From Yellville, Arkansas, to Buist: Mathew and Louise Bird
A Buist homesteader who went east on a mission in 1915 married the Arkansas convert he had baptized, and her brother later came to farm at Arbon.
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A Buist homesteader who went east on a mission in 1915 married the Arkansas convert he had baptized, and her brother later came to farm at Arbon.
A grandson of George Arbon and the Arbon schoolteacher he married in 1929 farmed the valley until 1974; the papers marked their 50th and 60th anniversaries and, in 2000, his death.