Sarah Pickle married Ezekiel Lewis on October 17, 1865. Their first child, John Floyd, was born in 1866. Then soon after, there were a great many families of Duncans and Pickles who set out for Texas. According to writing of Robert A. (last child of Ezekiel and Sarah), there were "ten or twelve families, all kinfolks of theirs." He also wrote that some freed slaves chose to come with them. That would mean that prewar Duncans were slave owners.
In the desire to start a new life, these families loaded up their meager belongings and headed for Texas, knowing they might have to contend with Indians and knowing that trials and deprivations would travel with them every step of the way. They met adversity when they tried to cross the raging Arkansas River, so they settled in Franklin County, Arkansas. It seems the whole tribe traveled together and settled together, for Eudora writes as a child in Arkansas, her Uncle Pickle was her school teacher.
They left Tennessee after 1866, and arrived in Arkansas before 1869, for their second child Adelia Jane was born in Franklin County, Arkansas, on March 20, 1869. In Eudora's (3rd child) memoirs, she tells of her childhood life in Arkansas, and for her, it was wonderful. Ezekiel farmed, growing wheat and corn, having a peach orchard, and harvesting blackberries and strawberries in season. She writes of good neighbors, and pleasures in attending church. She writes about the strictness of her father about Sunday observance and activities and of the good food her Mother cooked. She writes with an innocence and cheerful outlook that remained with her all the days of her life. Even the primitive conditions under which they lived were looked back on as being the best years of her life. (Ezekiel still harvested wheat with a cradle 30 plus years after the McCormick reaper was invented.) So we know by these readings that Ezekiel and Sarah made a happy, if strict, home for their children and by the time they moved to Texas Eudora Lee, Oscar, Homer, Frederick and Robert, the last child, had been born.
After living in Arkansas from 1869 till the last of 1883 (14 years), they moved. As Eudora tells it, "Father sold our home. He decided to go to Texas. He got two good wagons ready." Remember where the Duncans went, so did the Pickles and where the Pickles went, so did the Duncans, for Eudora writes that Pickle relatives were already settled in Collin County. There may have been others in the 350 miles trek through the untamed lands of Arkansas and crossing the Arkansas River by flat boat drawn by cables. They had an eventful journey, which you may read in Eudora's writings, and finally crossed the Red River near Denison, Texas. They first went to Nickleville, "a small place in the road" in Collin County. They settled permanently on a farm near Wylie, Texas, where Ezekiel bought farm land. Not much is heard of Sarah Katherine's activities, but I presume she had her hands full caring for her family, for they had few of the conveniences that most society availed themselves of in the late 1800's. Ezekiel was a prominent figure in the community, a prosperous land owning farmer, who served on the school board, was a charter member of the Shiloh Baptist Church, an active member of the Masonic Lodge, and owned and managed a "Staple and Family Grocery Store."
Sarah Katharine Pickle Duncan had a long and painful journey to the other world, dying possibly of tuberculosis December 6, 1918, in Wylie, Texas, at the age of 74.
In the desire to start a new life, these families loaded up their meager belongings and headed for Texas, knowing they might have to contend with Indians and knowing that trials and deprivations would travel with them every step of the way. They met adversity when they tried to cross the raging Arkansas River, so they settled in Franklin County, Arkansas. It seems the whole tribe traveled together and settled together, for Eudora writes as a child in Arkansas, her Uncle Pickle was her school teacher.
They left Tennessee after 1866, and arrived in Arkansas before 1869, for their second child Adelia Jane was born in Franklin County, Arkansas, on March 20, 1869. In Eudora's (3rd child) memoirs, she tells of her childhood life in Arkansas, and for her, it was wonderful. Ezekiel farmed, growing wheat and corn, having a peach orchard, and harvesting blackberries and strawberries in season. She writes of good neighbors, and pleasures in attending church. She writes about the strictness of her father about Sunday observance and activities and of the good food her Mother cooked. She writes with an innocence and cheerful outlook that remained with her all the days of her life. Even the primitive conditions under which they lived were looked back on as being the best years of her life. (Ezekiel still harvested wheat with a cradle 30 plus years after the McCormick reaper was invented.) So we know by these readings that Ezekiel and Sarah made a happy, if strict, home for their children and by the time they moved to Texas Eudora Lee, Oscar, Homer, Frederick and Robert, the last child, had been born.
After living in Arkansas from 1869 till the last of 1883 (14 years), they moved. As Eudora tells it, "Father sold our home. He decided to go to Texas. He got two good wagons ready." Remember where the Duncans went, so did the Pickles and where the Pickles went, so did the Duncans, for Eudora writes that Pickle relatives were already settled in Collin County. There may have been others in the 350 miles trek through the untamed lands of Arkansas and crossing the Arkansas River by flat boat drawn by cables. They had an eventful journey, which you may read in Eudora's writings, and finally crossed the Red River near Denison, Texas. They first went to Nickleville, "a small place in the road" in Collin County. They settled permanently on a farm near Wylie, Texas, where Ezekiel bought farm land. Not much is heard of Sarah Katherine's activities, but I presume she had her hands full caring for her family, for they had few of the conveniences that most society availed themselves of in the late 1800's. Ezekiel was a prominent figure in the community, a prosperous land owning farmer, who served on the school board, was a charter member of the Shiloh Baptist Church, an active member of the Masonic Lodge, and owned and managed a "Staple and Family Grocery Store."
Sarah Katharine Pickle Duncan had a long and painful journey to the other world, dying possibly of tuberculosis December 6, 1918, in Wylie, Texas, at the age of 74.
Sarah Pickle married Ezekiel Lewis on October 17, 1865. Their first child, John Floyd, was born in 1866. Then soon after, there were a great many families of Duncans and Pickles who set out for Texas. According to writing of Robert A. (last child of Ezekiel and Sarah), there were "ten or twelve families, all kinfolks of theirs." He also wrote that some freed slaves chose to come with them. That would mean that prewar Duncans were slave owners.
In the desire to start a new life, these families loaded up their meager belongings and headed for Texas, knowing they might have to contend with Indians and knowing that trials and deprivations would travel with them every step of the way. They met adversity when they tried to cross the raging Arkansas River, so they settled in Franklin County, Arkansas. It seems the whole tribe traveled together and settled together, for Eudora writes as a child in Arkansas, her Uncle Pickle was her school teacher.
They left Tennessee after 1866, and arrived in Arkansas before 1869, for their second child Adelia Jane was born in Franklin County, Arkansas, on March 20, 1869. In Eudora's (3rd child) memoirs, she tells of her childhood life in Arkansas, and for her, it was wonderful. Ezekiel farmed, growing wheat and corn, having a peach orchard, and harvesting blackberries and strawberries in season. She writes of good neighbors, and pleasures in attending church. She writes about the strictness of her father about Sunday observance and activities and of the good food her Mother cooked. She writes with an innocence and cheerful outlook that remained with her all the days of her life. Even the primitive conditions under which they lived were looked back on as being the best years of her life. (Ezekiel still harvested wheat with a cradle 30 plus years after the McCormick reaper was invented.) So we know by these readings that Ezekiel and Sarah made a happy, if strict, home for their children and by the time they moved to Texas Eudora Lee, Oscar, Homer, Frederick and Robert, the last child, had been born.
After living in Arkansas from 1869 till the last of 1883 (14 years), they moved. As Eudora tells it, "Father sold our home. He decided to go to Texas. He got two good wagons ready." Remember where the Duncans went, so did the Pickles and where the Pickles went, so did the Duncans, for Eudora writes that Pickle relatives were already settled in Collin County. There may have been others in the 350 miles trek through the untamed lands of Arkansas and crossing the Arkansas River by flat boat drawn by cables. They had an eventful journey, which you may read in Eudora's writings, and finally crossed the Red River near Denison, Texas. They first went to Nickleville, "a small place in the road" in Collin County. They settled permanently on a farm near Wylie, Texas, where Ezekiel bought farm land. Not much is heard of Sarah Katherine's activities, but I presume she had her hands full caring for her family, for they had few of the conveniences that most society availed themselves of in the late 1800's. Ezekiel was a prominent figure in the community, a prosperous land owning farmer, who served on the school board, was a charter member of the Shiloh Baptist Church, an active member of the Masonic Lodge, and owned and managed a "Staple and Family Grocery Store."
Sarah Katharine Pickle Duncan had a long and painful journey to the other world, dying possibly of tuberculosis December 6, 1918, in Wylie, Texas, at the age of 74.
In the desire to start a new life, these families loaded up their meager belongings and headed for Texas, knowing they might have to contend with Indians and knowing that trials and deprivations would travel with them every step of the way. They met adversity when they tried to cross the raging Arkansas River, so they settled in Franklin County, Arkansas. It seems the whole tribe traveled together and settled together, for Eudora writes as a child in Arkansas, her Uncle Pickle was her school teacher.
They left Tennessee after 1866, and arrived in Arkansas before 1869, for their second child Adelia Jane was born in Franklin County, Arkansas, on March 20, 1869. In Eudora's (3rd child) memoirs, she tells of her childhood life in Arkansas, and for her, it was wonderful. Ezekiel farmed, growing wheat and corn, having a peach orchard, and harvesting blackberries and strawberries in season. She writes of good neighbors, and pleasures in attending church. She writes about the strictness of her father about Sunday observance and activities and of the good food her Mother cooked. She writes with an innocence and cheerful outlook that remained with her all the days of her life. Even the primitive conditions under which they lived were looked back on as being the best years of her life. (Ezekiel still harvested wheat with a cradle 30 plus years after the McCormick reaper was invented.) So we know by these readings that Ezekiel and Sarah made a happy, if strict, home for their children and by the time they moved to Texas Eudora Lee, Oscar, Homer, Frederick and Robert, the last child, had been born.
After living in Arkansas from 1869 till the last of 1883 (14 years), they moved. As Eudora tells it, "Father sold our home. He decided to go to Texas. He got two good wagons ready." Remember where the Duncans went, so did the Pickles and where the Pickles went, so did the Duncans, for Eudora writes that Pickle relatives were already settled in Collin County. There may have been others in the 350 miles trek through the untamed lands of Arkansas and crossing the Arkansas River by flat boat drawn by cables. They had an eventful journey, which you may read in Eudora's writings, and finally crossed the Red River near Denison, Texas. They first went to Nickleville, "a small place in the road" in Collin County. They settled permanently on a farm near Wylie, Texas, where Ezekiel bought farm land. Not much is heard of Sarah Katherine's activities, but I presume she had her hands full caring for her family, for they had few of the conveniences that most society availed themselves of in the late 1800's. Ezekiel was a prominent figure in the community, a prosperous land owning farmer, who served on the school board, was a charter member of the Shiloh Baptist Church, an active member of the Masonic Lodge, and owned and managed a "Staple and Family Grocery Store."
Sarah Katharine Pickle Duncan had a long and painful journey to the other world, dying possibly of tuberculosis December 6, 1918, in Wylie, Texas, at the age of 74.
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