Adam Bach, an enterprising merchant, and the postmaster at Jacksonport, was born in Hessen, Germany, on the 1st of March, 1863, and is a son of Conrad Bach, a native of the same place, who was a shoemaker by trade, which occupation he followed in Germany, previous to coming to America. [p.841] The father had two children by his first wife: Adam and Lizzie; the latter was married to G. A. Lockard. He was married a second time and had four children by the next wife: Margaretta, Morie, Conrad and Peter. Adam, the eldest son, was reared in Germany and completed his studies at Gross. Rohrheim College, from which he graduated in 1878. He shortly afterward sailed for America, taking passage at Bremen, and landed at Baltimore, going from there to Tell City, Ind., where he attended school for eight months in order to learn the English language. In the spring of 1879 he came to Jacksonport, and was there employed by his uncle Peter, with whom he remained until the year 1882, when he embarked in business for himself. Since then he has been successful, and become very prosperous, making an enterprising merchant and a valuable citizen to his adopted country. He was appointed postmaster in 1884, and his intelligence and many fine qualities would fit him for almost any other position or business in which he might enter. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Peter Bach is a well-known and retired merchant of Jacksonport, who was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, on November 4, 1835. He is a son of Peter and Margaretta (Crow) Bach, both natives of the same province, the father dying when his son was but two years of age. The mother, however, is still living at the age of eighty-one years, and came to America in 1882. There were three children born to the parents: John S., Peter and Conrad. Peter was reared and educated in the home college, and learned the barber's trade in his native place, an occupation he followed for four years. In 1853 he sailed for America, taking passage in France, and landing in New York City after a twentyseven days' voyage on the ocean. From New York he went to Cincinnati, where he was employed at his trade for some time, and then found employment on the Empire No. 3, a steamboat plying up and down the Mississippi. He remained on this vessel about six months, and then came to Jacksonport, where he has resided ever since. On May 5, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, of the First Arkansas Regiment, and served until a short time before the surrender. He took part in all the batties of his regiment, and was severely wounded at Atlanta, Ga., from which place he was taken to the Macon Hospital, and hovered between life and death for three months. He was furloughed in 1864, and went to Alabama, and in 1865 returned home to Jacksonport. Mr. Bach is now practically retired from business. He is quite prosperous, owning about 2,000 acres of valuable land and a fine residence at Jacksonport, besides interests in various industries. He was married, in 1865, to Miss Jennie Hudson, who has been a devoted wife and helpmate to him. Mr. Bach is a Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, Knight of Pythias, and a member of the American Legion of Honor.

G. W. Bandy, farmer and stock raiser, Tuckerman, Ark. It is a fact unnecessary of denial that a person is better fitted to follow the occupation with which he became familiar in early life, than to engage in an undertaking learned in later years. This truth is borne out by the career of Mr. Bandy, who from a boy has known all the minute details of agricultural life. To this acquired knowledge may be added a natural faculty for that calling, for his father, Richard Bandy, was also a farmer. The latter was a native Virginian, but emigrated to Tennessee when a boy, grew to manhood on the farm in that State, and there married Miss Keziah Pearce, by whom he had four children, only one, G. W. Bandy, now living. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, under Gen. Jackson, and afterward received land warrants, which he sold. His second marriage was to Miss Lucy Rushing, a native of Tennessee, and they had four children, only one living, Amanda, now Mrs. John M. Glass, who resides in Glass Township, Jackson County, Ark. Mr. Bandy moved to Bird Township, Jackson County, Ark., in 1853, where he purchased eighty acres of land, with ten acres cleared. He died in 1834. His wife died in September, 1887, at the age of eighty-three years. G. W. Bandy was born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1827, and as before stated, was reared to the duties on the farm. He received a fair education in the schools of his native county; and in Bedford County, Tenn., in 1846, Miss Drucilla [p.842] Salina Mitchell Perry, a native of Bedford County, became his wife. Her parents, Wiley and Letitia (Gentry) Perry, were natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Tennessee. Mr. Perry was a farmer and tanner, and made Bedford County his home until his death, in 1868. His wife had died previously, in 1867. Grandfather Allen Perry was in the Revolutionary War, and Grandmother Perry went to New Orleans to enter the fort for protection. G. W. Bandy after marriage settled in his native State, followed farming until 1850, when he came to Arkansas, landing at Jacksonport on the 25th of December, 1850. One year later he went to Izard County, purchased a claim, but the same year sold this and moved to Jackson County, Ark., where he purchased an eighty-acre tract with twenty acres in tillable shape. To the original tract he had added from time to time until he owned 280 acres with 100 acres cleared. Later he sold this and invested in 320 acres, unimproved, set out an orchard, erected a cabin and otherwise improved his farm. He now owns 840 acres, with 450 under cultivation, and has a great many tenants. He raises principally on his farm cotton and corn, and has 200 acres in cotton yearly. He is also engaged in raising stock, and on his extensive meadows may been seen many fine horses and mules. He is a Democrat in politics, and is active in school matters, and represented the school interests of Bird Township as trustee. He has two school-houses on his land, donated for buildings, one for white and one for colored children. Socially, Mr. Bandy is a member of the Masonic order; was made a Mason in 1848, at Marsh Hill Lodge No. 144, Rutherford County, Tenn. He is now a member of Lunenberg Lodge No. 190, A. F. & A. M., at Lunenberg, Izard County, Ark. Mr. Bandy was charter member of Kirkpatrick Lodge No. 192. In 1865 he moved to Lunenberg, Izard County, Ark., for the purpose of educating his children, five in number, as five were deceased. Those living are named Richard W., now married and resides at Tuckerman; William A., married and resides in Comauche County, Tex.; George O., married and resides in Bird Township; Jane, now Mrs. Conditt, resides in Bird Township, and Lucilla, at home. Mr. Bandy has been active in his support of worthy enterprises and contributes liberally to all. He is practically a self-made man, having made all by his own industry.

A. P. Bateman, merchant, Elmo, Ark. Nowhere in this section of the county is to be found a more wide-awake, thorough-going business man than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. Born to the union of Simeon D. and Mary (Connaly) Bateman, on the farm where he now lives, in Jackson County, August 6, 1859, A. P. Bateman has ever since been a resident of this county. His father, Dr. Simeon D. Bateman, was born in Tennessee in 1829, and emigrated with his father to Independence County, Ark., in about 1832. They located seven miles west of Sulphur Rock, and here Simeon D. was reared and educated. At the age of fifteen years he began the study of medicine and graduated at New Orleans Medical College some time later. He first began practicing in Independence County, and afterwards moved to Jacksonport,

where he administered to the physical wants of his fellow-men for thirty years. By his marriage to Miss Mary Connaly, a native of Arkansas, he became the father of eight children– six now living: Charles T., Alice J., widow; Albert P., Nora C. (deceased), Savannah, David L., Mary and Susan. The grandfather of these children, Benniah Bateman, died near Sulphur Rock, Ark. He was an old Mexican soldier, and was a military man most of his life. He was also a member of the legislature for several years, and the governor gave him the prize for the nicest suit of jean clothes to be found in the senate. He was a very matter-of-fact, stern man. A. P. Bateman attained his growth and received his education in Jackson County, and, being brought up on the farm, naturally his inclinations turned that way, after he had reached years of discretion. In 1884 he also engaged in merchandising and this business he still carries on. He is successful and is a substantial business man. Charles T. was also reared to farm labor, and received the principal part of his education in the common schools. For several years he was engaged in teaching school, but the balance of his time was occupied [p.843] on the farm. He was married, in 1877, to Miss Panthia Long, who died in 1882, and the result of this union is two living children: Hattie and Millie. Mr. Bateman was married the second time, in 1884, to Miss Annie J. McGoffin, by whom he has three children: Annie, Emma and Fannie. Mr. Bateman is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

William H. Beede, farmer and stock raiser of Cow Lake Township, residing five miles southeast of Layton, was born in Orange County, N. Y., in 1837, being the son of Addison C. Beede, of Vermont, and Elizabeth (Weygant) Beede, of New York nativity. William H. received his education partly in the public schools of his native county, and finished his education at Newburgh. At the age of seventeen, he was apprenticed to the carriage workers' trade, to Mr. Theodore Weygant, Highland Mills, Orange County, N. Y. At the breaking out of the late war, he was working at his trade in Germantown, Tenn.; he enlisted in the Thirteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, participating in the battles of Belmont and Shiloh, and after one year was discharged on account of physical disability. Returning to Tennessee, he worked at his trade, till he came to Arkansas, in 1867; that year he bought 280 acres of land in Woodruff County, about ten acres being cultivated; he at once commenced improving and clearing the land, building stables and cribs, besides a log house. He remained there one year, when he came to Jackson County, purchased 160 acres of land, only eight being under cultivation. Since that time he has cleared and improved the land, and erected a good frame house, and other buildings. He

now owns 550 acres of land, 140 of which are under cultivation, having deeded 160 acres to his eldest son, after his marriage. August 20, 1867, Mr. Beede married Miss M. J. Nance; they have had nine children: Julane N., born July 11, 1868; Jasper Newton, born September 3, 1869; William W., born September, 1870; Macy, born February 28, 1874; Joseph A., born May 6, 1875; Francis W., born March 2, 1877; Fletcher H., born September 19, 1880; Eugene A., born November 4, 1882, and Amelia Viola, born September 18, 1883. Mr. Beede is a great friend to education, and was the first school director in Cow Lake Township, and for four years the only one, and since 1874 had been superintendent of schools for the State. There are now four free schools in Cow Lake Township.

C. Biggers, planter and stock raiser of Bird Township, was born in Randolph County, Ark., in 1845, the fifth in a family of seven. His parents were natives of Tennessee, and came to Randolph County in an early day, the father dying when our subject was young, the mother still surviving, in Baxtor County, Ark. The subject of this sketch was raised on the farm, receiving a very limited education, and in 1864, at Pocahontas, enlisted in McCray's brigade, Crammond's regiment, for one year. At the battle of Pilot Knob he received a gun-shot wound, which prevented further service, and he returned to Jackson County, Ark., where, the same year, he married Elizabeth (Ridley) Conditt, widow of John A. Conditt. He then rented land, commenced farming, and in 1877 bought eighty acres of timber-land, which he has improved and added to, until he now owns 160 acres, 100 under cultivation, averaging about, fifty acres a year in cotton, which is the principal product. He also raises some stock. They have a family of six children: Sarah A. (now Mrs. Tinsley, of Bird Township), Samuel E., James Henry, Thomas Calvin, Richard Franklin and William Richard. Mr. Biggers is a Democrat, and has been a member of the school board, taking an active interest in school work. He has seen a vast change in Jackson County, and has done his share toward opening it up and developing it. Mr. Biggers has made what he has by his own individual efforts, and takes an interest in everything for the welfare of the county.

Oliver Blackburn, general farmer and stock raiser, was born in the town of Cash, Jackson County, in 1847, son of William and Mary (Johnson) Blackburn, the father a native of North Carolina, who married in Alabama. The subject of this sketch married Miss Wilkinson, a native of Jackson County, Ark., and they have had three children: Lydia, born in 1871, married A. W. Parish in 1887; Harriet Emma, born in 1874, at [p.844] home, and Lyda, born in February, 1882. Mrs. Blackburn's father died in 1859, and was buried in the family cemetery, on Sections 17 and 18. Mr. Blackburn, like all native-born Americans, is an ardent lover of his native State, and has witnessed great changes, having been an active participant in the development of the country. As early as Mr. Blackburn can remember, the market for the farm produce was Elizabeth, and game being plenty, many pelts and skins of animals adorned the fences and barn, which found a market t Jacksonport. Our subject now gives his attention to raising cotton and mules. While he has not had the best educational advantages, he has always been a friend to education and progress.

J. C. Bleakley is a planter and stock raiser of Auvergne. His parents were William C. and Catherine Bleakley, of North Carolina. Mr. Bleakley came to the southern part of Arkansas before the war, where he married, after which he came to Jackson County and bought what is now the Pickett farm. Later he moved to Hempstead County, where he raised his family, and where our subject was born, October 20, 1854. The family consisted of nine children, four of whom lived to be grown–William, died at the age of twenty-one; J. C., Mary, wife of Charles Harris, now the wife of George Johnson, farmer of Oil Trough Bottom; and Robert, a farmer. The father, a conservative man politically, died in 1865, and the mother in 1874. They were both members of Missionary Baptist Church. J. C. spent his boyhood days on his mother's farm, and at the age of eleven years began its management. He was his mother's main stay, and assisted his brothers and sisters in getting an education, sending his sister one term to the high school at La Crosse. In 1868 he sold his property in Hempstead County, came to Jackson County, and bought forty acres of land, which he began clearing and improving, and on which he has since resided. In 1877 he bought 120 acres adjoining, and now has 115 acres under cultivation, south of Auvergne, raising corn and cotton. In November, 1876, he married Miss Abertine Clanton, daughter of Javison and Dulciana (Morris) Clanton, of South Carolina and Georgia, respectively, who came to Union Township, Jackson County, in 1871. Her father died in 1882, but the mother, still surviving, resides in Union Township. She has three brothers–William. John and Thomas, farmers in Faulkner County, and a sister, Georgia, wife of John E. Manger, farmer, of Faulkner County. Mr. Bleakley's family consists of five children living–Oscar, Lulu, Lina, Crawford, Claude and Georgia; Clyde died in childhood. In addition to this family, they are raising and giving a home to Idle, Willie and Eva Nelson, children of a widow, one of his tenants, whose dying wish was that they should raise her children. Mr. Bleakley has a pleasant and comfortable home, and has seen a great many improvements in this community. He and his wife are members of Sand Hill Baptist Church. He is a Democrat, but conservative. He is a most enterprising farmer, raising horses, cattle and hogs. He is always active in the interest of all public enterprises for the welfare of the county.

John Boen is the only child of Thomas and Sallie (Leonard) Boen, both natives of Tennessee, and of Scotch and English descent, respectively. Thomas Boen came to Arkansas from Tennessee in the fall of 1845, and located on Sections 14 and 15, in the township now known as Cache, purchasing from the United States Government 320 acres of heavily-timbered land, upon which he built a log cabin, and as he chopped down the trees made rails to fence the land. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1857 or 1858, he had seventy acres cleared and under cultivation, and his farm well stocked with cattle and hogs, wolves preventing the raising of sheep. His first wife dying when John was but an infant, Thomas Boen, in 1847, married Mrs. Nancy (Kirkland) Mackey, by whom he had two children: James Wesley, now married, and residing on our subject's farm, and Andrew J., who died in 1877, at the age of twenty-seven years. John Boen was married, in 1859, to Miss Catherine Mathering, a native of Tennessee, and to them have been born two children, viz.: Henry J., born November 12, 1861, is a farmer, and resides near his father; he married Miss Callie Ragsdale, of Arkansas, May 2, 1886, and they [p.845] have one child, Lena, about two years old. John R. Boen was born February 4, 1865, and was married, September 1, 1887, to Cynthia Lunley, who has borne two children, one, Laura Belle, dying at the age of two months; the other, Thomas Jefferson, is one month old. He is also a farmer, and owns a farm in Breckinridge Township. Mr. John Boen came into possession of forty acres of land through his wife; he now owns in all 320 acres of land, about 125 acres of which are under cultivation; corn and cotton are his principal crops, and his farm is well stocked with horses, cattle and hogs of good grade. Mr. Boen is interested in all matters tending toward the advancement of religious and educational interests, and is in every respect an enterprising farmer of Jackson County. Mrs. Boen is a member of the Christian Church.

Henry Bordwell, one of the leading citizens of Jacksonport, was born in Ontario County, N. Y. His parents were John and Abigail (Travis) Bordwell, the former a native of Massachusetts, who emigrated to New York at an early age, and located at Chautauqua Lake, where he resided until his death. After the demise of the father his family moved to Ontario County. They were the parents of three children, of whom Henry is the only one living. Honry was reared and received his schooling in Ontario County, N. Y. In 1858 he moved to Arkansas, and located in Jackson County, where he has since resided. When the Civil war commenced he enlisted in Company B, Eighth Arkansas Regiment, and during the battle of Shiloh was severely wounded in the ankle by a rifle ball. To add to his misfortune, he was captured and taken prisoner to Louisville, and from there to Camp Chase, where he was closely confined for about four months. He was then taken to Vicksburg, where he was exchanged and returned home. Mr. Bordwell has been actively engaged in business up to within a few years, and during that time has acquired a comfortable fortune upon which he is entitled to retire. He owns considerable town property in Jacksonport, and, although not in active commercial life, he is wideawake to the interests and development of his county, and is always ready to give his valuable assistance for that cause. He is an old resident of Jackson County, and has watched its growth from infancy up to the present, and can recount many interesting incidents of the various changes that have taken place during his stay.

Dr. R. L. Boyce, physician and surgeon, Tuckerman, Ark. Dr. Boyce is recognized throughout the county as a friend of and laborer in the cause and advancement of the medical fraternity. He is a native of Ralls County, Mo., born in 1832, and is the fourth in a family of six children, born to Richard and Elizabeth (Foreman) Boyce, natives of the Blue Grass State. Dr. Boyce was reared to farm labor, and in 1849, when but seventeen years of age, he was seized with the gold fever and started with an ox-team to cross the plains to California. He was three months in making the perilous trip, and after reaching that State was engaged in mining until 1852, when he returned to Ralls County, Mo., quite well satisfied with the result of his visit to the Golden State, after which he engaged in cultivating the soil, and in 1854 entered the State University at Columbia, Mo., taking a literary course. He subsequently entered the St. Louis Medical University, graduating from that institution in the spring of 1860. He first began practicing medicine in Macon County, Mo., in 1857, where he remained until 1859, entering the St. Louis Medical University, graduating at the dates stated above. Then moving to Bird Township, Jackson County, Ark., he purchased a farm near Elgin, and began a systematic course of fertilizing and cultivating the soil. At the breaking out of the late conflict, he enlisted, in 1861, in Lawrence County, and was regimental surgeon in Col. Adams' regiment, Col. Shaver's brigade, and under Gen. Hindman, but part of the time served as brigade surgeon. He remained in service until 1863, when he returned to Jackson County, and resumed the practice of medicine, which he has followed ever since. He has been actively engaged in farming and having it carried on, and is now the owner of 320 acres of good land, with 160 acres in tillable condition. He has contributed more than any other man to the introduction of fine stock in his neighborhood. [p.846] He brought the first Durham and Berkshire stock into that part of the county. The Doctor is quite active in polities, and votes with and is a supporter of the Democratic party. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In his religious con viction he adheres to the Presbyterian Church, and is a liberal contributor to the same. He is deeply. interested in educational matters. and is at present a member of the school board. His parents emigrated to Missouri at an early period settling in what is Ralls County, where the father tilled the soil for many years. He was quite an active man, politically. was county judge of Ralls County. quite a number of years, and was a good and useful citizen. He served in the War of 1812 from Kentucky, under Old Hickory. He died in 1869, and his wife, previously, in 1867. Their family consisted of the following children: James, the eldest. first settled on a farm in Missouri. later moved to Texas, locating near Bastrop. where he tilled the soil until his death. in 1859; Aaron, married. settled also in Texas. before it was part of the United States. having many fights with the Indians and narrow escapes, and there his death occurred in 1856; Nicholas. was also a pioneer of Texas, and died in 1858. A. W. Boyce brother of the Doctor, came to Jackson County. with his family in 1884. and settled on a farm where the subject of this sketch resides, and there died in 1886, leaving a widow and two bright and promising children. son and daughter–the son holding a responsible position among the county officials– E. L. and Lucia. R. L. Boyce, the subject of this sketch had four sisters, all of whom married men of some distinction. and all have joined the silent throng, that are passing on before.

Thomas Britt, planter and stock raiser, son of Alexander and Nancy (Pranat) Britt, natives of North Carolina. came with his parents from Mississippi, in 1848, and located on Section 23. He was born April 10. 1842, in Mississippi. and received his education in the private schools of that time. In 1863 he entered the Confederate service in Col. Gaw's Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry. was captared in the hospital at Little-Rock. in September. 1863. and sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind. where he remained till the close of the war. arriving home May 13. 1865. Ilie father was wounded in battle, from the effects of which he died. the mother died in 1865. Coming into possession of all his father's property by will. Thomas took possession of the homestead, and at once commenced cultivating the land, which was in bad condition, but little of the farm having been cultivated during the war. and only fifty of the 360 acres being cleared. August 11, 1868, Mr. Britt married Miss Anna Combs. a native of Alabama. and whose parents came to Arkansas in 1852; their children were Julia M., (born July 6, 1870), Iduma (born March 7. 1873, deceased), Ida (born October 2. 1875). Alice (born July 29, 1880), Luvena (born May 7, 1878. deceased), Jacob L. (born March 4. 1883), and John F. (born August 29, 1885). In 1872 Mr. Britt erected the comfortable house in which he now lives. He has upon his place a steam cotton-gin, also grist-mill and barns. Being an early settler. he remembers well when the only grist-mills were turned by hand, when the most was obtained from the forests, and when wolvesand bears rendered it almost impossible to raise sheep and hogs. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. and his wife of the Methodist. He is a Democrat. and has been justice of the peace, and although not an educated man himself. his children have received the advantages of the best schools in the neighborhood.

Emmn (Authory) Buford. of Union Township, Jackson County. resides three miles south of Newport, upon the farm which her husband owned and improved, and upon which he died, May 28, 1889. Mrs. Buford is a native of Madison County. Mo., of which State her parents were also natives. September 4. 1873. she married William Buford. and the same year they located on the farm the Jackson County, Ark., which has ever since been her home. They had four children. viz.; May Buford, born July 21. 1874; Maud Buford, born September 29, 1877; Bertha Buford. born July 26, 1882, and Homer. born February 5. 1886. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Buford was of German descent. and Mr. Buford's maternal grandfather. George Nifong. lived to be eighty eight years of [p.847] age, retaining to the last full possession of all his faculties. Mr. Buford projected many plans for the improvement of his farm, which his sudden death prevented him from carrying out, but Mrs. Buford has taken up the management of the farm, and is completing her husband's plans. The place now contains 420 acres. Mr. Buford was an enterprising farmer, a kind neighbor and affectionate husband, and in his death the county was deprived of a most exemplary man. The following preamble and resolution was adopted by the White River Stock Breeders' Association, at a meeting in June, 1889, and appeared in the columns of the Newport News, issued June 7, 1889: "William Buford died at his home, May 28, 1889, and it becomes our duty to give formal expression to the sorrow of our association at the loss of so valuable a member. The mere mention of his name is sufficient to recall to the minds of surviving members more vividly than any words the uprightness and rectitude of his conduct, which earned for him the high standing he enjoyed as a citizen, and as a valued member and acquisition to the White River Stock Breeders' Association. Plain, sincere and honest was William Buford, and as treasurer of the association, to which position he was elected one year ago, he was prompt and fully alive to its interests.

Dead–and where now are those earnest, loving eyes.

Which kindled in so many eyes the light?

Have they departed from our carthly skies

And left no ray to illuminate the night?

Shall man thus die and waste away

And no fond hope be left?

Is there no sweet, confiding ray for bosoms all bereft?

Yes, yes, an earnest trust.

Resolved, That a page of our records be suitably inscribed and set apart, sacred to his memory, and that a copy of this memorial be furnished his family, with our deepest, warmest and most loving sympathy." The resolution was unanimously adopted by a standing vote.

Thomas J. Burton, postmaster at Layton, was born in Mississippi, March 15. 1847. His parents were Thomas F. and Nancy (Burton) Burton, who came to Arkansas in 1869. The father was born in Halifax, Va., in 1808, and the mother in Rockingham County, N. C., in 1808. In their family there were seven children: William F., John A., Sarah Jane (wife of S. J. Moore), Mary S. (wife of D. A. Kimbrough), Henry J. and Thomas J. The father died in 1878, the mother in 1879. The subject of our sketch received his education in Kemper County, Miss., and made his first purchase of land in 1869, on Sections 26 and 27, in Cache Township. There were 220 acres in the tract, thirty-five of which were under cultivation, and fenced with rails. Thomas cleared twenty acres more, and erected a good double-box house, hauling lumber from Augusta, Woodruff County, a distance of twenty miles, and paying $20 per thousand. At various times Mr. Burton has cleared fifty acres of land. At the age of sixteen, Thomas J. enlisted in the Confederate service, served two years, participating in all the battles from Resaca to Atlanta, leaving Hood's army at Dalton, on his return to Tennessee, after the campaign at Atlanta. He was in Gen. J. E. Johnston's army at the time of the surrender, at Gainsborough, in April, 1865, and still has in his possession the parole received at that time. In 1878, in partnership with Mr. D. A. Kimbrough, he opened a stock of general merchandise at Layton (now Bower's Ridge), and continued till 1882, when he sold out to his partner. In 1885, after farming three years, he again engaged in business with Mr. Hite, but in January, 1889, Mr. Kimbrough bought Mr. Hite's interest. In connection with this he carries on his farming enterprises. Mr. Burton's first wife was Miss Narcie Otey, of Arkansas; they had one child, Augustus, born June 22, 1873. Obtaining a divorce, in 1874, they separated, and December 2, 1879, Mr. Burton married Miss Ada Murphy. They have had four children: T. Ewing, deceased; Beenie, born June 21, 1883; Willie May, born January 5, 1885; David Henry, born April 2, 1888. Mr. Burton is now the owner of eighty acres of land. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has served three terms as justice of the peace in Jackson County, Ark., or for six years.