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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Langstons
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 06:14:30 -0400


Hi Desiree,

Are you aware that the Izard County Historian is still being published? I
have some of the J.J. SAMS information. Here's the portion you were just
referring to:

"
OLD JAMES JEFFREY

I will give you a more full history of old James Jeffrey my grandfather, a
brother to Old Jessee
Jeff rey. He was a man of very few words and seemed to be a very solid
sober man, rather selfish looking, but a man of good business. When a boy
I would be about his house a great deal. I was very rude and cut up a
right smart. He would say, "Jehoida, I wish you would behave." That was
enough, right then and there you could see me getting.

He was a Freewill Baptist as far back as I know, but some years before his
death he joined the Presbyterians as there was no Baptist Church in that
country then; but he always contended that the Baptists were right in
belief. The only time I ever heard of him having any trouble was with old
Henderson who entered his land from him.

And now I will speak more fully of my grandmother Jeffrey, Old James
Jeffrey's wife. Her maiden name was Jane Mason, who was born in Old
Virginia, near Kingston.

James Jeffrey and Jane Mason were married in Virginia near Alexandria. She
was in her 16th year of age. Her parents were very much opposed to her
marriage. Her parents were very wealthy and she was well educated and they
didn't want her to marry a man of no learning. My grandmother was of Welsh
descent; her father was from Wales, her mother was an American raised woman.

My grandmother had a head of her own and she retained it as long as she
lived. When her and my grandfather were first married he did not know his
letters. She learned him to spell and then to read. He would read in some
old style with a long tune to the last of his reading, something like the
old Iron side Baptist preachers used to do. He read a right smart, but
only in the Bible. I have heard him say he would not read a newspaper; he
said they lied to much for him.

As I said before, my grandmother was well educated. She studied medicine
in her young days and became a great woman and children doctor. I have
known her to go 59 miles to see a sick woman in an early day here when
there was no physician in the country. She would go day or night. She was
86 years and 6 months old when she died."

James Jeffery, II & Jane Mason were my 3rd gr grandparents.

Jean Cuevas

At 06:54 PM 5/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Izard County Hist. April 1980, "In J. J. Sams' story, which is being
published serially in the Historian;
>he told how his Grandfather, James Jeffery, was taught to read by his
wife, Jane (Mason) Jeffery...."
>
>The J. J. Sams story is published is separate volumes of the Historian but
I don't have all of them. How
>frustrating for all of us! I don't have a scanner either. Or the time to
sit and type all this into the
>computer. Maybe we could start a movement to have the Historian reprinted???
>Desiree
>
>T.J. Harper wrote:
>
>> The Judge Sams journal is in the possession of The Newberry Library,
>> Chicago - in the T.J. Balinger collection.... it is on mirco-film - I paid
>> $50. for a print. I've suggested to Russell Baker of the Arkansas History
>> Com. that they could get a copy, but I don't know if they did. tjh
>>
>> ----------
>> > From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
>> > To:
>> > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Langstons
>> > Date: Saturday, May 01, 1999 5:31 PM
>> >
>> > Hi Don,
>> >
>> > Nice to see you join this list! If Regina can locate some copies, she
>> will
>> > let us know, and then we can go from there...on the Settlement of the
>> > Valley of White River.
>> >
>> > As for the Judge Samms writings, one of our JEFFERY cousins was telling
>> me
>> > that the original documents were donated to a library, and so there are
>> no
>> > books of his writings. I can share with you what I do have, via scanned
>> > documents, if you would like.
>> >
>> > As for Ellen LANGSTON, the only thing I have (at the moment)is this:
>> >
>> > Descendants of Ellen Langston
>> >
>> > 1 Ellen LANGSTON b: August 15, 1881 d: February 15,
1949 in Pleasant
>> > Grove Cemetery, Band Mill, AR
>> >
>> > If I find anything else, I will fill you in, ok?
>> >
>> > Look forward to your input on the list! :-)
>> >
>> > Jean
>> >
>> >
>> > At 04:33 PM 5/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>> > >How you are, Ms Jean!
>> > >Can you identify Ellen Izora Langston ( b. 1881, Wideman, Izard Co, d.
>> > >1949 Calico Rock, Izard Co.)? I have nothing on her parents.
>> > >I, too, am interested in a copy of that White River booklet and do you
>> > >know if copies of the Judge Sams book are available?
>> > >Don Thompson
>> > >
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