Son of Samuel Chester Linville and Charity Adeline Meador/Meadows of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Although I have seen other information from researchers who stated his middle name as Isaac Harrison, according to his wife, Mae Linville, and daughter Monila Linville Lunsford, his middle initial "P" did not stand for anything further, only the initial "P". I would suspect, that if his parents had originally given him a middle name beginning with "P", it would have been Pleasant, named after his Linville grandfather.
THE EARLE ENTERPRISE, EARLE, ARKANSAS:
September, 1972
CAME HERE IN COVERED WAGON
'Uncle John' Linville dies; was early settler
One of Earle's earliest settlers, John P. Linville, died Thursday, Sept. 23, at his home south of the city following a brief illness.
Mr. Linville, who was known to many area residents as "Uncle John", was born March 16, 1888, in Logan County, Ky. In June of 1900 the family began its journey from Kentucky to Arkansas by covered wagon, arriving nine miles north of Earle, on the J. W. Hood farm, almost four months later.
Bad luck had plagued them on the trip, due to a horse trade Mr. Linville's father had made. The elder Linville had traded two mules for three horses, who died as they got near Nashville, Tenn.
Thinking they were without funds to continue, the Linvilles were convinced they were stranded in Nashville, when John P. came to the rescue by pulling out a bill which he had found crumpled up in a pile of shavings in his father's shop, then put it in his overall pocket.
Hearing his father and older brothers talk of their plight, John P. took the bill from his pocket and showed it to them. It turned out to be $100, and it saved the day.
With the providential hundred dollars, the family purchased two mules and enough supplies to see them through, then renewed their journey, crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis on a ferry.
The family unloaded its wagons on the Hood farm nine miles north of Earle, where two sisters had married and settled there a year earlier.
Their first home after their long journey was a two-room log cabin. At the time the Linvilles arrived in Earle, the only clearings were small, set among the woods and swamps. The only route was a wagon trail, and it took four mules to pull a wagon into Earle in the winter months, when the main street of the town was axle-deep in mud. There was one store, located where the Bernard gin now stands.
John P. was 12 years old when he came to Earle, but he helped clear out more farming land in the summer, and trapped and hunted in the winter, using clubs to kill his game after catching it. Later he made a trap gun from a .22 barrel, using pieces of hickory log to fashion the stock and other parts of the weapon.
In 1914, he joined the Pentecostal Church during a revival that was held in a little schoolhouse on the edge of a clearing. He was baptized in the Tyronza River by the Rev. Jack A. David. After the revival ended, he would travel in a team with family and friends to the Gibson Bayou Church, leaving home in the afternoon to make the trip.
When the roads were begun in the county, John P. bought a wagon and a team and began hauling gravel for the ends of bridges. Then, in 1920, he began his work as a blacksmith. He also served as a gunsmith and a horseshoer, becoming well-known for his craftsmanship.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Sept. 25, at 2:30 p.m. at the Citizens's Funeral Home at West Memphis. Burial followed in Gibson Bayou Cemetery [with an open coffin ceremony for those old timers who were unable to make the trip to West Memphis for the funeral].
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Betty Linville; two sons, Johnnie Linville of Hedley, Tex., and Leslie Linville of Bald Knob; a daughter, Mrs. Monila Lunsford of Earle, and a stepson, Joe Winders, of Earle.
THE EARLE ENTERPRISE, EARLE, ARKANSAS:
September, 1972
CAME HERE IN COVERED WAGON
'Uncle John' Linville dies; was early settler
One of Earle's earliest settlers, John P. Linville, died Thursday, Sept. 23, at his home south of the city following a brief illness.
Mr. Linville, who was known to many area residents as "Uncle John", was born March 16, 1888, in Logan County, Ky. In June of 1900 the family began its journey from Kentucky to Arkansas by covered wagon, arriving nine miles north of Earle, on the J. W. Hood farm, almost four months later.
Bad luck had plagued them on the trip, due to a horse trade Mr. Linville's father had made. The elder Linville had traded two mules for three horses, who died as they got near Nashville, Tenn.
Thinking they were without funds to continue, the Linvilles were convinced they were stranded in Nashville, when John P. came to the rescue by pulling out a bill which he had found crumpled up in a pile of shavings in his father's shop, then put it in his overall pocket.
Hearing his father and older brothers talk of their plight, John P. took the bill from his pocket and showed it to them. It turned out to be $100, and it saved the day.
With the providential hundred dollars, the family purchased two mules and enough supplies to see them through, then renewed their journey, crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis on a ferry.
The family unloaded its wagons on the Hood farm nine miles north of Earle, where two sisters had married and settled there a year earlier.
Their first home after their long journey was a two-room log cabin. At the time the Linvilles arrived in Earle, the only clearings were small, set among the woods and swamps. The only route was a wagon trail, and it took four mules to pull a wagon into Earle in the winter months, when the main street of the town was axle-deep in mud. There was one store, located where the Bernard gin now stands.
John P. was 12 years old when he came to Earle, but he helped clear out more farming land in the summer, and trapped and hunted in the winter, using clubs to kill his game after catching it. Later he made a trap gun from a .22 barrel, using pieces of hickory log to fashion the stock and other parts of the weapon.
In 1914, he joined the Pentecostal Church during a revival that was held in a little schoolhouse on the edge of a clearing. He was baptized in the Tyronza River by the Rev. Jack A. David. After the revival ended, he would travel in a team with family and friends to the Gibson Bayou Church, leaving home in the afternoon to make the trip.
When the roads were begun in the county, John P. bought a wagon and a team and began hauling gravel for the ends of bridges. Then, in 1920, he began his work as a blacksmith. He also served as a gunsmith and a horseshoer, becoming well-known for his craftsmanship.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Sept. 25, at 2:30 p.m. at the Citizens's Funeral Home at West Memphis. Burial followed in Gibson Bayou Cemetery [with an open coffin ceremony for those old timers who were unable to make the trip to West Memphis for the funeral].
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Betty Linville; two sons, Johnnie Linville of Hedley, Tex., and Leslie Linville of Bald Knob; a daughter, Mrs. Monila Lunsford of Earle, and a stepson, Joe Winders, of Earle.
Son of Samuel Chester Linville and Charity Adeline Meador/Meadows of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Although I have seen other information from researchers who stated his middle name as Isaac Harrison, according to his wife, Mae Linville, and daughter Monila Linville Lunsford, his middle initial "P" did not stand for anything further, only the initial "P". I would suspect, that if his parents had originally given him a middle name beginning with "P", it would have been Pleasant, named after his Linville grandfather.
THE EARLE ENTERPRISE, EARLE, ARKANSAS:
September, 1972
CAME HERE IN COVERED WAGON
'Uncle John' Linville dies; was early settler
One of Earle's earliest settlers, John P. Linville, died Thursday, Sept. 23, at his home south of the city following a brief illness.
Mr. Linville, who was known to many area residents as "Uncle John", was born March 16, 1888, in Logan County, Ky. In June of 1900 the family began its journey from Kentucky to Arkansas by covered wagon, arriving nine miles north of Earle, on the J. W. Hood farm, almost four months later.
Bad luck had plagued them on the trip, due to a horse trade Mr. Linville's father had made. The elder Linville had traded two mules for three horses, who died as they got near Nashville, Tenn.
Thinking they were without funds to continue, the Linvilles were convinced they were stranded in Nashville, when John P. came to the rescue by pulling out a bill which he had found crumpled up in a pile of shavings in his father's shop, then put it in his overall pocket.
Hearing his father and older brothers talk of their plight, John P. took the bill from his pocket and showed it to them. It turned out to be $100, and it saved the day.
With the providential hundred dollars, the family purchased two mules and enough supplies to see them through, then renewed their journey, crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis on a ferry.
The family unloaded its wagons on the Hood farm nine miles north of Earle, where two sisters had married and settled there a year earlier.
Their first home after their long journey was a two-room log cabin. At the time the Linvilles arrived in Earle, the only clearings were small, set among the woods and swamps. The only route was a wagon trail, and it took four mules to pull a wagon into Earle in the winter months, when the main street of the town was axle-deep in mud. There was one store, located where the Bernard gin now stands.
John P. was 12 years old when he came to Earle, but he helped clear out more farming land in the summer, and trapped and hunted in the winter, using clubs to kill his game after catching it. Later he made a trap gun from a .22 barrel, using pieces of hickory log to fashion the stock and other parts of the weapon.
In 1914, he joined the Pentecostal Church during a revival that was held in a little schoolhouse on the edge of a clearing. He was baptized in the Tyronza River by the Rev. Jack A. David. After the revival ended, he would travel in a team with family and friends to the Gibson Bayou Church, leaving home in the afternoon to make the trip.
When the roads were begun in the county, John P. bought a wagon and a team and began hauling gravel for the ends of bridges. Then, in 1920, he began his work as a blacksmith. He also served as a gunsmith and a horseshoer, becoming well-known for his craftsmanship.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Sept. 25, at 2:30 p.m. at the Citizens's Funeral Home at West Memphis. Burial followed in Gibson Bayou Cemetery [with an open coffin ceremony for those old timers who were unable to make the trip to West Memphis for the funeral].
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Betty Linville; two sons, Johnnie Linville of Hedley, Tex., and Leslie Linville of Bald Knob; a daughter, Mrs. Monila Lunsford of Earle, and a stepson, Joe Winders, of Earle.
THE EARLE ENTERPRISE, EARLE, ARKANSAS:
September, 1972
CAME HERE IN COVERED WAGON
'Uncle John' Linville dies; was early settler
One of Earle's earliest settlers, John P. Linville, died Thursday, Sept. 23, at his home south of the city following a brief illness.
Mr. Linville, who was known to many area residents as "Uncle John", was born March 16, 1888, in Logan County, Ky. In June of 1900 the family began its journey from Kentucky to Arkansas by covered wagon, arriving nine miles north of Earle, on the J. W. Hood farm, almost four months later.
Bad luck had plagued them on the trip, due to a horse trade Mr. Linville's father had made. The elder Linville had traded two mules for three horses, who died as they got near Nashville, Tenn.
Thinking they were without funds to continue, the Linvilles were convinced they were stranded in Nashville, when John P. came to the rescue by pulling out a bill which he had found crumpled up in a pile of shavings in his father's shop, then put it in his overall pocket.
Hearing his father and older brothers talk of their plight, John P. took the bill from his pocket and showed it to them. It turned out to be $100, and it saved the day.
With the providential hundred dollars, the family purchased two mules and enough supplies to see them through, then renewed their journey, crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis on a ferry.
The family unloaded its wagons on the Hood farm nine miles north of Earle, where two sisters had married and settled there a year earlier.
Their first home after their long journey was a two-room log cabin. At the time the Linvilles arrived in Earle, the only clearings were small, set among the woods and swamps. The only route was a wagon trail, and it took four mules to pull a wagon into Earle in the winter months, when the main street of the town was axle-deep in mud. There was one store, located where the Bernard gin now stands.
John P. was 12 years old when he came to Earle, but he helped clear out more farming land in the summer, and trapped and hunted in the winter, using clubs to kill his game after catching it. Later he made a trap gun from a .22 barrel, using pieces of hickory log to fashion the stock and other parts of the weapon.
In 1914, he joined the Pentecostal Church during a revival that was held in a little schoolhouse on the edge of a clearing. He was baptized in the Tyronza River by the Rev. Jack A. David. After the revival ended, he would travel in a team with family and friends to the Gibson Bayou Church, leaving home in the afternoon to make the trip.
When the roads were begun in the county, John P. bought a wagon and a team and began hauling gravel for the ends of bridges. Then, in 1920, he began his work as a blacksmith. He also served as a gunsmith and a horseshoer, becoming well-known for his craftsmanship.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Sept. 25, at 2:30 p.m. at the Citizens's Funeral Home at West Memphis. Burial followed in Gibson Bayou Cemetery [with an open coffin ceremony for those old timers who were unable to make the trip to West Memphis for the funeral].
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Betty Linville; two sons, Johnnie Linville of Hedley, Tex., and Leslie Linville of Bald Knob; a daughter, Mrs. Monila Lunsford of Earle, and a stepson, Joe Winders, of Earle.
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