Phobe Adaline Ish

Death of a Pioneer Lady of This County

Miss Adeline Ish, one of the pioneers of Washington County, died on the family homestead near Morrow at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning, in her ninetieth year. Miss Ish had been in poor health for more than a year, and her death was not unexpected.

Miss Ish came from one of the colonial families that settled in Pennsylvania. Her grandfather was married in that state soon after the Revolutionary War, later moving to Tennessee, where he was killed by Indians within sight of his blockhouse near Knoxville. He had served under General Sevier, who hunted down the murderers-one of whom was hanged, becoming the first Indian legally executed in Tennessee.

Her father, after serving two enlistments in the War of 1812, moved to Arkansas and married Miss Cynthia Edmiston in Clark County. The Edmiston family played a prominent role in the history of northwestern Arkansas. John Ish, her father, settled on the land where Adeline died before Arkansas was admitted to the Union, and that remained her home ever since. For the past ten years, her nephew Hugh Evins and his family lived with her.

In her early life, Miss Ish was a missionary to the Indians, serving as a teacher at the old Asbury Mission near present-day Eufaula. Her father is said to have brought the seed of the now-famous Shannon apple to Arkansas, and some of the original trees planted in the early 1830s still stand on the homestead.

Miss Ish is survived by one sister, Mrs. S. J. Parke of Fort Smith, and a brother, W. W. Ish of Red Oak, Oklahoma, along with numerous nephews and nieces.

Funeral services were held near her home.