| Willie Martin Anglin (son of Thomas Anglin and Mary Holland) |
| Willie Martin Anglin b. June 30, 1910 SpokePlant, Ark. d. May 1, 1995 Mena, Ark. Buried Eagleton Cemetery. Married Nov. 20, 1933 in Polk Co. Ark. to Bonnie Lennis Little. Bonnie b. Mar. 21, 1914 Rich Mt. Ark. Died Sept. 29, 1991 Mena, Ar. Bur Eagleton Cem. |
| Children of Willie Martin Anglin and Bonnie Lennis Little: Nancy Evelyn b. 9-1-1934 Rich Mt. Ark. Mary Francis b. 9-1-1936 Martin b. 4-20-1939 Page, Okla Benny Eugene b. 8-27-1941 Page Okla. d. 9-20-1995 Little River Co. Ar. Bur at Wilton Samanthia Leda b. 9-28-1943 Page, Okla Marvin Lee b. 5-1-1946 Rich Mt. Ark. Barbara Jane b. 7-5-1949 Rich Mt. Ark. Deborah Ann b. 7-28-1951 Rich Mt. Ark. William Frosty b. 8-29-1953 Rich Mt. Ark. Landon Mitchel b. 12-6-1955 Rich Mt. Ark. Bonnie Lynne b. 4-8-1958 Veteran of Operation Desert Storm |
| Willie Martin "Bill" Anglin was a veteran of WW11. He was drafted even though he had 5 children at the time. He worked for the KCS Railroad for many years. He won a contest once by laying 16 railroad ties in one day. After men working for the railroad were replaced by machinery, Bill went to work for the US Forest Service, from which he retired. In the 1970's the men working for the USFS were told to deaden hardwood timber in several areas - 3 of the areas were Rich Mt., Posey Hollow, and Shady. These hardwood trees were to be replaced by pine. Bill, and many of the other USFS employees thought that deadening these huge hardwoods was the craziest thing they'd ever heard of. The men were given "injector guns" filled with herbicide to inject into the trees. Bill, my husband Mike Jackson, and many of the other men filled their injector guns with water. If they couldn't get away with that, they simply "punched" the trees, but didn't inject the herbicide. Hundreds of old hardwoods were saved by these men who had the good sense to do what was right. Bill was a good musician. He had a beautiful baritone voice and could play the banjo, mandolin, and french harp. |
| Killing a Bear In the late 1970's, a huge cinnamon colored bear kept coming to the Anglin residence at Rich Mt. The bear had been trying to make a meal out of the hogs in the pen. The bear had also broken a kitchen window out of the house. Bill Anglin had run the bear off with rocks numerous times, but it kept coming back. Finally, one day he took his .22 rifle out to the hog pen and shot the bear...it ran, but not away. It chased Bill and would have caught him, but their big Airdale dog named "Mutt" attacked the bear and turned it away from Bill. The bear went a few hundred feet and fell over dead. |
| Bonnie Lennis Little and her twin sister, Bessie, were born during a snowstorm in March of 1914. There had been an ice storm and several inches of snow on top of the ice. Maggie Little went into labor the night of the 13th. Her husband, Joshua Little, had to go on foot for help. He had to cross Big Creek to get to the midwife, Granny Sexton, who lived on the other side of the creek. The footbridge across Big Creek was covered in ice and snow, so Josh had to scoot across on his rearend. He made it to the Sextons...they gave him coffee and let him warm up. Josh and Granny Sexton rode the Sexton's big horses and got back to the Little's house about daybreak. Maggie had been in labor by herself most of the night, with two little girls, Ruth and Georgia, to take care of. When she saw Josh and Granny Sexton coming over the hill on the horses, she cried and said, "Thank God!" When Josh and Granny got there, Josh cooked Ruth and Georgia oatmeal for breakfast, and shortly afterward, the two baby girls were born. |
| Bonnie Lennis Little was born at the Rich Mt. Community and lived most of her life there. She and Bill Anglin raised 11 children with no running water, a wood cookstove, a wood heater, and a treadle sewing machine. Bonnie made most of her children's clothes until the late 1960's. She made poodle skirts for her older daughters - designed and made her own poodles to sew on the skirts. She made many quilts from a quilt frame that hung from the living room ceiling. Bonnie loved to read and walk in the woods. She could name most of the plants growing in the area, and knew which ones were edible and could be used for medicine. She made mouth wash from the inner bark of white-oak which was good if you had a sore mouth. She always canned blackberry juice to give for flu and diarrhea. She made poultices of mustard and onion and used turpentine and Vicks salve liberally! She was a pretty good doctor...but she was afraid of medical doctors because her brother had died at the age of five (in 1910) because a doctor had overdosed him on Calamel. His death was a horror story - after the Calamel he became what they called "salivated"...part of the flesh came off his face...the bridge of his nose was left bare. Bonnie attended school at Rich Mt. and finished the eighth grade. She played on the Rich Mt. School's basketball team and also the baseball team. She was a good athlete and could still outrun some of her children when she was fifty years old (and none of us were slow runners). When she was growing up, she made money by working for the neighbors. She also trapped...there was a 50 cent bounty on bobcats...she bought her clothes with her trapping money. Bonnie was a very good cook. She cooked all the time and always had something setting on the stove for her children when they came to visit. |
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| Bonnie Lennis and Willie Martin Anglin |