Bobby and Amanda Dunehew, along with their sons, Samuel, 13, and Michael, 11, are carrying on the family tradition of farming. Amanda`s great-great-grandfather David Samuel Anderson and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, homesteaded part of the land where the Dunehews now live. David Anderson was a blacksmith and did not farm, but future generations did. Amanda, 41, who is a daughter of the late David and Emily Anderson, has one sister, LeeAnn Bullington of Vilonia. The Andersons were named Independence County Farm Family in 1993. “Dad left the farm to me and my sister,” Amanda said, adding that she and Bobby manage the farm, and her sister keeps the books for the farm. “I was shocked when Bobby...
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