nephew of Thomas Greenfield, bought the stock. He was quite young and had nar> rates his experience as follows. l knew no more about drugs than hog did about keeping the SabDatn day holy. The day after l LOOK charge of the business, Mrs. Roane, the wife of Judge Sam Roane one or the most influential and wealthy families in the county at that day ana time, sent to me, the druggist, for a pound of cream of tarEar. Tn lieu of this I sent her pound o1 tartar ernetic and it came very near Killing the whole familly-at least l suppose they thought so-so long as the en- netic meant business They did not attribute it to my ignorance, put locked upon it as mistake, while ad 2 suspicion that l was done TOT as a practical druggist MT. Green- field, "the druggist married daugh ter of Louis .Bogy and in 1860 oullt a very fine home on Pullen street, near Brump's Bayou, which excited tbe .wondo. and admiration or the town and county. Robert W. walker Eulalie, daughter of oreed Tayior, they lived on their piantauoh five miles up the river and were noted for their hospitality, the young oeon1e of two generations were al- ways delighted to go to the walker olace. Mrs. Walker, now Tn her eighties, makes her home in LltllH
 .., La,, douuhtpr Mrs, Orld0-