show that the first court in Hempstead County (then Missouri) was held in the house of John English, 1819, and also that John English was a member of the House of Representatives in the First Territorial Legislature of Arkansas.

When John English moved to what is now Hempstead County, Arkansas, he began raising cottonseed, and built a cotton gin there. While feeding the gin his shirt was caught by the saws and his arm was drawn into the gin and so badly injured as to result in his death.

Pa, who was then unmarried, went to Hempstead as administrator for Uncle John's orphan children and brought them back to Cape County, where they were reared and educated.

While Pa was at Hempstead, he became well acquainted with Benjamin Clark, Sr., and his large family of young men and women.

When Miss Stewart married Mr. Tremble in Hempstead County, Pa and Sarah Clark, who later became Mrs. Phil Duty, stood up with the bride and groom. When we moved to Red River County, we found the children of Sarah Clark and Phil Duty. The Trembles had also moved over from Hempstead County, Arkansas. One of the Tremble girls had married Mr. Pluck Flemming. Many descendants of this couple are now living in Red River County and North Texas. We also found in Clarksville the children of James Clark, who had been Pa's friend in Hempstead, Arkansas, more than twenty years before. One of