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Linda McClellan, Innkeeper
Linda McClellan is a native Arkansan and has resided in Mountain Home for 15 years. She is an amateur genealogist, enjoying many hours of research in state archives and libraries. She is a retired educator. Ms. McClellan is a member of the Bed and Breakfast Association of Arkansas and the Professional Association of Innkeepers International.My great grandmother, Martha Emma Turner Petty married Washington Pilgrim on January 7, 1895. This was eight years after her first husband, James Monroe Petty, died. Old Wash courted my great grandma and finally persuaded her to marry him and go to the Ozarks in north Arkansas. He told her about his nice home and all his land, so they took off to Arkansas. Emma still had 3 children at home; Exa, Claudia, and Burley. They were about 14, 10, and 15 at the time. My grandmother, Anna Mae Petty, had already left home by this time.
When they arrived at his “nice” home, she found a poor hovel. That was bad enough, but out came several children to meet them. He had forgotten to mention some small details, like children, as well as totally misrepresenting his entire lifestyle.
He was not at all good to my great grandmother. He even mistreated his own children. She couldn’t farm or raise pigs or cows because he would take the money away from her. However, she began selling some eggs and apples and hiding the money with a plan to leave him when she got enough money. It wouldn’t be hard to slip away from him because he was gone so much of the time. He gambled and drank and probably ran around. Anyway, he would stay gone for days at a time.She lacked just a little money having enough to leave. She sent Aunt Exa to the store with some apples and eggs, and Aunt Exa, being just a little vain, found some pretty clothes she could buy with the money. When she went back to grandma she had clothes and no money, so grandma had to wait a little longer. Finally, she saved enough money to buy a wagon and horse, packed her things and the kids and went back to Pine, Texas.
Wash came to Pine and tried to get her to come back to him, but she remained in Texas running her boarding house. Divorces were almost never heard of at that time, but most everyone was in agreement with her for leaving him.
The exact location in Arkansas we do not know, but her children told my dad about playing in caves. I like to think she came to this same area, and that some day I will find more about her journey to the Ozarks. I suppose she is looking down on me now, laughing a little at how our paths have crossed with careers as a teacher, mother, and innkeeper as I relive a Mountain Memory.
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