Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.], Part 43

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 826

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farms in this section of the country. Mr. Harris never bought a horse, though he is quite a stock raiser. His father gave him his first animal and ever since he has raised his own stock. He and his wife and son are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Democratic, Mr. Harris is a man who favors all laudable public en- terprises and assists in any scheme which tends to improve the condition of his neighbors or his county.

Milton A. Harris, a well-known citizen, and one of the leading farmers of Saline County, re- siding in Bryant Township, was born in Dallas County, in 1852, and is a son of Addison R. and Lovey (Scott) Harris, born in Alabama, in 1822 and 1824, respectively. The father came to Ar- kansas about the year 1843, with his parents, and settled in Dallas County, where they resided until the year 1861, and then moved to Saline County, where they still live. The elder Harris was a prosperous farmer during his life, and during the war a gallant soldier for the Southern cause. In religions faith he had been a member of the Cum- berland Presbyterian Church for a great many years. His father, Claiborne Harris, a descend- ant of Scotch-Irish parents, was killed in Alabama when Addison was a child. The mother of Milton A. was a daughter of William Scott, whose sketch appears in another portion of this volume. Milton A. Harris was the fifth of eight children born to his parents, and has resided in Saline County since his eighth year, being educated in the public schools of that place. In 1875 he was married, his wife bearing four children, only one of whom is yet living. Mrs. Harris' father died when she was very young, and her mother contracted a sec- ond marriage, her next husband being a Mr. Sted- man Johnson, and now resides in Bryant Town- ship. Mr. Harris settled on his present farm in 1879, and now owns two tracts of 147 and 160 acres each, and one tract of 150 acres under enlti- vation. His prosperity is the result of his own individual effort and good management, and he is one of the most influential farmers in that section. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and for eight years was bailiff, and part of the time deputy

sheriff. In religious faith he is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and a liberal contributor to all charitable enterprises, besides being one of the foremost citizens in Saline County to develop and improve the moral, educational and social welfare of that county.

Isaac Harrison, a prominent farmer of Kentucky Township, was born in Cocke County, Tenn., De- cember 18, 1829, and is the third in a family of ten children born to Abner and Mary (Jester) Har- rison. Of this number only three are now living: William (a wealthy farmer of Saline Township and an ex-Mexican soldier). Rachel (the wife of Joseph Jones, a farmer of Travis County, Tex.) and Isaac (the subject of this memoir). Abner Harrison was a native of Tennessee and was of old English stock. His wife was also a Tennesseean, and of excellent family. The former was a farmer, and when he came to Arkansas located in what is now Marble Township. He cleared a small farm of Government land. and subsequently bought 17913% acres, eighty of which he cleared and improved. The remainder of his life was spent on this farm. where he finally died in 1855. His estimable wife was called to her last home ten years before him. Mr. Harrison was a determined man who allowed no one to turn him from his idea of right or wrong, and was bitterly opposed to the war be- tween the States. He belonged to the "Tooka- hoe " family of Harrisons, and was a rigid old school Baptist. Isaac Harrison was reared on the farm, and the days that he should have spent in the school room were passed in helping his father to break the forest soil of Saline County. He was a bright, intelligent boy, and his interest and determination to study was awakened by reading the " Life of David Crockett," and later on the "Life or History of the Jews." At the age of eighteen, making up his mind to "paddle his own canoe," he engaged as a farm hand, and also worked in the State quarry. In the spring of 1849 he joined a large body of emigrants at Fort Smith, and with them started across the plains for the "gold country." There were 350 in the party, and fifty soldiers under the leadership of Capt. Lacy, United States topographical engineer of

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Fort Smith. They remained together until the western border of Indian Territory was reached, where seventy-one men, including Mr. Harrison, left the main party and started on more rapidly for California. October 28, 1849, arriving at San Francisco, the members separated, each having his own plans and thinking his idea of getting rich the surest and quickest. Mr. Harrison first worked for awhile in the city of the "Golden Gate." be- ing employed as well-digger for $6 per day. He then worked in the timber of the Red Woods, and from there went to the Calovarus gold diggings. After a short stay he emigrated to the South Yuba River, where he sold goods during the summer of 1850, and learned to write from an old copy book which some one had thrown away. During the last days of 1850 he worked in the Volcano dig- gings, forty miles east of Sacramento, and at that place engaged in the grocery business, meeting with very good success. Just as the outlook ap- peared so brilliant and the future promising a con- tinuance of his prosperity. he was suddenly taken ill, so he gave up all thoughts of business and de- cided to take an ocean voyage. After an extended trip Mr. Harrison returned to his adopted soil, Arkansas, arriving at his father's house in the pos- session of $2,000. For one year after his return, he engaged in the mercantile business in Hot Springs, and on June 17, 1852, was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Lindsay. Miss Lind- say was a native of Arkansas, and the daughter of John Y. Lindsay, who came to Saline County, Ark. (then the territory of Missouri), in 1825, and was one of the fatliers of twelve families who cut the road to Collegeville in 1825, to this settlement. Mr. Lindsay was among the early Baptist minis ters in the county, and was a life member of the Kentucky Church, which was organized in 1832, being the second church of the Baptist denomina- tion established in the county. He cleared and improved the farm, where our subject now resides. After his marriage, Mr. Harrison came to Saline County, and resumed his occupation of farming, but in 1853 moved to Hot Spring (now Garland) County, where he bought and improved a farm, living there until 1861. He then enlisted in a com-

pany under Capt. Gregory, and a company from Union, Ark., one from Saline and Jefferson Coun- ties, and one from Baltimore, Md., were organ- ized into the Second Arkansas Battalion, at Evans- port, under Maj. Bronaugh. Soon after joining, Mr. Harrison was made second lieutenant, and in May was promoted to the office of captain, holding that position after the Seven Days' fight around Rich- mond. Robert Bronaugh was in the first Confeder- ate troops to cross the Chickahominy, and attack the Federals at Mechanicsville, where Capt. Harrison lost one quarter of his men. In September, 1862. Capt. Harrison was discharged and came home, where he immediately set about to raise a cavalry company, in Saline and Hot Spring Counties. In January, 1863, he joined in the organization of a regiment at Camden, Ark .. and was made captain of the regiment, assisting Capt. Trig in command- ing a battery. This position he held with honor, until he surrendered his company in Benton, June, 1865. Mr. Harrison was in the four months' blockade on the Potomac River, in the winter of 1861; in the division that covered Johnston's re- treat from Yorktown; in the engagements at Will- iamsburg, West Point and Seven Pines. Subse- quently he was in the Seven Days' fight. Capt. Harrison organized his cavalry company within the lines of the Federal army, had his shoe and blacksmith shop in the woods, and was obliged to move his camp every few days to cover signs. After the organization of Crawford's regiment, he led the attack in the battle of Poison Springs, later at Marks' Mill, and then at Jenkins' Ferry. He was with Price on his raid through Missouri, and led the attack at Pilot Knob. He participated in the battle at Boonville and Jefferson City, also with Price. in his last engagement at Newtonia, Mo. After leaving the main army, in the Indian Territory. Capt. Harrison surrendered to Maj. White, of the Third Missouri Cavalry, and arrived in Saline County, in June, 1865. After such a brilliant war career it might not seem that the Captain would be content to go back to the hum- drum of farming, but the day following his return home found him quietly working in the harvest field, as though he had never been one of the most

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daring and courageous participants in the war. Since then farming has been his principal occupa- tion, but he has served as a member of the legisla- ture from Saline County in 1867-69. He is a member of Ionic Lodge No. 477, A. F. & A. M., and was initiated in the Masonic order at Benton in 1852. In 1853 he joined the Hot Springs Masonie lodge (No. 64), and in 1854 was elected worshipful master, serving one year. In 1866 he served as worshipful master, and in 1867, 1868 and 1869 again filled that office, four years in succession. Mrs. Harrison died September 22, 1877, leaving three children to mourn her loss: Philadelphia (Shelleto, born January 22, 1867), Sarah (Jones, born July 13. 1859), and Hannah [. She was a devout member of the Baptist Church, and was a bright, lovely woman, com. manding the respect and esteem of all who knew her. Mr. Harrison's second and present wife was Miss Ellen Darity, a native of West Virginia. To this union one child has been given. Carrie B., born February 2, 1889. After his return from Hot Spring County, Mr. Harrison bought his father's old farm on the Middle Fork of the Saline River, eighty acres of which he still owns, and in Decem- ber, 1869, purchased the place where he now lives. His landed interests include over 839 acres in the county, and something over 200 acres under culti- vation. It would be a difficult matter to find a more enterprising farmer and citizen than Mr. Harrison, always ready to contribute to all schools and churches, and, in fact, one of that class of men whose opinion is always accepted. and whose influence is always felt. In the year 1888 he was elected moderator of the Saline Baptist associa- tion, the oldest Baptist association south of the Arkansas River, and he wants no greater inscrip- tion on the slab that marks his last resting place on this earth than that he was once moderator of this association.

John C. Henderson, a farmer, and one of the oldest living Baptist ministers of Saline County, Ark., was born in Lauderdale County, Ala., in 1825, and is the son of Rev. Samuel Henderson, a native of South Carolina, and Sarah J. (Bush) Henderson, originally from Tennessee. Samuel

Henderson came to this State in 1834, and settled in this county, being the first Baptist minister to find a home in Saline County. [See history of the Baptist Church. ] The reverend gentleman was a school teacher in his early life, and in 1836 was ordained and continued in the ministry until his death, which occurred in 1842. He preached in this county and Claiborne Parish. La., spending his last days in Perry County, this State. His mar- riage occurred in 1809, he becoming the father of eleven children, all of whom lived to be grown: Minerva (deceased, wife of M. Lyon, whose family reside in Faulkner and Colorado Counties), Samuel (deceased), Abner (deceased), Eliza (deceased, wife of Sam Williams; family reside in Faulkner County). J. P. (resides in Texas), Alford (deceased; family reside in Garland County), Robert H. (de- ceased), Martha (deceased, wife of W. Hutchison), J. C. (our subject), and M. J. (deceased, his family residing at Benton.) Mrs. Henderson died in 1859, having been a member of the church for eighteen years. Her husband at his death had been a church member for thirty years, and was politically a Jacksonian Democrat. John C. Hen- derson never attended school, receiving his educa- tion at the old home by the light of a pine knot. At the age of twenty-one, he began farming on his own tract of forty acres, situated within one-half mile of where he now lives. Prospering as pluck deserved, he now owns 460 acres, having given 250 acres to his sons. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as captain of Company D, Boland's regiment of cavalry. Later he was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Third Arkansas Cavalry, participating in the battle of Corinth, Miss., and numerous other en- gagements. Resigning in 1863, he came home in the fall, and organized a company, of which lie was chosen captain. He was promoted to major of sharpshooters, and was with Gen. Price on his fa- mous raid, being at Poison Springs, fronton, Union City, Osage River and Westport. While charg- ing a body of sharpshooters, near Kansas City, he was badly wounded in the thigh, by a minie-ball. He came in 1865 and resumed the peaceful pur- suits of farming, which he follows to-day. On the second Sabbath in April, 1868, he was called to

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be pastor of the Union Church, and regularly or- dained in October of that year, having now served in that capacity for twenty-one years. He now acts as pastor of the Pleasant Grove Church, Pulaski County, North Fork and Union Church of this county. He was married in 1846 to Miss Elizabeth Chennault, of this county, and by her is the father of eight children, five now living: J. P. (an attorney, married, lives at Hot Springs), J. H. (married, at home with his father), C. B. (married, ordained a minister of the Baptist Church, Sep- tember 15, 1889), Leon (deceased), M. J. (book- keeper for Townsend & Co., Hot Springs), Mary L. (wife of L. E. McMillon, lives in Benton), and S. M. (deceased. ) Mr. Henderson has been a member of the church for thirty-five years, and his wife for twenty-tive years. He also belongs to Saline Lodge of the I. O. O. F., located at Benton; Ionic Lodge No. 377, and A. F. & A. M .; Union Chapter No. 2, and Little Rock Council, at Hot Springs, being one of the charter members of the last named lodge. He was master of Hot Springs Lodge for a number of years, and is at present chaplain of Ionic Lodge. Mr. Henderson has seen the wilderness of the county converted into happy homes, and has witnessed the transformation of dense forests into productive farms, assisting not a little himself in the general advancement. He is a Democrat. After the close of the war, in 1867, Mr. Henderson returned to his homestead, pur- chasing 340 acres of land, and with his noble boys began life almost anew. having been by the ravages of war reduced to total poverty, but with the as- sistance of Hon. J. G. Fletcher, of Little Rock, and well directed blows of industry by himself and sons. he soon climbed to a state of ease and plenty. In 1873 he built a farm house, costing nearly $1, 400, also purchased a residence in Benton, costing $1,000, which he gave to his only living daughter. He has ever been a faithful minister, never missing his appointments on account of secular business, though some of his churches are more than twenty miles from his home. He is moderator of Saline association of Baptists, con- sisting of the counties of Saline, Hot Spring, Gar- land, Montgomery, and churches of other counties.

Mr. Hicks lives on Section 8, Township 3, Range 14 west, and is well known to the residents of the county, having lived in this and adjacent localities since his sixth year. He is a native of Tennessee, and was born in Hickman County, Oc- tober 6, 1838. being the sixth in a family of twelve children born to Gilbert and Elizabeth (Allen) Hicks, natives of North Carolina and Virginia. Gilbert Hicks went to Tennessee with his parents when a child, and grew to manhood, and afterward married there. He was a farmer and wagon maker, and in November, 1844, moved to Saline County, Ark., purchasing land in what is now Grant Coun- ty. At the time of his death, which occurred in October, 1881, he was the owner of 1,000 acres, and during his lifetime cleared over 400 acres. In politics he is a Democrat, but not an enthusiast on the subject. The later years of his life were spent in raising and trading stock, in which he was very successful. He was regarded as a leading, influ- ential citizen, and his death was mourned by the entire community. Mrs. Hicks was a niece of Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. She was a true and loving wife for fifty-two years, only sur- viving her husband a few months. James M. Hicks received his education in the common schools of Arkansas, and when nineteen years of age spent five months in the Hill Creek Academy, in Conway County, Ark., but, owing to sickness, was obliged to discontinue his educational pursuits and re- turned to farm life. It had been his intention to adopt teaching as a profession, but in this he was disappointed, although he did teach several terms. No doubt the world was deprived of a brilliant scholar when he gave up such an idea of teaching. for his fitness was destined to make him a " shin- ing light" in educational matters. In September, 1860, Mr. Hicks was married to Miss Martha R. Burnett, a native of East Tennessee, and a daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (York) Burnett, natives of Virginia and Tennessee, respectively. Mr. Burnett came to Arkansas in 1857, and was one of the successful farmers of the State. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the War of 1812. and was in the battle of New Orleans. Mrs. Burnett still survives him, at the age of eighty-

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four. After his marriage Mr. Hicks bought land miah T., Ida Florence, Monroe H., Obed B., Eli- jah F., James A. Garfield and Benjamin F. Him- self and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for thirteen years he has been superintendent of the Sunday-school. and settled in Saline County, but in 1868 sold this farm and came to Shaw Township. purchasing 160 acres, sixty of which he has since cleared. The improvements made are too numerous to mention, but among them he has built good barns, etc. He A. B. Holland, of Brazil, Ark., owns a fine farm in Section 36. He was born in Holland Township, of this county, in 1858, being the fourth in a family of six children, in the family of Will- iam T. and Catherine (Crow) Holland. The father was a well-to-do Tennessee farmer, who moved to Saline County in 1852, and settled in Union (now Holland) Township, which was named in his honor. He entered eighty acres of land, and later took another eighty acres under the Homestead Act, which he improved, and made his home until his death, excepting one year spent in Hot Spring County. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, and served for three years, being under Gen. Price on his raid through Missouri. At the close of the war he returned to his farm in Saline Coun- ty, remaining until his death, in 1885. His excel- lent wife still survives him. They were the par- ents of the following children: John (married, and resides in this township), Robert N. (married. in Texas). Benjamin (who died in 1874), A. B. (the subject of our sketch), Sarah Louisa (now Mrs. Foster, of Holland Township), and Mary Elizabeth (widow of James Thompson, living with her broth- er. A. B. ). A. B. Holland was reared to farm life, and educated in the district schools of Holland Township, commencing farming for himself at the age of seventeen years. He was married in Hol- land Township, in 1879, to Miss Margaret Green, a native of Saline County, daughter of Harvey and Jane (White) Green. Mr. and Mrs. Green came to Saline County from South Carolina at an early day, where the former died during the war, and his wife in 1883. After his marriage Mr. Holland settled on a farm in Holland Township, following which he moved on the old homestead; this he now owns, and has also enlarged. He has a farm of 240 acres, with about 100 acres under cultivation, it having been mostly cleared by himself. He has always been a strong Democrat, and for adherence now owns eighty acres in Shaw Township, 130 cultivated, and 200 in Grant County. Mr. Hicks raises his own stock, such as horses, cattle and hogs, the principal crops grown being corn and cotton, and he was for sixteen years the principal potato grower of Saline County. He takes the lead in fruit raising, having 110 varieties, including fifteen kinds of grapes and thirty-nine kinds of apples, with about the same of peaches, and nine varieties of plums. All the different kinds of ber- ries that thrive in Arkansas are seen on his farm, and it is really a pleasure to observe such an excel- lent and highly cultivated farm as he owns. It would be a difficult matter to find its equal, and certainly not possible to obtain its superior. For several years Mr. Hicks has been the leading man in experimental fruit-raising and vegetable trial crops. In 1874 he began by budding peaches, and proved the same to be a success. His method of set- ting the trees is very peculiar, as he digs a pit 33x4 feet and twenty- five inches in depth, then fills the first fourteen inches with alternate layers of coarse manure and earth, the last twelve inches being of solid earth well packed. In polities he is a Dem- ocrat, though conservative and independent. He has never been an office seeker, but has been elected to a county office, and once to township office, in both cases, however, declining to serve. For a number of years he has been director of the school district. He served three years in the Confederate service under Col. Johnson, in the Sixth Arkansas Infantry, but was never in any active engagement. He was in the hospital service, and filled the dif- ferent positions of nurse, wardmaster, clerk and steward. Being a cripple he was exempt from field duty, and in order to serve the cause he believed to be right, applied to the hospital department and served there as stated above. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are the parents of the following family: Marian W., J. G., Robert L., Emily Lee, Jere- , to party principles has received the reward of

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being made constable of the township, which office he has held for six years. Mr. Holland is a mem- ber of the school board, also of Paran Lodge No. 309, A. F. & A. M., and in this society has held the position of J. W. Mrs. Holland is a member of the Baptist Church. The father of Mr. Hol- land served in the Mexican War under Capt. Waterhouse. He (A. B.) has seen a great im- provement in the county since his boyhood days and can review with just pride the influential share which he has had in its development.

G. R. Hunnicutt, prominent among the farm- ers and stock raisers of Kentucky Township, Saline County, was born in Dyer Township, this county, in 1843, as the son of William and Martha (War- ford) Hunnicutt, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and Tennessee. William Hunnicutt was reared as a farmer's lad, and educated in the country schools of South Carolina. After his first marriage he moved to Alabama, where he remained but a few years. In 1837 he came to this State, settling in this county, and bought land. During the Mexican War he was employed by the Govern- ment as teamster, but when the war closed he re- turned home and resumed farming, taking also quite an active part in the politics of his day, for he was a man of superior education for this coun- ty at that time. He served his township as justice of the peace a number of years, dying in 1863. His first wife was Mary McCray, who bore him three children. The only one living is Catherine, the wife of J. J. Edwards, who resides in this county. Mrs. Hunnicutt died about 1839. Mr. Hunnicntt was then married to the mother of our subject, G. R. By this marriage he became the father of ten children, eight of whom lived to maturity, and five still survive: E. M. (in this county). G. R., Thomas (deceased), E. N. (deceased, widow in Benton), Eliza J. (wife of J. W. Wallace, resides in this county), Elizabeth (deceased), W. D. (de- ceased), Emily (wife of M. P. Davenport), and J. H. (resides in this county). The second Mrs. Hunnicutt died in 1880. In 186I, at the age of eighteen years, G. R. Hunnicutt enlisted in Com- pany F, Third Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate army, and served four years. Enlisting as a pri-

vate he was promoted to sergeant-major in 1863, holding that position to the close of the war. He took part in the following battles: Farmington, Miss., Iuka, Miss .. Corinth, Miss. (here he was seriously wounded in the left side, and was con- fined in the hospital for two months), Thompson Station, near Franklin, Tenn., and Chickamauga, Tenn. From Chickamauga he was transferred to East Tennessee to Gen. Longstreet's command, on leaving which locality report was made to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, at Dalton, Ga., engaging in the two days' battle at Resaca. From Resaca to Atlanta on the retreat, his regiment was under fire for forty-three days. He accompanied his regiment, which formed a part of Gen. Wheeler's command, on the latter's famous raid to Middle Tennessee, destroying railroads, fighting and skir- mishing for two or three months. Then moving with his command to Gadsden, Ala., he joined Gen. Hood, who was commanding the Army of Tennes- see at that time, and took part in the battle of Rome, Ga. While Hood was fighting at Dalton, Mr. Hunnicutt's regiment followed Sherman from Atlanta, fighting him all the way to Savannah. At Reynold's farm, near Savannah, this command defeated Kilpatrick in a severe engagement. Mr. Hunnicutt was here badly wounded in the hand by a fragment of shell. His regiment followed Sherman from Savannah to Greensboro, N. C., by way of Columbia, S. C., and Bentonville, N. C. At the latter place a general engagement of two days with the wily Northern general occurred. The . regiment later moved to Greensboro, where it was surrounded by Gen. Johnston, and at this place Mr. Hunnicutt was paroled, arriving home July 18, 1865, the first time since his enlistment. He en - gaged in farming for one year on rented land, when he bought 160 acres of forest land on Saline River. This he improved, living on it for fifteen years. In 1883 he sold the place, buying his pres- ent property of 184 acres, with about seventy acres under cultivation. The place had been much neg- lected, but Mr. Hunnicutt went to work at its improvement, and soon had one of the finest farms in the county. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Ellen Wood, daughter of David O. and Mary

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.], Part 43

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company) Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 826