Benton Co., AR - Biographies - John J. Shores

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John J. Shores is a Wilkes County North Carolinian, and was born on the 
7th of December, 1832. He is a son of William and Polly (Lyon) Shores, 
and grandson of Simeon Shores. William Shores was married about 1829, 
and removed to Jackson County, Mo., about 1840. Here he remained one 
year, and then located in Harrison County, of the same State. At the 
breaking out of the war he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he 
remained until its close. After residing alternately in Arkansas and 
Missouri, he died in the latter State October 11, 1875, at the age of
sixty-seven years. His wife was born in North Carolina, and died in 
Benton County, Ark., February 4, 1888. She was a daughter of John and 
Annie Lyon, and became the mother of seven children: Amanda 
(deceased), John, Lewis, Mary Ann (wife of John Long), William H. 
(deceased), [p.892] James and Malinda (deceased). John J. Shores was 
reared on his father's farm, and made his parents' house his home 
until he was twenty-seven years of age, and then spent one year in 
farming and stock raising in Jasper County. While residing in Jasper 
County, in 1860, he was married to Naney Jane Davis, the eldest 
daughter of Anderson and Polly Ann Davis, She was born in Newton 
County in 1844, and became the mother of twelve children: Malinda, 
John E., Amanda Evaline, Charles Anderson, Lewis Albert, Maud 
Elizabeth, Jeptha M., Bessie May and Lucy Jane. Those deceased are 
Mary Alice, Polly Ann and William Franklin. Mr. Shores came to Benton 
County in 1866, and owns a fertile farm of 125 acres. During the war 
he was a Union sympathizer, and since the war has been independent in 
politics. He and wife worship in the Christian Church.