I wish to give credit to my Aunt Sarah Huckabee, 86 years old, for this report about Cowell, Arkansas. Also would like to give credit to my father Houston Columbus Snow, 84 years old, and my Aunt Grace Lucille Watson 80 years old. These three are the only living members of the Calvin Houston Snow family. They hope they haven't missed any of the old settlers of Pleasant Hill which is now Cowell. It was first known as Snow.

Early Settlers Before 1887:
Elson?
Midcalf?
Mitchel ?
Norton. Jeff
Slusher?
Sparks, Baz
Snow C. Houston
Hendrix, Tom
After 1887:
Huckabe, Tom
Nesbit. Sam
Sain, ?
Rhyms, Garet
York, Hue
Burdine, John
Cheatem?
Humphery, John
Asher, Jim
Thomas, John
Thornsberry ?
Hudson, Allen
Holt?
Davis, Henderson
Freeman, Rye
Taylor, Bill
Holland, George
Boys, Ann
Tate, John
Huckabe, Tom
Johnson, Jim, Joe, Jess
Lee, George
Light, Bob
Cowell, Bennett
Freeman, Jim, Bill
Plumlie, Dent
Harris, Sam

My aunt Sarah tells me that the first person buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery was Ann Davis, an infant daughter of Aunt Martha Ann Davis. She doesn't remember who gave the land for the cemetery. She said that she heard of a decoration there a few years back the speaker says that Luth Rhymes gave the land but she says (and Dad says) that this is not true. The cemetery was there a long time before Luth Rhymes time. So, someone goofed. She said she wanted to correct the fellow, but didn't have an opportunity. The listeners were given an incorrect statement.

There is also a small cemetery on the hill about 1/2 mile North. Uncle Allen Hudson donated the land for that cemetery. I think it an older cemetery. Most of the Hendrixes were buried there, Aunt Sarah tells me. Why two cemeteries so close? I have not the answer.

My Aunt Bertie Lambden knows all the people buried there except one brother whose wife buried him in Virginia.

Mother and her youngest sister, Emma Wheeler are the only two members still living of the George and Anna Lamden family. Aunt Emma lives at Harrison, Arkansas.

My grandfather, Calvin Houston Snow was called Houston except when he used his initials C. H. Snow. Houston was the first son of Stephen Coe Snow and Emely Jane Johnson Snow.

Houston was born at Forsythe, Taney County, Missouri on 18 March 1857. Houston was about 8 years old when he lost his father. Emely had two other small children, Sarah and William Snow. She lost an infant baby named Kuimia due to starvation during the Civil War. When the Bushwhackers would come in and take their food from them.

Stephen Coe Snow and a few other men had gone to Springfield, Mo. on business pertaining to their mustering out of the Civil War when Stephen took sick with cholera and died on September 25, 1865.

He was buried near Springfield in a veteran's cemetery. When his wife Emely received word of his death and burial, she got a neighbor to take care of her three children and rode horseback to where her sister Celia Casey lived and had her brother-in-law, Anthony Casey to go with her and move her children and her personal belongings to Buffalo. Emely reared her three children with the help of a good neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hudson, known as Uncle Sam Hudson. Mr. Hudson furnished them work and he educated my grandfather, Calvin Houston with two or three of his own sons to become lawyers and they all made preachers instead. Emely Jane remained a widow until her death in 1920. She was buried in Adams cemetery north of Lutherville in Johnson County.

Calvin Houston Snow, at the age of 21, married Jane Ann Owen on June 10, 1879. Jane was born on the old McQue (McHughes) place in Parthenon and grew up in that community. Houston was raised about 5 miles between Buffalo and Jasper. After Houston and Jane were married they lived in Harrison where their four children were born. My father says he can remember hearing his father telling why they left Harrison. There came an earthquake and the mountains creaked and popped, big bluffs fell off. This went on for two or three days. Several families, including my grandfather Houston, decided it was time to move. So this is why they sojourned to Cowell in Pleasant Hill township.

Houston homesteaded 159 acres of land with a nice apple orchard. Here was an ideal place to raise a dozen children, although they lost two small children who are burried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. But, the other ten lived to be grown and each married and had children and are scattered from east to west coast. Houston lived to hunt and was considered a great hunter. He would kill wild deer, bear, and turkeys. He would take the hams of the deer to Russellville to sell. The hams were called saddlings. He would then purchase kerosene, coffee, tobacco, matches, soda, thread and many other items which were needed in raising a large family of children. In the fall of the year, my grandfather would load up a wagon with nice red and yellow apples and let my father Columbus drive the team and go with Uncle Bob Light to Hot Springs to a Fair to sell apples. This was about 1908. Dad being 13 years old, he soon learned he was not to follow Uncle Bob Light so he took off on his own and had much better luck. Dad learned early if he was to be a good salesman or peddler, he had to let folks have a sample of his choice apples. Then he could sure make a sale.

My grandmother Jane was a small but very industrious little woman. And made sure her children worked and went to school to obtain a better education than she had. She would work in the wee hours of the morning to see that each had good warm socks or stockings which were knitted from the wool sheared from their flock of sheep. She also had a loom and would weave her own cloth from cotton and wool to make the children's clothing. My dad will never forget this as he was a small lad and just the right size to pick up the broken threads for his mother to tie together before continuing weaving. Real burden for a small boy who had rather play.

Houston Snow was a school teacher. Taught in a little one-room log school house in Pleasant Hill. There were soon too many pupils and a large log house was built where the cemetery is now. Years later it was torn down and a new lumber school building was built where the first little log house stood. The lumber one is the one where the picture was taken. Houston also taught at Richland east of Lurton. He served as a Justice of the Peace several terms and was also Post Master at Snow, later Cowell, for 26 years. He resigned as postmaster when he moved to Johnson County in 1917. My grandfather was a minister of the United Baptist Church. He preached his last sermon in Oklahoma not long before his death.

Houston and Jane lived in Johnson County from 1917 to 1922 then went to Ada, Oklahoma near some of their children and lived in Oklahoma until their death. Both were buried in a cemetery near Norman, Oklahoma.

OLD COWELL CEMETERY
This cemetery is located behind the general store on highway 7 on top of a hill. The names listed below were recorded May 8th, 1968. There are approximately 35 unmarked graves. Copied by Helen Hilty and Elsie Bennett, Jasper, Arkansas

James Blackwood. D. Jan. 10, 1876, Age 70 years
Linda Hendrix, Wife of J.B., B. Jul 10, 1887, D. May?, 1908
Infant son of J.B. and Linda Hendrix, Born and died Apr. 5, 1908
Lorena Hendrix, Wife of J.B., B. Sept. 6, 1883, D. Jan. 10, 1904
Elizabeth Hendrix, B. 1842, D. 189?
Infant daughter of Mr. and L.E. Hendrix, Born and died July 20, 1908
Martha A. Jones, Wife of J.R., Nov. 27, 1835, Oct. 6, 1179
Anna D. Light, Daughter of Robert and Thillitha, B. Feb. 12, 1886, D. June 8, 1913
Robert Light, Feb. 12, 1852, Feb. 8, 1934, Married to Thillitha Patton Dec. 6, 1877
Thuiitha Light, B. 1850, D. 1936
Dewie Lambden, B. Sept. 1920, D. Nov. 2, 1920
J.R. Pack, B. June 1, 1847, D. Aug.?, 1876
William Austin Mitchell, D. June 1898
Suritte Clara, Bonnie, Vera. These seemed to be three children.
Eric B. Wheeler, B. Nov. 1, 1865, D. March 4, 1856, Son of T. and C. Wheeler.

NEW COWELL CEMETERY
This cemetery is located approximately one mile south of Cowell between highway 7 and the old highway. The entrance to the cemetery is on the old highway. The names listed below were recorded May 8th, 1968. There are approximately 50 unmarked or illegible graves. Copied by Helen B. Hilty and Elsie Bennett, Jasper, Arkansas.