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Hiram Melton m. Martha M. Banning Izard Co., AR, and their daughter Etta Jane Melton was my grandmother. G-grandpa Melton had 80 acres of land and sold it for $10 an acre. The Meltons got water from a spring and kept their milk there in summer to cool it. G-Grandpa made sugar-syrup from sugar cane, and they used the syrup as a sweetening agent like sugar. His sons would ride horses to Batesville to the gristmill there and have the family's corn ground. I think the old mill is still there.
Once a year the community would have a big picnic, and the men would go into town for ice--it was the only time in the year the folks had ice cream.
These are stories my grandmother passed down to my dad, and recently I've been writing down everything he tells me!
My grandmother Etta Jane Melton used to wade across Punkinseed Creek to go to school near Batesville. She eventually married Hayden Cole, and they had five sons, one who died young.
I'd enjoy e-mail from descendants of Lorenzo B. A. Banning.
Gene Cole Johnson
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