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"I will have to go back to the Trace Road on the farm owned by Mrs Fowler, Floyd Whiters owned this place. The trail led on down Section Branch. The farm now owned by Thurston Armstrong was the Eddington farm. The trail led to Inmans Mill and the Skelton farm. In the northeast corner of the Armstrong farm are big sand piles marking where graves were once there. We suppose this trail of rocks led to the present school property. Where Mr Hendrick's house is now, a man by the name of Hedgpeth had a saloon. In years an oak tree has grown out of the wall of the old well at the saloon.
Down the lane in the edge of the bottom at the Mineral Springs was once a hotel and for a long time the Smithville Spring was a popular health resort. The old hotel was moved away, but the beech trees remained and they were visited by the community to rest in the shade and drink the find cold water. Not many years ago Mr Kennedy cut these trees.
At that time the Indians across the river had beaten a path to Hedgpeth's Saloon. A strange man rode over this path, swam his horses across this big river, and settled a home. This was Major Barr. He put in Barr's Ferry, and lived and died there. He was a mysterious character, yet an educated and high class gentleman.
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