In 1869, some of my ancestors traveled in a wagon train from Jackson Co., Indiana to Hempstead Co., Arkansas. The train consisted of about 30 families, according to some articles in a Journal of the Hempstead Co. Arkansas, Genealogical Society, "Springhill from 1870, Part 3". According to the accounts, the train left Jackson Co., IN and traveled southward and passed into Kentucky and crossed the Mississippi at Cairo, IL, and then traveled through Missouri and through the Ozarks into Arkansas, traveling through Caddo Gap, Center Point, Washington, and then to Springhill in Hempstead Co., Arkansas. The names of some of the families were: Rider, Anderson, Light, Lee, Black, Charles Middlebrooks