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Capt. John Blythe, farmer and a leading citi- zen of Tyler Township, was born in MeMinn Coun- ty, East Tenn., January 18, 1833. His father, Samuel Blythe, was a son of William Blythe, who was born in Ireland. He was also an agriculturist by occupation, and died in 1863. Our subject's mother was born in Tennessee, in 1801, of Irish descent, and died in 1869. She bore a family of seven children, three now living: James (of Barry
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County, Mo. ), S. H. and John. John, the fourthi child, was reared and received his education in Tennessee, and at the age of eighteen years began life for himself. He was on the Tennessee River the first four years, then entered upon a career of farming and stock dealing, and in 1865 removed to Georgia, where he resided two years, then coming to what is now Saline County, Ark. In 1880 he located in Perry County, where he now resides. In 1862, entering the Confederate army, in Com- pany B. Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, as private, Mr. Blythe was immediately elected first lieutenant, serving about six months, when he was promoted to the rank of captain, and this commission he held till the close of the war. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca (Ga.). New Hope Church, at Atlanta and Jonesboro and at Bennettsville, the last battle of the war, on March 19, 20 and 21, 1865. He now has 440 acres of land, about 170 under cultivation; this is an excellent stock farm, South Fourche River running through it and furnishing an abundant supply of water. Capt. Blythe is a Democrat, and a highly respected resident. In 1854, in Tennessee, he married Miss Mary Ann Murphy, who was born in that State, in 1829. They have had a family of five children, four now living: William M., Eliza- beth (wife of A. T. Mane), Joseph and Mary.
John Wilson Carden. Among the substantial agriculturists of Rankin Township is Mr. Carden, who was born in Orange County, N. C., November 12, 1834, being the son of James and Clara C. (Shamly) Carden. The father, a farmer by occu- pation, of Scotch and English descent, was born in North Carolina in 1801 and died January 16, 1854. His wife was born in North Carolina, and two years after her husband's death went to Tennessee, where she survived until 1871. She was the mother of nine children, of whom Wiley, Robert J., Jo- siah E., Elizabeth, James Alex and our subject are living. John W., the second child, received a limited education in Orange County, N. C., but his father dying when he was seventeen years of age, he was obliged to work and help support the family He remained with his mother until about twenty-one and then went to school for six months,
after which he entered upon work in a tobacco fac- tory at Talleho, continuing four years, the last few years as overseer. In 1860 he came to Pulaski County, Ark., and in June, 1862, enlisted in the artillery company under Capt. Daniels. He was in the battle of Pleasant Hill, La., and many skir- mishes, following Gen. Banks through Louisiana. After serving three years he went home on a fur- longh, and before his return the war ended. He was later employed by the Government for six months, at $75 per month, when he commenced farming in Pulaski County, remaining till January 27. 1881, when he removed to Perry County. He has now one of the best stock farms in the State, comprising 900 acres of land, with about 400 acres under cultivation, and upon this place are a great number of horses, mules, hogs, sheep and cattle. Mr. Carden has been a member of the Masonic order thirty-two years, is a Democrat and has been overseer of roads a number of years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sonth. In February, 1858, he married Miss Anna Shamlin, of North Carolina, who died in January, 1868. They had two children, both now deceased. In June, 1869, Miss Elizabeth Kumpe, of Alabama, became his wife, whose father emigrated from Germany, where he was born in 1807. By this marriage there are eight children (six living): Charles R., Anna L., Mary L., John F., Frederick E., Sidney (deceased), Martin L. (deceased) and Imella J.
Benjamin Franklin Clayton, is actively occu- pied as school master and farmer of Huston Town- ship. A native of Arkansas, he was born in Conway County, June 20, 1858, to the union of William and Eliza (McBurnett) Clayton. The father gave his attention to tilling the soil, with good success. He was of English descent, was born in Kentucky, and died in Conway County. Ark., during the war. Benjamin's mother came orig- inally from Alabama, being the daughter of Thomas McBurnett; she died in 1872. In the family there were four children, two now living: Benjamin and Richard T. The subject of this sketch, the third child, was reared principally in Conway County, receiving his early education in Arkansas, which
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he supplemented by a course, in 1874, in Carroll County, Ga. In 1879 he began teaching in his native county, and has followed this occupation five terms. He has 120 acres of land, about sixty- five under cultivation. In 1886 his fitness for the position led to his election as justice of the peace, and he was re-elected in 18SS, proving an able and efficient officer. He was school director of his district two years. In politics he is a Democrat, having cast his first presidential vote for Hancock. In 1881 Mr. Clayton married Miss Betty Bird, who died in 1882, and in 1883 Lizzie Johnson, a native of Tennessee, became his wife. She died in 1886, and in August, 1888, Mr. Clayton married Katie Latham, whose birth occurred in Missouri in 1871. They have one child, Lillie. Mr. Clay- ton's farm is well improved, and on it is a living spring of water. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
James Cobb, who through industry and energy has risen to a position as a leading farmer of Perry County, is a native of North Carolina, having been born in Northampton County, on April 26, 1834. His parents were Littleberry and Mary (Massin- gill) Cobb, natives also of North Carolina. James' mother died in North Carolina when he was but a child, and his father, who was an overseer of slaves, subsequently married again, Harriet Davis becoming his wife. In 1845 he moved to Madison County, Tenn., dying in 1854 while in the employ of Dr. John Ingram. James was then twenty years of age. The subject of this sketch was the fifth in a family of six children; he grew up in North Carolina till eleven years of age when, as stated, the family moved to Tennessee, he receiv- ing his schooling in both States. On the death of his father, who left a widow and three children, he supported the family till his step mother's second marriage, after three years, when he came to Ar- kansas, settling in Perry County in 1858. After one year he purchased the place on which he now resides, it then containing 80 acres. In 1862 Mr. Cobb enlisted in the Confederate army, Company F, Twentieth Arkansas Infantry, serving through the war, and acting as sergeant. He was in the battles of Vicksburg, Champion's Hill and Farm-
ington. At the close of the war he returned to his farm, there being then only nine acres cleared; but he worked hard and at present has 540 acres of land. 225 under cultivation, the greater part of which he rents. He is a Republican, has been constable of his township several years and is a worthy and widely esteemed citizen. December 27, 1859, he married Miss Rebecca A. Holmes, who was born in Tennessee, in 1842; she died January 2, 1874, leaving six children, three living: John L., Fannie L. (wife of E. Jackson) and Anna. Mr. Cobb, in July, 1876, married Sarah J. McCown, of Union County, S. C., born in 1844, and the daughter of John and Elizabeth McCown; they have three children: Charley Graham, Wesley and James Grover. Mrs. Cobb is a member of the Bap- tist Church.
John J. Cook is also a prominent planter and stockman of Perry County, and was born in Perry County on February 13, 1839, being the son of Robert and Betsy (Hogan) Cook, the latter of whom was a native of Arkansas and a daughter of one of the pioneer settlers of that State, who repre- sented his county in the State legislature at an early period. He was a soldier in the Revolution, as was also his father. Robert Cook, upon first coming to Arkansas, settled in Perry County, where he was married and resided until his death. His son, John J., one of seven children born to the parents, was reared to farm life and received his education in Perry County. The father died when John was only twelve years old, and he has practically made his own way through life since that time. After the death of both par- ents the support and care of the remainder of the family devolved upon him and his eldest brother, Henry N. They provided for them in the best way possible under the circumstances, and took charge of the inheritance that had been left them. Misfortune seemed to follow fast after the loss of their parents, for some time later their houses were burned down by an incendiary, who, it is supposed, had a grudge against the father, The names of the family are as follows: Lucinda (born in 1830, married to Mr. George Smyers, who died during the Rebellion as did also his wife, leav-
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ing three children), Fannie (born in 1833 and re- siding in Texas, widow of William Bannett), Ellen (who married Mr. Gray, both deceased), John J., Jedediah (who died in the Confederate service), Robert (who died at the age of seven) and Edmond (who died in his second year). Henry N., as before mentioned, was the oldest, and was married to Miss Eliza Price, by whom he had four children. He died in the military prison, at Alton, Ill., dur ing the Civil War. John J. was united in mar- riage, on January 8, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth (Taylor) Wilson, by whom he has had three chil- dren. He erected a comfortable house on the land inherited from his father's estate, and re- sided there with his bride for one year, then mov- ing to Johnson County, Ark., and settling near Clarksville, where he remained until 1862. Being conscripted in the Confederate service, he served off and on for about two years, deserting when- ever opportunity offered, as he was opposed to the principles of this side. After the capture of Dar- danelle by the Federal troops Mr. Cook succeeded in escaping and entering the Union lines, and shortly afterward a troop of Confederate soldiers started out in pursuit. They appeared at Mr. Cook's house, near Clarksville, and attempted to force his wife to reveal his place of concealment, by threatening to dash out the brains of her one- week-old babe, which she was nursing in bed at the time. The heroic woman, who was almost too weak to sit up, defied them to the teeth, and when one of the soldiers dragged the little child from its mother's arms, it was only then that her courage gave way and she begged them to spare its life and take her own, thanking Providence at the same time that her husband was safe. Mr. Cook reached the Union lines and was given an escort to Little Rock, where he remained for ten days and then returned to Dardanelle and engaged in boat- building for two months. He then started home with the intention of taking his family to Little Rock, and on his arrival found that their child had died during his absence. He then gathered up his household effects and portable property and brought his wife to Spadra Bluff, a landing on the Arkansas River, intending to go by boat to Little
Rock, but during the night a portion of his prop- erty was burned by bushwhackers, and the balance only saved upon the representation of two orphan girls, who had lived with Mr. Cook two years, by claiming that it was their own. They then changed their intention of going to Little Rock and went to Fort Smith instead, and while there were pur- snaded by a troop of Kansas soldiers to go to that State for refuge. However, he remained at Fort Smith a month and then went by boat to Little Rock, at which place he left his wife and returned to Spadra Bluff and found the two girls and the property they had saved. He brought them to Little Rock, where they remained until the latter part of November, 1864, and then moved to Ran- dolph County, Ill., where he took charge of a farm belonging to Mr. George Thomason, also renting a small farm of his own. In the fall of 1865 he returned to Arkansas, bringing with him his wife, a few household goods (including a cooking stove, which was the only one in the county) and a faith- ful dog. Upon his arrival he homesteaded eighty acres of land adjoining the old homestead, which he improved and resided upon until 1888, when he purchased from his brother's heirs the old homestead, consisting of 160 acres. He now owns altogether 280 acres and has placed 100 of this under cultivation. Mr. Cook has three children living and four deceased: Samuel L. (born Febru- ary 1, 1867, died June 14, 1881), Emeline (born February 8. 1871), Betsy Jane (born May 11, 1873), Nancy Ann (born February 5, 1876), Mary Jane (born July 12, 1857, died in 1863), John J. (born March 1, 1862, died same year) and Henry N. (born April 12, 1860, died October 6, 1860.) The parents are members of the Missionary Bap- tist Church at Perryville, and Mr. Cook is greatly interested in religious and educational matters. He was elected to the legislature on the Labor ticket, in 1887, and served to the satisfaction of his constituents and with distinction for himself. He was the author of the bill to repeal the game laws, which, however, was defeated. Mr. Cook is a member of Perryville lodge No. 238, A. F. & A. M., having been initiated in 1887. He is a pro- gressive citizen and very popular, and is held in
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the highest esteem by every one with whom he associates.
Dr. William Davis Hill Creasey. Both pro- fessionally and as an enterprising agriculturist, Dr. Creasey enjoys wide and extended, as well as favorable acquaintance throughout Perry County. Born in Sullivan County, East Tenn., November 20, 1824, he is the son of Pleasant and Eliza W. (Hill) Creasey, both natives of Amherst County, Va., the father's birth occurring in 1788, and the mother's in 1799. She died in 1887, and her husband in Perry County in 1864. There were sixteen children in the family, of whom six are now living. William, the second child, spent his youth in Sullivan County, East Tenn., there principally receiving his education. In 1841, with his parents, he removed to Terre Haute, Ind., where they re- sided ten years, during four years of which time William was engaged in hauling fruit to Chicago, and after that was in business with his father shipping produce to New Orleans. On November 1, 1849, he and his father-in-law, Russell R. McBath, started for Perry County, Ark., where they arrived December 18, 1849, and here the Doc- tor has since resided. His father, of French and English descent, and a shoemaker by trade, came two years later, bringing his supplies on a boat, and landing at Perryville March 21, 1851. He was one of the Virginia volunteers in the War of 1812, under Capt. Doll, stationed at Norfolk, Va. Young Creasey studied medicine under some of the best physicians in Terre Haute, and in 1885. at the request of his friends, he began practicing in Perry County, and soon became a leading physician, though he has not been in active prac- tice for several years. In 1856 he was elected justice of the peace of Aplin Township, serving two terms. during which time he was associate justice with Judge Price. He has been surveyor of Perry County since 1868, with the exception of one term, and is now acting in that capacity. He took no part in the Rebellion, but sympathized with the Union cause. Dr. Creasey now has 981 acres, lo- cated on Fourche la Fave River, comprising first and second bottom lands; there are 294 acres, in the home farm, about 100 being under cultivation,
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on which are a fine orchard and good buildings. He has raised on this farm as high as forty-five bushels of wheat per acre, and clover and timothy in large quantities. He takes a great interest in the progress of the county, and is a liberal sup- porter of all public enterprises. December 5, 1845, Dr. Creasey married Miss Rutillia McBath, a native of Tennessee, who died in Pulaski County, Ark., June 26, 1865. She was the mother of five children, two of whom are living: Eliza (wife of Jacob Smyers) and William A. May 10, 1866, Dr. Creasey married Malinda (Price) Brandon, who was born in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1839; they have two children living: Robert J. and Will- iam Edward. The Doctor has been intimately as- sociated with this county's affairs, and is justly entitled to the prominent recognition accorded him.
John M. Crist. As one of the best-known farmers and stockmen in this county may be men- tioned Mr. Crist, who was born in Perry County, Ind., October 22, 1853, son of James M. and Elizabeth (McFall) Crist. The father was also a native of the same State, and of German descent, his father coming from Germany to America dur- ing the Revolution, and taking part in that event. James M. Crist came to Arkansas in 1856, but re- turned to Indiana in 1860 on a visit, and during his absence the War of the Rebellion broke out, which made it impossible for him to return home. John M. was reared and trained to farm life, and spent the greater portion of his boyhood days in Indiana, receiving his education at the Blooming- ton College, of Bloomington, Ohio. On Novem- ber 30, 1879, he was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Klingelhoeffer, whose parents were among the earliest settlers of Central Arkansas. [The father's biography will be found in the history of Perry County. ] She was the youngest of eleven children in the family. Three children were born to this marriage: Franklin (born November 29, 1881, died in 1883), John Walter (born October 22, 1884) and Agnes (born October 5, 1887). Mr. Crist had previously learned the carpenter's trade and engaged on the steamer Maumelle, as ship's carpenter, running from Little Rock to Pine Bluff. He next went on board the Marling Spud, and
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served in the same capacity for about eighteen months. His next venture was in lumber rafting from the woods of the Fourche Valley to Little Rock, where he found a market for his lumber, and followed this business successfully for three years. In 1884 he was nominated and elected county sur- veyor, filling the office for two years with the greatest credit. He has made his home on a farm of 160 acres in Perry Township, which he pur- chased in 1880, and has seventy-five acres under cultivation, with five good tenant houses, besides his own comfortable dwelling. He has also erected a steam cotton-gin, which he is operating success- fully, and contemplates building another frame house. In the spring of 1888 he erected a shingle- mill, and manufactured that important building article quite extensively, but sold that property in 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Crist are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, of which the former is clerk and also superintendent of the Sunday- school. He is anxious to see the rapid develop- ment of Perry County, and lends his valuable aid to all enterprises having that effect, and is one of the most popular citizens of that county. Polit- ically he is a Democrat.
Ellerslie L. Dooley was born in Maury County, Tenn., November 8, 1843, and is a son of William A. and Sarah (Joice) Dooley, natives of the same county. The father, a farmer and trader, of Scotch- Irish descent, was born in 1821, and died in 1878. The mother was born in 1827, and died in Mem- phis. Tenn., in 1873. In this family there were fifteen children, nine of whom are now living, eight in Arkansas and one in Tennessee. Ellerslie, the eldest of the family, received his education at Jackson College, in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., and after removing to Memphis with his parents, soon entered the Confederate service in the First Tennessee Regiment Cavalry under Capt. Baker, being wounded at Rocky Hill Station by a bullet through his left foot. He afterward joined the Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment Infantry, and was discharged before the battle at Corinth, on account of disability. He was at the battle of Farmington, Miss., and was elected first lieutenant in the Eighteenth Mississippi Battalion, Company
F, serving two years as captain on account of the disability of the commissioned officer of that rank. He also participated in the engagement at Brice's Cross Roads, where he was wounded in the right leg, besides which he was in the battles of Harris- burg and West Point, in Mississippi, and many skirmishes. At the close of the war Mr. Dooley settled in De Soto County, Miss., at Horn Lake, and married Miss Anna Harris, who was born in Georgia, in 1844, being the daughter of Hardy and Eliza (Jones) Harris. She became the mother of eight children, of whom William H., Phesington V. and Walter M. are living. In ISSO Mr. Dooley moved to Morrillton, Conway County, Ark., and in 1884 to Aplin. He has 245 acres of land on Fourche la Fave River, about 120 under cultiva- tion, forming one of the best farms in Perry Coun- ty. In 1886 he was made a member of Aplin Lodge No. 444, A. F. & A. M .; is also a member of the K. of H., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a Democrat politically, and an enterprising, popular and esteemed citizen.
William Harrison George. In the farming af- fairs of Casa Township and the community's gen- eral advancement, Mr. George has borne a worthy part. He was born in Pickens District, S. C., June 2, 1838, the eighth child in the family of Jesse and Catherine (Stone) George. The father, a farmer, and of English descent, was also born in South Carolina, in 1798; his wife's birth occurring in the same State, in 1812; she died in November, 1882. In 1844 they moved from South Carolina to Cherokee County, Ga., and resided there till December 28, 1869, then starting with the family to Perry County, Ark., which locality was reached in January, 1870. Jesse George died July 30, 1875, at the home of William H. He was a son of Isaac and Martha George, likewise of South Carolina nativity, and father of fifteen children, seven now living: James, Marmaduke, Sarah A., Harriet, Melinda M., Lucinda and William Har- rison. The subject of this sketch received his education in Cherokee County, Ga., and at the age of twenty married Mary A. Edwards, of that county, daughter of Cleveland and Narciss (Brooks) Edwards, natives of Georgia, where the father
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died, though the mother still lives there. They were of Irish descent, the grandfather Brooks having been born in Ireland. Mrs. George died October 1, 1879, leaving seven children: John W., James A., Theodosia E. (wife of William Han- kins), Melinda M. (wife of Julius Jones), Jessie C .. Florence E. and Marion J. D. In February, 1880, Mr. George married his second wife, Eliza- beth Smith, of Georgia, who was born about 1849. She is the mother of five children, four living: Nich- olas W., Elijah G., Mary Jane and Robert E. L. April 13, 1862, Mr. George enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fourth Regiment Georgia Volunteers of the Confederate army, and was immediately elected orderly-sergeant, being in the battles of Vicks- burg, with Bragg through Kentucky, and before and after Sherman on his march to the sea. He was taken prisoner at Vicksburg, exchanged and paroled, returning to his regiment in 1863; after which he took part in the battles of Missionary Ridge, New Hope Church and at Lookout Mount- ain, and many skirmishes. At the close of the war he returned to Georgia. and in 1870 came to Perry County. Mr. George has held the office of justice of the peace for fourteen successive years in Casa Township. He has always been a Demo- crat, and he and his wife are members of the Mis- sionary Baptist Church. He is an honored citizen, and has a good stock farm of 211 acres, abont eighty acres being under cultivation, which is well watered by living streams.
Daniel Halcomb, closely identified with the farming and kindred interests of Perry Township, is a native of this State, having been born in Lawrence County, October 12, 1827. His father, William Halcomb, was born in Ohio, in 1802, and early accompanied his parents to Lawrence County, Ark., being among the pioneers of that section; he married Joannah Williams, who was born in South Carolina, in 1807, and died in the spring of 1861. William died in Perry County, in 1860. The subject of this sketch was of English descent, and the eldest of twelve children. He was reared and received his education in Saline County, Ark., and at the age of seventeen began working for himself as a farm hand, continuing this till the age
of twenty-six years, when he married Miss Caro- line Klingelhoffer, who was born in Germany, about 1830, and died in Perry County, in 1879. She was the mother of eight children, three now living: William, John and Rosie J. Mr. Halcomb was in sympathy with the Confederates during the war, but hired a substitute instead of going him- self. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Halcomb came to Perry County in 1854, and now has 160 acres of land, about sixty acres being under culti- vation. His grandfather Williams served through the Revolutionary War, and died in Lawrence County, Ark., his wife departing this life in Craw- ford County.
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