Jenny Lind, Ar.
Excerpts from History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas by Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1887
The settlement in the JENNY LIND and Greenwood vicinity did not begin until c.1850.
Thomas Yadon was the first postmaster. (JENNY LIND kept its post office off and on until 1959.) Eaton Tatum at whose house Sebastian Co
was organized, came from Missouri and settles at JENNY LIND in 1843 . At that time there were settlements, in addition to those named, at
Greenwood, Hodges Prairie, Mazzard Prairie and in the Sugar Loaf Valley. The only settlers then at Greenwood were Reuben Coker and his two
brothers, Henry and John, and Coleman Norris, and Dr. Allen was the only one in Sugar Loaf Valley. On Mazzard Prairie were
Jesse Ross and Samuel Caldwell, James J. Baker, now a merchant in, settled at JENNY LIND in 1845. His nearest neighbors were
then Maj. Tatum of that place;
John G. Little, who lived less than a mile east there of; the widow Welty and her sons, John and Henry who lived on Vasche
Grass, two and a half miles northeast.
The creation of Sebastian County was approved by the General Assembly on January 10, 1851, and when the County Commissioners met
at JENNY LIND in May 1851, they decided to locate the county seat on forty acres of land donated by Rueben Coker. They also decided
to name the new seat of justice Greenwood
The selected commissioners met at JENNY LIND in May 1851, and located the seat of justice on forty acres of land lying in Section 12, Township 6N,
Range 31W and donated by Reuben Coker for that purpose. They also named the place Greenwood.
Sebastian County originally extended clear across, and included the western part of Scott, and also a small portion of the northwestern part of
Polk. In the convention of 1861 the southern boundary of the county was fixed, by ordinance, on the Poteau Mountains, and the territory taken
from Scott and Polk Counties was restored. The act creating the county located the temporary seat of justice at the house of Eaton Tatum,
who afterward laid out a town there, which, upon the suggestion of Charles A. Hinkly, a memor of the bar, was named JENNY LIND, in honor of
the celebrated songstress of that name. The county, as it was then composed, embraced Big Creek, Upper and Sugar Loaf Townships of the parent
county, Crawford.
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