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COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Columbia County, the fifty-sixth county formed, was cre- ated by the Legislature, December 17th, 1852, out of territory taken from the counties of Lafayette, Union, Hempstead and Ouachita. No place was designated as the county seat, but an election was provided for in its creation to select Commis- sioners to locate one. Coleman W. Garrett, Ananias God- bold and Andrew J. Thompson were chosen Commissioners for the purpose, and they located it at Magnolia, in 1853, where it has since remained.
A part of Union county was added December 21st, 1858, and the line between Columbia and Nevada counties was defined April 19th, 1873.
Columbia is a southwestern county, lying along the Loui- siana line, and separated from Texas by the counties of Lafay- ette and Miller. Its area is about 900 square miles.
In surface, the county is level, and over half of it alluvial soil of great richness. The usual crops of cotton, corn and grain, with fruits, are raised in abundance. Dorcheat bayou runs through the county north and south, but is not navi- gable.
The St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railroad crosses the northern part of the county east and west.
There are forty-six school districts in the county, and a high-school at Magnolia. There are church-houses at all the principal points in the county.
The chief towns are Magnolia, Buckner, McNeill and Waldo.
Magnolia, the county seat, is situated near the center of the county, on a branch of the St. Louis & Texas Railway. It was founded in 1853 by Coleman W. Garrett, Ananias God-
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1853 to 1854.
E. G. Turner
R. G. Harper
John E. Smith
Peter Farrar ..
J. Martin
I. T. House
1854 to 1856
E. G. Turner
R. G. Harper.
John E. Smith
Peter Farrar
C. J. Wilson
I. T. House
1856 to 1858
H. Sheppard
R. G. Harper
A. M. M. Collum
R. B. Archer.
C. J. Wilson.
E. B. Rockett.
1858 to 1860
John W. Todd
D. W. Dixon.
J. C. Drennon
S. S. Parker.
H. Dickson
E. B. Rockett ..
1860 to 1862
D. J. Smith
D. W. Dixon ..
J. C. Drennon
S. A. McAllister
R. G. McTire
J. L. Pamplin ..
1862 to 1864
J. A. Hicks ..
Dave Dixon ..
W. H. Steel, 1 ..
S. S. Parker.
M. Brantly
L. A. Snider
W. S. Booth, 5.
1964 to 1866
J. A. Hicks, 2.
Dave Dixon
W. H. Steel.
J. W. Merrill.
J. R. Finley . ....
F. M. Thomson.
J. D. Furlow ..
J. M. Beasley, 9
1868 to 1872
J. A. Hicks, 7
Zeno C. Ross
C. S. Barrow
T. S. Mullins, 6.
W. H. Vaughn
J. D. Furlow, 8
C. S. Barlow.
1872 to 1874
Abolished in 1873
Dave Dixon
Quincy Couch, 10
D. R. Booth.
Henry Hawkins ...
M. A. Patterson .....
1
1874 to 1876
W. M. Joyner.
Dave Dixon
J. M. Warren
W. B. McNeill
J. O. Burdine.
C. C. Lyle.
A. P. Warnock.
1876 to 1878
W. M. Joyner.
Dave Dixon
Z. L. Daniels
W. B. McNeill
J. O. Burdine.
C. C. Lyle.
W. S. Parham.
1878 to 1880
W. M. Joyner.
Dave Dixon
Z. L. Daniels
W. B. McNeill
G. M. Turner ..
C. C. Lyle.
W. J. Garrard.
1880 to 1882
W. M. Joyner
Dave Dixon
Z. L. Daniels ..
R. J. Cole ..
B. F. Frazer
C. C. Lyle
W. J. Garrard.
1882 to 1884
F. B. Scott
Dave Dixon
T. J. Grimmett
T. T. Smith
J. O. Burdine.
C. C. Lyle
W. J. Garrard.
1884 to 1886
Wm. M. Joyner
Dave Dixon
T. J. Grimmett ..
T. T. Smith
T. B. Curry
C. C. Lyle ..
W. A. Cheatham.
1886 to 1888
F. J. Stewart
T. C. Monroe
T. J. Grimmett ..
T. T. Smith
- Scoggins .
W. W. Souter.
Jake McDaniels.
1888 to 1890
F. J. Stewart
T. C. Monroe ..
James A. Sewell
T. T. Smith
Willis Todd ..
A. C. Crawford.
W. J. Garrard.
1-M. P. Balyer, Collector, resigned, and G. F. Hicks held the office. 2-Resigned, and Janes E. Askew held the office in July, 1865. 3-Wm. B. McNeill in the office in July, 1865. 4-J. D. Furlow from August, 1865. 5-D. J. Montgomery from January, 1866. 6-Declined, and J. Sharman elected. 7-T. J. Bal- yer from June, 1871. 8-T. J. Balyer from January, 1870. 9-R. L. Archer elected June, 1870; rejected, and N. F. Smith in the office from May, 1871. 10-G. A. Couch from December, 1873, vice Q. Couch, resigned.
bold and Andrew J. Thompson, Commissioners to locate the county seat, and was incorporated Jan- uary 6th, 1855. Its present population is estimated at 2,000. It contains seven churches, four of the white race and three for the colored people, all frame buildings. Of the former are a Meth- odist church, Rev. H. H. Watson, pastor ; Baptist, Rev. J. H. Moore, pastor ; Christian, Rev. J. W. Scott; and Presbyterian, Rev. E. M. Monroe, pastor. There are two newspapers published there, the Columbia Banner, published by Dismukes & Davies; and the Columbia Record, by J. H, Pollard. . There are three hotels : the Goode House, the Brenton House and the Commercial.
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H. L. Thomas, 4 ..
1866 to 1868
J. A. Hicks ..
Dave Dixon, 3
W. H. Steel.
T. S. Mullins
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COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Colonel Dave Dixon has been a resident of Magnolia ever since the town was located. He was born in Talladega, Alabama, .September 30th, 1838, son of William M. and Leah Dixon, late of Columbia county, but now deceased. In 1850, at the age of twelve years, he came to Arkansas with his parents, they settling in what was then Lafayette county, but which afterwards, in 1853, became Columbia. He received such education as the county schools afforded. He was Dep- uty Clerk under R. G. Harper, the first Clerk of the county, from 1853 until Harper's death, in 1858, when, at the next general election he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, and re-elected in 1860, 1862 and 1864, both of the latter times being when he was absent in service in the Confederate Army. At the close of the war he had just been elected Clerk, when he was displaced by Governor Murphy. He was re-elected again in 1866, and served to 1868, when he was disfranchised during the Re-construction, and so remained for four years. He was re-elected in 1872, and served till 1886, when he declined to be again a candidate. His service as Clerk covers a period of twenty-four years, and he was elected to the position twelve times. On the breaking out of the war he entered the Confederate Army, and was Captain of Company "B," of the Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry, in Gen- eral Albert Rust's Brigade of Van Dorn's Division, after- wards transferred to Bragg's Army of Tennessee and Ken- tucky, and served therein to the close of the war. On the 14th of October, 1858, at Magnolia, he married Miss Nannie Pace. By this marriage there are three children now living, two sons and a daughter.
Hon. Benjamin F. Askew became a citizen of Magnolia in 1853. He was born in Lenoir county, North Carolina, May 7th, 1827, son of John and Elizabeth Askew. He was admitted to the Bar in Alabama, on the 14th of March, 1852, and came to Arkansas in the same year. He settled at El Dorado in April, 1852, and lived there until March, 1853,
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when he moved to Magnolia, where he has since resided, and is now engaged in the practice of law and as a dealer in real estate. He was State Senator from his district in the ses- sions of 1873 and 1874, and introduced in the latter session a Bill to call a Constitutional Convention. On the 5th of June, 1883, he was elected Circuit Judge of the Thirteenth Circuit. He served in the Confederate Army as Lieutenant in Com- pany "K," of the Nineteenth Arkansas Regiment, in Gen- eral Albert Rust's Brigade, and was afterwards Provost Marshal of Columbia county. He was twice married. In 1856, in Lafayette county, Arkansas, he was married to Miss S. A. Keener. There are three children by this marriage now living. In 1869, in Columbia county, he was married to Miss Nancy E. Hartsfield. By this marriage there are four children.
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CRAIGHEAD COUNTY.
Craighead County, the fifty-seventh county created, was formed February 19th, 1859, out of territory taken from the counties of Greene, Poinsett and Mississippi, and was named after State Senator Thomas B. Craighead, of Mississippi county. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the store of William Puryear, in Greenfield township, Poinsett county, and an election for Commissioners to locate it permanently was provided for. R. Stephens, G. B. Gibson and J. N. Burk were chosen Commissioners for the purpose and they lo- cated it at Jonesboro, founding the town, where it has since remained.
Craighead is a northeast county, lying between Greene and Poinsett north and south, and Mississippi and Jackson east and west. Its area is about 720 square miles.
In surface, the county is mostly level, and the lands fertile and productive. The usual crops, cotton, corn, grains and
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1859 to 1860
Isham Fuller.
L. H. Sutfin
W. T. E. Armstrong Thos. Nelson
R. H. McCoy
J. N. Burk
1860 to 1862
Sam. P. Trice.
L. H. Sutfin.
W. T. E. Armstrong S. W. Chisenhall.
Uriah Keller
J. N. Burk.
1862 to 1864
A. C. Huston.
L. H. Sutfin, 1
Wm. Puryear ..
S. W. Chisenhall.
Uriah Keller.
S. M. Oden
1864 to 1866
J. S. Anderson, 2.
A. Lynch
Wm. Puryear, 3 ..
C. C. Sharp, 4.
L. W. Loftis, 5
A. J. Barnet
1866 to 1868.
J. M. Curnutt, 7 ..
L. H. Sutfin, 8
J. G. Wood, 9 ..
C. C. Sharp
John Gamble ...
E. A. Albright.
1868 to 1872
Jas. Carson.
R. H. Mckay.
W. W. Nesbitt
T. S. Ray
J. Hargraves, 10.
...
Not recorded.
W.T.E. Armstrong
1874 to 1876
J. H. West.
J. C. Knight
D. H. Thorn.
E. Watkins.
A. N. Couch
J. W. Newson ..
J. M. Raines.
1876 to 1878
W. S. Stephens.
Jacob Sharp
D. H. Thorn.
E. Watkins
R. Robertson .
J. W. Newson ..
J. R. Ruffin.
1878 to 1880
W. S. Stephens ..
Jacob Sharp.
D. H. Thorn
A. S. Nash
P. A. Wren, 14.
J. W. Newson, 13 .. J. Broadway.
1880 to 1882
J. M. Raines
Jacob Sharp
Wm. T. Lane
J. M. Minton
H. Dorton.
T. M. Boyd
J. Broadway.
1882 to 1884
L. W. Loftis.
Jacob Sharp ..
Wm. T. Lane.
W. F. Little.
H. Dorton
G. B. Hopkins ....
J. Broadway.
1884 to 1886.
L. W. Loftis
Jacob Sharp ..
Wm. T. Lane.
W. F. Little.
H. Dorton
T. M. Boyd
R. L. Collins.
1886 to 1888.
J. H. Edwards
J. H. Mangrum ..
Wm. T. Lane
J. D. C. Cobb
David Calvert ..
J. H. Burk
R. L. Collins.
1888 to 1890.
J. H. Edwards ..
J. H. Mangrum.
Wm. T Lane .. ...
G. W. Cook.
M. D. Willey.
J. H. Burk
R. L. Collins.
1-F. M. Davis, Clerk, instead of Suftin ; entered in office January, 1864. 2-Jas. Carson held office in January, 1866. 3-W. T. E. Armstrong from Jan- uary, 1865. 4-L. W. Loftis from November, 1865. 5-J. H. Gamble from November, 1865. 6 -E. A. Albright from November, 1865. 7-Jas. Carson from Octo- ber, 1867, vice Curnutt removed. 8-R. H. Mckay from October, 1867. 9-W. H. Nesbit from October, 1867. 10-J. H. Stephens from January, 1871. 11-J. W. Newson from November, 1873. 12-C. W. Covender from November, 1873. 13-Died, October, 1878, and W. M. Armstrong elected. 14-Failed to give bond, and N. Couch elected.
fruits, are produced. The county is well traversed by railroads, the Kansas City & Memphis, the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railroads converging at Jonesboro, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Helena Railroad running near that same point. The St. Francis river flows through the eastern part of the county in a north and south direction. Along the line of this river is a considerable dis- trict known as the "sunk lands," being lands which sunk during the great earthquake of New Madrid, in 1811 and 1812.
There are 56 school districts and 28 free common schools in the county, and churches of the Meth-
CRAIGHEAD COUNTY.
1872 to 1874
J. C. Knight.
Samuel Nash
T. S. Ray
John Banehill.
J. W. Newson, 11 ..
D. M. Goodman, 12
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odist, Baptist and Presbyterian denominations in the promi- nent places of the county, and a Roman Catholic church at Jonesboro.
The principal towns are Jonesboro, Brookland, Obear, Bannerville, Nettleton and Herndon.
Jonesboro, the county seat, is situated near the center of the county.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, JONESBORO.
It was founded in 1859, and was laid out, as we have seen, by R. Stephens, G. B. Gibson and J. N. Burk, Commissioners to locate the county seat. It was incorporated February 2d, 1883, and contains at present a population of about 2,000 persons.
There are four churches in the town, three for the white and one for the colored people, all frame buildings. Those
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for the white inhabitants are the Methodist, Baptist and Pres- byterian churches. The colored church is of the Methodist denomination. There are two newspapers published there, The Jonesboro Times, by J. D. C. Cobb, and The Craig- head News, by Wren, Phelps and Rogers, editors.
There are four hotels, the Commercial, the Southern, the Robertson and the Hughes.
On Saturday, 27th of April, 1889, Jonesboro was visited by a destructive fire, which consumed over 40 houses, including the large brick store of Marcus Berger. The fire originated in a large two-story frame house, and as a strong wind was blowing at the time, the flames spread with great rapidity. It was estimated that property of the value of from $150,000 to $200,000 was consumed, on which there was insurance to the amount of $75,000 in various companies.
W. W. Nesbitt was a leading citizen of Jonesboro ; a South Carolinian by birth. He was Postmaster at the place in 1889, under appointment of President Benjamin Harrison. He died October 16th, 1889, while serving in that capacity.
Judge William Henderson Cate has been a resident of Jonesboro since 1865. He was born in Jefferson, Rutherford county, Tennessee, November 11th, 1839, son of Noah and Margaret McKee Cate, who was Margaret McKee Hender- son. Noah Cate, his father, was a Baptist minister of prom- inence during 40 years. He graduated at the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, in 1857. He became a resident of Arkansas in 1865, locating at Jonesboro, where he has since lived. He at first taught school, worked on a farm and read law alternately, and was admitted to the Bar in 1866. He took a prominent part in behalf of the people in the militia troubles of 1869. He was a Member of the Legislature from Craighead county for the years 1871, 1873 and 1874; was Prosecuting-Attorney in 1878; was appointed Judge of the Second Circuit by Governor Berry, March 17th, 1884, and was elected to the position without opposition in September,
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1884. He was nominated by the Democratic Convention for Congress, June 28th, 1888, and was elected to the position at the election, November 6th. On the breaking out of the . Civil War, in 1861, he entered the Confederate Army in Com- pany "C," of Colonel J. A. Schnabel's Regiment, and was afterwards attached to the Third and Seventh Cavalry, in General M. M. Parson's Division, serving till the close of the war. From 1873 to 1875 he was President of the Iron Mountain & Helena Railroad Company. On the 7th of June, 1887, he organized the Bank of Jonesboro, a prosperous insti- tution, and was President there to July, 1888. On the 17th of September, 1868, he married Virginia E. Warner, young- est daughter of Major Samuel A. Warner, of Craighead county. By this marriage there is one child, a son, William Warner Cate, born September Ist, 1869.
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CROSS COUNTY.
Cross County, the fifty-eighth county created, was formed November 15th, 1862, out of territory taken from Poinsett, St. Francis and Crittenden counties, and was named in honor of Judge Edward Cross, one of the State's pioneers.
The county seat was located at Wittsburg, where it re- mained until April, 1886, when it was moved to Vanndale.
Cross county is an interior eastward county, lying west of Crittenden county. Its area is 600 square miles, and its population, in the census of 1880, was 5,050; of which 3,261 were white and 1,789 colored. The eastern portion of the county is traversed by the St. Francis river, and the western portion by L'Anguille river, and through the center the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Helena Road runs north and south, with the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Road crossing the north-
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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.
1863 to 1864
S. L. Austell
B. D. McClarran
J. N. Dobson.
Robert Meek
K. B. Pledger.
M. Halk.
1864 to 1866
W. A Lea ..
B. D. McClarran.
J. N. Dobson, 1.
Robert Meek, 2.
J. Fountain, 3 ..
G. Jones, 4.
1866 to 1868
W. A. Lea
James Levesque
L. Chappelle
G. N. Legg ..
J. T. Rolfe ..
H. R. Cummins
1868 to 1872.
H. B. Robertson, 5 ...
W. K. Stokes, 6.
W. H. Cole
A. J. Harrell
J. H. Legg
H. Bond, 8 ..
J. E. Gailey, 9.
1872 to 1874
Abolished.
T. O. Fitzpatrick.
L. Chappelle
A. J Harrell
J. Applewhite.
R. H. Cummins
L. N. Rhodes.
1874 to 1876
J. C. McElroy.
J. N Dobson
J. M. Levesque ..
G. W. Griffin
L. N. Block.
Wm. M. Block
R. M. Spain.
1876 to 1878.
J. C. McElroy
L. Chappelle
J. M. Levesque ..
G. W. Griffin
P
A. Warren.
H. Newson
J. H. Legg.
1878 to 1880
W. A. Lea
B. E. Dobson
J. M. Levesque.
J. M. Simmons.
P.
A. Warren
W. H. Newson
W. P. Brown.
1880 to 1882
S. S. Hare.
J. M. Levesque ..
J. H. Legg
J. M. Simmons .
P. A. Warren.
H. Newson, 10.
W. P. Brown.
1882 to 1884
S. S. Hare
J. M. Levesque.
L. T. Head
J. M. Simmons.
P. A. Warren.
J. W. McElroy.
W. P. Brown.
1884 to 1886
W. F. Robinson ..
J. M. Levesque ..
L. T. Head
J. A. Sadler
J. H. Brinkley.
J. W. McElroy ......
W. P. Brown.
1886 to 1888
S. S. Hare ..
J. M. Levesque ..
J. W. Killough.
J. M. Simmons
J. T. Rolfe.
J. W. McElroy.
H. C. Winters.
1888 to 1890
W. F. Robinson.
J. M. Levesque ..
J. B. Hamilton.
A. H. Hamette
A. Phillips ..
J. W. McElroy ......
T. W. May.
CROSS COUNTY.
1-L. Chappelle from November, 1865. 2-W. F. Gray from November, 1865. 3-David Fitzpatrick from November, 1865. 4-Henry Cummins from No- vember, 1865. 5-W. L. Rhodes from August, 1869. 6-B. Rollesson from August, 1870. 8-T. O. Fitzpatrick from January. 1869. 9-T. O. Fitzpatrick from January, 1871. 10-B. Rollesson from February, 1881.
west corner. There are forty-five free public schools, and about thirty churches of different denomina- tions, in the county. The principal towns are Wittsburg, Vanndale, the county seat, Wynne, Cherry Valley and Nolton.
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WOODRUFF COUNTY.
Woodruff County, the fifty-ninth county created, was formed November 26th, 1862, out of territory taken from Jackson and St. Francis counties, and was named in honor of the veteran pioneer, William E. Woodruff, Sr.
The county seat was located at Augusta, where it now is.
Woodruff county is an eastern interior county, lying east of White county. Its area is about 590 square miles, or 384,000 acres. Its soil is of extraordinary fertility, and the farm products of the county are unsurpassed. White river constitutes the western boundary line of the county for its en- tire length. The St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway, run- ning north and south, crosses the lower right-hand corner of the county, and the Batesville & Brinkley Railroad runs north and south, through the entire length of the county near the center.
There are twenty-five school districts in the county, with about 2,800 pupils. There are eight Methodist, four Bap- tist and two Presbyterian churches. The principal towns are Augusta, Cotton Plant, Deview, Gray's Station, Riverside, and McCrory.
Augusta, the county seat, is situated on White river, but is reached by a branch of the Batesville & Brinkley Road. It is a town which does a large business, and has always been a fine shipping point for the White river trade. It contains a number of handsome and valuable buildings, both brick and frame, and although having suffered greatly by fires, which have swept away large portions of the town, it has to a con- siderable extent been rebuilt.
The population of Augusta is about 1,200. The business houses number nineteen; has four churches, two for the whites and two for the colored; and two school buildings, one for the white pupils and one for the colored. The white school last year had an average attendance of 130 pupils.
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WOODRUFF COUNTY.
Hon. James B. Dent became a resident of Woodruff county in November, 1865, engaging in planting. He was born in Morgantown, Virginia, now West Virginia, in 1837, son of James and Dorcas Dent, who was Dorcas Berkshire, sister of Ex-Supreme Judge Ralph Berkshire, of West Virginia. He emigrated west to Illinois, where he attended Judson College, and received a practical business education in Chicago. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the First Illinois Cavalry of the United States Army, and was Second Lieu- tenant of Company "A," in 1861, was Captain of Company "C," of the Fourteenth Illinois, and was afterwards Major of the same regiment, a command which was connected with "the Army of the Ohio." He was in the battle of Lexing- ton, Missouri, in 1861, and in all the battles around Knox- ville, including the siege, and was then with Sherman in all the operations from Dalton to Atlanta. After the war he be- came a citizen of Arkansas, locating in Woodruff county, at or near Augusta, his present residence being at Riverside, three miles from Augusta. In 1874 he was in the Brooks- Baxter war as a supporter of Baxter. He was Assessor in 1874, County and Probate Judge from 1882 to 1888, was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis from the Second Congressional District, in 1888, and in the fall of 1888 was elected Representative in the Legislature from Woodruff county for the term from 1888 to 1890.
Hon. Edward Sherman Carl Lee was a resident of Augusta from 1872, a telegrapher and artist. He was born in Virginia in the year 1852, son of R. B., Sr., and Charlotte Carl Lee who was Charlotte Sherman. He came to Arkan- sas in 1859, and lived at Devall's Bluff from 1860 to 1869, at Little Rock from 1869 to 1871, at Clarendon from 1871 to 1872, and at Augusta from 1872. He represented Woodruff county in the Lower House of the Legislature of 1885 and 1887.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1862 to 1864
I. McCurdy, 3 ..
V. L. Walters
J. R. Jelks
James Smock
James Crawford
C. S. Cabler
1864 to 1866
E. T. Jones
D. H. Johnson
John Thorp ..
T. E. Erwin .
William Cornelius R. H. Cotney
1866 to 1868
E. T. Jones
W. P. Campbell ..
J. R. Jelks
R. L. Barnes
W. H. Dickinson ...
R. H. Cotney
1868 to 1872
A. D. Blanchard
D. H. Johnson
J. N. Bosley.
W. M. Reynolds. 1 ...
Edwin Wilson
G. D. F. Malone.
W. P. Anderson. J. H. Johnson, 2.
1874 to 1876
L. M. Ramsauer.
W. P. Campbell
J. R. Jelks
C. T. Petit
J. A. Hamlet.
R. H. Cotney ..
W. W. Garland.
1876 to 1878
E. T. Jones
W. P. Campbell
A. W. Jones
C. T. Petit
B. F. Hawkins
R. H. Cotney
W. W. Garland.
1878 to 1880.
E. T. Jones.
W. P. Campbell
Ed. Roddy
C. F. Petit
N. J. Barbee
R. K. Fitzhugh
W. W. Garland.
1880 to 1882.
E. T. Jones ..
W. P. Campbell.
A. W. Jones
C. T. Petit
William Ellsberry. R. K. Fitzhugh
W. E. Ferguson.
1882 to 1884
J. B. Dent.
A. W. Jones.
W. E. Ferguson ..
Warren Sale
C. H. Devain
W. F. Fesperman ..
G. W. Gordon.
1884 to 1886
J. B. Dent
A. W. Jones
W. E. Ferguson ..
J. W. Sallee
R. W. Stokes
E. S. Freeman ..
1886 to 1888.
James B. Dent
W. E. Ferguson ..
Ed. Roddy
Warren Sale
H. V. Spivey
L. H. Weed ..
Geo. W. Gordon. J. P. Hobbs.
1888 to 1890.
W. T. Trice ..
W. E. Ferguson ..
Ed. Roddy ..
Warren Sale.
W. A. Harper ..
R. K. Fitzhugh
J. W. Sallee.
1-E. H. Shelton from May, 1871. 2-James B. Dent from May, 1874. 3-R. W. Martin from June, 1865, to June, 1866.
In June, 1872, at Clarendon, he married Miss Sue F. Mullins. By this marriage there are two children.
Hon. Thomas Edward Stanley became a resident of Augusta in 1872. He was born at Town Creek, Alabama, October 15th, 1844, son of Joseph H. and Maria L. Stanley. In June 1861, at the age of sixteen years, at Courtland, Alabama, he enlisted in the Confederate Army as a member of Company "B," of the Sixteenth Alabama Infantry in Lowry's Brigade of Cleburne's Division, and served in that command throughout the war. From 1865 to 1870 he worked on a farm, and with the result of his labor defrayed his expenses at Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, graduat- ing from the Law Department there in January, 1872. He came to Arkansas in June of that year, settling at Augusta, and was admitted to the Bar there in August, 1872. He has since
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
1872 to 1874
D. H. Johnson
J. N. Bosley
T. E. Erwin
C. W. Montague ...
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LITTLE RIVER COUNTY.
practiced his profession at that place. He was the represent- ative of Woodruff county in the Legislatures of 1877 to 1879 and 1881, and was Delegate to the National Democratic Con- vention at Cincinnati, in which Hancock and English were nominated. He has often been a Delegate from Woodruff county to Democratic State Conventions. In May 1873, at Augusta, he was married to Laura McCurdy. By this mar- riage there are four children, three sons and a daughter.
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LITTLE RIVER COUNTY.
Little River County, the sixtieth county created, was formed March 5th, 1867, out of portions of Hempstead and Sevier counties, and took its name from Little river, which forms its northern boundary. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of William Freeman, in Lick Creek township. In 1880 the county seat was established at the town of Richmond, where it now is.
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