Page 9 - Jefferson County AR 1889 History (Goodspeed)

HISTORY O F ARKANSAS.

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Wl~eothe summer hnl.vest was gsther'd in,
And the sheaf of the gleaner &yewwhite and tbin,

And the ploughsllsrc was in its furrow left,
Wlrcre the stubble land had been lutelv cleft.-Lonofrllorr

ENTION has already Government began in 1689 in the west valley, or,

been made in 1,revions perhaps, even w h ~ nHernsndo Ue Soto's body was

pages of this volume of sunk into "the great waters" to the east, nearly ;I

that [,re historic race century and a. half boforo, and still they remained

of people know11 as until near the first years of this century, when the

M o n n ~ lBnilders who last of their chiefs of pure Quapaw blood was asked

held sway long before by the United States Government to remove to the

ndi:~os and the French ar- Indian Territory aud make room for t h ~whites.

The aged chief, Heckatoo, submitted peacefnlly to

this decree, and afterward died in that terrilory.

these first inhabitantsin the shape They had no illa ages in this county, at least at a

of monnds or pottery in Jefferson later date (1825), and the most noted trails led to

County, hut so few in number as Hot Springs. I t is said that these aborigines first

to he hardly worthy of notice. learned the use of fire-arms within the limits uf

The Indian population of the this county. Sarrasin was the half breed suc

1territory now embraced in Jeffer ' cessor of Hechat,oo, and, before their removal to

son County varied at different the west, he pertomed a deed of openhearled and
times, hut t h ~earliest known and somewhat fixed heroic daring on the river, just below the capital of

occupants of these wilds were the Qnapaws. who , this county, that should always keep his memory

iclaimed the land from the Mississippi to the Ouach- resh in the hearts of its inhabitants. A wander-

ita hills. Here they were even when the French , mf g band of Chickasaw Indiana had stolen two