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Submitted: 4/17/12 • Approved: 4/17/12 • Last Updated: 8/21/12 • R678222-G0-S3
SAUNDERS-PETTIT-CHAPMAN-COOK PLANTATION HOME
This home was built about the year 1848 for John H Saunders and his wife Martha A Pettit Saunders. During the Civil War engagement at Ditch Bayou in 1864 the house was used as a hospital for soldiers of both armies. A number of military dead were buried just west of the house. Antonia H Pettit, sister of Martha Saunders, was reputed to have been the first white child born in Chicot County.
LaRhonda's Note: This was also the site of the Saunders family cemetery, as evidenced by an account written in January 1977 by Harry E Cook, Jr. The article was published in "Tribute to Chicot County, Arkansas" compiled & edited by Sheila Farrell Brannon.
Contributed on 4/17/12 by deltabelle55
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