Bearden High School - Bear Echo Yearbook (Bearden, AR)

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CHAPTER ll EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR BIOGRAPHIES AND HOUSES by Lettle Llllk They Bullt Thelr Cahms In The Male Dear old Bearden lb a town among the plnes It s early hls try lb an mtl restmg tale The early settlers Lame from places near and far and bullt thelr Clblllb lil the vale Then came the labors of the clearlng of the land The felling of the forest trees and burnlng them to ash The preparmg of the fallow ground and -.owmg of the gram And harvestmg the gram to thrash The early settlers have now all passed away Bu the herltage they left us we always shall revere Thelr labors and thelr hardshlps were surely not rn vam I-or lI1 memor1es we hold dear The many tasks performed by them we Cannot comprehend The her1tage they left us IS now our fabled land And the frults of thexr labors we contmue to enjoy In thrs great wonderland Copled The hlstory of a communxty lb the hlstory of 1ts people No other portlon of th1s book deals more Wlth the people And slnce Salem IS older than Bearden these fam1l1es whlch begm wlth the Gammllls, should be ment1oned fxrst However due to the number of contrxbuuons, lt IS necessary that they be l1sted alphabetxcally and not chronologlcally Addxson Anthony Addxson Anthony marrled Ester Ray and came here from Tennessee ln 1849 urst to Calhoun County then to Ouachlta County Settled ln Bethel Commumty and donated 5 acres of land for the school church and cememtery Thxs land was homesteaded by trem and has been 1n the famxly 127 years through o generatlon It IS now owned by Jack Bass great grandson and local busmess man Shovlm to the Add1son Anthony famlly tree C3 generatxonj 24 , A v f , , . , , ',, .4 3' . 1-. Y '-v '-, ' , -' . ' J I . 1 E ' . - 1 'J ' 1 1 o '. A . Y-1 x - , ' ' '-4 - y I 1. ' Y , 1, , , J, I 1 J - . J 1 . .1 r Q , . 1 1 v I' 1 v ll 4 ' . V , ' , .

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G1nger Ionee holds, the orlglnal Land Grant of Bearden granted her great great grandfather D W Cwordj Fultz 1n1883 and stgned hy the Prestdent of the Lntted States Chester A Arthur Left comer shows the ttrttfteate ot rerordtng at Ouathtta County Clerk s offxce m 1918 To the Iett lb a clobe up of the Land Grant Gtnger 15 ont ot thf ft ur rh1'Jr n ofMr and Mrs Homer Harold Jonee Jr and granddaughter of 'tire Dorothy Gatllng Duckworth Word Pultz was the maternal grandfather of Mrs Duckworth 3 , , . -Q T1!?.l'i!'-,A-' - , ,M ,, - ,.,,,,,,,,,, . . f , 4 ' Y h A 1 ' , . . I' f -, ' u 0 - -A .. ' ., ' , . ', V Y ' ' ' 1 1 w ' Q' e . .' , 1 I I 1 - 0 V W . . , . '7

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