Going the Distance: Homerton to Lairds

When the Search Sisters launch themselves onto a promising thread of research and the messages fly fast and furious.  Stella writes: 

"Dang! I thought I had sent this to you but looks like I didn't.

Jacob and Temperance didn't live in the town of War Eagle, Arkansas, but the township of War Eagle, where deeds show Jacob owned around 400 acres. I plotted the homestead of Jacob Laird indicated on the attached map as #1177.....and the homestead of William Howerton #363 in 1860.

William Howerton is the uncle of the young brothers Nathan and William Howerton. He is a Madison County land owner of record.

Even more exciting is the fact, I have found William Howerton, age 17, living here in the 1860 census and working with his uncle William as a "farm laborer". From there I imagine he went off to war and his death in 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga."

So if the caculations are correct,  it was about a 45 minute walk from the Howerton homestead to the the Lairds.  Less if you met somewhere in between.