Seventh Generation


799. Elizabeth Emmaline Vernon was born on 5 October 1826 in Pikeville, Bledsoe, TN. She died on 6 March 1909 at the age of 82 in Near Fayetteville, AR. She was buried. [Marcus Merged 7.FTW]

1. The family home, place of Elizabeth's death, was 4 miles northeast of Fayetteville.

2. She came to Arkansas in 1846. The family first settled at Oxford's Bend of White River Now on Highway 45), this side of Goshen. When the patents for their land came, it was found that they were on land patented to another family and this family was on land patented to them. The two families, without the aid of lawyers, quietly and simply settled their differences. They simply moved to their own land. In this new home, "Aunt Emmaline", as she was called, lived 52 years.

3. Oxford's Bend Cemetery is northeast of Fayetteville on Highway 45, west side of Goshen Arkansas.

Audley Skillern (private).