Biography of Pearl SPEAKS, Scott Co, Arkansas

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Contributed by Delaine Edwards.
July 6 1999

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THE ADVANCE REPORTER
Thursday, November 30, 1967
Spotlight On...
MRS. PEARL SPEAKS
	Mrs. Pearl Speaks celebrated her 77 birthday Monday, November 27 in 
her home. She is the former Pearl Black, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Clate Black of Waldron. She was born about 1 1/2 miles east of Waldron and
has lived all but three years of her life in or near Waldron.
	She was married to the late Jess Speaks (a farmer) December 5, 1906.
To this union was born 10 children: five boys, Edgar and Dale of Fort 
Smith, Ark., Joe of Pine Bluff, Don, of Texarkana and Herman of Waldron; 
five girls, Jean Payne and Doris Hullett of Tulsa, Okla., Clara Solomon of
Concord, California, Glen Lee and Juanita Aynes, of Waldron.
	She has one brother living, L.J. "Bunk" Black of Redondo Beach, 
California. Visiting her through the holidays were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Payne 
of Tulsa, Okla., Mr. and Mrs. Don Speaks and family of Texarkana, Texas, 
and Mrs. Joe Speaks and son, Larry of Pine Bluff, and a granddaughter, 
Mrs. Jimmy Davis and daughter of Fort Worth, Texas.