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From: Elveta Guinn <>
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Re: ARIZARD-D Digest V99 #64
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 00:18:24 -0500


I can give one explanation for the TX migration. My family went from AR to Tx to work on the railroad. Some found land they
wanted to settle, and sent for their families. Some came back to AR, and others went on to OK. Elveta

> Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Migration to West Texas and other Parts.
> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:48:59 -0500
> From: "james l. wilks" <>
> To:
>
> Jean & others,
> I know lots of people from Arkansas went to Texas. Lots of time the people
> leaving would put up a sign that said "Gone to Texas". Most of the Arkies
> (and I use that term affectionately) went to the east Texas piney woods and
> found work in the saw mills. Others went to the Texas valley where cotton
> was the crop. Both saw mills and cotton fields were familiar. I don't
> think very many made it out here to far West Texas, where cotton has to be
> irrigated, the cattle have to range for miles, and the ground isn't really
> fit to farm.
> I've found only one family in my area with Izard Co. links (the Kent
> family), and now this line to Seymour, which I consider close enough to
> count as West Texas. I wonder what brought those families. It might have
> been the land but they must of bought it blind. Only the very desperate
> would have traveled so many miles for such poor land.
> This isn't a scientific thesis yet, but I've noticed that people left the
> Izard Co. area in waves. Some of my family left in the 1920-30's dust bowl
> days. They went to Washington State to work in the orchards or aluminum
> factories. Another wave of migration left in the early 1940's to work in
> the aircraft plants in Kansas. I'm thinking this very early migration to
> West Texas might have been connected to the development of the Church of
> Christ.
> I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts on this migration issue. I
> don't know if others on this list would be interested in this discussion so
> you may want to e-mail me privately.
> Jena
> (Bookout, Pogue, Lawyer, Roberts)
>
> ----------
> > From: Mary Russell <>
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] HARRIS
> > Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 11:32 AM
> >
> > <G> The words to an old song come to mind that I think will answer-----
> > "Give me land, lots of Land , Under starry skies above, Don't fence me
> in"
> > Mary Russell
> >
> >
> > >Jena,
> > >
> > >A number of Izard County folks headed to TX. I don't know what the pull
> > >was, does anyone?
> > >
> > >Jean C.
> >
> >
> >
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