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12. MAHALA (HALEY)⁴ CHAFFIN (MATTHEW PERRY³, JAMES M.², JORDAN¹)^34,^35,^36,³⁷ was born June 03, 1877 in Newton County, Arkansas, and died November 11, 1916 in Oklahoma. She married NATHAN (BUD) ARMSTRONG October 04, 1894 ³⁸. He was born Unknown in ?, and died Unknown.

Notes for MAHALA (HALEY) CHAFFIN:
Mahala died giving birth to her daughter, Ilene.

Marriage Notes for MAHALA CHAFFIN and NATHAN ARMSTRONG:
Married by Jim Camel in Newton County, Arkansas

Children of MAHALA CHAFFIN and NATHAN ARMSTRONG are:

OKLA (OAK)⁵ ARMSTRONG, b. August 29, 1895, ?; d. October 01, 1987, Victorville, California.

Notes for OKLA (OAK) ARMSTRONG:
Died of natural causes.

More About OKLA (OAK) ARMSTRONG:
Burial: Riverside, California

	ii.		VIRGIE ARMSTRONG, b. April 08, 1898; d. Unknown.
	iii.		DEWEY ARMSTRONG, b. November 30, 1900, Newton County, Arkansas; d. March 17, 1983, Bakersfield, California.

Notes for DEWEY ARMSTRONG:
Died of skin cancer.

More About DEWEY ARMSTRONG:
Burial: Bakersfield, California

	iv.		OMAH ARMSTRONG, b. October 05, 1903, Jasper, Arkansas; d. Unknown, ?; m. ? HELVEY; b. Unknown, ?; d. Unknown.
	v.		IVA ARMSTRONG, b. May 04, 1906, Oklahoma; d. Unknown, ?; m. ? JOHNSON, Private; b. Private.
	vi.		HAZEL ARMSTRONG, b. Private.
	vii.		OTHEL ARMSTRONG³⁹, b. April 22, 1913, Newton County, Arkansas; d. June 26, 1987, Panama, California.

More About OTHEL ARMSTRONG:
Cause of Death: Kidney failure and poor circulation

	viii.		INFANT SON ARMSTRONG, b. August 1915, Oklahoma; d. August 1915, Oklahoma.
	ix.		ILENE ARMSTRONG, b. November 11, 1916, Oklahoma; d. March 02, 1917, Oklahoma.

Notes for ILENE ARMSTRONG:
Died shortly after she was born. Her mother died giving birth to her.
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13. VIANCY "BANT"⁴ CHAFFIN (MATTHEW PERRY³, JAMES M.², JORDAN¹)⁴⁰ was born December 19, 1882, and died Unknown. She married JOHN GRAY. He died Unknown.

Children of VIANCY CHAFFIN and JOHN GRAY are:

34.	i.	EARL⁵ GRAY, b. April 30, 1911, Valley Springs, Arkansas; d. June 20, 1995, Harrison, Arkansas.
35.	ii.	FRANK GRAY, b. September 17, 1913, Valley Springs, Arkansas; d. February 26, 1995, Harrison, Arkansas.
36.	iii.	AUDREY GRAY, b. Private.
37.	iv.	DORCUS GRAY, b. June 16, 1918, Valley Springs, Arkansas; d. October 16, 1961, Arkansas.

14. FRANKLIN⁴ CHAFFIN (MATTHEW PERRY³, JAMES M.², JORDAN¹)⁴⁰ was born March 05, 1887 in Newton County, Arkansas, and died Unknown in Seminole, Oklahoma. He married LAURA HAMMONS Unknown. She was born 1887 in Oklahoma, and died Unknown in ?.

More About FRANKLIN CHAFFIN:
Burial: Seminole Cemetery, Seminole, Oklahoma

Notes for LAURA HAMMONS:
Laurie was half Cherokee Indian and came from a prominent family.

Children of FRANKLIN CHAFFIN and LAURA HAMMONS are:

	i.		TROY⁵ CHAFFIN, b. Private.
	ii.		LEX CHAFFIN, b. Private.
	iii.		JEFF CHAFFIN, b. Private.
	iv.		HOPE CHAFFIN, b. Private.

15. JUANITA (JUANTIE)⁴ CHAFFIN (MATTHEW PERRY³, JAMES M.², JORDAN¹)⁴⁰ was born March 16, 1890 in Jasper, Arkansas, and died February 14, 1969 in Colgate, Oklahoma. She married ERNEST LEROY (BUB) MORRISON April 02, 1905 in Newton County, Arkansas. He was born February 15, 1882 in Portsmouth, Oklahoma, and died January 1954 in Colgate, Oklahoma.

Marriage Notes for JUANITA CHAFFIN and ERNEST MORRISON:
J.W. Campbell was Justice of the Peace. T.F. Gosnell was witness. Marriage record shows E.L. from Hasty and "Jauntie" from Jasper.

Children of JUANITA CHAFFIN and ERNEST MORRISON are:

	i.	CESAL⁵ MORRISON, b. March 22, 1906, Arkansas; d. February 14, 1908, Arkansas.
	ii.	ELLA MAE MORRISON, b. June 23, 1908, Harrison, Arkansas; d. December 16, 1977, Ashtabula, Ohio; m. ? VERONI, Private; b. Private.
38.	iii.	MABLE LENORA MORRISON, b. July 18, 1910, Jasper, Arkansas; d. March 04, 1993, Merced, California.
	iv.	BUSTER GLENN (COTTON) MORRISON, b. November 23, 1913, Jasper, Arkansas; d. June 22, 1979, Tonapaw, California.
39.	v.	CLYDE MORRISON, b. June 03, 1917, Jasper, Arkansas; d. 1965, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
40.	vi.	EDNA LOIS MORRISON, b. Private.
41.	vii.	WANDA MORRISON, b. January 19, 1925, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; d. January 12, 1981, Seattle, Washington.
42.	viii.	CLELL EUGENE MORRISON, b. Private.

16. PEARL⁴ CHAFFIN (MATTHEW PERRY³, JAMES M.², JORDAN¹)^40,^41,⁴² was born September 17, 1892 in Buffalo, Arkansas, and died April 20, 1978 in Harrison, Arkansas. She married WILLIAM HENRY GREGORY^43,^44,^45,⁴⁶ September 11, 1911 in Jasper, Arkansas ^47,⁴⁸, son of JOHN GREGORY and ELIZABETH FINNEY. He was born July 31, 1887 in Reeds Springs Junction, Taney County, Billings, Missouri, and died February 12, 1975 in Harrison, Arkansas.

More About PEARL CHAFFIN:
Burial: April 23, 1978, Maplewood Cemetery, Harrison, Arkansas

Notes for WILLIAM HENRY GREGORY:
Will Gregory was born in Reeds Springs Junction, Missouri on July 31,1887, the 10th child out of 14 children of JOHN ANDERSON GREGORY AND ELIZABETH FINNEY GREGORY. Pearl Chaffin was the 11th of 12 children born on September 17, 1892 to MATTHEW PERRY CHAFFIN, and SARAH ELIZABETH HENDERSON CHAFFIN in Buffalo, Arkansas.

Will served three years in the Army during World War 1 (August 17,1908-August 16, 1911) at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis Missouri, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. He was in the cavalry and never lost his love of horses. When he returned from the Army, he married Pearl on September 11, 1911 in Jasper, Arkansas. Will and Pearl had nine children (listed in birth order): Delbert, Eldon, Hubert, Estelle, Wilma, Fern, Opal, Devoe, and Frank.

They lived on the Chaffin place on the Buffalo River until 1928 when they moved to Hasty, Arkansas. Their move was made so that their kids could go to High School. Will bought a 150 acre farm in Hasty and became Postmaster (from 1931-1949) and proprietor of a grocery store. Pearl was a full time housewife and mother during her lifetime.

Ken Gregory, their grandson writes: My favorite memories of my grandfather (Will) was to listen to him talk about his days in the United States Horse Cavalry. He was stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas and used to escort the wagon trains to Ft. Riley, Kansas and return. We spent many hours talking about his experiences, which by the way may have had a lot to do with my interest in the military and subsequent career as a United States Cavalry Officer.

Will had a small shed on his farm in Hasty in which he kept his saddles for the horses which he kept most of his life. In the shed was his cavalry saddle of which he was so proud. It was unbelievably uncomfortable and I do not know how they spent so much time in it. Will loved horses: he used them for most of his life to work the farms he had and just to spend time with them.

Will raised dairy cattle and everyday would milk the cows and put the milk in a natural well cistern along side the road from Western Grove for the milk company to pick up. He also raised the myriad of other livestock needed to feed his family.

My remembrances of Pearl (my grandmother) was that of a frontier woman. She looked the part of the frontier woman as you so often saw in the movies. Many the times I have seen her in her bonnet hoeing the garden, making lye soap, or churning butter. Many the nights I spent on the front porch of their house listening to the singing from the church which met every night in the Hasty schoolhouse. I remember my grandmother saying there goes "Bess Martin" again. That was the loudest voice singing heard from the church.

William Henry died on February 12, 1975 and Pearl died on April 20, 1978 in Harrison, Arkansas and are buried in Maplewood Cemetery.

MEMORIES OF WILL AND PEARL GREGORY
BY THEIR GRANDSON, KEN GREGORY

WILL GREGORY

REFLECTIONS: These are intended to document the memories I (Kenneth Gregory - Son of Eldon Gregory & Lois M. Garner) have of my grandfather. I do not intend to attempt to put all of my memories here, but those I feel are somewhat interesting. First, William Henry Gregory went by several nicknames (not counting grandfather) which were Will and Poppy. All his children called him Poppy, while most of his peers called him Will. I will refer to him as grandpa. My first memories of grandpa were of him sitting on the front porch of his home in Hasty, Arkansas. I remember him sitting in a rocking chair and (what I thought) was a striking resemblance to Will Rogers. Maybe it was because they both shared the same name, but to this day I believe they shared a resemblance. Grandpa had a great love for horses. Again, some of the first memories are of him and two horses (Lightning and Boots). You see grandpa had been in the military and I used to sit on the porch and listen to him tell his stories of his days in the horse cavalry. Grandpa was stationed at Ft. Leavonworth, Kansas and used to escort wagon trains from there to Fort Riley, Kansas and back. While at Fort Riley, the wagon trains would circle at a place called Sutters Camp (which I visited while stationed in Kansas). He loved to tell his stories of his time in the cavalry. One day I was searching around the farm in Hasty and decided to check out the little shed that contained the saddles. Low and behold I found the funniest saddle, black with an oblong slit down the middle. I asked grandpa what it was, and he informed me it was his U.S. Cavalry saddle that he had been able to keep when he mustered out. Oh how often I visited that saddle after that, dreaming I was a U.S. Cavalryman like my grandpa.

I told you that grandpa had several horses (Boots and Lightning). I used to love to ride horses, but grandpa would not let me ride Lightning, for you see, he had bought her at an auction and she had been a polo pony. Thus, whenever she had a saddle on, she wanted to run and was know to jump to the side while at a dead run. This usually meant the rider was going one way and Lightning another. Thus, being small, grandpa wouldn't let me ride her. Instead he would round up "Old Boots" for me. I usually rode her bareback as she was so gentile, but with one annoying habit. She was clumsy and would stumble over her shadow, with the result being that her head would swing high and if you weren't alert usually hitting you in the face.

Grandpa ran the General Store and Post Office in Hasty, Arkansas. The little store was located on the road in front of his farm house. He had all sorts of good things that a kid like me would want - ice cream, cookies, and candy. I used to sneak into the store and sneak a piece of candy or ice cream. I always thought I was so smart and had fooled him, but every time, he would walk up to me a little later with a grin on his face and ask how I had liked the candy or ice cream. I wasn't so smart or sneaky after all. I can remember him behind the counter of the Post Office portion of the store, handing out mail to his customers. He always looked so officious when he was there.

Grandpa worked hard all his life. So did his wife Pearl Chaffin and his children. For you see, they lived in the Ozark Mountains and the only thing that really grew well there was rocks. Grandpa had the best looking rock fences in the area. He should have as he and his sons spent many a long day carrying rocks from the fields before they could plow, plant and harvest. Probably because of that grandpa sold milk from his dairy cattle. I can remember him getting up every morning to milk the cows (first by hand and then later with a milking machine). In the afternoon, he would always look at the barn to see of the cows had come back for another feeding and milking. He would then take the milk cans to the cistern along side of the road, which had water running from a artesian well and would keep the milk cool until picked up. That is also the milk used for drinking and churning to make butter.

Grandpa grew chickens, hogs and various other animals which provided meat for the family. I remember he had a pig trough behind the general store and he would slop them every day. He was always telling me to stay away from the huge sows, as they would probably hurt me if I got in the way or they thought I was a threat to their piglets.

Summer evenings were spent on the front porch with grandpa and grandma sitting in rocking chairs and me sitting on the porch floor. (Summers were when I was in Arkansas, visiting with my grandparents.) We would talk about many things, and they would relate their past experiences to me. Usually you would be pelted by June Bugs attempting to do what ever they were doing, eaten by mosquitos (if you stayed out too long), and be serenaded by the evening church being held in the Hasty, Arkansas school house located some 200-300 yards away. I remember grandpa and grandma saying about the loudest voice heard singing the praise of the lord "there is old Bess Martin again."

I remember visiting grandpa and grandma when they had moved to Western Grove, Arkansas after not being able to take care of the place in Hasty. I was a Captain in the U.S. Army (a Cavalry Officer by the way-wonder why I wanted to be one?) and just returning from 5 years in Europe and on my way to Ft. Lewis, Washington in preparation for going to Vietnam for the first time. I had a small sports car (Triump TR-4) and drove to Western Grove to see them as I hadn't seen them in a number of years. Grandpa looked the same only older, but he was so proud to see me. He made me put my uniform on so he could see his grandson as a Captain in the Cavalry. Grandpa took a real liking to my little sports car. Every day he insisted we go for a ride to Hasty and Harrison, Arkansas so all of his friends and acquaintances could see him. Now he insisted the top be down on this sports car (b-r-r-r-r it was late February), so everyone could see him. It was a sight to make your heart warm, an elder gentleman with his ten gallon hat on, his farm jacket on, and his grin on from ear to ear, speeding down the highway.

PEARL CHAFFIN

REFLECTIONS: These are intended to document the memories I (Kenneth Gregory - Son of Eldon Gregory & Lois M. Garner) have of my grandmother. I do not intend to attempt to put all of my memories here, but those I feel are somewhat interesting. First my grandmother went by several names (grandmother not withstanding), Pearl, Mommy, and grandma. Her children all called her mommy; I called her grandma and will do so throughout this document.

Grandma was the picture of the frontier woman. With her calico dress, apron, and hair pulled back into a bun, she could have posed for any and every advertisement, picture or poster of a woman of the olden times. I remember her face being lined with deep wrinkles; the result of many days spent in the open working the vegetable gardens and other chores that the frontier woman had to do. But even though she looked so hard, she was so soft. I can remember being held in her arms and thinking how wonderfully soft she was.

Grandma worked hard all her life. Born into hard times in a family with little means, she worked hard throughout her youth into her old age. I remember her getting up early every morning, lighting the old wood kitchen stove, and preparing to make breakfast (now I mean early not 7:00, not 6:00, probably before 5:00 am). I remember laying in the bed covered with the feather ticks to keep warm and the wonderful odors floating in from the kitchen. Oh, could she cook. Wonderful meals. Her day was made up of chores from dawn to dusk. These chores included: churning butter from the milk that grandpa had drawn from the cows; making soap from the fat of animals killed for good and lye; cleaning the house; hoeing in the truck garden; working the general store; and so many other tasks. It seemed that she was continually on the go and I sometimes wonder how she ever had time to sit down. But she would end up on the front porch with grandpa for cool breezes during the hot Arkansas summers.

I have memories of her churning butter on the front porch. I remember one day pestering her to let me do the churning. She kept trying to get me to be quiet and leave it alone. But I was young and not to be put off. So she said OK, but if I started the task, I had to finish it. So with all the bravado of the young, I grabbed the stick of the butter churn and began to pump it up and down. It was not hard work at first, but as time wore on it became harder and harder. I wanted to quit, but I remembered her words that once I started there was no quitting. Finally she took pity on me and let me go; boy did I ever run away from that porch that day. I also didn't volunteer for more chores as I had learned my lesson - grandma did hard work.

I can remember her making soap in a large black kettle over a roaring fire pit in the front yard. She would be carving up the lye and putting it into the pot with the rest of the ingredients. Then she would stir it all up and let it boil down until it was thick and ready to harden. When it was hard, she would cut it up into bar size pieces to use for household chores (washing clothes, etc.). Again that was hot, hard work.

I remember her bending over a hoe in the rather large truck garden behind the house. She would spend hours hoeing the weeds away from the plants and making sure all was well. Hard - hard - hard work in the boiling Arkansas summer sun.
Then it would be time to make dinner. Grandma made large dinners every night. She was used to doing it as she raised 9 children. With each meal would be several meats including chicken. Now he memory - just about every day grandma would go to the chicken house, located next to the farm house and select a chicken to fix for dinner. She would run it down, grab it by the head and with several jerks and swinging around her head, PLOP the chicken was on the ground minus a head and lay there flopping around. Well let me tell you, the first time I saw that, my neck hurt for a while.

I truly loved my grandpa and grandma; I truly loved spending the summers with them; I truly will remember and reflect on them for the rest of my life. God rest.
Ken (or John as you knew me).

More About WILLIAM HENRY GREGORY:
Burial: February 16, 1975, Maplewood Cemetery, Harrison, Arkansas
Military service: World War 1

Marriage Notes for PEARL CHAFFIN and WILLIAM GREGORY:
Married by A.C. Phillips, Minister of M.E. Church, in Buffalo, Arkansas

Children of PEARL CHAFFIN and WILLIAM GREGORY are:

43.	i.	DELBERT⁵ GREGORY, b. Private.
44.	ii.	ELDON GREGORY, b. Private.
45.	iii.	HUBERT (HUEY) GREGORY, b. Private.
46.	iv.	ESTELLE GREGORY, b. Private.
47.	v.	WILMA GREGORY, b. November 16, 1921, Hasty, Arkansas; d. December 1985, Dearborn, Michigan.
48.	vi.	FERN GREGORY, b. Private.
49.	vii.	OPAL GREGORY, b. Private.
50.	viii.	DEVOE GREGORY, b. Private.
51.	ix.	JAMES FRANKLIN (FRANK) GREGORY, b. Private.

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