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many good qualities, and is a representative citi- zen of the county. Added to what he inherited from his father's estate, he now owns 250 acres of land, with 175 acres under cultivation, and has erected one good dwelling, several tenant houses and barns upon the place. Mr. Saffold is not a member of any particular religious faith, but he has contributed to a great many causes, both re- ligious and educational; and outside of his large circle of friends in Christian Township, is well known throughout Independence County.
Allen H. Saylors, farmer and stock raiser, Dota, Ark. One of the foremost men among the agri- culturists of Independence County, is he whose name appears above, and who has borne an influ- ential part in promoting the various interests of the county. His birth occurred in what is now Jack- son County, Ark., on the 31st of December, 1844, and he has always made this State his home. He was reared between the handles of a plow, figura- tively speaking, and received his education in the common schools of Jackson County. Although his educational attainments were rather limited, he improved his time in later years, and is now con- sidered one of the well-posted and intelligent cit- izens of the county. He is the second in a family of six children, born to John C. and Martha (Oli- ver) Saylors, natives of Missouri, who came to Arkansas about 1820 or 1824, and first settled at Litchfield, in Jackson County. A few years later they sold out and moved a few miles further south, where they opened up a large tract of land, 160 acres. He then moved three miles east of Jack- sonport, and there died, in 1855. At that time he was the owner of 480 acres. He was the first clerk of Jackson, and also held the office of mag- istrate for a number of years. The mother died in 1859, at the age of forty-four years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The six children born to their union are named as fol- lows: Eliza J. (wife of Obediah Wilkinson, died in 1871), Allen H., Annette S. (died in 1863, at the age of sixteen years), John R. (died in 1869, at the age of twenty years), Mary M. (wife of Craig Simmons, lives in Craighead County, and was born June 10, 1852), Charles A. (died at the
age of four years. , 1858). In 1859, after the death of his mother, Allen H. Saylors began life for himself, and at the age of fifteen engaged in the calling to which he was reared, and this con- tinued until 1862, when he joined the Southern army, and was on duty several months. He then came home, and, to escape the strife, went to the "Lone Star State;" but he found that it was " war times " of a certainty, and the following year joined the army again, entering Col. Morgan's regiment, Campbell's brigade cavalry. He was in the battles of Pleasant Grove, Marks' Mill, the Saline River fight, and besides was in a number of sharp skirm- ishes. In an engagement at Pilot Knob, in the fall of 1864, he was wounded by a piece of bomb- shell. He was with Gen. Price on his raid through Missouri, and his army was disbanded in Texas, in May, 1865. At the close of the war Mr. Saylors return to Arkansas, and in July, 1868, united his fortune with that of Miss Nannie Tunstall, also a native of Arkansas. To their marriage were born two children; Mary Lavenia, born on the 8th of September, 1869, and Nannie E .. born on the 4th of September, 1873, and died on August 30, of the following year. Mrs. Saylors died on the 13th of September, 1873, in full communion with the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was an excel- lent mother and wife. Mr. Saylors was married a second time on the 15th of October, 1874, to a cousin of his first wife, Miss Martha Tunstall. Seven children have been the result of this union: Gertie, born on the 20th of April, 1876: Martha A., born on the 15th of October, 1877; James H .. born on the 25th of February, 1879; Claude, born October 5, 1880, and died March 24, 1881; Logan, born on the 6th of October, 1883; John Guynn. born October 7, 1885, and Sylvia, born November 3, 1887. Mr. Saylors' principal occupation has been farming, and he first bought eighty aeres. the most of which he has improved. Since his first purchase he has added to this at different times, and now is the owner of 240 acres, eighty of which are in a high state of cultivation. He has good orchards, good buildings, and his prin- cipal crops are corn and cotton. At different times he has followed the vocation of merchandising, and
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has also been engaged in the livery business, but at the same time carried on agricultural pursuits. Mr. Saylors votes with the Labor party, but does not take an active part in politics. He served as con- stable, and also acted as deputy sheriff in Jack- son County until deposed by the war. In Septem- ber, 1888, he was elected magistrate of his town- ship, which office he now holds to the satisfaction of all. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Newark Lodge, No. 52, and is also a member of the Agricultural Wheel. He takes an active part in all public enterprises, and contributes liberally to their support. Mrs. Saylors is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
A. N. Simmons, farmer and miller, Batesville, Ark. The milling industry is well represented in Batesville by the above named gentleman, who is a progressive business man, and who is also closely associated with the farming interest of Indepen- dence County, Ark. He was born in Weakley County, Tenn., on the 28th of August, 1833, and is the son of Anthony N. Simmons, a native of North Carolina, who, after growing up, married Miss Penelope O'Neil, also a native of North Car- olina. In 1832 they emigrated to Tennesse, located in Weakley County, and after remaining there a short time, emigrated to Gibson County. At one time be and a man by the name of Nolen, bought 160 acres of land apiece where Memphis now stands, but owing to the sickness of Mr. Simmons, he gave up his part, thus depriving himself of an independent fortune. He died in Gibson County, Tenn., in 1834, and the mother in 1854. The
their six children, three are living at the present time: Joseph, Fordice and Anthony N. The latter was reared in Tennessee until fourteen years of age, and secured but a limited education. In the spring of 1848 he removed with his mother to St. Francis County, Ark., and while living there the county was, respectively, St. Francis, Jackson and Woodruff Counties. In 1861 Mr. Simmons enlisted in Com- pany C, McCrea's regiment, and served thirty-six days, when he was taken sick and sent home. He was detailed to take charge of some negroes. While
living in St. Francis County he was engaged in farming, and also carried on the milling business. In 1865 he came to Independence County and located where he now lives. He bought a mill. ran it for some time, and then bought another. Since living here he has erected several mills, and has carried on the milling business for thirty-three years. He erected the first stone mill on the bayou. He owns 210 acres of land, with about sixty acres under cultivation, but turns his atten- tion principally to his milling business. He now owns two mills, both running most of the time. By his marriage to Miss J. A. O'Neil, in 1854, he became the father of five living children: Samuel, John, Jefferson, Fannie (second wife of G. I. Dwinal) and Delbert. Mr. Simmons is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He also filled the office of the justice of the peace in a very successful and satisfactory manner while liv- ing in Woodruff County.
Drury D. Smart. Among the many eminent and enterprising agriculturists of Independence County, Ark., worthy of mention in these pages, is Mr. Smart, who has been identified with the farm- ing interests of the community since 1856. He is a son of Reuben and Margaret ( Melton) Smart, na- tives of Rutherford County, N. C., and he was born in the same place. He partly completed his edu- cation in his native county, and after the death of his father, in June, 1945. he and his mother. in the fall of that year, emigrated to East Tennessee, and here finished his schooling and grew to mature
father was a farmer, a mechanic, and was said to : years. From 1856 to 1859 he worked as a farm be the finest cabinet-workman in the State. Of hand in Independence County. Ark., but at the latter date removed to Little Rock, and engaged in stage driving, being employed by Messrs. Hanger & Gaines, who were extensive mail contractors. and remained with them about two years. In 1861 he again returned to Oil Trough Bottom, where he gave his attention to tilling the soil until 1862, at which date he enlisted in Col. Dobbins' Cavalry regiment of Arkansas Volunteers, and remained in the army until 1865. participating in the battles of Helena and Marks' Mills, where 1.300 of Gen. Steele's command were captured, together with
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ninety-six wagons and teams and four pieces of artillery, this blow effectually putting an end to the Red River expedition. In 1864 he was in the saddle forty-two days, in pursuit of Gen Steele's command, who was attempting to form a junction with Gen. Banks in his Red River expedition, but. as stated above, the attempt only met with failure. June 5, 1865, he was mustered out of service and returned to civil life, locating in Cache Township, Jackson County, Ark. He was married in the summer of the same year to Miss Sarah Obarr, of Jackson County, a native of Georgia, from which State her parents emigrated to Arkansas, in 1848 or 1849. After making three crops in Jackson County, he returned to Oil Trough Bottom, and was an extensive farmer of that region until 1871, when he moved to Faulkner County, this State, and homesteaded eighty acres of heavily-timbered land, and at once set energetically to work to clear and improve his land. He cleared and put forty acres under cultivation, built a good double log house and other buildings, and made many other valuable improvements during his twelve years' residence in the county. In 1885 he returned to Independence County, the hub around which he had so long re- volved, and has since been farming on land belong- ing to E. L. Watson, of Newport, Ark. Mr. Smart and his wife are the parents of six children, two of whom have attained their majority: James D., Jesse Y., Reuben T., John M., Alice L. A., and William Asher. Mr. Smart is a patron of educa- tion, and is giving his children good advantages. He is a Democrat in politics, and while in Jackson County, held the office of justice of the peace of Cache Township. He was a member of the Wheel during its existence, and he and wife are in com- munion with the Missionary Baptist Church.
Capt. John T. Smith, farmer and stock raiser, Oil Trough, Ark. Like so many of the representa- tive citizens of this county and township, Mr. Smith is a native Tennesseean, born in Williamson County of that State, June 14, 1841, and is the son of Daniel Smith, who was also a native of that State. When a young man the latter was united in marriage to Miss Martha Ragsdale, a native of Tennessee, and whose father was a colonel in the :
War of 1812, and participated in the battle of New Orleans, and died in 1862 at the age of eighty- seven years. The paternal grandfather was also a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in Tennessee, in 1849, of Asiatic cholera. Capt. John T. Smith was but eight years old when he moved with his parents to Humphreys County, Tenn., and there attended the private schools of the county. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and assisted his father on the farm until the breaking out of the late war, when he enlisted in- the Forty-second Tennessee Volun- teer Infantry, Confederate Army, as a private. Upon the organization of the company he was elected to the position of orderly sergeant, serving in that capacity until 1862. He was captured, with his regiment, at Fort Donelson, and afterward, when the regiment was reorganized at Port Hudson, La .. Mr. Smith was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until May, 1863, when he received his commission as captain and commissary, serving as regimental commissary until the battle of Franklin, Tenn. He then re- ceived a furlough to go home, which was the close of his military career. In 1886, in partnership with Mr. M. Reeves, he bought a stock of general merchandise, and carried on the business of a mer. chant at Buffalo postoffice, on Buffalo River, Tenn. Mr. Reeves died that year, and Mr. Smith there- upon closed out and engaged in farming, purchas- ing a tract of land on Buffalo River, Humphrey County, Tenn., the tract comprising 200 acres. In 1866, he was married to Miss Margaret Owens, a native of Tennessee. One child, Mollie A .. was born to this union. Mrs. Smith died, in 1867, of cholera, and was buried in the cemetery at Buffalo. In 1868 Mr. Smith took for his second wife Miss Lou Gray, of Perry County, Tenn., and to this union were born five children, all living: Cordelia C., born December 15, 1869; Dorsey Thomas, born November 9, 1870; Margaret L., born March 21. 1872; William Martin, born March 10, 1874, and Lou Jennie, born November 20, 1875. The mother of these children died July 8, 1876, and is interred in Perry County, Tenn. May 20, 1877, Capt. Smith married Miss Eliza S. Teas, a native of Humphreys County, Tenn., and the fruits of this union were four
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children: Florence Agnes, born in February, 1879; Amanda R., born April 1, 1880; Robert Ernest, born October 3, 1883, and Lillian, born August 2, 1885. Capt. Smith moved to Arkansas January 30, 1879, purchased 160 acres of land in Section 11, Christian Township, the principal part of it being timber land, with about thirty acres cleared, and on this were several Jog-cabins. The Captain has cleared sixty-five acres since he became the owner, and now has ninety-five acres under cultiva- tion. He has added by purchase 120 acres, but, selling eighty acres of this, has now 200 acres left. He has good buildings on his farm, and has an excellent orchard. Capt. and Mrs. Smith are mem- bers of the Christian Church, and Cordelia is also a member of that church. Capt. Smith is a mem- ber of McGuire Lodge No. 208, A. F. & A. M., is also a member of Oil Trough Chapter No. 84, R. A. M. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party, and is an ardent supporter of all enterprises for the good of the county.
John W. Starnes, farmer and stock raiser, Jamestown, Ark. Mr. Starnes is a man whom na- ture seems to have especially designed to be a tiller of the soil. The pursuit of agriculture has af- forded him high gratification, and in the conduct of a farm the principles which he has held have been peculiarly adapted to the successful develop- ment and improvement of the varied elements of farm life. He was born in Haywood County, N. C., on the 27th of September, 1823, and the son of Benjamin Starnes, a native of North Carolina, who, after reaching manhood, was united in mar- riage to Miss Sophia Snyder, who was also a native
valuable mineral also on his place. In politics, he is identified with the Democratic party. He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.
L. D. Stone, dealer in musical instruments, stationery, etc., is a native of Arkansas, and the son of Rufus and Fannie A. (Flournor) Stone, who were both natives of Independence County, Ark. The grandparents were early settlers of this coun- ty. Rufus Stone and his brother were killed in the late war, the brother at the battle of Chicka- mauga. The former was taken prisoner, and while in prison at Little Rock, in trying to escape, jumped off into the Mississippi River just below Memphis. and was drowned. The mother died in Memphis of the small-pox. L. D. Stone was the only child born to this union, and was left an orphan when but a lad. He was educated principally at Bates- ville, and took a commercial course at Lexington. Ky. In February, 1886, he engaged in his present business, and has since carried it on. He has an extensive trade, which he has built up entirely him- : self, and his career affords an excellent example of what pluck and energy can accomplish under adverse circumstances and against keen competi- tion. He carries a full line of musical instru- ments, stationery, etc. Aside from this, he is the owner of about 380 acres of White River bottom land, which is under cultivation, and carried on by tenants. He deals extensively in stock.
Hon. John Christopher Stroud, present repre- sentative of Independence County in the State legislature, resides on a farm about one mile west of Graham postoffice. He was born in Independ- of North Carolina. Later in life they moved to ; ence County, October 3, 1854, and is the eldest Tennessee, and there passed the remainder of their child and only son of the five children born to Andrew J. and Mary Ann ( Winkle ) Stroud. An- . drew J. Stroud was born near Knoxville, Tenn., March 3, 1826, his parents having settled in Ten- nessee at an early day. When a young man he went to Kentucky and for four years was a resi- dent of Paducah, McCracken County, where he was married. In 1854 he removed to Independ- ence County, Ark., where he died in ISSI, having always been a farmer by occupation. His wife was born in North Carolina, in 1829, and is still days. Their family consisted of ten children. John W. Starnes began for himself at an early age, and when twenty one years of age. was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Chapman. Six in- teresting children were the result of this union. His second marriage was in 1864, to Miss Susan McDougal. They have no children. Mr. Starnes has some very valuable land, 500 acres in all, and on this has several fine mineral springs that have quite a local reputation. He thinks that he has
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living. Andrew J. was a son of Christopher Stroud, a native of North Carolina, whose father was born in Ireland. John C. received his early education in the free schools of his native county 1 and completed his studies in the Washington High School of his home township. At the age of nine- teen he began teaching school, which profession he successfully followed until 1886. In the latter year he was elected to represent the county in the State legislature, and two years later was again chosen to fill the same position, serving his con- stituents honorably. He takes an active interest in politics and was formerly a Democrat, but now is an Independent. He also takes an active part as a member of the I. O. O. F., and has several times represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. Mr. Stroud owns 290 acres of fine creek bottom land, about seventy-five acres of which he has un- der cultivation. December 3, 1879, he married Miss Adelia Barnes, who was born in Independence County, January 19, 1860, and is a daughter of George W. and Martha J. Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. Stroud have four children, Emma A., Estella, William A. and Martha J. Our subject is one of the most popular young men of the community, and is deserving of the public favor bestowed on him. He is well-to-do and is highly esteemed by all who know him.
N. J. Suit, a successful horticulturist of Batesville was born on the 17th of February, 1831, in the town of Sardis, Mason County, Ky., and is the son of John and Angeletta (Grover) Suit, who were also natives of Kentucky. The grandparents on both sides were natives of Penn- sylvania, and resided in Maryland, and then in Kentucky at an early day, in fact in the days of Daniel Boone. John Grover, the maternal grand- father, once lived in a fodder house and baked his corn cakes on a hoe, but by hard labor and honesty he accumulated a comfortable fortune. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred at the age of eighty-four. He served for some time in the War of 1812, and both he and his wife died in Kentucky. They were among the first settlers of that State. John Snit was also a farmer and died in Kentucky. He was also a
successful tiller of the soil and belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was one of the most moral men who ever lived. The mother mar- ried the second time to James Engles, and in 1843 emigrated to Arkansas, coming there by water, and settled near Batesville. They located near Sul- phur Rock, and there lived for several years. He was a carpenter by trade and died near Moonfield. There were but two children born to the first mar- riage, of whom N. J. is the only one now living, William H. having died. By the second marriage Mrs. Suit became the mother of nine children. She died in 1884. At her death she had about seventy-three children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren. N. J. Suit was about twelve years of age when he came with his parents to Arkansas. He received a limited education, there being no good schools. At the age of about sixteen years he served an apprenticeship at the tanners' trade, and followed the business until about 1880, or for over thirty years. In 1865 he moved to Bates- ville, and ran a tannery for some two years. In 186S he built the tannery he now owns and ran this until 1880. Since that time he has been en- gaged 'in the nursery business. He has a good fruit orchard of pears, peaches, apples and small fruits. He has planted all the trees and carried on the business quite successfully ever since. He owns forty acres of land on which his orchard is located, and is one of the prominent fruit growers of the county. He was married in 1854 to Miss Susan F. Wright, and to them was born one child, deceased. Mr. Suit's second marriage was to Miss Melissa J. Qualls, in 1861, and three chil- dren were born to this union: Etta, wife of Henry Richards, of Spencer County, Ind .; Walter, and Florence, wife of George Wade, and the mother of one child. Mr. Suit's third marriage was with Mrs. Margaret Herrin, a native of Tennes- see, whose parents came to Arkansas, in 1849. Mrs. Suit is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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