'My Grandma Younger, Margarette (Holberbey) Younger was a full blood
Cherokee Indian. I remember seeing her several times.
My Mother's folks came into Arkansas long before the Civil War. My
Grandmother Martha Jane (Newberry) Lovelady was an old time herb woman
and doctored everything and everybody in the country. Grandpa Lovelady
was a horse trainer, he raised Morgan horses and trained them for buggies
and saddle horses. He told us boys one time that a horse just has so
much sense and you could teach him to be a good saddle horse or a good
buggy horse, but not much of anything else. He never allowed one of his
horses to be slapped or hit with a whip. He said if you couldn't control
a horse or a woman without that, you might as well give up.
I never saw their Tennessee farms, but heard a lot about them. I asked
Grandma one time why they left these farms and came into the old, rough
hills of the Ozarks to try and make a living. She said, 'the only reason
I can give you is that your grandpa got a neighbor thirty miles down the
road and he felt crowded'.' From note sent me from Dreat Younger.
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