From Leake County History, Its People and Places,
Leake County Historical Society, 1984
Leake Co., MS

P. 133 Article 177 (Top of middle column)

Letter from W.W. Arnett, a resident of Brackett, TX, written in June 1886

``... My father, David Arnett, moved into the Choctaw Purchase the same year that the Indians moved to Arkansas. We camped in an Old Indian field on the 24th night of December 1830 or '31. (In another letter He said: `My father, mother, myself and Co. camped where Carthage now is, on the 24th night of December, 1831.') Two indian cabins were standing in the old field, and were inhabited by old Shade Emmonds and Bill Lewis. They seemed to have but little at the time, but two years after, I heard Lewis tell my father that he and Emmons had both got rich swapping Indian prices (pieces?) with each other. This old field afterward became Carthage and is so to this time....''