|
Back to the Indian Removal
through Arkansas homepage
Back to the People homepage
Robert M. Greathouse lived in the SW
¼ NE ¼ Section 36, T6N R15W at the mouth of Cadron Creek on the
Conway-Faulkner County line.
In late April, 1834, cholera
prevailed among a removal party of Cherokees camped at the mouth of
Cadron. They had gone up about three weeks earlier aboard the
Thomas Yeatman, but low water would not allow them to go farther
than Cadron, about 33 miles above Little Rock. From thirty to forty
had died. Dr. Roberts, of Conway County, one of the attending
physicians, contracted the disease and died, and Dr. Fulton of Little
Rock was reported as near death.
Source: Arkansas Advocate, April 25,
1834.
In November, 1834, G. W.
Featherstonhaugh reached Greathouse’s, having followed the road from
Jackson near the Missouri border to Cadron. “The road from Memphis to
the Indian Reservations, on the branches of the Arkansas, comes in
here,” Featherstonhaugh wrote.
Source: G. W. Featherstonhaugh,
Excursion Through the Slave States , Reprint ed. (New York: Negro
Universities Press, 1968), 93
[Home] | [Bibliography] |
[Digital Library]
[Indexes] | [News] |
[Trail of Tears]
[Symposia] |
[Other Resources] | [About] |
[Links]
© UALR American Native Press Archives 2002-2007
|
