Dedication & Foreword
Originally published in History & Traditions of Clay County
by Robert T. Webb
written & published in 1933
Transribed from the original work by Juli, misspellings and all.
DEDICATION
THIS BOOK is dedicated to the old timers; those first comers and their bonneted women who, every year now, are going quietly away, one by one.
FOREWORD
Contrary to the opinions of the fashionably skeptical, and the county intelligentsia, this book is out. this is a book of history, and, like those objectionable ones of our school age, has dates in it. There will be many mistakes found in the dates.
The collecting of the dates, and the information that clothes htem, was begun ten years too late, for most of the county's early comers are gone. Most of the dates have not been recorded and man' memory, prone to remember what its owner wishes, and fallible as it is, has furnished them. So there will be many errors, and thos of you fond of finding them in the printed word, by all means buy this book; it will give you intense pleasure.
There will be other mistakes, too. Credit for this or that may be often misplaced or no credit given where it is due. Often dates or incidents are left out because of too many conflicts.
I have not commented either in a laudatory way or to great length on the phyusical seductiveness of this county nor on the "progress of enlightenment," be it mechanical or as you will. That is reserved for "puffs" in special editions, and then too, the unfolding of world history comments on it best.
Thanks are due the many old timers who have gone far back to remember this history. Many other, those younger, have helped too. All can not be mentioned here, but I would like to mention "Billie" Cochran, Walter Macon and "Dick" Copeland of Rector; three old timers who helped.
John Morrow, "Cal." Carpenter and John Harris at Boydsville. Uncle Joe Latta of Pollard, and, in Piggott, two young men, C. M. Harris and Victor Wright, both have helped and have long been students of Clay County History.
ROBERT T. WEBB
Piggott, Oct. 21, 1933
Robert T. Webb, Bruce Brown and Patsy Truscott, Publishers.
Shiras Bros. Print Shop, Mtn. Home, Ark.