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The principal shipment from Lonoke is cotton and cotton seed, but large quantities of baled hay and other commodities and some live stock are annually exported. It is estimated that 10,000 bales of cotton will be shipped this year. The town has a very pleasant location on level land, its streets are of good width, with many neat and com- fortable residences, mostly the cottage style, hav- ing well kept lawns, affording an attractive appear- ance. There are no saloons here, and as a result law and order prevail. Lonoke is incorporated and has a full equipment of corporate officers.
Ward is a statiou on the St. Louis, Iron Mount- ain & Southern Railway, near the northern bound- ary of the county. Large quantities of fruit are shipped from this point.
Each of the towns mentioned as situated on the railroads have a post-office, and in addition are the following named post-offices in the county: Ash- ville, Butlerville. Cobbs, Goodbar, Hamilton, Kerrs, Pettus, Tomberline, Wattensaw and Toltec. Kerrs is a station on the Memphis & Little Rock Rail- road near the west line of the county.
William G. Adams, who was the seventh son in a family of sixteen children, born to John W. and Sarah J. (Duran) natives of Virginia and Ten- nessee, respectively, is a prominent farmer and fruit grower of Caroline Township, Lonoke County. His father was born December 1, 1809, and was at one time sheriff of Tipton County, Tenn. Remov-
ing to Arkansas in 1852, he was one of the early settlers of this county. He afterward went to Texas and bought a farm, and returned home in 18SO, expecting to move to that State, but died here in that year. His wife still survives him, and resides with a daughter. She was born July 13, 1813. John W. Adams was postmaster for sev- eral years, and also kept a tavern, conducting in addition to it a drug store in Pope County, Ark., for three years. Willian: G. was born in Tipton County, Tenn., November 22. 1840, and was edu- cated in Austin College, of Austin, Lonoke County. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the Confeder- ate service, in Company A, under Capt. Scott, of the First Battalion of Arkansas Cavalry, in which lie served four years. He was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Corinth and Helena, where he was captured and carried to Alton, Ill., there being kept nine months. While confined at Alton he had the smallpox and lost one of his eyes. He was then taken to Fort Delaware, being held a prisoner of war until the close of the struggle, after which he returned home and began farming for his father. December 13, 1866, he was married at Opelousas, La., to his cousin, Miss Fannie Adams, who was born in Tipton County, Tenn., January 6, 1843, and who died June 25, 1887, leaving six children (five of whom are still living): Nora L., Albert (deceased), Roberta, William B., Fanny and Dud- ley G., all residing at home with their father. Mrs. Adams was a member of the Methodist Church, as are also three of her children. Mr. Adams is a Democrat in politics, and has held the office of justice of the peace in this township for two years, serving in an acceptable manner. He has a fine farm of 110 acres of land, sixty acres under cultivation, with about 600 bearing apple trees and a fine peach orchard, also a large fig tree which bears plentifully. Besides these inter- ests he owns a house and lot in Austin. He takes active part in all public improvements, and educa- tional matters.
A. J. Agnew, was born in Kentucky, in 1836, and is the third in a family of six children which blessed the union of William and Nancy (Davis) Agnew. William Agnew came originally from
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Scotland to Kentucky, when quite young, where | was a young man, and there he was married, re- he received his education and afterward married. He was an expert cabinet-maker, working prin- cipally at Union Star, Ky. He served in the War 1 of 1812, under Gen. Jackson, and died in 1840, his excellent wife surviving him about six years. A. J. was educated in his native State, and there, like his father, met the lady who became his wife, Miss Martha Livers, their marriage occurring on May 16, 1861. The same year Mr. Agnew entered the Twenty seventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, under Gen. Halleck, but was soon transferred to Gen. Nelson's command while on the battlefield of Shiloh. During his service in the State Guard he was wounded, losing one finger of the left 1
hand. In 1865 he was discharged at Louisville, Ky., and immediately returned home to resume actively his former occupation of farming. Mr. and Mrs. Agnew are the parents of ten children: John R. (deceased), Eliza E. (Gardner), Sallie H., Noah B., Lucy, Rubin, Birdie, Blanch and Beulah. Mr. Agnew has a fine farm, which, though not so extensive as some, yields larger returns than many of greater proportions, as it is carefully cultivated. He is a member of the Wheel, in which he has held the office of president, and has also served as justice of the peace for two terms. He takes de- cided interest in political affairs, and exerts no little influence in Lonoke County regarding poli- ties. Mr. and Mrs. Agnew and family are consist- ent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dr. W. J. D. Alexander, real-estate dealer, loan agent and notary public of Carlisle, was born in Fayette County, Tenn., in the year 1836, be- ing a son of Silas and Mary (Kennedy) Alexan, der, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, re- spectively. The paternal grandfather was Daniel Alexander, of Ireland nativity, and of Scotch-Irish descent, who came to the United States over 100 years ago, and settled in the Carolinas, where he followed farming and blacksmithing. The mater- nal grandfather was John Kennedy, who settled in Middle Tennessee when that territory was called the "Kentucky Purchase." Silas Alexan- der, the father of our subject, was a blacksmith by trade. Tennessee became his home when he
maining until 1849. when he moved to the State of Texas and engaged in farming. This continned to be his place of residence until his death. which occurred in 1869 at the age of seventy-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The latter died in Fort Smith, Ark., in 1979, at the age of seventy- five years. They were the parents of twelve cliil- dren, ten boys and two girls, seven of the boys serving in the Confederate army, four laying down their lives as a result of civil strife; four sons only survive: Joseph H. (who lives in the Indian Territory, and is a farmer and miller by occupation), Thomas C. (in Texas, and a lawyer by profession), Lin C. (also a lawyer of Waco, Tex., having served two terms as judge of the dis- trict ) and Dr. Alexander. The latter was reared principally on a farm in Smith County, Tex., where he commenced the study of medicine in 1857. Later he attended the Nashville Medical College (now known as Vanderbilt), and subse- queutly went to Denton County, Tex., where he entered upon the practice of his profession. After having resided at Stephenville, Tex., he located in Meridian, there remaining until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in the Thirty-seventh Texas Cavalry, and was elected first lieutenant, in which capacity he served for about a year. Upon the reorganization of the regiment he was elected captain, and afterward major, so continuing until the close of the war. After the cessation of hos- tilities Dr. Alexander removed to Manry County, Tenn., where he remained about nine months. In 1866, induced by the attractions Arkansas offered to come here, he located in Prairie County, where he practiced until 1872, going thence to Grand Prairie, before Carlisle was thought of. Since coming to Carlisle he has been actively engaged in practicing, farming and in real-estate business, and was commissioned notary in 1883. In professional and business circles his reputation is thoroughly established, and he enjoys the esteem of many ac- quaintances. Dr. Alexander was married in 1869 in Texas, to Miss Fannie Conner, a native of Tennessee, but reared in Texas. They are the
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parents of two sons: Lin and Will. Dr. Alexander is a member of the A. F. & A. M. He is a stock- holder in the Carlisle Publishing Company, and is justly considered one of the leading men of the place.
Lodawick Allen, a representative citizen of Lo- noke County, is a son of Alexander and Margaret (Fry) Allen, and was born in Bibb County, Ala .. December 5, 1822. Alexander Allen was a native of South Carolina, and his wife of Georgia. About the year 1814 they moved to Alabama, be- ng among the first settlers in that State, as they also were of Mississippi, to which locality they em- igrated in 1836. Their next move was to Texas, where Mr. Allen died in 1852 at the age of sixty- five. His wife returned to Mississippi and sur- vived her husband some twenty-two years. She was a life-long member of the Baptist Church, and her death, which occurred in her eightieth year, was mourned by all who knew her. Loda- wick received only such meager advantages for schooling as were afforded in his boyhood days. He accompanied his parents to Mississippi in 1836, before the Indians had been removed from the country, and grew to manhood with the savage yonths as his playmates, learning their dialect quite thoroughly. Subsequently he assisted in their removal, and spent several weeks in taking them to Memphis. Mr. Allen began life on his own account in 1844 as a farmer, following this vocation in La Fayette County for forty four years. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Forty second Regiment Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, and par- ticipated in the battles of the Wilderness, Gettys- burg, Six Days' fight at Spottsylvania, and was present at the battle of Petersburg when the lines were broken. He was also present at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, and at the sur- render at Appomattox. In one day's fight he re- ceived thirteen bullet holes in his clothing, but was never the victim of anything more serious than flesh wounds. He was a sharpshooter in the rifle- pits, and with all his daring and dangerous ex- ploits was never once taken prisoner. The year 1845 witnessed his marriage with Miss Emily C. Simmons, a native of Lauderdale County, Ala.,
who died in 1869, leaving six children, four now living. In 1871 Mr. Allen married Mrs. Mary J. Cleaves, a native of Tennessee. A singular coin- cidence that might here be mentioned is that he married both wives at the same house. Mr. Allen came to Arkansas in 1880 and located in Lonoke County, where he rented for the first year, after- ward purchasing his present place of 360 acres on Section 10, Lonoke Township. There are 130 acres of his farm in a high state of cultivation, all the result of his own labors. In politics he has ever been a Democrat, casting his first vote in 1844 for James K. Polk for president. With his wife lie is a member of the Concord Methodist Episcopal Church. He is of Scotch and Irish ex- traction and possesses the traits of those people of industry and integrity, and in every sense of the word he is a self-made man.
Grandison Apple, a substantial farmer of Lo- noke County, has a farm of over 1,000 acres, 150 of which are under cultivation. Born in Gilford Connty, N. C., September 16, 1831, he was the son of Peter and Rebecca (Harris) Apple, natives of North Carolina and Virginia. respectively. The father was born in 1796 and died in 1850, and the mother, whose birth occurred in 1799, died in this State in 1855. They were the parents of nine children, two of whom only are now living: M. G. (a resident of this county) and Grandison (the principal of this article). The latter was reared in North Carolina, receiving an education in the com- mon schools of his county. Upon becoming of age he started in life for himself in farming and trading, and was married in 1860 to Miss Caroline Seens, a native of Tennessee, but who died the same year. His second marriage was in 1866, to Miss Frances C. Donnell, who died the following year, leaving one child, Frances A. (now wife of H. L. Britton, of this county. ) Mr. Apple's third wife was Nancy Jones, to whom he was united July 12, 1868. She lived nine years, and became the mother of three children, two of whom survive: William J. and Samuel A. Miss Martha J. Pier- soni, his last and fourth wife (who is still living), was born in Georgia, in 1843, their marriage being consummated September 18, 1878. They
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have had one child, now deceased. Mr. Apple moved from North Carolina to Henry County, Tenn., in 1851, and in 1855 emigrated to this county, of which he was one of the early settlers. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Twenty fifth Arkansas Infantry, and served until the close of the war, receiving a shot in the left hand which badly crippled him. After the war was over he returned to his farm, which he found in an impov- erished condition, but it was soon in good condition again. Mr. Apple belongs to the Masonic order. He and wife are members of the Missionary Bap- tist Church, and belong to Cypress Valley congre- gation, which at the time he joined had about five members, and now is composed of over forty. He gives the most of his attention to raising fine stock, though fruit, berries, grapes, etc .. are grown. Mr. Apple is a strong Democrat and a highly re- spected citizen of Caroline Township.
William Baskerville was born in England, De- cember 13, 1828. His parents died when he was one year old and he was brought to this country, when about nine years of age, by Joseph Stubbs (by whom he was reared), who came to this coun- try in 1838, being one of the first settlers. Mr. Baskerville lived with Mr. Stubbs until twenty-five years of age, when he was married to Mary E. Landreth, a native of Tennessee. born March 30. 1838. They are the parents of nine children. five of whom are still living: Sally R. (the wife of Theodore Brockinton), William F. (now a physi- cian of his county, who graduated at the Tulane University, of New Orleans. as M. D.). Pleasant F., Julian C. and Saley W. Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs are both dead and Mr. Baskerville now lives on the farm owned by the former. In 1862 he en- listed in the Confederate service in Company K, of Glen's Regiment, in which he served two years, taking part in the battles of Helena, Prairie Grove and a number of other noted engagements. He is a Royal Arch Mason. Mrs. Baskerville also | took the daughter's degree in the year 1857. Mr. Baskerville is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church. When he first came to this country, the nearest house to him was six
miles south and the nearest on the north was eighteen iniles distant. It was no uncommon oc- currence to go ten miles to a house-raising or a log-rolling. Mr. Baskerville was a great hunter in his younger days and used to kill bear, deer and turkey for the market, often killing from ten to fifteen deer a day. He is a strong Democrat.
J. F. Bayne, of the firm of Bayne Brothers, farmers and merchants of Lafayette Township, was born in Shelby County, Tenn., November 12, 1858, and is the son of W. D. and Emily (Buch) Bayne, who were natives of Bedford County, Va., and North Carolina, respectively. The former was born November 7, 1813, but when quite young removed to Tennessee, and afterward to Kentucky . He carried on farming successfully for three years in Shelby County, and in 1869 moved to Arkansas, locating in Prairie County, though by a division in boundary lines, he was placed in Pulaski, and sub- sequently by a similar change left in Lonoke County. Not many men can claim the experience of residing in three different counties, while living upon the same farm. His original purchase was cleared and improved, until now it is not to be excelled anywhere. For several years Mr. Bayne has been living with his sons on the farm in La- fayette Township. The firm of Bayne Brothers purchased a farm in Pettis Township, in which there are now about 150 acres improved, and of the home place, 300 acres are open land, all rich bot- tom soil. The home residence is an attractive building, besides which good outbuildings and a gin form desirable features. They now own over 900 acres of land in two tracts. Mr. Bayne has served as magistrate one term in Pettis Township, and is a man of no little influence in his county. The success he has achieved is certainly deserved.
Capt. D. W. Bizzell. Among the many who have grown up from childhood in this State and risen from very moderate circumstances to a life of independence and influence, is the subject of this sketch, Capt. David W. Bizzell. Born in Nash County, N. C., on May 5, 1838, he was the son of David E. Bizzell, a native of the same State, who was educated and apprenticed to learn the carpen- ter's trade in the vicinity of his birthplace. He
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was married after reaching manhood to Millanie Winburne, a native of North Carolina, and in 1849 moved to Arkansas, settling in Conway County, though he afterward resided in several adjoining counties. He died in Boone County, in 1883, at the age of seventy six years, his wife dying in 1850. David W. Bizzell came to this State with his parents at the age of twelve years. and received a good education in the common schools and at Fayetteville College. At the com- mencement of the Civil War, in 1861, he was among the first of the State troops to enlist in the Sonthern cause, and participated in the battle of Oak Hill, Mo., on August 10 in that year. At the reorganization of the western troops, early in 1862, Mr. Bizzell was elected first lieutenant and after- ward promoted to be captain of Company I, Third Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, which was actively engaged with the other cavalry of the Department of Tennessee (Johnson's army) until the close of the war. Capt. Bizzell was a brave and efficient officer, ever ready to go forward and lead his men where duty called. The close of the war in 1865 found him in South Carolina, where in September of that year he married Mrs. Sallie E. Garrison, a native of that State and daughter of Charles J. Garrison. a prominent citizen of Greenville District, S. C. In the fall of 1866 Capt. Bizzell moved back to Arkansas and located in Lonoke County, where he bought a piece of land, near where he now lives. He started in life with comparatively nothing, but has by energy, industry and good management acquired considerable property. He moved upon his present farm in 1873. This is a fine place of 120 acres, with a large portion in a high state of cultivation, otherwise improved by a good frame house, outbuildings, etc. Capt. Bizzell also owns several other tracts of land, all more or less im- proved, and he is considered one of the substan- tial as well as one of the most public spirited men of the township. All the property he now pos- sesses was made from the products of his farm and not from speculation. He is a man of excellent qualities, and has never acquired the habit of us- ing tobacco nor intoxicating liquor, his high moral character receiving the universal approbation and
sincere esteem of his neighbors. He has held the office of commissioner of accounts and was ap- pointed by the Governor a member of the board of equalization, also serving in other local positions. The Captain and wife have two sons, both young men: Charles F. (a graduate of Batesville College, and who is now taking a commercial course at Little Rock) and Marzavim W. (who is helping his father on the farm.) Capt. Bizzell and family are members of the Sylvania Old School Presbyte- rian Church. He is also a Mason, to which order he has belonged since 1865, holding the office of Past Master.
Col. Isaac D. Booe, justly prominent in the affairs of this community, was born in Rowan County, N. C., in 1822, and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Cheshire) Booe, also natives of North Carolina, where they lived and died. In this family were five children, three of whom are living: Philip (in Alabama), John C. (lives near the old homestead) and Isaac D (the principal of this article.) The paternal grandfather of Isaac D. was a native of North Carolina and his wife of Maryland. They lived to an advanced age. The father of Isaac died when he was a small boy, and he was then bound out to a family by the name of Sainer, with whom he remained until their removal to Tennessee, in 1835. At the age of twenty he was married to Julia A. Anderson, originally of Alabama, and who died in 1861. After his mar- riage Mr. Booe went to Hardeman County, Tenn., and was engaged in agricultural pursuits for five years, afterward settling in the State of Missis- sippi, where he remained for ten years. In 1859, moving to Arkansas, he settled in Prairie County, where he lived until after the war. He enlisted in the Confederate army in the latter part of the civil strife, and was with Gen. Price in his raid through Missouri, Kansas and Indian Territory, being taken prisoner six months before the war closed and con- fined at Little Rock, where he was at the time of the surrender. He then returned home and soon after moved to the farm on which he still lives. Mr. Booe held the office of sergeant in Fagan's Corps, and was a colonel of the State Militia while in Tennessee, and major of a militia organization
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formed before the war. He has held the office of justice of the peace of this township, and repre- sented his county in the legislature in 1874 and 1875, also in 1887 and 1888. He was elected for his last term on the County Wheel ticket. As a public servant Col. Booe's career has been all that could be desired, and in the position to which he has been called he has acquitted himself with credit. His second marriage was in 1863 to Mary F. Steel, a native of Alabama. She was the daugh- ter of James Steel, a soldier in the War of 1812, who took part in the famous battle of New Orleans. Col. Booe is the father of six children by his first wife, two of whom only are living: William W. (was captured during the war and sent to Rich- mond for exchange, but has never been heard of since), Mary L. (deceased), Anna E. (deceased), James J. (deceased), Le Roy and Julia Ann. Four children were born of the last union, three of whom are living: Amander B., Catharine E., John I. and George (who is deceased). The Colonel and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is also a member of the A. F. & A. M. and belongs to the lodge at Walter Chapel, Prairie County. He was appointed postmaster of Walter Chapel in 1876, and the post- office is kept at his residence by his daughter.
James Charles Boyd, attorney and notary pub- lic, of Cabot, whose association with the various affairs of Lonoke County has proven of material benefit and influence, was born in South Carolina, February 18, 1839, the son of James Washington and Dorcas Louisa (Broom) Boyd, both natives of South Carolina. James Washington Boyd was born March 27, 1817; his father, Reuben Boyd, originally from Ireland, was married after he came to this country, his (Rueben's) wife also being a native of Ireland. J. W. Boyd moved from his native State in 1851, and settled in Eastern Ten- nessee, going later to its western part, and in 1867 to Arkansas, settling in what is now Lonoke Coun- ty, where he held the office of justice of the peace for several years. His wife was born in 1820, and died in 1876, her husband surviving her five years. They were the parents of eight children, five of whom are still living. Mrs. Boyd was of Scotch
descent, her grandparents having settled in this country from Scotland. James C. Boyd received the greater part of his education in the common schools of Tennessee, where he closely applied him- self in the improvement of the privileges offered. Subsequently he was justice of the peace for six- teen years, and having his office with Mr. T. E. Hendricks, a legal practitioner of Cabot, entered upon the study of law. In 1861 Mr. Boyd enlisted in Company B, of the Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry, in which he served throughout the war, first as a private and afterward as orderly-sergeant. He was in the battles of Harrisburg, Yazoo and a number of others, thirteen in all, and during this time received two bullet wounds. He was married December 22, 1858, to Miss Minerva Jane Farmer, whose birth occurred in Western Tennessee, No- vember 29, 1842. She died December 26, 1867, leaving five children, four of whom are still living: Elizabeth (wife of Benjamin F. Hurd), James J., Milrod J. (wife of A. W. Fletcher) and Mary M. (wife of G. R. Barrantine.) Mr. Boyd was mar- ried the second time on January 6, 1869, to Eliza- beth Jane Scott, a native of Newberry County, S. C., born June 5, 1842. She survived until March 7, 1889, having become the mother of nine children, only one of whom is living, William A. Mr. Boyd is now living with his third wife, an estimable lady and one held in high esteem. He owns a farm of 475 acres, sixty-five acres being under cultivation. He is a member of the Masonic order, and belongs to Cabot Lodge No. 319, which he has represented in the Grand Lodge at different times. He is also a member of the Knights of Honor. Though formerly connected with the Bap- tist Church for about thirty years, he is now a member of the Christian Church, his wife belong- ing to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Boyd is one of the prominent lawyers of Cabot, and enjoys a lucrative practice, the result of a love for the profession and attention to its varied de- tails. He is also proprietor of the well known hotel at this place.
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