----- Original Message ----- From: g.k.williams@charter.net To: SCUNION-L@rooteweb.com Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:33 PM Subject: Move to Arkansas In the winter of 1870-71 a group of about 70 people led by Rev. John J. Huckaby and his family went from Union, SC to Bogan Gist Plantation about 16 miles west of Helena, Arkansas. The Rev. Huckaby later established the Rehoboth Baptist Church, Phillips County, Arkansas. One of the couples was J. Franklin Shands and his wife, Elizabeth Farmer Shands along with their children; William A., Mary C., Mattie, and Nancy. Elizabeth was the daughter of Lawson and Nancy Wesson Farmer of the Dutchman Creek area of lower Spartanburg Co. SC right near the Union Co, SC border. Does anyone have more information on this group? Is there a list of all those who traveled to Arkansas? Martha "Patsy Farmer, a sister of Elizabeth Shands, evidently moved to Arkansas with her husband, Thomas M. Pruitt, a daughter, Sallie(Sarah) and her mother-in-law, Missouri Pruitt, after the 1870 census. In the 1880 census, Thomas Pruitt was a widower, in Sevier Co, Arkansas along with daughters, Sarah and Martha and a mother, Missouri Pruitt. Did they move out with the Huckaby group??? Hope someone out there knows about this group. Gayle