I just sent this to a cousin and thought I'd post to the Drew list. I'm interested in finding the location of Chink-a-pen, The old Mason Place, and Buffalo Stomp in Drew Co. Amos Pinkney Hayes was my gg-grandfather. These are the memories of two granddaughters. "Amos Pinkney Hayes came to Arkansas in a wagon train with some people by the name of Naugher and Peacock - there were a good many of them. Grandpa Pinkney first settled on what they call Chink-a-pen, and camped there for a while and then they moved on to what was called the old Mason place. I remember hearing them say how bad the bear, wolves, etc. were there. There was a lot of wild animals, deer and wild turkey and other kinds of game. When they first came to Drew County, they homesteaded. Grandpa Pinkney Hayes moved around quite a bit and made a trip or two to Texas and back - family and all. He had two brothers that stayed in Texas - Lawrence and Parks, and the Naughers went with them. They all formed a wagon train and went on to Texas, but they got dissatisfied and came back. There was quite a hill at their place and grandma Julia had to carry water quite a distance. She couldn't carry the water and the baby both, so she would lift the bed post and put the bab! y's dress under it to hold the baby from crawling away while she went and got the water. There was a place they used to call "Buffalo Stomp" and the buffalo was in the bottom lands, but they would come up here to get away from the gnats and mosquitos and would come up in this red clay dirt and have a regular stomping ground. I remember Grandpa Pinkney saying when they first settled here that there was a bad storm - a tornado - and it laid down all the timber and the big clay roots turned up where it had hit. The closest battle in the Civil War to home was at Arkansas City, but they brought some of the soldiers back and buried them at Florence cemetery. There was a man by the name of Mathis, we knew him when we were just children, and at the battle at Arkansas City, the enemy shot a cannon ball and it came rolling by him and he thought it was about stopped and he put his foot out to stop it, and it blew his foot off. I remember him being peglegged. Grandpa Pinkney was left at home during the Civil war as he owned a blacksmith shop and they needed him to make things for the war. My father, John Vol Hayes, was about four years old when the war ended and he and Tom Naugher got on the big fence post by the side of the road and watched the soldiers as they drew water from the well to give their horses a drink. As they did, they cut all the cloth out of grandma's loom. The old folks were afraid of them and didn't say anything against the soldiers, the the two little boys didn't know any better and cussed them for what they done." jessica gorman <jsg0770@msn.com> wrote: I finally got my family tree together. These are all of the names that I have. My father and I still need to get together to complete the descendants of Eura. I'm having a lot of trouble remembering names. If it's okay with you, I may start sending the information I have one family at a time so that you could help me fill the holes. Jessica