The courier-index., 1918-10-25
AN OLD TIMER WITH
INTERESTING RECORD
LOTION CAME TO
THIS SECTION IN ts5s--cLEAR-
ED LAND NOW BELONGING TO
SouDAN PLANTING co.


Longfield Lotion, one OF the Oldest
citizens of Lee county, recently re-
turned from Maury county, Tenn,
where he spent the summer visiting
friends and relatives. Mr.. Lotion
spends the summers in Tennessee
and the winters with relatives at
Rondo, this county. Until a few
years ago he made the trips from
Tennessee to Arkansas and back on
his horse. The distance is more than
three hundred miles and he usually
made the trip In eight days, stop
ping at several points enroute to
visit with relatives.
Mr. Lotion, though well above
eighty years of age. Is exceedingly
robust and active and takes a keen
interest In life He came to this
section Of Arkansas in 1863 and was
employed by Gen. G. ]. Pillow as
an overseer in clearing up large
bodies OF land. Mr.. Lotion deadened
over 1900 acres OF land in 1853 on
the large plantation that is now own
When the Civil war broke out he was
one OF the first to volunteer and
throughout the conflict he served
with distinction under Gen. ID. c.
Govan. He was In the battle OF
Shiloh and in all other engagements
participated in by his regiment He
was wounded at the battle of Atlanta
and at the time of the surrender his
regiment was at Greenville, s. C.
After the war Mr.. Lotion returned
to this section of Arkansas and con-
tinued his farming pursuits. He has
been an intrepid hunter and has kill
ed scores OF bear and other large
game in the bottoms near Mariana.
He and the late Col. Dupuy were
hunting companions.
Mr. Lotion gave to the Courier
Index a clipping from a newspaper
published at Helena in May. 1861,
giving the names of the members OF
Company F. Second Arkansas Regi-
ment. c. s. A. The names are very
familiar to the people of Lee county.
They are reproduced below:
Roster Company r
Second Arkansas Regiment, c. 8.
A.
Captain--D. C. Govan.
Lieutenants-J. X. Phillips. r. G.
Boyd, J. j. Govan, A. J. Calhoun,
Longfield Lotion, w. T. Rerrick
Adjutant-H. N. Hutton.
Bill Adams, Alexander. Lev
Beatty, B. f. Burns. J. M. Burns,
Peter Black. Silas Brandon. M. Bran
don, Bill Claiborn, William Craig,
Oscar A. Davidson, Frank Dill. Jim
Doyle, Sam Daugherty, Frank Goster.
Lafayette Foster. Ransum Folks,
Thomas Freeman, w. ID. Freeman,
Dan Carey, VIM. Glover. Jim Glover,
John Graham, Ed Grissom, Richard
Harrison, Thos. II. Howard, Ed How
ard. VIM. Hawkins. Pat Haley. Sol
Hester. William Harris. p. p. Harris,
Davis Jones, l.. Justice. Steve Kim
bic, B. F. Kelley. Nat Kerns. Obediah
Kali. Robt f. Lanford, Kit Mccoy,
VIM. Mcconnell, Lucius Mcbride,
Robt Mcbride, MCCARTHY. Ian
Miller. James McFall,. w. +. Motley.
William Moxley. Harvey Minor. Jas.
McCool. James Nicholson. Marion Pat
terson, b. Perryman, Jack Perryman.
Jimmie Quinn. Hiram Robertson. Joe
Roberts. r. +. Riley. n. p. Rafort,
VIM Renolds. John Saddler. Lewis
Simpson, George Sutton, John Short,
Hal Slaughter. Jno. w. Shorter, w.
s. Sawrie. ]. NJ. Thompson, Ben
Thompson. John Thompson. Chas.
Thompson, Jake Thompson, Steve
Tribe, ]. M. Underwood. Don Under
wood. Sam Underwood. S. Wadsworth
Aif Wooten, Joe Webb. w. A. Walton.
j. NJ. Weatherly, Enoch ]. Wall, F.
b. Yarbrough.