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Item# 15160
Price: $675
PARACLIFTA / ARK // MAR / 18 [1863] wonderfully struck small cds with manuscript “Paid 10 cts” on small folded letter headed March 16th 1863 to Daniel G. Pipkin, Leaks Store, Ark. From [Dr] James Fears regarding the settling of an estate in which he agrees to accept Confederate money for his medical services. Paraclifta was the site of the first county seat of Sevier County, Arkansas, one of the oldest settlements in the county. Extremely Fine. ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED covers from Paraclifta in the Arkansas census of Confederate Uses by Dr. Bruce Roberts. See http://www.arkph.com/CSAArkansas/CSAStamplessCovers/ArkansasCSAStamplessPPostOffices/tabid/160/Default.aspx $675.
Rev. Daniel Griffin Pipkin (1819-1903) and his wife Julia were prominent in Arkansas public affairs. They walked from Alabama to Arkansas in 1842 along with others. A long genealogical history may be found at http://www.pipkinusa.org/rosie/7.pdf
Dr. James Fears is listed as 51 year old physician in the 1860 census, born in Georgia and showing nine others in his household with an estate worth $13,000.