Before there were credit cards, Gravette’s McAllisters Grocery had a credit system. It allowed Mitchael’s, and other local families, to buy goods until they sold their crops or livestock. Mitchael tells that ‘A few years ago the Governor [Asa Hutchinson who grew up on a farm near Gravette] came through. I had the pleasure of giving him a tour of the [Gravette Historical Museum] and I was able to show him his father’s account number in the system’.
#1: John Lee Mitchael in Gravette, Arkansas, June 2020
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#2: Jacob Lewis (sitting in buggy), his wife, Lucy behind the buggy), Earnest Brown (on left), unknown man on porch at store and post office building in Old Beaty, ca. 1896
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#3: Beaty Store purchased by Clarence and Thelma Mitchael, located on Beaty Road outside of Gravette, Arkansas; Thanksgiving Day, 1939
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#4: Portrait photos of John Lee Mitchael's paternal ancestors: (top row, l-r) Andrew Jackson Barnes, Martha Alice (Cook) Barnes, Hester Ann (Ward) Mitchael, James Mitchael; (bottom row, l-r) Julia Frances (Barnes) Mitchael, Clarence Alvin "Mitch" Mitchael, Roy Francis Mitchael
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#5: Portrait photos of John Lee Mitchael's maternal ancestors: (top row, l-r) William Ellsworth Crowe, Mariah (Harrison) Crowe, Florence (Manos) Kelley, William Kelley; (botton row) Pearl (Crowe) Kelley, Thelma Pearl (Kelley) Mitchael, John Christopher Kelley
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