Floating Sawmill in N.E. Arkansas

Perry Hooper is at right side with hat and suit coat.

Owned and operated by my grandfather Perry Hooper.

Many farmers and landowners had wood to be milled, but it was inaccessible
by roads. The solution was a floating sawmill which could be carried on a
boat, assembled and disassembled, then moved to another location. My
grandfather operated this sawmill until after 1920. He went into the
trucking business, and this business closed during the Great Depression.

My father Glen C. Hooper (born 1911) helped on the sawmill, and then was a
driver in the trucking business. In 1937-38 he moved to Oregon and worked
as a lumberjack until 1940 when he moved the family to Michigan.

~ 1946 in Arkansas ~

Front Row:
Ronald Hooper, Donald Hooper, Stanley P. Langston, Rob and Roy Lane

Middle Row:
Onnie Prince Nimmo, Aaron Nimmo, Perry Hooper, Eva Nance Hooper, Mabel Hooper Nimmo, Perry V. Nimmo

Back Row:
Bobbie L. Langston, Carrie Grayson Hooper, Glen C. Hooper (holding Frederick G. Hooper), George Hooper, Anita Hooper Lane, Reta Sue Lane, Carl Hooper

George E. Hooper, standing in the back row is the same George Hooper shown in the 1902 John Henry Hooper Anniversary photo. Mabel Hooper Nimmo and Carl Hooper are also present and were children seated in the 1902 photo.

Alice Ervin Hooper, shown in the 1902 photo died in 1913 and Perry Hooper remarried Eva Nance. They had one child, Anita Hooper who married Woodrow Lane.

My brother Ronald and I were twins and Anita Hooper had twin sons Roy and Rob Lane.