| Simon settled near Hico along Sager Creek;
while he made some furniture, he primarily made his living as a farmer and
cattle drover. Christian Sager and Frederick Green operated a sawmill,
gristmill, general store, and cabinetmaking shop on Prairie Creek. They
sold lumber, doors, and windows from 1840 to 1861, ran the general store
from 1848 to 1855, and sold furniture and coffins from the 1840s to 1868.
They were a part of a strong pre-Civil War cabinetmaking tradition in
Northwest Arkansas. Their shop was one of the largest in the state with an
1850 production of $1,700 worth of items, about 200 or 300 pieces of
furniture. (To learn more about the Sagers and
see one of their bedsteads,
click
here.) |
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