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Or Arklahoma Heritage: A WWI winner of the Distinguished Cross for wartime heroics hailed from rural Benton County
Field Eugene Kindley Field Eugene Kindley was born on March 13, 1896, near Pea Ridge in Benton County, He was the only son of George Cephus Kindley, who worked as a schoolteacher and later as an agricultural supervisor, and Frances Ella Spraker Kindley. His mother died just before his third birthday, around 1898 or 1899. After her death, his father went to the Philippines in 1898 to run an agricultural school in Manila .Field stayed in Arkansas and was raised by his patern
Dennis McCaslin
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Stone Gardens - A Simple Life- From Middle Tennessee to pre-statehood Oklahoma - John Milton Cantrell
John Milton Cantrell John Milton Cantrell lived a life shaped by rural America, spanning the mid-19th century through the Great Depression. Born on June 16, 1854, in Jackson County, Tennessee, he grew up in a farming family amid the fertile field and ghollows of Middle Tennessee. His parents, John Cantrell and Barbara Gentry, had established their household there by the 1850s. John Sr. was born around 1818 in Tennessee, while Barbara, born about 1823, also hailed from the st
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