A spring one-half mile north of Floyd was known as Barnett
Spring since James C. Barnett settled there before the Civil War on the old
Southwest Trail. It was used by
travelers as a campsite because of the good spring of water. During the war soldiers of both armies
used it and were seen to pass by nearly every day.
Indians going to and from Oklahoma and also gypsies camped here. The last known Indians were a group who
traded horses between the years 1918 and 1920.
About 40 men. women and children with
some
100 head of horses, wagons, tents, etc. spent some time here during the deepest
snow of many years. Floyd Bradberry, Oscar Akin, Elbert
Barnett, Hershel Thompson, Elmer Stracener, Raymond Patton, Fabern Thomas and
Milton Walker, all schoolboys at the time, went to the camp on numerous
occasions to visit with the Indians.
A.C. Webb, who was teaching school at Floyd, and Burl Benton were also among the
number who were attracted to the Indian camp.
It is also recalled that Grover Choate and Floyd Bradberry traded for a horse
and kept it for a number of years after the Indians had gone on their way. The spring is out in a field now and is
used only for watering stock. A
short distance west is a four-grave cemetery in a grove of white oak trees. There are no tombstones but it is known
that Lewis Moore, Susan Carlton Moore, their small son and another child are
buried there.