Source: I Remember Shover Springs - A Collection of Remembrances of Shover Springs, Arkansas

"My father and mother had been baptized into the Church of Christ just before they left Alabama. So, there was not a Church of Christ at Shover or in Arkansas. My father sent back to Alabama on year, don't remember when, probably 1912 or thereabouts, for a minister to come and hold a meeting. My father and my 3 brothers built an arbor at Shover for the meeting and that was the beginning of the Church of Christ in that part of Arkansas. Went to the Rosston road, called "Big Scuffle" later, and founded a church."

"My dad bought the old Kennedy place at Shover, a big house, four bedrooms, kitchen and dining room, a large long wide hall. We had lots of room and on Sundays friends and preachers gathered for fried chicken, sugar cured ham and home baked pies for dinner."

"My father had his own blacksmith shop by our house. I used to pump the bellows for him."

"As to chores - in our family, we all did chores - worked in the fields, fed and milked the cows, churned the milk into butter - my mother taught all us girls to cook, sew, clean house, do the washing and ironing, etc. In fact, we NEVER ran out of chores to do. A trip into Hope on a Saturday in the buggy was quite an event."

"Fun and entertainment? Well, there wasn't much of either -- too much fun or entertainment was considered a sin then."


--Lucille Simmons Crowder

