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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
Watson in 1858; Dr. "Bailey" Burton, who died at Helena soon after the war, and Dr. William G. Wright, who died at Pine Bluff a few years ago.
The town was incoporated at the July term, 1845, of the County Court, Judge Jarvis Langford, father of Hon. Wil- liam C. Langford, Circuit Judge, being Presiding Justice.
There are three churches in the town-Presbyterian, Metho- dist and Baptist, all comfortable frame structures. There are two newspapers published there.
Colonel John Crowell Wright became a resident of Union county in 1843. He was born at Talbotton, Talbot county, Georgia, March 14th, 1835, son of Major Edward W. and Martha W. Wright, who was Martha W. Crowell, daughter of Captain Henry Crowell, of Georgia. He came to Arkan- sas with his parents in February, 1843, landing at Champag- nolle, Union county. His father settled five miles east of Mount Holly in February, 1843, and there Colonel Wright lived until 1859, when he married and lived one mile nearer Mount Holly. In 1860 he bought a farm, and settled eight miles north of El Dorado, and for twenty years he has lived in or near El Dorado, engaged in farming. On the breaking out of the war he entered the Confederate Army, and was Lieu- tenant-Colonel of the Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry. He was made prisoner at the surrender of Fort Donelson in the spring of 1862, but escaped from prison and came west of the Missis- sippi, being assigned to duty by General Hindman as Lieu- tenant-Colonel of A. S. Morgan's regiment of infantry, in which he served till December, 1863. He was then elected Colonel of a cavalry regiment, called Wright's Cavalry, under General James F. Fagan, and served therein to the close of the war. In January, 1874, he was appointed by Governor Baxter Circuit Clerk of Union county; was elected to the same position in September, 1874 ; was elected to the Legis- lature in 1878; was elected Circuit Clerk in September, 1880, and served three terms to 1886. In 1859 he was mar_
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UNION COUNTY.
ried in El Dorado to Miss Mary A. Newton, a daughter of John Newton, an original settler from Alabama, and a rela- tive of Robert Crittenden Newton. Of this marriage there are four children living, to-wit: Mrs. Nellie Spiker, wife of George A. Spiker, of Baton Rouge, Robert Newton, Edward W. and Pattie Wright.
Hon. William C. Langford became a resident of El Dorado in 1867. He was born in Dallas county, Alabama, Septem- ber 3d, 1826, son of Jarvis and Mary Langford; received a common school education ; came to Arkansas, January 30th, 1841, and settled at Champagnolle, where he lived 26 years, or until 1867, at which date he moved to El Dorado, and has since resided there, a period of 21 years, being engaged in the practice of law. He was admitted to the Bar in El Dorado, April 21st, 1861. He was Judge of the County Court two years from 1860; Prosecuting Attorney of the Thirteenth Judicial District 1873 to 1874, and Member of the Legislat- ure for the sessions of 1883 and 1885. He was a Captain of Company "F," of the Nineteenth Arkansas Regiment, in the Confederate Army, in Rust's Brigade of VanDorn's Division. He was twice married. On the 27th of November, 1851, in Union county, Arkansas, he was married to Martha L. Witherington, and on the IIth of March, 1866, in Union county, to Martha A. Chandler. His children are four in number.
HOT SPRING COUNTY.
Hot Spring County, the twenty-first county created, was formed November 2d, 1829, out of territory taken from Clark county. It took its name from the celebrated hot springs, which were originally within its limits, but which fell in the limits of Garland county upon its establishment in 1873. The seat of justice was directed to be at the house of Alex-
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1829 to 1830
L. N. West.
Green B. Hughes
1830 to 1832
W. Durham ..
G. W. Rogers.
T. W. Johnson
J. T. Grant.
J. H. Robinson.
1832 to 1833
W. Durham ..
Asa Thompson ..
John Calloway
J. Bankson ......
Ira Robinson,-
1833 to 1835
G. W. Rogers ..
H. A. Whittington ..
James Dorris ...
J. H. Robbins.
Joe Lorance.
1835 to 1836
W. Durham ..
L. Runyon
R. Huson ..
William Davis
Joe Lorance.
1836 to 1838
Gran. Whittington ... A. N. Sabin.
C. A. Sabin.
W. W. McDaniel
W. Dunham.
A. B. M Donald.
Joe Lorance
1840 to 1842.
S. S. Lacy
L. Rnnyon
John Chandler ...
W. G. Chase, 8
1842 to 1814
J. H. Stephenson
L. Runyon.
J. W. Fullerton.
C. Burke
J. T. Senior ..
J. R. Conway .....
1844 to 1846.
S. A. Emerson
W. Patterson
J. W. Fullerton ...
H. Cornelius
Z. Phillips
C. L. Pettitt.
1846 to 1848.
S. A. Emerson ..
W. Patterson ..
J. W. Fullerton ..
H. Cornelius.
W. W. Clift
J. R. Fraim
1848 to 1850
W. T. Morehead
John Jester.
J. W. Fullerton ...
Samuel Sorter
J. R. Conway ..
1850 to 1852.
G. C. Miller ..
John Jester ..
C. A. Habe
J. Cornelius.
A. D. Hardy ..
1852 to 1854 1854 to 1856
P. Phillips.
J. P. Emerson.
Joe Je ter.
T. J. Brooks
A. D. Hardy.
1856 to 1858
P. Phillips.
R. Stribling ..
Joe Jester
T. J. Brooks
R. Long .. ...
R. Gibbons.
B. Tally ...
1860 to 1862
P. Phillips.
H. McCallum ..
D. A. Newman
H. Roberson ..
J. S. Taylor.
W. Clem
1862 to 1864.
P. Phillips ..
F. M. Henry.
J. H. Kemp ..
H. Roberson ...
William Madred.
W. R. Cochran
1864 to 1866
P. Phillips, 2
H. McCallum.
T. D. Faris, 3 ..
H. Roberson.
J. S. Taylor ..
H. Elliott, 4
1866 to 1868
P. Phillips.
H. McCalium ..
D. A. Newman
H. Roberson
W. P. Kirby
J. W. Miller ..
J. H. Burk, 6
1868 to 1872
J. F. Prichard.
A. H. Bassett.
E. A. Nichols ..
C. C. Crisp.
1872 to 1874.
A. H. Bassett.
E. A. Nichols.
John Verser
L. B. McMillan
D. C. Lee
Wiley Easley.
1874 to 1876
J. W. Keith.
T. D. Faris ..
H. Roberson ..
J. J. Callie
A. V. Lewis
A. Kemp.
1876 to 1878
J. W. Keith.
R. M. Stribling
H. Roberson
S. D. Corbel ...
A. V. Lewis ..
J. M. Henry.
1878 to 1880
W. T. Morehead ..
J. W. Keith.
R. M. Stribling.
H. Roberson ..
A. I. Alford ..
A. V. Lewis
J. M. Henry.
1880 to 1882.
J. H. Alexander
J. W. Keith
R. M. Stribling.
H. Roberson ..
J. McCowan ..
V. M. Threlkeld
J. M. Henry.
1882 to 1884
J. H. Alexander
W. W. Dutton
J. H. B. Adams.
L. B. McMillan.
W. P. Goodman.
V. M. Threlkeld
J. H. McCammon.
1884 to 1886
J. H. Alexander
Joe Chamberlain
J. H. B. Adams.
L. B. McMillan
W. H. Cooper
V. M. Threlkeld
J. M. Henry.
1886 to 1888.
Hugh McCallum.
J. E. Chamberlain.
J. H. B. Adams ..
J. B. Thrower.
H. C. Baker.
Richard d'Ailly ....
J. M. Henry.
1888 to 1890.
J. W. Alexander .... |W. W. Dutton ..
T. B. McHenry ..
J. G. Steele
W. H. Cooper.
V. M. Threlkeld ..... J. M. Henry.
1 .- A. D. Hurley first elected, but resigned. 2-T. A. Ward from July, 1865. 3-T. H. Cloud from November, 1865. 4 .- J. H. Harrison from September, 1865. 5-D. W. Thompson from December, 1870. 6-G. W. Pritchard from January, 1870, 7-J. H. B. Adams from August, 1881. 8-J. C. Kuydendall after Chase.
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
A. D. Hardy
P. Phillips.
J. P. Emerson
Joe Jester.
T. H. Cloud.
John Staggs ..
Hardy
1858 to 1860.
P. Phillips.
T. M. Henry, 1
D. A. Newman
H. Roberson ..
W. J. Caven.
H. T. Dawson ..
1838 to 1840
L. Runyon
R. Huson ..
C. Polk
Wm. Harrington ...
H. G. Clift
T. H. Cloud.
B. C. Outwell, 5.
D. A. Newman .. W. T. Morehead
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HOT SPRING COUNTY.
ander Rogers. John Wills, Thomas Holman and Christian Fenter were appointed Commissioners to locate the county seat. In 1830 it was located · at Hot Springs, where it remained until about 1844, when it was moved to Rockport. It remained here until September, 1878, when by a vote of the people it was moved to Malvern, where it now is.
The county is in the central portion of the State, south- west of the center. It lies in the Ouachita river valley, which river runs through the county. A considerable portion of it is hilly and mountainous, but there are some alluvial districts in its limits. The usual products of the latitude are raised and the growing of fruits is practiced to a considerable extent, especially by German emigrants, of whom a large col- ony is located near Malvern. The timber growth of the county is good, and includes considerable yellow pine, white oak and other timber trees. A number of saw mills are in operation through the county, generally following the line of the railroad, and collected at Malvern, its principal town.
Malvern, the county seat, is a bustling active place. It is the point of shipment of a vast quantity of freight and large numbers of passengers going to the springs in the neighboring county of Garland. It was laid out as a town in 1876, after the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad had been built to the point, and after Colonel Joe Reynolds, commonly called "Diamond Joe," had projected the Hot Springs rail- road to intersect there, which was in 1875. The town was settled in 1873, and its present population is about 1,500. It contains five churches : Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and two churches for colored people; has a public school, a vol- unteer fire department, several grist mills and cotton gins, a number of stores, two weekly newspaper, the Arkansas Meteor and the Arkansas State Fournal; has all conven- iences of telegraph and express offices, and several mails per day. The town was incorporated July 5th, 1883. The Bratt Lumber Company, Ouachita Falls Lumber Company, and
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Southwestern Lumber Manufacturers' Association are ac- tive lumber enterprises.
MONROE COUNTY.
Monroe County, the twenty-second county formed, was created out of territory taken from the counties of Phillips and Arkansas by Act of November 2d, 1829, and was named after President James Monroe. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the residence of the late Thomas Maddox, but a subsequent Act of November 2 1st provided for an elec- tion to be held in January, 1830 to select Commisioners for the purpose of permanently locating the county seat. The Commissioners chosen at this election selected a place called Lawrenceville, on the lands of Joseph Jacobs, as the place of the county seat, and it remained there until 1856. In the forepart of that year the question of the location of the county seat was submitted to the people, and by their vote they selected Clarendon, on White river. The order for the removal of the records was made in October, 1857, and the county seat has since remained there.
In surface the county is level and of alluvial soil, with a small amount of prairie land in the southwestern corner. The same prairie extends into the adjacent county of Arkansas. The county is bounded on the southwest by White river, navigable for large steamboats at all seasons of the year, and the Cache river, which empties into White river at Clarendon, is navigable for small boats in the winter season. The county is well traversed by railroads. The Memphis & Little Rock railroad passes through the upper part, the Texas & St. Louis runs diagonally through it from northeast to southwest, crossing White river by a bridge at Clarendon ; the Arkansas Midland road runs from Clarendon to Helena; the Batesville & Brinkley Railroad to Batesville, in Independence county, and the Brinkley & Helena Railroad is in process of construction.
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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE HELD OFFICE IN THE COUNTY :
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1829 to 1830.
Wm. Ingram
J. C. Montgomery ...
James Eagan
John Maddox
Lafayette Jones
1830 to 1832
Wm. Ingram
J. C. Montgomery ...
James Carlton
John Maddox.
1832 to 1833.
James Carlton
M. Mitchell.
J. R. Dye
Wm. Ingram
J. Jacobs
1833 to 1835
James Carlton
R. S. Bell
J. R. Dye.
Wm. Ingram
J. Jacobs
1835 to 1836
James Carlton
R. S. Bell
J. R. Dye.
Wm. Ingram ..
J. Jacobs.
1836 to 1838
R. S. Bell.
W. B. Ezell
W. Walker
J. Jacobs.
A. I). Nance.
J. Jacobs
1838 to 1840
R. S. Bell.
Phillip Costar
J. Dye.
S. B. Goodwin
E. Frazier.
D. D. Ewing
1840 to 1842.
J. B. Lambert.
R. S. Bell
Phillip Costar
S. B. Goodwin
W. B. Fail.
D. D. Ewing
1842 to 1844
J. B. Lambert
R. S. Bell, 1.
Phiilip Costar.
S. B. Goodwin
W. Walker
D. D. Ewing
1844 to 1846
D. D. Ewing .
R. S. Bell
Phillip Costar.
S. B. Goodwin
D. L. Jackson.
L. D. Maddox ..
1846 to 1848
Wm. Harvick.
R. S. Bell
D. L. Jackson.
S. B. Goodwin
H. Waterman.
1848 to 1850
H. H. Hays ..
J. A. Harvick
H. D. Green.
J. S. Danby
J. B. McPherson.
1850 to 1852
Wm. Harvick ..
E. W. Vann ..
J. A. Harvick.
T. D. Johnson.
Peter Jolly
D. E. Pointer.
1854 to 1856
J. G. Gray.
N. T. Harvick
S. P. Hughes.
T. D. Johnson
J. W. Garrett.
D. E. Pointer.
1856 to 1858
H. D. Green.
J. P. Vann
George Washington I. Walker.
John Dalyell.
H. Garretson ..
1858 to 1860
W. W. Wilkins
J. A. Harvick
George Washington I. Walker ..
W. E. Moore.
H. P. Richardson ..
1860 to 1862
W. W. Wilkins
J. A. Harvick
W. B. Meeks
D. Pike
J. Brown
H. P. Richardson ..
1862 to 1864
P. O. Thweat
J. A. Harvick
H. P. Richardson ....
D. Pike.
W. R. Elkins
R. T. Shaw
1864 to 1866
E. Black, 2
J. A. Harvick, 3.
H. P. Richardson, 4. D. Pike.
E. Hennigan
P. W. Halloran.
1866 to 1868
W. D. Kerr
P. C. Ewan
R. C. Carlton
D. Pike.
R. F. Kert.
A. A. Bryant ..
Henry Bonner, 5 .. H. F. Overton, 6.
1872 to 1874
F. P. Wilson, 7 ..
A. Gallagher, 8.
A. W. Harris
J. H. L. Lillma.
A. A. Bryant
H. H. Roberson.
1874 to 1876
B. F. Lightle.
W. S. Dunlop
C. J. Harris
A. W. Harris.
W. T. Stafford
John C. Hill
Jas. Reynolds.
1876 to 1878.
S. P. Jolly ..
W. S. . S. Dunlop
B. N. D. Tannehill ..
J. A. Garrett
W. H. Odem.
A. J. Houser.
J. C. Reynolds.
1878 to 1880
S. P. Jolly.
W. S. Dunlop
A. McMurtry.
A. W. Harris
Ed. Kelley
W. M. Walker
James Mayo.
1880 to 1882
T. W. Hooper.
W. S. Dunlop
A. McMurtry
A. W. Harris
W. T. Capps.
H. N. Allen.
James Mayo.
1882 to 1884
T. W. Hooper.
W. S. Dunlop
A. McMurtry
A. W. Harris
R. F. Tyler
H. N. Allen
W. H. Bonner.
1884 to 1886
H. B. Bateman
W. S. Dunlop.
J. W. Walker.
A. W. Harris
M. B. Dyer
John C. Hill
W. H. Bonner.
1886 to 1888
H. B. Bateman.
C. B. Mills
J. W. B. Robinson ...
R. N. Counts
W. J. Hall
John C. Hill
J. L. Franks.
1888to 1890.
H. B. Bateman
C. B. Mills.
J. W. B. Robinson ...
H. D. Green.
A. J. Smith
A. A. Bryan ..
Wm. Davis.
J. R. Dye ..
E. W. Vann
J. A. Harvick
H. D. Green.
V. Vanslyke.
M. Kelley ..
1852 to 1854
E. Black.
1868 to 1872
Peter Jolly.
A. A. Bryan
F. P. Wilson.
D. Pike.
T. Pledger
1-J. C. Montgomery from February, 1841. 2-W. D. Kerr from November, 1865. 3-D. D. Smellgrove from June 20, 1865. 4-R. C. Carlton from June 20, 1866. 5-Resigned, January, 1869. 6-From March, 1871, C. L. Wall. 7-W. S. Dunlop from May, 1874. 8-Frank Gallagher, from December, 1873.
MONROE COUNTY.
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The agricultural products of the county are all that are usually grown, but cotton is the leading staple, of which the growth is great. The soil is rich and fertile, and produces all crops well. The timber of the county is excellent and there are a number of saw mills in operation for the manfacture of lumber, shingles, etc. One of the principal of these is Black's mill, at Brinkley, which is supplied with logs by means of his own private railroad running into adjacent timber districts.
There are 38 school districts in the county, and churches in all the principal neighborhoods.
The towns of the county are Clarendon, the county seat, with a population of about 700; Brinkley, 1,400; Holly Grove, Indian Bay and Cotton Plant, about 200 each. Clarendon and Brinkley are the chief railroad centers, and have from two to four roads intersecting there.
Clarendon, the county seat, is on the western extremity of the county on White river. During the war the town was burned by the Federal Army, but since the war it has been rebuilt, and with the completion of through lines of railroad has grown considerably. The court-house is a substantial building of brick, with sufficient accommodations for the public offices of the county. It has four churches, two schools for white and colored persons, a weekly Democratic paper, called the Mon- roe County Sun; it has telegraph and express offices, and receives daily mails.
Hon. Lecil Bobo was one of the prominent citizens of Clarendon. He was Representative of the county in the Legislature of 1873 and 1877 in the House, and in the Senate in 1880. He was born in Manchester, Coffee county, Tennessee, November 9th, 1846. He studied law there, and was admitted to the Bar in Clarendon in May, 1872, and continued the practice with success from that time.
In 1876, October 25th, he married Miss Maggie Kerr, daughter of Captain B. F. Kerr, of Clarendon.
Hon. W. S. Dunlop, Auditor from 1887, was a prominent
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resident of Monroe county. He was born in York district, South Carolina, September 25th, 1833. He was elected Clerk of Monroe county, Arkansas, in 1874, and held the position twelve years. On the death of Hon. William R. Miller, in November, 1887, he was appointed Auditor, and was re-elected to the position in 1888.
Governor Simon P. Hughes and Judge W. W. Smith were prominent lawyers at Clarendon, partners, as Hughes & Smith, from 1867 to 1874.
Major Parker C. Ewan was born near Millville, New Jersey, August 27th, 1837. His parents, John and Sylphia Ewan, emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, in the same year and settled near that place. In the year 1840 they removed to Clermont county, Ohio, and bought a farm near Bantam. He was educated in the public schools of that neighborhood and the high school of Bantam, up to the winter of 1852, when he was sent to school at the Academy at Massillon, Stark county, Ohio. He came to Arkansas in 1855; lived in Crittenden and Phillips counties up to the fall of 1857, when he located in Monroe county, and taught a country school during the year 1858 and part of 1859. In 1861 he left the school-room to join the Confederate Army as a private, in Company "E," of the First Arkansas Regiment (afterwards Fifteenth), under Colonel (afterwards General) Pat Cleburne. At the re-organ- ization of his regiment, after the battle of Shiloh, he was elected Captain of his company. He remained in the army until the close if the war, and was paroled at Macon, Georgia. He was wounded at Shiloh and at Richmond, Kentucky, and afterwards at the battle of Murfreesboro, Ten- nessee. He was married on the 23d of October, 1865, to Miss M. R. Royston, daughter of Colonel R. C. Royston, of Ripley, Mississippi, by whom he had one child, a daugh- ter, who is Mrs. William N. Johnson. He married the last time, September 21st, 1874, a Miss Julia C. Connor, daughter of Professor F. A. Connor, of Cokesbury, South
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
Carolina, by whom he has one child, a son, Parker Connor Ewan. Captain Ewan was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe county in August, 1866, and served as Clerk for two years. He was admitted to the Bar in 1868, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since that date. He has never sought political preferment, although an active worker for the Democratic party. He has been a Delegate to every State Convention since 1874, and was Secretary of the Convention in 1880.
Brinkley, in the northern part of the county, contains Bap- tist, Catholic and Methodist churches, cotton seed oil mill, machine shop, a large planing and saw mill, a wood turning establishment, and a stave and heading factory. It has a large and commodious hotel; has telegraph and express offices, and daily mail.
Hon. John Bell Baxter is one of the prominent men of Brinkley, having been Mayor of the town a number of years. He was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, May 26th, 1839, the fourth child of George W. and Rebecca Ann (Hooker) Baxter. In 1840 the family moved to Fayette county, Tennessee, and from there his mother, a widow, moved to Monroe county, with the family, in December, 1851, settling on Grand Prairie, and since that date John B. Baxter has been a resident of the county. When the war began he was studying law at Clarendon, in the office of Lucius Featherstone, and enlisted at once in a company called the "Arkansaw Toothpicks," which Featherstone raised, a part of the Fifth Arkansas Regiment. In December, 1861, at Bowling Green, Kentucky, he was discharged on account of ill health, but, after having recuperated, he enlisted in another company, raised by Simon P. Hughes, in the Twenty-third Arkansas Regiment, of which company he became Captain after Hughes was promoted. He was cap- tured at Hatcher's Bridge on the retreat from Corinth in 1862, and again at Port Hudson in 1863. He remained a
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prisoner for the remainder of the war, being kept a portion o the time under fire at Morris' Island, off Charleston, for retal iation, and "on starvation" at Fort Pulaski, off Savannah After the war he resumed the practice of law, in connection with real estate business. He was a Member of the Legislature from Monroe county in 1883 to 1885 ; was Sergeant-at-Arms both of the House and of the Senate several sessions. On the 19th of April, 1866, he was married, near Cotton Plant, Arkansas, to Miss Josephine Pickens.
Major John Coleman Palmer is a resident of Brinkley. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, May 12th, 1823, son of James W. and Mary B. Palmer, of Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools in Kentucky, closing his scholastic career at Bardstown College on the death of his mother in 1837. He clerked in a store in Lexington until 1843 ; graduated in the law department of Transylvania Uni- versity in 1845 ; was admitted to the Bar by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky the same year. He came to Arkansas Septem- ber Ist, 1845, and located at Helena. He lived there until January Ist, 1860, when he took up his residence at Palmer, a short distance away, where he lived until November 20th, 1888, when he became a resident of Brinkley. In 1845, shortly after settling in Arkansas, he was admitted to the Bar before the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit, Hon. John F. Jones presiding. Since that date he has been engaged in the practice of the profession, having at different times been associated with Hon. Thomas B. Hanley, General Thomas C. Hindman, Hon. John W. Stayton, Hon. M. T. Sanders, Hon. R. W. Nichols and Cap- tain P. C. Ewan. On the breaking out of the Mexican War in 1846 he enlisted in Company "K," Captain John Preston, Jr., in Colonel Archibald Yell's Regiment, being Orderly Sergeant of the company, and serving 12 months therein. In the Civil War of 1861 he was Major in the Com- issary Department of the Confederate Army, on the staff of
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JEFFERSON COUNTY.
General Thomas C. Hindman. On the 29th of January, 1852, at Helena, Arkansas, he was married to Miss Margaret E. Shell. Of this marriage there are six children.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Jefferson County, the twenty-third county formed, was created out of territory taken from Arkansas and Pulaski counties, by Act approved November 2d, 1829, and was named after President Thomas Jefferson. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of Joseph "Bone" (Bonne), but a subsequent Act directed that at the time of electing the Sheriff and Clerk for the county, Commis- sioners should be elected to select the permanent seat. The Commissioners first selected the town of Pine Bluff for the county seat, but in May, 1832, it was moved three miles far- ther down the river, to a place owned by Antoine Bar- raque. In August, 1832, an election was held among the voters of the county, as to the place of location, and the ma- jority was in favor of Pine Bluff, and accordingly it was es- tablished there, and has since remained so.
Joseph Bonne was an early settler. He acted as interpre- ter in the making of the Quapaw treaty of 1818. Francis Varsier was also an early settler. He was born in 1756, and died in the county January 8th, 1836, aged 80 years. Mrs. Drew White, who died in Pine Bluff, January 10th, 1889, was an early resident of that place. At the time of her death she was in the 84th year of her age. Antoine Barraque lived at New Gascony in 1834. He had been an officer under the First Napoleon, and was one of the earliest settlers of south- eastern Arkansas.
When the Quapaw treaty of 1825 was made at "Harring- ton's," reservation was incorporated in it in favor of a num- ber of persons, Half-Breeds, or Indians by descent, of lands
STREET SCENE, PINE BLUFF.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1830 to 1832
W. P. Hackett.
J. T. Pullen,
Creed Taylor
Peter German
N. Holland
1832 to 1833
Sam C. Roane.
J. T. Pullen ..
Wm. Kinkead.
Thos. O'Neal
H. Eddington.
1833 to 1835
Creed Taylor.
J. T. Pullen ..
Wm. Kinkead.
Thos. O'Neal.
H. Eddington
1835 to 1836
H. Bradford
J. T. Pullen
S. Dardenne
J. H. Caldwell
Thos. O'Neal
1836 to 1838
Creed Taylor
J. T. Pullen.
S. Dardenne.
Sam Taylor.
Thos. O'Neal
J. B. Outlaw.
1838 to 1840
W. H. Lindsey.
E. H. Roane.
S. Dardenne
Sam Taylor.
Jacob Brump.
R. E. C. Daugherty
1844 to 1846
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