Faulkner Co, AR - History of Enola

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PEOPLE AROUND ENOLA (Faulkner Co., AR)
1830 TO 1880				
by Debrill Ingram

        In discussing the early history of this part of the country, and its
settlement, we have to bring in just a bit of history.  Where we are now was a
part of Missouri territory until 1819.  We were a part of New Madrid County,
and this county reached from New Madrid, Missouri, to the north Louisiana line.
Louisiana was made a state in 1812, Missouri in 1819 and Arkansas in 1836.
        The principal settlements in Arkansas in 1819 were:  Davidsonville,
Arkansas Post, Cadron, Hopefield, Camden, Helena, Washington and Little Rock.
A few settlers were scattered around Pine Bluff, Batesville, Grand Glaise,
Giltrough and Jacksonport.
        November 20, 1819, was the first election of any kind in Arkansas. On
February 4, 1820, the county sear of Pulaski county was moved to the mouth of
the Cadron, to the town of Cadron, and what we now call Cedar Park.  Little
Rock was made the state capitol in 1821.  At that time, it only had one store,
with very scanty supplies, but with a large supply of “Old Bald Face”.
        By 1825 the Greathouse Home was already built at what we now call
Liberty.  It was 38 miles north of Little Rock and 8 miles east of what is now
Conway, on the Little Rock and Clinton road, which were by Holland, by Jonathan
Hardin’s house, by where my great grandfather Ingram later lived, and on to
Clinton.  It joined the Batesville road there.  The Searcy-Springfield road
crossed this road at Jonathan Hardin's house.  The Des Arc-Lewisburg road came
by El Paso, which was called Peach Orchard Gap in those days; by Bristol, a
mile south of Enola, on by Union Valley Church, and joined the Little Rock-
Clinton road at the Bowie place.   Most of the early settlers in this part of
the country, settled on or near one of these roads.
        I have heard all my life of the settlement of Jonathan Hardin at the
Hardin Hill on the Cadron.  What has intrigued me even more is “Who were the
next settlers”?  In this connection, you must remember that roads were almost
nonexistent, in those days.  The first road of any kind to touch Faulkner
county anywhere, was the Little Rock to Cadron road in 1807.
        Cadron was one of the early post offices, having been established in
1820, with Eli J. Lewis as the Postmaster.  Cadron was dying out in the late
1820’s and the office was discontinued.  The people around what is now Conway
then got their mail at a new office called Green Grove.  It was near where Bill
Ross now has a store. Cadron was reestablished in 1848 and the office was at
Jonathan Hardin’s house in 1850.  Census records for 1860 show it at Great
grand Pa Ingram's post office.  About his same time, we had an office at Caney
Creek. It was about a mile and a half southeast of Enola.  Muddy Bayou township
reached from Mt. Vernon to the Cadron, and south of the Searcy-Springfield road
to the Bayou. North of this road was Benton Township and it reached north to
Quitman and Heber Springs.  West of the Hardin hill to about 5 miles west of
Greenbrier was Hardin Township.  East Fork was south of that and Cadron was
south of East Fork.  Mail service in those days was even worse than it is at
present.  You had to go get your mail, when you though you might have some, and
you had to do that until 1904.  There was no RFD service at Enola until Sept.
17, 1914, and Marvin Matthews was the first carrier.
        The first steamboat to go up the Arkansas River, by Toadsuck, was the
Eagle in 1822.  The worst river accident that ever happened on the Arkansas
River was the Lewisburg in 1820, when the boilers blew up on the Cherokee.  It
was bound for Ft. Gibson.  It sank in 15 feet of water, with 17 killed and 20
seriously wounded.
        I offer these bits of history just to show what a primitive state this
country was in, which our forefathers began to come in , in the 1830’s.  the
families that I will discuss settled within five or six miles each way of
Enola.  If I overlook some early settler, or make you kin to the wrong person,
it's just and error on my part.  Lots of early history is very hard to prove.
        Jonathan Hardin left the town of Cadron about 1830 and went up the East
Ford of Cadron Creek, and settled about 5 miles northwest of Enola.  The place
is still called the Hardin Hill and Hardin Bridge on the Cadron.  There had
already been a shack about a half a mile east of the Hardin Hill, and the place
was known, in earlier days as “Frederick's Lick:.  It was a salt lick about a
half a mile north of where Uncle Jess Hoggard later lived.  It's the only salt
lick that I know of on the Cadron.  
        In 1818 it had this description, made by the Benedicts on their trip
from Herculaneum, Missouri, to the town of Cadron.  On the route we passed only
one house from the Little Red River to the mouth of the Cadron, and that was a
small hut on the East Cadron, at Frederick's Lick, where lived 4 brothers by
the name of Wyler These men were little better than savages, followed hunting
for a living, had no farms and never had - net even as much as a garden. They
were Isaiah, William, Abraham & Obadiah,  and they had fled from the battle of
Bunker Hill.
        Jonathan Hardin first settled on the “Haunted Ditch”, and moved on top
of the hill about 1837 .  He had a large two story house, made out of large
hewn oak logs.  It had a large fire place at each end, and was known as the
Hardin House.  It was an inn and a tavern, and stood at the cross roads of the
Lewisburg-Searcy, Des Arc-Springfield and Little Rock-Clinton roads.  His first
wife died about 1846, and he then married the Greathouse Widow.  His family in
1850 was:  Jonathan Hardin born ca 1800 in Kentucky, and his wife Elizabeth
born ca 1810.  his children at that time were: Sarah 17 and Mary 15 (they were
both Greathouse children), Elizabeth 12, Louisa 10, Ambrose 7, and Missouri-
Arkansas 4.
        Living nearby was his son William and his wife, Rebecca.  Born to them
were: Martha A, Jonathan E. (known as Uncle Crockett), Benjamin B.,  and George
W. Hardin.  William and Ambrose Hardin were both killed the Civil War.
Williams’ widow, Rebecca, later married a man named Pearl, and they had a son
that was one of the first mayors of Conway.
        George W. Hardin was the father of Flora, May Florence, and Georgia.
He was the great grandfather of Hardin Stark of Conway.
        Jonathan Hardin had a son by the Greathouse widow.  He was John Francis
Hardin.  He married Amanda Matthews, a daughter of Thomas Matthews.  They had
children: Clara (who married a Henderson and she was the mother of Kip & Doll),
Amanda married Tom Shaw, and Fannie married John Powers.  John Francis Hardin
died suddenly from a wasp sting.  His widow married Ambrose Ingram, and Hinkle
Ingram, who died at Holland about 25 years age, was their son.  so were Joe,
Lumas, and Carl.
        Jonathan Hardin was a wealthy and influential man.  He owned about 3000
acres of the best land in the country.  He assess as many as 7 slaves and
probably had about 15 most of the time.  He lived to see all his sons meet
tragic deaths, and all his slaves freed.  he died soon afterwards.
        The Gibson, Granville, Tillman, and Elijah Hogue families were living
on the Strickland place in 1840.  They lived near where Hogue’s store stood,
when I was a boy.
        In 1841 Wm. Caney Brady, and his sister-in-law, Jane Brady, and their
families, were living on the Dennis Curies place, about 2 miles east of Enola.
About 1848, he sold this place to John. F. Curtis. He then moved to a place ½
mile north west of Garland Springs. Caney Brady was born in Tennessee ca 1810.
His wife was a Caudle and she was a sister of the wife of John F. Curtis. Caney
Brady was married in Haywood County Tennessee.  His daughter, Easter, who later
became Mrs. Pony Heffington, said that she was raised in the same county, in
north Tennessee, as was my grandfather, G. W. Dalton.  She knew the Dalton
family before the Brady family came to Arkansas.  I have been unable to trace
this all down, but do not doubt it.
        Caney Creek was named for Caney Brady.  His daughter, Easter married
Wm. D. “Pony Bill” Heffington ca 1854.  Many of their descendants are still
around Enola.  Another daughter married G. C. Brown, and Coleman Brown of
Conway, is a great grandson of Caney Brady.  Another daughter, Adeline, married
Hiram Sanders ca 1866, and Grace Winters of Conway is a great granddaughter of
Caney Brady.  Another daughter, (Nancy) married a (John) Matthews in White
county. James Brady, a son, never returned from the Civil War.  Anthony Brady
at Enola was Caney’s youngest child, and Lucy Duckett at Enola is a
granddaughter of Caney Brady and all the Duckett and Brady children of Enola
are great grandchildren of Caney Brady.  Caney Brady died in 1859.  His widow
married Miles D. Ballard.  Moriah lived only a short time after this marriage. 
Wesley Brady,  son of Jane Brady, was the father of Uncle Pink Brady of Sharon.
        Henry and Thomas and Stephen Heffington and their families were in
Benton Township by 1842.  They were from Kentucky and I found many Heffingtons
living in Simpson County Kentucky in 1850.  This is the County that Grandpa G.
W. Dalton was from. Thomas was the father-in-law of Hiram Sanders.  Another
daughter (Martha) married Sampson Adkisson, and other married a (Walker)
Matthews is White county.  He, (Thomas), had a large bunch of boys, Wm.
Stephen, Elihu, Barney, and Leroy being some of them.. His descendants around
Enola, Mt. Vernon, and Conway are too numerous to mention.  The Duckett and
Brady children of Enola are also great, great grandchildren of Thomas
Heffington.
        Probably the next to settle around Enola was Dr. Anthony Hinkle in
1842.  He was born in 1822, finished medical school at Louisville, Kentucky,
and settled about 2 miles south east of Enola, on what I call the John Marvin
place.  Caney Brady lived on the farm just north of him, and Anthony Brady was
delivered by and named for, Dr. Anthony Hinkle.  He is the first qualified
doctor that I know about in this part of the country.  About  1860, he sold out
to Sam Casey’s father, and then he settled on Black Fork Creek, just east of
Greenbrier.  His son, Dr. Bill Hinkle, later lived there.  Dr. Bill was a
county clerk of Conway county for many years.  He was a Captain in the Union
Army in the Civil War.  His sons, Ezra and Virgil, worked in the Conway post
office for may years.  One of his grandsons is a doctor at Quitman and his son
is a student at the University of Arkansas Medical School  One of Dr. Anthony
Hinkle’s daughters, Clara, married Thomas Matthews, and Dale Ingram’s wife is
one of her great granddaughters.
        The Henry family settled on Caney Creek about one and one half miles
southwest of Mr. Vernon in 1842.  Francis Patrick Henry was born in South
Carolina in 1800 and came from Alabama to Batesville about 1831.  He came from
there to Mr. Vernon. He was the grandfather of my grandmother, Saphira Adeline
Henry Dalton. She was born at Batesville in 1847.  His mother, Mary Henry, was
born in Maryland in 1780, and came here from Alabama in 1850. She was born
three years before the end of the Revolutionary War. I haven’t had time to
trace her husband, but I think he may have been related to the old “Give Me
Liberty or Give Me Death” Patrick Henry of Virginia.  All the Henry's around
Mt. Vernon are descended from this family.  John, William, James and their
sister, Jane, are the one’s I know about.  William Henry was the father of my
grandmother. Gist Henry of Conway owns one of the original Henry places, and it
has never been owned by anyone except a Henry.
        In 1842, the Adkisson families were living in Benton township, on the
Cadron, north of Mt. Vernon, near the “Tanyard Hill”. Sampson ‘Adkisson was
from Tennnessee and Martha (his mother) Adkisson was a widow 53 years old, and
with 3 children.  She was from Virginia.  Anderson Adkisson was 20 and a
blacksmith. Tennessee Sampson’s wife was a daughter of Thomas Heffington. One
of his daughters married Spence Bell.  Anderson’s wife was a Malcom, an aunt of
aunt Nan Heffington.
        1842 saw the B. C. Reece and William & Richard Middleton families in
Muddy Bayou township.  They lived from the Tommy Stone place north to the Boss
Jones place. 
        Isaac Reynolds, the grandfather of Dr. John Hugh Reynolds's and his
sons J. H. and Jess, and the rest of the Reynolds family came here in 1844.
Isaac was 42 and from Georgia and his wife Elizabeth Garrett was 37 and from
Kentucky. Their children were born in Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
and Arkansas.  They moved around quire a bit.  Two or three of their children
were already married and 8 still lived with them in 1850.  The came here from
Grand Glaise.  Isaac settled on the Roy Luke place and J. H. settled on with I
know as the Madison Matthes place.  J. H.’s first wife was Sarah Shock, a
sister of George Shock.  She died Nov. @1., 1855, and is the first one buried
in the Heffington graveyard. She was the mother of Jess Reynolds, and Jess
Reynolds was the grandfather of Cleddi Harper.  After she died, J. H. married a
martin and they had a son, J. H. Reynolds, Jr.  After she died, he married my
great grandmother Dalton, and the had a son Isaac and a daughter Polly.  She
was Lee Shock’s grandmother.
        In 1844, the Elisha Garretts settled on the Shumake place, about a mile
north of the mouth of Turkey Creek.  The Reynolds and Garrett’s and Pony
Heffington families were all cousins.  My wife’s great grandmother was Sarah
Garrett.
        James Starr from Tennessee settled about a mile north of Centerville in
1845. His father G. W. Starr, and settled at Starr Gap in 1843.  James Starr
was the father of Jack Starr, and Jack Starr married my great aunt, Elizabeth
Ingram ca 1861.  She was the mother of “Bible Back” Jim Starr, and died at his
birth.
        Uncle Johnnie Curtis, as a baby, and his mother, rode a mule from
Tennessee to Arkansas, while his father walked, and they settled on the Dennis
Curtis place, about two miles east of Enola, about 1848. He was 332 and she was
25.
        In 1847, Johnny Cummings, 37, and his wife, Catherine 31, were living
in Benton township.  He was from Tennessee and she was from Kentucky.  He later
moved to Enola, and his old house still stands on the east side of the road,
about 200 yards north of town.
        Joe, Fredrick, Elisha and Roberson Brown, from (Simpson Co.) Kentucky
settled from Turkey Creek to the White Oak Bridge. Frederick Settled on the
Jake Whitely place in 1848, Joe settled just south of the Tom Melton place in
1849m Elisha settled on the Tom Harrison place just north of Barney in 1853 and
John Roberson Brown settled across the road west of him, at the same time.
Their father, Robert Fredrick Brown, is shown in the 1840 Sumner County
Tennessee census.  My great grandmother Dalton was their sister.  John Roberson
Brown was the father of George Roberson Brown, and he was the grandfather of
Arcie Graddy.  He was know as  “Blue George” Brown.
        John Bell from Virginia, Uncle Cam Bell's brother and 10 years older
than Uncle Cam, settled two miles east of Cross Roads in 1848.  His wife was
the first one buried in the Old Siloam graveyard.
        Dr. J. E. Cobb’s wife, Uncle Cam Bell’s daughter, showed me the old
Bell Family Bible in 1971.  Her Grandmother, Mary Bell, was born in 1797, and
Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather Bell could easily have voted for George Washington for
President.  Fact of the matter is, he may have been personally acquainted with
George Washington, for they both lived at Fredricksburg Virginia, at the same
time.
        Uncle Cam Bell lived on his brother’s place, after his brother died. I
knew uncle Cam in his old age.  His house was the largest I had ever seen up to
that time-and so was his family.  His first wife was Marinda Farmer, and he
fathered 6 children by her.  His next wife was Isabelle Barnes, and he fathers
12 more by her.  This does not include those dying in infancy.  he was 63 years
old when his baby daughter was born.  His old family Bible showed that uncle
Cam wrote a very nice hand.  I was amused by the fact that on the page where he
recorded the births and deaths of his children, that several were on the
margin.  There was not enough room on the page.
        About 1850, J. P. Harrison settled at Garland Springs.  he had a large
family and Tom Harrison, at Barney, was his baby child.   His wife was a Norman
from around Rosebud.  He was a self educated, country doctor.  Jesse T.
Harrison, Columbus, and Gusty are his grandsons.
        In 1850 Bailey Woods 22 and his wife Sabra 24, both from Alabama, were
living in Benton township.  She was a Plant and several Plant, Livinston,
Presley, Spradling, Sublett, and Joslin families were living in Benton township
at that time.  Bailey Woods was the forefather of the Woods families at Enola
and Mt. Vernon. Captain Ledbetter of Conway is one of his great grandsons.
Bailey Woods fought in the Mexican War and (too faint to read).  Captain
Ledbetter told me that one time he was talking to his great grandfather about
the war, and he asked him just what kind of soldier he was, and just what he
did in the war.  The old man replied with quite a bit of vim and vigor, that he
was a “Damn Good Soldier”, and that he followed General Winfield Scott all over
Mexico, and that he helped carry the ladders they used when they scaled the
walls of Mexico City.
        In 1851, Willis Dalton, my great grandfather, and his wife, Mary Brown
Dalton, and sons Elisha, Spears, and G. W. Dalton, settled about a mile north
of Cross Roads Church.  They settled just west of where J. H. Reynolds had
settled in 1844.  I have in my possession a pair of pants and a vest, that Mary
Brown, as a sweet heart, gave Willis Dalton in 1847, and he wore them to
Arkansas in 1851.  She picked the cotton, pulled the lint of the seed, made the
thread, dyed it, spun the cloth, and made the clothes.  I don’t think there is
a machine stitch in either garment.  These are not “Hot Pants” and the styles
are quire different from those worn today.  I doubt if the present day brides
would attempt any such a deal  They would probably fix him a salad or a bowl of
slaw.
        My great grandfather, Alexander Gordon Ingram, 36 and his wife Mary
Dewitt Walker Ingram 32, settled at Ingram Springs about a mile north of the
Hardin Bridge on the Cadron, in 1851.  He was from Tennessee and she was from
Kentucky.  They came here from Goreville, Illinois.  They had 6 children when
they came and they had 8 more after they got here.
        In 1851, George Shock 22 from Kentucky, and his wife Amanda Elvira
Stobaugh, settled about a half mile south of Cross Roads Church.  She was from
Tennessee and died about 1865.  He then married Nancy Cardin, the daughter of
Reuben Cardin.  All the Shocks around Enola are his descendants.
        In 1853, Anthony Smith Matthews 43, and his wife Penelope (?Dilday) and
children Joseph 20, Thomas 19, Jane 12, and Jesse Robert Walker 7, settled one
and one half miles north west of Enola, about 300 yards southwest of the Gist
Hoggard place. Other Matthews relatives say that he also had sons Henry and
Warren.  He was Dib Jr.'s great, great, great grandpa.  They came here from 2
miles north east of Cabot, Arkansas.  He owned 640 acres of land there.  Before
that, they lived in Gates County, North Carolina.  His father was Anthony
Matthews, Jr. and his father was Anthony Matthews, Sr.  Jr. Was born about 1770
and Sr. was born about 1745 or 50.  Both were born in Gates county North
Carolina.
        Tom Matthews and Jesse R.W. both stated that Henry and Warren were
killed in the Civil War.  Tax records show Warren Matthews paying taxes on the
Bill Faris place, about a mile north of the Red River Ford on the Cadron, in
1861.  His wife Elizabeth (Garrett?) lived there in 1862.  I am unable to say
who she was. G. H. Matthews, probably his brother, paid a poll tax in 1862.
        Clemons Outler (Outlaw?) Hoggard 47, and his wife Martha Ann (Dilday?)
39, and children Thomas 19, Sara Eliza 16, Malinda Ann 14, Martha Jane 12,
Jesse 10, Robert 8, Susan Margaret 6, and Wm. Clemons 2, settled on the Amon
Woods place in 1858.  They were from Bertie County North Carolina and had lived
2 miles Northwest of Cabot, Arkansas for 4 years before coming to Enola. Nancy
Lou was born at Enola in 1862, Robert was born in Tennessee, and the rest of
the children were born in North Carolina.
        Clemons Hoggard’s father was Elisha Hoggard, and he fought in the War
of 1812. His father was John Hoggard and he fought in the Revolutionary War.  I
read his war record and his pension application.  He fought for 9 months and
walked all the way from North Carolina to West Point, New York.  His
application for pension was made by friends, when he was an old man.  He had
lost his discharge and could not read and write.  Two old soldiers stated that
they had served the entire 9 months with him, and he got his pension.
        W. J. Hoggard, probably a brother of Clemons Hoggard, came here in 1855
and settled about one half a mile south of where George Smith now lives.  He
died before 1860 and the 1860 census shows his 3 children living with Clemons
Hoggard.
        Penelope Matthew died in 1859 and Anthony Smith Matthews died in 1866,
and Clemons Outler Hoggard, and his wife Martha Ann, were both dead when the
1870 census was taken.  Clemons Hoggard and Anthony Matthew were cousins and
had married the Dilday sisters before they left North Carolina.  They are all
buried in unknown, unmarked graves in Old Siloam Graveyard.
        Sam Smith 52, and his wife, Mary 49, both from Virginia, settled a
quarter of a mile north of the Enola Church of Christ, about 1858, and they
lived there until 1867.  They then moved one and one half miles north west of
Enola, and Dave Smith lived there until he died. Sam Smith had already settled
twice near Dallas, and once in Missouri, before coming to Enola.
        In 1855 Wm. D. “Pony” Heffington 26, from Alabama, and his wife Easter
Brady 19, settled about a half a mile east of the Heffington Graveyard.  That's
his it got its’ name.  I think his father was Barney Heffington of Lauderdale
County Alabama.  This Barney was a brother of Thomas, who had left Alabama
about 1830 and came to Batesville and was living in Benton Township in 1842,
near Batesville, and was living in Benton township in 1842.  Barney and Thomas
were both married the same day- December 1, 1825, in Lauderdale County,
Alabama.  Thomas married Susannah Smith and Barney married Nancy Martha
Garrett.  Stephen and Henry, other brothers of Thomas and Barney, also lived in
Benton Township in 1842.  They later moved to near Rosebud and one of them
married a Plant.  I think their father was David Heffington and he was living
with Thomas at Batesville in 1831.  I thin this David's father was another
David Heffington, living in Virginia about 1790. There were no Heffingtons in
Alabama in 1840 and where Pony Heffington lived from his birth to 1853, I am
still trying to find out. many of his descendants are still at Enola.
        T. P. “Spanker” McClone 23, from Kentucky, came to Enola in 1853 and
worked for Willis Dalton, as a single man.  He married Minerva Woodworth 21,
from Vermont, by way of New York and Ohio, in 1857.  He was an early Master of
the Masonic Lodge at Old Siloam and was later post master at Caney Creek.
        Jonnie Bryant 45, and his wife Hannah (Mitchell) 46, both from South
Carolina, and his son Absolum 18, and Terrell R. Bryant 20 and his wife Clausa
19, both from Tennessee, came to Enola in 1855.  Jonnie Bryant settled about a
mile north of the Marcus Hill Church.
        I have heard a story about Absolum Bryant not wanting to come to
Arkansas, and almost every nite he would run off and try to go back to
Mississippi.  This finally got old, and one nite before h made his trip,
Terrell Bryant wrapped a white sheet around himself and disappeared.  A little
later, as Absolum was making his return threat, Terrell Bryant stepped out from
behind a tree and greeted him.  Absolum immediately reversed his direction, and
after that he lead the way into Arkansas.
        In 1858 Terrell Bryant bought 65 acres, lying south of the Searcy-
Springfield road and one half mile east of Marcus Hill Church, for $100.  He
bought this place from his uncle Jonnie and I’m looking at the original deed as
I write this.  It was witnessed by Absolum and Hannah Bryant and I saw from
this deed that they could both read and write.
        Terrell Bryant’s son, Marcus, was the first one buried in the Marcus
Hill Graveyard, and that how the church and graveyard got their names.  I have
heard that his first wife, Clausa, is buried in the Hardin family graveyard.
there are doubtless others there, but she is the only one that I know about.
His second wife was a Lavinder, Jane Matthews was his third and Matt Spencer
was his fourth.  All these are buried at Marcus Hill.
        I examined a lot of his old papers in 1971.  Among them is his
certificate of appointment as justice of the peace for Hardin township in 1866.
It’s signed by Powell Clayton and has the oath of allegiance written in with
red ink.  I found his certificate of appointment as postmaster at Enola in
1886.  I found his certificate to  practice medicine, and that's why he moved
to Enola.  I found a deed for the land just south of the Marcus Hill Church in
which my great grandfather, A. G. Ingram, sold to my wife’s great grandfather,
Terrell R. Bryant.  This deed id dated 1874 and made by Steven E. Lamar.  I saw
from this deed that both my great grandparents on the Ingram side could read
and write.  many of hi early deed are signed by his or her mark.  He was quite
a community leader. He was their doctor for many years, a druggist and
merchant, a postmaster on two occasions, and a justice of the peace for many
years.  He is probably the causa of my father being a doctor and L. T. and
Steve Lasley being merchants.
        Reuben Sanders 37, and his wife Susan 21, and children Hiram 12, John
11, and Mary 5, settled just east of Mt. Vernon in 1857. Rebuen Sanders was
born in South Carolina in 1819, and his father was Jonathan Sanders.  Reuben
Sanders came to Mr. Vernon from Morgan County Alabama.  He married Lucinda
Matherson September 10, 1839 and Margaret Pullen October 20, 1843.  She was
probably the mother of the above children.  Hiram Sanders married Adeline Brady
in 1866 and She died before 1870.  he then married Sarah Ann Heffington, a
daughter of Thomas.  John Sanders married Mary E. Harrison December 24, 1873.
She was a daughter of Dr. R.T. Harrison of Mt. Vernon.  He moved to Conway and
was an early city official and druggist there.  John Sanders later married
Lucinda Bryant, and she was the mother of his children.
        In 1858 Steven E. Lamar 23 from Alabama, and his wife Florina Bryant
(sister of Terrell) 27 from South Carolina, came to Enola from Mississippi and
settled three fourths of a mile north east of Enola, on the Bud Bryant place.
Joseph Milam from Alabama came here with the Lamars and married Steve Lamar’s
sister. Joseph Milam was papas first patient when he began the practice of
medicine in 1906.  Steve Lamar was the first postmaster at Enola in 1879.
Steve Lasley, Steve Ellis, Ellis Lasley and Ellis Hailey are all named for
Uncle Steve Lamar.
        1860 saw the settling of the Cobb, P.P. and W. P. Henderson families.
Bud Cobb, from Mississippi, and his wife Martha Jane Hoggard, settled about 2
miles west of Enola.  The Henderson’s had settled between Black Fork Creek and
the Cadron.. One of these was P. P. Henderson, and he was born in South
Carolina in 1785-four years before George Washington became President.
        The Heffington families around Enola and Mt. Vernon are almost
impossible to trace.  There were more than a dozen Heffington families around
Enola and Mt. Vernon from 1840 to 1855.  Two had been there when Arkansas was
made a territory in 1819.  They all had large families and 5 or 6 in each
family had the same names. They all had a Barn(y), a Tom, a Susan, a Henry, and
a Mary. Some came from Kentucky, some came from Alabama, and some just came.
They were all cousins of one kind or another.
        About 1861 S. S. Waddle and his wife Sarah, both from Tennessee,
settled near Ingram Springs.  She was an (Esther) Ormand and a sister of the
wife of Carter Ingram.  They had Children Josephine 5 and Polk 2 at that time. 
Their mother was a Bowie (??Whose Mother).
        My great grandfather, Thomas M. Alexander, was from the same place as
the Gist and Jones families, and they had been owners and workers in an iron
smelter, at Iron City Tennessee as early as 1855. Before he came to Arkansas in
1858, he had married Rebecca Berry in Wayne Co., Tennessee.  Papas mother was
born there in 1851. he came to Arkansas and settled in Searcy County in 1858.
he was a volunteer in both The Mexican and Civil Wars.  His wife, Rebecca, died
at Little Rock, while he was serving with General Steele’s army, and is buried
somewhere near where the Vestal Green house now stands.
        On his way back to Searcy county after the war, he stayed all nite with
my great grandfather, A. G. Ingram.  He had several grown girls and grandfather
Alexander just up and married one of them. They settled about a mile north west
of the mouth of Black Fork Creek.  He was already papas grandfather and this
made him his uncle too.  His wife was already papas aunt and this made her his
grandmother too.  later, her brother married her step daughter and they were my
grandparents.  Such complications as this make family history very hard to
straighten out 115 years later.
        In 1864 Daniel Smith 38, and his wife Usley 36, settled about a mile
west of the Matthews hill.  They were from Fredricksburg, Virginia. Aunt Usley
was an Underwood.
        Roswell Woodworth 56 and his wife Anda 55, both from Vermont, and a
large family of children settled on the Garland Bradke place in 1866.  They
were in Union township in 1847.  Uncle Alvin Woodworth was his youngest child.
        Henry Woodward 30 from Missouri, and his wife Mary 32 from Virginia,
settled one half mile east of Marcus Hill in 1866.  They had been here in 1862
by went back to Missouri.
        She was a sister of Dave and Daniel Smith.  They had a son Samuel 8,
Rebecca 3, and (Uncle) Henry was born that year in Missouri.
        In 1867 Benedict White 46 and from Alabama, and his wife Margaret 37
from Indiana, settled about one half mile north west of the Tanyard Bridge on
the Cadron.   They came here from Illinois ( Indiana), and they had 6 children
when they came.
        In 1867 John Austin 58 from Tennessee, and his wife Julia 32 from
Kentucky, and three children, settled in Enola.  That same year, Hiram Allen 19
from Georgia, and his wife Sarah Jane Ingram 18, settled near Ingram Springs.
They are the grandparents of Claudia and Iva Kurkendall, Ida Wofford, Olive
Turner, and Check King.
        In 1868 John Polk came here from Georgia, Reuben Norwood came from
Alabama, the Rolands came from Mississippi, James Palmer came from Mississippi
and George Blair came from Alabama. 
        The Reedys came from Virginia in 1870.  Mr. (George) Reedy was a
Methodist minister from Richmond, Virginia.  He had been quite wealthy before
the Civil War.  He is buried in a rock grave on the north side of the road,
about a mile east of Marcus Hill.  He married Aunt Jane Henry and Tom Reedy is
their grandson.
        The Liles and Gist families came from Iron City, Tennessee, in 1870.
The Gist family first settled at El Paso.
        The Bowies came from Mississippi in 1870.  Old Grandpa Bowie, Caps
father, came from Maryland and the Bowie race track is on land formerly owned
by the family.  Old Grandpa Bowie married a Rosamond, and Carr Rosamond of
Conway is a cousin of  Cap Bowie.
        According to papa, the Bowies could do almost anything to and with
tools.  It all came natural with them.  He said that Cap Bowie kept the
sharpest tools and plows that he ever saw, and the he was an expert farmer-tho
not on a large scale.  He said that when he was a young boy, the walls on one
of Cap Bowie’s wells began to cave in.  One of his Rosamond uncles was living
with him at that time, and he was an expert rock mason.  Cap found out about
it. He dug this well to solid rock and his uncle went to the Phillips mountain
and cut out limestone rocks to fit this well.  He place about an 18 inch hole
in the center of these rocks, and he then placed them, layer by layer, in the
well.  When he had finished, Cap Bowie put a catfish in the well to eat the
wiggle tails etc. It stayed in this well for many years, and because of its
restricted diet, it grew very slowly.
        Cap Bowie was rather eccentric, thrifty and tight.  He ground his own
meal, had lots of bees, and hogs galore.  Papa said that he never ate there
when they didn't have meat, and I mean by that, that they ate it three times a
day the year round.  He was an expert with a rifle and delighted in killing
rattlesnakes.  When he killed one he would skin it, stuff its hide with corn
meal, and hang it on his mantle.  Papa said that he had seen as many as 7
hanging there at one time, ant that he believed some were still hanging there
when Cap Bowie died.  After what the snake did to Adam, I don’t believe I would
have felt at ease with them hanging on mantle.
        Cap Bowie never gathered corn until after frost and his corn never had
weevils He sold lots of stuff and bought scarcely anything.  I can remember
when I was a small boy, that Frank Farris at the Farmers State Bank, told Cap
that if he would deposit $10,000 in the bank that he would pay for him a shave
and a haircut, & but him a hat.  Cap reached in his picket, brought forth the
$10,000, deposited it, and collected the hat and the shave and haircut.
        About 1900 Cap decided that he had oil under his land and he got Almond
Surratt to drill for oil  At about 300 feet, he had failed to hit any oil, and
the expense was beginning to bother Cap, and he ordered the drilling stopped.
As far as I know this is the first attempt to drill for oil in Faulkner County.
It is still one of the deepest and best wells in the county.
        Francis Marion Lasley 18, from Soddy, Tennessee, and his wife Frances
Marsena Bryant 16, settled about a half a mile east of Marcus Hill in 1874.
They were married at Dr. Terrell Bryant’s house on May 21, 1874 by Uncle  Steve
Lamar. She is buried near Sheridan.. He is buried at Marcus Hill.  They were my
wife’s grandparents.  Both her grandfathers died the same day.
        In 1880 Alfred Gadberry was living at Garland Springs.  I think he was
the father of Frank Gadberry.
        Bud Welch, from Tennessee, settled a quarter of a mile west of Marcus
Hill in 1870.  The Anderson Jones family settled one half a mile east of the
Bowie place in 1879.  All the Jones children, except Paige, were born in
Tennessee.
        The Bailey’s came to Enola from Tennessee by way of Pearson about 1880.
Robert Anthony came from Alabama in 1879 and settled near Barney.  He married
Mattie Polk the next year.  He was 24 and she was 15.  Colonel Harper came to
Enola from Sulfur Rock in 1881.  The Crossnoes were around Cedar Glade, on the
Allen Crossnoe place, before the Civil War.  John Crossnoe tried to be one of
grandma Dalton’s early sweet patooties.  The Keathleys, Newells, Moss and
Malcom families lived across the Bayou, east of Mt. Vernon, in the 1860s.
        You are acquainted with most of the families since then.  many of these
people are my relatives and their neighbors.  Mostly, they were just common,
ordinary, down to earth type of people, and I’m glad to claim them as kin folk,
ancestors, and friends.  They were indeed hardy stock.  I found one lady, Mary
Henry, living in this territory, that was born in 1780.  She was grand Dalton’s
great grandmother.  She was born 3 years before the end of the Revolutionary
War, while we still belonged to England.
        Other “Early Birds” living around Enola were: P. P. Henderson, born
1785; Bathamere Maberry 1788; Lucy Hogue 1790; Roswell Woodworth 1793; Martha
Adkisson 1795; and Mary Bell 1797.
        The first child that I know of, that was born near Enola, was Elizabeth
Hardin in 1837.  She was the mother of Pig Venable, and some of you may
remember him. In this period-1830 to 1880-in all the census records that I have
examined, I found only one old maid-and she was only 36.  I don’t know if the
women were prettier, scarcer, less choosy, or more in demand.  It could have
been all these.
        Steven E. Lamar and Sam Smith both settled at Enola in 1858 and I guess
I’ll have to call each of them the first settler of Enola.  They settled
different places later.
        Old Siloam was one of the early churches around Enola.  it was on 5
acres of land donated by John F. Curtis about 1848-50.  It was a Baptist church
and about 1880 it was moved to the Matthews Hill for a short time.  It was then
moved to Enola.  The old Siloam Church sent messengers to the state association
in 1848, as did Mt. Vernon and Greenbrier.  I think Old Siloam was the oldest.
Mrs. Georgia Harper Graham, 97 years old, told me in 1971 that she united with
the church at Enola in 1889.  She said that she was at Marcus Hill the day that
church was organized.  So was papa, but he was young.  Uncle Alex (Alex died in
1885) and Grandma Sarah Ingram were Charter members of the Marcus Hill Church.
Mrs. Lurinda (Sanders) Hoggard, 93 years old, said that she had been a member
of the Marcus Hill church since 1896.
        Some of the early pastors of these churches were:  George Washington
Ford, the grandfather of State Education Commissioner, Arch Ford; Oliver
Cantrell, Pres. Glover; Henry Glover; Hiram Sanders; Jim Reynolds; George
Washington Dalton; W. M. Mills; and a Mr. York.  Mr. York was one of the
earlier ones.  He was quite active around Cross Roads, Enola, and Marcus Hill. 
His converts numbered quite a few-my grandmothers being among them.  Several
years later a Unites States Marshall showed up, looking for Brother York.  He
was told that he was holding a meeting at Shiloh.  the Marshall said that he
was no preacher, but a counterfeiter and an escaped convict.  Some good brother
quickly notified brother York and the meeting at Shiloh adjourned suddenly
without the benefit of a benediction, and the Marshall failed to get brother
York.  Several of his converts were baptized again, but Grandma Dalton said
that he wasn’t what had converted her in the first place and she would have no
part of this second baptism.  He had married many couples at Enola, and some
had as many as 5 children in that time.  That may be what caused so many red
faced people around Enola.
        Preaching styles have changed greatly since those days.  Papa was only
4 when his father died.  When he was bout 12 years old, he and his brothers and
sister got to discussing his father's funeral, and some said they could hardly
remember it.  Thereupon Grandma Sarah Ingram got old Grandpa Wm. Mills to
preach his funeral again the next Sunday at Cadron Valley.  I’m sure they all
remembered it that time.
        The first school at Old Siloam was about 1850.  I don’t know any early
teachers there, but that is where Grandma Adeline Henry Dalton went to school
in 1853.
        Grandpa and Grandma Ingram went to school at Cadron Valley. Grandpa
stared there about 1855 and Grandma about 1865, when she moved there.  It was
about a mile west of the Hardin Bridge, and Mr. Tom Alexander got killed as he
was tearing down the old church.  Papa taught school there in 1903 and boarded
with Almond Surratt.
        Grandpa G.W. Dalton stayed with Jonathan Hardin and went to his private
school a short time - about 1860.  Most of his schooling, less than 6 months
altogether, was at Old Mt. Pisgah a bout three quarters of a mile south east of
Barney.  I know no early teachers there, but Robert Anthony was the last one to
teach there in 1880. One of the pupils to whom he applied the hickory switch,
he married the next year, and they became the parents of 12 early citizens of
Enola.
        Papa told me that the first  church and school, near Marcus Hill, was
one half mile south of Dr. Terrell Bryant’s house on the west side of the road
just north of where Barn Sanders lived when I was a child.  It was next at the
southwest corner of Grandma Ingram’s field.  I was burned in 1886 by one of the
patrons, who didn’t like the teacher or the preacher and I’ve heard that his
name was the same as the town in which I now reside (Conway?).  In 1887 it was
rebuilt about 200 yards west of its former location, on land donated by Uncle
Jess Hoggard.  Papa went to his first school there in 1887, and his teacher was
Fred Brown.  He was later a Dr. at Enola and Conway.  His next teacher was John
Jones, the Dr. W. I. Clark, then Charley Jones, Matt’s father, then Dr. Clark
again, then Newt Jones and the Dr. Clark for several more terms.  Dr. Clark
married a Jones.  Some time around 1906 this school was moved one half mile
east, and it was then called Union Valley.  I went to my first school there in
1912 and Carrie Utley was my teacher.  Bird Brady was my main chum.
        Cross Roads school and church were probably started about 1870. Some of
the early teachers there were Belton Setzler, Jim and Ed Plant, Nan Heffington,
Robert Anthony, a Mr. Thompson from Centerville, Ed Condray, and J, R, Giddens.
Papa went to school there to Robert Anthony in the summer 1901.  
        The first school at Enola, that I know anything about, was in 1881-the
year that papa was born.  It was one half mile west of Enola, and Belton
Setzler was the teacher.  Mrs. Georgia Harper Graham told me that she attended
this school. It was next about 300 yards west of the Enola church of Christ,
and then just south of the Baptist church.  I attended there from 1916 to 1920.
It burned in the early twenties and was rebuilt where it now stands.
        Some early teachers at Enola from about 1880 to 1890 were: Professor
Randall and his wife, Isaac Campbell, Katie Williams, Ed Carmichael, Lizzie
Connor, Katie Phillips, J. R. Giddens and Hugh Flippens.
        In looking over Dr. Bryant’s early deeds, I find that several people in
these communities could not read and write, especially the women-but they
reared sons and daughters that were noted educators - some even being college
presidents. I give a lot of credit for Education at Enola, and around it to Mr.
W. I. Clark and his daughters, To the Jones Boys, to Uncle Robert Anthony, and
to Aunt Nan Heffington.  Some of them may have chewed tobacco in time of
school, and none of them spared the rod when the occasion demanded it, but they
all had good broad based education and the necessary horse sense to teach.  Not
all their pupils were geniuses either.
        Some of the early doctors around Enola were:  Dr. Anthony Hinkle, Dr.
Harrison, and Powers at Mr. Vernon, Dr. Terrell Bryant at Marcus Hill and
Enola, and soon to follow were Dr. Jess Reynolds, who lived on the Tom Grimes
place, Dr. Owns lived just south of Uncle Dave Smith, Dr. Bennett lived 100
yards east of town, Dr. Pascal lived where the school house now stands, and Dr.
Fred Brown lived on the Steve Lasley place.
        Some of these doctors were educated in medicine and some just decided
to be a doctor and paid their license fees.  That's all you had to do in those
days.  I found one of Dr. Terrell Bryant’s prescriptions for liniment in L. T.
Lasley’s old trunk in 1971.  He was L. T.’s grandfather.  Here it is: ¼ quart
of apple vinegar, 1 oz oil of cedar, 1 oz oil of wintergreen, 1 oz oil of
spook, 1 oz spirits of camphor, 1 oz turpentine, and 1 oz oil of pole cat.  It
was like Brylcream-a little dab would do you.
        Some of the folks who lived around Enola in the 1880’s were: Steve
Lamar, Johnny Cummings, Jim Reynolds, Jess Reynolds, Jim Reynolds, Jr., Dr.
Jess Reynolds, Jimmie Cunningham, Bell Martin, Jeff Middleton, the Mungers,
Colonel Harper, Sam Morris, Sam Joslin, the Samon’s, the Shocks, the Matthews,
Belton Setzler, David and Jonathan Hailey, John Austin, Joseph and George
Dalton, Usley Smith, A. A. Wilson, Dr. Terrell Bryant, Willis Gunter, Jap and
Jack Starr, Man Smith, Anthony Brady, Tom Grimes, Spanker McGlone and the
Bailey’s. Lots of these I never heard of and many I have left out.
        Early merchants at Enola were:  Jimmy Cunningham, a Mr. Haines who ran
the Grange Store, Dr. Terrell Bryant and Quenton Bryant ran a drug store, and
Jimmy Reynolds, Jr. ran a general store.  The Grange Store seems to have been
the uniting force and the main thing that made it a town.  Mrs. Georgia Harper
Graham said that it was already a small village when she moved her in 1881.
Frank Bailey’s father was running a gin at Enola at that time.  It was later
run by Belton Setzler and then by Sam Joslin.  George Shock ran a gin about two
miles east of Cross Roads about this same time.
        About Uncle Johnny Cummings: he live about 200 yards north of town, on
the east side of the road, and his old house still stands. It’s one of the
oldest, if not the oldest , anywhere around Enola. Papa said that he was the
first person he ever saw that was almost 100 years old, and that his skin was
almost as thick as leather, and that he was a strong old man.  Not many lived
to be more than 60 years old in those days.
        Some of the old soldiers that I knew or have heard about around Enola
are: Tom, Joseph, Jesse, Henry, and  Warren Matthews; Fenton, Ky, and Jim Hake
Henry; George Dalton; Hiram Sanders; All Woodworth, Spanker McGlone, Jonnie
Nunnery Curtis; Jess Reynolds and his father, Jim Reynolds; Dr.. Jess Reynolds;
Hiram Spence Bell and Dr. Owens.  These were Union soldiers and they held
reunions at Enola until about 1903.
        Southern soldiers around Enola were: William and Ambrose Hardin; Bob
and Roe Brady at Naylor; Dr. Terrell Bryant; James and Wes Brady; Lish Bailey’s
grandfather; and one or two of the Mabry’s.
        Several fought on both sides.  Jesse Matthew was wounded at the Battle
of Shiloh and Henry Matthews, Warren Matthews, Fenton Henry, and William and
Ambrose Hardin were all killed in the war. James Brady never returned. (??)
        All the above Union soldiers served in the 3rd Ark. Calvary.  Jim
Reynolds was a Captain and Joseph Matthews and Johnny Curtis were buglers.
Jonnie Curtis was also a prisoner of war.  Terrell R. Bryant was a Lt. in the
southern army. Several soldiers from around Enola deserted (went home) before
the end of the war and several were thus denied a pension.
        Enola had one other distinction.  It had the number one chapter of the
Eastern Star in Arkansas.  It surrendered its charter in 1866-one year before
the Conway chapter was formed-because the brothers would not attend and they
could not hold meetings.
        Postmasters at Enola have been:  Steven E. Lamar, 1879; John Allen,
1883 (I know nothing about him or who he was); Jonathan Hailey, 1883;  Dr.
Terrell Bryant, 1886;  J. H. Reynolds, Jr. 1887; J. H. Cunningham, 1887; Dr.
Terrell Bryant, 1889; Wm. P. Bryant, 1889; J. H. Cummingham, 1895; Belton
Setzler, 1897; J. Walter Henry, 1910; L. B. Setzler, 1910; J. H. Cunningham,
1914; L. B. Setzler, 1919 to 1943; and Ruth Setzler Bailey 1943 to 1972. Some
member of the Setzler family has been postmaster at Enola for more than 70 of
the 92 years that I has been a post office. Evidently their service has been
quite satisfactory.
        Lots of early settlers around Enola paid no taxes at all for 15 or 20
years. These men paid these amounts in these years and its is all they did pay.
This is from the official Conway county tax records. In 1840, Granville and
Tillman Hogue paid $.50 poll taxes.  In 1841 Coney Brady paid $4.20.  In 1842
Sampson Adkisson paid $.97, Francis Patrick Henry paid $.75, and Richard
Middleton paid $1.05. In 1843 David, Henry, and Stephen Heffington, Elijah and
Gibson Hogue, G. W. Starr and W. Terrell each paid $.50 poll taxes.  In 1845
Dr. Anthony Hinkle paid $.86, and Thomas Heffington paid $.90.  And that's all
they paid for these years.
        I have examined a few of them in detail.  This is the tax record of A.
G. Ingram, my great grandfather, from 1851 to 1867 both dates inclusive.  In
1851 he paid $.50 poll tax, 1852 $.50 poll tax, 1853-$4.12, 1855-$1.08, 1857-
$2.61, 1859-he assessed 1 horse, 3 cows, 300 acres of land and paid $4.06, 1862
1 pleasure carriage, 1 horse, 4 cows, 300 acres of land and paid $4.71, 1865 15
horses, 60 cows, 320 acres of land and paid $15.53, 1866-$7.48, 1867-$7.80.  He
paid nothing at all in 1854, 56, 58, 60, 61, 63, and 64.  In this 17 years, he
paid less than $50.00 taxes.
        Jonathan Hardin was the wealthiest man anywhere near Enola.  he
assessed as follows: 1841-3 slaves and 840 acres and he paid $6.00. 1843-6
slaves, 1844-4 slaves, 1846-6 slaves, 1847-7 slaves and 2400 acres, 1849-4
slaves and 2400 acres, 1852-6 slaves and 2950 acres, 1854-7 slaves and 2858
acres and taxes of $58.00, 1860-9 slaves, 2 pleasure carriages, 30 horses, 30
mules, 60 neat cattle, $400 loaned out on interest, and he paid $85.50, 1862-
taxes of $76, 1866-taxes of $90.50.  He balked on taxes in 1867 and the Conway
county court set the valuation on his 2800 acres at $1.25 per acre.  
        The assessment list in Conway County in 1844 was : 501 poll taxes, 117
slaves at $45, 850; 2 saw mils at $3.000; 4 tanyards at $700; 913 horses at
$30,255; 21 mules at $730; 6 jackasses at $325; 2627 meat cattle at $18,037;
and money loaned out on interest $525. The first pleasure carriage was assess
in Conway county for $50 in 1845, the first distillery for $50 in 1847; the
first Gold watches and jewelry in 1847; and the first house hold goods and
furniture in 1851.  The valuation on all the furniture in Conway coutny in 1851
was $400.
        This was the slave count and their valuation, in round numbers, for
Conway county: 1843- 117 for $40,000;  1845- 115 for $43,000; 1847-146 for
$51,000; 1848-139 for $54,000; 1850- 228 for $71,000; 1851- 183 for $77,000;
and in 1854-169 for $93,000.  G. W. Carrol was the largest slave owner I found
in Conway county. In 1861, he woned 100 slaves and ther were assessed for
$40,000.
        These people, in addition to the ones already identified lived at
threse places in these years:  1848-E. L. Middleton lived on the Tommy Stone
place; 1850-Richard Middleton lived on the Frank Bailey place; and the Wm.
Reynolds lived just north of the Red River Ford; 1854-Bathamere Maberry lived
on the Raymond Casey place, 1855-Thomas Matthews lived on the Tom Melton place,
and James Casey lived on the Fayette Lawson place.  1856-Stephen Heffington
lived 3 miles east of Beaverfork Lake.  1857, Joseph matthews lived just south
of the Jess Starr place, Caney Brady lived ½ mile north wesr of Garland
Springs, Samuel Joslin lived one mile notrh west of the Lon Shaw place.  1858,
Benedict White lived ½ mile north west of the Tanyard bridge, Joseph lavinder
lived on the Cobb place.  1859, Reuben Cardin lived on the Rufe Shock place,
Wm. P. Heffington lived on the Charlie Woodward place, and Absolum Bryant lived
on the south east part of the T. W. Heffington place.  1860, Old Grandpa Isaac
Reynolds lived on the Roy Luke place.  1861, Barney and Henry Heffington (must
be B. B. {Barney Burriss} born ca 1838-40 and Henry vorn 1853)lived just west
of the Bob Brown place, B. C. Brown lived on the Steve Lasley place, R. P.
Brown, Jr. lived on the Aunt Nan Heffington place.  W. S. Troxell lived on
Morter Creek and in 1866, Jesse R. W. Matthews loved on the Ted Ingram place.
he assess this place and 1 mule and pain $1.05.
        Some of the arly settlers owned quite a bit of land before 1860. Some
were Johathan Hardin, 3,000 acres; Anderson Adkisson 1,500 acres; Sampson
Adkisson 1,100 acres; John F. Curtis 1,000 acres; E. L. Middleton 1,000 acres
plus; Thomas Matthews 300 acres; Clemons Hoggard 300 acres; Joseph Matthews 300
acres; and John Bell 600 acres.
        Jonatha hardin owned form 3 to 15 slaves and Anderson and Sampson
Adkisson each owned one slave in 1854 and Anderson owned 3 in 1863.  These were
all the slave owners that lived near Enola.
        In looking over the earl history of Enola, and hearing some of my own
family history, I discovered a marriage pattern.  Several of my folks married
into the Matthews frmily.  here are some:  my great uncle, Ambrose Ingram
married Amanda Matthews Harden, a daughter of Tom Matthews;  Jesse R. W.
Matthews married my grandmother, Sarah Ingram after each of their mates had
dies; Madison matthews, a son of Jesse Mattehws, married my aunt Easter Dalton,
W. T. (Billie) Matthews, a son of Joseph matthews, married my aunt Mat Dalton;
Firvis Dalton, my cousin, married Grace Matthews, a grandaughter of Jseph
Matthews.  Oden Bailey, a great grandson of Joseph matthews married my cousin
Feeda Dalton, Joe Setzler, a grandson of Joseph Matthews married my cousin
Neely Ingram, Lish Bailey, my cousin, married ruth Setzler, a grandaughter of
Joseph matthews, Alec Bailey, my cousin, married Ina matthews, a granaugher of
Joseph matthews; franklin matthews, a great great grandson of Tom Matthews,
married my cousin pauline Luke; Dale Ingram, my brother married Mildred
Lieblong, a great granddaughter of Joseph Matthews.  There may be othrs, none
of us married anybody that is kin to us, but its a lot of peple for Dib Jr. to
be kin to. All these were good marriages-not a divorce in the bunch.  It seems
to me that if you are kin to me and you don’t want to get married-you had
better stay away from the Matthews family.
        These should be added to the above list:  Maxine Brady, my cousin,
married George Grimes a great grandson of Joseph Matthews. (Joseph Matthews
must have married Sarah Mahaly Garrett, daughter of Elisha and Agnes Heffington
Garrett*. Is there anyone in Enola that is not descended from the Heffingtons? 
*Agnes daughter of Old David)