Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas : comprising a condensed history of the state biographies of distinguished citizens a brief descriptive history of the counties, and numerous biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. V. 2, Part 8

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Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis : The Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1044

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the board, and to his excellent natural abilities he added a fine education. About the year 1832, Fe- lix Grundy, with his two sons-in-law, John M. Bass and Jacob McGavock, came to Mississippi County, Ark., and purchased large tracts of land at and about Pecan Point, which included the Shawnee Village and Dickinson's Mill, the whole purchase consisting of about 20,000 acres, besides about 3,000 acres on the lower end of Island No. 35, lying opposite Pecan Point. All this property is still retained in the family, with the exception of 1,500 acres, now owned by R. W. Friend of Pecan Point. Edward J. McGavock was the third child in a family of seven children born to Jacob and Louisa C. (Grundy) McGavock [a history of whom is given in the sketch of Dr. McGavock]. After leaving college, he was married to Miss Ella Young of Mississippi, and soon after began taking charge of the Pecan Point plantation, which he successfully managed until the opening up of the war, when he enlisted in the Fifty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, Confederate States Army, and was an active par- ticipant in many fierce engagements. He was at Franklin, Tenn., where the Confederate troops made one of their finest charges, and during his military career was appointed to the position of assistant quartermaster-general, which position he held until the close of the war. He then returned to the Pecan Point plantation, in Mississippi Coun- ty, where he continued to make his home until his death, which occurred April 7, 1880, in New Or- Jeans, La., having been, during life, among the foremost planters of Mississippi County, and a man of irreproachable morals. His first wife died in 1861, after giving birth to three children, all of whom grew to maturity: Frank Young McGavock, a sketch of whom appears farther on; Louise, the wife of Dr. Tyner, of Texas, where she died without issue, and Ella, who was married to Shel- don Wilson, of New Orleans, and now resides in Florida, the mother of one child. While at Col- umbus, Miss., in 1866, Mr. McGavock was married to Miss Elizabeth Scott Eskridge, by whom he be- came the father of two children: Mary Eskridge, who is an accomplished young lady, and has been attending school at Baltimore, Md., and Ed. J.,

who is receiving his education at Hanover, Va., .

and is now at Hot Springs, Ark., for his health. Mrs. McGavock's father, Judge T. P. Eskridge, was a resident of Crittenden County, Ark., but originally came from Virginia, where he belonged to one of the first families of that State. He re- ceived a collegiate education, and shortly after (in 1821) came to Mississippi County, Ark., the coun- try at that time being almost wholly a wilderness, inhabited by Indians and wild animals. He be- came a member of the superior court of the Terri- tory, and took an active part in all the affairs of the State until his death, which occurred in Crit- tenden County in 1835. He left two children: B. Byrum E. and Elizabeth Scott E. His death was deeply lamented by his widow and children, and by his many friends throughout the Territory. His wife was Miss Mary Byrum, a daughter of Benja- min S. Byrum, of Concordia Parish, La. They are of old French Huguenot stock, their ancestors having taken refuge in America in the last century. Mrs. McGavock and her family are pleasantly sit- uated on the bank of the Mississippi River at Pecan Point. The house is a large, old-fashioned building, and is surrounded by a large peach and apple orchard, back of which is one of the finest plantations in the county, consisting of 1,000 acres of land, of which 300 or 400 acres are in a fine state of cultivation. The sisters and brothers of E. J. McGavock are Mrs. J. B. Lindsley, Nashville; Mrs. James Todd, Louisville. Ky. ; Dr. F. G. MeGavock, Ark .; John J. MeGavock, Fayetteville, Ark.

Dr. F. G. McGavock, proprietor of the MeGa- vock plantation, and whose postoffice is in the southern part of Mississippi County, is one of those rare characters now so seldom met. A real Southern gentleman, in his veins flows the best blood of America, and of this the Doctor is justly proud. His mother was the daughter of Felix Grundy, of Nashville, Tenn., who was contempo- rary with Andrew Jackson. Mr. Grundy. in com- pany with his two sons-in-law, Jacob MeGavock (father of the subject of this sketch) and John M. Bass, all of Nashville, made large purchases of land in the southern part of Mississippi County. Ark., about the year 1833, on which they opened

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up large plantations with slave labor. At the same time they held their residence in Nashville, where Dr. F. G. McGavock was born in the year 1832. James McGavock, the great-great-grandfather of the Doctor, came from County Antrim. Ireland, in 1728, and settled in Rockbridge County, Va., where he became acquainted with Miss Mary Cloyd, daughter of David Cloyd, to whom he was mar- ried in 1760. They then moved to Wythe County, Va., where they raised a large family, and became very wealthy in the course of time. His son, Hugh McGavock, was proprietor of the Max Mead- ows estate, which is still in the family. Here was born Jacob McGavock, the father of the Doctor, in 1790. At the age of twenty-two he went to Nashville, Tenn., acting as deputy in the circuit clerk's office for a few years, when he was ap- pointed United States circuit clerk, which position he held until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he acted in the same capacity for the Confed- eracy. When the Federal troops took Nashville, Mr. McGavock was arrested for high treason, but was released on the evidence of Judge Catron, then of the Supreme Court of the United States, who testified that Mr. McGavock had turned his books over to the United States intact, having hid- den them in his cellar, while other clerks allowed their books and records to be destroyed. Mr. McGavock was married to Miss Louisa C. Grundy, who was about ten years his junior, and both lived to a ripe old age, dying in Nashville, Tenn., within one year of each other, he at the age of ninety-one years, and she at the age of eighty-one. They reared seven children, all of whom have had large interests in Mississippi County. Armie, wife of Judge Henry Dickenson, inherited the planta- tion known as the Dickenson Mills; it is now owned by Jacob McGavock Dickenson, her son, a rising young lawyer of Nashville, Tenn. Col. Randall W. McGavock was killed at the head of his regiment at Raymond, Miss., in the Confeder- ate cause; he was a graduate of the University of Nashville. Sallie, wife of Prof. J. B. Linds- ley, of Nashville, was given a large estate near Pecan Point, which is now owned by her son, J. McGa-

vock Lindsley, who resides in Nashville, but spends

part of his time on the estate. Ed. J. McGavock [see portrait and sketch]. F. G., the subject of this sketch [see portrait]. John J., of Fayette. ville, Ark., who recently disposed of a large es- tate in the county. Mary, wife of James Todd. of Louisville, Ky., owns 3,000 acres of the McGa- vock estate at the foot of Island 35, opposite Pe- can Point. Dr. F. G. McGavock graduated from the University at Chapel Hill, N. C., and also from the University of Nashville. Shortly after gradu- ating Dr. McGavock married Miss Mary M. Bos- tick, daughter of John Bostick, of Triune, Tenn. On her marriage she came in possession of a large number of slaves, whom the Doctor used in open- ing up the Shawnee Village estate, consisting of 1,800 acres of woodland, on the ground that the noted outlaw, John A. Merrill, made famous by making it his stronghold. Previous to that it had been the camp of the Shawnee Indians, and there now stands on this estate one of the largest mounds in the county, which contains bones and pottery of a race apparently superior to and ante- dating the Indians. In plowing and digging on this place the remains of what appears to have been a brick pavement are found. In some in- stances large pieces of well-preserved brick, which had been buried for ages, have been brought to the surface. This is all within a square of about twelve acres, around which, on three sides, is a well-defined ridge. There were about three acres cleared at the time the Doctor took hold, and in 1880 he made his only living daughter a present of the estate, with over 700 acres under a fine state of cultivation. The Doctor made his home in Tri- une, Tenn., in summer, until after the death of his wife, which occurred at the Gayosa House. in Memphis, the day the Federal gun-boats were fight- ing in front of that city. He was at her bedside when he was made prisoner, but was given permis- sion to attend his dead. He took his two little daughters to Nashville, after which he returned to his plantation. About this time the people of the vicinity organized what was known as the Shawnee Legal Association, to protect themselves against outlaws and guerrillas. The Doctor was made leader and judge, and received the endorsement of

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Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, in command of the Sixteenth Army Corps, at Memphis, and also of the Confederate general, Sterling Price. Vested with this authority the Doctor compelled every man to either join the conclave or get out of the neighborhood. Where a capital offense was com- mitted the culprit was secured and turned over to either the Confederate or Federal authorities, ac- cording to circumstances. For theft or other petty offenses, horsewhipping and an order to leave the county were deemed sufficient. If the culprit failed to leave, however, it generally went hard with him when caught again. During the war Dr. McGavock demonstrated the fact that cotton could be successfully cultivated with white labor, and that even delicate women could be brought from an entirely different climate to successfully work in the cotton-field without injury to their health. The negroes were freed and scattered; white men would be conscripted by the Confeder- ate troops; cotton was in demand and brought from 70 to 90 cents per pound. The Doctor went to New York, where he engaged sixty-five Irish girls at Castle Garden, from fourteen to forty five years of age, and with these made a contract for one year at $20 per month each, and board. Without experience, but with a little showing, these girls made a crop for the Doctor on which he cleared $45,000, after paying all expenses, and allowing rent for the land. He was watchful in regard to their health and comfort, and the large dining room was presided over by a corps of waiters who served meals prepared by the best skilled cooks and bakers to be found. A barrel of whisky, in which a few ounces of quinine were dissolved, was issued to them at the rate of three drinks of two drams each, at intervals during the day. The Doctor always had a hospital with a skilled nurse, but it was very seldom used, as very little sickness prevailed during the two years of their stay, and but one death occurred. These girls worked on the Pecan Point plantation, and during this time the Doctor paid the expenses of a Catholic priest to come and attend to their spiritual welfare, all being members of that church. A few years later he secured fifty five German men from Castle Garden,

and emplo; ! "hem successfully for one year on his Nodena plan tion; but the best hands he ever worked were eighteen Chinamen, just from China, whom he secured in Chicago. Those he employed on the Shawnee Village place, but they, like the others he imported, were enticed away by ill-advis- ers or friends. In 1879 Dr. McGavock moved to his present place, known as " MeGavock" (the gover- nor having so named the postoffice), which at that time was but a wilderness. It is now one of the finest plantations in the county, with about 640 acres under cultivation. Here the. Doctor used both white and colored labor, and thinks the white can stand the climate and work as well as the negro. Since moving to McGavock the Doctor has aban- doned the practice of medicine, which at one time was very extensive. He goes now only when called by another physician in consultation. When first coming to Mississippi County he established a nursery for the culture of fruits and flowers, experi menting with almost all the varieties from the leading nurseries of the East and North. He has successfully raised apples, peaches, plums, pears. apricots, nectarines, cherries, figs, almonds, Eng- lish walnuts, filberts, and small fruits, and grapes of every known variety. For bees he thinks this is a perfect paradise, as all the flora of the woods are honey-bearing. He has raised within the county the following crops: Grass and vegetables, oats. rye, wheat, millet, buckwheat, tobacco, peanuts. white and sweet potatoes, clover, timothy, and all garden produce, with perfect success. The Doctor is now interesting himself in the improvement of the cattle of his district, having recently imported a fine Jersey bull from England, and now has about 100 head of the finest Jersey cows in the State. His daughter, Monoah, is the wife of William S. Bransford, of Nashville. Tenn., where they now reside. Mrs. Bransford is the owner of the Shawnee Village plantation. They have two bright little girls-Bessie and Lonise. In 1881 Dr. McGavock was elected to represent the county in the State legislature, which he did to the satis. faction of his constituents and the State, but. owing to his home interests. he refused to accept the second term. He is a member of the Odd Fellows

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and of the Masons; also of the Knights of Honor, of Frenchman's Bayou, where McGavock Lodge was named in his honor. He is a man who has made fortunes. at one time being worth as much as $1,000,000. But wealth to him is but a means, and not an end, so he lavishes it as freely as he makes it. His hospitality is unbounded; all are welcome. To his equals he is courteous, to his in- feriors kind, and all receive that consideration due their station. Being a man of decided views and of an active temperament, he often shows his : outbreak of the Civil War, at his father's house. roughest side out, while those who know him best are his best friends. As he is probably better known than any man in the county, he has a host of friends, and can be classed as the most remarkable man in Mississippi County.

John Harding McGavock (deceased). A glance at the genealogy of Mr. McGavock's family will show that both his paternal and maternal ancestors have been extensive real estate owners, and great men of prominence. The MeGavocks are of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to America before the Revolutionary War, settling in Virginia. About 1796, one of them, David, having married a Miss McDowel, moved with his family to Davidson County, Tenn., and purchased a large tract of land, upon a part of which the city of Nashville now stands. One of his . sons, Frank Preston McGavock, married a Miss Amanda Hard- ing, a daughter of John Harding, and a sister of Gen. William G. Harding, the owner of " Belle Meade," a noted stock farm near Nashville. This couple became the parents of John Harding, the subject of this sketch. He was reared in Nash- ville and educated in the State College in that city, receiving a diploma signed by Gen. Andrew Jack- son and other notables of the State. After grad- uating in Nashville he went to Harvard, where he again received a diploma signed by Edward Ever- ett, Greenleaf, Kent, and others. Upon his return to his home, his grandfather Harding, who some years before had come down the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in a skiff. and had made large purchases in Mississippi County, in- duced him to leave Nashville, and try the wilds of Arkansas. After this, although still claiming

Nashville as his home, he spent a part of each year in Mississippi County, adding by purchase and entry to the already valuable tract given him by his grandfather. dividing his time between business and bear-hunting, in both of which he was emi- nently successful. In 1853 he married Miss Georgia Moore, a daughter of Joseph I. Moore. of Columbus, Miss., she being a young lady of cult- ure and refinement, and of one of the first fami- lies of the - State. He died in 1861, just at the

near Nashville. Of the four children born to him, only one remains, Mrs. Sue McGavock Grider, wife of Henry Grider. After the death of J. H. MeGavock, his widow married, in 1868, William A. Erwin, of Jackson, Miss., he belonging to a prom- inent family of that State, and who died in 1SS2, leaving one daughter, Georgia, now at school. Mrs. Erwin makes her home with her daughter. Mrs. Grider, at the old homestead "Sans-Souci." near Osceola, Ark. During the Civil War the house was used by Gen. Pope as a hospital, the 1 yard as a cemetery; though, since, the bodies have been removed and placed in a National cemetery. The fleet when it first came down the river to at- tack Fort Pillow, which is a few miles below Sans- Souci, was anchored in the river opposite the house. This house, which was built by John H. McGavock, has a broad piazza, 12x74 feet in front, the pillars of which are of swamp cypress. in their natural state, except having the bark stripped off, and being painted. They are fluted in the most beautiful and artistic manner, having the appearance of the work of a skillful artist, and are the admiration of every beholder. Mrs. Grider preserves as an heirloom the cradle in which all of her mother's children and her own have been rocked. This is a turtle shell, measuring four feet two and one-half inches by three feet seven inches, pol- ished and varnished on the outside, and mounted upon rockers of mahogany, and wadded and lined on the inside with quilted blue satin. The turtle was caught by Mr. MeGavock, out of the Missis- sippi River at his own landing.

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enjoyed the reputation of being not only a sub- stantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly-posted. man in all public affairs. He has always been noted for honorable. upright dealing, and has kept the name he bears, which has descended to him from a long line of illustrious and honored ancestry, pure in the sight of God and man. The first of the family of whom we have any knowledge was the father (name unknown) of James McGavock, who belonged to a wealthy family of Ireland, and who came to America in 1728, settling in the State of Virginia, where he took a prominent part in the Revolutionary War, being a soldier in the Colonial army. James Mc- Gavock was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1720, and accompanied his father to Virginia, be- ing married in that State about 1760 to Miss Mary Cloyd, of Rockbridge County, that State. Their son Hugh was the original owner of "Max Meadows," one of the finest estates of the "Old Dominion," which is still in possession of the Mc- Gavock family. His son, Jacob, the grandfather of our immediate subject, was born on that farm in 1790, and in 1812 went to Nashville, Tenn., being appointed a short time afterward to the position of United States circuit clerk, which position he held until after the Rebellion. He was a very success- ful financier, and in company with his father-in- law, Felix Grundy, and his brother-in-law, J. M. Bass, all wealthy residents of Nashville, he came to Mississippi County, Ark., about the year 1832, where he purchased tracts of land many thousands of acres in extent. He afterward bought out the others' interest, and subsequently a large portion of his fine estate fell to the late Edward J. Mc- Gavock, a sketch of whom appears in this work. The latter died in 1881, and his wife in 1861. Frank Young McGavock was but two years old at the time of his mother's death, and from that period until the close of the war he made his home with his maternal aunt, Mrs. Laura Whitfield, whose husband was the eldest son of ex-Gov. Whitfield, of Mississippi, and here he continued to make his home until the close of the war, when he was put in charge of his grandfather, Jacob McGavock, of Nashville, Tenn., with whom he remained until

eighteen years of age. His maternal grandfather was Frank Young, of Columbus, Miss., who was a leading man of his, day. Mr. McGavock, our subject. was given every advantage for acquiring a good education, and was graduated from the Nash- ville University, at which institution his father had been educated, and of which his grandfather and great-grandfather were among the founders; and after leaving college he entered the wholesale gro- cery business at Memphis, Tenn., continuing until he was twenty-five years of age. At that time he was married to Miss Theresa E. Perkins, a daugh- ter of Samuel and Theresa (Ewin) Perkins, of Franklin, Tenn., and after their marriage they re- sided in that place one year, then coming to their present fine estate, the MeGavock plantation, which adjoins Pecan Point. Here they have a very pleas- ant home, and are the parents of one child, a bright little daughter, named Theresa P., in whom all their affections and hopes are centered. Mr. Mc. Gavock belongs to the only family of his name and generation living in Mississippi County.

Hon. H. M. MeVeigh, attorney, Osceola. Mr. MeVeigh is one of those men, too few in number, who fully recognize the truth so often urged by the sages of the law, that of all men, the reading and thought of a lawyer should be the most extended. Systematic reading gives a more comprehensive grasp to the mind, variety and richness to thought, and a clearer perception of the motives of men and the principles of things; indeed, of the very spirit of laws. This he has found most essential in the prosecution of his professional practice. Mr. Mc Veigh was born in Fauquier County, Va., in 1839, and was the second in a family of ten chil- dren born to Hiram and Mary E. (White) Mc- Veigh, both natives of Virginia. The father was engaged in commercial pursuits until his death, in 1865. The mother is still living and resides in her native State. Mr. McVeigh is a self-educated man, having had no advantages other than the common schools. His father, having failed in business, was not able to give him a collegiate education, and, when fourteen years of age, young Mcveigh entered a printing office and learned that art. When about eighteen years of age, he began the

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study of law and partly supported himself by act- ing as local editor of a daily paper. In 1860 and 1861 he studied law at Hannibal, Mo., and was ad- mitted to the bar at that place the summer before he was twenty-one years of age. While pursuing his legal studies he also edited, for a short time, the Hannibal (Mo.) Daily Messenger, and during his experience as a printer he worked at the case in the office of the Hannibal Courier, Quincy (Ill. ) Daily Herald, Keokuk (Iowa) Gate City, Palmyra (Mo.) Sentinel, Huntsville (Mo.) Citizen, and the Mexico (Mo.) Ledger; also other papers. During this time he carefully studied the style in which the ed- itors expressed their thoughts, and paid particular attention to the style of the selected matter. When sixteen years of age he began to write paragraphs, which were accepted and printed by the editors. At the outbreak of the late Civil War, being a na- tive Virginian, and trained to believe that his State, like the king, "could do no wrong," he re- sponded to the call of Gov. Jackson, of Missouri, for troops, and went into camp under Gen. T. Har- ris, of Northeast Missouri. He was present and participated in several conflicts between the Federal and Confederate troops in Missouri, and after the siege and battle of Lexington, in which he took part, he was appointed assistant ordnance officer, with the rank of lieutenant. Upon the disbanding of the Missouri State Guards, he received author- ity to recruit a company for the Confederate ser- vice, but was captured in Northeast Missouri by a Federal cavalry regiment, and, after remaining a prisoner on parole for nearly a year, was finally exchanged. He again entered the Confederate service, and remained in active duty in the Trans- Mississippi department from the winter of 1862 until the surrender, at which time he was the enrolling officer of Mississippi County. After the close of the conflict, and immediately upon the organization of the courts of Arkansas, Mr. Mcveigh began the practice of law in that State. He also began a regular systematic course of study, supplied him- self with books, and soon had in his possession translations of all the ancient classics, and the best English standard works on history, poetry and essays. A taste for reading thus acquired he con-

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Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas : comprising a condensed history of the state biographies of distinguished citizens a brief descriptive history of the counties, and numerous biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. V. 2, Part 8

Author: Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis : The Goodspeed Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1044

Author:
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis : The Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1044