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Submitted: 5/3/15 • Approved: 5/3/15 • Last Updated: 5/6/15 • R1073743-G1073742-S3
29 Aug 1924 - 18 May 1914
*Obituary
Published 22 May 1913
Forrest City Times
Death of Old Citizen: Mrs.Cynthia A. Parrott, mother of Mrs.H.P.Dooley and who had made her home with Dr. and Mrs.Dooley for some years. In fact since after the death of her husband, Judge John M.Parrott. died Sunday evening, Mary 15,1914, at 5 o'clock of old age and general debility, aged 79 years, 10 months, and 18 days, and was buried in the Forrest City Cemetery on Monday following, Rev.F.W.Gee of the Methodist Church, of which she had been a devout member for forty years officiating. She came to Mt.Vernon in 1841, and has resided in this county since. A short time after coming here she was married to Hon.Gus Johnson, then High Sheriff of this county,when she was sixteen years of age, and three daughters survive her, namely:Mrs.Dooley, Mrs.Geo.W.Martin of Memphis, and Mrs.Ida Miller of Johnson township. Eight grand children survive her, viz three children:Mrs.S.B.Swan, four children of Mrs.Ida Miller, and one child of Mrs.Geo.W.Martin. Hon. Gus Johnson died in 1855?. Some years after the death of her first husband, she married the late Judge John M.Parrott, who was county judge of St.Francis County, who died in 1896. Grandma Parrott was a splendid woman. In her life time she was a kind and indulgent mother, a neighbor who would go to help in sickness or distress. She watched by the bedside of the sick, nursed the babies, and was an invaluable friend. Her death is a great bereavement not only to her devoted relatives, but to scores of other citizens who have at some time or other been the beneficiaries of her kindley administration.
*Forrest City Times Art Souvenir
1905 page 122
Johnson Township is situated in the center of the northern half of the county and contains part of the Crowley's Ridge and some of the St.Francis bottom. It's area is approximately 25,000 acres, or a little more than thirty-eight whole sections. Congress during the early years of Jackson's first administration, provided for the opening of military roads to what was then our Western Territory. The trail from the Chickasaw Bluffs, on the Mississippi river to Arkansas Post, crossed the St.Francis river at a point near the present line between Cross and St.Francis Counties, and continued its course westward on a line nearly parallel with the county line to a point on top of Crowley Ridge. The red man had been charmed by this land before the white man arrived and found a large thriving community of the Cherokee Indians, located at what is now the Jones' farm, on a beautiful clear water, afterward called Village creek from this fact. Plenty of land here was designated for Bounty Land by the U.S.Government surveyors for the soldiers of the war of 1812, and the Indian Wars. It remained status quo until the state was admitted to the Union. The first white settlement is unknown, but some of the first three families related, named Filingrin, Tyer, and Strong appear to be first to locate. Samuel Filigren settled Old Wittsburg about 1798, and shortly after moved down into what is known as Johnson Township. John Johnson, for whom the township was named, came about 1812: the Mays shortly thereafter. The remains of Carnes Alexander along with wife, Mary Alexander, are buried with John Johnson in Loughridge Cemetery, hers being dated 1826, is probably the oldest in the county. The county seat remained in Johnson Township from 1827 to 1840. Wm.Strong and Caleb S.Manley both residents of the township were members from the county to the Constitutional Convention of 1836, and Strong was for three terms Sheriff of the county. John Johnson was for two terms County Judge. J.M.Parrott, clerk from 1842 to 1856; and J.M.Halbert, sheriff from 1840 to 1848, were residents of Johnson Township. In 1838, W.S.Mosly, a resident, went to the legislature. In 1840 W.S.Mosly and Wm.Strong went. In 1842, Dr.C.L.Sullivan, a whig, then a young man and a resident of the township, was sent as one of the members of the legislature. In 1841 W.S.Mosly was appointed prosecuting attorney for the judicial court, and shortly after followed his tragic death due to assassination on one Sunday morning, on the old Helena and Batesville road about a half mile south of the farm known as the Yarbrough Place.
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