Cordelia Wilder Scull

Cordelia was the first white child born in Hot Spring County.

Source: the Arkansas Gazette Jan 5, 1860

A GOOD FARM FOR SALE KNOWN as the REYBURN PLACE, 40 miles south-west of Little Rock, on the Military Road leading to Fulton, on the Red river. Belong to the place are about 500 acres of good creek Bottom land & 150 acres in cultivation. On the place is an A No. 1 dwelling house, two stories high, good Kitchen, Smoke house, Well house & Negro cabins, first-rate cribs & Stables, and four good wells of excellent water. It is known by the traveling community as one of the very best Tavern stands on the road. The locality of the place is superior to any other as a place of entertainment; it is situated 40 miles from Little Rock, 35 miles from Arkadelphia, 80 miles from Washington, 40 miles from Princeton & 20 miles from Hot Springs. The road leading to the Hot Springs leaves the mail road at this Place. It is known by the name of Fair Play, P. O. , as laid down on Langtree's Map of Arkansas. The above farm will be sold on good terms. For further information apply to the subscriber on the place, or Mr. S. H. Tucker at Little Rock.

• *** From a letter written to Felice Scull Lewis from Samuel Wallace Reyburn on July 18, 1933.

In those early days there was a school at Magnet Cove & these children attended there & then Cordelia went to the Convent at Little Rock for a number of years. Her mother died on September 8, 1849, at Fair Play, to which point the family had moved about 1840. At that time Cordelia was 14 years old & the oldest girl. Cordelia, being the oldest daughter, probably helped her father with the younger girls. I have heard, however, that her father offered her the opportunity to go to Philadelphia to school, but she declined it. However, Mary Jane--"Aunt Jamie" did go to Philadelphia to school.