Confederate Captain Leiper and Priscilla Macon Love Story
A long fragment recounts Priscilla Macon of Macon marrying W D Leiper captain and AQM of the Confederate States in 1965, detailing family ties in Hope and Old Tulip, letters from Leiper’s mother, a wartime romance, Leiper’s postwar roles, and extensive Confederate era financial accounts and requests to retain private property. The passage cites Leiper’s political and educational work, his legislative runs, and a ledger of disbursements totaling over 21 thousand dollars with balances due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Tulip
Ward
Captain Leiper
Tulip
Pennsylvania
Leiper
Malvern
Confederate States
W. D. Leiper
Quartermasters Department
W.D . Leiper
Cal
Y. A. Crawford
Arks City
Champagnolle
QM & Com
Capt
AQM
Redland Township Industry Tells of Mills and Gins Through Time
The McCaskill School History of Redland Township recounts the first cotton gin in Redland by Jim Collins after the Civil War in 1870, its two-bale-per-day output, and steam gin at Lleyville circa 1885. It notes early sawmills by John A. Eley in 1888, B. L. White’s mill in 1896 powered by an old steamboat boiler hauled by oxen, and the shift from water to iron-horse transport.
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Redland
Jim Collins
Westbrook
Lleyville
John A. Eley
B. L. White
Little Missouri River
McCaskill
Redland Township
Long Springs
Kilgore
Rough centers and mill life in Redland McCaskill era
The piece recalls rough centers around the Scott mill near Redland, with the MU Rowdies challenging law and order. It highlights figures like Bob Rowland, Carl Rees Montgomery, and A A Gentry, plus mill workers such as Charles Netlehouse and Jack Walters. It notes the tanning vats, first businesses, and early settlements including Hedland, McCaskill, and Hope, naming prominent clans and families from Vickers to Wardlaws.
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Scott
McCag‘cil
A. A. Gentry
Bar of Justice
Redland
McCeskill
Bob Rowland
Carl Rees Montgomery
Charles Netlehouse
Renly
Sun
Long Springs
McCaxkill
Hope Lumber Company
Hope
Jack Walters
tMis
Hin
Tobe
Walters
Hutchinson
Avery's Chapel
Methodist Charied
Offifee
Hickory
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Banks Gement
Hanks
Rocky Mount
Ts Female Academy
Leimley
Hester McRae
Raadwother
Priscilla
Allen
H.R. Lear
Hervey
F. E
Potey
Happy Hallow
Crystal
Byrne Commercial Col- Dadas
Texas
Miss Green
W.T. Wry
Deannyville
Brown Plant Farm
McCas
Howe
N. Hervey St
Hawthorne
Packard
Hempstead
Dale C. Jones
Isabelle Onstead
Frank Ward
H. M. Stephens
James E. Bearsten
Ray E. McDowell
Reid
May Moore
Chi
Sda
Washington, Ark
Maj. Ewing A
Gity Bakery
A Hope
Bright & Early
U. S
Armour
Decker
Bacon
Swift
Kansas
Pork Pound
Hyme
Mcaskill
Jim Collings
Eteyville
Dotson
Balton
MsCaskill
J.P. Wardlaw
Leonay Hartin
Long
Tonterne
Hedland
the Vickers
Eleys
James L. Collins
Mitchells
McDougald
J. M. Harver
J. P. Wardlaw
Tom Wardlaw
Leslies
Stones
Hayes
Whitesides
Bells
Prices
McCaskills
Hamptons
Boxe
Whitles
Seads
Balls
Askew
Sevedge
Rhinebocs
Martins
Worthams
Nelson-Huckins
Arkansas
Hope and Hempstead County
Agency In Hope
Hope Retail Lumber Yard
J. M. Harbin
Mer
Acmeve
R&g
BELO
Hope Auto Co
Samsonbak
Hanes
Tianed
Harts
H. Hanes Knitting Company
Winaton-Salem
N. C
California
Sunkist
Campbell's
Rio
Rige
Post’s Cereal Deal
Wilsco
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