ADELAIDE DARDEN PERSON HIGNIGHT ____________________________________________________________ This information graciously contributed by Joe George: jgeorge@northcoast.com You can return to the main table of contents for this Person family document by going to the books section of the Ark. USGW archives. You can also get a full copy of the document by contacting Joe. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. ____________________________________________________________ B10 ADELAlDE DARDEN PERSON was born January 19, 1891 on White Oak mountain, Van Buren County, Arkansas. She was the sixth child of Edward and Jennie Bell Smith Person. The postoffice was Sang. She was named for an Aunt Adelaide Darden Person Drewry of Capron, Virginia. Adelaide attended school on the mountain when she was young. Then later she and her sister Eathel and brother Rueben attended school at Clinton, Appleton and Atkins to finish their education. They made many lifetime friends at these places. She began teaching school at an early age. On November 19, 1913 she married Virgil Duke who was reared at Appleton in Pope County. They never lived together and only Eathel Person, a sister, knew of their differences. Before 1911 Adelaide taught school in Carden Bottom. She was living in the John Person home when C6- Lola Person was born April 30, 19ll. After 1913 she and Eathel went to Little Rock to work in the Marion Hotel where their brother Rueben was employed. They worked as cashiers a year or so. Adelaide had met Morris Hignight in Carden Bottom and she married him on July 30, 1911 when she moved back there. The marriage ceremony was performed in Atkins as they were enroute from White Oak mountain to Carden Bottom. Morris continued to farm near New Hall and she taught school there. Their nephew, C5- James Person, was living there going to school during the great flu epidemic of 1918. The Joe Person family lived close by also. Although almost all of the family were in bed with the flu at the same time, no deaths occurred. Soon after that, Lola stayed with Hignights and attended school. She picked cotton and was paid 13 silver dollars. On the way home to the mountains she bought a pair of Red Goose shoes in Atkins. C12- Dixie Lee Hignight, a son, was born August 15, 1919 and died Agugust 18, 1919. The cause of death was believed to have been kidney poison that Adelaide had at his birth. Interment was in the Bata Mill cemetery near the John Speed Smiths (great grandparents). Some time around 1920 Morris and Adelaide Hignight moved to Lakeview and farmed the Dave Love place. She taught school in Lakeview before they took over the Cotton Town plantation and store in 1924. C6- Lola and C7- Orra Person spent the 1924 winter with them and attended school at Lakeview. In January 1925 they went home to New Hall as their parents had moved there from White Oak mountain. The Lakeview land was considered above the 1927 overflow. On May 6, 1928, C13- Mary Jo Hignight was born to the Hignights. She was delivered by her uncle Dr. Rueben Person who made his home there and practiced medicine. Mary Jo died May 8, 1928 and cause of death was assumed to be also from the kidney poison her mother had. Interment was in Bata Mill cemetery along side her brother, Dixie Lee. The Hignights continued farming and running a general store until around 1940. They built up a good sized estate while living at Lakeview and Cotton Town. They had many friends over the state and visited a lot. They enjoyed attending political rallies and horseracing in Hot Springs. They went on outings with their friends, some of them were Pearl and Leonard Griffin from Centerville, Mary Ella and Dalton Stubbs, Geneva and Joe Gault, Jap and Buford Compton, Lucille and Donald Barger and Eula and Thomps Summerhill. They were in partnership with Burford Compton in buying the old Compton farm at Wing in Yell County. In1941, they sold out the store and farming tools and moved to Wing. They sold gravel and land to the U. S. Government for a fair price. Their illnesses were a drain financially because she was bedridden with her heart trouble for several years. He went into the cattle and chicken business before his health failed. In 1956, Morris had a heart attack and died with a bloodclot in his leg in Baptist Hospital in Little Rock on September 7. His funeral was held on September 9th at their home in Wing. Interment was in the Brearley cemetery in Dardanelle. She continued to farm and kept her cattle but suffered poor health the entire ten years she lived alone as a widow. The Herbert Person farmily lived nearby in Wing. She had heart attacks long before 1953. On Septembr 9, 1955 she had her right breast removed for malignancy. She nursed her heart trouble along only to have cancer return after 11 years and attack the liver. She always entered Baptist Hospital in Little Rock for surgery and moved back to Danville Hospital to recuperate and for minor problems. She preferred Danville because it was near her home and her relatives. She spent the last three months of her life at home bedridden. Cl5- Edith Person spent the nights with her and Louise Person and children were hired to do her cooking and housework. She entered Danville Hospital on January 15th and passed away on January 20, 1966. Funeral was held at Cornwell Chapel in Dardanelle by Rev. Houston Farmer and Anton Uth. Interment was in Brearley cemetery at Dardanelle beside her husband, Morris Hignight, in the Edward Person lots. Her property was willed to her three brothers, John's heirs, Herbert and Joe. Herbert Person passed away on September 10, 1966 thereby leaving his share to his three children. The house furnishings were divided between the John and Herbert Person heirs. She was a great influence on all her relatives lives, from mother, father, brothers, sister to her great nieces and nephews Her passing was greatly felt by all her relatives. She was a member of the Church of Christ, a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Carden Bottom Chapter #240 and also a member of the Danville Lodge at the time of her death.