ORRA ADELAIDE PERSON
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 C7     ORRA ADELAIDE PERSON was born July 12, 1914 on White Oak mountain, 
Van Buren County, Arkansas. She was the second daughter of  John Edward and   
Bertha Armour Person. She was born soon, after the family moved into their new 
home on the homestead of 160 acres.
     
She was named for her Aunt   Adelaide Person Hignight and a friend of the family, 
Mrs.   Orra Ray Potts. A neighbor,  Laura Kilpatrick, sent a report of her birth to Little 
Rock, the first year that birth certificates were issued in Arkansas.
       
She attended school at New Hope in Pope County and Austin in Van Buren County. 
She and her sister, C6-  Lola, were staying with the Hignights and attending school at 
Lakeview when their family moved to Carden Bottom in 1925. She attended New Hall 
and Carden Bottom High School. She entered Arkansas Polytechnic College May 29, 
1933. She took a high school examination in order to get credit for her college work. 
She taught school at Austin in Van Buren County and cooked for her grandfather,  
Edward Person, in the summer of 1934.
     
She taught a full term at Fourche Valley in the primary grades 1934-1935. She finished 
at Tech with 60 semester hours of college work in July 23, 1936.
     
She joined the Church of Christ and was baptized September l5, 1929. She joined the 
Order of the Eastern Star #240, Carden Bottom Lodge on October 1, 1932 and was 
accepted in the Council Oaks Chapter #589 in August 1953. She served as Worthy 
Matron of that lodge in 1965 and her brother,  James E. Person, served as Worthy 
Patron.
     
She married  Hollis Jackson Ragsdale on July 2, 1936 and taught several terms of 
school in Carden Bottom and Dardanelle before her first child, D11-  Diane, was born 
on January 11, 1945. On November 30, 1946, D12-  Larry Person Ragsdale was born in a 
Russellville Hospital.  Diane was born in Morrilton Hospital in Conway County, 
Arkansas.
     
They bought a home and farm near Elberta about 1945. The house burned on 
November 30, 1950.
     
She worked as Home Management aide on the Office of Economic Opportunities 
Program (Poverty Program) from 1965 through the present in 1968. She now belongs 
to Dardanelle Presbyterian Church and the Liberty Hall Extension Homemakers Club. 

She was attentive to her parents who lived close by in Elberta until their deaths.