Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Richard STOUT "I"

1.  Richard's father spelled his surname Staught.


Penelope Kent LENT

1.  Name could be Penelope Van Princis.

2.  Lived to 110 years of age...


Richard STOUT "I"

1.  Richard's father spelled his surname Staught.


Rev. William Jared SIMMONS

1.  Mrs. "Rome" Peevy, age 87 (1961) was the only living child and she recalled that her father came to Alma, Arkansas when she was five years old.  They camped under a tree and put boards and a tent around the treet to protect them until Rev.Simmons could build a log cabin.  How the children enjoyed living there!  Mrs. Peevy could remember when the first train came to their communtiy in Arkansas.  She also remembered that they put strings across the firplace, after they moved into their cabin, to hang the diapers on stormy days.

2.  Rev. Willaim was a Pioneer Methodist Preacher of the Circuit Rider days, and later joined the Church of the Nazarene.

3.  He was also a blacksmith, farmer, and cabinet maker.