Brewer, Lillian Jeannette
&
Summerhill, Elbert Trigg

Mama

Daddy

Mama as a teenager

Daddy as a teenager

My parents lived in the Town of Arkadelphia, Clark Co. AR, on Clay St.
after they married and here their first child was born.  A couple of sons
also entered the world here.  Then they moved to Sweet Hill where two
daughters were born.  This is the hill behind the old Golden's Gin property
where my father worked as a ginner.

In January 1930, he decided to try his hand at farming and they moved
to the tiny community of Lakeview about 7 miles southeast of Arkadelphia.
(close to Studdard Town.)  He raised many crops to support the family
while still maintaining his seasonal job at the gin.  But it was hard work
with few monetary benefits.  Certainly not enough to merit the efforts,
but this was the true life of most farmer's during that era.  Their bodies
wore out early as they paid dear physical prices for their labors.

In January 1940, again the family moved about four miles northeast  of
Arkadelphia to a tributary of the Ouachita River.  Farming was still
  the occupation of choice and we lived here two years.  My remembrances
call forth very few neighbors and no schools.

After the two years, in January 1942, we took up residence in the
Curtis community about nine miles south of Arkadelphia.  Again farming
supplied the family's needs.  Curtis was not far from the Richwoods
community but when you had to walk the distance, it seemed an
awfully long ways.

 We lived in Curtis only a year and then moved into the back of a store in the
Town of Arkadelphia in January 1943.  This, too, was on the banks of the
Ouachita River.  For the first time in the children's lives, we had indoor
plumbing.  It was here we lived in September 1943 when my father was
  accidentally killed in the gin where he had worked for so many years.

The following year after his death, my mother moved her family south to
El Dorado to be near her parents and here she stayed the remainder
of her life.  You can read it all on this site in Mama's Story.

Summerhill's In The Military

Elbert & Lillian's four sons military
service in World War II,
Korean War & Vietnam War.

Elbert & Lillian
Curtis, AR - 1942

Lillian Jeannette Brewer
Summerhill's
Holy Bible Registry

The Holy Bible
Containing The Old and New Testaments
Authorized King James Version
The World Publishing Company
Cleveland and New York

HOLY BIBLE
presented to
Mother
by
Dorothy, Rowland & Mary
Dec. 24 - 1962

Family Register|
p. Elbert Trigg Summerhill
and
Lillian Jeannette Brewer
were united in
HOLY MATRIMONY
on the 10th day of Sept.
in the year of our Lord 1916
at Arkadelphia - Ark.
by
Dr. N. R. Townsend

BIRTHS
p. 2

Elbert Trigg Summerhill, Sr.  March 16 - 1890
Lillian Brewer Summerhill  July  8 - 1897
Dorothy Louise Summerhill  Aug. 16 - 1917
William Franklin Summerhill  Oct. 6 - 1920
Elbert Trigg Summerhill, Jr.  Nov. 24 - 1922
Donald Raymond Summerhill  Dec. 3 - 1924
Elnora Jean Summerhill  May 5 - 1928
Martha Frances Summerhill  Nov. 8, 1929
Aletha Ann Summerhill  Oct. 24, 1932
Edgar Wayne Summerhill  Feb. 25 - 1936

MARRIAGES
p. 3

Dorothy L. Summerhill
&
John Rolan Manning  Feb. 11 - 1939

William F. Summerhill
&
Mary Helen Cunningham  Jan 5, 1948

Elbert T. Summerhill Jr.
&
Frances Marion Pool  Mar - 1948

Elnora J. Summerhill
&
Thomas Otto Lewis  Mar. 5 - 1946

Martha F. Summerhill
&
Richard C. Morgan  July 15 - 1945

Aletha A. Summerhill
&
Winston R. Rogers  June 4 - 1956

MARRIAGES - Cont.  & DEATHS

p. 4

Edgar W. Summerhill
&
Keo

Linda Ruth Manning
&
George Franklin Peters  Feb. 14 - 1959

DEATHS

Donald Raymond Summerhill
Dec. 3 - 1947