Salina Dukes McGuyer was known as "Mother" McGuyer.
Information from family Bible of Salina Dukes McGuyer and of Benjamin Frank McGuyer.
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Salina Dukes McGuyer, second wife of Cornelius Butcher McGuyer, was noted as utterly fearless. While being ferried across the Arkansas River she and others were attacked by an Indian raiding party. While women loaded rifles she took one, found a "big braggart" who had hidden under cover and threatened to shoot him if he didn't help fight.
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Salina, with her mother, father and two sisters came from Illinois to Delta County, Texas. Salina taught school at Giles Academy, then at Tetchmer school, a subscription school, two miles southeast of Charleston. About that time, a school was built nearer to Charleston, where she taught , probably in 1856.
Salina's family was in need of a bucket for water and bought the last bucket the merchant had. It had been used to store arsenic, a poison which was used to kill rats. The bucket had absorbed arsenic, and two of the sisters died after drinking water from it. The mother never drank much water, and Salina was away at school in the daytime. The merchant soon left town, as he was blamed for the deaths.
C. B. and Salina built a home northeast of Charleston, and they had ten children, six lived to adulthood. They were Feraba Emma Estella (my great-grandmother), Gid, Mary, Henry, Lucinda and Frank. The original home was destroyed by a tornado about 1933. Salina studied all the medical books she could obtain, and assisted doctors in their work when needed. It was from her that the knowledge has been passed on of the dangers of improper use of medicine.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870-1991 -
In 1860, a log building, located near the present county barn site, was used as a school. Salina Dukes McGuyer taught there one year.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870 - 1991 -
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Information from family Bible of Salina Dukes McGuyer and of Benjamin Frank McGuyer.
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Salina Dukes McGuyer, second wife of Cornelius Butcher McGuyer, was noted as utterly fearless. While being ferried across the Arkansas River she and others were attacked by an Indian raiding party. While women loaded rifles she took one, found a "big braggart" who had hidden under cover and threatened to shoot him if he didn't help fight.
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Salina, with her mother, father and two sisters came from Illinois to Delta County, Texas. Salina taught school at Giles Academy, then at Tetchmer school, a subscription school, two miles southeast of Charleston. About that time, a school was built nearer to Charleston, where she taught , probably in 1856.
Salina's family was in need of a bucket for water and bought the last bucket the merchant had. It had been used to store arsenic, a poison which was used to kill rats. The bucket had absorbed arsenic, and two of the sisters died after drinking water from it. The mother never drank much water, and Salina was away at school in the daytime. The merchant soon left town, as he was blamed for the deaths.
C. B. and Salina built a home northeast of Charleston, and they had ten children, six lived to adulthood. They were Feraba Emma Estella (my great-grandmother), Gid, Mary, Henry, Lucinda and Frank. The original home was destroyed by a tornado about 1933. Salina studied all the medical books she could obtain, and assisted doctors in their work when needed. It was from her that the knowledge has been passed on of the dangers of improper use of medicine.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870-1991 -
In 1860, a log building, located near the present county barn site, was used as a school. Salina Dukes McGuyer taught there one year.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870 - 1991 -
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Salina Dukes McGuyer was known as "Mother" McGuyer.
Information from family Bible of Salina Dukes McGuyer and of Benjamin Frank McGuyer.
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Salina Dukes McGuyer, second wife of Cornelius Butcher McGuyer, was noted as utterly fearless. While being ferried across the Arkansas River she and others were attacked by an Indian raiding party. While women loaded rifles she took one, found a "big braggart" who had hidden under cover and threatened to shoot him if he didn't help fight.
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Salina, with her mother, father and two sisters came from Illinois to Delta County, Texas. Salina taught school at Giles Academy, then at Tetchmer school, a subscription school, two miles southeast of Charleston. About that time, a school was built nearer to Charleston, where she taught , probably in 1856.
Salina's family was in need of a bucket for water and bought the last bucket the merchant had. It had been used to store arsenic, a poison which was used to kill rats. The bucket had absorbed arsenic, and two of the sisters died after drinking water from it. The mother never drank much water, and Salina was away at school in the daytime. The merchant soon left town, as he was blamed for the deaths.
C. B. and Salina built a home northeast of Charleston, and they had ten children, six lived to adulthood. They were Feraba Emma Estella (my great-grandmother), Gid, Mary, Henry, Lucinda and Frank. The original home was destroyed by a tornado about 1933. Salina studied all the medical books she could obtain, and assisted doctors in their work when needed. It was from her that the knowledge has been passed on of the dangers of improper use of medicine.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870-1991 -
In 1860, a log building, located near the present county barn site, was used as a school. Salina Dukes McGuyer taught there one year.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870 - 1991 -
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Information from family Bible of Salina Dukes McGuyer and of Benjamin Frank McGuyer.
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Salina Dukes McGuyer, second wife of Cornelius Butcher McGuyer, was noted as utterly fearless. While being ferried across the Arkansas River she and others were attacked by an Indian raiding party. While women loaded rifles she took one, found a "big braggart" who had hidden under cover and threatened to shoot him if he didn't help fight.
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Salina, with her mother, father and two sisters came from Illinois to Delta County, Texas. Salina taught school at Giles Academy, then at Tetchmer school, a subscription school, two miles southeast of Charleston. About that time, a school was built nearer to Charleston, where she taught , probably in 1856.
Salina's family was in need of a bucket for water and bought the last bucket the merchant had. It had been used to store arsenic, a poison which was used to kill rats. The bucket had absorbed arsenic, and two of the sisters died after drinking water from it. The mother never drank much water, and Salina was away at school in the daytime. The merchant soon left town, as he was blamed for the deaths.
C. B. and Salina built a home northeast of Charleston, and they had ten children, six lived to adulthood. They were Feraba Emma Estella (my great-grandmother), Gid, Mary, Henry, Lucinda and Frank. The original home was destroyed by a tornado about 1933. Salina studied all the medical books she could obtain, and assisted doctors in their work when needed. It was from her that the knowledge has been passed on of the dangers of improper use of medicine.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870-1991 -
In 1860, a log building, located near the present county barn site, was used as a school. Salina Dukes McGuyer taught there one year.
- copied from the Delta County History 1870 - 1991 -
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