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Western Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs
The settlement of the territory now composing Polk County began about the year 1830, or perhaps a little earlier. Thomas Griffith, from Illinois, settled near the present village of Dallas, and about the same time Jacob Miller settled two miles east of Dallas, where Ben Thompson now resides, and George Wiles settled in the same neighborhood. In December, 1833, James Pirtle from Tennessee settled on the farm where his son, B. [p.439] F. Pirtle, now resides one-half mile north of Dallas. The same year Isaac Pirtle and Ben Pirtle also from Tennessee, made their settlements?the former one mile north of Dallas, and the latter on Mountain Fork, near the camp-meeting ground. Also in the same year Walter Scott and Allen Trousdale, from Tennessee, settled on Board Camp Creek, east of Dallas. The same year Isaac Jones settled the site of Dallas, and a year or two later he sold his improvement to John B. Stewart, who settled thereon. About the year 1835 Mr. Cantrell settled in the Miller neighborhood, east of Dallas. Kennison Sulth, from Missouri, located on Six Mile Creek, near the present town of Cove, and Joseph Sulth settled on Mountain Fork, about twelve miles west of Dallas
See www.pirtle.us Mary Ann Pirtle is my 3rd Great Grand aunt. Her parents were Jacob Pirtle [Purtle] and Mary Day. Her brother John B Pirtle was my Great Great Great Grandfather. His son was James Samuel Pirtle father of George Washington Pirtle Father of Cyrus Jerome Pirtle father of Raymond Edward Pirtle who was my Father. They settled Hardeman Co., TN and then James Samuel Pirtle and son George Washington Pirtle moved to Canton, Van Zandt Co., TX in 1857 and helped settle Van Zandt Co. My Dad was born there. They are buried in High Cemetery. I do not know where the burial info on Isaac and Mary Ann came from. Hardeman Co., TN they were there in 1830 so it is possible they moved back to KY before they died. I have not looked for them on the 1840 census in KY. But, that is what you should do to see if he went with his family back to KY after the 1830 census.
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