BOOK: The Independence Co.,Arkansas Chronicle; vol. XVI; #4; July 1975: page 63-78, The Tarpley Family from Tennessee--by Armie R. Tarpley [1907-1998]; 7840 East 34 Street; Tulsa, Oklahoma 74115:
Born in Tennessee, 1880 census, Independence Co., Arkansas.
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Sometime during those early years in Arkansas the Tarpley family became acquainted with the Jackson Harris family who had resently came into the area from Chamberc co., Alabama. On February 22, 1877, Edward Everet Tarpley married Martha Jane Masura Harris, born February 3, 1855...
Edward Everet Tarpley and his young wife with their infant daughter, Artie, born in 1877, decided to move westward. They went as far as Bellfonte, Boone co., near Harrison, Arkansas, when the wagon broke down. His younger brother, Bell P. Tarpley, may haave accompanied them since I know that he was living there about 1890. They made a crop or two while the wagon was being rebuilt, and in the meantime, my father, Edward Albert, was born in July, 1879. They young couple with their 2 children soon returned to their folks in Independence co., Arkansas with a load of pine knots to trade for cotton seed. I have found no evidence that they ever returned to Boone Co., Arkansas with the seed.
Edward Everet continued to farm in the Blackland community of Oil Trough Bottoms, but for health reasons, they soon moved to a hill farm near the Corner Stone Church on the road to Pleasant Plains. Drinking water in the low lands in those days was often contaminated from the flooding. The marshes were breeding places for swarms of mosquites that infested the area. They were not only pests to live with at ningt, but they were also carriers of malaria fever which was very common in the low lands at that time.
The family grew mostly corn and hay in the Blacklands, but on the plateau where they lived they grew a variety of fruits, vegetables and truck crops. They alsays had a flock of turkeys, chickens, guineas and some ducks, as well as cows, sheep and hogs. Grandfather also had a large blacksmith shop for repairing farm tools and shoeing the work stock. They were privliged, in later yars when I visited them as a small child, to be a suscriber to the party line twlephone system. These telephones used a battery which had a black carbon stick in the middle which looked musch like coal. My brother and I found some of those carbon sticks and crushed them over some rocks near the blacksmith shop. When Grandfather saw them. he reprimanded us "for wasting his coal."
Grandfather [Edward Everet] was a very frugal man. He believed in working in the fields "from sun up 'til sun down". I have heard my father [Edward Albert] say that they always arose early and fed and harnessed the teams by lantern light while breakfast was being prepared and then drove the 2-3 miles down the mountain road and be waiting at the field for the sun to rise. They were expected to work all day, stopping only long enough to eat a basket lunch which had been prepared while the men folks were eating breakfast. then after the hard days work, they would drive back up the monuntain after dark. Dad [Edward Albert] often said it seemed like were met ourselves coming down the stairs as we went up to sleep". ....
Grandfather [Edward Everet] maintained the habit of using all his time profitable. He would work in the fields every day that he could, but when he was rained out, he would saddle his horse, don his riding slicker and rain hat and take the butter and eggs ther 4-5 miles to market at Pleasant Plains, There he would sell them and purchase the few staples that they could not raise on their farm. He also had the reputation of being a honest Christian Man. He was a leader in the Methodist church at corner Stone and I have heard it said of him by his neighbors that "Everet would ride five miles in the rain to repay a debt - even if it were no more than a penny". ...
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Biographical and Historyical Memoris of Independence co., Arkansas [originally published by the Goodspeed Publishing co. in 1889] page 718; John Thomas Tarpley--
Edward Everett born on the 5th of February 1855 resideing in Independence co., Arkansas;
Contributor: kj (48531000)
Born in Tennessee, 1880 census, Independence Co., Arkansas.
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Sometime during those early years in Arkansas the Tarpley family became acquainted with the Jackson Harris family who had resently came into the area from Chamberc co., Alabama. On February 22, 1877, Edward Everet Tarpley married Martha Jane Masura Harris, born February 3, 1855...
Edward Everet Tarpley and his young wife with their infant daughter, Artie, born in 1877, decided to move westward. They went as far as Bellfonte, Boone co., near Harrison, Arkansas, when the wagon broke down. His younger brother, Bell P. Tarpley, may haave accompanied them since I know that he was living there about 1890. They made a crop or two while the wagon was being rebuilt, and in the meantime, my father, Edward Albert, was born in July, 1879. They young couple with their 2 children soon returned to their folks in Independence co., Arkansas with a load of pine knots to trade for cotton seed. I have found no evidence that they ever returned to Boone Co., Arkansas with the seed.
Edward Everet continued to farm in the Blackland community of Oil Trough Bottoms, but for health reasons, they soon moved to a hill farm near the Corner Stone Church on the road to Pleasant Plains. Drinking water in the low lands in those days was often contaminated from the flooding. The marshes were breeding places for swarms of mosquites that infested the area. They were not only pests to live with at ningt, but they were also carriers of malaria fever which was very common in the low lands at that time.
The family grew mostly corn and hay in the Blacklands, but on the plateau where they lived they grew a variety of fruits, vegetables and truck crops. They alsays had a flock of turkeys, chickens, guineas and some ducks, as well as cows, sheep and hogs. Grandfather also had a large blacksmith shop for repairing farm tools and shoeing the work stock. They were privliged, in later yars when I visited them as a small child, to be a suscriber to the party line twlephone system. These telephones used a battery which had a black carbon stick in the middle which looked musch like coal. My brother and I found some of those carbon sticks and crushed them over some rocks near the blacksmith shop. When Grandfather saw them. he reprimanded us "for wasting his coal."
Grandfather [Edward Everet] was a very frugal man. He believed in working in the fields "from sun up 'til sun down". I have heard my father [Edward Albert] say that they always arose early and fed and harnessed the teams by lantern light while breakfast was being prepared and then drove the 2-3 miles down the mountain road and be waiting at the field for the sun to rise. They were expected to work all day, stopping only long enough to eat a basket lunch which had been prepared while the men folks were eating breakfast. then after the hard days work, they would drive back up the monuntain after dark. Dad [Edward Albert] often said it seemed like were met ourselves coming down the stairs as we went up to sleep". ....
Grandfather [Edward Everet] maintained the habit of using all his time profitable. He would work in the fields every day that he could, but when he was rained out, he would saddle his horse, don his riding slicker and rain hat and take the butter and eggs ther 4-5 miles to market at Pleasant Plains, There he would sell them and purchase the few staples that they could not raise on their farm. He also had the reputation of being a honest Christian Man. He was a leader in the Methodist church at corner Stone and I have heard it said of him by his neighbors that "Everet would ride five miles in the rain to repay a debt - even if it were no more than a penny". ...
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Biographical and Historyical Memoris of Independence co., Arkansas [originally published by the Goodspeed Publishing co. in 1889] page 718; John Thomas Tarpley--
Edward Everett born on the 5th of February 1855 resideing in Independence co., Arkansas;
Contributor: kj (48531000)
BOOK: The Independence Co.,Arkansas Chronicle; vol. XVI; #4; July 1975: page 63-78, The Tarpley Family from Tennessee--by Armie R. Tarpley [1907-1998]; 7840 East 34 Street; Tulsa, Oklahoma 74115:
Born in Tennessee, 1880 census, Independence Co., Arkansas.
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Sometime during those early years in Arkansas the Tarpley family became acquainted with the Jackson Harris family who had resently came into the area from Chamberc co., Alabama. On February 22, 1877, Edward Everet Tarpley married Martha Jane Masura Harris, born February 3, 1855...
Edward Everet Tarpley and his young wife with their infant daughter, Artie, born in 1877, decided to move westward. They went as far as Bellfonte, Boone co., near Harrison, Arkansas, when the wagon broke down. His younger brother, Bell P. Tarpley, may haave accompanied them since I know that he was living there about 1890. They made a crop or two while the wagon was being rebuilt, and in the meantime, my father, Edward Albert, was born in July, 1879. They young couple with their 2 children soon returned to their folks in Independence co., Arkansas with a load of pine knots to trade for cotton seed. I have found no evidence that they ever returned to Boone Co., Arkansas with the seed.
Edward Everet continued to farm in the Blackland community of Oil Trough Bottoms, but for health reasons, they soon moved to a hill farm near the Corner Stone Church on the road to Pleasant Plains. Drinking water in the low lands in those days was often contaminated from the flooding. The marshes were breeding places for swarms of mosquites that infested the area. They were not only pests to live with at ningt, but they were also carriers of malaria fever which was very common in the low lands at that time.
The family grew mostly corn and hay in the Blacklands, but on the plateau where they lived they grew a variety of fruits, vegetables and truck crops. They alsays had a flock of turkeys, chickens, guineas and some ducks, as well as cows, sheep and hogs. Grandfather also had a large blacksmith shop for repairing farm tools and shoeing the work stock. They were privliged, in later yars when I visited them as a small child, to be a suscriber to the party line twlephone system. These telephones used a battery which had a black carbon stick in the middle which looked musch like coal. My brother and I found some of those carbon sticks and crushed them over some rocks near the blacksmith shop. When Grandfather saw them. he reprimanded us "for wasting his coal."
Grandfather [Edward Everet] was a very frugal man. He believed in working in the fields "from sun up 'til sun down". I have heard my father [Edward Albert] say that they always arose early and fed and harnessed the teams by lantern light while breakfast was being prepared and then drove the 2-3 miles down the mountain road and be waiting at the field for the sun to rise. They were expected to work all day, stopping only long enough to eat a basket lunch which had been prepared while the men folks were eating breakfast. then after the hard days work, they would drive back up the monuntain after dark. Dad [Edward Albert] often said it seemed like were met ourselves coming down the stairs as we went up to sleep". ....
Grandfather [Edward Everet] maintained the habit of using all his time profitable. He would work in the fields every day that he could, but when he was rained out, he would saddle his horse, don his riding slicker and rain hat and take the butter and eggs ther 4-5 miles to market at Pleasant Plains, There he would sell them and purchase the few staples that they could not raise on their farm. He also had the reputation of being a honest Christian Man. He was a leader in the Methodist church at corner Stone and I have heard it said of him by his neighbors that "Everet would ride five miles in the rain to repay a debt - even if it were no more than a penny". ...
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Biographical and Historyical Memoris of Independence co., Arkansas [originally published by the Goodspeed Publishing co. in 1889] page 718; John Thomas Tarpley--
Edward Everett born on the 5th of February 1855 resideing in Independence co., Arkansas;
Contributor: kj (48531000)
Born in Tennessee, 1880 census, Independence Co., Arkansas.
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Sometime during those early years in Arkansas the Tarpley family became acquainted with the Jackson Harris family who had resently came into the area from Chamberc co., Alabama. On February 22, 1877, Edward Everet Tarpley married Martha Jane Masura Harris, born February 3, 1855...
Edward Everet Tarpley and his young wife with their infant daughter, Artie, born in 1877, decided to move westward. They went as far as Bellfonte, Boone co., near Harrison, Arkansas, when the wagon broke down. His younger brother, Bell P. Tarpley, may haave accompanied them since I know that he was living there about 1890. They made a crop or two while the wagon was being rebuilt, and in the meantime, my father, Edward Albert, was born in July, 1879. They young couple with their 2 children soon returned to their folks in Independence co., Arkansas with a load of pine knots to trade for cotton seed. I have found no evidence that they ever returned to Boone Co., Arkansas with the seed.
Edward Everet continued to farm in the Blackland community of Oil Trough Bottoms, but for health reasons, they soon moved to a hill farm near the Corner Stone Church on the road to Pleasant Plains. Drinking water in the low lands in those days was often contaminated from the flooding. The marshes were breeding places for swarms of mosquites that infested the area. They were not only pests to live with at ningt, but they were also carriers of malaria fever which was very common in the low lands at that time.
The family grew mostly corn and hay in the Blacklands, but on the plateau where they lived they grew a variety of fruits, vegetables and truck crops. They alsays had a flock of turkeys, chickens, guineas and some ducks, as well as cows, sheep and hogs. Grandfather also had a large blacksmith shop for repairing farm tools and shoeing the work stock. They were privliged, in later yars when I visited them as a small child, to be a suscriber to the party line twlephone system. These telephones used a battery which had a black carbon stick in the middle which looked musch like coal. My brother and I found some of those carbon sticks and crushed them over some rocks near the blacksmith shop. When Grandfather saw them. he reprimanded us "for wasting his coal."
Grandfather [Edward Everet] was a very frugal man. He believed in working in the fields "from sun up 'til sun down". I have heard my father [Edward Albert] say that they always arose early and fed and harnessed the teams by lantern light while breakfast was being prepared and then drove the 2-3 miles down the mountain road and be waiting at the field for the sun to rise. They were expected to work all day, stopping only long enough to eat a basket lunch which had been prepared while the men folks were eating breakfast. then after the hard days work, they would drive back up the monuntain after dark. Dad [Edward Albert] often said it seemed like were met ourselves coming down the stairs as we went up to sleep". ....
Grandfather [Edward Everet] maintained the habit of using all his time profitable. He would work in the fields every day that he could, but when he was rained out, he would saddle his horse, don his riding slicker and rain hat and take the butter and eggs ther 4-5 miles to market at Pleasant Plains, There he would sell them and purchase the few staples that they could not raise on their farm. He also had the reputation of being a honest Christian Man. He was a leader in the Methodist church at corner Stone and I have heard it said of him by his neighbors that "Everet would ride five miles in the rain to repay a debt - even if it were no more than a penny". ...
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Biographical and Historyical Memoris of Independence co., Arkansas [originally published by the Goodspeed Publishing co. in 1889] page 718; John Thomas Tarpley--
Edward Everett born on the 5th of February 1855 resideing in Independence co., Arkansas;
Contributor: kj (48531000)
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