Mr. John McCullough and son, Robert, of the Atoka vicinity, were visitors here Friday.  While here the former qualified as administrator of the estate of his sister, Miss K. E. McCullough.

Mr. McCullough stated that a little more than 65 years ago a party of 29 people emigrated from Chester village, S. C., coming through the country in wagons, and it took them seven weeks to make the journey.  In this party were the McCullough family, the English family, the McCormick family, and John Tinkler, all good sturdy Scotch-Irish stock.  Some of them settled in the Salem, some in the Egypt and some in the Mt. Zion vicinities.

These were the pioneers and they left their impress on the communities in which they settled, and their sons and daughters have always been and are still among the most prominent and respected people of the communities which they helped to develop.

Mr. McCullough stated the Mr. John McCormick, now living near Barretville, Shelby County, is the only surviving member of the original party that emigrated from old Carolina.

(The Covington Leader, Thursday, March 1, 1917)