Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-11
Mrs. Ellen M. Bell)

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 o,,r children should have soms
 Wedge of, as the land on which
 Emf is located once belonged
 I'd ouapaw tribe of Indians
 ..,n the last full-blooded Qua
 chief, was succeeded by saracen
 .,f. l .hreed. who was the last chief
 inc Quapaws. saracen was kind
 .ho ;ettlers and Catholic mission
 and history records an interest
 incident proving his kindness.
 final resting place is in St. Jo-
 h,s catholis church in his honor.
 l window was placed in St. Jo-
 .,s Catholis church i his honor.
 1890 Joseph Bonne, the inter-
 for of the Quapaw treaty pitched
 carmn in the pine forest on the
 k of the river, near the mouth of
 inns bayou. Here he lived with
 neiehbors until 1880, when John
 pnllen with his family came from
 rth Carolina, camped near Bonne
 .hought land. Soon afterwards
 brother, Ir. l.. Pullen had the
 In laid off then surveyed by John
 f,rabam. They named it Pine
 ,ff and had a public sale of lots
 gust p, 1882. Pullen street was
 med for them. An election was
 d and Pine Bluff became the |nty-seat of Jefferson County. The Bt court house was a log structure flt in 1884. Creed Taylor was the st sheriff. In 1889 a second court use was built, on a site just north
 the present one. The contractors Ere Jacob Brump and w. H. Lind y. It was the first brick building ected in Pine Bluff and the land
 which it and it's predecessor stood, Is long ago disappeared in the Unless grasp of the Arkansas ver Othsr settlers who came in thirties were Peter German, the fst coroner of Pine Bluff; Wm Kin ead, s. Dardenne, John J.. Hammett, e last three being elected sheriff kveral times; Martin Doris, John flden Roane,i Joseph Bocage, Viii. fright, Mrs. fNicholy and her two bIs, John L and Erwin o. Buck and bughter Eugenia.
 Mrs. Catherine Washington Lindsay las also an early settler; a widow 'ming from Virginia with her fam of six sons and three daughters Id about seventy five rnegroc,. She 'ught a home a few miles north of inc Bluff, now known as the Me regor place She was 9 devoted ember of the Methodist churci, and IS related of her, that on ono cc. sion when the annual conference as held here and the attendance 'uld overtax the resources ot ine Vern, she came from her home with 'gons loaded with chickens, turk 5, eggs and a supply of other good ngs, rented the tavern, bri lging own servants and entertained all Visitors at her own expense One her daughters married Israel En- e, another Rev. Fountain Brown, Methodist preacher and the third, W. Bocage, young lawyec who elected county judge in 1S46. mother pioneer was the widow ltFee whose husband died fer y came to the territory. Shr man. a her plantation and reared her ldren, later her two sons Israel Jordan owned plantations near Roy and another son settled swhere. Her daughter Julia mar Samuel Calhoun Rosne, a neer lawyer who came from lhessee about the year 1917 and led at the Arkansas Post. He awards located at Pine Bluff and many important offices in the ltory and State. He was a noted St and man whose learning, la- acumen, and character of storing th deservedly ranks him as cne most emminent ci-'zens
 brother John Selden Rcane 'ed in the Mexican war as Lieut, m Tells regiment and in 1S49, elected Governor of the State; in ne married Miss Smith of Da.las aty and they lived on his p'an'a- opposite Pine Bluff, since known he Byrd place.
 mcng the notei citizens of pic oays was Antine Barraque for Ill Barraque street is named. He . rom France in 1919 and settled snat IS now New Gascony, which named after his home in France. 1T French settlers were Louis