Isaac "Ike" Erwin

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Isaac "Uncle Newton" Erwin and Phoebe moved to Rhea County and lived there until about 1848 and then moved to Panola County, Texas following James W. Erwin Jr., who had moved to Harris County, Texas a few years earliers (two counties are adjoining)

Isaac Newton Erwin was a tall, lanky man with dark black hair and brown eyes.

In the saw mills in his early years, when there was so much reconstruction and building going on after the Civil War. He was well known for his skill in herbal medicines and had a large book which he used to identify all the different roots and herbs in the forest. It was full of color photographs of each variety and what they could be used for.

He used remedies like turpentine to cure bladder infections. Smartweed juice for itching, blackberry root for kidney infection and bluemast powder to cure a backache. He never went to a doctor and lived to be about 80 years old.

In his later years, Isaac and his wife, Sarah Bigner, would pick strawberries and produce on thier son's farms. His grandson Estus said that they were out there picking every day while he traveled around. He is remembered as a jolly old guy who never drank liquor, but smoked a corncob pipe and had a passion for parched peanuts and coffee. Estus also said that when Isaac got older, he looked just like an old Indian. He had a large hook nose, dark skin and high cheekbones. He was supposed to have been half Scotch-Irish and half Cherokee Indian.

When Estus was little, it was a big job to bring in the wood for the old cook stove. This was a difficult task for such a small boy and his grandfather decided he should gave some sort of cart for getting in the wood. Isaac and his son, Bill, went out into the woods and cut two big round wheels from an old tree stump and bored a hole in each of them. Then they stuck a hickory dowel in between them and built a little bed on top. When Isaac agve the little cart to Estus, he was proud as a peacock and Estus was just thrilled. He used the little cart for many years.

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