Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
This is a story of Crystal Hill, Pulaski Co., and Faulkner Co. Arkansas, It is actually over 15 pages but I am only showing the pages that has information on John Standlee. It has John, William and David Standlee, in this story. I believe this John is the father to Onicypherous Standlee.
I am related thru Onicypherous Standlee's daughter Sarah Standlee. She married Absalom Thomas. They had a daughter Mary Thomas that married William John Johnson. Their son John Richard Johnson married Rebecca Belle (Isabelle) Berry, which were my great great grandparents.
I hope this helps Standlee researchers.
Teresa Hammer
The History of Cardon
by J. S. Utley
Editor's note: In August 1937, the Log Cabin Democrat held its 12th annual picnic for its 114 correspondents who reported the news from their rural communities. The picnic was held at Cedar Park (now the Cadron Settlement Park), then owned by J. D. Dunaway. Judge J. S. Utley of Little Rock was supposed to deliver a speech, but was called out of the state and found it impossible to attend. The speech was published in the August 12, 1937 weekly edition of the Log Cabin Democrat. In the article, below, the footnotes and information in brackets [] have been added for this edition of Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings.
Goodspeed's history, published in 1889,(4) says that in the year 1778 John Standlee and others explored the country along the Arkansas river, and Mr. Standlee then selected the spot of ground on which he desired to make his future home. Afterwards, in 1811, his son-in-law, John C. Benedict, with his family, settled in the county subsequently known as New Madrid, in Missouri. From that county, in the fall of that year, Mr. Standlee, Mr. Benedict and William and David Standlee set out to explore the country and were absent from their home two years. In 1814 John Standlee returned and settled with his family upon the exact spot he had selected 36 years before. Here he resided until his death in August, 1820. This tract was in what has long been known as the "Benedict settlement," in the southwestern part of Faulkner County.
In the spring of 1818, continues Godspeed, John C. Benedict and his family, consisting of wife and five children, set out to find a home in the Arkansas country, near where Mr. Standlee had settled. They were accompanied by two Scotchmen named Anderson and Frazier. They reached Cadron on April 18, where they found a blockhouse which had been erected by settlers preceding them, as a place of safety against hostile Indians. The preceding settlers then located in and about the blockhouse were John McElmurray and his sons, David, Robert and Harvey; Benjamin Murphy, the McFarlands, Harvey Hager, and the Newells lived just below the Cadron Bluff. At that time John McElmurray and Richard Montgomery were engaged in selling goods at the mouth of the creek, as indicated by the foregoing source of information.
[Dallas T.] Herndon, in his Centennial History,(5) says the first settlement in what is now Faulkner county was made at the mouth of Cadron creek by John Standlee in 1814; that within the following five years Standlee was joined by his son-in-law and two Scotchmen; that the Flanagins and Massengills settled near the mouth of Palarm creek, a few miles farther down the river; that John and William Standlee built the first sawmill and grist mill in 1818; and that Jonathan Hardin, a Kentuckian, located a few miles up the Cadron creek, near the present village of Holland, in 1818.
The story of John Standlee and John C. Benedict was obtained from a very aged son of Benedict, but who evidently remembered having heard the story many times from his father.(6)
(4) Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas (Chicago: The Godspeed Publishing Co., 1889), pp. 708-709. Hereafter cited as Godspeed (1889).
(5) Dallas T. Herndon, Centennial History of Arkansas (Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922), Volume I, p. 755.
(6) Russell W. Benedict, "Story of an Early Settlement in Central Arkansas." Benedict probably wrote this account between 1878 and 1888, and J. S. Utley obviously had read the original manuscript, parts of which appeared in Godspeed (1889). The document was later made available by Conway News publisher Edgar B. Parker to Ted R. Worley, then a member of the history department at Arkansas State Teachers College. Worley edited the account for publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Summer 1951), pp. 117-137, adding very informative footnotes. The article was re-printed in Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings (January 1961), pp. 3-33.
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/standlee/messages/266.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|