Pocahontas star herald., 1924-06-20

advanced and as bad as cOndlllohs
were | had five that made teachers
and all the others made good, pracilc,
al business men and women. hihu
reader | trust you will deal kindly ana
charitably with me If ] unbosOm my
self and tell you that when | was mar
ried could not read intelligently'
did not know sentence of grammar
had never studied geography, OF
history a day in my life and when !
went into business in 1880 and was
buying cotton | could not figure up
what 2T5 pounds of cotton was worm
at 225c per cwt. But il only took me
one day to learn that rule but the
string of illiteracy has ever been as
piercing dagger to my loftier ampl-
tions and aspirations and yet oh, Ior
The good old days Of the long, long
ago. And do | want TO turn pack
ward? No. a thousand times no. Never
turn back but 90 forward and upward
There is always room at the top.
Well. there has been lots of mis-
takes, all possibly because of my very
poor writing partly because OF my
nervous breakdown. Then the ortho-
graphy and grammar is intoleraDle
because of the fact that as Big
Johnson said of his typewriter, Just
would not spell right at ALL So my
pen Just will not use good english nor
spell either and makes many errors.
stated in the outset that l ala NOT
propose to rewrite history but only
to write some facts of pioneer happen
ings that have come under my person
al knowledge and not what some other
fellow has said. / did not think OF
setting the whole county into a commo-
| ton when / started the sketches but
il has almost done il and haven't
command Of language TO express my
surprise of the great interest that has
been expressed to me already long be-
fore the conclusion. Ii surely is cast
| ing flowers at me while i am yet Nv
ing to appreciate them. A thousand
| thanks and then some. / well know
that there are many now who cannot
fully realize that what | have said are
truths but they surely are as all who
can go back as far as ! can will bear
me out of many others who are not.
| II is amusing at the skepticism
that some Of the wOuld-be-wise main
tain. Some have said in reference TO
my statement that | made about it
frosting every month in 1863 except
July on the ground that the statistics
do not show il. Kind reader, did you
come to think of il that statistics were
not kept in the south at that time nor
for years afterward. But if anyone
has any doubts about the truth Of that
| statement ask such people as Craven
| Wilson. John A. Johnson, Uncle Dock
Holt, Mrs. j. Il. Spikes, Jas. COndict,
Moley Collier, Bob Hamil, Mrs. Wad-
die, Albert Hatley, Mrs. Henderson,
and quite a number of others who are
still living and feel sure they will
bolster up my veracity. Besides sta
tistics do bear out that since those
days not later than 1889 on June the
first there was white frost all over
this country. Cotton and corn much
of il was worked out twice and ii
killed the cotton leaves, leaving only
the stems and bit the corn leaves and
many Of the tender buds on the timber
and / do know there was n heavy
frost here think the 2Gth of August,
1863, and real freeze in the OzarkS.
A slight mistake in reference 10
Dave Upton. the murderer of Jesse
Burrow. He died In the Greenville.
Mo-. jail instead of at DOniphan. 1t
has been stated that | erred in stating
that Judge Martin has two SONS James
and two Joes. Well, ! knew all four
of them The elder James served as
colonel In the confederate army and
Joe was major and was lost, think
at - battle OF Helena. The second
james was Herbert's father and died
here. The second Joe Martin. n very
warm friend Of mine father of LantieI
Martin, died in New Mexico Judge
Martin married two sisters, as ] re-
member it.
| still have a more unique similar
case. Joe Phillips Of Warm Springs
everybody knows Joe, the picnic man
His mother was the youngest daughter
Of the same Jesse BurrOw who was
murdered by Dave Upton at BurrOw
in the early eos Mr.. Burrow had
three daughters, two of them were
twins and their names were Mary Ann.
Martha Ann and Barbara Ann An
older daughter, do not remember her
name, but she was the wife Of our
esteemed friend, d. u. Wyatte, late
county judge of this county. Mary
Ann married Dow Hatcher. Martha
Ann married Moses Bailey Of Warm
Springs and Barbara Ann married Alb
Phillips, Joes father. Alb Phillips had
very sad calamity during the war.
He was neutral and hid out TO keep
out of the war as many others did
During that terrible cold winter Of
which / have spoken he was in his
hiding place and froze almost to death
He became crazed and started travel
ing not knowing what he was doing.
He came to EleyenpOint river which
was about hip deep To him and wadcd
across. OF course his clothes fruze
solid as quick as the air struck them.
Early in the morning someone found
him and took him 10 DR.. KirkpatrIcls
for treatment His flesh turned as
black as coal and If was first thought
that his limbs would have to hp taken
lff at the hip If he lived at all Than
'hcy Thought they would have 10 come
Jn at the knees but the doctor finally
took them of at the ankles with n
common hand saw and such other I'm.
strments ms he could procure as |
was informed. lie got well but his