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Ouachita county is a southern county, only 24 miles north of the Louisiana line, separated from that State by the county of Union. Its area is 900 square miles. In surface it is level or undulating, with the greater portion alluvial soil. Cotton is the principal crop, of which about 10,000 bales are raised annually ; but corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, tobacco and other general products are also grown. All kinds of fruits thrive, and are produced in abundance, and grasses are extensively grown. The timber product of the county is large and of all varieties.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1843 to 1844
William Hickman ...
Phillip Agee
H. Dewes .. ..
W. L. Bradley
J. W. Smith.
C. G. M. Priam
1844 to 1846
A. J. Rutherford
Philip Agee
H. W. Ashley.
Ezra Hill.
Henry Ross ..
E. Compton.
1846 to 1848
Thomas Woodward. Phillip Agee
H. Dewes
M. J. Wilson
W. M. Crawford.
R. B. Pate
1848 to 1850
James Hicks ..
Phillip Agee
G. L. Grant
J. H. Scogin.
W. M. Crawford ...
L. Rodgers
1850 to 1852.
Robert Jordan
Phillip Agee
G. L.
Grant
J. H. Scogin
R. Butler.
L. Rodgers
1852 to 1854.
Robert Jordan
Phillip Agee.
G. L. Grant ..
J. H. Holcomb
R. Rutler
L. Rodgers
1854 to 1856
Hogan Moss
Phillip Agee
R. B. Smith.
B. T. Powell
R. Butler.
D. R. Jenkins ..
1856 to 1858
Hogan Moss
Phillip Agee ..
Henry Ross.
W. C. Viser
Charles Bidego
J. B. Stokes.
1858 to 1860
A. W. Bacchus
Phillip Agee.
Henry Ross.
W. C. Viser.
M. B. White
J. W. Moore.
1862 to 1864
A. W. Bacchus
Phillip Agee
Henry Ross
W. C. Viser
M. B. White.
H. White
J. K. Mckee.
1964 to 1866 ..
A. W. Bacchus
Phillip Agee. 1.
Henry Ross, 1
D. W. Fellows
M. Winter.
J. W. Moore.
J. M. Douglas.
1866 to 1868 .
J. M. Stinnett
J. G. Browning.
N. R. Tribble
J. W. Smith
M. Winter
D. W. Lear, 2
H. L. Grayson, 3.
1868 to 1872
W. B. Coit, 4 ..
P. L. Lee
J. Grayson-
M. Winter ..
J. A. Norris ..
C. S. Keith.
1874 to 1876
J. M. Stinnett
G. A. Proctor ..
P. L. Lee
H. D. Ellis.
W. P. Cawthon .
. W. Moon ..
N. R. Tribble.
1876 to 1878.
J. M. Stinnett
G. A. Proctor
P. L. Lee.
F. M. Cross.
F. M. Trammell ...
J. V. Pedron
N. R. Tribble.
1878 to 1880
Isaac Newton
W. K. Ramsey ....
P. L. Lee
F. M. Cross.
F. T. Scott
J. V. Pedron
N. R. Tribble.
1880 to 1882
Isaac Newton
W. K. Ramsey
P. L. Lee
F. M. Cross ..
J. L. Proffit ..
J. V. Pedron.
N. R. Tribble.
1882 to 1884
J. I .. Richardson
W. K. Ramsey .. ....
A. V. Bragg.
J. T. Darby ..
F. T. Scott ..
F. W. Brodnax
Phillip Agee.
1884 to 1886
William Cox
Tom D. Thompson ..
A. V. Bragg
J. T. Darby ..
. T. Scott.
F. W. Brodnax.
Phillip Agee.
1886 to 1888
William Cox
Thos. D. Thompson.
D. Newton.
S. B. Side ..
F. T. Scott ..
J. V. Pedron
Phillip Agee.
1888 to 1890
J. M. Stinnett
J. T. Sifford
D. Newton
S. B. Side
F. T. Scott ..
J. V. Pedron.
J. W. Criner.
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1-J. G. Browning, Clerk, and Robert Beauchamp, Sheriff, from July, 1865. 2-Resigned, after holding office a short time. 3-N. N. Rawlings from May 1871. 4-A. A. Tufts, County Clerk.
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
Jacob Stokes
Hogan Moss
Phillip Agee
R. B. Smith.
W. C. Viser
R. L. Ward ..
William Scott ..
H. White
S. A. Agee.
1872 to 1874
J. G. Alexander
I. W. Carhart ..
R. Beauchamp.
J. Grayson
0
1860 to 1862
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OUACHITA COUNTY.
The county is watered by the Ouachita and Little Missouri rivers, both navigable, and a number of creeks and bayous. It is traversed by two railroads. The Texas & St. Louis Railway crosses the county from northeast to southwest, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad runs from the northwest corner to Camden.
Coal beds appear at two points, near Camden and at New- port Landing.
There are 60 school-houses in the county, and many church- houses, of which the Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians preponderate.
Camden, the county seat, is on the Ouachita river, near the center of the county. At a very early date a Frenchman, named Fabré, settled there, and his place became known as Ecore a Fabre, "Fabre's Bluff." It was laid out as a town, called Camden, in 1839 and 1840; incorporated as a town in 1844, and has a population of about 3,000. It has nine churches, three schools, a number of stores, cotton gin and compress, a bank-the Bank of Camden-two newspapers- the Beacon and the Herald-has telegraph and express offices and daily mails, electric light and other city equipments.
The following sketch of the city of Camden is by Caleb H. Stone, Esq., long a resident of the place, to wit :
I am indebted to Mr. Ira Nunn for most of the facts relating to the settlement of Camden, and to Mr. Wm. Andrew Gates, for the sketch of the Tate settlement.
While the century was in its teens, the country hereabouts was known as Arkansas county, Territory of Missouri. The seat of justice of this extensive county was at Washington (now in Hempstead Co.). The rich "Black Lands," near Washington, had already attracted the pioneer settler.
About this time, 1817, Mr. John Nunn removed from Georgia to the lead mines, near Ste. Genevieve, Missouri Territory. There Mr. Ira Nunn was born in the spring of 1818.
In the fall of that year the family moved again to Arkansas county, and set- tled west of Washington, near Columbus.
In 1819 Arkansas became a Territory, and the new county of Hempstead was made to embrace the greater portion of South Arkansas, reaching to the Bayou Bartholomew on the east. During this year (1813) the Tate brothers-Andrew, Richard and George-came up the Ouachita in keel-boats with their families and negro servants, in all about eighty persons. They were bound for the Ozan county, by way of the Little Missouri, but failed to reach there on account of low
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water. Their first trouble occurred at a shoal below Ecore Fabre, (now Camden). There they had to camp and carry their worldly goods around the shoal and drag the boats over the bar. When this was accomplished, they made merry on the banks of the Ouachita.
The Tate families finally gave up all hope of reaching their destination, and settled about the mouth of the Little Missouri. Afterwards George Tate settled three miles northeast of Camden, near an old Indian mound-now abandoned, and known as the "Pile Place."
At this time there were no "settlers" in what is now Ouachita county. There were some hunters and trappers; but the Tates were the first to cultivate land, and own slaves and stock.
In 1824 Mr. John Nunn again moved, this time to Ecore Fabre, more com- monly called by the English speaking people, Fabre Bluffs or "The Bluffs," and settled for the last time, where his son Ira now lives. During the first year he built cabins for the family and servants. In 1825 he built the present residence of his son, Ira Nunn, which is on the lot adjoining the Opera House, built by Solo- mon Block, in 1886. It is of hewn logs, and still shelters a remnant of the family of 1825.
Mr. John Nunn purchased the squatter's claim of Jesse B. Bowman, who had a cabin near the steamboat landing; but not even a "garden patch" cleared. A few years before this time steamboats had commenced coming up the Ouachita, for the purpose of trading with the trappers along the river and the actual settlers about Washington. Their visits were not frequent, but the peo- ple managed to know the time of their coming and got their supplies in that way. The "Natchitoches" (Nackitosh), Captain John Johnston, was here when the Nunn family arrived.
Mr. John Nunn died in 1831. Up to this time he had cleared and put in cultivation a forty acre field, embracing all of what is now called "under the hill."
In the meantime other settlers were coming in. Matthew Campbell settled the "Treadway Place" in 1825. About the same time Hiram Smith settled be- tween that and the present town. His son, Roland B. Smith, is said to have been the first male child, born in Camden-some say Ouchita county.
Up to 1831 about 150 Choctaw Indians lived in this section, and cultivated some corn at the Jack Hickman place, about five miles south of Camden. In that year the Choctaws were removed from Mississippi to their present location in the Indian Teritory, and those here followed their people westward. About the same time the remnant of the Quapaws were removed from about Pine Bluff to Red river, crossing the Ouachita at this place. After the Indians left Hiram Smith moved to a place a few miles south of "The Bluffs," or Camden. He also, like Mr. Nunn, came from the west, having first settled in what is now Miller county, moving thence to Pigeon Hill, and finally to the place named. He was later in life County Judge and a Member of the Legislature.
In 1833 Major Wm. L. Bradley, of Virginia, arrived. He was engaged in the boating interest, and when on shore made his home with Judge Smith, in the meantime inaking visits to the Bluffs. Mrs. Nunn and Major Bradley were mar- ried in 1834, and lived together about thirty years; Major Bradley died in 1865, and Mrs. Bradley in 1869.
But to go back to 1833. Settlers were coming in rapidly. Union county was formed out of Hempstead, and Ecore Fabre made the county seat-but it was
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soon removed to the more important point, Champagnolle. Small "stores" were "opened under the hill," near the steamboat landing. The elder Pargoud sent a young man, named Thomas Patton, with a stock of goods as the first ven- ture in this line. Albert Rust came soon after, but moved with the county seat to Champagnolle. In after years Albert Rust became a noted politician, Mem- ber of Congress and "Rebel Brigadier."
Two brothers, named Moore, also had a "store" in these early years. They were uncles of the MeLaughlin brothers-noted steamboat pilots-of whom only "Charley" remains.
In 1836 Arkansas became a State. In 1839 Ouachita county was formed, with Hempstead on the west and Union on the south, with Ecore Fabre as the county site or seat of justice. The town was surveyed or "laid off" in 1839 and 1840, and named Camden. The name was given by a former resident of Camden, South Carolina, named Bragg; an ancestor of Hon. Walter L. Bragg of the Inter-state Railroad Commissioners, and Drs. Junius M. and John Milton Bragg, physicians of Camden at this time, (1889).
Camden moved off slowly at first. In 1843 and 1844 it commenced assum- ing the air of a real town.
The small store-keepers, assumed the title of merchants. Lawyers and doctors made their appearance. Previous to this time, Washington furnished the legal talent as needed, and the names of many of them live in the history of the State.
Old ladies with blue "reticules" were able to conquer the diseases of the country with "herbs," as well as attending to the natural ailments of humanity, in their primitive way.
Dr. Joel Ponder was the first physician. He was called "Old Dr. Ponder," to distinguish him from his son-the Dr. Joel Ponder of the present day. Judge Christopher C Scott was the first attorney to arrive. He became Circuit Judge in 1844, and afterwards one of the Supreme Judges of the State.
A. A. Stith was the second lawyer to arrive, and afterwards became Circuit Judge. But this is talking of Camden, let us return to Ecore Fabre. Deer were numerous within the present town limits, up to the year 1840. Bear and pan- thers were plentiful a few years earlier. When Mr. Ira Nunn was a small boy he went out one morning to the cow-pens, where the Eliott Block now stands, and saw a large bear walk slowly off through the bushes. The animal had been prospecting for veal. In 1835 the servants were out getting wood, when the dogs -in hunters parlance-"treed" a panther, near where Colonel Lee now lives. Being informed of the fact, young Ira-being the only man at home-took the gun and killed it. That night the dogs "treed" another within two hundred yards of the house. Major Bradley, being at home, shot that one by "shining his eyes." The next day the same occurrence took place, Major Bradley still taking the leading part. In the early days the Tates and others made their bacon from bear meat, until they got a stock of hogs.
In the years when meat was not plentiful, the Tate's would drive their hogs down to the Smackover bottom and into what is now Columbia county, to get them fat; camping out to protect them from wild animals, and keep them to_ gether.
The settlement of the "hill country" and the history of Camden remains to be written. There are many now living who are competent, and whose duty it is to write it. Itis not my native land. C. H. STONE.
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Judge Christopher C. Scott settled in Camden in 1844, and resided there till his death, in 1859. He was born April 22d, 1807, in Scottsburg, Halifax county, Virginia. He studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1828, in Alabama, whither he had moved, and practiced in that State until 1844, when he came to Arkansas, settling in Camden. In 1846 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Eighth Circuit, and in 1848 was appointed by Governor Drew, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, for the unex- pired term of Judge Oldham, resigned. In 1850 he was elected Associate Justice for the full term of eight years, and was re-elected in 1858 for a second term, but died at the Anthony House, in Little Rock, January 19th, 1859, having contracted pneumonia while making the journey by stage from Camden to Little Rock, to discharge the duties of his office. In August, 1832, he married Miss Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Hon. Daniel Smith, for many years Judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals. Of this marriage there are five children now living, to-wit: Frank T. Scott, living at Camden ; Mrs. F. Mary Tobin, New Orleans ; Christopher C. Scott, Arkadelphia; Mrs. Julia S. Carhart, Clarendon, Texas ; and Mrs. Nellie D. Tufts, Camden.
Judge John T. Bearden was a citizen of Camden from 1847 to 1886. He was born at Knoxville, Tennesee, August 18th, 1826, son of Marcus D. and Eliza Bearden. He came to Arkansas, September 7th, 1847, and located at Camden, where he lived until January Ist, 1886, when he moved to the city of Los Angeles, California, arriving there January 18th, 1886, and being now engaged in the practice of law. He was Representative in the Legislature of 1852 and 1853, and 1879, and at the latter session was Speaker of the House. He was Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit from September, 1886, to July, 1868, when he was removed by the Re-construc- tion Measures. He was in the Confederate Army as Adju- tant-General of A. T. Hawthorn's Brigade of Churchill's
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OUACHITA COUNTY.
Division. He was married September 6th, 1859, at Camden, Arkansas, to Frances B. Stith. By this marriage there are two grown and married daughters, to-wit: Mrs. Ella R. Jennings, wife of A. H. Jennings, and Mrs. Laura M. Whitthorne, wife of W. R. Whitthorne.
Caleb Hall Stone became a resident of Camden in 1860, and has resided there continuously since. He was born at Bloomington, Indiana, August 7th, 1828, son of Ellis and Margaret Denny Stone, who were natives of Virginia, but married in Kentucky. He was educated at Indiana Univer- sity, Bloomington, Indiana, but before graduating enlisted in the Fourth Indiana Volunteers in the war with Mexico, and served therein to the close of that war. He came to Arkan- sas in October, 1860, and settled at Camden, where he now resides, being engaged in the business of a real estate agent. He was seven years Alderman and two years Mayor of Cam- den, previous to 1878. In the Civil War of 1861 he entered the Confederate service, and for a few months was with Gen- eral Rust, in North Arkansas, in 1862, and afterwards was Lieutenant of Ordnance on duty at Camden, Shreveport and Jefferson, Texas, Arsenals. On the 4th of July, 1859, at St. Peters, Minnesota, he married Miss Maria M. Porter, who was born at Athens, Ohio, in 1841. Of this marriage there are two children now living, to-wit: William Porter Stone, Lieuten- ant in the Second Artillery Regiment of the United States Army ; and Frederick Lee Stone.
Hon. Robert Emmett Sallè was a resident of Camden for nineteen years, from 1865 to 1884. He was born at Holly Springs Mississippi, June 12th, 1846, son of Marcus Aurelius and Susan M. Sallè. He came to Arkansas in 1865, and settled at Camden, engaged in the practice of law. He represented Ouachita county in the Legislature of 1882 and 1883. On the 5th of July, 1877, in Mechanicsville, Sar- atoga county, New York, he married Mrs. F. Jennie Viall
.
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Baker, daughter of Job G. Viall, of that place. By this mar- riage there are two children now living, to-wit: a daughter, S. V. Sallè, born April Ist, 1878; and a son, George V., born January 13th, 1884. He moved to Mechanicsville July, 1884, and in 1885 opened a law office, practicing alone. In January, 1886, he became associated in the practice with John C. Green, of that place. He died May 6th, 1886, after an illness of only two days, and is buried at Mechanics- ville.
William King Ramsey became a resident of Camden in 1865. He was born at Oak Hill, Wilcox county, Ala- bama, June Ist, 1843, son of Rev. A. C. and Elizabeth A. Ramsey. His father, 81 years old, resides at Pine Apple, Wilcox county, Alabama. His mother died in 1854. He was attending the University of Alabama, at Tuskaloosa, when the war broke out, and enlisted as a private in Company "A," the Mobile Cadets, of the Third Alabama Infantry, in Battle's Brigade of Rhodes' Division of Stonewall Jackson's corps. He was in the Confederate Army for four years, and was in nearly all the battles, from Seven Pines to Appo- mattox. He came to Arkansas, November 25th, 1865, and located at Camden, where he has since lived. He was Dep- uty Clerk of Ouachita county from November, 1874, to November, 1878, and was then elected Clerk three successive terms, 1878 to 1880, 1882. He was School Director of the Camden school district three years, 1877 to 1880 ; Alderman of the town of Camden three terms, 1885, 1886 and 1887 ; and appointed by President Cleveland Register of the United States Land Office, at Camden, in November, 1885. He has been twice married. On the 17th of November, 1869, at Camden, Arkansas, he was married to Miss Mary F. Vickers, from Hawesville, Kentucky. She died October 31st, 1881. On the 6th of November, 1884, he was married to Mrs. Mattie V. Stanley. He has five children now living-
OUACHITA COUNTY.
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two daughters and three sons, to-wit: Misses Marian L. and Annie V., and Ab. C., Carl C. and William K.
Alfred A. Tufts became a resident of Camden in 1867. He was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 3d, 1847, son of Amos and Adelia A. R. Tufts. At an early age his parents moved to New York City, and he was principally raised there. In 1857 or 1858 his mother, then a widow, visited Cincinnati, and placed him at school there. He re- mained at school two or three years, when, becoming dissatis- fied, he went to Indiana and Illinois. At this time the war broke out and he enlisted, in July, 1862, at Shelbyville, Illi- nois, in Company "K," of the One Hundred and Twenty- sixth Infantry Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, in General Nathan Kimball's Division, and was also under command of General Hurlbut in the Sixteenth Army Corps. He partici- pated in the campaign in Tennesse and in the siege of Vicksburg. After the surrender of Vicksburg his division was assigned to service under General Fred. Steele, and parti- cipated in the campaign in Arkansas, which resulted in the capture of Little Rock. At the close of the war he was mus- tered out of service at Pine Bluff, July 12th, 1865, and finally discharged at Springfield, Illinois, in August, 1865. He then taught school for fifteen months, at the end of which time, in May, 1867, he came to Arkansas and located at Camden, where he has since resided. He was Deputy County and Circuit Clerk of Ouachita county from 1868 to to 1872, and County Clerk from 1872 to 1874. He was Receiver of Public Moneys of the Camden Land District from 1871 to 1873 and from 1875 to 1885. He has taken a prom- inent part in the orders of Masonry, Odd-Fellowship and the Knights of Pythias; is at present Commander of Knights Templar in Camden, and was Grand Commander of Knights Templar of the State in 1884, Grand Chancellor of Knights of Pythias of the State in 1883, and Supreme Representative of the same in 1887. On the 17th of February, 1873, he was
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married, at Camden, to Miss Nellie D. Scott, youngest daughter of Judge Christopher C. Scott, deceased. The only child born of this marriage, a daughter, Maud, died at the age of two years.
Colonel Henry Gaston Bunn became a resident of Cam- den about the year 1868. He was born in Nash county, North Carolina, on the 12th day of June, 1838. In 1844 his father, David Bunn, removed to Fayette county, in what was then the Western District of Tennessee, but remained there only two years, when, in 1846, he came to Arkansas, and settled in Calhoun county, which was then almost an uninhabited wilderness, with but few settlements. Here H. G. Bunn grew up to manhood, receiving such instruc- tion as local schools and those of Princeton and El Dorado could furnish, until 1858, when he entered Davidson Col- lege, North Carolina. The breaking out of the war inter- rupted the completion of his collegiate course, and he returned home and enlisted as a private in Company "A," of the Fourth Arkansas Infantry, a company raised in Calhoun county by Captain Joseph B. McCulloch. He was promoted from time to time, until at the close of the war he was Colonel of the regiment, and as such commanded the brigade to which hi regiment belonged, after the wounding of General D. H. Reynolds, the Brigadier-General in command. Colonel Bunn, being in command, made surrender of the brigade near Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26th, 1865, at the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston's Army. Though being exposed to great and incessant dangers during the whole of the war, from the very first of it even unto the last, he escaped with only a slight wound in the head, received . at the battle of Elkhorn, March 7th, 1862, caused by his being struck with a fragment of a shell. After the close of the war he returned to Hampton, the place of his residence, in Calhoun county, and having qualified himself therefor, entered upon the practice of law, in which he rapidly rose to
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prominence. About 1868 he moved to Camden, where he has since resided, conducting successfully the practice of his profession.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Montgomery County, the forty-sixth county created, was formed December 9th, 1842, out of territory taken from Hot Spring county. From the organization of the county, the county seat was at the present town of Mount Ida, but it was called by the name of Montgomery, until the July term, 1850, of the County Court, at which date the name was changed to Salem. It continued under this name until the October term of the court, when the name was changed to Mount Ida, which it now bears.
Montgomery is a western county, lying in the valley of the Ouachita river. Its area is about 900 square miles. In sur- face the county is much broken, being hilly and mountainous for as much as two thirds of its area. The usual crops are cot- ton, corn, wheat, oats and ordinary farm products. There is no railroad in the county as yet, the nearest railroad point be- ing Hot Springs, forty miles away.
There are a number of mineral springs in the county, of which Maddox, Hutchinson's, Sulphur, Blood Springs and Mayberry Springs are the best known.
Minerals exist in the county in quantities, and much ex- citement has arisen over finds of gold and silver, copper and antimony, at the Bear Mines, Silver City and other points. Mining operations on an extensive scale are in progress, with satisfactory results.
There are fifty-nine free common schools, open three months in the year. The Baptist, Methodist and Christian denominations have organized congregations, but have only inferior church-houses.
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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.
1844 to 1846
Andrew Boles
George Fisher
N. E. Robinson
J. M. Fleming.
A. Langsford ..
1846 to 1848
J. S. Harris ..
J. I. Mclendon ..
James Hudson
J. Collins.
S. Cunningham.
J. M. Harris
1848 to 1850
H. Graves, 9
J. Fleming
J. H. May
D. Farr
J. McKinly ..
J. J. Mclendon ..
1850 to 1852
J. B. Garrett
J. S. Fleming
J. H. May ..
James A. Stall
D. W. Stockton
A. Boles ..
1852 to 1854
Andrew Boles
E. L. Hughes
J. H. May ..
James A. Stall
V. Isenhonr.
R. S. Burk.
1854 to 1856
Andrew Boles
D. A. Woolard
J. B. Garrett.
James A. Stall
V. Isenhour
R. S. Burk
1856 to 1858
Thomas Farr
D. A. Woolard
J. B. Garrett.
J. F. Fleming
V. Isenhour ..
R. S. Burk ...
1858 to 1860
W. J. Willoughby ..
D. A. Woolard
J. B. Garrett ..
J. F. Fleming.
J. M. Amerson
R. S. Burk ..
1860 to 1862
W. J. Willoughby ...
J. A. Stall
W. C. Simpson. ..
A. Jones
M. Isenhour
R. S. Burk
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