Biography of Jess J. O'Fallin, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Employed with the old City Water & Light Company to maintain the overworked
steam and diesel engines, Jess J. O'Fallin on his arrival in Forrest City early
one night in 1919 and found the town in darkness. The police showed him to the
plant where he immediately began to put power back on line and that came at 4
am. That was thirty four years ago, but it is still vivid in his memory, now
Superintendent of the City Water & Sewer Company. He has laid many water mains,
and found the mastadon bones on Crowley's Ridge, and old wooden water mains on
Rosser Street while laying new lines. He was born in Monticello. His wife, the
former Glayds Orr of Fordyce, have four sons, a stepson, and four daughters.
They are members of the First Baptist Church.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas