A Place to Call Home

The two young sisters overheard a conversation between their parents as they discussed leaving Indiana for some unknown place called Arkansas Carrie was filled with fear and apprehension while Lillie was excited about the prospect of a new adventure Neither of them knew what adventures and trials lay ahead for them as they traveled on a wagon train crossed a great river on a ferry and built a new life in a distant place These adventures would prepare them for greater hardships later in life Benjamin and Salina Street were well past fifty years of age when they left Indiana traveled by wagon train and carved out a new life when they homesteaded land in north Arkansas as the nineteenth century was drawing to a close This is their story