I have been unable to locate her husband's final resting place, and am therefore unable to link them at this time.
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Montford Arthur was a prominent figure in the rice industry in Jennings, Louisiana during the 1920s. The rice industry in the southwestern coastal prairies of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas was a revolutionary development that transformed the region from a sparsely populated area to a rich farmland based on a highly sophisticated rice industry ¹. The development of the rice industry can be attributed to a host of events and circumstances, all of which impinged upon a central event - the completion of a railroad through the prairies of Louisiana and Texas. Cumulatively, it was the advent of the railroad, the availability of cheap land, land development and speculation, immigration, mechanization, varietal improvements, and industry-wide made possible the dramatic conversion of into productive farms ¹.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/9/2023
(1) Rice Revolution in the Southwest, 1880-1910 - JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030706.
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There are conflicting records of her date of birth. According to her obituary, she was 79 when she died in September of 1947.
I have been unable to locate her husband's final resting place, and am therefore unable to link them at this time.
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Montford Arthur was a prominent figure in the rice industry in Jennings, Louisiana during the 1920s. The rice industry in the southwestern coastal prairies of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas was a revolutionary development that transformed the region from a sparsely populated area to a rich farmland based on a highly sophisticated rice industry ¹. The development of the rice industry can be attributed to a host of events and circumstances, all of which impinged upon a central event - the completion of a railroad through the prairies of Louisiana and Texas. Cumulatively, it was the advent of the railroad, the availability of cheap land, land development and speculation, immigration, mechanization, varietal improvements, and industry-wide made possible the dramatic conversion of into productive farms ¹.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/9/2023
(1) Rice Revolution in the Southwest, 1880-1910 - JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030706.
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There are conflicting records of her date of birth. According to her obituary, she was 79 when she died in September of 1947.
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